skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one "subsidizes" gas pipelines in most areas. Usually it is a (gasp) capitalistic private company that does that.

But I agree it is easy to do it yourself with propane with one proviso: propane(like butane) has the somewhat insidious property that it is heavier than air so it flows downhill as it dissipates. If it flows to a spark or fire then a flame will spread from the point of first ignition to the propane source.

So if you decide to build a home with a propane(or butane) tank you might consider locating your home on or near a hilltop (that you also own) so that any propane fumes roll away from your property:

https://propanehq.com/do-propane-fumes-rise-or-fall/

Natural gas is much lighter than air and rises quickly up and out of structures. b/c it dissipates so rapidly it is far, far safer than propane. But it is not as easily compressed as is propane so natgas is usually transported to the user in pipes at low pressure.

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-st...
>Like and subscribe my post if you enjoyed it. Imagine people writing such on forums under every post.

You mean like people do on Stack Overflow? "Please mark my answer as accepted if it helped you."
> How does this tool ensure that reviewers are actually tenants, and not landlords trying to boost their rating?

I have only ever felt the need to tell other people about my landlord when they were really terrible. I had a landlord that I liked once, but “getting to hang out with a cool dog sometimes” wouldn’t have compelled me to seek out and contribute to a review website.

I would simply treat anything on the site that’s even slightly more effusive than “I have had little to no reason to interact with my landlord” as patent garbage.
If you’d like to keep up on this and other conflicts and international events, I highly recommend the Economist.
You should call for an ambulance instead.
Somewhere around 1990, I wrote a system in Turbo Pascal to monitor and record the results from a PLC used to calibrate large water meters for the City of Chicago. I had a cooperative multi-tasking system that I used to keep everything updating a GUI while doing all the other work.

Somewhere around 2010, they contacted me because they had a problem with it when they replaced the computer with a newer system. It turned out they had the parallel input cards swapped, and it was put back in service. As far as I know it's still in service.

It's quite possible that thing will outlive me. Why? Because it's tied to hardware that works and does economically important work.
In my experience, even when you have all these certificates, corporate IT will still want you to fill out there security questionnaire.

I would do Cyber Essentials, and then once you’ve done the work for that Cuber Essentials plus should be straightforward.

Most large businesses corporate IT departments realise that ISO certification is not something that small suppliers can do.

I do know of companies that have stopped at Cyber Essentials plus and had no problems.

One thing I have done previously is to create an IT security policy that is “aligned” with 27001. That can go a long way towards letting people know you take things seriously.

The standard is pretty readable and all the things it says to do are completely reasonable and things that you should be doing anyway (or at least gave a policy around).

My email is in my profile and I’m happy to share my boilerplate security policy with you.
Yelp and Google are not reliable--no review website I've seen really is. For instance, Makras Real Estate in San Francisco is a horrible property management company (i.e. slumlord) where the owner was even concvicted of crimes: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/jury-convicts-san-franc... but only after the news of this became public did the ratings on those site show Makras Real Estate as anything less than a 4/5 star company and most of the one sentence reviews were from accounts with generic profile pictures and only a handful of other reviews--they were clearly faked. I reported it multiple times and nothing ever happened. Facebook even responded saying the accounts looked legit and still shows Makras as having 4.9/5.0--what a joke!
Would have been a fun exercise to get Intel and AMD to replace (or properly fix) their defective product, instead of just shrugging their shoulders and telling people to buy new cruft.

Especially with win11 claiming to be eco-friendly in various places ("reduce CO2 footprint") it's somewhat annoying to force a hardware refresh cycle like that.
This could be a cool domain for LinkedIn to move into —— allow reviews only from people who publicly list the company in their profile
It’s interesting because personally I find pink salt lacking in taste and never use it in my dishes
Based on the comments in this thread I went today and bought Kerrygold (salted sweat cream butter) and ran a taste test against generic Kirkland. (I'm in the US so this is US butter.) I ate each one directly, by itself.

Maybe I'm an uncultured barbarian, but... the difference is not nearly as large as the comments here seem to suggest. I can taste the difference, but I have to think about it. And the difference honestly seems small enough that I'm not sure I'd successfully distinguish them in a blind test.

Am I missing something?
I think we fundamentally value different things from our mobile devices. Waydroid is a low level compatiblity layer, but that's still not native and not guaranteed compatibility. I want all social media apps to work, I don't want to ask others to change apps.

If you want full freedom from google, GrapheneOS feels like the best de-googled solution. In some ways, PRoot is to android what waydroid is to linux, except PRoot is way more capable. Google free AOSP, like GrapheneOS exists so it's not fair to say it's the same problem. I appreciate having access to things like Kali NetHunter and value that over being able to install and run a mainline kernel on bare hardware. I don't see a difference in installing a completely different OS vs PRoot, because I am focused on the functionality. I wouldn't be able to tell you a meaningful difference in function between iperf3 running on a Librem phone vs native termux vs PRoot.

Here's someone that's installed Termux on waydroid, installed on manjaro installed in Termux on an android phone. https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/comments/y0kupg/termux_on_ma...

https://github.com/termux/proot-distro
Why would an alternative rating site be more trustworthy?
For the former reason.
This is how I pretty much treat all reviews these days. There is relatively little incentive to lie in a negative review (a competitor could try to trash on you, but I've yet to see that become a big problem and it would be potentially actionable), but there are lots of reasons why someone would want to manufacture positive reviews. So I typically just read through the negatives these days and see if there's a common theme.
Focus now is to build more autonomus bots than create humans
I wrote a flow-graph in Gnu Radio to receive and decode VOR broadcasts[1] using an SDR dongle and my laptop. It was fun to drive around the local station and see it point towards the station.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range
That's a lot of words to say there's no real alternative if one wants a pocket sized device with an ssh client and a good cellular data connection.

I get your point. It sucks that these are our options, but you didn't present any viable alternatives.
why quietly? were they hoping apple is not going to find out?
No. Money is what enables ordinary people to produce creative output and feed themselves while not depending on others. We're living in the first time in human history where producing cultural output is now available to most people, rather than a privilege of a minority sponsored by patrons at a royal court or privileged heirs. This is because, not despite the fact, that culture is now a business.
Send people a postcard to verify their address. If they lived there recently, they probably set up forwarding - so USPS would forward the postcard to their new address, and they could still verify themselves as being a tenant during the past 12 months.

I agree with the concept and we definitely need this. The issue, generally speaking, is that there isn't much of a business model.
Russian Oil Still Powering Europe’s Cars with Help of India
As a color-blind person, most of the time when stuff on screen was only differentiated by color (like red/green status indicators), the go-to-tool would be the system’s digital colorimeter for me.

It was tiresome to have to launch an extra application and inspect RGB percentages to derive what color I was supposed to see.

The colorimeter I made activates while holding down an inconsequential modifier key on the keyboard and shows the name of the color.

Now I can also quickly double-press that modifier key and copy the color value to the clipboard.
Good points. These platforms, if they gain traction, get sullied quick and are anything but objective.
OK but, how? How will lawmakers effectively reason with A(G)I to ensure nuclear missiles are not launched? How will lawmakers know when A(G)I is trying to convince them to authorize a decision of launching nuclear missiles (e.g., because A(G)I thinks its the optimal solution)?

The example of GPT getting a human to complete a Captcha shows that AI will work to accomplish its objective. Even if that means using humans as "workers."

I'm not sure A(G)I would care about human laws such as this, except to see it as an obstacle.
It works very well. The premium subscription is very very expensive though.
"deleting code" should have been included in the "two hardest things in computer science".
> By not watching the video you would be voting for your interests. By watching the video with adblock and etc. you are just "stealing" content and trying to excuse yourself for it by wishing it was something it isn't.

I'm going to ignore the moralizing for the moment.

Either it works as a vote, or it doesn't.

Your initial post about needing to shift monetization strategies clearly describes it working as a vote. Right?
I don't think any of them would be unless they verified an ID to make sure each account was actually unique--but currently none of them have any incentives to limit their user count. Users = growth! So they just turn a blind eye to it.
You are nonethewiser.
> Absolute pitch is a curse for musicians.

I wouldn't go that far — it was occasionally advantageous for me as a singer, when sight-reading music with a ton of weird intervals (e.g. Poulenc's Quatre Motets).
But that is because HR people and recruiters generally don’t know anything about anything tech. They cannot filter resumes on anything vague, so programming language is an easy one. But gp is right; once you are in, the language is mostly irrelevant, unless the company is small and/or their business is selling or maintaining actual tech products.
You can still find those people right in the Apple community forums.
When I switched to Mac many years ago I was so surprised at the attitude longtime users there had with technical questions, just turning them over to the user asking why would they even need that change. Anything that deviated from the standard "expected" experience, even if it was an evident bug, was just treated with hubris by them. Many of those answers are still voted as best answer.
I couldn't find any apps that use this method to try it with my 3 y/o, so I started working on my own here: https://eguchi.app .

I'd love feedback if anyone is interested in trying it!
I'm not talking about positions that require a 4-year education in a technical field like engineering, they're a fairly different situation. What you see in areas like government roles are positions that require any 4-year degree, but most applicants will probably have a liberal arts degree. It's not that these degrees offer nothing of value, but the hiring manager isn't expecting any particular baseline education beyond reading and writing anyway.
Having kids is step 5 and I’m stuck on step 1.
Okay, I think it is fixed. I appreciate your help. If you see this, let me know if the issue still exists!
Technically this is a cool experiment because it's a bit like a cordless BBS from the '80s. However, I think it's doomed to failure. People aren't morons and they don't need an occidental savior to bring the knowledge to them on a newfangled toy computer. If really it was useful and needed, it would already exists because a local somewhere would have found a way to build it by himself and start a business around it. Then the idea would have propagated to other places and soon, there would be unconnected hotspots everywhere. No need for a website to promote the idea with a link asking for money.
I've just discovered git-fuzzy - it's fantastic! I missed its announcement on Hacker News some 3 years ago. Thanks for highlighting it in this thread!
Fixing Our Self Defeating Licence Compatibility Problems in Open Source
Apparently, you're missing the part where they're all defined :)

It does take some getting used to, communicating math in English (and visa-versa).

For example: "two learnable matrices Q and K ... are d_k by d_f". What more do you need to know about them? Also, "a fixed number of features ... call it d_f", I don't know how to more clearly define what d_f is?

I could have called the matrices Joe and Curly, and the feature dimension could have been called Sarah, I suppose. But it's not clear that that's any more helpful... and to anyone with any passing familiarity with math (such as my grad students), giving instances of mathematical objects concise and symbolic names is generally easier to parse, especially when it comes to translating the words into actual math or code.
> until a journalist went and ruined his life.

That's a very strange way to describe a violent criminal finally being held accountable for years of theft.
I had it running before with Dalai (https://github.com/cocktailpeanut/dalai) but have since moved to using the browser based WebGPU method (https://mlc.ai/web-llm/) which uses Vicuna 7B and is quite good.
It's interesting that they actually have it but the price is still silly.

SP5 system board ~$1000
Epyc 9124 $1083
192GB registered DDR5 (12x16GB) ~$1000
case, power supply, modest storage: ~$300

460GB/s bandwidth from 12 memory channels, 50% more memory and you'd have more than $1000 left over. But >$3000 is not a low price either, it's just lower.
I am pretty sure that the Americans would not do that work anymore.

First off it require a bunch of them to leave cities and there is a remarkable tendency for people not to do that.

Second, the work is extremely grueling. Many Americans are no longer able to do that sort of physical labor.

Finally, the spiraling cost of food would be so inflationary that we could not afford to pay the people doing the back breaking labor enough for them to consider it worthwhile compared to their other money making options.
>The idea of purebred dogs is a fairly recent concept and a pretty terrible one.

It's just that the inbred traits are so desirable. I've had many mutts, and loved them very much. But when you want a dog, and you want to know exactly what you're getting, it's hard to beat a pure bred. Yes they will have problems, but it's a known quantity. And what you get in return is a dog who needs minimal training to behave exactly as you wish.
The tire radio was surprising! I was looking for my pool sensor when I found my neighbours car. Then I told my neighbour that his car told me his tire pressure was low and he said he had no idea his car was literally broadcasting what his tire pressure is (and serial numbers and so on…)
> Would have been a fun exercise to get Intel and AMD to replace (or properly fix) their defective product, instead of just shrugging their shoulders and telling people to buy new cruft.

If people want extensive warranties like that on their electronics, they can already buy extensive warranties on their electronics.

Why force everyone to pay for these things?
I hadn't checked out GrapheneOS in a while. Based on the current trajectory, in a few years it might become more practical to add play services back into GrapheneOS rather than continue to fight Google's android releases. I have been doing the worst alternative possible, refusing to upgrade. I was even considering of upgrading to an older flagship. I require a phone with a microsd card and headphone jack on my phone, so that rules out a new GrapheneOS device for now, but I hope that changes.
> Plus electric goes out often.

On the US east coast it does not. Very rare occurrence, to the point where a major blackout is a noteworthy event.
The selection process for doctors often creates some rather perverse outcomes. Medical schools are hyper competitive, and incredibly demanding. The most typical motives a person might have for enduring those demands are some combination of money, prestige, and the ability to do the rewarding work of helping people. So doctors basically have to be hyper competitive, able to endure incredibly demanding workloads, and could potentially be motivated by some combination or money, prestige and a desire to help people. But there’s no test for the altruistic motives in med school, and competitiveness tends to be more associated with seeking status than altruism, so med schools tends to serve as a selection mechanism for these more shallow personality characteristics. At the very least the common assumption that doctors have an innate passion for serving their patients is not valid. Even if it’s true that most doctors want to help their patients, it’s not necessarily true that their reason for doing so is aligned with the best interests of the patient.
> I agree with the concept and we definitely need this. The issue, generally speaking, is that there isn't much of a business model.

This is similar to one of the anti-businesses I have long considered, except I would like to perform actual, invasive background checks on landlords. A couple others:

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

- A neighborhood watch app to report suspected police activity in your community.
Yes, language models are already great for collating information, but they are still too unreliable to rely on.
Not necessarily. The two times in my life when we had week long power outages, the root cause was an ice storm that brought down trees onto power lines. The ice only lasted a couple days but the damage took longer to repair. Roads were cleared within a couple days. If you live in a remote enough place where your road won’t be cleared shortly after the storm, you need to have a backup plan that doesn’t rely on any outside services.
Does that page only list Github accounts? Sudo is maintained using mercurial, the git repository is just a mirror. Try the official homepage for a significantly longer (and also incomplete) list of contributors https://www.sudo.ws/about/contributors/ .
Yes. Whenever someone says 4chan is a bad forum etc, and 4chan is bad in many ways imho, then I remember https://discussions.apple.com - the Mariana Trench of intellectual decadence. So much that it seems a necessary requirement to be a member and user there is to dislodge your brain and store safely in the fridge before going there.

I mean that forum is hard to believe to be real - in short and politer terms.
Holy shit. This should be mandatory practice, government funded for any court related phone visitation.
They do not. What they do care about is making it less profitable for their competitors, by attacking in spaces they no longer compete.

They lost the phone business, they've just now pulled out of making mice and keyboards. Their MS Surface line is not something people buy - it's something companies buy, with a support contract. Since their consumer hardware business is gone, they now can at least use that to hurt companies that still have a consumer hardware business.

But for selfish reasons and anti-competitive self-interest, they are doing something good for us against a greater evil. It's pretty much the DePanties/Disney thing where we cheer for a large evil corporation.
Not sure. Probably the anti-tivoization clause is worse from Apple's perspective. Definitely for iPhones. It would mean that the user can update their phone firmware after they have modified a GPLv3-licensed component. Whether they would affect Macs in any way I don't know.
Ask HN: How to become a coder who can design?
It’s like - the designer who can code, but the other way around.

- What are the tools of trade?
- Learning Resources, courses, blogs, people to know and follow
- Roadmap
- How long would it take to come to become a “junior designer “ (if that’s a thing)
Or use the electric service they already have.
The usage of physical currency in Germany has dropped over the last three years.

During the pandemic, paying by debit card was encouraged, and this has stuck around.

I have used cash in a single instance in the last month (at a restaurant where the card reader was out of order).

However, it turns out that most people still prefer cash, so I might be living in a bubble, see https://www.bundesbank.de/en/press/press-releases/payment-be...
Correct. In the context of LLM's, the "items" I refer to would be tokens. As a particle physicist, in the transformers I work with the "items" often instead represent either particles, or detector measurements.
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1. The best hardware you can afford.

2. Take a look at huggingface.co

3. Rent for shot periods, buy if you need it for a long time. You can do the maths.

4. Smaller models, quantization, running on CPU when the speed and increased energy usage isn’t a problem.
> That is, "interview skills," in my opinion, includes practice at describing one's experience, and doing this well helps the hiring manager correctly assess the candidate's practical on-the-job skills.

I agree that doing these things is "interview skills". That's basically my original point. People spend more and more time practicing "interview skills" rather than practicing what the job actually is. This is the wasted productivity, and it means that every candidate needs to spend more and more time studying tactics to get a job, over spending time actually being good at, or even just doing, their job. If you urge all applicants to get better at interviewing, that's not going to make it easier to find qualified applicants. It's just going to make more people seem like good applicants, since bad applicants can also improve their ability to interview.

The more "interview skills" we require people to have, the more detached interviews become from actual jobs, which advantages people who practice "interview skills", which makes it harder for companies to decern good candidates from bad (since one doesn't need to be a qualified candidate to be charismatic or lie). It's at this stage that companies seem to come to the conclusion that the solution is to focus even more on "interview skills", even though it's those "interview skills" that start the chain reaction in the first place.

Back to your example interview question. After passing an interview, does one ever need to frequently spend time refreshing one's memory about complex system's they worked on in the past (and are no longer working on), on a moments notice, without references, and tell people stories about them? If so, I would yield it's probably an excellent interview question. Even without that caveat, it's probably still a good question. My main goal with that part of my comment was to point out that questions have unintended failure modes that, in my experience, tons of people aren't aware of. If one isn't aware of these failure modes, one will not be aware that they are unintentionally skipping over potentially good candidates.
I would argue Big Endian won in network protocols and file formats.