skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anarchy and no moderation whatsoever, in this context, is always better [...] the opposite is much much worse.

Why do you think this? What is your basis for this claim? Note specifically that in unmoderated channels, governments already do participate with propaganda, so your claim that the only problem is distinguishing signal from noise is false by your own stated standards.

Agenda in reporting is a problem, there is no question, but I don’t buy for a second that anarchy is “always” better or even often better. I would agree that there are times when it helps, but I think it’s closer to few and far between, and that the noise and chaos in the mean time is detrimental and damaging to someone’s ability to see truth when it does come through. To use the example from this thread, 4chan is usually demonstrably and objectively worse than any mainstream news at sharing important, relevant, and true information.
I love PHP, and think updates over the last several years have been relatively painless. But it doesn't feel like it's always been that way over the last 15 years.
I noticed that nice new bing AI enabled search bar at the bottom will generously help you provide PII to openai now...

It's amazing that this stuff gets added without thought of consequence.
very interesting...

I can't quite grok what is going on, but referencing the paper gives a great starting point. Thank you.

In particular the notion of a DensitySum seems novel and worth exploring.

(for others, http://www.ofey.me/papers/cetd-sigir11.pdf)
Lucretia, according to sources including Livy, explicitly wasn't killed. She specifically stayed alive so that she could live to tell Brutus et. al of Tarquinus's rape.
Alea iacta est
See also Greenwave https://www.greenwave.org/

> GreenWave’s 10-year goal is to provide training, tools, and support to a baseline of 10,000 farmers to catalyze the planting of regenerative ocean crops and yield meaningful economic and climate impacts.

It's kind of gnarly: there's nothing visible from the surface except for some buoys. There are chains running from the buoys to the seafloor, and food (oysters or mussels or whatever) grows all along the chain, seaweed too.

The thing is: no inputs.

No fertilizer, no irrigation, nothing.

You set it up, monitor it, then harvest.

This is one of those things that makes so much sense that it's almost unbelievable.
And they operate how, exactly? with the money of people who are in there for the money.
She was "rejected" by a guy who she liked because he was ginger. By this she means that the guy did not make a move on her, after they chatted for a bit. Then another guy approached her and they danced together. She did no like him at all, but she enjoyed his attention. The she left him there and vomited in the car on the way home.
She's also 27.
>people who don't mind earning their pay check by making the world a worse place.

Yikes, you could be correct. Is this re-Ballmerizing? Wasn't that supposed to be off the table a while ago?

Not only Edge, Windows itself is acting uglier every time too.

Some of my scientific instruments are over 20 years old and going strong, a few still supported by the latest Windows software from the original vendors.

Now some of the new instruments do have lab functions the old ones never will but at least the old ones are on equal footing as data peripherals when you are sitting at a Windows 11 PC.

But the very oldest used to work with Windows 98 and Windows XP originally.

These things have always had some pretty demanding software, and before installing, the factory instructions had a few paragraphs you were advised to follow in order to configure Windows so it wouldn't have badly compromised performance.

You needed to manually disable a number of underlying Windows processes that were totally un-needed by the task at hand, if not highly detrimental.

It took about 10 minutes to go through the list and then the high-dollar software installed in 85 MB and worked really snappy on a 300 MHz processor.

To run the same old instrument now there are fully updated drivers for the new factory software so the readings can keep coming in to the PC at the same old 100 MB ethernet speed, including all the latest data integrity features from that point which didn't exist originally for these type analyzers.

It really does work and it is fully validated on Windows 11, but before it installs it autoruns a script which takes half an hour on a 3GHz PC in order to disable all the detrimental Windows defaults these days. It would take you hours if you wanted to do this manually.

Before it unzips its 10 GB package of goodness, which now runs like a dog on a dedicated near-gaming PC, compared to the number of clicks-per-minute you could get 20 years ago on a Windows 98 office machine. For the same raw data being processed the same way which is basically both the state-of-the-art at the time.

"Slowing down the speed of scientific progress one Windows version at a time."

Now I like Edge since I only use it offline, to open PDF's and web files like HTML help documents.
I'd add support to that list. When it breaks, can I cut a contract and get an expert available to diagnose the problem within a few hours. Production outages are not the time for self help and digging around in other peoples code bases.
I refuse to go on traveling vacations with more than 5 other adults (including my wife), so 3 total couples.
And because of this nobody should be allowed to commute?
Instead of picking niche brands with unknown build quality and support options, just buy a laptop from a trusted and well-known brand like Dell or Lenovo. Some of their laptops come with Linux options, and even if they don’t, it’s very likely Linux will work well on it anyway (and you can always check before you buy if all the hardware is supported).
You appear to be familiar with Pascal, so I am surprised you find the statement-heavy approach an issue. What would be the benefit of making this change?
Sweden gets better birth rate thanks to immigrants not thanks to Swedes. The same in Germany.
> Gitea mostly rocks and in my experience runs on even that 5$ VPS, but it does not ship with any CI/CD by design. They do have a list of external services[1] that can provide CI that can integrate with their software, so you can have CI/CD. Personally I'd recommend Gitea if you're looking to selfhost.

Currently using Gitea + Sonatype Nexus + Drone CI which has worked nicely for my own needs, after previously running self-hosted GitLab for a few years, but finding the updates to be a bit problematic: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-...

That said, Woodpecker might be a more open CI offering, licensing wise and works similarly to Drone.

But personally I wouldn't judge others for picking whatever else they are familiar with and what works for them, even if that choice would be Jenkins or something like that.
sorry, my bad, i don't do any c programming these days.

but to be pedantic, i think you mean define rather than declare, though of course you can also declare things at different scopes.
https://archive.md/v4jnv
Did they close the bank because some of its clients were politically unpopular?
iOS's local spell check suggested Microsoft.
Flickr, Instagram, and the Free Lunch
Removing that fear of the unknown so that everyone can remain uninitiated and compliant with society’s usual mode of thinking.
You have a point. I have often seen OSS projects being funded on the basis of github stars with no revenue whereas all the parameters show that the project health is not that great.
I don't really think this generalization holds. TeX is one of the very few widely used pieces of software that's considered complete, more or less everything else is either getting updated or superseded by other things.
I feel like the Laravel community has helped PHP get its shit together. Maybe it's all timing and coincidence though, I dunno.
I think we're talking past each other. There is a semantic difference between `asyncFoo()` and `blockingFoo()`, but not between `await asyncFoo()` and `blockingFoo()`, and not between `asyncFoo()` and `spawn blockingFoo()`.

There's obviously a difference between launching an operation to run concurrently with the spawning code and launching an operation and awaiting its completion, but that difference does not require the introduction of an async/await feature, and is perfectly expressible with nothing but threads and synchronous code. In particular, there is no need for two separate syntactic domains between async and sync subroutines. Indeed, in Erlang, Go, and Java, all the same behaviour of async/await is achieved with no such need, and no need for different kinds of APIs.
Intra-region traffic (i.e. inter-AZ) being free would make way more sense to a customer.

I’d really love to know what the marginal cost to AWS for this is though. I reckon there’s a very healthy margin in that 2c/GB.
Psychology students, so even narrower than that.
Best methods for that? Local meetups?
JavaScript does not have a pass by reference: Value of Accurate Mental Models
The larger point is about how more accurate mental models are more efficient for mastering programming languages.
I don't you can externally measure how much money is being donated for an OSS project can you?
With the Hydra binary cache I can quite comfortably update my Avoton C2550 based router or Raspberry Pi 4 AirPlay receiver within a few minutes. It’s only if I need to build a non trivial package that I have to make sure I build on my desktop or in a VM on my MacBook.
If I understand correctly, the author is upset that a business offers various pricing models to drive consumers towards certain decisions?

Doesn’t like, every company do this?
> It’s a boring complaint

I disagree. If a company portrays itself explicitly or implicitly as offering low prices them it's more than fair when they jack up prices.

Namecheap's own description is "Buy cheap domain names and enjoy 24/7 support."

I do not understand why people feel the need to play the role of a corporate white knight and do their best to shield them from any criticism.
I had always understood SQLite to be open source...I didn't realise it was more public domain than licensed.

So, to summarise, the goal of this project (beyond what is stated about futures) is to fork, apply an understood license vs. a blessing, and then open for contribution? Am I reading that correctly?

interesting!
> ‘best option,’ per Indian Point nuclear plant owner

Lies. Cheapest option. This is precisely why nuclear power is dead: operators don't want to foot the cost. They just want the profits of operating without any of the responsibilities of building plants nor dealing with waste. And for good reason: these two major costs make nuclear energy somewhere between unprofitable and economically unviable.

Fix this, pro nukes, you can have all the nuclear energy you want. Make it profitable or please stop.
I read it with a slightly wider scope for "today": when you have reached the point where you need to include the middle initial to tell presidents apart you aren't that far from just incrementing a counter...
I recently did a sleep test because i was really sleepy and tired during the say an my apple watch is telling me i have too many wake ups. My AHI score is 33 which is quite bad. I immediately got A CPAP (auto) and after a week of using my AHI is now 1.3. And my brain has become so clear and alert. I can't imagine how I lived before once i got the taste of normal brain.
What difference does that make, really?

Software is easy enough to patch. If it wasn't built-in, it'd be easy enough to add. It'd also be one update away.
The Geopolitics of the United States: The Inevitable Empire (2012) [pdf]
I am very happy that ETH switched to PoS. Now it just runs in the other data centers that are already in the same location and uses a fraction of the power.

The GPUs were already made and older models. The PS5 chips were seconds that never made it into PS5's. They would have gone to waste regardless.

If is really interesting to me how people have some sort of moral obligation to tell others how to spend energy. I find gaming a total waste of time/energy, but I don't tell people to stop playing games or that they should feel guilty about it.
I don't get it, if all SVB clients recovered their funds "thanks" to the government intervention 0 (or 1) business day after the collapse, then how is their money needs related to the situation with SVB ?
Past standards aren't necessarily an indication though, based on what else was allowed to go on.

I do agree that as described, the best option seems to be putting it in the river. And the best way to trade off time for lower concentrations of tritium is to limit the release rate. For example, if one is willing to wait 24 years to reduce the concentration by 75%, one can trickle the water out into the Hudson over that time and reduce the concentration much more.

The whole article feels like typical journalism where they hide the numbers and go back and forth on binary options. When here especially, the numbers are most of what matters.

edit: Pages 30 and 13 of the engineering report linked elsewhere in this thread says that the routine operating release was less than 1% of what is allowed by federal law, IIUC.
Looks like tungsten has more than twice the electric resistivity of gold. Setting up a conductivity test shouldn't be too hard.
It's about what impacts the majority of the people and what impact it will have to price.
> What’s the escape hatch to bring those into the dev environment?

The function `pkgs.runCommand` is useful if you just want to run some Bash commands https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#trivial-builder-run...

The main difference compared to running commands in a normal terminal is that builds are sandboxed, with no network access by default:

- If your commands need to download some particular files, you can have Nix fetch them separately (e.g. using `fetchurl`, `fetchGit`, etc.) and provide them to your commands via env vars. See https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#chap-pkgs-fetchers

- If you don't know what will be downloaded, or there's no way to run in an 'offline' mode, then you can specify hash for the result (making it a "fixed output derivation"). That will give it network access, and Nix will check that the output matches the given hash for reproducibility (you can just make up a random hash to start with; Nix will reject the result, telling you its hash, which you can copy/paste into the definition :) )

The reasons I like this approach include:

- Bash is familiar/traditional and mostly-compatible with e.g. official install instructions provided by many projects, Stack Overflow answers, blog posts and tutorials, etc.

- Powerful/unrestricted, in case we need to do some fiddling between some steps

- Nix often reveals problems with those familiar/traditional instructions; e.g. if some deeply-nested part of an installer happens to run Python, it will fail if Python wasn't explicitly listed in its dependencies (AKA `buildInputs`). Revealing and fixing such things up-front avoids the "works on my machine" problem.

- Bash commands are often tedious and inflexible; so after writing a few of these we may find ourselves wanting more structure, more reusable parts, etc. which is exactly what the helper functions in Nixpkgs provide (like `pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation`, `pkgs.pythonPackages.buildPythonApplication`, etc.). In contrastt, starting off with those helper functions can seem overwhelming, and the benefits may be hard to appreciate immediately.
>The researchers found molecular evidence that raccoon dogs and other animals susceptible to Covid were sold at the market

I ultimately dont get what evidence like this shows. If you search "Covid Zoo" you will see countless examples of Covid jumping to animals in captivity from humans.

If the main alternative theory (covid accidentally went from a bat sample to a person in a lab) is true then I would think it would also be close to certain that at least some animals in Wuhan would get covid from humans.

I'm happy they are releasing more info but I think in terms of evaluating theories its required to to ask "If Covid started in way X how would we expect it to spread and if it spread that way what evidence would be discoverable months/years after the fact"? Ultimately its a bit frustrating since the data is skewed towards people who were symptomatic enough to seek medical attention AND were viewed as something other than a normal sickness by doctors before Covid-19 was known.
another victim of the ridiculous prices for egress traffic that most vps providers impose.
Indeed. Feynman was extremely good at getting to the heart of the matter with simple and precise language and no pretensions. This is why so many important ideas of a philosophical nature can be found in his works.

But conversely he had little patience with obfuscating the heart of the matter with unnecessary complications, overly complex or vague language, or pretension of any kind. But philosophers do all of those.

If you read Paul Graham's essay, which I linked to, his proposal for how to fix philosophy is to focus on usefulness. For exactly the reason you stated.
Is this what it used to be component Pascal?
Red River Bridge War
US Law, Tariff Act 1930 and Civil Forfeiture
"Linda Martin thought she was being responsible by putting her nest egg in a safe deposit box where she wouldn’t be tempted to touch it."

"According to the FBI notice Martin received, her life savings were taken under administrative forfeiture, an action under the Tariff Act of 1930 that allows federal agencies to seize property without judicial involvement."
https://archive.md/TcVQe

http://web.archive.org/web/20230318154112/https://www.nytime...
The author makes some glaring assumptions that these managed services are just sort of managed EC2 with no further optimizations. I find it very hard to believe that this is the case. Just on networking (which is his focus here) there’s a ton of opportunity to optimize networking between physical locations if you’re running a managed database service. It’s very reasonable for AWS to pass those savings onto their customers.

Corey likes to bash AWS for sport. Sometimes he has a point and other times he’s off the mark. Here he’s missed IMHO. He’s swatting in the air trying to find a controversy where there isn’t one.
> a powerful PC didn’t suck down >1000w

My Ryzen Threadripper 2950X, which isn't a top-of-the-line system at this point, but is still a 16 core beast-ish machine, sucks down (much) less than 400W
A different approach to fuzzy finding
If I were AI, I would remove any post not containing a link or a number. And remove any comment containing a sequence {capital I followed by a space}. Including this one :)
Well yes, there are actually many many CSV standards, my mistake for imprecise language. What I meant to say that there's no single CSV format that programs agree on. Starting with Excel...

Apparently it's quite common in Gsheet land to base your CSV export around things like this copypasta javascript code and customize as needed (follow forks, in parent direction too, for more of the story) https://gist.github.com/mrkrndvs/a2c8ff518b16e9188338cb809e0...
So I have been toying with an AutoPR GitHub Action for a bit but seeing this spurred me to actually put it into a format for y'all to try. It uses GPT-4 to automatically generate code based on issues in your repo and opens pull requests for those changes.

https://github.com/irgolic/AutoPR/

What AutoPR can do:

- Automatically generates code based on issues in your repo.
- Opens PRs for the generated code, making it easy to review and merge changes.

By using this GitHub Action, you can skip the manual steps of prompt design, and let the AI handle code generation and PR creation for you.

Here's how I used it to make the license for itself: https://github.com/mpoon/gpt-repository-loader/issues/23

Feel free to give it a try, and I would love to hear your feedback! It's still in alpha and it works for straightforward tasks, but I have a plan to scale it up. Let's see how far we can push GPT-4 and create a more efficient development process together.
Here's some additional reading material:

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/heres-what-to-know-about-th...

https://www.grocerydive.com/news/how-would-the-kroger-albert...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/12/us-supermark...
If you've dismissed a whole host of languages just at a glance, you're missing out. Lua has little in common with Pascal, which has little in common with Fortran, etc. As a sister post to this says, you see them more as tokens once you are familiar. Emboldening or coloring keywords also helps, as for any language.
For free-form writing and mockups, I extensively use Excalidraw. It isn't feature rich like One Note but works great for me as an infinite blackboard.
Banning TikTok Should Be Just the Beginning
At a former gig, the Prometheus server cost 10% of the total AWS bill in cross-AZ bandwidth charges alone. We were in a single region.

I have long thought it would be interesting to build a highly economical workload that is cross-region, but which only uses a single AZ in each. Inter-region bandwidth costs a little more, but if all your heavy traffic (monitoring etc.) is local you will save a ton. And since your only failover is cross-region, it should be easier to maintain the ability to do so as an organization. Also no extra exposure to whole-region failures :)
1. Take a step away from social media for a while.

2. Get out a pen and paper. Write out several physical letters expressing your anger at the relevant parties.

3. Put them in a folder to read next week and decide if you want to send.
Pretty much this. It isn't rocket science. Unfortunately, easier said than done for most people.
So you don't want to "muddle around", and therefore the laptop you have, an "Asus with a Ryzen 9" is "extremely annoying". That's paying an lot of money to be annoyed by a top of the line CPU, but ok I guess?

Meanwhile, my foldable OLED thinkpad and my regular one, both with ridiculous Intel CPUs that are totally crushed by Ryzens are perfectly functional, both on Windows and Linux, and I enjoy them a lot!

Yet you call them "barely functioning" and insinuate they are as primitive as "Slackware on a 2010 Thinkpad"? Wow, if that isn't entitlement, I don't know what it is!

If you had been a little nicer, I would have offered some help to improve your S0idle experience.

I would suggest a little bit of self reflection, as I think your hardware is wasted on you due to your unwillingness of correctly configuring modern options.
I've been working on automated setup and configuration of Windows for my purposes and for family computers etc.

As part of that I wanted to hide the widgets, the pointless search input, move the start menu back to its normal place instead of the dumb place, hide one drive icon from explorer, etc etc

This also installs software from Winget.

This is what I have so far: https://github.com/lloydjatkinson/configuration/blob/master/...

I have a version for development machines too which is WIP but you can see what I have so far.

The repo root has a big readme of what it does and does not do.

Once it's done you end up with a consistent Windows setup.

I haven't looked into how to disable the bing crap on the start menu search yet as apparently the previous registry keys people found to disable it have been deliberately changed into "touch these values and your start menu search won't work for anything" which is a new level of contempt from the Windows team.

Tldr: Automate all this tedious tweaking and turning off of crapware features via PowerShell. The end goal is to be able to run a single command from the windows terminal and leave it to do it's thing.
I had the same question, which is answered in the article. These events took place before it was known that they would regain access to the funds.
GoDaddy to me is synonym for actively sabotaging their customer's interests.
Any other companies you'd recommend as part of the "startup stack"?