skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Housing prices are not falling.
I don't know, Mastodon seems to do what it intends to do quite well. I don't find the fact that it's not taken over the world that big of a problem.

Mastodon is in my view ideological in the design and of course most attractive to people who share that particular ideology. And that's quite a lot.

I find it very refreshing compared to Twitter: it doesn't want to maximize engagement, it doesn't want me to follow more and more people. It's a boring tool that does a job quite well, which is exactly what I want from it.
This assumes your dishwasher is hooked up to the hot water feed in the first place, most aren't. Most have a cold water intake and a heating element that heats it up internally to the correct temperature, so actually your tip is just wasting water (potentially hot water) for anyone who has a modern dishwasher.
I don't understand why Musk didn't wait a few months for things to settle down before raising hell at Twitter. Before he bought it people were saying "He's gonna destroy Twitter!" and then he buys it and behaves as if he intends to prove them right.
> I doubt EU can audit every API calls, and every API's supply chain issue.

Laws have never made things impossible, they make things illegal.

I doubt any country can prevent people from killing random people in the streets, yet this is generally illegal. It is usually enforced after the fact, and sometimes the criminal doesn't get caught. That doesn't make the law useless.
Always feels like it’s releasing a soapy steam cloud into my face
Excess capacity story is a myth. Frequently corrected/debunked by Werner Vogels.
We disabled them on our LG. How to do so may be hidden well however.
>but things almost certainly can’t be going well.

Is that obvious? Didn't they fire way more than 40% of the workforce? Presumably that was the biggest expense, so they should be much closer to profitable now than they were before.
My most personal example of the CLI being in-between state and the community agreeing to it is in this thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-shell-nix-shell-and-nix-de...
You might be using yours wrong? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04
Hardly possible in my state! $350k gets you a fixer upper 2br 1bath
It's not just the attitude, it's also the sheer number of guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

The US is so far ahead of every other country, including Switzerland, that the argument "it works for the Swiss people" makes no sense.
> “Provide content” you say this like there’s some objective measure for “good” and “bad” content, but there isn’t.

There is. The algorithm decides what you see and not see.
If someone has already larger follower list, it is likely that their posts will appear to others feeds whom are not following them, if the post causes strong interactions.
I think of the situation with compact cassettes (audio) where you can get a refurbished deck from the 1990s for $300 or so on ebay that is better than any deck I ever owned. They are making new decks but since 2005 or so they all use the “tanashin mechanism” which is cheap and highly reliable (minimal moving parts!) but sounds awful.

You can make the best recordings with Type 4 “metal” tapes but these have not been manufactured for a long time and deadstock tapes go for $40 on ebay. I could afford the deck but not tapes that would realize its potential; I imagine I might grab a deck for cheap if I see one at a flea market but quality tape mechs need a lot of maintenance so I stick with another obsolete format, minidisc, where the deck costs $120 or so on Ebay and you can get 100 discs (that last forever) for about that much.
Curious what the ultimate enforcability of a restrictive license is. If I fine-tune a model, is it still covered? what if I randomize and retrain a layer - or remove a layer?

It seems like it will be impossible to verify that someone did not just train the model from scratch.
Apple makes great hardware, good OSs, horrible apps, indecent websites. Also, they use a very preechy way of advising, which for me means they think they are right, instead of looking at the market to tell us what works or not.
Exactly. The reviews where blind in my case (even thought I heard that's not always the case, specially for journals). In my case, there were multiple problems, like missing proves (probabilities and examples are not enough), which I agree. A lot of great feedback! Actually in retrospect, it seems amazing on how much feedback I got. Only one of the 6 reviews was about the tone, and rather useless.
I use the 1 hour setting when I have too many dishes for one load and I would like to solve the problem today instead of tomorrow.

It uses about 4L more water than the 3 hour 'eco' setting. All winter long my house uses hot water anyway, so this is only a technically measurable savings in summer. In practice it is swamped out by other variations.
I found it interesting that there start to be best-practices for professors and teachers on how to deal with ChatGPT in a class room [1].

One I really liked a lot:
>And if you don't trust the AI to output correct content, teach your students critical thinking by using Assisted Teaching to write history essays and let your students find mistakes in it.

Another way (if you want to go the more traditional way), is the Flipped Classroom [2] method, in which students self-teach at home and do the "homework" in the classroom.

I agree with others here that there is no way to ban these technologies; there are just better and worse ways to deal with it.

[1]: https://assistedeverything.substack.com/p/the-age-of-assiste...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane
A funny way to look at this, is to go the other direction in the logic. The logic in this article is basically all these products have this property, oh and he's a reason would result in this. Well let's apply the same to web3 social media start ups. As the author correctly points out, for the average user these products are pointless. So what's going on? It's as if an entire industry has sprung up of super fast dishwashers (ignore the fact that this exists for commercial businesses).

What is actually happening is crypto/web3 is a scam, and social media is a great fake product because your "customers" think you're trying to get them onto your new social media site whilst what you're actually doing is selling them worthless tokens with the promise of some future value that'll clearly never come.

>Businesses exist to make money by serving customer needs.

Yeah, and that's really hard, which is why they're not doing it!
It seems hot water feeds to your dishwasher are an American thing. Everyone else in the world has their dishwasher heat cold water.
But it doesn't matter what each software does because the necessary endpoints are defined in your actor object linked from your webfinger entry. That's the only endpoints the user agent is supposed to see and use.

Now if you're saying the ActivityPub spec is tragically underdeveloped, sometimes on purpose it seems, and doesn't define actually useful stuff but leaves it "to the particularities of implementations" then I fully agree with you
I think the long cycles are more related to energy efficiency regulations, most dishwashers default to a 3h 'eco' cycle with 50 degC, but also have a 1h 65 degC cycle.

The hot water tip does not apply in most parts of the world I think as the heating is done in the dishwasher (hence the temperature settings).
So what is the criticism here?

Lichess and chess.com both exist. does the existence of one make the other worthless? unimpressive?
I don't see any difference between taking time to answer being measure as latency or perceived slowness.

You're saying he actually thinks fast but doesn't get around to thinking for a while?
One can be happy that something exists while at the same time lamenting that the design isn’t ideal

(Edit: though incidentally, it turns out that the inventor of the dishwasher — or at least one of the earliest working designs — was a woman, as the sibling post pointed out; didn’t know that)
The worst dishwashers sold in the EU still use less than 1 kWh on the eco program.

https://www.coolblue.de/en/advice/energy-consumption-dishwas...
> DKIM records and proper signing of outgoing messages (DMARC records help too)

I've read somewhere that spammers started to use DKIM (or was it DMARC?) records faster than the legitimate web-mail providers.
If you have a clock that shuts off when the power is cut, you don't need to worry about drifting:

Most of those are synchronized to the grid, and the grid keeps time really, really well. They actually synchronize the grid to atomic clocks etc for that purpose.
> And it is bloody expensive, for 160 euro (4GB, PI 4), I can get much better x86 mini computer,

Which one? Is it at least as power efficient idling and on full load?

PS: PIs are usually a lot cheaper. You get 8gb for half the price usually. But it seems like you'd have to wait until later this year for such prices
It doesn't matter how carefully you chose your examples, internet is so big that exceptions will happen and people like to voice their contrarian opinions (nothing wrong with that).
not contesting the Apple watch, but the claim that swiping should be used to avoid false positives.

Swiping should be used for low priority confirmations, like confirming you want to buy a subscription or pay for some in-game addon.

In my opinion it shouldn't be used to answer phone calls either.
Restaurant dish washers are already extremely fast and efficient. They wash dishes in a couple of minutes. They also consume a lot of power and water, and take some time to heat up in the morning when starting work.
Is that the right url?

It seems to be a conversation where Deepak Sharma talks about needing to resubmit a patch (and a follow up patch), rather than be the submitted patches themselves.
Yes, you can. You will need to have both running at the same time if you want to use the built in migration mechanism in Mastodon (assuming the new software supports it), and so will need to ensure the URL space does not collide, e.g. by giving one of them a different hostname and adding an alias to the webfinger response.

If you are going to migrate software on the same server you'd likely be in a better place if you just generate static pages from the Mastodon export for the actual posts after doing the follower migration.

If you're outright replacing the Mastodon server you might get away with just importing the followers as well, as long as the software you're interacting with is well behaved and do webfinger lookups. You can improve on that by ensuring the inbox url stays the same, worst case with a redirect.
Ask HN: Cool and Useful Dockerized Apps?
Recently seeing this testing mailserver linked on HN: https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/86/introducing-mailcrab

I was reminded of another useful tool, mimic3 by MycroftAI that gives you very nice TTS: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3

So I was wondering: what other useful apps have been containerized for easy setup and great usefulness?

Basically the point of this question is to let people share these, for the benefit of all.
That's a good read but I'm still unclear on dune vs. ocamlfind/ocamlopt. Is dune not using those under the covers like Nix could?
> Some of Twitter’s debt carries an annual interest rate of almost 15%.

!!!

Is there more information on this? How much is the principle, who are the lenders and what are the terms?
Absolutely agree. It's just more information, and there's plenty of cases where you can have multiple cultures with the same or similar material culture, similar genetics, but different e.g. spoken language or political arrangements. (Like Quebec in Canada, e.g.)

Need that time machine.
> That's what everyone says about software that is just too complex.

I'm not sure you're saying this to point fingers at the software or at the people, that is very confusing :D

That being said, Nix being in-between has been discussed in the Discourse of the project here about t supposedly simple: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-shell-nix-shell-and-nix-de...

It was to me very interesting to see how insiders could be diverging and potentially not being fully aware of it.
I've always struggled with this. I am not good at thinking on the spot. I like to say that my brain "simmers" my thoughts - low and slow. This makes all sorts of things challenging - having adhoc conversations, making good impressions during an interview, etc.

It's nice to hear someone articulate what I've never been able to really put into words.
Could a large language model help with this? Like, train it on papers, then feed it your rejected draft and ask it to generate an improved draft that sounded more like the training data?

The idea would be to use the expected phrasings and idioms, format, etc. Of course, all content would have to be checked, as LLMs are prone to BS. But if the problems were mostly that it didn't follow the conventions of that academic subgenre, this seems exactly what an LLM could do. If the problem was more about e.g. not citing previous work, the LLM probably wouldn't do a good job there.
I don't think they're wrong

the Jane Street side are quite prolific with blog posts etc

as a newcomer to OCaml one of the first, and nicer-looking, intro resources you'll likely encounter is the Real World OCaml book https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ which unfortunately does everything using Base instead of the stdlib

Personally that didn't sit right to me and I prefer to use the stdlib by default (which seems fine and not in need of a wholesale replacement)
You'll have to clean that stuff out of your dish washer otherwise.
The fact that they're being sued by the landlord of their offices because they can't pay the rent seems like a good indicator.
Hopefully we will eventually arrive at a place where it could have been designed by a woman!
I'm somewhat upset that tunics are not really a thing any more. Wearing an overly-long tee-shirt is almost the same thing, but only almost.
Retrofitted Sun Cobalt Cube Case for Custom PC
I suspect that changing the resolution around hot points in the manifold would be a more expensive task than training the model on a higher global resolution. Optimization algorithms currently do not maintain state on the loss-manifold.
Yeah, but original point was major game is like a AAA or "successful".

If Veloren isn't successful, neither is Space Travel.
I've been using Nix for about a decade, and not bothered with flakes yet. However, I also avoid nix-env and channels, as the parent suggests:

- Instead of channels, I use fetchGit with pinned revisions

- Instead of managing installed software via nix-env, I use buildEnv to collect everything I need in a single derivation. If I'm on NixOS I'll put that in systemPackages; or otherwise (e.g. on macOS) I'll use nix-env to only install that one package.

These have the advantage of being declarative files, which can be tracked in git; rather than imperative commands.
Oooh, yes. Though the "done in seconds" commercial dishwashers are a good number of model & feature upsells above the most basic ones. Might need 240V and serious amps, too.
Activities are immutable but objects are not. Mutability allows posts to be edited, for instance.

The ids in ActivityPub also aren't URLs, they're random strings.

EDIT: They actually are URLs, my mistake
I thought it was the reverse today. They used to heat hot water but now rely on hot water I put due to energy efficiency requirements. They keep water warm but don’t really heat it.
I've watched that actually. I since started using the pre-wash dispenser, and done routine cleanings (and if your appliance requires routine cleanings, making you disassemble the thing to access the filter is inexcusable). It's improved things a little, but not enough.

Considering that all 3 Maytag appliances I bought at the same time are defective in various ways, I'm treating it as another instance of a major brand strip-mining their reputation by selling cheaply built garbage until consumers finally give up on them.
Because to him this isn't "raising hell", this is "solving Twitter". But he's still not capable of understanding that social media is actually a far, far harder problem than cars or even rocket science.

Specifically, social media does not have an end goal, like a car on the road or getting people into and back home from space safely. Social media is infinitely messy because that's what we humans are, and you can't "fix" that.
No Babies, No Japan
They also have to pay a ton of additional interest and lost a lot of revenue
Counter anecdote: all of the hardcore Nix users/developers convinced me it was worth it to switch to Flakes now. They even helped me move my NixOS config as well.
How Do You Know If a Book Is True?
Except for the drastically increased amount of water usage. The cost is negligible to run the dishwasher compared to the additional hot water usage.
AT Protocol vs. Farcaster: comparison of two decentralized social protocols
I don’t know why I’m getting involved in this nonsense but this comment leads me to believe you’ve never actually tried Elixir and are piercing together gripes people have had. How is it any more “mathy” than any of the non-Haskell languages you mentioned?
From the article:

> In an update to investors, Twitter reported a decline of about 40% year-over-year in both revenue and adjusted earnings for the month, the people said.

If adjusted earnings are down 40% - which is a non GAAP way of measuring profit and usually more aggressive - Twitter is much further away from being profitable than it was pre-Musk.
Well, what did you except?

Companies spend less money on ads in times like these. Musks childish behaviour plus instability and free speach issues made it really easy for companies to cut on their twitter ad spending first
> so if I actually fell and broke my thumb,

Thankfully most people have four backup fingers on the same hand..
It’s not a scam but you can avoid the email link, go to monitor.firefox.com, and log in with your Firefox account to be sure.
I've seen some where the recipe was vissible on desktop but hidden behind a button on mobile which can be easy to miss.
I think this is going a bit too far. Sometimes it's perfectly legitimate to serve an ideological need, because there's enough people with that particular ideology.

Eg, things like Mastodon are great if you want to find a community that best fits you, because you have a rare interest or some characteristic controversial for a reason or another that makes existing on some place like Twitter difficult. So you can find a community that enforces standards that are very close to your ideal, and delegate that to them, and just do your own thing.

Not everything has to be like Twitter or Facebook, aiming to swallow the entire planet. There's room in the world for places like Hacker News that are only relevant to a small segment of the population. What's important though is to have a good sense of perspective about what need you're serving and how many people are there who need that. If you're aiming for something like decentralization that will have some costs to it that means you're unlikely to ever go world-wide. But so long you're happy enough with that, there's nothing wrong with it.
I feel like a simple email would be a much cleaner and cheaper solution than literally everything else that "smart" appliance manufacturers do. It might be a really "disconnected from the average person" opinion though.
Learning and creating things which people enjoy, regardless of the medium (design, code, writing).

(It used to be publishing, then helping small startups grow, then privacy and now a cross section of mental health and tech.)

Ideal:

1. Build a small thing solving an actual problem

2. Tell as story and teach people something using the thing I build: https://sonnet.io/posts/sit/

Here's how not to approach this problem:

I had spent ages thinking about this, or rather justifying my existing choices. I literally had SWOT analysis charts describing different paths I could take.

The main issue was that I was approaching this from a purely rational point of view. But, I had to first learn about the emotional component of my decisions and biases. I grew up without financial security so that also tends to cloud my judgement (e.g. by comparing myself to people who work more stressful jobs). I was busy, overworked and really stressed then (but well paid!).

Scaling down was very hard, in terms of self-judgement, but my health has improved drastically.

I don't have time to write about this here, but in short: I think that many people who end up in engineering careers tend to get caught in a situation where they keep getting rewarded for solving problems, but eventually lose the context of what kinds of problems they're solving.

For _example_: you start with your first SWE gig in an area you like, move to a tech lead/architect, then to a CTO working on a much meatier/"serious" problems.

But as soon as you step back from the game progression graph (intentionally or not) you realise you lost the context, you don't give a shit about adtech or crypto, or marketing, or agile. You are really good at something you actually don't give a shit about.

I don't think that SWEs are the only to end up with this issue, but that people who choose this line of work are more predisposed to getting a kick from chasing problems.
Waiting would probably meant bigger losses in time. If you want to refactor a business, better do it quick.
For the record, we are still extremely pleased with our Miele washing machine and dish washer that we bought about five years ago.

A bit pricey, though. Never heard of Maytag. If I saw it in a store, I would probably guess it's a brand from China. But given your description, it sounds like you are in the US or so? At least that's whence I usually hear the complaints about brands selling out.
Every dishwasher I've owned has a cold water inlet and uses electricity to heat the water to the required temperature.
That was my point: if Google rewarded sites with fewer ads, you would get all the same manipulation and low-quality content but with fewer (but perhaps more expensive and carefully selected) ad blocks. You can have that today.
I agree we need to build more housing and in places like Seattle that means denser housing as well. A single family home in the city is a fantasy. But there’s really no reason to ever sell a house here when you can just rent it out. Just building more is only part if the solution.

I’m not saying we should just ban short term rentals. I’m saying we should make all rentals ruinously expensive unless they actually provide some economic benefit. If you aren’t providing housing to low income renters that truly can’t afford a home then you don’t get to buy more houses. Just destroy the incentives to hold real estate through taxes.
Really cool, I have often wondered about the "maps" in the Russian helicopter cockpits.

I think they also move depending on the heading and direction of the helicopter to show the relative position for navigation.

Would be interesting to see how they worked.

Pic of cockpit - https://www.alamy.com/dashboard-in-a-russian-soviet-helicopt...
That's an evolution of what was invented by Joel Houghton.
I'm the opposite, in a group meeting I can see the camps forming and contribute a third view. In a 1-to-1 I don't know what your agenda is.
That's less work than pre-washing all the dishes.
> No problem. I spent the next few hours iterating the game with ChatGPT - adding new features and improving the design.

People are mad that headline over-exagerrates the impressive performance.
There are a couple of different offers. https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=710b50 is hn discount. There's https://www.rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html and https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html