skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that really irks me is that the generator pattern doesn't have to be an OO-first feature. Observable streams[1] work with the same basic foundation and those are awesome for FP. It's really frustrating that standard libraries are so eager to adopt generators without taking that last step into supporting functional stream consumption.

[1]: https://reactivex.io/
Your children, if you have any, should make for rather efficient dishwashers at no additional cost if you play it smart.
Tools for Thought: Meaningful Structures
> I can only think of one party that recently passed laws making it a felony to say certain things to certain people.

No idea as to what you're referring to, but you must know many more examples throughout the world and history, no?
I started monetizing it for Hacker News readers because I got tired of the hateful venom in the comments section. I figured if people are going to get angry at me, I might as well get paid for it. The ads have made enough that it's a tax problem, but overall I do make enough off of them to fund ridiculous ventures like uploading my entire stream VODs to my CDN: https://xeiaso.net/vods.

The ads really do make up for the costs involved in serving things over my CDN (AVIF images being widely supported and my video compression experiments https://xeiaso.net/blog/video-compression help). It's not enough to make me quit my dayjob (I would probably not want to do that anyways), but it's enough that the passive income pays for all my video games: https://xeiaso.net/blog/blog-profit-2022.

So, yes. There's ads. Blame other Hacker News users being toxic for why they exist. Maybe we can have a better world where people are just nice to other people, but until then I put ads on the blog so that my side projects are more sustainable.
Don't be so pedantic. When people are dying and supply is low, "asking" for it is a valid move whether by the FDA or the president.

The fact that it wasn't done is deliberate from both sides.
Pro tip about your home dishwasher: Run hot water out of your faucet until it’s extremely hot before starting your dishwasher. (Considering the faucet and dishwasher use the same plumbing to pipe water in)

The reason why is dishwashers line to do a rinse in the first cycle and for most people the water isn’t hot enough. So it fills up with lukewarm water and isn’t as effective.

Another option is to have a hot water circulator installed so you always have instant hot water.
I'm sure government agencies all over the world are quite popular on Reddit.
yup! i used one once in my life and the amount of pressure they create is absolutely crazy. the one i used could clean + pre-dry everything in like, 90s.
My wife had a saying that applied to almost all of this kind of thing:

Designed by a man!
I think a more positive take away is that this is a relatively small traditional manufacturing business with a few hundred employees that managed to automate a lot of their workflows at a small captial cost using off the shelf components and a willingness to take a stab at skilling up their own staff to build a solution to solve their usecase.

The alternative is hiring a consultancy that may or may not actually deliver anything worthwhile at the cost of many thousands a day and leaving you with a solution that you cannot maintain because you completely lack the internal compentence as a consequence of outsourcing all of the development in the first place. More small/medium sized businesses should take risks like this.

We should honestly be questioning, esp in the UK, the degree to which we depend upon consultants for seemlingly everything and how little businesses and government are willing to invest in taking small bets on their own employees over hiring frankly overpriced consultants from Accenture or McKinsey who are often expensive suits backed by a bunch of very recent graduates with little or no experience.
I've been a PHP dev for 20 years and an Elixir dev for 6. This comment doesn't hold water.
can you link it?
Does it have a digital clock? Adjusting the bloody clocks on every appliance twice a year is such fun.
Well it's not really though. You just buy it from Farnell or RS here in the UK and it arrives the next day. I mean you literally just buy an Omron PLC and the ethernet board and RTFM much like you have to do with the Pi.

Your point about the cost is right but you have to ask where the cost is: some guy spending two months working out how to interface a Pi to something or this being canned and your ask being process modelling. At the same time that guy is then upskilled in fairly generic automation which can be used at other levels across the business. It's very easy to write off unproductive uses of employee time.

Brompton is a success but I'm not sure why. The bikes are by far the most horrible thing I've ridden other than the Sinclair A-bike. I'd rather walk.
From the manual

Cycle Completion Signal
The cycle completion signal alerts you when a cycle completes and the dishwasher has washed and dried the dishes. You can choose to disable the tone or adjust the volume.
NOTE: The unit must be powered OFF before activating.
To activate:

• Press and hold the right "Cancel Reset" button then press and hold the ON/OFF button.

• When the light on the "Cancel Reset" button you are pressing illuminates and the tone goes off, release both buttons.

• Press the far right "Cancel Reset" button until you achieve the desired volume or until there is no tone (to turn off).

• Press the ON/OFF button. The setting is now saved.

You're welcome :)
Nvidia 16 bit color depth up to GF256 was rendered internally at 16bit precision and looked really bad, while their 32bit was just a marketing bullet point due to 100% performance hit when enabled. 3dfx had 16bit frame buffer, but internally rendered at 32bits and output was dithered resulting in >20bit color https://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/59/

"Voodoo2 Graphics uses a programmable color lookup table to allow for programmable gamma correction. The 16-bit dithered color data from the frame buffer is used an an index into the gamma-correction color table -- the 24-bit output of the gamma-correction color table is then fed to the monitor or Television."
The EU represents the views of eu citizens. Generally europe is quite technophobic compared to america & asia
Interesting concept, I can imagine it being useful.

Some comments:
-) As a "location", could it not be broader than just city plus country? Why should "Europe" be excluded as a location?
-) It was not clear to me how to enter the location (city comma country? state whitespace country?). Maybe show an example, or have a drop-down menu appear automatically
-) I used a German-speaking country as an example (without a city name) and it worked. However, the result was not so ideal (I used Austria, but it showed examples from Germany; and the word-cloud showed generic terms like "und" or "für", i.e. "and" or "for", which are not really indicative of anything)

But it is a good beginning and I can imagine that this may gain traction after a bit of tweaking! Good luck!
I honestly thought the same thing. I used flake8 and it finished in about a second on my codebase. But when you have that on a git hook, you'd be surprised how the small amount of latency affects your productivity. I have been using ruff for about two months now, and I'm still thinking "Wow that was fast" every time I create a commit.
https://archive.is/J7l42
I keep looking for a coherent answer to that question, but have never seen one so far, these are unimportant details that are swept under the AI enthusiasm rug.
> The main surprise I got from that work was just how genetic personalities are.

This idea was surprising to me too, but when I thought about it I realised it shouldn't be:

- We know that different people frequently react differently to the same stimuli (and that this is true even of very young children).

- Basically everything else in the human body shows genetic variation. It would be weird if the brain didn't.

- There is a strong evolutionary rationale for a population having a variety of complimentary congnitive styles.

I think the MBTI is most interesting is it taken to be only the genetic component of personality (providing us with AFAIK the only theory of the structure of that aspect of personality), while simultaneously leaning into the idea that personality is modified by nurture and environment (but that these changes are not described by one's MBTI type).
Haskell composing well and type safety makes handling the complex networks of rnns very elegant
> If you want to live in that world, you can today by running an adblocker.

That misses the entire point: Google search results will still be manipulated to push those low quality results higher because even if you don't see the ads enough people do that investing in SEO is worth for those sites.
There's an interesting project about refilling their proprietary detergent cartridges here:

https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder
Back in college i spent a year working part-time as a dishwasher for the school cafeteria. That amounted to me using a high-pressure sprayer to pre-clean some of the dishes and utensils (watch out spraying those ladles though!), and then putting them on a conveyor belt that would wash and dry them very quickly. Much like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCM13eOWVgY
Still doesn't explain why green would be better than blue.

Don't all problems go away if you're just using blue?
That’s only in regards to the questionnaire, not the underlying system.

If you understand the cognitive function, your prediction is a magnitude more accurate than any test.
Also that the recent work studying genetics in fossil remains are not a panacea for understanding human prehistory.
I am working on the Nix project; resolving this "in-between stage" is our highest priority at the moment. I'd like to better understand two independent things:

1. What were the drivers and motivators for you to try Nix? What did you hope to achieve?

2. Was the current experimental status of the new nix CLI and flakes the primary cause of the confusion?
If it was marketing they didn't seem to do a great job... Very little online except for mentions of "NURBS", and this thread.

It's not intuitively obvious to me how a rasterizer accelerator would render NURBS surfaces at all (edit: without just approximating the surface with triangles/quads in software, which any competing card could also do)
It's a categorical system. It categorises people in to groups on dimensions. Dimensions that are ultimately defined by the questions that give the category.

You can measure people on many dimensions, and all dimensions that are not truly random will correlate with some aspect of the persons life.

Interestingly, some of the dimensions of the MTBI correlate with dimensions of the "Big 5".

Introversion - Extroversion => Almost the same dimension as in Big 5.

Intuitive - Sensation => Correlate strongly to Big 5 Openness

The longer textual descriptions of the MTBI categories that one can find online are "made up" so they could indeed be said to be a type of pseudoscience.
Yes I'm still getting the error so I'm unable to install in wsl2 windows 10 and not planning to upgrade to windows 11
It can be useful because if you open it while the dishes are still warm, they dry better.
Usually you can turn off the beeping with some button combination, just google it for your model.
Ask HN: As a tech person, do you feel Google gives you better results?
I have read a lot of (well-deserved IMO) hate about Google's ever shittier SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) in the past few years. I noticed the same effect myself: the ads filling the viewport entirely, and becoming more and more indistinguishable from organic links.

However I noticed a new trend in the past few weeks. My results to technical queries got... actually quite good (like, 2010-good).

I just typed "Elixir date sigil", and got:

- 0 ads,

- 10 perfectly related pages about how Elixir (the programming language) handles dates.

Same for a lot of other queries. I have to say, it felt very good, like seeing an good friend again after having lost sight of him for years.

Have you experienced the same? Do you think Google might be afraid of losing its technical users to competition, and finally provide good results again?

Edit: formatting
As far as I know most countries have clear, public algorithms for tax reports, may I ask which country you are talking about?

In any case your problem is one of an incompetent person not being able to explain the decision, not a black box algorithm (since the program you are talking about has been programmed, not taught like an AI).

You have recourses (though probably difficult to exercise) unlike with a decision officially based on an AI in which case it is technically impossible to motivate the decision.
Only in places that twiddle with the clocks twice a year.
Where's the conflict? Do you think American and Chinese interests never align?

And to be clear, I think large parts of Reddit is of no interest to government agencies.
"people need their dishes clean by next meal"

Sadly, modern dishwashers are not only are slow, they also suck at this too. I don't mind the slower performance since I get why, but the number of times i open the dishwasher to find half the detergent in the dispenser and all the bowls with stuff cooked on kills me.

The HP-ificaton of major appliance brands is so infuriating.
Our long term family home, bought in 1981, was done as a land contract at 16%. Apparently was tough to refinance down to 10% - original owner moved across the country, and was dragging their feet on signing papers, pushing back, etc. They were about to lose a 16% return and delayed for close to a year.
the two best things for me about the MacOS are the integration with other apple devices/services and that things "just work". When I first started using it after using Linux for years I installed Thunderbird and the like. Now I use the Apple programs (Safari, Mail, etc). There are a lot of little niceties in things like Preview. I don't generally use Siri though.

The way it integrates with my other Apple devices, that it does point in time backups automatically, how well it suspends/resumes, long battery life - these are the killer features for me. For instance if my iPhone is in my pocket and I visit a site with SMS based 2FA the computer gets the code from the phone and offers to paste it into the prompt. There are a lot of little small things like that. A lot of them would involve using the Apple ecosystem, like Apple Music, iCloud, other apple devices, etc. Just my .02.
Ad based businesses are getting hit hard, which explains the desire to switch to subscription based models.

It doesn’t help when someone like Elon is chasing away advertisers with so much success.

With the layoffs they’ve had I wonder how net profit etc are going to shape up.

Since Twitter is now private a lot of numbers and finance info is going to be just hearsay and rumors… but things almost certainly can’t be going well.
You can blame detergent regulations for this. About a decade or so back phosphates were banned from detergents. The problem is that was the thing that made them work really well. In order to compensate for less effective detergents, cycle times have gotten longer.

Phosphate detergents are still available in commercial soaps, but I don't recommend skirting the regs here as they had some solid reasoning (algae blooms). Instead you can get away with shorter cycles by doing 2 things.

First - run your tap until the water is hot before starting the cycle, and second, use a booster powder instead of only using a pod or the main detergent door. These 2 things will get significantly more gunk off your food during that first rinse phase. As a result you may be able to get away with the "quick" cycle.
So, your solution is omnipresent tracking and retribution?

The source of information is important which is just one of the many reasons why sites like reddit are poorly suited to be used as a reference.
Because of a recent HN article on the subject, I was searching for "correlation of ACT scores and IQ", and the first 5 hits were the _same_ crappy 1500 word essay, where various section headers were programmatically changed to include exactly what I searched for.

How challenging would it be to just check common searches and generate a page that hits all relevant wordings by including those words right in the page.

I tried several different variations like "How to convert ACT score to IQ", etc. Same stupid page.
Even if it didn't have the option, all you'd have to do is open up the front panel and rip the beeper off the board. That's what I do to my microwaves that can't be muted.
I worked in a hotel kitchen as a teenager in the early 70s. I don't think we used any chemicals at all in the dishwasher. But we did rinse the dishes first. They were so hot when they came out of the washer that they dried instantly and were too hot to handle with bare hands.
That is literally the "Games" pane you can turn on in the settings. It's just the store for their games. It's not the default Edge experience. You only see that when you purposefully turn it on.
And yet, I bet women were pretty happy when men created the dishwasher.
I've got a couple devices that are useable from my phone only. My first reaction to your comment was "why not have a wifi status page for my dishwasher?" Hell, you could put a 90 cent weight sensor on the racks to tell you when they've actually been unloaded vs. the door has just been opened.

On the other hand I don't want another damn app. Why is all that crap bluetooth and phone-only? Why can't I install these things on my router?
> Kolmogorov’s 1933 monograph on probability

I actually read that. Its definition of probability is pretty nice: it allows non-impossible events to have zero probability even in discrete case, e.g. a coin landing on its edge.
> Thank god the dishwasher has a wall switch to the circuit so I can just kill it but oh man.

Surely just opening the dishwasher a crack would be simpler than cutting the power?
Most of the comments here are basically explaining why they actually would like faster dishwashers.

Choose your motivating examples carefully.
If the summarizer does a good job it will probably identify the spam as what it is -- junk intended to funnel you into an affiliate link.
Strong data privacy is good. Dumb side effects that serve no one are not. Cookie banners, or California's "is known to cause cancer" on virtually _everything_ serve no purpose and should be re-designed.
Plus powercuts, plus them drifting.
Mine beeps and opens it's door, I quite like it. The washing machine make a Yazoo style beep to that I sing along to.

Definitely need to get out more.
I draw the line at long-term housing of local residents. Anything else is a hotel.

A vacation rental is not housing people.

AirBnB adds flexibility for new rent-seekers. It doesn’t address housing affordability and in some cases actually makes it worse.
The LG washing machine in my apartment has a lot of chimes (even on the ZZZ quiet mode). And it doesn't appear there is a way to disable them. It's really irritating.
>From the manual

Out of curiosity, how do you know the make/model of goblinux's dishwasher?
Because it turns into an exploitation shit show incompatible with a stable prosperous society if we just satisfy your fetish for the perfect embodiment of abstractions like “the market.”
Interesting. I recently admired the creative engineering of my neighbor’s dishwasher which simply, and quietly, projects a small status light on the floor.

It’s a Bosch.
I owned a Voodoo 3, while all my friends had TNT2's. My experience was the opposite. Not sure if it was the handling of anisotropic filtering, or some kind of texture filtering - but my Voodoo 3 was notably sharper on all the games of the time.
Thanks for sharing that, it's super cool ! Loving to see that there is this effort done. I will definitely try it out.
> . They were so hot when they came out of the washer that they dried instantly and were too hot to handle with bare hands.

This is not far off how your dishwasher at home works either - open it when it switches to "dry" mode and you'll notice that everything is hot as hell. The "dry" time is relaly "cooling down" time.
The opposite effect (generated by one wanting astrology to be false - and there are plenty of reasons for that inclination also) might also be afoot.
I have a Bosch and it doesn't beep when done. So I guess it's not all of them.
It's also a great way to spread misinformation if the paper has issues. This post goes viral, but news about it getting retracted won't. The article shouldn't refer to it as "published in December". It should say that the paper is not peer reviewed yet.
What is "scratch"?

"Great artists steal".

Art is defined by remixing the life experience of the author.

ChatGPT's ability to create art is only limited by it's input (text corpus) while humans have images, sound, smell, touch, etc.
That is nuts and I’ll not buy an appliance with a clock for that reason.
> Any crap left on the plate will get spread on everything else, so you have to pre-wash everything first. You should really do it at home too, [...]

Why? If I have to wash my own dishes, that would defeat the point of a dishwasher..
I was hoping this post would mention using OCaml with flambda[1] enabled. At least for my work, flambda seems to yield a ~10% speed up when compiling things. Can you get OCaml binaries with flambda enabled through Nix? With opam, I currently have to compile OCaml myself to enable it, as I am not aware of any binaries being distributed.

[1] https://v2.ocaml.org/manual/flambda.html
We have a CI pipeline more complicated than it needs to be (=> also engineering time setting that up, maintaining it) because pylint was too slow.

Not a snowflake, just a Python web app.
Well... there is certainly a way to disable that beeper, but it may void your warranty.

I've been strongly considering cutting out the beeper in my refrigerator, which will aggressively beep after a mere 20 seconds of being open. One way I like to cope with this frustration is to subscribe to the conspiracy that it is an intentional anti-pattern designed to motivate me to upgrade to a more expensive model that has a (stupid) window. I'm very comfortable with the idea that I'm going to stand there and stare mindlessly into my fridge, basking in indecisiveness. I don't think I waste as much energy doing this as the glass does, being a poor insulator.
I believe that Google could easily, from a technical point of view, lower the search ranking of web pages that have a lot of affiliate links. However, I also believe that this might be against their business interests.

When I am in a patient mood, I now just use the Edge Browser on my Macs and iPads, and jump right into Bing AI/ChatGPT chat mode. It is really important to make it clear that you want the system to research, follow web links, and summarize results for you. However, I see no advertisements, so how are they going to monetize this? I pay for OpenAI API use and also pay (for now) for ChatGPT, so I guess that I would also pay for an ad-free Bing AI search.

I have always been a Google fan, still love GCP, YouTube, YouTube Music, and Play Books. But they do make their money off of search and advertisements, so it will be really interesting to see how they protect their business.
> 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.

Mathematically this is difficult to believe... Unless the interest payment == the cost reductions or the interest was adjusted out of the adjusted earnings and the cost reductions == 40% etc.

Someone somewhere in the long line of people from twitter to 'people familiar with the matter' are either making shit up or waving their hands in the air and grabbing the nearest number.
Depends where you live, houses here usually have separate hot and cold water feeds and the dishwashers take only a cold input, relying on an internal heating element if they need hot water.