skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> operate a nuclear power plant

No. I was talking about whether countries/societies operate nuclear power.

Very different.

For example, the Bhopal disaster at a chemical plant killed several thousand people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Germany did not get out of chemicals production afterward, or after Seveso or Flixborough, even though the case for that was a lot stronger than for getting out of nuclear.

But of course this does not imply it is fine to run a chemical plant this way.

Separate issues.

> trying to prevent accidents

Key word is trying. You will never be able to prevent all accidents and being 100% certain to prevent all accidents cannot be the standard, and it is not a standard applied anywhere else.

And Fukushima showed that a lot of idiocy has to be stacked on top of each other in order to get to an accident, and even then the actual effects of the accident are fairly benign.

> If accidents are no issue

No. Accidents are issues. But the response to those issues has to be appropriate and proportionate.

> Society wants a safely operated plant without serious accidents.

Society also wants and needs energy, and nuclear energy is one of the safest/cleanest forms of energy we have, and the safest/cleanest form of reliable energy we have. Not having reliable energy would be a far greater disaster than any nuclear accident to date. In fact, the net effect is highly, highly positive even for fossil fuels.
The rule stops you from snacking after 7pm, which I sometimes do. I should follow the rule.
Exactly right! I know perfectly well that PLN to GBP ratio is 1 : 5.5, but whenever I'm in the UK, spending £100 on something feels like spending 100 PLN, not like 550 PLN.

Now this wouldn't be a problem if the actual purchasing power[0] followed the inverse of the exchange ratio (e.g. a beer costing 5.50 PLN in Poland would cost £1 in UK), but in fact things are some 2-5x more pricey in the UK (e.g. that 5.50 PLN beer is £4 in the UK), so my trips to London also end up unreasonably expensive for uncertain reasons :).

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[0] - Not sure what the correct term is for the ratio between typical price of a common thing in one country to the price of the same in another country, denominated in prior country's currency. E.g. typical price of bread in Poland, given in PLN, divided by typical price of bread in UK, given in GBP converted to PLN using current exchange ratio.
The only swear words in our code is essentially "workaround for shit we can't change/fix" or "strong warning to not change this behaviour or something will break". Like

# as of 5.x libvirt shits on intermediate certs included in certfile and need direct path

or

# once a month restart, this shit leaks
>> You see, it’s basically impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. To lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you take in. You need to have a net calorie deficit.

It can be done. I have done it. Over the past several months my weight has been roughly constant (-1 kg). My body fat % has declined and I've added significant amounts of muscle in the chest, shoulders, arms, legs, and back, to the degree where people who haven't seen me in a while make comments.

The recipe for this has been a minor decrease in overall caloric intake, a huge increase in protein consumption, and resistance training (mainly compound lifts) 2-3x per week.

It depends on a lot of factors and varies per person, but table stakes if you want to add muscle as a male include eating more than 120g of protein every day. A gram of protein has 4 calories, so that's 480 calories in protein per day. Since the male RDI for calories is 2,500, there's plenty of room to get the protein you need plus go on a diet.

It definitely can be _harder_ to build muscle on a low calorie diet. Bodybuilders go through cutting and bulking phases for a reason. They're dealing with the extremes of human biology where things are a lot harder. The concept of "beginner gains" exists and I'm sure that's what mine have been, I was in pretty bad shape, there were a lot of relatively easy wins (still are!).

But yeah it is not impossible. Just tons of protein from efficient sources (whey is basically 100% protein, lean meat, fish etc.). Which you don't need to go bonkers on calories to get.
The screenshot is really inspiring, would love to see that rendered to a Leaflet-style map that I could use on a weaker computer!

That being said, does anybody know how much GPU RAM does it actually require? Would 6GB suffice?
Takes a lot of work to advise theses, and Bachelor's theses are at bottom of list, but this student would have been served well by being encouraged to move all these page-long sections explaining terms and statistical tests to an appendix, or just replaced with a brief description and citation.

Nevertheless, still pretty good thesis for a Bachelors student. I taught statistics to both undergrads and grads in social science and had very students who showed this level of curiosity into methods and then did the work to apply the methods.
Typing speed matters in a coding interview. You get maybe 30 minutes to write a bunch of code and answer all the questions on the fly. The network connection and speed of your computer matters.
Interviewing sucks.
I do carnivore and it breaks my heart that people dismiss it so much. It is just a flat out miracle diet.
A possible solution might be a built-in dunder flag to explicitly tell the interpreter not to get rid of a specific object. Something like __keep_alive__ or similar.
What if their society was like the Sierra Club, or the rules around Burning Man, which say leave no trace behind? Like very environmentally conscious? And not into monuments like the Pharaos of Egypt, or similar? For whichever ideological reasons.
That’s an interesting read, thank you. But my question is a bit more fundamental than that.

Ultimately, my point is that although the argument is that an LLM doesn’t “know” anything, I am not sure that there is something categorically different in terms of what we “know” vs what an LLM “knows”, we have just had more training on more different types of data (and the ability to experiment for ourselves).
Why prefix with “unit of work” when the its name already appears in the test class name? This is redundant.

PS: by the way, “unit under test” is probably a better name than “unit of work”
Keto diet changed my life. More energy, focus, mental balance, etc. it’s astounding. Processed carb foods must be truly poison
You missed Zig.
This is why you should want to block advertisers and trackers via DNS right at your DHCP server as a first line defense. Better safe than sorry.
vetting, and dependency locking, addresses nearly all the issues. there's one other issue: the ability to easily adjust the code as you see fit, so it is vital that you are able to precisely control the code.

related reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34740666
I wonder if it would be illegal for MS to use their own DNS over HTTPS in order to evade being filtered out with let's say Pi-hole.

If I set DNS in network settings to be my own resolver I'm expressing my will to have all the queries my computer sent to that one resolver.
It takes homeostasis, a biological mechanism, and tries to suggest that it applies to politics and economy, too. What a strange ideea...
Yes, the decisions to intervene should be taken more carefully, but I don't think that interventions "often leads to worse outcomes". In fact, where I live, indecision and lack of interventions are a very big problem.
Does it run Windows? :-)
As you mentioned, pyCirclize can easily plot a circular genome map like the one in that paper.

> If you get a chance, please do publish this package in something like the Journal of Open Source Software so that I can cite it.

I will consider it.
It was happening in A records. Around 1 hour ago everything went back to normal. I assume there was indeed some issue in Cloudflare side. Would love to know what happened but cloudflare status did not report any issue during the event so…
On the iPhone, you might be able to get away with a Shortcut rather than a full app.
>> ...where the “friction” of in-person interaction is eliminated. That friction is the stuff of social connection — a world without it is nightmarish.

If one orders food one usually doesn't want to waste time talking to a waiter or the delivery guy: he has friends or an activity he wishes to return to quickly. Why waste time with the delivery guy?

>> they were tech workers who spent so much time working that they felt they had little time for anything else.

What wrong with that? It's these obsessive people that end up moving mountains.

>> Instead of cutting back and finding a healthier work-life balance

Be a consumer, wageslave! Stop trying to make something out of yourself!
I use Karabiner to map CAPS to ESC on single tap, but it's mapped to CTRL when I hold it. It's really great to have a CTRL button on the home row.
Roughly 30% of the Americans earning > 250k / year are living Paycheck to Paycheck.

Of course one can hope that having to rely on food stamps/charity after earning multiples of the median income will improve people ability to budget, but I somehow doubt that will be the case in a country revolving around credits cards being the main payment method.
I usually do the same but arrived at this by using a mental prefix of "test that". As in:

"this test tests that" input has length 256

Since the prefix would be equal for all the tests only the last part becomes the name.
There's a better way: get red of can or should, and just assert its truth.

- handles_negative_input

- handles_zero

- returns_http_error_code
It doesn't matter what it was supposed to be used for. It's bad data in any context, even ones where you can't think of a way to blame the victim for holding it wrong.
I have a bad left eye. I haven’t noticed increased readability from higher dpi screens. I went from a higher dpi to a 14” 1080 screen and notice no difference at equivalent font size. Of course that’s still pretty high pixel density.
Must be a hell of a lot of data if their telemetry is that extensive
Why not use QMK [1]? Both of the author's keyboards (Anne Pro 2 and a TADA68) support QMK, there's a lot more to do with QMK, and it's on the keyboard itself.

[1]: https://qmk.fm/
Very Nice. I've use the "all transcript" to make a Word Cloud: https://framapiaf.org/@ldubost/109851711189159771
Ah, good catch. We'll try to see if we can fix that in the future so the mobile site shows our staff badges.
Never seen "The Forbin Project", enh?

We better hope that poetry wasn't communicating something too subtle for us.

(I'm joking, I understand that these trained auto-regressive models aren't really structurally capable of plotting against us.)
GIVEN X and Y SHOULD Z works, but don't you think that it lowers the meaning of the statement; essentially you're putting Y SHOULD Z in a conditional? Y SHOULD Z would work better, right?
Having disgruntled customers show up at your office is not the same as them showing up at your home. It's not at all sketchy to want some privacy before you've gotten your office lease sorted. When starting a business you have all these circular dependencies, where you can't get a lease before you register your business, but when you register your business you need an address on day 1.
The media news cycle in the US was literally staring at a balloon in the sky for days. It's as unsubtle of a distraction from real issues as it can get.
They were slowly working away on it until sometime last year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ORqed8SW_7fPnPdjfz42RoGf...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446335
https://arewexblstill.com/
They used GPT-J, an open-source LLM, for this. Anyone can use this technique privately to integrate with their proprietary / private APIs too.
A brief history of shuffling your songs, from Apple to Adele
UK law is not straight forward since it uses the word "reasonable" in the duration.

"The Consumer Rights Act 2015 states that items must be of satisfactory quality, as described, fit for purpose and last a reasonable length of time. You have these rights for six years in England and Wales or five years in Scotland.

Items must be of satisfactory quality and fit for purpose as described and last a reasonable length of time. So, for example, if you have bought a washing machine and it breaks after two years you should still be able to claim. However a consumer is expected to use the appliance reasonably. For example, a washing machine may be expected to be used a few times a week. It will show if it has been used every day twice a day for two years and this may be considered unreasonable and you would not get a repair or replacement.

For an item such as a washing machine, or a car etc., the retailer can take off money for use. This needs to be a reasonable “amount”.

You should familiarise yourself with the Consumer Rights Act 2015 before paying for any warranty being offered.

It is worth stating I have never paid for or used a warranty. I always assert my legal rights.

A retailer may try and fob you off saying that you should have bought a warranty. But your consumer rights are worth more than any warranty."

https://thecomplainingcow.co.uk/what-is-a-warranty-what-is-a...
I wonder how hard it would be to automatically add slides by scanning the talk video for points at which the on-screen slides change and mixing a frame from the video into the transcript at the relevant point.
Welp, is it in your SLA?
Or the even more common SUT (System Under Test)
No, the opposite. People who care use swear words. Corporations neither care or allow swear words.
The Atlantic Council doesn't care about this distinction, nor should they.
> most programmer convenience is sacrificed on the altar of "never crash". This makes it a good choice for sending a rocket to space

When it comes to safety- or mission-critical software, crashing due to a dangling pointer, a stack overflow or a failed allocation are equally catastrophic, and not crashing but producing a wrong answer due to an algorithmic error is also equally catastrophic. In fact, producing the correct answer late can also be just as catastrophic when the system is real-time -- we don't care if the operation takes 1ms or 99ms, but if the deadline for emitting a control command is at 100ms, emitting it 100.001ms late is just as catastrophic as a crash (while completing the calculation in 20ms or 95ms is equally good). Never crashing for any reason, never producing a wrong result, and never producing a correct result late are all equally critical.

How are such systems written? They normally require very simple code and very simple algorithms -- to make analysis by tools, and even more importantly, by humans as easy as possible. Any compiler magic or implicitness in the code may be problematic (possibly including reference-counting if a bound on deallocation time cannot be guaranteed). We don't want to make code as fast as possible, but as non-surprising and as predictable as possible.
Wow, looks and sounds just great. If I just hadn't bought a framework this would be tempting, as they even have an AMD option - however not the 4TB SSD (should be simple to add though)?

But happy that I have the Framework now and thus don't need to choose :D
A nice curated authoritative spreadsheet/database wouldn’t be so much data.

What if such a data set doesn’t exist? What if it’s all in the email and word docs for these collegiate development and admissions departments over a decade? How do you tell it apart?
That's why comments collapse.

There's little more useful to say here, other than I don't think most people would agree with your view of what HN is.

It's a discussion forum, not an exegetical seminar. "On topic" is whatever the topic of discussion is; and this is not constrained to the article.
From the citation, it looks like circlize was used.

https://github.com/jokergoo/circlize
"also because I work much better with black and white rules than with shades of grey that rely on willpower."

Complete abstinence is easier than the perfect moderation.

--St. Augustine
So the parents, being generally towards the wealthier end of the scale, get to pay more income tax dollars than the average individual, and also don’t get to benefit from the education portion of said tax dollars at all? Doesn’t seem particularly, what’s the word, egalitarian?

I understand the arguments re: taxing the middle / upper middle class to pay for hospitals, police etc; everyone benefits from these services, including those carrying the majority of the tax burden. But you want to tax them for education, and not give them any of the benefit, because they choose to pay extra to go private?
Sure and forcing childcare workers to attend a racket which bilks them of money to teach nothing and then pass on the cost to the parents doesn't get us closer to any of the stated aims.
Oh, thanks for pointing this out! I hadn't thought of it explicitly in that way, so I didn't write it down. But all the concrete examples I was running in my mind were indeed examples of inter-team collaboration: "helping the HR team fix their workflow", "addressing issues that the customer support team keeps getting complaints about", "fixing some minor product oversight that leads to a worse experience"
https://archive.is/tVdmJ

Not entirely sure what is new here. And dont agree Intel ever left. The likely hood of current trend projection and inferring from publicly available information, Intel will regain their lead by 2025. Assuming Pat execute on its plan, which they seems to be delivering it on time if not ahead of schedule. It will however very unlikely to be great margin competing against TSMC even with subsidies. Most ( cough Peter M... cough ) analyst seems to be thinking either TSMC is doomed because they dont know how to play the political game of subsidy ( Not True ) or Intel is doomed because Intel will never catch up ( also not true ).
It’s really inspiring to see this come alive. I’ve been struggling with my own version of this in a 3D space, and if I may be so rude as to plug it a bit, I’m able to push just as much text into a fully interactive and highlighted view here: https://github.com/tikimcfee/LookAtThat

I hope the above shows that indeed, GPU is where it’s at!
"Spices can also exert antimicrobial activity in two ways: by preventing the growth of spoilage microorganisms (food preservation), and by inhibiting/regulating the growth of those pathogenic (food safety; Tajkarimi et al., 2010)"
Seems like you are going down the path of presenting the reality, where a lot of people will ignore "wealth favoritism", cronyism, nepotism, etc... But mention affirmative action, specifically minorities of color as oppose to women of a certain persuasion (also ignored or given a pass), and things can get real hot and tribalistic, real fast.

Well sir/madam, good luck with your arguments and evidence. At the very least, as it's doubtful such biases or prejudices that protects systematic advantages and socioeconomic position will be altered, it will make for a good popcorn read.
Russian Peasant Cryptography
Mysterious billionaire toymaker is holding legendary Calif. hotel ‘hostage’
> If you think of it more in terms of war, you'd never draw such an equivalence: "Well, we've shot down their planes so it's fine that they shoot down ours."

People make these equivalencies constantly. Fortunately I don't think either side has been dumb enough to kill an soldier from the other yet, but once we get that pot cooking, WWIII here we come!
> You don't need to know "Code", just how to express your logic visually

If shader nodes are anything to go by, it results in the equivalent of 5 lines of code taking up a full screen of incomprehensible boxes and lines.

A pretty bad trade-off, but I guess non-programmers can't really use anything else. Code is scary! /s
There is a fractal of terrible assumptions here.
> High quality code can simply be defined as code that has few bugs. Unfortunately that's a little harder to measure, but they could've at least analysed the issues for a start.

It is nearly impossible to measure directly. One needs to find all the bugs to measure defect density directly. There are indirect ways, one could use a proxy variable, and they did.

They used static analysis as a proxy variable, this choice has some traps to avoid, but bugs from bug-trackers or CVE's is highly dependent on a development practices and popularity of the code, they can (I'd say must) correlate with swearing by themselves. To deal with that one would need to formulate a causal hypothesis for real and to test it for real. Such a study is not for a bachelor thesis, it would be master's at least.

Though I'd like to see authors to sophisticate their techniques enough to dig out a causal explanation.
Bear in mind that this was exactly the idea behind trailer parks and mobile home parks when they first started popping up -- a "leg up" for impoverished people, and, well, the results sort of speak to some problems that came along with that agenda.

Not saying don't do it, but perhaps take a peek at the historical issues that arose when making sure your good intentions don't lead straight into an inferno.
The ETag (or entity tag) HTTP response header
I am using Karabiner so that my modifier keys (shift/ctrl/alt/cmd) are global instead of per-keyboard, so that the modifiers on my main keyboard also affect my Keybow 2040 function pad. I would love to know of a simpler way to do it.
> My best work is usually done when I’m deep into my fast.

+1 on this - I’ve strangely found I am more focused (office job) when I’m fasting. I have a black coffee and get on with the day. It even saves me a little bit of time, given me even more productivity hours.
Linq expressions are contrived and Python list comprehensions are trivially readable?
Note this is a correlation analysis. Before draw any causal effect between the result and Developers' identity, the data itself may include bias.

To give an example of possible bias that totally not related to developers' identity. From Figure 3.9 and Figure 3.10, Softwipe scores over LoC have a very different pattern from star-repos, which could be:

If whether a developer uses swearwords is statistically independent, then a project with more contributors are more likely includes swearwords. More contributors may correlate with having a coding style guide which has causal effect on the score from SoftWipe tool (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-89495-8).

Be careful when trying to explain data :)
Ask HN: Since when you can only 6 songs on Alexa?
I haven't used my Alexa for ages, decided to turn it on to play a bunch of Abba songs this yesterday.

1) It won't play only Abba songs as I asked her, it's throwing other "similar" songs in the mix.
2) when I ask her to play next song it started telling my I can only skip 6 songs, like WTF.

Guess who's cancelling their Prime Sub, good way to force me to save money I guess. Thank you Jeff.

P.S. what happened to Customer First lol.
It’s an empirically sound assumption to make, especially when it comes to people who are products of wealthy lineage a few generations back and have barely worked.

> It’s a lazy, unintelligent critique

I think this is what a subset of people belonging to lower socioeconomic classes tell themselves, and sometimes have heard it from their “superiors”, to better cope with their financial struggle. The poor people are just lazy is the motto of the privileged and is also a safe assumption to make for a rich person to have.
Nah. I remember this went viral at a point when the first developer betas of iOS 14 (or was if 13?) came out and IOS started reporting clipboard accesses. For a while during those early betas, it seemed TikTok was accessing the clipboard every few minutes. Apparently it turned out to be innocuous—the app qas checking for TikTok links on the clipboard to show them to the user? Something like that.

Other apps had the same issue (I think Telegram comes to mind?)
We do exactly this for the happy paths. GIVEN steps are for preconditions to get into the unhappy paths