skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's hardly surprising. Asking random people to put together essays on obscure topics without extensive research is a great way to produce essays as useful as ChatGPT's output ;)
>you would rather no one in the world get any kind of value from them since you are not getting any anymore?

I'd rather not get harrased from old comments in arguments I long forgotten about. Because some redditors will stalk you that persistently. I just don't want to bother to begin with.

If that cost some useful advice, I apologize. Rotten apples and all that.
Is it actually just fine, or have you not noticed the slow and gradual degradation of its color accuracy and brightness?
I remember ~10 years ago that Google said 40% of searches were unique. Just searching for that again now I can see this[1] tweet that suggests it's 15% as of 2022, that's with billions of users.

I wonder how well the caching actually works for a user base of the size that Mullvad has.

This could be tackled with a different UX, perhaps rather than showing predictive search, instead showing similar queries that are in the cache? I'm not a customer so can't see the product, can any customers give any input as to what the UX is and whether it might be improving their cache hit rate?

[1]: https://twitter.com/Google/status/1493681643290300425
I’ve worked one tech company in my life where this was an expected norm (a fruity place in Cupertino), and it was pretty miserable. There are plenty of places where you leave work and you’re done until the next day. Highly recommend finding one.
Not really, as far as water is concerned.

One of the less well publicized great advances of the past decade is that we have essentially solved desalinization.

Recent advances in the reverse osmosis process mean that capital costs for desalinization capacity have been driven low enough that they can be economically powered by off-peak intermittent power, essentially using reservoirs of fresh water as a grid battery of sorts. The cost of solar and wind in the places that need fresh water are low enough that this can economically replace natural fresh water even in middle-income countries.

Large-scale buildouts are ongoing. We will not need "extreme water recycling" to provide anyone with sufficient water.

Not that it's a bad idea anyway, because it's good for the environment to recycle the other stuff that you pull out of the wastewater stream.
There are far more Xbox controllers in use than Logitech. In the gaming community, the Logitech controllers are known to be janky and less reliable.

The PlayStation controllers are more popular globally, but have not had a great track record when it comes to operation with anything but a PlayStation.

I get what you're saying, though, and I'm not faulting them for using an off-the-shelf product. I'm faulting them for using a substandard product.
For gaming it’s useful, but for work I like the separate panels. Multiple single-window screens beats overlapping windows.
> RSS is not dead. It is not mainstream, but it's still a thriving protocol, especially among tech users.

RSS is alive and well and mainstream with podcasts.

Also: how many folks use RSS(-as-protocol) and how many use Atom (RSS-as-feed)?
> even if you're negligent.

It's a TV!!! There shouldn't be any "negligent" :-)

Some people are fine with tiptoeing around the problem, I imagine most people just don't do anything and mess up their TV.

I shouldn't have to configure FVWM for 20 days to be able to operate the appliance correctly.
Show HN: Making IBANs More Memorable
I used car sharing a lot during COVID lockdowns but now that I go to work once a week it is no longer financially sensible for me. I was spending over 250 euro per month for commuting once a week plus one weekend trip per month.

The biggest cost of car sharing was having to park the car in front of the office for 9 hours at €3,75 per hour. Or, during weekend trips, spending €75 just for having the car idle in front of the cabin, that price excludes any kilometers driven.
We have a responsibility to speak out against animal abuse and to demand greater regulation and accountability of social media platforms.

This heart-wrenching article is a powerful reminder of the importance of citizen-led investigations and activism in exposing and combating animal cruelty.
Just out of personal curiosity, what makes Croatia so bad for inheritance and property law?
Driving at that rate is either full hardware decoded video, or rendering at much lower resolution or refresh.

Take an Xbox series X pulling some 200 watts as example - it can technically drive 4k@120, but most content won't render at that speed or resolution.

Now look a power budget of 20W for a laptop, or singular watt for a phone.
Currently almost all countries sell water earmarked for industrial use at absurdly reduced prices, when compared to consumer prices.

Jack up the rate so both pay the same, and introduce a huge pollution / cleaning penalty for companies that don’t emit virtually fully (talking something like 99.999% here) cleaned wastewater.

It’s slowly happening in Europe, but we’re decades to late with it. Even in The Netherlands and Belgium we’ve allowed companies to dump a continuous stream of PFAS-production polluted water straight into a river. Clown world :)
I cannot convince my mother that ignoring someone's request to not receive any gifts is selfish behaviour by the giver.
GitLab Issues, especially as exposed by the UI is just ludicrisouly primitive vs Jira. They're trying to cover the GitHub use case regarding basically 'context for merge requests'. There's no planning, reporting, sane linking, reports, no query language, no batch updates, and visibility model means Issues edits are also basically committers, so good-bye segregation. It's just chalk and cheese.

Someone invariably says 'with the REST API you can do ...' which now means we have hundreds of teams reimplementing the out-of-the-box Jira features in mutually incompatible ways for their own consumption. All of that dev time is gone. I honestly hope the shareholders don't find out.
There are more stinky chemical processes that our industry does, this does not mean that you have to go and smell them. I see no problem here if the smell is properly contained.
Don't let this and other articles fool you: there is absolutely no shortage of water in Californian cities. Every year an absolute mountain of snow drops on the Rockies and melts in the spring. But it gets diverted through an arcane series of water rights, grandfathered deals and outright corruption.

Meet the Resnicks [1], who are agricultural billionaires and control a huge chunk of California's water supply.

This is why you should get mad whenever you see California invest in desalination [2]. Would you ever use desalination to grow oranges or almonds or alfalfa? No, it's way too expensive. But when you build desalination plants in a place like California what you're really doing is further subsidizing inefficient uses of water for agriculture when you could totally solve the problem by simply growing less water-intensive crops and/or letting some arid land, well, stay arid.

[1]: https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-du...

[2]: https://water.ca.gov/News/News-Releases/2023/April-23/Califo...
Yes, he said he was inspired by Musk's handling of Twitter...
I'm still very disappointed with the discontinuation of port forwarding and wish they would be more transparent about their reasoning.
The problem is discoverability. You don't know where to look for stuff or people. I wanted to check out this whole Lemmy thing and found almost completely dead (no comments) communities linked from their project page.

Where do I go? How do I search for something worthwhile? There's no central space to find it, compare communities etc. I was curious but now I am kind of put off.
When you access it while using Mullvad, it still asks you for your account number. Service should automatically detect you are on VPN and let you search, why the need for the extra step?
You're right, I was picturing them saying it.
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Laws are being passed across the country which ban, or attempt to ban the practice. This is being done on a state-by-state basis.
Can you expand on what you mean by anti-RAII?
CBS also does 60 minutes, which I've also long respected for a similar kind of calm, collected vibe for journalism.
>does it make it that when people at a social event find out you are on the way to join them, they sigh silently and look at the ground

you're not making the best case yourself. You'd be the person coming that the host would spend half the party trying to separate from certain others becuase you'll just get into a huge fight over a bike shed and ruin the night for every.

A person on the internet deletes their comments. It's not that deep.
And what about the family? Children?
> Set IFS to just newline and tab, if you can, to reduce the risk of mishandling filenames with spaces.

should be: reduce the risk when mishandling filenames.

If your handling of filenames depends on IFS, you are already in big trouble!
The only area where I’d think we want more pixels would be in medical imaging but even then we can always zoom out the interesting parts of the image (and rely on machines to look for interesting parts)
On one hand, we don't need potable water to flush a toilet. On the other hand, flushing a toilet with dirty water is going to leave your house smelling like whatever's in that water.
"Did you see [show] on TV last night? lol" was a common thing to hear when back at work the next day.

For work if you got a call at home from work it was a shock. There was no way anyone from work would need to call you at home.

As a teen in the mid 1980s I did have to carry a pager the size of a paperback book. But it was nowhere near as bad as now or when cellphones and mobile email got going. First it was Nokia 3310s, then BlackBerry, then later iPhones.

For phones I think some people now may find it amazing to be in the middle of nowhere and not have a phone. No voice or data just you in the middle of nowhere with a wallet and a few quarters in your pocket. You get lost or car breaks down? Too bad it's now your job to figure out a way to get back home or anywhere really.

Socially for me the Internet came around just in time. I wasn't a bar hopper or into sports or really anything social. Suddenly in 1993 I could talk to the world it was amazing if not expensive at 60 hours a month. But companies took another decade to catch on. Cellphones were still basic just a phone and expensive to use and only a few people had them.
For 10-20Watts you can use a slightly dated office-desktop (thin-client) that will take a pcie nic and usually has more than enough processing power.

A step further would be a laptop that can come by with 5-10W and still run circles around typical arm-based off the shelf routers. thou the second nic will probably connect via usb3, you get a real keyboard and screen for troubleshooting.
I haven't noticed it. So it's not a problem.

I DO notice OLED burn-in, so that <<is>> a problem.
Sometimes even cold trash!
I mean that’s good lateral thinking but the issue is not that one particular button will go out but that any button or buttons could, and at any time, and it would probably be the most-used buttons since it was wear-based failure.

They also briefly showed a single button on the wall that it was implied functioned like an elevator button.

There were a lot of ways it looked like things could trivially go wrong, once you got a feel for how it was built.
Because if I am searching for a review of cafe or want to know where a movie is showing I would prefer it to be in the same continent as me.

I am not expecting it to know my exact GPS location but would be nice if it could at least bring state or country level tailored search results.
This simply hasn’t been my experience with a 43” OLED TV, which I use as both a TV and my main monitor when working. It’s facing away from the window, which I’m sure helps, but I’ve never had to draw the curtains to see what I’m doing.

Maybe if your TV is facing a window that’s more of a problem, but if so I’d suggest not doing that. You’re never going to get a good experience from a TV facing a light source because of nothing else it will reflect off the screen.
Is this intended to solve gradient banding?
All sorts of things can be tracked through wastewater; cocaine use, COVID prevalence, that kind of thing.

As always "if done correctly" carries a bit of an asterisk.
Bank of England a Step Closer to Launching Digital Pound After Rosalind Study
Sounds like they got curious and asked a simple “hello world” type of question to see if it had any value.
https://archive.ph/fL4ky
I think that's good, langchain is a spaghetti monster and I think you're better off rolling your own, especially now with the baked in functions feature that GPT has'
They make money through ads, closing off traffic coming in through search engines doesn't really sound realistic.
> business level code with side-effecting code (like calling APIs or DBs).

Sometimes the business logic is in DBs with stored procs.
I agree, and I wonder if this is just what happened as an accident of history or so much a tendency of human nature that we couldn’t have done it any other way. Maybe simple data models is the mental model of computing that couldn’t be easily changed.
I don't care much about average panel degradation.

I do care about seeing ghost letters or shapes on top of the latest TV series I'm watching.

Edit: The QLED article is from 2019, that's quite a few yers ago for cutting edge tech. I imagine tech is constantly improving.
I do. Reddit - specifically old.reddit.com - is the pinnacle of discussion board UIs (which is less of a commendation of Reddit, and more a damnation of every other platform, especially those that came after). And quality-wise, it's what you make of it - it's not a single site, it's a universe of mostly independent discussion boards, connected by SSO and a shared interaction model. Whether you spend time on Reddit's equivalent of HN or of 9gag, that's up to you - both exist, and it's not fair to condemn one because of the other.

(Slot machine mechanics are, unfortunately, present to a degree in every discussion board, group chat and mailing list - other people posting potentially interesting content == variable-schedule reward, which is the way to get addicted fast.)
thats interesting

one could posit that a reason that large monolithic businesses exist (with centralized control etc) is because at scale you can get efficiency (to a limit i suppose)

with many small sized business interacting i wonder how it could keep efficiency with so many interacting parts (many middle-men for lack of a better word)?
Technically it goes:

FDIC takes over bank -> FDIC allows people to pay off their loans with the same bank using funds at the same bank -> FDIC pays off insured accounts and takes on debt from the bank -> Sells Assets -> Uses cash to pay itself back by being first in line with the courts.

If it gets to Bank #2, it's not their problem and they specifically don't have to. Also, this wasn't a US bank! It wasn't under FDIC control. That payoff happens before bankruptcy. If the FDIC doesn't take over your bank it doesn't apply.
I just miss a lot of tooling and standards from XML that JSON never got, or if they did, it wasn't as... correct?
Node-gyp being problematic again.

But if I understand the article, the fixed version of bignum was released in 2019, and no mention of security is made in the PR.
For empire builders, ladder climbers and office politicians the office building is the key battle stage.

For people mainly interested in office romance and gossip, the office is a free coffeebar.

For people actually working, the office is mostly a soul sucking hellscape.
It is good that this does not work. As one IP might be shared by multiple accounts. A cache of the mapping IP --> AccountNo is also not favorable in terms of privacy.
You are absolutely right about the documentation aspect. We are about four years into Teams and no one can find anything. Massive numbers of dead channels. Files and things all over the place. Notification hell.

One particular bad aspect is people started recording meetings. No one has any idea where these things get put. There are links that are shared but where are the actual files.

I use a OneNote to keep track of links. It's craziness.

Miro has its own management issues as well once you start getting projects and things in the mix.

It's like every new app now is designed to work with maybe a handful of objects but beyond that it's a huge mess.
you're jumping to conclusion, my dear friend. i have spent more time alone and by myself than you can imagine, and i still do. it's one of the best things to happen to a human being.

now, being alone (stationary) isn't the same as doing an activity alone. you seem to conflate the two. if you think traveling solo is fun, well you're being sold bullshit at best, worst you're acquiescing to a terrible experience and trying to find joy in it. like a prisoner-author talking about the joys of being locked up because it afforded them the necessary solitude to contemplate.
> can be economically powered by off-peak intermittent power,

The problem with anything designed to run "off peak" is that you have to pay the capital cost the whole time, even while it's not operating.

Do you have some examples you can cite? There's a lot of stuff that can be done but isn't yet at scale.
Friend of mine held out longer than most on cell. Instead he had a pager. Once paged he would turn on his ham radio so we could go and find him.
> The point is: if your tests just assert which methods are called on dependencies with what arguments (or something close to that), they are extremely coupled and brittle.

I'll go further. These tests are worse than useless; they're harmful.

- They're the very definition of testing an implementation

- You will wasted a ton of time updating them when your implementation changes

- They give a false sense of security/productivity
> "A trivial silly mistake like this is... not what I expected considering OpenBSD's reputation for security."

Forgetting that "_shutdown" is 9 characters is definitely an oversight on their behalf. But you need superuser privileges to create groups, and at that point you can also just toss any user right into the regular _shutdow(n) group.

There's not really anything to exploit here, but if this type of comparison is present in other software - whether OpenBSD's system tools or not - I can definitely see how it has a general potential to cause a sysop to accidentally "cross-pollinate" his or her users, e.g. "ftpuser<some digits>".
I don't grasp the difference between a mock and a fake.

Both are substitutes for an expensive or unavailable component.

Maybe the fake is more dynamic than the mock?

The point seems moot.
Lots of comments regarding LED brightness for sun lit spaces. If you are suffering with that have a look into Samsung The Frame (2022 and later) series. They have a special coating that removes reflections, I have installed multiple of those in very bright places and the mate finish works marvelous well.
That's interesting and quite worrying isn't it?

Makes sense that with such a huge global pop and increasing usage of medicines and pesticides the global water supply will eventually turn into a toxic sludge.

Anti depressants have just been found deep underwater in Antarctica so it seems all fish are swimming in a soup of blood thinners and psycho-active medication.

I wonder when the ocean ecosystem will collapse from this and when humans will turn "weird", if they haven't already done that. Imagine constantly being medicated with 1000 medications from the moment you are in the womb.

I hope many of these things are so trace that it's almost homeopathic, ie. doesn't have an effect - can anyone confirm or deny this?
Urine is full of phosphates that are good for plants. Up to a point my neighborhood has a lot of dead trees and bushes from dog walkers burning (chemically) them.

Human and animal waste is compostable but only at industrial scale. They have to brought to a high temperature to kill bacteria and then aerobic bacteria has to be introduced to begin the process. This is not something your backyard composter can do. It’s why only allow pant matter. Composting animal waste is so much harder.
To be clear, I'm not seriously blaming them for stealing my ideas :)
My guess is they dont want their own processes and code secrets leaked through Bard.
As if a) we didn’t have parents who worked and observed their behaviours, b) don’t work jobs where it’s normal to not be contacted after hours

> Can a modern young person ever understand what it was like to simply watch whatever happened to be on television

The insults just keep coming.

And linking to a survey taken during lockdown and many more people WFH with less to do after work? Pretty trash article overall
I read it that a program/computer/robot cannot hold copyright. If someone uses AI to generate art, the AI doesn't hold the copyright. (Notice it doesn't say anything about the user.) Likewise, if Photoshop is used to create art, Photoshop doesn't hold the copyright.

It's a tool, not a conscious being with rights.
And I'm done with developers who proudly boast of 95% test coverage using mocked tests because "we don't want to test the database" and then have database changes cause production crashes. "But my tests were all green!"

Databases, external APIs, dependency version updates, etc are among the most likely places where unintended changes get introduced. Why would you not test that when catching unintended breaking changes is one of the primary purposes of tests? Your simple business logic layer function converting one object into another is not going to be the problem, the database is
> I would argue the tools people work with and the formats they publish should be two completely different decisions

That is a position that has been lost ages ago; the desktop model has given way to the app model. Instead of having files and then programs that work with those, we these days have data enclosed inside apps.