skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It requires effort but less than trying to understand how you could help them, so the point still stands. And even though they might genuinely help others, it’s important to educate people to stop doing it this way, as it can be more harmful than doing nothing.
Right, I don't think inrush should pop a breaker, and I'd replace that breaker to see if it's just got an over-sensitive magnetic trip (IME they get more and more sensitive the more they pop). But it's a safe failure, at least. If the thermal breaker isn't working, that's dangerous.
Minimal downtime major PostgreSQL version upgrades with pg_easy_replicate
I had to return to the office because I was getting left behind by the people who were.
I mean the thing is that these things are useful as athletic aids. But they are useful only for the athletic pursuit, not just for the sake of it.

Calorie dense foods help you hike further with less weight carried. Electrolyte drinks, even sugary ones, help you fuel yourself through workouts when your digestive system is iffy.

In both cases the dietary impact is essentially irrelevant because you need to eat something to fuel the workout, if you try to hike on an empty stomach you will eventually damage yourself.

But yeah, for someone who does intuitive eating (i.e. not tracking calories), they should probably stay away from calorie dense foods. You can easily drink yourself 1000 calories of soda with near zero hunger impact.

The takeaway should probably just be that in a world with bountiful food supplies, intuitive eating just doesn't work for most people, like how a Labrador will just eat forever if you let them.

Because most people sit on their arse almost all of the time and do fuck all.
I was going to post this response, too. Yes, you can close it because it is duplicate, but god knows the huge range of how good people are at explaining something to people of various levels of understanding.
Confuses quantity with quality, focus on irrelevant details, and the always present unwarranted certainty.

The article has a point. It's a well known one, but it doesn't hurt to repeat it every once in a while. But the entire article detracts from the point, confuses the discourse, and inflames people on useless and harmful directions.

I'd say it's a bad article. The point is good, but this is not enough.
Okay.

What works for you doesn't work for everyone.

My baseline "sober" -- no caffeine, no anything -- is crippling, paralyzing depression. Hiking is my drug of choice, but I need to be hiking all day, nearly every day, for months for it to take action, and that is not compatible with existing in society.

Without hiking, and without any other support, then I revert to existing as a pool of dark sludge on a bed all day. I spent years this way before I decided to set aside my pride and accept that having a little help -- caffeine at a minimum -- to be functional is better for my health than any perceived ideas around addiction or "purity".

Coffee / caffeine can take me from a non-functional, paralyzing mental disability to being able to move around and have momentum.

And yes, there are circumstances that can change where this wouldn't happen and I wouldn't need a support like that: a world-wide revolution resulting in the liberation of all mankind from the dystopian hellscape we are in / plunging ourselves further into would do it.

Short of that, I'll stick with a couple cups of coffee a day, thanks.
In tcl strings are first class citizens as everything in tcl is a basically a string.
Sometimes mods ban people without a good reason. For example, people who posted in the lockdownskepticism subreddit were banned from some other subreddits at the whim of the moderators. I don't know if Reddit taking over would lead to worse moderation.
As someone already said in another thread somewhere, we should cut to the chase already and let ChatGPT click the ads on the page.

Even better, we can further optimize the experience by simplifying all news websites, reddit, SO networks to just a few empty HTML pages with ads so the can be clicked by the AI. No need for content, agencies, editorial staff.

I mean, sure, Facebook, Microsoft and Google would probably say that's against the TOS of their ad services, but after all it's not like they cared about TOSes when they used the same websites to train their models.
there are many home situations where home charging is not immediately feasible. Apartments and condos (both medium density or high density) are not conducive to personal charging installations.
Not always. For example, you'll see things like `file.Close()` or `defer file.Close()` very often, ignoring any error entirely.
> It isn't clear what will happen, but I wouldn't bet on increased utilization automatically leading to higher rates.

Why not? Especially considering that doing this at scale means having sufficient numbers of charging stations at apartment complexes, condos, etc.
> Their code sucked like crazy. Usually in such teams you are not evaluated by the quality of code.

I worked in the semiconductor industry, specifically writing internal tools. I had to look at _many_ tools/scripts written in Tcl/SKILL/perl/awk/sed with some code being 30 years old and still being used.

Honestly, it wasn't the worse thing. There was usually very little abstraction, the code pretty much always told a story of what the writer was trying to achieve. Naming things was usually pretty bad and you'd get into some pretty gnarly regex/string matching, but at least it usually wasn't some over-complicated highly flexible but also restricting in-house framework.
I agree. While Discord brings some unique community tooling aspects to the table, it does not fit the forum model given the data is walled off.

I've been working on a platform that's sort of like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid that combines the feature set of Discord with the discovery and threaded style of discussion of Reddit.

Here's an example community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending
I'm trying to understand what am I looking at. MS Access like db+ui in browser, with homemade engine and no sql support? What are guarantees here, concurenncy, isolation, single user? Not much on the main page.
You can install your own OS on it, someone else suggested Chrome OS Flex which I guess would get you updates again and Linux or Windows should work too (assuming it’s x86, I don’t know about ARM)
Yep thats what I typically do except a string "code" and string "description" that way the raw data is more readable without joining the coded value and many times you want a short code vs long description, like with US states and their abbreviations. Most codes are 1 or 2 characters up to maybe 4 so you end up with less or the same space used than a 32 bit int with UTF-8.

Metadata like sorting and even what date ranges the code is valid for and even security as in who's allowed to use the code in the app.
Not to claim that the courts always unveil the truth, but in that case a jury found Carmack not culpable of IP theft.
I watch that space out of personal interest and I currently see very little indication that this could even happen. There is some interest in bypassing existing dollar supremacy, but currently only China, EU and maybe BRICs as a whole could threaten it. And that does not even touch the digital aspect of it.
USA Today has always been a garbage joke of a newspaper.
I've found ChatGPT more helpful than any human therapist. I think that says more about human therapists than it does about AI though.

It does a good job at the role of "friend that never gets tired of listening to you", because it's programmed that way. Which is kind of sad, I suppose. But I'd rather not burden my human friends with that stuff.

(On a peculiar note, I really hope it isn't sentient! I wouldn't feel so comfortable "wasting its time" or asking stupid questions if it was!)
Me: Hey AI how do I do this using X?

AI: Why would you ever want to do that using X? You should do Y.

Me: Well I need to do it using X because of these reasons.

AI: ...That's dumb. You should just do Y.
Apparently though, they're not afraid of the process preventing people from accessing their money.

The middle road option if they want to delay KYC checks would be to have customer support available to unstuck people when the system fails.
That was my reaction when I got the notification of the charge. A whopping $1.49.
Yeah, you’re right that it doesn’t make sense if you think of the rectangle as a flat thing hovering above the background like a piece of paper.

But I think the intention is to simulate the rectangle being the top surface of a 3D box. If you shine a light at a cube on a desk, the shadows are very sharp right where the cube touches the desk, and then further away are softer.

I think that’s the effect they’re trying to achieve here?

So it’s not changing the gaussian for falloff, it’s changing the shape of the shadow, from a rectangle to a rhombus, and using different gaussians along the edges.

Here’s what it’s doing with the settings tweaked to make it more visible: https://imgur.com/a/NUXhHrn
Their traffic is rumoured to be down 25-30% after ChatGPT was released, so good to see that they are doing something to keep the community alive in the new era of GenAI.
your article doesn’t include the term “doom loop”, you may want to edit it to add that in
The local crime statistics are saying that San Francisco is a safe city with crime trending downwards.
>I mean, even in a small town with, say, three gas stations, there are peak times when all the spots are taken. Average fueling time is probably a few minutes.

I agree, and bring this up often.

During arguments about charging versus refueling, the length of time to charge your EV is significantly greater than fueling up. EV proponents say, "what's the big deal? I just set my car to charge and stretch my legs for half-an-hour".

That works when EVs are 1% of the cars on the road, but not when they're 50%. During road trip season, high traffic gas stations are backed up as it is. Will we need 3-5x the infrastructure (read: "pumps") to service that level of EVs? I mean, we'll get there, but it might be annoying for a long while.
should have had your lawyer send their lawyer a letter

doesnt have to be a big mega highly paid lawyer
I can actually speak to this. I think that it can be an obstacle that needs to be overcome.

In my case, I have a very good ear for relative pitch, including chord changes and a very good memory for melody and lyrics. If I hear a song a handful of times, I can usually figure it out from memory on the guitar (although not usually in the original key).

While this is very fun in a jam session situation or at a party, it's not really great for trying to write original music. I'll start playing something that sounds nice and riffing to it, only to realize the similarity to one of the other couple of thousand songs I know how to play. I try to ignore it because I know its inevitable. Chord progressions and melodic elements are reused all the time, and many times are stylistic markers. Some bands have multiple albums that all sound the exact same. But it's not always easy to ignore the voice in your head that's like "you're playing a Coldplay song", or "you pretty much wrote this song already in high school".

Sometimes I end up trying to write around the other song, deliberately changing things to sound as unlike the song I'm trying not to rip off as possible. Sometimes that ends up sucking the energy out of the creative process. Sometimes it works.
With being climate change friendly turned into a social more, survey style research like this is going to be fraught with issues. Of course they self identify as good little citizens who aren't anti-science, and without a decent rubric of what that means, their self identification is meaningless.

> It is largely the responsibility of corporations to make good climate decisions, parents say. Just more than half, 51%, of parents say companies have “a lot” of responsibility to hold themselves accountable to do the right thing for the climate, and only 36% of parents say the responsibility to push companies to act sustainably lies with the customer.

This is telling. Though they say they're willing to act, ultimately they're pushing more of the responsibility onto amorphous others.

A better design would be to longitudinally follow those who initially self identify as climate change conscious and then follow behaviors more quantitatively like do they have fewer children than outgroup cohort, does their annual travel * average MPG of their vehicle result in less CO2 (having a hybrid and driving 30K miles/yr is just as offensive than driving a hummer 5K miles per year) etc.
When you start "hating" additional functionality, that might be a moment to think about whether it's really the service's fault or if you're curmudgeoning it a bit.
I'm not buying an iPad to paste over problems with Apple's flagship operating system. Also. I do not want to use multiple monitors. There's a fundamental disconnect here. I my world, the user gets to define what they want and the computer responds to those needs.
Yes, we need some in-person contact. But we don't need to do that every week, a few times a year of "get together" for a few days is enough.
Nothing works and everyone is waiting for the general election to kick out the government, while hoping they don't get ill or lose their house in the meantime.

On the salary question, I believe Switzerland has higher salaries (but probably an even higher CoL than the UK).
RSS is the easiest way to stay on top of new posts on small blogs. I'm unlikely to randomly browse to a blog that has one new post every few months or so, but if I add it to my feed reader I won't have to.

A corollary: if you have a small blog and you'd like people to notice your new posts (without you promoting them on social media), make sure it supports RSS!
Based on my research, either Switzerland or London?

Even better, work remotely for a US company? Developer's salary in SF/NYC are unlike anywhere else in the world.
Have you ever thought of using a version of binary lambda calculus as your spec? I see you mentioned it as a joke ISA, but not as the possibly simplest backend
The average EV uses about 10 kWh of power a day. The average Air Conditioner uses about 10 kWh a day. Yes, the grid will need to expand, but it shouldn't be challenging.

Unless your power grid is already broken for other reasons, (cough California).
Desalination is an ecological disaster at any scale large enough to be useful.

That excess salt needs to go somewhere and wherever it goes, it will be a problem.
You're right that the model 3 performance is still a convincing product, but cars like the Mustang Mach-E and BMW i4 are coming close.

A few years ago there was no good option besides tesla, but in another couple years tesla will have fallen behind the competition
https://xkcd.com/26/
Consider just grabbing their flyer and showing up to the events, outside of the mass/service.

I’m sure it varies by church, but in the large city churches I attended nobody would have cared — or likely even noticed — that you didn’t also attend mass.
Lua has a very minimal string library that doesn't include basic things like escaping and interpolation. It doesn't include regex. I understand the choices behind these decisions and don't disagree with them. But what it means is now you're not just embedding lua, you're embedding lua, vendoring extensions to the standard library, and selecting a regex implementation compatible with your expected runtime and distribution method.

Tcl is built around string manipulation, it's the main and, for a long time, only data type. It has regex built in, a full set of string manipulation functions, and an interpolation primitive.

It's not about what's better. They are both full blown programming languages and you can implement any behavior you care to. In lua you have to care to implement string functions if you're going to do anything complex with strings. Tcl comes with them. That's all.
First of all, the mission of Tesla is to transition the world to sustainable energy. If you believe them, that should be enough.

But, second of all, this also makes business sense. Everyone will have to use the Tesla app, where they can get targeted offers and become a kind of "Tesla Light" customers. People wonder why Tesla doesn't advertise. Well, with these deals, the need for advertising is a lot less than without them. Also, Tesla is essentially becoming a platform for EVs. How long before some OEM license Tesla software?

And, remember that there are over 17000 superchargers in the US alone and the deal with Ford and GM only allows access to 12000 of them in the US and Canada together. To get the full Supercharger experience, you still need a Tesla.
> curated news for their interests delivered via algorithm

"curated" and "algorithm" are opposites.

In any case, the algorithms don't magically write news stories (though maybe they will now with ChatGPT or whatever). The stories are pulled from the very same newspapers that are being criticized here.
It all comes down to trust in the end, but over time I've come to trust Mullvad more and more. One particular example that sticks out to me is that they ended subscription based billing, specifically because it required them to hold customer information that they didn't want to have.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2022/6/20/were-removing-the-opti...

You can see an example of their lack of data retention from a post about when they were raided - there was nothing to find.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subjec...

Their blog is a good place if you want to get a sense of what they're like as a company.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/
I think I've tended to think of scripts as documents. Typically when I use it I'm describing to another programmer the name of a file (document), as in "Use the calculator(.py) script" or what have you.

While I'm sure I've used the term interchangeably with program as others have mentioned, I tend to use it to identify the names of specific language files. And as others have mentioned, they're all more or less programs when it comes down to it.
It is an example of the sorites paradox: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sorites-paradox/

This is not to say that it is a pointless distinction, but trying to make it a sharp distinction probably is.
o/` I feel so alone in a room full of people. I'm loneliest when I'm out in a crowd. o/`

https://genius.com/Suicidal-tendencies-alone-lyrics
If we limit to EU, perhaps Netherlands or Ireland?
At this point this is just propaganda.

The desperation phase? Yes, for employers. Watch this whole RTO thing collapse and corpos "changing their mind" once the herd gas been thinned and 2024, an elections year, rolls around. They have limited time to pull this off.
I see a lot of people disagreeing with you, but HN is heavily biased towards a certain type of person, so it's not surprising. Most people don't want to do those things alone, I couldn't even imagine going out and eating alone.

Going out alone where everyone else is together feels terrible. It's part of why I despise work parties at Christmas, because in that case feeling terrible is mandatory.
I don't know about ChatGPT, but for me Phind [1] really lowered my SO usage

[1] https://www.phind.com/
I've been using macs for a few decades now and have not in any meaningful sense encountered an issue around networking failing to start on startup.
I am not a civil engineer, but it's frequently cited in these discussions that road damage goes up as a function of the 4th power of vehicle weight[0].

A Rivian R1T has a curb weight of 7148lbs [1], a 4wd Chevy Silverado 1500 has a curb weight of 4826 lbs [2]. I think an increased registration fee is more than fair. Hell, do it for all vehicles if you want to make it really fair. We drive far larger vehicles in the US than necessary.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/rivian/r1t/specs
[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/silverado-1500/specs
When you tell people they don't understand their own requirements, you're fan-boying a bit. You sound like an Apple product manager.
VC: It’s all about identifying outliers
Ask HN: Is it okay to ask for more work at your job?
Title might seem ridiculous but it's an honest issue I've been having. I'm new at my current job but it's in an industry that I know very well using tools I know very well.

I'm on top of my main function but if I just focus on that I can go for days without doing anything.

I guess I'm worried that if I ask for more work management may start wondering why they need me in the first place. Can anyone with experience on either the management side or the asking side chime in?
Agreed, especially in water limited areas, but there's a reason it is used.

potable water has very well defined properties. Its has a low salt concentration, pretty well known (and diminishing) chloride concentration, and known hardness.

It wont give you any surprises when designing a water system.

Grey water is whatever a human decided to put down certain drains. This could be very benign, but end users are... special.

Will they out cooking grease down the drain?

Will they pour industrial cleaners?

How about if the end user is an artist who etches glass in the attic bathroom and rinse the HF in the sink?

Will they pour "Jimmy"'s, the fish, bowl water and sand?

Is shower water "grey"? How about those fellows (they exist) who poop in the shower and squish it down (one of the grossest things I learned on the internet)?

And what about "Poochie", the pitbull, who loves to drink from the toilet bowl?

What about "Max", the three year old toddler, who loves to wash his hands in the toilet bowl?

Grey water should be used, extensively, but it is not a turn-key solution, and it certainly is way more expensive to build for.
> all this talk of whether Lemmy will replace Reddit is a distraction

The question is whether it can become a default place to build an online community. Currently, the answer is no unless you have extremely strong ideological coherence that will get your users through the Kafkaesque onboarding process.
Their strategy is to also not have enough reporters to cover local issues. Local newspapers used to put in a lot of effort to find the news. Other than the local high school sports (which they cover more than the small local papers used to )
The Steam page shows Windows only for now. :( https://store.steampowered.com/app/949230/Cities_Skylines_II...
Like all words, 'script' and 'program' mean whatever you arbitrarily feel like they should mean in the moment. There are no lines until there is use, and what lines may exist during that use can only be determined at the time of use. And at the next time of use, things could be completely different. Some times there may be lines, other times there may not be.

If you need to draw lines between two things, 'script' and 'program' may be tools you can use to communicate that. Or maybe not. Indeed, there is a lot of guess work involved in communication, and it can take some trial and error to find the right tools to accurately reach the intended audience.
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Each time I reported these incidents to the police, they never responded. I got the sense that as long as no one was physically harmed, they didn’t really care.
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Do you happen to know who the developer was? I'd love to get more info about how that happened.
Estimating the number of your RSS subscribers
People should consider moving to a different neighborhood first, pretty much none of these problems apply to me where I am in lower haight

SF also has way fewer drug murders than cities I have lived in on the east coast
At an MRR like that I wonder why you even bother with the payment service. It seems like a giant barrier to entry if it isn't making money anyway. Or do you use it to limit the influx?