skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love that a product decision for such a critical piece of software infrastructure includes a link to an xkcd comic for justification
> require great discipline and the ability to factor systems correctly!

is there a framework that doesn't??
If only there were some kind of language that could compile to a code that could be run on any operating system that could be used for this sort of thing. Oh wait, it's Java and it's been around for 25 years. But quite restricted in it's interaction with the OS, for good reason. As is WASM, for good reason as well. If printer drivers in Java didn't become a thing, I doubt that WASM printer drivers will.

Though I can't really understand why a printer driver needs such low level OS access so as to become a security risk as they sometimes are - aren't they basically a program that converts one image format to another, then flings that down a USB or network port?
From the email address I suspect OP works at Apple and may not have their choice of what OS to use.
One extra thing about both NO and NO2 that the narrative on this really discounts (but you touched on) is that they are both fairly reactive, so they tend not to linger in the air. This makes them damaging to whatever environment the end up in, but a lot less likely to build up to toxic levels than stable molecules like CO and CO2. The dose makes the poison, and these ones are hard to get in high dosages.

And yeah, the cheap residential gas ovens really suck, and likely put out a lot more of the bad stuff (both CH4 and CO, but also probably the NOx compounds too) than stovetops. Mixed fuel is now the hot thing in ranges: gas burners and electric ovens.
Did you ever test his ability to recognize pure sine waves?

Ofc, each note is actually composed of ~40 frequencies at different levels (timbre). That’s why different instruments playing the same “frequency” sound different

Heard somewhere that absolute pitch folks sometimes struggle with sine waves (no timbre)
Two decades ago we moved to new Zealand and the apartment my mom had rented (sight unseen since we were moving from the us) was unlivable with bugs and garbage literring the house. Can confirm that new Zealand has this problem
Unrelated to SCDS, I have misophonia* and hyperacusis#.

* Certain external sounds (mostly by other people) raise a limbic rage or anger, such as chewing, raking silverware with teeth, crunching, or rustling food packets. People who don't chew with their mouths closed are painful.

# Painful to hear certain intensities of certain frequencies. I believe the SCDS is also causing vestibular problems. For example, deep subsonic bass cause my eyes to slew up and to the side with the beat involuntarily, with momentary nausea (almost vertigo). It's beyond simple nystagmus. (It's not vertigo, but I've had that and bought the silly vertigo bubble level hat.)

SCDS maybe caused and worsened by the gradual thinning of my already paper-thin superior canal plate with age.
> I couldn’t call a private function that did precisely what I needed.

Well, in a neighboring comment someone is suggesting making the private stuff local, so it cannot be called as well. So your problem would persist just as well.
You guys need to stop creating accounts to promote your site on HN. That's against the rules (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and will get the site banned here if you keep it up.

I haven't banned it yet because the content is in principle on topic for HN, but only if legitimate community users post and upvote it organically!
Why Inspiring Stories Make Us React: The Neuroscience of Narrative (2014)
If they are not happy with their employer they need to switch. It's completely unreasonable to ask others to adapt.
Are you going to be paying for the electrical upgrades to homes that people on fixed incomes will need to get their 100+ year old homes up to code to be able to use one of these induction tops or should they just not live in a house to make you feel good?
Upvoted for the nice name :)
There are a lot of jurisdictions where piped natural gas is not available and 200 amp service is very common, as a practical matter it is not a big deal.

Requiring new builds to have even more electrical capacity and more robust incoming infrastructure is a win-win-win situation and hopefully that is what code & consumers demand.
Can you explain a bit more please. I do have some random screenshots backed up in Google photos. How does that help?
Applying philosophies to everything, typically fail as size and complexity increase. Large enterprises spent over a decade implementing systems by modeling data and flows during the era of structured analysis. Popularity waned as results did not match initial excitement.

Modeling an ADT sure, but an air traffic control system by following the data flows? Not likely.
Yawn. is there a "let me chatGPT that for you" like there's "let me Google that for you"?

Yes, learn C#. Its a great language, it's been evolving, picking up useful paradigms from other languages, and there's a ton of support.

Learn Rust instead of learning C.
To use one of your examples, Kurzgesagt’s value is as much in the provided information as in the way it is provided.

Unlike many supposedly professional or amateurish YouTube videos that just artificially elongate their introduction by repeat the same three introductory sentences in fifty different ways before finally getting to the 20 words-long point.
This does not logically make sense. It's TV. On TV, a guy can shoot an automatic and not reload for a full ten minutes. He can get shot at by 20 people with rifles and they all miss, while he kllls them all with a handgun that holds 10 bullets.

That is not sponsorship by gun companies. It is TV.
Glued screens are a big part of why we get to enjoy the level of water resistance we have today, and while I agree it's tricky, I can tell you I've successfully changed the batteries on two different phones with nothing but a hairdryer and a suction cup scavenged from a bathroom mirror.

Sure, like repairing a car, you won't be able to fix or maintain certain things without the right tools, but being able to use the right tools without voiding your warranty is a huuuge step in the right direction. I mean, imagine if your car insurance company refused to cover you in an accident because you changed your own oil once!
Isn't this forgetting another important part of programming, that is algorithms?

You can have correctly modeled your data, but if you then use bubble sort, your program will suck anyway!
Having most users support it is largely just a matter of time. Screwing over a ton of people people because you want to make "most" happen a year sooner is not a good thing. Tens of millions of people are going to be forced out of perfectly good hardware years before they would have normally switched. Or left without necessary patches.
I see, so you are giving it more inference power.
Long before Unix talk, ITS (the Incompatible Timesharing System at the MIT AI Lab) had a program called UNTALK, written by a user named UNCOLA, that supported split screen text chat, back around 1992 or earlier.

Incompatible Timesharing System:

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

Getting Started Computing at the Al Lab by Christopher C. Stacy. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LABORATORY WORKING PAPER 235 7 September 1982:

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/41180/AI_WP_2...

>6.10.3. TALK

>If you want to link to someone who is on another ITS machine, you can use the TALK program. The program is run by typing:

>*:talk uname@host

>To exit TALK terminating the conversation, the user who initiated TALK must type ^C.

>This method of comlinking is less versatile than the backnext commands, and only works across ITS machines (not locally).

>Another useful comlink program is UNTALK. UNTALK is similar to TALK but does not work across machines. However, on a display terminal, UNTALK splits the screen horizontally and allows the two people to type at the same time on their part of the screen.

The "backnext commands" he referred to would actually let you not only perform a text chat link (albeit not split screen), but also take over another user's TTY, to type into and see the output of their DDT shell and programs. There was no security other than obscurity on ITS, and that feature of linking to and sharing another user's TTY was meant for collaboration, helping, and teaching people, and also initializing and configuring output-only serial devices like line printers.

History of the Net is Important, by Keith F. Lynch:

http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/ACN8-1.pdf

>[...] ITS stood for the Incompatible Time-sharing System, an obvious take-off on CTSS, the Compatible Time-Sharing System. (Just as Unix is a take-off on the earlier TENEX, TWENEX, and MULTICS.)

>All four ITS machines also had UNTALK, a split-screen conferencing program similar to the later “talk” on Unix and PHONE on VMS. I was told it was written by a user whose ITS username was UNCOLA and who had committed suicide. I don’t know if it was the first program of that type, but it was the first I had seen.

Even before that, ARPANET TIPs supported a low level way of text chatting (not split screen) called a "TIP to TIP Link" (documented on page 5-4 of the "Users Guide to the Terminal IMP") where each participant bounced their packets off of a port on some host, without actually logging in or going through the host.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13518273

Users Guide to the Terminal IMP (1975):

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_bbntipADA0eTerminalIMP...
I don't have the answer, but perhaps it may be more beneficial for you to try looking at recently asked - for which one can look back a number of pages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew
I guess the 26% layoffs weren't enough and they're hoping for more attrition.
An overview of what we know about the game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liubo
“You sleep. I watch.”
I, for one, used to actively choose to mute the TV and go to the bathroom during ads. It wasn’t happenstance.

And I fail to see how doing so somehow meant I was taking without putting back.

The tv channel got paid the same.
Advertisers just priced that into whatever they paid for the ads. One could hope for them that they wouldn’t pay for those if they didn’t find it to be worth it.

The only point I’d agree with here, is that if nobody wants to pay for these things, one way or another, then we shouldn’t be surprised if they don’t exist for long.

But then, why should they, if nobody thinks they’re worth paying for?
So you've determined an entire population has a certain behavior because of past interactions with other entities from that continent-sized part of the world.

Do tell me more about this wonderful new method of spam filtering with absolutely no bigotry.
It’s their own fault if they say something in a review that they can’t prove.
How is that figure calculated?
This a high-quality answer, and I appreciate that you took the time to write and share it with us.
What license gives the end user more freedom to do what they want with the software? That's what the gpl is about, not adoption or "contributing back".
Not entirely surprising. It harms their frenemies and doesn't really hurt them because it's not a large fraction of their business (Xbox and Surface notwithstanding). If one can make things more expensive for other companies and win points with customers, it adds to brand goodwill. I don't believe it's entirely realpolitik and there were likely legitimately interested Microsoft personnel who wanted to push some sensible change.
True. Which is why it's important to not measure the ROI of a feature by the time and resources you spend on it vs. how it increases your revenue.

You also have to include that every further feature is now _more_ expensive than before.
There is a subgenre developing of excited publications/articles with the high level category of "ChatGPT does X!" where the moment you dig into it it turns out that there's a huge silent "but" that it's performance in "X" is completely unverified by anyone worthwhile.

So we have here "ChatGPT performs better than doctors *"but* we sampled on an unpaid internet forum"

The other one thats doing the rounds where noone is verifying the source is "ChatGPT develops lethal chemical compounds *but*" It would be too unethical to verify with an actual chemist if any of these compounds it dreamt up actually do anything".

ChatGPT is showing how bad the economics of journalism are for understanding a topic outside of taking press releases at face value*
Here are links to posts about the N1, and the Soviet lunar program, on AskHistorians:

Most mention Korolev's failing health and death.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3riyh3/why_d...

Summary: Khrushchev wanted the moon for cheap, lunar rockets weren't useful for ICBM research, the transition to Brezhnev threw a wrench into the program.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/22pled/why_d...

Summary: infighting, N1 had too many rockets and not enough quality control, exhaustion on the team, and Soviet electronics were way behind U.S. electronics.

Comments from the soviets themselves: https://web.archive.org/web/20121002063209/http://www.astron...
Housing developers themselves often prefer not to run expensive natural gas plumbing into new buildings in addition to electricity. As an example, consider 461 Dean St, which besides being the largest modular skyscraper in the US, is fully electric [1].

This ordinance will just probably just push electrification from exclusively at the high-end out to the entire new housing stock.

1. https://461dean.com/
They hardly forgot it. It's just that today we prefer hash functions that are seeded, so we use a random number instead of the "magical" fibonacci constant.

See for example multiply shift hashing in https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06804
It's not their competitors, it would be the anger of their partners.

ODMs and OEMs may not like Microsoft "trespassing" on their property.
I first learned this trick for generating hues for colors when you don't know how many you'll need.

I think LibreOffice might do this. It always picks blue and orange for the first 2 series in a chart. But you can keep picking and it always has more colors that are just slightly different than all the previous ones.
Right, another low effort deflection into the "It (is/is not) Intelligent" diversion.

You can sit in that tarpit and duke it out with fanatics and doomsayers while patting yourself on the back for "real zingers"... or you can just learn to use the tool and extract your own value from it.
If we look at the Top 10 oil producers in the world [1], India does not even appear in the list. If we look at the Top 10 oil consumers in the world [1], India consumes 4.79 million barrels/day or 5% of the share of the world consumption.

Having graduated to the most populous country in the world this year with a population of 1.43 billion people [2], energy security is a top strategic imperative for India. It has always been the case for independent India in the past 75 years.

From the article:

> Russian crude oil arrivals to India are expected to surpass 2 million barrels a day in April, representing almost 44% of the nation’s overall oil imports, according to Kpler data.

With that level of dependence on Russian oil for its energy security, it is highly unlikely for India to change its strategic calculus, Bloomberg article and First-world-pearl-clutching notwithstanding.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=709&t=6

[2]: https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/publication/un-desa...
They have throttle, but not enough throttle range. Merlin is a 845 kN engine that can throttle down to 338 kN. When the rocket is mostly empty, that's too much thrust to hover. So they have a very short window to start the landing burn, and also not enough fuel to abort and try again.

Given the constraints, it's surprising they don't lose more rockets during the landing phase.
Having a server is like having a car. Its yours, you do what you want with it but:

1) If you don't drive much then you might be overpaying

2) You have to worry about the car infrastructure, you have to maintain it and if it breaks down you might be offline (unable to travel) until its repaired.

3) If you need bring home a washer and dryer for example you have to worry about your car having the needed capacity (scaling)

In todays world you can decide not to own a car and just use Uber or whatever vehicle sharing service is available to you. You pay only for the rides you need, you don't have to worry about infrastructure (repairs) and you can always pay for larger vehicles on demand.

That's serverless computing. Instead of paying for a physical computer or a virtual computer (compute service) you deploy the app you want to run and pay for each run of your app. Typically the app is some type of request/response or event processing app. The cloud company maintains the compute fleet and when a request comes in the will deploy your app to one of their compute nodes long enough to service the request.

Its called serverless not because there are no servers but because you don't know or care about the server it runs on. The hardware could change out between executions. You don't care about failed hardware, OS patching, etc. The lowest level you typically deal with is selecting the app language (node, java, etc).
Maybe my contributions to curb the ruby binding for ruby? Anyone using it?
Weird they didn’t do it for me
It's an incredibly common thing for con artists to claim they were just one thing away from going straight. This one big con, deal, whatever. There's absolutely no reason to believe them. There's always that next big con, next opportunity to rake in even more, an addiction. They always have some kind of justification or another.

Even after having been found guilty of fraud, serving time, Minkow did it again. There was no need for him to do it then, he didn't have those business loans going on. He'd gone "straight". Pastor, fraud investigator.
try implementing symbolic differentiation in a language like haskell or egison, and then again in a language like python or js, and your perspective on what is 'easy to understand and debug' is very likely to change
During college in the mid 2000s I discovered that the network share with all corporate data was accessible (read only) to everyone.

The only way it was not immediately obvious was because only sub folders were assigned a drive letter, and the network share was hidden in the UI. I found a way around that in the Windows open dialog and then was able to trigger Explorer to the top level directory.

The share also contained private data of applicants (names, addresses, date of birth, education history) which was most concerning to us.

With some friends we wrote a document showing what we found (not explaining how to do it) and posted it to an internal message board. We also sent copies via email to our IT teacher, sysadmin and the principle. Shortly after the sysadmin invited us for a chat and basically told us not to do that again.

A couple of hours later we were invited to the principles office. The principle was away at the time, but the vice principle - who wanted to make a name for himself - immediately suspended us all and said he'd discuss it with the principle but said most likely we would be expelled, and they may need to involve the police.

Our main concern in the post we made was that personal data was effectively publically accessible (to anyone who connects to ethernet - you didn't even need to log in). Even before GDPR, our country had very strong data protection laws which this would have breached.

A few days later a parent sent a letter to the principle, effectively restating what we said, with added threats of reporting them for violating data protection of minors. Strangely after that the issue was dropped and we were allowed back...
Semantra: Multipurpose tool for sematic search within your files (open source)
I agree & I don't.

I'm sure that being an app store owner exposes you to the absolute worst just most constant stream of really really awful people doing the worst things, like, forever & ever.

There are some warped incentives too, for sure. But I do think Occam's razor explains why app stores get to be worse & worse & worse: because they are responding to horrors.

I'd love to see some better mechanisms for trust emerge. Software as it is is basically unobservable. You grant or don't grant some permissions & otherwise have no idea what's actually happening. So app stores are the only arbiters of trust.
This is amazing, I've been playing a lot with nix and raspberries. But because they are expensive, just yesterday, I was wondering if I could use my old moto G as another board with nix. This is a step in that direction.
After release from prison (the first time), he becomes a pastor and defrauds his congregation. So no, he was not just about to go straight.
I haven't tried this yet but it does seem very on point with my own sleeping problems. My wife falls asleep at the drop of a hat but I spend at least an hour or more trying to fall asleep. I've tried circadian rhythm lighting, blue blockers, eye masks, ear plugs, everything I could think of to no avail.

Hopefully this helps me and if anyone else is having issues hopefully it helps you.
Yes, we should expect people to tell the truth.
There is a lot that can be improved with python packaging, but calling it "childish" is itself a pretty immature comment.
> To use one of your examples, Kurzgesagt’s value is as much in the provided information as in the way it is provided.

Couldn't you say that about almost any information? But the goal is to communicate, and that depends as much on how (effectively) the information is presented as on how compelling the raw information is.
I love this imagery, requesting a comic of it from some AI art generation du jour.
Thats ok, the reviewer can pay.
I’d happily pay 48c to warn people about a particular past landlord.
there are an awful lot of separate entities in that line
I remember the days when lowering the barrier to entry was considered to be a safe investment since it would pay for itself through increased project interest (and more contributions by the community).

Now it is apparently seen as "working for free for ungrateful people"
It looks like a very useful tool, but didn't get much traction when someone submitted it here a few days ago. (I have no affiliation with this software.)
Probably the cost of a postage stamp
Someone turned up the temperature hyperparameter.
Because this planned obsolete stuff is slowly killing us and yielding would probably only make it worse?
Why are we changing things that aren't broken? Did this message trigger some snowflake?
> I would like to perform actual, invasive background checks on landlords.

Why would a landlord sign up for that though? A rating system or history is one thing, but what additional value would a tenant have in a landlord who passes these "invasive background checks"?

> - A service for employees to drug-test their employers.

What's the goal there? What are the incentives? Why would employers sign up to it and why would employees especially care? The system doesn't have your real or perceived injustices because there are a few evil fat-cat employers and landlords who just need to be shown the error of their ways and/or publicly shamed about their hypocrisy and driven off. It just happens as a consequence of the incentives involved.

> - A neighborhood watch app to report suspected police activity in your community.

What would be the goal? Every neighborhood group I've seen significantly features discussions about crimes and police activity. As far as I can see the most use people get out of them is being alerted to speed traps.
I guess the maxim Familiarity breeds contempt captures that.
Sometimes if I'm getting annoyed or anxious because I can't fall asleep when I want to, I will think to myself "I'll just doze and that will be OK." It helps to fall asleep.