skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think as well that this is a problem that Kanban solves quite well. Instead of having a team sitting around waiting for another team, ideally you have people who can take a bit of work from a board and be productive even if their primary project is stalled. This is (part of) how I've run my last few projects and it's been very successful from a productivity perspective.

The problems I've had with this is getting management to understand that productivity and developer quality-of-life is important. They want road maps, god damn it, because reasons. And they say they won't hold us to the road map, but then they do. And at the same time, the road map captures productivity because now you're doing what the road map says instead of being productive.

But building software is often like building a tunnel. You don't know what you're going to be drilling through until you've drilled through it.
> though I haven't been very effective at moving in that direction

This sentence brings out my curiosity. Why do you think you haven't? What did you attempt, and why do you think it wasn't effective? I've worked for a non-profit scientific institute and now I work as a freelancer, so I guess I got to see both sides.
Just to expand on:

> If that is still not enough then the company is liable for the rest which effectively means they will go bankrupt as usually the only assets they have is the nuclear power plants.

In my experience and almost without exception large capital projects are "owned" by a single company .. that company having as major shareholders the partners or parent company that put everything together to make the project happen.

Eg. a massive copper mine project in Canada | South America | etc that appears in the Rio Tinto annual finnacial reports is owned and managed by the locally registered RTCopperCutout Company.

No suprise that this happens with nuclear capital also, but worthy of a mention for anyone not already aware.

Sometimes the parent company | shareholders can be held to further account but not always.
And he's been doing it since before Covid, and still spouts the lies about links (which don't actually exist) between vaccinations and increased rates of diagnosed autism.
They missed the 3rd(!) bug in those few lines of code? The normalization was done before zeroing out the Z component, so the resulting vector isn’t actually normalized.
It is extremely not amazing, it continually fails to export my 12tb account. Which is a problem, because in 30 days or so they are going to start enforcing the 5tb limit on workspace accounts, which will prevent me from getting even emails.
It is an interesting list. However, a better title would be "46 Books that changed America".

There are 34 instances of the word America/American in the article for 46 books and most of the authors on the list would be English speaking or American. As a result, this list provides a very American centric view of literature, history and experiences.
I also didn't trust the vaccines.
If it works…
That’s crazy. I’ve played a bunch of quake and never knew about that.
>provide ‘obscene’ books to minors

If you had read my previous posts you would know that this is irrelevant.

By that standard the state has banned pretty much anything. Alcohol is banned in the US because giving alcohol to minors is a crime, see how absurd this argument sound if you apply it to literally anything else?
ChatGPT makes a wonderful natural language interface for ffmpeg. I like to ask for a bash script that uses ffmpeg to achieve my goal. Recent example output:

#!/bin/bash

# Set the input file name
input_file="input.mp4"

# Trim the videos
ffmpeg -i $input_file -ss 00:01:08.5 -to 00:01:11.05 -c copy shot1.mp4
ffmpeg -i $input_file -ss 00:01:13.3 -to 00:01:22 -c copy shot2.mp4
ffmpeg -i $input_file -ss 00:01:24 -c copy shot3.mp4

# Prepare the list of files to concatenate
echo "file 'shot1.mp4'" > files.txt
echo "file 'shot2.mp4'" >> files.txt
echo "file 'shot3.mp4'" >> files.txt

# Concatenate the video segments
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i files.txt -c copy output.mp4
It may be a generational thing, a matter of familiarity with computing and computers. For someone who's lived through the 80s, "handrolling postgres" doesn't sound nearly as scary as you imagine.

I expect the cost/benefit analysis of "handrolling postgres on a beefy Hetzner server" vs "navigating the menus and options of AWS services" would be different for different teams.
worked for me. knocked the sucker out in under 3 hours. was clear for travel to japan within 48 hours.
For sure. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Node and express are still great. I still use them. Heroku and rails would still be great to this day, too.
Some of them said that. Many of them explicitly told the public that masks wouldn't help. However impeccable your motives for doing so, lying to the public should destroy your credibility.
Wouod someone reply not buy a truck if it was $127 more?
So the US is going to do a new bioweapon propaganda round...??
Windows build was also compiled for arm64.
My job uses the ESP32-S3 (the 2MB PSRAM version, for some extra memory headroom) professionally (and with Nim for the firmware, which is fun). Super neat little SoC!
Science is a human endeavor, and like all human endeavors, it is subject to human limitations and resource constraints. Humanity surviving is a prerequisite for doing SETI, and that means preferentially allocating resources to projects that work on mitigating existential threats, everything else being equal.

Now, I'm not asking that carpenters be reassigned to work on AI extinction scenarios. That wouldn't make sense, because it's not their area of expertise. But if you are already going to spend resources on hypothetical non-human intelligences, surely the kind of intelligence we are by far most likely to actually encounter deserves the most attention. And in the absence of unlimited resources (i.e., in reality), that goes at the expense of lower priority intelligence scenarios.

Note that these people are asking for a telescope to be built on the moon. That's an absolutely enormous expense, that, needless to say, wouldn't be funded by those scientists but by society as a whole. Resources are limited, so every decision to fund something means not funding something else. Priorities are a thing, and "it's science" doesn't change that.
14 000 dead. How do you call this "something"?
You fire them for being an idiot and sharing details about your infrastructure with a third party.
I wish the USA would just come out with a barebones upper education option based on the German model. Yes, no sports club or fancy dorms, or even fancy campuses, no sections or TAs to grade/correct homework, your grade depends 100% on your final. But the end result is that if you have the discipline for it, nothing should stop you from earning a degree.
This is absolutely true but I myself converted to vscode after getting fed up with having to maintain my vimrc… I miss the combos and no, vim key bindings are nowhere near the same, there are conflicts and missing verbs and motions.

Haven’t tried embedded neovim yet. Is it the best or the worst of both worlds?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats
> Not that it matters, but there definitely is a tendency in our industry to 'look down' on frontenders as not real engineers and thus not consider them for leadership positions.

I think that's funny because there some to be a ton of backenders that can't do frontend at all. And then they want to look down on FE when they can't do it themselves? It's not just basic HTML and CSS if you're building a complex app.

I do both (FE & BE) so... I've seen it all and enjoy it all. Not sure one is easier than the other.
Digital Ocean App Platform is really good for what I run :)
Human Alignment Technology
Mixed them up, but does not matter, the point is the engineering differences
So Rolls Royce want to build small modular reactors https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor...

It will be interesting to see if the smaller scale can avoid some of the issues mentioned in the article.
Through ESP-IDF? Which version?
I built a toolkit to rapidly backup takeout archives every 2 months and make it a bit easier to do so. I hover around the ~1.5TB range.

Of course, there are catches. But maybe it might work for the non-six month archives.

https://github.com/nelsonjchen/gtr
it always looks like some marketing blogspam to me, like the seth godin posts
This is good news. However, the repo doesn't seem to contain any ARM code for the platform security processor (PSP), so I suppose that part would remain an encrypted binary blob?
GP isn't talking about "wondering if", but rather being distracted by thoughts like "WTF is going on?", "wooow!", "WOOOWOWOWOW!", "is it supposed to be like this?", "oh look at me I NAILED this task", "I think I have been hungry for the past 3 hours but I don't really care, WOW this is nice", etc. You get used to it in a day or two, and most of the "WOW factor" disappears just as fast - point being, one's very first day or two of taking such drugs aren't good as a benchmark.

BTW. with the beer example, it's been measured that part of intoxication effect comes from expectations. As in, you give people non-alcoholic drinks while telling them they're regular ones, and they'll show the usual signs of alcohol influence - worse coordination, stuttering speech, etc. - and snap out of it once told they've been drinking placebo. Reverse also seems true, i.e. early effects are weaker when people think they're drinking placebo while getting the real deal.

(And, N=1, personally I've observed I can "fix" the effect of a beer or two on movement and speech if I consciously remind myself that there's an expectations component to intoxication effect. Of course this works only up to a certain BAC level :).)
12 years ago with Lion
"The government" isn't to blame for making it hard to build; that's the fault of countless local governments run by a bunch of NIMBYs. The national government has nothing to do with it, and the US is set up to give way too much power to state and local governments, so the federal government is mostly powerless to improve the situation.
Not saying I never conjure the spaghetti but whoever coded that really was deep into the tail end of a caffeine, coding and sleep deprivation binge ;)
Actual love for somebody was never an important part of marriages until recent years. In the good ol' days, parents decided who their kids would marry, and money and power were the important things to consider.
Just curious, what do you use it for?
The US shifts the same order of magnitude of goods by train as trucks

The EU shifts about 10 times by truck as by train

Rail freight in the US is praiseworthy.
>Restaurant labor usually works out to a small percentage of the price of the food.

I don't see how this is true. It's more than 20%, since that's what you're expected to tip in the US, and that just covers the server.
I've been on unmanaged MySQL for ~8 years now. Considered switching to managed but I'm not seeing any performance or stability issues, so I guess I'll just keep this train going until it craps out on me, then restore a backup onto a managed service, say sorry for the downtime, and that'll be that.
It is already
https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
>Stocking a book in a library is possessing it.

Nope. That is not how (most) libraries work. School libraries purchase books, which then are owned by the school and managed by librarians.

>Years in prison for a library having a book in its collection.

Libraries do not go to prison.

>Telling libraries that they should not stock books is antithetical to freedom and liberty.

Libraries are curated in all cases. The speech they provide is 100% determined by the purchasers and staffers. If those people are ideological, then so are the contents of libraries. Calling them a bastion of free speech is hilarious.

Personally I never looked at any book in my school library and avoided anything but the technical books in university.
I'll never forget how inhumanely some people were treated and how little some truly care for bodily autonomy. The coercion and gaslighting from all directions has been nauseating. The trust I lost in so many institutions wont be replaced anytime soon, perhaps ever.

What would a modern day Nuremberg trial look like?
Why? I often respond tentative to meetings, and don't want to come across as an asshole.
It is like the RAD750 radiation hardened processor. It is a PowerPC 750 but costs about $100K because under those harsh conditions - it can not fail!
It was never easy to make a living from music.
I dont have data but I think more people than ever make a living from creative endeavours like music.
Yeah in Finland Fortum owns Fortum Power and Heat that owns the 2 reactors in Loviisa and ~25% of TVO.

TVO is the other nuclear company that owns the 3 reactors in Olkiluoto. The other owners of TVO is Pohjolan Voima with ~60% which is owned by the wood/paper companies UPM-Kymmene and Stora-Enso together with a bunch of smaller municipal power companies. Helen (fully owned by Helsinki city) also owns the last ~15% of TVO though its subsidiary Oy Mankala Ab.

Importantly in Finland this ownership structure also plays into how the plants operate. In the case of TVO it does not directly sell its power to end users but to its owners at cost (who are also mandated to buy it) who then use it themselves or sell it forwards.
Another nice movie script written by Quentin Inventino
Yes especially data, simplicity is key as well.

Where possible go with simple but abstracted cloud storage, cloud tables and then a cloud db that is managed. We use Azure mostly right now but our storage system works across Azure storage, Amazon S3, Google Cloud and others. For tables, Azure Tables mainly. For database with filtering/paging better performant and ACID compliant cloud db, CosmosDB currently which is a dream with the differing apis (SQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Tables style). The more you can avoid vendor or dev-lockin the better so simple formats/messaging/routing and abstracted specifics/implementations.

When you store data in storage or a cloud db the scaling is "infinite" and you can also snapshot or backup to anther one, you never worry about data.

The front ends and APIs are mostly repos pushed to app/web services and everything else in data storage. Super simple and anywhere you need some special service that can be serverless or a dedicated setup, like maybe a RDBMS, chat server, network server or WebRTC/socket endpoint that interacts with the simple side. These managed as well if possible, though not always. Additionally, build cheap and horizontal scaling on web/real-time servers. Vertical scaling and sharding is for suckers.

Side note: CosmosDB is like a combination of NoSQL, document databases and GraphQL and it is ACID compliant and you can do REST or SQL, it can even wrap MongoDB and Cassandra and make them ACID compliant. It really feels like the best way. Not many have all that and ACID compliant. Not even Amazon Redshift has that, DynamoDB does if specified. Google Firestore does if specified. I used to be big on RDMBS Oracle then MSSQL then PostgreSQL and those are great for backing/reporting etc but CosmosDB combines all the power of RDMBS, NoSQL, document databases, and ACID compliant with little worry about scale. It is vendor lockin to Azure, which you can route around with platform abstraction, but currently can't be beat. As you got that clean API layer you could change later but best way is limited/clean and if possible, non breaking change API layers/signatures.
Theorem of the Day: Bibliography
The Pareto principle is about the converse as well
Wouldn't that depend on the sink? If they can cool down to the water, then running a water-water-heatexchanger would require less power (due to better heat transfer) than simply cooling it to the air.

Same I guess if they could use evaporation to do some of the cooling.
You still live in 2019
Aren’t power users the ones who make Reddit? They submit and moderate most content.
nvim is in my setup scripts with dotfiles and is picking up my vim config per my init.vim. But still - look about actual setting up it [1], [2], where [1] stragight says "if you need autocomplete, you need plugin for that". I obviously can do it, but I just don't want to... Batteries should be included in $CURRENT_YEAR.

It is probably missed, but I use vim everyday, as text editor for many years. My .vimrc on github is 3 years old, and only because I moved it there from bitbucket and didn't bothered to preserve history. I'm not against it.

It was that original comment that I answered, was saying that vim is effective/better for IDE specific tasks (e.g. large refactorings, that inititial comment that I've replied), and after many years of using vim I strongly believe is rather ignorant and shows not understanding of power and features of modern IDEs.

[1]: https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig

[2]: https://alpha2phi.medium.com/neovim-for-beginners-lsp-part-1...
> When I look at reviews for businesses, I don't look at the 5 star reviews. I look at the 1-2 star reviews, and I look exclusively for reviews that describe _how the business responded to the problem_.

This is why it is so valuable to post negative reviews on your competitors. People actually believe this s...[0]

> They got her to the vet and paid the bills

Doesn't sound fake, it doesn't even need to be. You post a few more reviews 1) They paid my vet bill too! 2) Mine is scared of everything after going there. 3) etc

With google it is different tho, their bad reviews aren't anecdotal. It's stunning that law makes haven't touched the subject.

For extra irony, google is running what seems to me the biggest business review scheme in the world. It isn't even legal[1] but if they had any sense or decency they would build their own customer verification system without law makers demanding they do so.

Everyone suffering their fake reviews would love to provide their customers with a link and a review token. Then, even if you've screwed up horrendously you can express how you regret things went that way and apologize. Responding like that to fake reviews is out of the question. Your best case scenario is if you can pay the fake reviewer to stop.

You can buy google ads tho.

[0] - https://www.wdbj7.com/2022/10/17/five-star-fakes-small-busin...

[1] - https://www.softwarefair.de/en/2022/06/02/google-fails-to-im...
they DO, actually - compared to others (meta, for eg). they have bounty hunter rewards, all kinds of new developments. at least you can actually GET to a human response of some sort. but yes - when the "system" favours monopols, dont expect too much battling over your patronage
Why shouldn’t they pay for the externalities they cause?
RISC-V is a much better ISA for IoT since it's so much better aligned. You just need to use the parts that you want instead of having to put in the whole package. Plus, it's free!
Not only USENET, but the internet in general. It's where Eternal September comes from (as in, you're describing the pre-cursor). When AOL came along, that September influx never ended...

For better or worse, the net was overrun. Given the size of things back then, it actually seems a decent example of the article topic.
Ask HN: Console.log Output
can someone explain why the console.log output is not all zeros? Why the async process?

`
result = [[0,0],[0,0]];
console.log(result);
result[1][0] = 99
`

Using console in Chrome DevTools, the output is:
'[[0,0],[99,0]]'

Expected output is:
'[[0,0],[0,0]]'
Azure App Service is a thing that everyone just skips over, listing competitors with an annual revenue smaller than some individual Azure App Service deployments...

I mean seriously, railway.app has just fifteen employees in total, and revenue in the single-digit millions.

Reminds me of when someone posted a "cloud storage vendors poster" with hundreds of vendors -- but not Azure -- some with revenues smaller than the cost of an Azure Storage Account one of my customers was using... to back up a single server. By accident.
That's Max Park. I'm not a cuber but I recognize him from the excellent short documentary The Speed Cubers, on Netflix. It's nerdy, engaging, and heartwarming — perfect for HN.
IIRC, the Archive Team asked for help on /r/DataHoarder and had saved 10 bn posts to later upload them on the Internet Archive ... that might yield something? I personally have never heard of them before, but that doesn't mean anything ...

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Reddit#Project_detail...
I love my ESP32-S series. I use them in tons of LED projects[1]. Sadly it seems WS2812b are fundamentally incompatible, under FreeRTOS, with wifi due to timing glitches from interrupts.

In my next two project I'm going to have to run two 30ft cables because I can figure out how to get low latency wifi to work on a Raspberry Pi 2040 (where PIO is fabulous, but 500ms request latency is killing me) or without glitches on a ESP32.

[1] https://anima.haus/events/seacompression
Why do you believe that? The best available evidence (e.g. the cochrane review) suggests those stringent rules were not effective. Where I live (Japan) there were very few stringent rules and despite a high population density and an elderly population the number of excess deaths in covid waves was negative. Conversely China imposed some of the strictest rules in the world and has had one of the worst affected populations.

Authoritarianism is a very natural human response to a crisis. But the biggest lesson of the Covid-19 era is that it's thoroughly counterproductive. Responding to an uncertain situation, that everyone involved should have known was uncertain, with strict rules, that naturally had to be revised back and forth, destroyed the authorities' credibility, polarized the public, and did a lot of harm. We need to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Exactly! If they announced that you will have to pay even $5 a month for 3rd party access - I think most people would be on board. They just choose the dumbest of all paths.
Trying to speed up Binary Search (2015)
Tech unicorns are those start-ups with valuations above 1 billion, not the top 100 (top by what what measure, revenue, profit, market cap, number of employees?).

Also, a nations economy doesn't depend on the number of VC backrd tech unicorns. That France economy has quite some issues ain't news, the perceived lack of tech unicorns (if there ever was a pseudo-SV centric view of things, that's a front runner), is none of them.
I used to heavily augment (don't have the scripts anymore though) Tribal Wars (a web game) with features to compute army travel times, automate build queues etc.
Hi, I've check the docs and "Train a chatbot" API seems interesting. Does it means fine-tuning? Or does it works with providing a context to LLM based on embedded data saved in vector database?
> we people are very soon capable of communicating using quantum entanglement

This is nothing other than sci-fi. I don't understand how you can be so sure of something like this.
Our deployment is much smaller than yours! Our upfront hardware cost including carpentry and HVAC was around $80k, our monthly cost in cloud was around $5k/mo and now we pay only about $1k/mo in energy (which includes the existing $500/mo bill from the office). We could reduce this further with solar panels, but we share the tall-ish building with 13 other suites and we couldn't get approval to take up most of the roof.
Importantly, Covid very rarely results in severe symptoms for middle aged adults. In the vast majority of adults, the symptoms are mild and nonspecific.

So the idea that all of these researchers would have contracted Covid and present with symptoms specific/indicative of Covid is absurd. The chances of that must be infinitesimally small.

If they had the typical, flu- and cold-like symptoms that most people experience, why would anyone ever even notice? It's extremely common to have illnesses with these symptoms in an office environment, to the point it would be strange if they didn't.