skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the same naming scheme for my personal devices for about 15 years now. The word list is from a show I was watching at the time. Workstations are protagonists, servers are antagonists, mobile devices are child characters.

Last year I finally exhausted names from the first show and added a second one to my name list.

Is it more logical to name them things like phone-2023-1 and cloud-server-5 - sure. But the reality is my personal infrastructure is going to max out at like 40 concurrent devices, and that's including stuff like network devices which does get more "practical" names (like office-ap-1, tv-switch-1) since I rarely ssh into them. So may as well have a little fun with naming
If you managed to get 128Gb of RAM in your desktop then you can manage to get a 1Tb SSD.

Hibernation on a server? Pointless most of the time, because the bulk of the startup time is pre-OS. And hibernating VMs is just retarded.
> Regulated for what?

For monopolizing the technology that became standardized, and thus required, for all of modern communications.

"Boo hoo, they spent good money for all those patents to make sure they were the only ones you could turn to to make these things!"

They've been wiping their tears away with the stacks of money they charge every single hardware manufacturer for access to that technology for far too long now, including very clearly breaching the spirit of FRAND at least in their dealings with Apple, based on the hard facts that came out with that case.
> Unless of course you believe the EC members are corrupt.

That is exactly what many people believe.
I think you're agreeing. The adaptation won't be based on collective action, but individual necessity.
Presumably you meant to say "insanely inefficient"?
> GPT-4 passes the bar exam with a top 10% score

There was an article on HN yesterday debunking that. OpenAI is prone to exaggerating
> In some language all functions capture their environment

In some pieces of art all quadrilaterals are squares, but this doesn't mean the two terms are somehow equivalent and therefore one of the terms should be done away with.

There is a consistent technical distinction between "functions" and "closures".

> There are just functions, some named some anonymous, some capturing the environment, some not

No. Functions do not capture environments. Functions don't know what environments are. If you're talking about functions and environments together, you're talking about closures. That's really all there is to it.
In addition to this, I've found that many people answer the question "what tools would you like?" but if you actually build those tools most people who answered can't be bothered to try them.
> Loan forgiveness means more income to you.

But is it more in real or nominal terms?
I too am repelled by the complexity of deep learning research, but using the phrase "visionary journey" in the abstract is a bit of a crank alert...
I was assuming it would be the same UI that they currently use for .zip, i.e. basically just the file explorer but with an extra tab for the extra functions
> Many employees make a big hubbub of the org being employee-centric, people driven, blah blah blah.

It never is. If anything, tech corporations that have been hot startups two decades ago are shedding their larval teletubby skin and transform from sheltered colorful environments suited for men-children into... well, just your average run-of-the-mill ruthless capitalist businesses your boomer parents/grandparents know and loathe.

The thing is, if they mention they are people-driven casually, they likely know the notion — you can expect some respect for employee rights (provided you do your own homework, can haggle like a used car salesperson, and can tell decision makers from HR personnel); if they emphasise it so much it reminds you of a cult, or if they don't mention it at all, but are instead brimming with descriptions of the company's grandeur, run — if you have anywhere to run these days.
Multiple programs and has its own file managers?

I've not seen this in practice. Sure, it has a clunky gui, but outside of that 7-zip has excellent windows 10 or less integration and works fine in windows 11 even though the jerkwad potentates at M$ decided to hide the usual explorer options behind a second panel.
Appreciate it / good to know
This isn't so bad, huh? Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside.

Fuckin' A.

Fuckin' A...

The problem is fundamental: monetizing business value. Is there a particular, defensible, specialized manual skill worth as much as the most niche knowledge work you can do? Perhaps some sort of nuclear-rated welder? A professional engineer who happens to be an expert witness and subject matter expert for the interpretation of civil or mechanical engineering building codes can command 50k GBP for writing an opinion report that takes 1-2 hours of effort.
A six instruction triangle/point collision test algorithm on the ARM 2 instruction set. That was fun.
DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices
I think you’re conflating “partisan” with “political”.
You don't need a career change. You need a hobby.
Sure, it is hard. But there's a gigantic middle ground between "no photographs ever that contain any part of your house" and "permanent digital video camera whose footage is invisibly passed on to the government". It is far from impossible to write some rules that balances these things. Yes, there will be loopholes: a criminal who wants to photograph your house could come by with their nephew and stage a photoshoot. But we live with those kinds of exceptions already: as giraffe_lady said, the law is not an algorithm.
Ha! I have several 2TB SSDs that I use for daily work stuff, the boot SSD is 235GB.
Anyone romanticizing physical work based on doing it as an unpaid hobby is not experiencing what it's like to actually rely on that kind of work to survive. You aren't 'living like the common people do' because you do some work for your church sometimes. You're an otherwise rich tech worker who also likes to do physical things sometimes as part of a community.

Working as a shift engineer at an industrial facility is not even remotely the same thing.
This is why we typically see better performance out of GPT when plugins are bolted in an chain|tree of though with reflection.

The output of LLMs is kind of like our stream of consciousness, there's a lot of things I think, then discount after internally reflecting on the thought which the often leads to a more correct solution. Having an LLM 'think' like this natively would massively increase the necessary the amount of compute needed, hence the expense, so at least in any public products it's not being done at this time.
Would be nice to have some collection of no ad or non-spammy games and websites in general.
I took 3 years off once and kept to myself and loved it.

Were you stoned the whole time?

I only ask because if you're loving what you're doing, then there's usually some modus operandi or Summum bonum driving you.

A really good high is pretty straightforward.

Most others I know about tend to require something that contributes to a community, but certainly study or meditation can be lonely yet meaningful pursuits.
> would love to hear what you have to say

What he said, by implication, was "read a book on macroeconomics".
You don’t need to convince 8 billion people.

You simply need to convince the handful of people in charge.

Unfortunately, this climate change thing really throws some of those people:

https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8

“Here’s a snowball, it’s very cold out…”

We send some pretty low IQ people to DC.
There was a time when citizens had some civic awareness and would push back against things that are obvious violations of constitutional rights. But that time has passed; now everybody's "just doing their job". Uh huh. "Just following orders." Which, incidentally, is not a defense.
> scientific research is usually exempt from copyright.

Is it? Everywhere?
The way orbits work, orbital velocity is tied to distance. So unless the planets were in the same orbit, one is going to be going faster than the other (the closer one in a radial velocity sense is moving faster, and the further one in a tangential velocity)
Millennial here, paid off my student loan debt with my own, hard-earned cash. My parents were already bankrupted by medical debt before I graduated high school, so no help there.

I still want my less lucky peers and the zoomers made whole after they were sold a bill of goods. Chaining the better part of a generation to an anchor isn't a winning move for any civilization.
The asteroid that caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was also just a blip on Earth’s history, it did however succeed in making life on earth miserable for a few thousand years, wiping out 75% of the all the species in the process.

In your analogy we are not the frog though, we are the pot, and we are the asteroid, since we are the ones causing the catastrophe. Except on geologic timescales, the pot isn’t slowly being boiled, it is being pressured cooked on a thermo-nuclear reactor. Extinction events are seldomly this sudden and extreme as climate change is currently.
But.. why?

Couldn't you just use Rust + OpenGL/SDL2/.. or even AppKit if macOS is the only supported OS?
>if we hire more people to manually pick up trash or add more trash cans, that results in more taxes or reduced spending on other things, which, well, you get the idea

I don't think I get the idea. Do you have any evidence to support the claim that charging a poll tax on the purchase of all consumables is a more efficient and effective way to assist the poor than to provide jobs for unemployed people to pick up trash? Introducing such a policy would add a flat tax to tons of the purchases in our economy, I think declaring outright it's the best solution for the impoverished demands a little more supporting evidence than logical sounding rhetoric.

>the government simply does nothing

I guess it depends when and where you grew up, but in my lifetime litter improved significantly compared to how it was when I was growing up in the 90s in Connecticut, and from what I understand it was the result of government-funded marketing campaigns and increased fines and enforcements for littering on public roadways. "Don't Mess with Texas" actually started as a government-funded anti-littering campaign.[0]

Neither of us are in the government (as far as I know), so I think all we can really do right now is discuss our bike-shed designs for solving this problem. If you have any information about why you hold these opinions, I'd be interested to read it - otherwise I don't think we have much to talk about.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Mess_with_Texas
i implemented a simpler version of dijkstra algorithm during second semester of our my electrical engineering degree to navigate the robot through a maze using arduino uno and some sensors, only to be taught about it in next semester. i remember thinking in class, that can't be it. there must be something more to this. of course i couldn't come up with all the related maths but still.
You complain this place is tiresome, and then invite us to go read about Robert Moses and his racist bridge policy. So we go read a bit about it, and note that a somewhat more authoritative source than rando-on-HN suggests that the accusations are in dispute and lack good supporting evidence. And now -this- is in fact the problem with HN?

Look in the mirror, dude.
AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Performance
Title isn't completely accurate, as the author states they were kneeling bent-over, creating an incline for the food to travel up. That being said, I've never thought of the esophagus was a muscle that could be trained. Very cool!

Edit: there's a 6" riser that the author describes kneeling on, while their head is then lowered closer to the floor, supported by their arm(s).
I believe PP means AMOC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturn...
Let's map the question to a different domain. Does a police officer concede that laws don't need to be followed, or that he is not bound to enforce laws, if he declines to pursue a violation of the law that he witnesses? Does he approve of the violation of the law by declining to pursue the matter? No, not at all. He simply can't pursue everything. But that he allows a thing to happen should in no way be considered an approval or agreement with the thing. This is a size-of-fish-to-fry situation.
Reminds me of this gem: https://www.lennytroll.com/

"Lenny - The Telemarketing Troll - is a chatbot which answers your home telephone and plays pre-recorded messages interacting with Caller-Id spammers while recording the call for your pleasure and to easily share with the larger Lenny community."
Medical school class sizes are not artificially restricted. Schools limit class sizes to ensure that almost all graduates can find a residency program slot. There's no point in graduating more MDs if they're never allowed to practice medicine. Everyone should join the AMA in asking Congress for increased graduate medical education funding since that would be the quickest route to having more physicians.

https://www.ama-assn.org/education/gme-funding/medical-stude...
For those who (like me) were wondering what GOSPLAN is:

“ The State Planning Committee, commonly known as Gosplan,… was the agency responsible for central economic planning in the Soviet Union.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan
Oh absolutely, it's one of many such conflations that are common among the majority of real-world programmers. And you're right that a big part of the problem is poorly written (or sometimes just incorrect!) language documentation that doesn't go to the appropriate lengths to explain the distinctions in the terms.

Some other conflations I see frequently in the PL space:

- "argument" vs "parameter"

- "type coercion" vs "type casting"

- "static typing" vs "strong typing"

- "function" vs "method" (and we can throw in "procedure" and "subroutine")
Maybe not the proudest, but I thought I was pretty clever when I was younger...

Years ago I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to get a Kindle to "Whispersync" sideloaded books. Eventually I figured out it was as simple as having an ASIN included in the books metadata (Calibre does this automatically now, but it was fun figuring it out manually with Python scripts).

Originally I thought the ASIN had to be valid, but eventually realized it didn't even matter, just had to match the pattern.
rm -rf /

Best way to deal with Kubernetes
> One could argue that people ingest copyrighted content too and spit it back out too.

Well then we should be allowed to store entire movies, since we can memorise just like hard drives do.
Why do you think the best AI isn't going to be used to work on how to make you spend 5 more seconds on Facebook?
I cured my acid reflux by taking antibiotics to kill off an H. Pylori bacterial infection, which apparently affects 30%-40% of the US population.
> Gastroesophageal reflux results from weakness or relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) [1]. Personal experience with this problem lead me to think about it, repeatedly.

LOL.

More seriously: Is there something about a modern diet or lifestyle that tends to cause this weakening? Or have anatomically-modern humans just always had a similar rate of reflux, for this reason?
Read my comment below before judging me. Many millennials graduated before I did.

Various of these Millennials and GenZers are in superior financial situations to me thanks to debt forgiveness.

Meanwhile later GenZers are looking at the roll back of credential requirements. Which allows them more options for decent paying jobs without college debt.

Though, yeah, I'm really lucky compared to the early Xers and late Boomers who are sitting on 6 figure debt repayments as they stare retirement in the face.

My pension only came in to play in my late 30s. I don't plan on staying in this job for many reasons, but if I did I would be working into my late 70s to fund it at full compensation. Edit sometime later to add: They also take 9.5% off the top of my paycheck to fund it.
Do you need sensitive equipment to see if something is totally destroying performance? No. But arguably by definition, you need the ability to reliably measure at or below the noise floor in order to determine if some emitter is putting out interference that will raise the noise floor (thus degrade performance).

Note also that not all measurements are about interference. Antenna patterns and such you just want a more accurate measurement.
>now have to figure out how to pay the next couple of months' mortgage

If I had to guess, probably with the surplus of their previous massive compensations and extremely generous severance.
The is saying that it’s wrong that hypersonic are bad because they’re fast. It goes on to clarify why the new tech is bad. And, imo, implies that this includes the ones referenced in the beginning. But in reality it does not.

But whatever. Semantics at this point.
Thanks for the recommendations! Since switching from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, I have been looking for a replacement for Konsole and had finally settled on Terminator, but one major gripe I have with it is searching the scrollback, which is a bit buggy (results aren't highlighted, search is case sensitive even though it's not supposed to be). I just tried Wezterm and it seems to tick all the boxes. Now I just have to figure out how to configure it, seems a bit more complicated than most other terminal emulators...
Has been done before, and can be done again.
Robert Kennedy Jr is a crazy anti-vax nutjob, therefore, all of his work on environmentalism is invalid and the entire cause of environmentalism is suspect. Is that how this works?
Ask HN: What are some of the best Open source Analytics apps out there
hate the recent changes to Google Analytics and looking for some alternatives for my personal blog
There is also a community slack: https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-wants-you-join-us-on-the-ng...
> loan forgiveness is tantamount to asking me to participate in buying out someone else's loan

So do government loan guarantees in the first place, though.
> We have solid data that building transit lines actually decreases crime.

Do we? A cursory Google search revealed a couple of papers, one of which showed a slight increase in crime after the addition of a bus line[0] in Cleveland, and another which showed a decrease in homicides but an increase in property crime[1] in São Paolo. I'm not cherry-picking; these were the first two PDFs in the search results. I would love to see the evidence that you presented to your friend's dad.

> If you talk to them for just a few seconds it becomes readily apparent the root is just straight up racism, but they don't wanna own it overtly.

This may very well be the case as you exhort downthread, but I just want to point out that besides the obvious (that we are all internet randos who don't know your friend's dad), racism means different things to different people. I know people who think that if a white author writes nonwhite characters, it's racism. I also know people who were disowned for marrying "outside the race". My personal definition of racism is a lot closer to the latter.

Sometimes a concern for crime is just that; other times it can be a code for a race-related pretext. Here's a thought: if you're concerned about female genital mutilation, which is virtually only practiced in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the Muslim countries of South Asia, are you concerned about the women being mutilated, or are you just a racist?

[0]: https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&c...

[1]: https://sistemas.colmex.mx/Reportes/LACEALAMES/LACEA-LAMES20...
I need images to understand how this person was eating.
Yeah I mean yes this is a small & compromised step on the path towards the necessary goal of completely eliminating the police. They are wholly incompatible with any conception of freedom or justice.
Yep, and with the same limitations like not being able to extract to a onedrive folder consistently.

Windows = Microsoft program
OneDrive = Microsoft program
Extract tool = Microsoft program

Microsoft = 2.33 trillion dollar company.

Having 3 programs coded by Microsoft and baked into the operating system or included by default with the OS install actually work together: impossible
> GOSPLAN

Mentioning the Soviet Union's economic planning commission has the whiff of red-baiting. What's a real objection?
To be fair this is debt they take on willingly.

How "willing" are the debtors when the whole system seems to built around the idea that a student will take out a loan to pay for the education, an education which is priced around the idea that anyone that isn't wealthy takes out a loan? I mean, yeah, I guess they willingly went to college...
Open Online Assemblies (MOOAs)
Hi, I have designed a series of governance tools to enable large scale community decision making focusing on:
A. deciding what gets voted on;
B. distinguishing between humans and human created entities, with humans having the right to be cognitively dissonant (with the unlimited responsibility of living (not living) with the consequences) and non-human entities, with their limited responsibilities, being required to maintain cognitive consonance;
C. a means of detecting cognitive dissonance both within individual MOOAs as well as across multiple MOOAs.
My ability to create algorithmic structures is not matched by an ability to convert them into deployable tools.
The IP is owned by a community interest company, CitizenShared CIC, and we would love to get some input on what would be required to build the partnerships necessary to develop the required tools, including how to make the data (anonymized in the case of humans) available to open source LLMs to uncover consensus on actions.
The voting mechanism element is taken care of already, but we see the 'separation of powers' as mission critical.
A classic guide is How to Solve it, from Polya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
Maybe I should try this. I've been having trouble with this lately.
It is a widespread infection across the world, but for most people there are no symptoms. It is not usually the cause for reflux symptoms.
https://plausible.io/

https://beamanalytics.io/

Have used both, currently using Beam. Would recommend either though!
It wasn't "just" that. Debian seems to want to be configured out-of-the-box as a secure server, and expects the user to turn it into a usable desktop, which is impossible for novice users and can be time-consuming even for power users. Ubuntu has much more sensible defaults, especially for a novice user. IIRC:

1. Debian's installer is vague about how to install a working system. You have to pick between Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and more, which don't mean anything to a new user. By contrast, Ubuntu's installer contains a single desktop environment, and to use alternative DEs you download a different ISO like Kubuntu or Xubuntu.

2. If you insert a DVD in a Debian PC, by default it's mounted as noexec, preventing you from running any installer on it. Not only that, but when you try to open autorun.sh by double-clicking it in the file manager, it opens in LibreOffice Writer!!! At no point does Debian even try to give a hint to the user what they need to do (not that a novice should be unmounting/remounting). In Ubuntu, you get shown a warning and are asked if you would like to execute the script if you trust it.

3. /bin and /sbin are not in users' PATH, so commands like "reboot" and "shutdown" don't autocomplete unless you edit the environment variables. OK, the terminal isn't for novices, but it's the sort of thing that makes no sense to me.

I didn't spend long using Debian as a desktop but these are the things I remember seeing. I do use it as my server of choice, however.
US doesn’t even need to lead by example. Not killing world saving international agreements such as the Kyoto protocol, would be a good start.
Max's 'creators' label erases writers' and directors' work