skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caffeine is only "sparingly" soluble in water (as opposed to "freely" soluble in boiling water).

Chemists have wonderful words to quantify the exact degree of solubility under various conditions: "sparingly soluble" means it generally takes 30-100ml of solvent to dissolve 1g of the material in question.

So, if you're hip to the quantity of caffeine in your beans (by, perhaps, grinding and boiling 100g and then analytically extracting the mass of relatively pure caffeine with something like DCM, followed by recrystallization in water maybe), you can figure out how much caffeine will be present in your cold brew based on the quantity of solvent.
I woke up at 8AM Chicago time. Which is 6AM San Francisco time. Same thing.
> A browser that is intentionally deviating from how the rest of the common browsers works cannot expect to receive the same level as support

There should be no need to "support" it. The server should just send the data requested and be done with it. Whether or not it works is the user's problem.

What has the web turned into?
"Dennis Schroder is an all time top 10 point guard"
This.

Switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro a year ago as Ubuntu updates kept on breaking everything: drivers, issues with Python.

I also quite like the pieces of software that ship with Manjaro. Especially Kate, which I'm now using on my Windows devices as well.
It's no full blown GUI installer, but `archinstall` has been bundled with the .iso for a while now.
Hot take: Short term PSC style corporate culture doesn't work for pivots or fundamental innovation
> Honestly just kind of done with mass market social media in general at this point

I've been saying, the current leaders are too big to fail or get disrupted by competition, but if there's a silver lining it's that in lieu of a better Reddit happening we may realize it's a good time to start being less online.
Ruby 3.2 runtime now available in AWS Lambda
The right tech won.

Beta beat VHS, in this case.
"We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy" , yeah now I get where this b.s. sentiment comes from.

You should absolutley expect governments to honor the people's will if you live in a democracy. I mean, you either accept the rule of law, the rule of people or anarchy right? So, are cypherpunks also anarchists?

You can't solve politics with tech, you can't defeat the $5 wrench problem with technology. Politics, migration and blood are the only options.
I really like this changelog page -- makes me wonder why isn't some easy to use custom HTML element for displaying a changelog page now that we have conventional commits (and at least one or two programs that generate changelogs programmatically from them)
The worst part about this is that blind Reddit users are being left completely without a solution, and won't be able to read Reddit at all. Multiple attempts at engagement with Reddit itself have been ignored. See the discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
Nice idea. I would never talk to any of my coworkers again.
Plenty of guides like this exist to give you a good overall idea of things: https://a.co/d/31AAntc
FWIW, this video changed my mind: https://youtu.be/zsNiupN1X7s

Part of what makes Tesla so successful is that they can make EVs cheaply. Using NACS instead of CCS seems to be one factor in keeping costs down:

because the charge door is smaller, they can make it part of the trim instead of having to match it to the body

The plumbing from the charge door to the battery also seems more cost effective

Watt for watt, dropping weight makes a small but real improvement in EV range

The latch setup also seems better, on Plugshare I see a decent # of chargers that are out of commissions because of how CCS puts the latch on the EVSE
Right, exactly. So the question is: Is it just for a court to impose punishment only on some bad attorneys based on other consequences in the world? There's not a single simple or obvious answer to that question. It depends on what you think the purpose of the punishment is.
Living in Oregon, I've taken the train to Seattle a few times. It's nice, but of course could be better. As much public transit-envy I have for Europe or Japan and China, I just am increasingly coming to be convinced that inter-city transit at the west coast just isn't suited for public transit. The density just isn't there. When I take an ICE from Bonn to Hamburg I pass by so many major cities all of which are served by the ICE. There isn't much to speak of between Portland and Seattle and even less if I wanted to take a train to SF. The math just doesn't work as well.
>Really, the first time you install Arch you're stuck in pages and pages of wiki

Not at all the case any more. Arch isos now come with an install script (literally just 'archinstall' from the live medium). I had never installed arch and it took me 15 minutes, it's a fully guided setup.
I'm not at all confident about international law, but I'm quite confident that international law had very little to do with why kids from Kansas picked up rifles to fight for France.
Because I’m not an expert in this area. I know it well enough to build products around it, but it’s not my deep area of expertise.

Just trying to provide an example.
Editing other people's comments to make it look like they wrote something different is not the same as not wanting to host toxic communities.

What quarantined subreddit are you specifically upset about and why do you think a specific company should have to make it as accessible as possible?
I mean the headline is a bit odd no? Any Linux distro or FreeBSD install is privacy preserving if you disable any telemetry. Roll your own distro and have full control over what is installed and phones home. Something like Nix maybe.
I use Debian on the desktop with various hardware, both inside the case and outside it (various SDRs and data capture toys) and it works great for me. Just a data point, YMMV.
I don't think they're interchangeable (I wouldn't recommend someone using Manjaro just switch to Arch if they're not either willing to learn or already knowledgeable), but specifically where stability is concerned -- anecdotally yes, I've had more issues to debug on Manjaro than on Arch.

I haven't tried EndeavourOS or any of the other Manjaro replacements, but next time that I need to set up a Linux computer quickly and don't have the patience to set up Arch, I probably will try one of them.

I will say in Manjaro's defense that even with some of its weirdness, I think I've had fewer issues on Manjaro than I have on Debian-based systems like Ubuntu. But I don't think that's a fair comparison because I haven't used Ubuntu in a while and I wasn't running it in parallel to Manjaro. So I suspect some of the increased stability has come from just general Linux progress and me knowing more about how to keep a computer stable.
If a calculator extension is caught sending any data at all over the network they immediately would be suspicious, but evey AI extension has plausible deniability when making any requests, most can send all the webpage including form inputs and still have such deniability.
How is Mozilla limited by the platform from doing it better on Android? You simply can't do it with the mandatory WebKit stuff.
I keep telling everyone Apple wants to be the next Google in adspace but no one seems to believe it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35755354
> Suppose dang edited your post to say "I like to get drunk at work"

You're generalizing the action described in the article to something that feels very different to me. Yes, his actions fall under "editing comments"; yes, your hypothetical falls under "editing comments"; yes, I think that his actions make him more likely to do something like your hypothetical; no, I don't think that we should treat his actions like your hypothetical because they are different.

> Reddit CEO Steve Huffman today admitted that he had edited Reddit user comments that criticized and insulted him, wielding his power to anonymously change references to his own username, and replace them with moderators of the pro-Donald Trump subreddit, r/the_donald.

> Huffman — who posts on the site as "spez" — admitted to the transgression after being called out by users of r/the_donald, saying he was inspired to edit the comments after a spate of insults emanating from the pro-Trump subreddit. "I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour," Huffman said, indicating that the only thing he secretly altered was the target of the insults.
You have to be looking through an LCD for that to work, but all existing AR HMDs are head mounted projectors with transparent mirrors, with no means to control, say, pixel level local reflectivity of the mirror. The mirror is just a flat mirror.

If you forgo the projector part and replace the mirror with a transparent LCD, it’s just too close to your eyes and you can’t see anything. If you add a microlens array to the LCD, now the LCD might come to focus but background becomes way too far-focused, and you can’t see anything either.

If we were on an Enterprise-D, I guess I could just ask replicator for a passive illuminated metamaterial light field image combiner with integrated processing than runs on bus power from DisplayPort input, but we are not there yet.

So, for now, our AR HMDs can only brighten pixels against backgrounds.
You know the Digg self destruct was 13 years ago? Time sure does fly.

I guess it's time for reddit to complete the cycle as well.
>User software can have bugs in newer releases, but they're usually minor - you'll still be able to get work done without much disruption. And that's not really an Arch issue. Unless the bug is reported & fixed very quickly, Ubuntu/Fedora are likely to also get the buggy versions, just later.

And this is the thing people ignore when they say they have no issues with cutting edge (not necessarily rolling release, which can be stable) distributions. Note that I'm not egging on you, if you're happy with the way your system works and manages software updates there's nothing wrong with that.

The software that makes up the distribution is as critical as the distribution itself. When you use cutting edge software you roll along with the issues new software introduces as soon as they're introduced. This has a plethora of effects including temporary breakage, feature removal that gets later reconsidered, config files that no longer work (or do different things) from one day to the next, and similar things.

While stable distributions do eventually inherit the software anyway, they generally do so at a later patch release. They'll go from 2.3.6 to 2.3.7 while waiting for the newest 2.4.0 release to get itself together. When necessary, downstream patches are used to apply fixes from newer releases without directly upgrading to a whole new version. This makes for a much slower rate of change in general, and as such a much slower rate of breakage. One can work around a specific set of bugs, but when that set of bugs changes every other day, that's harder and more time consuming to deal with.

Personally I prefer this latter approach, mostly as it allows me to choose when things may break (i.e. when upgrading between releases). Gentoo is currently the distro that provides me this choice, allowing me to pick between stable and bleeding edge releases on a per-package basis, hold back updates without causing library linking issues, and allowing me to install packages without syncing the entire repository and upgrading everything. This allows me to set some time apart to upgrade my system and be able to deal with whatever broke this time.

My system's most recent breakage came in the form of adwaita-icon-theme removing all the remaining non-symbolic icons, causing some programs to now lack their icons.
I wonder why these app developers are announcing that they're shutting down their apps before the upcoming blackout. If the apps have already shut down, what exactly is the blackout supposed to achieve?

I don't think the developers really thought Reddit would change their mind over a 48 hour blackout, but doing this now kind of removes the main reason for it. The mods are probably risking getting their subreddits taken away from them by Reddit by doing this, the app devs could at least wait until after to announce even if they already made the decision.
Yup. I used to be a heavy monster drinker, and I quit because that much sugar a day will kill you eventually.Ia drink a cup of coffee every day now, but I do sip an energy drink when I go on a multi hour drive, and I've found the alertness is unmatched by coffee. So I started adding taurine to my coffee, it works almost as well, good mood lift.
Isn't it something like some interviewer who already knows the answer asks some interviewee a very specific question designed with a certain level of guidance in mind? It's still impressive for LLM, but it's not even apple-to-orange comparison.
I continue to think the 3-2-1 meme is the best way to do it

* 3 different copies of storage (1 production 2 backup)

* 2 different media forms (disk and tape traditionally)

* 1 offsite

I'm on the 2:nil model: I have 2 copies, there both disks and they're both in my home. Sucks to be me if a flood or fire happens.

I do pretend my cloud storage is the missing link like everyone else. I have read my google takeout, and its interesting how it grows black holes from time to time. Things mysteriously turn out not to be there, and some lucky people grow data which wasn't there, when they wrote it (hash function collisions across the entire userbase?)
It was blown up in September. You comment doesn't make any sense, but that's not too surprising.
I could help you there if you'd like.
The competition is other local companies offering fiber. Around here, the incumbent telco offers fiber (Verizon Fios.)

And some of the problems are technical. To do those mid-split upgrades that provide more bandwidth, they'll need to replace every amplifier between the user and the HFC node. That's a lot of truck rolls. Only to find out there's tons of interference on those frequencies.... more maintenance. It's no wonder it's taken years to deploy DOCSIS 3.1.
Yeah, I've been doing that. It just always rubs me the wrong way when I can sign up for something via website or app, but need to do something less convenient to unsubscribe. Such a dark anti-pattern!
Aside from extensions, try to do what Brave does on Android on iOS: you can't. The limitations are not just the renderer. On Android they can ship their own chromium.
Just deleted my 11 year old account. End of an era.
Ask HN: How much extra work does intellectual curiosity cost the tech industry?
A lot of the people in tech also have tech as a hobby, which tends to lead to reinventing the wheel in service of intellectual curiosity. How much extra work do you think this causes? Or are all new systems progress?
Ukraine launches counteroffensive against Russia
It's not that hard to get one.
Glad they know because I don't even know what a "porject" is lol
I don’t know what the problem is in this particular case, but from experience in some other areas getting attention on here is not universally positive. If there is something on here about a specific language feature or issue then we do see a small uptick in informed and useful discussion, but also we sometimes see a much bigger uptick in comments that are uninformed, unhelpful, or just need to get deleted.

If that happened a few times to the Asahi Linux folks I can definitely understand them wanting to block this place.
> the highly skilled tradesmen I've met in the last 5 years make at least what I do, often more, and have the benefit of actually owning their own businesses or real, meaningful slices of other ones.

_This_. A lot of software developers think they are the only high earners out there. Skilled tradesmen are making a killing in europe as well. And unlike software engineers, the path to starting an actual business is much shorter and the growth potential much higher.
The people who can't be heard here still click links. For some reason the terminally online think that banning people makes them disappear in the real world too.
> I think most will agree that the CCS connector is godawful compared to Tesla's NACS. But why?

I'm asking a different "why": Why is CCS (allegedly?) "godawful compared"? Because of size? Or is there something else?

What makes Telsa's (supposedly?) 'good' or at least 'better'?
Do we need a thread for every subreddit?
It doesn't appear you understood my post.
Probably not. According to OpenAI, most of its data comes from before 2021:

> GPT-4 generally lacks knowledge of events that have occurred after the vast majority of its data cuts off (September 2021)

https://openai.com/research/gpt-4
With all due respect, this feels like asking me to talk about math without talking about numbers.

Tokens are so closely tied to modern LLMs that’s it’s basically impossible to not talk about them. They’re getting a lot of attention because they are the primitive. They’re the thing of most interest for improving performance.
I initially thought this was a dupe of next weeks protest, but no, this is a permanent shutdown.
"developed by an independent trade association to remove undue influence from one company over the process", which is how it should be."

Why should it be that way?

Tesla created the best charger and people want to use it. What's the problem?

They've already opened all their patents. Objectively they are the most free and open car company in history.
Lectron has one, although I don't know if it's as good as Tesla's
This argument, on an international scale, has never made sense to me. Have its proponents never been poor?

If US-China trade were to stop tomorrow, US would suffer 100x more than China due to lack of critical goods. China would have a dearth of greenbacks.
Sure, but the point is not whether or not the thing has been tried. It's that at McMurdo they haven't tried them.
Some of the Triangulation podcasts feature interviews with:

Bob Frankston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BAV69CPXzA
Dan Bricklin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh0KBkC_21s

I'm slightly too young to have ever used VisiCalc, but that was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
I have no problem with giving people a "Next-Next-Finish installer", but the system they get should reflect that. With Manjaro you do get quite a quirky distro and while the AUR is great, it is also a good way to create a very unstable system, especially when your system doesn't even use the Arch packages. This leaves the user quite exposed if anything should ever fail.

To be honest I think most people are better served with other distros, because they tend to deliver them the experience they actually want.
I believe it was the phrasing of "going quietly." I think they thought he meant that he would slander(?) them if they did not pay the $10M. But of course that misunderstanding was, one sentence later, resolved, so Reddit going back and treating that like a threat is simply a lie.
It sounds like she just wants to live a normal life, and here are the paparazzi that won’t let that happen. The writer should be ashamed.
A professor accused his class of using ChatGPT, putting diplomas in jeopardy
Huh. To me it massively decreases the "creepy factor", as the idea that someone is watching me when I can't see their eyes looking at me is where the creepiness originates... the only thing we normally interact with where that happens with people are mirrored sunglasses, and those are themselves often associated with cops and (if you even consider this a separate category ;P) creeps.
> Is it possible that GPT-4 already had this new optimization somewhere in its training set?

Isn't it necessary for GPT-4 to have had the optimization somewhere in its training set given how it works?
This is a permanent shutdown, I've only seen temporary ones before.

This is a subreddit I look at sometimes, too. So it's pretty relevant, I think.
The article contains direct links to studies

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10937404.2023.2...

https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-071204

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.84839...

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/10/2/434

This obviously logically contradicts your statement.

Your sophistry is incredible. Let's see how you bullshit your way out of this one.
But it makes the people who figure out how to install it think they're some kind of hacker/coder...so they get this elitist attitude about them.
It does taste significantly worse than fresh milk if you're not used to it, but definitely better than powdered milk.

And bad news is you can't really make decent cheese out of UHT milk, since the proteins have been denatured by the heat.
We get it, a lot of subreddits are going on strike to protest the API changes. I just wish this forum does not become the place-to-be to discuss how much reddit sucks. There's been at least 3-4 stories about the reddit API changes on the frontpage of hackernews for the past week at least.
No user ever sees live/unchecked LLM output, if that's what you're concerned about :-)

(- the core infrastructure engineer on this project)
> Tesla is in the process of ratifying it as an open standard.

What does this mean? Who is doing the ratification? SAE? IEC? Other?
What I find most surprising about this is that Leslie Kean, Ralph Blumenthal and other journalists at The Debrief corroborate that David Grusch has testified to Congress under oath and provided hundreds of pages of classified documentation to support his claims.

It is not difficult for journalists of this caliber to confirm this, either. It is then fair to say that we know this as a fact. Lying under oath has serious consequences, so it is unlikely that he would do that.

The main remaining question then is what has he testified to Congress? Is it essentially the same story he has revealed to the public? It is hard to imagine a scenario in which he has told the public one story but then a different one to Congress.

In any case, this deserves further investigation.
Bradford Factor
I think this is a fair critique! The original tweeter was being condescending, probably to Increase Engagement. This is something social platforms should systemically discourage!
Can you elaborate on the "miles better" thing? I'm very close to provisioning several Linux machines. My home server is using Manjaro and has been rock-solid for 2.5 years now.

What will EndeavourOS do better?
The biggest part of a classroom is behavior management so I imagine this will not be helpful. The kind of kid who’s motivated can simply use khan academy for free.

Good content is obviously important, but there are literally millions of teachers redundantly creating content every year. It's easy enough to create canonical good content, no AI needed.

I imagine this will be completely ineffective or even counterproductive to an unmotivated, poorly behaved child.
HN might as well just run the headline that Reddit is shutting down permanently. All the major subs are either temporarily or permanently shutting down in protest.

Do we have a federated Mastodon-esque system to replace Reddit yet? Its the only way to ensure the community survives at this point; Reddit leadership has already proven they only wish to harm both shareholders and the community at large under the guise of "increasing shareholder value" and shove their fiduciary duty under the bus.
This is hearsay, but folks in Colorado tend to complain about federal air quality guidelines prohibiting controlled burns during the times of the year that it makes sense to do a controlled burn. During the winter, air quality guidelines dictate you can't exceed a certain amount of wood smoke in an area for example. NEPA studies might be another.
Yes, Bitwarden's pass key support is for "this summer".

https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-passkey-management/
Switched to manjaro last week after Ubuntu failed to upgrade itself