skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing effort at collecting and presenting the details. It's not just a number crunch but also of souls and dreams! What a chasm between wanting the nicer things, and being able to afford those. Gulp.
Trusted News Initiative [1] This is headed up by the Murdoch family of controlling corporations.

The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was set up last year to protect audiences and users from disinformation, particularly around moments of jeopardy, such as elections. The TNI complements existing programmes partners have in place.

The partners currently within the TNI are: AP, AFP; BBC, CBC/Radio-Canada, European Broadcasting Union (EBU),Facebook, Financial Times, First Draft, Google/YouTube, The Hindu, Microsoft , Reuters, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Twitter, The Washington Post.

The TNI cooperative framework has been jointly developed amongst partners, and relates to only the most serious disinformation, which threatens life or the integrity of the electoral process. This is entirely separate from and does not in any way affect the editorial stance of any partner organization.

[1] - https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative...
Related:

Podman Desktop: Same functionality as Docker Desktop but open source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296165 - March 2023 (36 comments)

Podman Desktop: A Free OSS Alternative to Docker Desktop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33536978 - Nov 2022 (191 comments)

Podman Desktop Companion GUI – Parity on All Major Operating Systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31055475 - April 2022 (113 comments)
> I also don't see anyone claiming they can saturate their network interface with postgres the same way they can with any KV store.

I recently tested it, and I could trivially saturate a 10GBit interface with postgres.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296130
Doesn't the unity debacle show how hard it is to switch out the desktop default. Anyway, I think looking at the de defaults of newer distributions, especially those established after the gnome 3 disaster might give a more accurate picture about the popularity of the de.
Ha that's great, I always wondered about that song.

While I see why people say "4/4 with a 2/4 bar" -- doesn't that feel like a matter of definition?

I would just say it doesn't have a "square" pulse -- it has a pulse that's 11 or 22. To me that is the defining characteristic; that's what it sounds like.

Whether you call it 11/4 or 11/2 or "4/4 with a 2/4" bar seems to be creating a difference out of something that's not really there.

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Also nice to see The Cars "Just What I Needed" in that blog post. I remember my friend's band did a cover of it and I asked them about that "hiccup" / inversion in a pop song ... I think he said they just didn't do it ?
Luckily, in German, there are three completely different words for preparing onions in a pan:

1.) Anschwitzen, literally "sweating up", means putting them in a pan on low heat for around 10 minutes until they are translucent ("glasig", literally "glassy"). This is how to get a starter for many sauces, and is the standard way to prepare onions for many, many meals and sauces (e.g. a standard tomato sauce). They should not turn brown, as this would for example ruin the color and flavor of white or light sauces - caramelized onions have a kind of "heavy" flavor.

2.) Karamelisieren, "caramelize", which is the meaning described in this article.

3.) Rösten, "roast", which means frying the onions with a bit a flour until they are crispy.
Even at comparable levels of intelligence and social coordination, agility and opposable thumbs go a long way. This is a fun thought experiment, but my bet is on the humans.
I think it's referring to this case:
https://huixiangvoice.medium.com/the-hidden-story-behind-the...

And for outcomes, the paper in question was retracted and the professor involved resigned. However, I haven't seen updates regarding the review ring (where a bunch of peer reviewers collude).

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/03/16/after-grad-student-su...

https://www.wuft.org/news/2021/04/23/university-of-florida-p...
It’s even more obvious when you consider Metallica’s particular songwriting process at the time: James would mess around making cool riffs, record them into a riff track (just a big pile of his favorite riffs put into one big tape in no particular order), then he and Lars would sit down and listen to it, pick the best ones, and build a song around them.

The 5/8 “stutter” in the verse almost certainly came from the original riff track, and when Lars had to add a drum beat to it, he simply mirrored what James was doing, and that’s how it made its way into the song. It’s not really rocket science.
If you pick one of the dropdowns it will stop looping.

I noticed that there are some gaps in some of the models, specifically around the future and roman ones.
Important: is you want your data, just ask Reddit.

I realized this way later, after writing scripts to query pushshift.
I'll just quote the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article on it:

"In 1961, the US government put Jupiter nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey. It had also trained a paramilitary force of Cuban exiles, which the CIA led in an attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow the Cuban government. Starting in November of that year, the US government engaged in a campaign of terrorism and sabotage in Cuba, referred to as the Cuban Project, which continued throughout the first half of the 1960s."

I'd recommend The Jakarta Method for some insight into the legitimacy of the concerns of regime change.
The very next sentence:

> developers are in most cases forced to use unfamiliar programming languages, typically unique to the database itself.

What parent correctly points out is that this simply isn’t true. Your examples of novelty are all things that were possible decades ago in most mainstream DBMSes. The SQLite one in particular is bizarre: it’s inherently an embedded db with bindings in every language.

Supporting user defined functions as compiled objects loaded into the database is as old as the hills. The sandboxing part is silly since no one in their right mind is going to expose their database to untrusted users in the first place.
We're describing pack and herd animals now, aren't we? Lions and wolves all need to understand their social context, but we don't call them domesticated
Social Media and Youth Mental Health
See previous discussion:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35416627

Bad weather, traffic, mountain passes, etc.
Not too many grass lawns in the area luckily :). From what I can tell, they are cutting them down to put up the building itself. Seems to be a bigger problem on small lots. What makes me sad is seeing places where they leave the lone tree but rip up 100% of the other native plants that create an ecosystem with the trees. No longer a great spot for wildlife and it makes me wonder how it affects the health of the tree.
That blog is a great example about how they have no solution to the weather problem. Their heading image is a light drizzle, and they talk about "predicting" the weather, as if their cars being unable to manage an unpredictable situation is an okay product.
Why does 1 game every 4 years keep you attached to Zelda?

Maybe its my gigantic backlog of games, but I don't bother with Nintendo anymore. My bro or a friend will let me borrow their Nintendo system + Zelda for a few weeks. (its not like people really use their Switch...)
DB performance tuning is complicated but well-understood. I don’t see any particular reason that functions run in a db would be any more of a problem than “serverless” in another environment.
Also significantly less exciting when you sense it is probably much more like pinterest (more of the same) than the wonderful cgi dinosaurs of jurassic park 1993.
> However, heat pumps are more than 100% efficient on a watt-per-watt basis as they are not directly converting electricity into heat, but rather are moving heat from one area to another.

To reactivate this dead thread: I thought of that, but I don't think it's an argument in favour of on-demand electric heating. A heat pump capable of delivering ~16kW of heat equivalent on demand would be something like 50,000BTU/hr, or larger than many whole-home air conditioning systems.

Instead, a heat pump hot water heater would be far more appropriately sized to work with a high duty cycle at lower intensity – a hot water tank.
Microsoft Build brings AI tools to the forefront for developers
I've never understood why MS charges so much for their virtual desktop services. The scale gain provided by the cloud would give access to virtual desktops at very affordable prices, probably very competitive with local desktops, not to mention the governance and security advantages for companies.
I wonder if it wouldn't be a partnership with Dell and other desktop companies that inhibits this movement.
So it seems like the argument is that consciousness didn’t exist because we didn’t have a word for it and the guy wrote a book and built a career with that as a premise.

Honestly, can I even be bothered? Oh, alright then, just for fun.

Yes I know I simplify above, but honestly not by all that much. There’s a history of the development of styles of literature. Sure. But that doesn’t mean the world, or people, changed because ways of describing or creating narratives about them changed.

At the root of this seems to be the idea that we can’t have a thing such a consciousness without the idea of the thing, and other examples given in evidence are baseball and money. This is flat out wrong.

Nobody sits down with a blank piece of paper and invents a new ball game from scratch. All the ball games we have were developed by playing with balls. You just have done this. A bunch of kids get together and start messing with a ball, they appropriate objects in their environment into the game such as sticks and posts and such, make up rules as they go. Over time things happen in the game they didn’t expect and they invent new rules to cover those circumstances. Eventually they have a great game they love, they give it a name and then free inventing the game they write down the rules.

It’s the same with money, it started off as tokens representing goods, then they established the lowest value object as the basic rate of exchange such as a chicken or a bag of grain, then they work out exchange rates between different tokens such as 5 chickens equals one sheep, then they mark the tokens with symbols, etc, etc. Eventually you get money. Nobody looked at a market and deduced you know what, we need to invent money. The concept emerges from the practice.

My wife has Aphantasia, which means she doesn’t subvocalise. She doesn’t hear an inner voice when she reads, and can’t imagine what that’s like. She also cannot imagine visual images, yet she reports the same first person experience the rest of us have. So the idea that language creates consciousness seems to fail right there. We also have reports from people that don’t learn language until late in childhood of first person conscious experience from before they learned language.

So I’m sorry, it’s bunk. There never was any actual evidence for it, the chain of reasoning inserts conclusions that don’t follow from its arguments, and there’s clear evidence that contradicts its assumptions.
One might suspect that this is the real reason they are pushing it?
I wish it were possible to thoroughly ban all advertising and marketing. I have been that fed up with all of this crap for a long time now.
Actions to Protect Youth Mental Health, Safety and Privacy Online
Advertising based 'free' things cost you far more than a subscription ever would. This is because Advertising Works and it works on you too. You are being manipulated into buying things you wouldn't buy, manipulated into making poor decisions you wouldn't otherwise make. Generations of people lost decades with relatives from smoking and drinking that would not have happened but for advertising. Advertising makes people poorer by leading them to allocate their funds in a worse way.

I'm not saying we should outlaw advertising, there is no realistic way to do so that respects rights. However, you should absolutely refuse to consume advertising whenever possible. Block it, mute it, and refuse to consume content or use services where avoiding advertising is not possible!
Yes multiple ones. Trying to get my parents to use one, but guess they are to old to get the concept. Ideas how to explain it to them?
to the best of my knowledge, the issue is EVs emitting frequencies that interfere with AM radio, so instead of adding shielding or figuring out how to retain the integrity of the AM signal, they've opted to just remove the antennae all together.
Pick any two:

- better wages

- US jobs

- lower price
“Advertisement is the rich asking for more money. They disfigure their towns in order to decorate their houses.” — G.K. Chesterton
I just knew someone would ask and I'm embarrassed to say that I misremembered the title.

It's Professional Cookery: The Process Approach by Daniel R. Stevenson

Here's a link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Professional-Cookery-Approach-Danie...

It doesn't go into a lot of theoretical detail about food chemistry but it is an eminently practical and down to earth textbook for people who will cook for a living. No frills, no pictures.
Yeah I got into it for the passion and stayed for the money.

I really loved tech. For about a decade I truly loved every day of work. Then I got really worn out and it took me almost 5 years to work through it. Part of this low point was a point of terrible health (mostly caused by my job and stress). When I came back out of it, I considered leaving the field, but stayed in it for the money.

I was in a management position at this point. I could go into a different field and start over, but I'd probably end up working my way up to management eventually too and its really all the same at that point. You are managing people and processes. So I might as well do that with the tech spin on it.

The obsession with over-manufactured enthusiasm is one I really laugh at now that I look back on my career. I realized that most of us in tech will work on boring stuff. I can't even tell what I am working on anymore, to the point that it is almost comical. I could be building self-driving cars or cloud billing portals. At the end of the day, you are fixing bugs or improving performance or polishing my tiny grain of sand in the huge sculpture that these platforms have become. When you are working on large-scale complex platforms nobody really understands how it all works. There is no magic, even when working on "sexy" projects. I've worked on exciting projects and boring projects and the day-to-day experience is exactly the same.

Pro Tip: "Boring" projects tend to pay better, and since its the same work and same day-to-day experience, take the boring projects. You also tend to find fewer sensationalized colleagues on those projects.
That’s true, but not working on Mac for a high end sound card is pretty catastrophic. I can’t think of any reputable brand besides maybe Antelope that has ever been straight up broken like that for any significant length of time. There would be riots on the audio forums if UAD or Motu or anyone else had that happen. I’m not an apple apologist, I use a PC for music production, it’s just surprising to me is all. I’m curious about what sound card it is so I can either avoid it or dig deeper into why.

I also think some of the comments in this thread about audio people never upgrading are a little dated. Maybe 10 years ago it was more common for someone to sit on an ancient version of Protools if they were a full time studio, but most of the market is hobbyists and semi professionals who have a single personal MacBook or PC that they use for everything, not just recording. Airgapping something like that isn’t really an option.
Only thing I can't handle is how Red Hat, with its bllions, can't afford a few extra dollars for user-respecting, secure native GUIs.
Don't yuck my yum.

Don't harsh my mellow.

Do marsh my mallow.
As someone with limited counter space, cleaning while you cook is essential for saving time while cooking.
100% of lawyers I know hate their jobs. I can’t think of a single friend of mine that is a lawyer who enjoys their work.

I have three friends who are anesthesiologists and they are all generally meh about it. They treat it like being a mechanic.

There’s always a flip side to being a helper like a doctor too - not everyone survives surgery. The thing they don’t tell you about doing that emotional labor is that it’s poorly compensated and exhausting and so people tend to dissociate and become less and less compassionate the longer they do it just as a self defense mechanism.
I fully on agree on all the points and I try to protect my home (network), but I feel that’s a lost cause both from technical (e.g. dns on http/3) and psychological (more subtle and mixed with the actual content) aspects. My only hope is to try to digitally vaccinate my kids that they become more self aware on what they are exposed to.
Container Loading in AWS Lambda
> you can't just fire a huge portion of the staff

Define huge? Tech companies increased their headcount between 2020 and 2022 by at least double-digit percentage, Amazon included. I'm not sure how many of them are essential in top management's eyes.
There are actually videos on YouTube of watching paint dry, e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOPygVcaVE

1.3M views! I found the plot a little thin (drum roll).
Bitcoin is many things, but "efficient" has never been one of them. Today if you wanted to send $10,000 to someone in a different country it would be less wasteful and environmentally harmful to cut down a tree and process it into cardboard, put the cash in that cardboard box, and put that on a fossil fuel burning airplane to fly it halfway across the world and hand deliver it to the person.
>docker does not allow for connecting directly to the pods, you need to either setup a tunnel or service

That isn't docker, Kubernetes is designed to work that way. To be infinitely horizontally scalable, and automatically handle pods (and servers) going down, caring about which instance you are talking to is generally a bad thing.
AM radio antennae of the ferrite coil or rod variety are tiny and have been in widespread use for over a century.

http://www.hard-core-dx.com/nordicdx/antenna/loop/amloop.htm...

If locating it within the electric vehicle's superstructure is not suitable to the manufacturer it is not difficult to put one in a stubby sharkfin roof mounting as is done with GPS, mobile phone, and satellite radio antennae.
So now it's faster to take a longer flight and travel back to your real destination by cab.

Or take two connecting flights passing through a city not connected by train from the two endpoints.

You know some people will do that. Enforcing policies in spirit is not as easy as banning things in letter. That's always the issue.

Also what happens to medical patients, say after surgery? Travel by train? That would've probably killed my grandmother. Only time she travelled by airplane in her life by the way.
This is great, but I wish they'd focus as much on fundamentals. The bloat is tangible and measurable.
Or did loss of megafauna contribute to the change in climate?

Fun project trying to test the direction of causality: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
Or they could boycott sites and services with the most intrusive ads. Ad blocking just encourages escalation, whereas a boycott of the hosting site sends a stronger and more ethical signal.
I will agree if I'm in the minority on this one, but it confirms my larger point - "social media" isn't a useful term. If some apps are putting our youth at risk, tell us what those apps are. Give a top three. Help everyone out.
In my experience, real-world Go can be just as complicated as real-world Python or C++. The lack of abstractions is making the problem worse, if anything.
That’s the disconnect I also experience. Working with multiple different organizations they either .

1. Use Docker Compose and have no container strategy

2. Have a container team and an orchestration platform.

Not many organizations operate in the middle ground, seems difficult to do well with little overhead.
WinGet Configuration
Might be a little OT but I was hoping this would include more discussion of the contemporary interplay between aesthetics and paint chemistry / technology.

I know there are some interesting stories behind titanium dioxide production, the use of which is critical to making paints vibrant and opaque [1].

Further I have a pet theory that the recent trend in 'flat' automotive paints (without the apparent depth and larger suspended metallic flakes common in decades prior) has been enabled by some kind of technical advance as well, not just a change in consumer tastes, although I have no evidence to support the idea [2]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/6/5476904/china-stole-the-co...
[2] https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-07/la-fi-car-...
Microsoft Syntex
Haskell didn't have structs? What could you possibly mean by this?
Earlier today I was browsing the Podman desktop website and pretty sure it was at 0.15 version, and then telling some people after that Podman desktop will probably reach stable sooner rather than later. However, does not expect it to be this very soon and it's now suddenly stable at version 1.01. Apparently container software and ecosystem do move at a blazing speed.
> I am the Master of the Universe at Alternative Systems and Really Wild Technologies

One person's perspective - you're talking about financial investment, but I can't really take you seriously. Those two things don't go very well together.
Have a look at the wiki for map
Arch has nothing to do with it
I only just got access to the Plus version. But for the last month or so I've been using the free version with absolutely no problems in the scripts it generates.
I've played plenty of games on M1 that are graphically more impressive and have higher base requirements than Civ 6.

Seems that others have pointed out that Civ is more CPU bound than GPU so I don't know if that's something that could be optimised without completely changing the mechanics of the game or if Civ is just an unoptimised beast but then again the M1 is way above the minimum required spec for Civ 6 so i don't think it's some unfeasible concept.
That depends on the cost of the subscription, the things being advertised, and the audience's will power.
Indeed. The US "HD Radio" system has AM support in addition to FM and on AM it can broadcast up to 60 kbps (though most stations chose a 40 kbps mode with additional error correction to improve reception)[1]. Digital Radio Mondiale [2] (with the unfortunate acronym DRM) is another competing digital system system that can be used in the AM and shortwave broadcast bands, supports similar bitrates.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Radio#AM

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale
> If a man wore clothes that accented his groin.

Can you explain this more? I'm curious why that specifically is used as an example. Walk me through the line of thought if you don't mind.
Meta...bolism.

Artificial Life.
When many developers didn't use 2FA they pushed for them to enable 2FA within a deadline. It sounds like the same approach could have been used for PyPI. E.g.: an attempt to make the feature useful before declaring it dead forever.