skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we really need windows? Yes, I'm channeling my inner Munger. We could have simulated windows, and as long as the HVAC is good I think a lot of people would live in a place like that, especially if those apartments sold at a discount relative to windowed apartments. It seems crazy to not even give the people a choice of whether they want to have a window or not. You could trial it on luxury apartments so no one can say "Well they don't have a choice they have to live in an apartment with no windows".
No legislator ever faced this problem.
If I go directly to the IIHS website, I don't see any of this data. Anyone know where it is?
Anyone know what this would do to a more traditional airborne threat (e.g. cruise missile or fighter)?
Take the JPay tablet in the article, for example. Currently it is paid for by the prisoner, through either his prison work wages, or stipends from friends & family.
If the service is to continue, but the prisoner no longer has to pay, who picks up the tab?
There's too much vertical integration in software development. We need more 'programming at the edge', with professionals who understand a domain well and can write and build software. There's way too much bs in between business needs and building tools to do the jobs that people need to get done.

There's way too much complexity involved in building software, and the reason is pretty self evident. Most hardware and most developers are employed by gigantic corporations that extract a lot of rent from the rest of the economy.
Not sure what fake means in this context.

Can you prove that any other person you know is generally intelligent, and not just a LLM spewing statistically relevant words ?

You assume they are intelligent based on their actions and abilities, so I guess we will do the same with AI.

Fake in this context is not any more dangerous than a con man (wants to harm, but it’s not competent), which is already pretty dangerous, but not as dangerous as somebody who is capable and interested in harming.
Simple. If you don’t give me your vote and your money the world will end. Exact reason doesn’t matter.

If cheap clean portable fusion was invented tomorrow, if would quickly be banned for one reason or another. People need to sell disasters, not solutions.
I don't think so. 230 protects them from liability for the video, and 1A protects them from liability for the recommendation. It would be hard to argue that a recommendation isn't speech.
The kinetic slower-than-light microwave pulse is just a guy throwing microwave ovens at drones with a catapult
I thought <bigcorp> used <xyz> is always a funny question/assertion.

Bigcorps are large and diverse. In this case - this seems to be user/desktop facing as it's a fuse module for studio assets.
Intended audience: not physicists.
> This is an important topic. Why is this thread flagged?

Because only (insert your favourite US enemy here) violates human rights.
US is the land of the free, the oldest democracy (whatever that means).

And because the NSA and CIA and other 3 letter agencies employ a lot of people whose task is to spread propaganda.
Larry Haun has an excellent video series about framing also. I watched it for free on youtube then spent my money on the applicable IBC code reference.
Free version will of course have penis enlargement recommendation and another almost unrelated ad, both unskipable.

Premium will outright book you visit to penis enlargement clinic based on your IP browsing history from 20 years ago, saving you your precious time and adding a groupon discount.
A lot of people are dissing LangChain at this thread for various reasons. I am primarily interested in building tools that couple LLMs with other things like web browsing and using Wolfram or Zapier APIs. Is there a LangChain alternative for that?
It’s time to embrace slow productivity (2022)
You're reading more in there than I wrote. Europeans should not be grateful to the USA. A way of doing things is in use today, making the world a slightly better place for both Europe and the USA, maybe even for the rest of the world. Everybody might be grateful for that, but not towards any specific party. We all gain.

Some European countries have nukes anyway, I think it's officially limited to the UK and France. But Germany does not, which would have been unthinkable between world wars. Belgium, my own country, has access to Uranium via Congo, has all know-how as we (oopsie) did teach Iran the necessary tricks, has good enough industry to do the job, and has nuclear reactors. All the elements are there. In fact, it's 99% sure USA nukes are in the country, and if we really wanted, we should be technologically capable of stealing them and remaking them into a usable if less powerfull nuke. The only reason Belgium hasn't any nukes is because we don't want them and do our utmost best not to have them.

Now Belgium is one of the smallest and least powerful countries. EU and NATO live here in Brussels because most other countries would become too powerful. If we can build nukes, just about any other European country should be able to do the trick. Meanwhile, the only way the USA can keep Iran and North Korea from having the bomb is because the nations are badly functioning, and there aren't much of them. If 20+ reasonably rich and open European country decided to develop nukes at them same time, there is no way stopping all of them.

BUT If that happens, the very next war would be very very ugly, and we all know it. Part of the reason for the existence of the EU is giving us a way to project global power, but another part is that after WW2, European countries had to learn to live together, or we'd make the whole continent uninhabitable. We simply can't afford a WW3, and neither can the USA.
The light coming down is in wavelengths that get through, the radiation on the way back is lower frequencies, infrared that CO2 intercepts. The sun is a massive fusion reactor there is a lot of energy coming. The effect is small, but compounds and CO2 is an oxide, very stable molecule that sticks around.
If you buy them brand new, you will never put enough plays on them to get them to the point they'll break. They are well made.

But that said you do need a certain level of handiness unless you plan to call the distributor to come out and fix it if it does break, because even new games will break occasionally.
Amazon is a series of several businesses created in succession, with synergy between them.

It is highly unlikely that the same path would have been taken by someone else, or that they could have the repeated same results with any combination of those businesses.
As a developer, I've always thought user stories were kind of odd: "As a user, i would like to..." But no one writes like that, its user story jargon. Like writing tasks have been formalized in a way where you put yourself in the shoes of the person affected by the change, writing as if you were that person, yet it's (kind of) an order. Not very informal the way the article says they were meant to be.
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It’s not massive. It’s extremely tiny. It’s just that the system is very delicate and we are even tinier, so the effects from our perspective are large. (Think getting hit with a little 1/100000000th of earth mass meteor. The earth will barely react on galactic scale/ long term, but the momentary occupants will sure get a shock)
This is interesting.

I use archlinux as my daily linux driver, but for server it is not ideal as it is a bit fragile to upgrade (for example, if you have postgresql installed, an update can put a new version and you have to migrate your db and if you keep the old version, some .so might get updated and it won't start).

This could be a solution for servers. I used to use FreeBSD for servers instead of linux, but some softwares I have to deploy are not compatible with BSD which saddens me.
How have I missed this all this time? RAW Power looks like exactly what I was looking for a few years back when I realized there was no non-subscription upgrade path from Lightroom 6, and I trialed just about the entire market, settling on the generally-fine Capture One.

Capture One continues to be generally-fine and it does at least still have an (expensive) upgrade path to the latest non-subscription version, but I will definitely have to look into RAW Power.
were you thinking of https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/08/naomi-wolf-acc... https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50153743 ?
I feel like the issue with the Supabase dashboard and database modification is more one of your general approach. You put editing stuff all right up front when at best it should just be an emergency hatch, and the only place to find info on migrations is by going and looking around in the docs.
Not being familiar with CentOS or "Enterprise Linux", I wish their website explained a bit more about what Rocky Linux is in terms of features or functionality. The about page mainly just talks about the legacy of the name. The FAQ's first question isn't, "What is Rocky Linux", or "Who is Rocky Linux for?"

Piecing it together based on a single sentence I stumbled on then did some Google searching, it sounds like Rocky Linux is a non-commercial drop-in replacement for Red Hat. So I guess it's for folk that want to migrate from Red Hat, or duplicate its functionality, but don't want or need paid support?
Yes, I do think the military usage is different than the physicist's usage. I don't think (or at least cannot find) a consistent, hard-and-fast definition, but it seems like they are using kinetic in this sense to mean something that goes boom, and looks cool, and is hard to deny when shown on television. One thing I'm fairly sure about is that they aren't thinking about physics when they use that phrase!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_military_action
How do people on HN like Row Level Security? Is it a better way to handle multi-tenant in a cloud SaaS app vs `WHERE` clauses in SQL? Worse? Nicer in theory but less maintainable in practice?

fwiw, Prisma has a guide on how to do RLS with it's client. While the original issue[0] remains open they have example code[1] with the client using client extensions[2]. I was going to try it out and see how it felt.

[0]: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/12735

[1]: https://github.com/prisma/prisma-client-extensions/blob/main...

[2]: https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-client...
Hahaha, oh man. This reminds me of all the naughty stuff people did with the Novint Falcon. It was another failed feedback device that at its height could simultaneously be associated with the Half-Life series and adult toys.
The lack of namespaces is of far greater consequence.
Thanks! :)

I still want to bring vpx-js to a level where people can actually play a WPC table in the browser. That'd be really awesome and hasn't been done yet, at least not that I know of.

Well, maybe one day.
Keep in mind if look at Venus from space (i.e. point an infrared-spectrum analyzer at it) it looks signficantly colder than Earth does from space, because even though the surface of Venus is very hot, it radiates to space at longer wavelengths because of the thickness of the atmosphere.

If you increase atmospheric CO2 on Earth, you'd see a similar effect.

Notice also that this debunks the 'Earth warming is due to increased solar output' claim, because if that was true, increased solar radiation inputs would result in a warming of the stratosphere, not a cooling.

Imagine looking at a human in an IR scope at night. Then the human wraps themselves in a nice sleeping bag, and their apparent temperature decreases from the point of view of a remote observer. Even after equilibrium is reached, they'll still appear cooler due to thermal diffusion effects.
The blanket is a bad metaphor. It's not a layer of CO2 that traps the heat. "Green house effect" molecules just tend to absorb infrared.

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/02/25/carbon-dioxide-...
I have heard "dumping" used typically when a foreign company is trying to gain market share by driving domestic competitors under. So, while they are typically established companies, they're not established in that market.

Anyway, the essence of it is that running at a loss for a while in order to drive your competitors out of business, then raise the prices, is widely recognized as the kind of market practice that the government is justified in taking action against.
That was never really true - I used to make plenty of cash refurbishing machines, playing for a bit, and selling them off. It can get pricey if you're trying to source unique parts for low-volume games but the vast majority of wear parts are generic and not that expensive. Mostly games are just dirty.
>Why do you hate it? It's a pretty clever.........

I believe the gp was talking about hating a style of journalism.
> Relying exclusively on user stories as the source of requirements [...] is not sufficient for the design of solid systems. This narrow focus is one of the main limitations of agile methods.

This feels like a strawman - does anyone actually build software this way? I've worked at a place where the a user story isn't considered in the context of the broader product. No one has ever been like "this user story says they want to be able to share their location with a friend" and just slaps a share button on it an calls it a day. In my experience, teams generally think in terms of how that could best fit in with other functionality. Some are certainly less successful than others, but I think that was probably because the teams were bad, not that the stories were bad requirements.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35997798
Counterexample, WTC 1&2, whose concrete columns around the outside supported it.
I think I know why many injured developers turn to macros to try and solve their problem. When you acquire disability as an adult, it really fucks with your head. Every time you turn around, you're confronted with what you can't do anymore. Even a mild disability like mine I've had days where I could barely feed myself because it hurts too much to whole silverware. Thankfully those days are gone. Now things are better although I still need to hold the bottom as well as the sides of the glass to keep from dropping it when my hand spasms open.

Creating macros is a way someone can take control back from the disability. If I write some macros to do some of my work, I've taken back some of what I've lost. I used to be very critical of all these not fully useful solutions that disabled developers can come up with and I've become much kinder about it because it's more about the process of learning how to live with a disability and take back some of your agency that it is about creating any sort of accessibility tool.

It's hard to convey just how different the user experience is in your hands don't work and you try new speech recognition. One way to think of the relationship between the disabled person and UI customization tools is that customization tools are my agent or proxy for my hands. The macro solution send you down the path of having to memorize context specific commands and say a whole lot of words to get a small effect. A good adaptation looks inside the application context both in terms of what can be done and what data has to be operated on and then interprets natural language to generate what the system thinks is the desired result. That's the beauty of things like chatGPT. It's interpretation was right is usually pretty damn close.

With coding, this is why I like copilot. It takes my natural language and context of the code generated and generates code that is pretty darn close to correct. I speak a little bit and get a big result. I'll never have a force multiplier like chatGPT or copilot with macros.

btw, small pushback. The way we use tools and programs is not abnormal. Your comment shows just how much judgment people have when a user violates a designers UI vision or perceived physical norms. They think that speech interface is mediated by some form of artificial stupid should be the normalize standard but, whom I to judge. :-)

If a user can't make use of the UI provided, it's not the users fault, that belong squarely on the UI developer.
Say the post had been "How Netflix uses FreeBSD to achieve network latencies less than 10 microseconds" or something. How helpful would it be to comment about how "for most people" this doesn't matter?

Did anybody who read the tweet think it mattered to them when it didn't? It mentions Firecracker explicitly. How many people on HN do you think upvote this because they themselves are running FreeBSD on Firecracker, versus the number who upvoted because it's just interesting in and of itself?
Show HN: A tool to help you write more reliable prompts
Hey HN!

While writing prompts for a few projects recently, a couple of friends and I realised that writing prompts today is like writing code in a txt file - it sucks and there is no tooling to help you.

So we decided to hack on a tool to help you fix this - https://optimist.varied.ai/

It is literally a hack rn but we already find it useful for writing prompts. That said we'd love to talk to folks who are writing serious prompts everyday and see how the product can be better.

Also the only reason the waitlist is there, is running this is super expensive like $100/day for a couple of users because of the amount of requests we make - so just limited how many people we roll out too.
Amazed they used scp instead of rsync
They use FreeBSD for the CDN but I think their application servers use Linux.

https://netflixtechblog.com/linux-performance-analysis-in-60...
passkeys are often 2 factors but not necessarily something you know, examples:

- with macbook fingerprint sensor: something you have (private key on your device) and something you are (fingerprint)

- with yubikey without fingerprint: something you know (passcode, hopefully required) and something you have (private key on yubikey)

- with yubikey with fingerprint sensor: something you are (fingerprint, falling back to passcode which is something you know) and something you have (private key on yubikey)
Much of the US is pretty well-suited for an authoritarian regime.

There are various groups, some of which tend to be highly geographically-clustered, with fairly high levels of trust of their own "team." And weapons are readily available to speed a transition to enforcement-by-the-local-majority vs enforcement-by-other-bodies (higher-level state or federal government).

Breakdown of governance -> authoritarianism is a common sequence regardless of political lean of the new regime; and both sides think there's currently a breakdown of governance somewhere in the country. If you're Democrat-leaning, you'd read that as red states, of course, but even on the flip side: to some pundits places like SF are already starting to turn into a violent anarchy; a new, armed, local authority would be a logical followup step emerging out of that, sorta Mafia-style.

I don't think this is likely - I don't think today's crises are unprecedented compared to the 1960s/70s or various earlier periods of American unrest - but there's nothing innate about America that would prevent it, and there are plenty of historical American examples of those in power using force to strictly control others.
Just Wow. Clothing yourself in counterfeit cynicism much? "People" don't sell disaster, how much disaster do you fill up at the pump? What proportion of your first world non sustainable lifestyle is spent on these sales of disaster you mentioned?
Unrelated, but following one of the footnotes led me to this interesting page on using color to visualize four-dimensional movement. It uses untying knots as an example. It's a small thing, but it worked well for me and made the concept of a Klein bottle much more clear:

http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Puzzles/visualizing.4D/...
> Certainly you must agree retrofits are cheaper than building an entire new building.

Yes I agree with you, but who pays for it? JLL and CBRE are large and diversified enough that they can eat the cost of their SF commercial properties being vacant.

It doesn't make sense for them to spend funds on retrofitting their properties into apartments when they can regeotiate their mortgage commitment to be much more amenable in the short term, especially when similar residential properties in SF like NEMA, The Gateway, and others continue to have elevated vacancy rates.

You can't force private businesses to do residential retrofits - they'll only do it if there is a viable financial case for them to do it.

Most luxury residential property in SF is owned and managed by Greystar, Avalon, and UDR. These are different companies from JLL and CBRE who own the vacant office buildings. At that point, who pays for the retrofit - JLL+CBRE or the residential landlords line Greystar+Avalon+UDR? It doesn't make sense to either because they are large, diversified international companies that have better opportunities to deploy the capital they have at hand (eg. NoMA in DC, NYC, etc). Why spend $1-2 billion renovating+retrofitting when you can spend the same amount with a better RoI in other markets.
It makes way fewer visual mistakes (like wrong number of limbs) than Stable Diffusion, or even Bing Dall-E ~3. The latter is still the best at understanding your prompt though.
I’ve wanted to try Colemak for years now, but living in a QWERTY world where I may have to operate on other keyboards, other machines, etc., has discouraged me. Maybe Colemak is better, but the benefit it provides isn’t enough to entice me, apparently.
Microsoft pursues custom cloud silicon
Run postgres in a container with the proper tag and you'll be fine. I run my homelab on OpenSuse MicroOS which is a rolling release with immutable filesystem and that's what I do for software I need to stay at specific versions.
ChatGPT plugins will be usable through the OpenAI API, and both of those services are available as ChatGPT plugins.
It is silent until you press ^t, and then it prints the current progress. It's not constant output.
When there are hundreds of millions of Americans who are subscribed to the feeds of hundreds of millions of Europeans, and the Americans' feeds are generated via server-side queries, that seems roughly equivalent to a bulk transfer? It's querying a cache, at least, which is going to look rather like a database.

I suppose they could serve all the Americans' queries out of Europe, but that's going to affect costs and latency, and the data still ends up in the US.

I don't know what's going on at Meta, but possibly, they have a lot of technical debt and doesn't want to do a big rewrite of many of their systems for dubious benefits?

And there would also be the issue of having lots of Americans' data in European jurisdiction.

So it seems like what we're seeing here is supposedly "borderless" computer systems running up against legal realities. I suppose if it resulted in a breakup, it wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would be expensive.
There are games out there that help you learn the skill of switching quickly.

As at least one other person has commented, context acts as a switch even when you can't directly "find" the switch consciously. It isn't only the keyboard. I learned colemak on one keyboard while I continued with QWERTY on another, and it wasn't a big surprise that it was hard to do the reverse for a while. What did really surprise me was that I couldn't type QWERTY in the typing drill software I was using for Colemak, and I couldn't type Colemak in the online typing test where I was used to typing QWERTY! It wasn't a subtle effect, quite a dramatic speed plummet, especially in the former case - and just switching back to my normal text editor was enough to speed up my QWERTY again 30 seconds later!

I guess if you focus practice on finding that switch, for example with those games, that's just another skill you can learn like any other. Some people certainly have got very good at that with practice.