skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I don't know that they're a good merge match. That said, it would be cool if Framework sold units with PopOS supported by System76, and/or System76 selling Framework unit with PopOS on their site. Since it would align with a relative miss.

Framework seems to have a better build quality than the System76 hardware, and they did a similar deal with a dev laptop from HP, that got discontinued. So it wouldn't be completely unheard of. Could also be a boost for development overhead for both considering firmward development.
I was laid off in November, coincidentally on the same day I had a doctors exam. I didn't want to reschedule it so I went. My BP was suddenly 150-160. They were somewhat concerned (I'm young and almost an underweight BMI) until I explained I just got laid off about 4 hours ago. Fun stuff. Weird memory.
heh, right when I'm just considering swapping to linux for my gaming machine
You didn't say anything about budget, security requirements, or advanced config vs. plug'n play set up, so pretty much any prosumer mesh router/wifi would fit your requirements - Asus ROG, Linksys, Google WiFi, etc.

My personal / recommended setup:

- For firewall: pfSense (or OPNsense, if you prefer a truly open alternative)

- For L2/L3 switching: Ubiquiti Switch, with PoE

- For WiFi access points: as many Ubiquiti Access Points as needed (I use FlexHD; easy installation if you already have the cabling, but there are other alternatives, including ceiling mounts, APs for outdoors, etc). I use a dedicated UniFi CloudKey, but you can also use a Docker container or your own vm

IMO this gives you the perfect balance between flexibility and control, without requiring too much maintenance. While I'm frustrated with some recent political crap from Ubiquiti [1], the wifi is rock solid, and the products are top notch.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ubiquiti
It doesn't seem to be the same thing though. Like duckdb doesn't seem to use s3 select. The difference is that duckdb seems to be doing the filtering here. If you use s3 select s3 will give you result of the sql query. Would be good to know if any existing solution does it.

> select * from a parquet file wherever it resides.

I am sure any tool can do this. The point was to push the query to the source if you are issuing tons of them.
I have read, and heard from multiple financial professionals, that these work best in low interest rate bull markets, and are more likely to underperform active management strategies in more turbulent and difficult financial environments, such as the one we are entering.
The panels are often warrantied for 20-25 years. Most things outlast their warranty period. Inverters are less reliable, warranties are half that for residential stuff but commercial stuff will come with a service contract. Wires and racks can last quite a long time.

You don’t need anything else (e.g., a river to dump waste heat).
Agreed. Compare coffee to having a child. Daycare expenses + everything else, and coffee is a negligible expense, almost a rounding error.

In fact, that's probably one of the largest "lifestyle inflations" that happens.
We ordered four pangolins from System76 and had issues with three out of four. Two were sent back for motherboard issues (video and power) and one was sent back because a metal support bracket had come unglued and was bouncing around the inside of the laptop. To their credit they did accept our return of all four even though one of the four had not exhibited any issues. It was depressing for me because I had always thought System76 was supposed to be the best Linux machines. The higher end Dell laptops are "the new ThinkPads of yesterday" as far as Linux support and solid machines go.
This is an almost copy/paste in 2023 from another article from 2016:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/monkeys-brain-power-talk-la...
HTTPie is a decent open source alternative: https://github.com/httpie
You might not keep up with things on Twitter, but SPAs are out. It's really a relic of an older time.
I get that the velvet would have to die off, but the antlers are firm enough all mating season for battles, why not keep it year round? I think I may have a theory: deer antlers evolved to be too elaborate to maintain all year without hindering the animal's survival. Antlers can get caught in brush and trees when fleeing from a predator and prohibit escape through tight spaces. Horns on prairie / savannah creatures like bulls, ox and buffalo prob do not have to worry as much about fleeing through densely wooded environments. I suspect it also ensures the males will cooperate when not "in the rut".
I'm reminded again how, had I no morals whatsoever, I could be utterly and filthy rich.
After working for almost 3 years with a barebones work-from-home setup (standup desk + laptop), I finally invested recently in some equipment to improve upon my crappy laptop camera and a room with little natural light. The difference in my video call quality is night and day. This is what I got:

- A key light (Godox ES45) to throw a bunch of bright, natural white light at my face. Attached to the desk and positioned tilted above my head so that it doesn't blind me. I don't notice it when it's on.

- A mic (Razer Seiren Mini) on a boom arm attached to the desk, positioned above my face, just out of the camera's sight. Nice, clean sound. Would sound even better if I were speaking directly into it, but I don't like having the mic visible.

- Repurposed an old mirrorless camera (Sony RX100 III) into a webcam for that sweet HD quality. Way better than any of the webcams out there. Needed to buy a cam link 4K card and connect it via a MicroHDMI <-> HDMI cable. Required a dummy battery kit to connect to AC and some setting tweaking, but it works beautifully. Connected the camera to the key light stand with a clamp mount.
Ah a new low-code tool that will come up when I mash my face against the keyboard. Nice!
> Which 70 years latter, the US still has seemingly never once found a long term answer to, as far as I am aware.

That's primarily a political issue rather than a technical one.
Are elephants really bothered by pigs? All the claims of pigs being successful seem to be from BC Greco-Roman historians, making them very prone to propaganda and the writers were often unwilling to divulge actual military strategy.

None of the sources seem to be Asian or African, where surely they fought far, far more elephants than the Romans. And I can't find any modern confirmation of it.

It seems like the noise could have been replicated with some kind of trumpet, and we'd have a long legacy of those being used against elephants.
I don’t know of a better tool. Insomnia is very good though.
It's pain because not only the CTO option is quite expensive, but also CTO models aren't sold and discounted well at market.
Given that most pirate stations aren't monetized anyway, they don't care if people listen or not. Like with most hobbies, people do it for the process, not the outcome. These are anoraks having fun, trying to build better masts, better transmitters, and just pushing their own skills forward, even if the information isn't necessarily useful for anything else.

Growing up in Liverpool, I've got a lot of appreciation for countercultural pirate stations ala Radio Caroline. Nobody has to listen, they just need to have fun doing it to make it worthwhile.
Are there any projects similar to this that use other languages? I don't have anything against Python. But I would prefer using Go if there are alternatives. I experimented with LangChain and this appears to be a similar idea but they are all based on iPython notebooks and that ecosystem.
> But when I spoke with higher-ups at Verizon, they explained that actually, their device-activation process had worked precisely the way it was supposed to.When two-factor authentication isn't possible — like when a phone has been lost, stolen, or destroyed — an ID card will suffice.

This sounds reasonable enough, except they never actually verified the phone was lost, stolen or destroyed.

But how could they do that? At first I was thinking they could send a text to the phone number, and if you respond within 7 days, they will assume it's not stolen. But the problem with that is if the phone was stolen, then they would be letting the thief continue to use it, which ends up almost like the opposite scam (stealing the phone itself).

I'm not sure there are any great solutions to this, unless you're okay with opting into an extra-security category where you really are screwed if you actually lose your phone.
A good example is that Apple had something like 350 different projects. Amelio ended up cutting down to around 50 to be more focused. Steve cut it down to just 12. The idea of making the business hyper lean and hyper focused at the same time.

Amelio started to focus on things like reducing the amount of SKU's and pushing hard on Education. Steve took that and actually communicated this to the world.

And that was the big thing Steve managed to do. Capture peoples imagination and put out the image that Apple wasn't dead in the water. By leaning hard on those few things that made them different at the time - like the iMac.
I don’t know how to answer something this disconnected from the actual practices of the industry.
I used to think that, but they influence (read: buy) any politicians and regulators who adjust the policies (the pols benefit by knowing what they're doing also) - either they shift the approach, or exempt themselves.
That is not a very good answer. What ChatGPT basically said was: “Monkeys can’t speak because they don’t have a bird-only organ and because syntax is hard”

I think you would have had a much better result if you had asked it to summarize this (fun and interesting) article.
Makes sense. Any style of in person event that you've especially liked?
The Dells are far and away better machines. I have a five year old XPS13 and a year old XPS17. They are great. My only caveat is that I only buy them with Intel/AMD video cards.
Because Zoom and Discord are a centralized point of failure. Remember all the times there's been downtime? Radio continues existing, and there's plenty of relay stations to get broadcasts further.
There were several other alternatives but it has been a year since I looked at it. I do recall that none of them use the same export/import format hence I never bothered moving.
The fact that parrots and humans with different anatomies can speak means it’s likely just neural.
Sharing your own company’s information is a big no-no, and probably a breach of contract, both at the interview stage, and also if you decide to join the other company. Don’t even share that your current company is working on a competing product. Your potential new employer knows who you work for and will not disclose competitively relevant information, so ask anything you want. Even if it wasn’t an open source product.

It would only be unethical if you have no intention of joining the new company and are only interviewing to gain information for your current employer.
I'm not advocating for this browser specifically, only encouraging more people to take pro-privacy and online safety measures.

It's pointless to say the problem is the employer, or the hacker who released the data, or the programmer who relied on bad algorithms, or the admin who didn't secure the data. One way or another, this data will get leaked, the old hashing and encryption techniques will be broken and there will be people searching through it all. Forget about the government, at least they are beholden to law and maintaining the appearance of adhering to it. Substitute employer for neighbor, girlfriend or internet stalker and you have equally valid scenarios which are even more disturbing in my mind.
I'm in the same boat, though, its only been about 7 years for me. It feels like with all these artificial shortages, it isn't even worth trying to find a doc to prescribe me something, I just won't be able to get it or if I do, I won't be able to keep getting it.

Every other prescription I've had has an adult (anti-acids, urinary meds, SSRI, buproprion) was eventually cut off from refills because I didn't do the followup appointments. At least I can get OTC pepcid these days, I lost a lot of weight and don't need as much.

Best to just continuing wallowing in unemployment.
Not sure whether it was the article itself or the software, I got hooked to it. As the follower of another Abrahamic faith(Islam), I have nothing but utmost respect for Thomas Buchler.
$200 is still insane for a over not-latest low-end Z-series mobo. I hate completely useless expensive PCIe Gen5 x16 slot.
Regardless of the different (usually bad faith) arguments on whether elected Italian officials are allowed to pass legislation on the Italian language, I would like to point out that this article contains a brazen lie:

'This would mean that saying “bru-shetta” instead of “bru-sketta” could be a punishable offense.'

What is CNN's or the author's incentive to deliberately insert mud-slinging into an article about a country's politicians drafting laws?
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It’s silly enough that you did this but rather annoying that you posted it here
Sharing that the current company is contemplating a similar product is already sharing sensitive information and is probably in breach of contract, regardless of whether an NDA is in place.
Mindblowingly cool. Jesus.
In Poland literally overbuilding wind/solar by 10x would not sustain consumption on multiple days in December or January.
Sometimes it is purely a cost / benefit tradeoff analysis. The cable company even if a local monopoly should want my business. Although I suspect the local cable company did the original analysis back in the 90s and never factored for 25+ years of reliable revenue. And every year since some bean counter has looked at short term ROI. At any rate, I remember getting some relief when the first iPhone jailbreak was available and now for sure Starlink is a boon.
>In any case, you bring up an important issue: can monkeys bitcoin?

What's the hashrate of infinite monkeys on typewriters?
Just for another data point, I haven’t gotten Wayland screen sharing to work reliably at all. I tried it in Fedora 35 and Ubuntu 22, where Wayland is the default. On Fedora it just didn’t work, and on Ubuntu, Firefox would crash every time. On Chrome it sort of worked after some updates. For Slack you needed to launch from the terminal with special environment variables. There were also weird bugs around docking my laptop, requiring hard resets. All in all, for any sort of modern remote work it wasn’t usable. I switched back to X11 and it’s been smooth sailing. I do miss the fancy trackpad gestures.
Subjectivity in Art
Wasn't there a networked version of that? I feel like I was using one back in the day
Nuclear waste? Why not reprocess like France?

Heritage Foundation (!) agrees:
https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/recycling-nu...
Yeah I don’t really understand why my API testing framework is the right place for any of this.

Edit: Unless my API framework wants to own all my shit.
$433mm sounds high but then again, Calendly's raised $350mm and 1Password's raised $920mm, so maybe that's just where things are these days. Without a view of Postman's internal roadmap, we can't say for certain what their world domination plans are, and why there's been that investment (we don't know what the valuation the $433's been bought in at either). Postman Flows is pretty clearly the low/no-code future they're betting on, and given a more advanced, developer friendly interface to a Zapier-like product (a fully managed low code PaaS offering), the bridge between a low-coder+platform fees, vs sr fullstack dev+cheaper platform, theres a comparison of total costs to be done, with lower pay for a low coder + higher platform fees ending up being less than higher pay for a sr full stack dev + lower platform fees.
The story of Washoe is arguable more relevant than Koko.

I remember seeing this on TV when I was a kid.

https://youtu.be/UwZWWsc5xDk

The part that starts at 32:00 to around 38:00 is quite interesting, they programmed a PDP-8 to function as an icon-based chat mechanism. I always remembered the "grooming" part.
There's a classic, maybe apocryphal, scam that allegedly works like this.

You tell everybody you're a brilliant stock picker, and you get, let's say, 256 people to follow your advice.

So you choose a stock, and tell half of them it'll go up and half of them it'll go down.

That means 128 of your followers are guaranteed to think you predicted correctly.

So you do it again, and again, until you get down to like one or two people who think you are a genius.

Then you leverage your true believer(s) faith in you.
Simple Chat Window(tkinter) in Python for Connecting to ChatGPT API
I create a simple chat window for accessing chatgpt using the API. It's more reliable than the free version and alot cheaper than the paid version. It also logs your conversations to you local file system.

It still needs to handle multiline input and reload existing chats.
"Those who can’t teach, coach."

– Woody Allen

(Couldn't resist. My degree, BTW, was in Education and I get pretty steamed too when people denigrate teaching. It was because of amazing teachers I have had that I pursued it for a career — somehow writing software came along though and I got sidetracked.)
Weight are not released
Seems like a giant waste of time.

Solar/wind is already cheap. Makes sense to focus efforts on storage and intelligent live balancing

e.g. Discharge EV batteries into the ~1 hour peak per day

Much can be gained from just smoothing things out
Here is some data from 2019 about cheap solar+storage. Per unit, it is always cheaper to build a factory than do home installation.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/09/10/los-angeles-commissio...
Python seems the go-to language for most ML work. Are there any wrappers you could use to call these frameworks from within Golang?
Casually querying an S3 bucket with either of those is easily a half day's work for any meaningful size of workload. S3 Select and Athena make this very straightforward, and in the case of Athena+parquet, obscenely cheap given the capability on offer. I wanted to dislike parquet as overengineered masturbation, but that's really hard when getting billed fractions of a cent for chewing through terabytes of data in a few seconds with no setup costs.
How is it even possible to establish a monopoly market with airplanes considering you can operate both at the same time?

https://www.quora.com/Can-an-airline-have-both-Boeing-and-Ai...
None of what you did makes Windows 7 secure enough to use safely in 2023.
For barebones lightweight stuff I use the Thunderclient for VSCode extension.
I’ve recently started using Thunder Client in VS Code and it seems … good? Sensible, lightweight. And the IDE feels like the right place for this. I haven’t used Postman that much so couldn’t comment on the comparison.
The most powerful thing for me has been realizing how quickly habits develop, good and bad. It can be so easy to say "oh, I'll start running TOMORROW", or "why bother going for a run today, when I'm never going to be able to keep it up?"

But actually, surprisingly, things you don't initially want to do can become positive habits in a very short time period. Like, 3-5 times. Of course, the flip side is also true; I've often fallen OUT of workout habits just as easily. But at the end of the day, perfection is not the goal. You shouldn't avoid starting a new positive habit just because you know you'll probably lose the habit again. You can always pick it up once more!

Someone who is a regular gym-goer for a few years, then becomes sedentary, then picks up running for a half decade, then moves on to cycling, then falls out of the habit, is probably better off than someone who never bothers to try.
I've done that before and found it super refreshing. If the program is about the size you can fit in your head you can probably end up re-writing it better the second time around. Bonus points if it's in a new programming language
I think we're close enough to an understanding that I'll let you have the last word, except to correct one more misunderstanding.

My objection to ChatGPT is yes, about generating full sentences.

I object to it for many reasons, but not necessarily just because it's rude. My biggest concern is actually that it takes out the voice of the human.

I have a hard enough time figuring out what people are thinking in person (I'm on the spectrum) that doing it through text is like trying to sense the movement of fish with my eyes closed on shore. Making everybody have the same bland voice would turn that up to 11.

I want the human, even if the human isn't perfect.
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GraphQL
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Naive pandas is going to limit you to RAM sizes when parquet is deliberately meant for huge datasets.
There is a third and a fourth option.

3. Split the platform/user-base.
Allow freedom of expression in western countries and censor it in China.

4. Censor prompts and images only in China, which still allows sharing non-political artwork between Chinese and western user.

All other platforms operating in China (of Chinese or western origin) have to do the same.