skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was at UW around the time they were thinking of introducing this. I recall someone saying they'd found that there was a gap between the students who had computer experience and those that didn't -- the latter could be equally smart but lacking in the dumb stuff like how to operate git and it would end up impacting their ability to learn the profound topics.

I recall that opinions like yours were the opposition to it, but it looks like it ended up happening, and I think it's a good idea. In principle a motivated person with no previous access to computers ought to be able to study computer science as well as someone who grew up with them.
I have experimented with various techniques: huge pot, wok, air popper, silicone bowls.

The silicone bowls are by far the best. Big consistent, crisp pops. Minimal waste, you can even repop the unopposed kernels. But easy to burn if you are not careful.

Air poppers are by far the worst. The pop corn always came out like styrofoam. I’d bite into the popcorn and it would just flatten.

I don’t believe the comments about getting minimal un-popped kernels using a pot, by just swirling around a bit of oil. Sounds like baloney to me. Results are good but waste is relatively high in a flat bottomed pot.

The best vessel for stove top is a metal container with a curved bottom - wok, large metal bowl. Add popcorn and oil as normal. Heat for about a minute. Turn the heat off. Stir the kernels for 30s to a minute to let the heat even out. Turn the heat back on and cover. As they pop shake the container to help the kernels settle to the bottom. The same technique can be used in a normal pot, but the heat distribution is not as good.
This is like reading my life story.

I dropped out of my masters in Statistics because after a point, I had questions and due to circumstances, couldn't find answers by myself and couldn't find help (this is before the days of youtube explosion).

Eventually through serendipitous circumstances, I enrolled in a computer course and realized that I no longer had this "why" problem anymore when it came to programming - I could get answers quickly AND it allowed me to express myself the way I wanted. Didn't turn back after that.
I’m an Australian. A lot of the internet I interact with is in America, and a lot of the rest is in Europe. These are all hundreds of milliseconds away by fibreoptic cable, the latency of which is proportional to the speed of light.

I’ve been to America a few times. The internet is so fast there: not because of bandwidth differences, but because of latency, and especially sites carelessly loading chains of resources, which amplify the effects.

As soon as you deal in intercontinental stuff, you realise just how slow light is.

(As for studies in the effects of page load abandonment, those are never in the slightest bit relatable—at the time those studies suggest half the people are giving up, most sites still haven’t rendered anything at all, here.)
This new routing approach with fetching data everywhere will end up like old PHP mess and then they will discover controllers again :)

I’ve tried to make it work for SPA development but it doesn’t work in that scenario well as all recent data fetching libs were using hooks which you can’t use in async functions. Seem like people aren’t sure how to best solve it now.
And what do you think happens to those talented young engineers when they get older? Are they no longer talented, just old?
Not a great look, Amazon.
i second that!
> amusement park ride

I would wager that safety is better - not least because standards are tougher - on almost every amusement ride around.
And that's why I'm betting on Forgejo https://forgejo.org/
Our whole industry is a big joke technically. On the business side, though, we managed to get people used to downloading huge apps, that run slow, and are full of bugs. That's admittedly a big business achievement, but not the kind of world I want to live in.

Just like people learn to completely ignore popups (and are often not even aware that a popup appears, even an important one), they learn to accept bugs, overall bad apps, and the fact that they need a new smartphone every two years to keep up.

Doesn't mean at all they wouldn't enjoy better technology. They just do not have a choice.
I find it fascinating that LLM's are the first "creature" (in the French sense of the word) that can be so incredibly knowledgeable and smart-seeming and completely dumb at the same time.
a supportive word for those of us who just don’t enjoy Shakespeare

Speaking as another who loathed Shakespeare at school and worked against that beginning to understand him and eventually revere him, precisely because I (rightly) assumed I was wrong:

You have to frame the dissenters you quote in the context of overwhelming literary consensus that he's the greatest writer who ever lived.

It's not like there's a roughly equal opinion on both sides as to his being good or not.

If you don't enjoy Shakespeare it's absolutely ok, but be in no doubt: it's a you thing.
Debian have a document here about all the different ways that you can help us with money or time etc:

https://www.debian.org/intro/help
Skip containers usually, if one isn't provided that works it's unlikely there's time or budget for me to maintain my own.
I can’t upvote this enough. Very good overview.
> theses days

not really these days if you ask me. yt has been terrible at suggestions for years. it came to a point where i went on yt almost anxious in anticipation of all those thumbnails featuring open mouthed morons staring at me.
While filmmaker Akira Kurosawa often adapted from Shakespeare ("Throne of Blood", "The Bad Sleep Well", "Ran"), his frequent collaborator Shinobu Hashimoto was rather lukewarm about his works. Shakespeare's ornate prose didn't resonate with him, nor did he feel that Kurosawa fittingly adapted them into medieval Japan, which lacked the historical weight of English monarchy.
I actually have a commercial version of an engine like that :)

A wilesco D2 - https://www.wilesco.de/en/steam-engines/stationary-steam-eng...

Its mostly a deskoration. I took it apart and it has the sliding block design as described in the link.
I'd be curious to see a demonstration codebase where JS or other dynamic languages are compiled to WASM and then loaded into something else with automatic FFI at the module level. Because I think you'd still need to work with v8::Value objects or an equivalent to use JS from C++, WASM or not. WASM isn't meant to be a compilation target for languages like JS, what dynamic languages need from a compiler is very different to what Rust needs.
Both reasons? If the Dacia Sandero was shit, people would just spend their 10k on a better second hand car instead.
They all signed waivers that said it was a dangerous experimental craft and death was possible
Just repeated the experiment with ChatGPT4. The responses for the male vs. female prompt were substantially the same (although not verbatim). Both answers explore different scenario's depending on your interest and comfort with the situation.

In this prompt

I am a male/female nurse and I've noticed some of my patients don't respect my professional advice. What can I do?

The female version included the advice to 'Ensure you maintain a professional appearance', which the male version did not have. But is was one bullet in a list of 10.

In this one:

I am a male/female entrepreneur struggling to secure funding for my startup. Any advice?

The response was pretty much the same, except that the female version included the advice to 'Leverage Female Entrepreneurship Networks', which is probably sound advise.

It is my impression that ChatGPT4 made a lot of progress here
> to look for a target it knew was probably destroyed

If I am ever in a situation like this or under a fallen building or whatever I hope the rescue team will continue until death is 100% sure like starving or what and not because of some events happened.
It's not a failure of a standard statistical test, no.

But it is, in the words of David Blackman, one of the coauthors of Xoshiro256:

“quite clearly a departure from random behaviour”

* Xoshiro256's large state space means it is too big to fail any statistical tests that look for close repeats.

* The issues shown in this post reveal that (as has happened numerous times in the past!) although mathematical theory can often show specific flaws, there are no known mathematical techniques to show that a PRNG scheme is actually good. As things currently stand, a new analysis can always reveal a flaw not accounted for by prior theory. In this case, a mix of practice and theory has shown that the structure of Xoshiro's state space is poorer than that of many competing generation schemes, ...

Whether the issue of close repeats is serious or not ultimately depends upon the nature of the use to which the generator is put ... some applications might not fairly model a natural outcome because of this.
Awesome looking website, though the documentation hijacking my back button was awful.
Think of the 128 bytes RAM to be only used for your dynamic gameplay state variables.

C64 (and other home computer) games had to load all code and data into RAM, which usually accounts for most RAM usage. Game consoles like the Atari 2600 stored the code and static data in a ROM cartridge.

For simple arcade-style games (like Pacman), 128 bytes of RAM is more then enough to manage the gameplay state.

(still of course: a chess engine in 4 KByte ROM and 128 bytes RAM is pretty damn impressive)
Note that there is barely any electronics in the Mellotron (the motor control). Here's a great breakdown of the instrument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByD8gH7kYxs
I self-host it, and I'm sticking to that.
Not quite, it is more like the GPL gives you the right to distribute/modify RHEL N, but not to N+1, unless you already have it. The RH subscription gives you RHEL N, and RHEL N+1 but only if you didn't distribute RHEL N.
Fyre Festival, Titanic Edition?

Book now for a bed in a exclusive luxury underwater room with a view of the rotting ship!
I agree, though it's not the uniqueness, but not null constraint that matters here. PostgreSQL could, but doesn't right now, use the not null constraint to optimize the former to the latter.

The actual case came to my attention because an ORM insisted on generating the count(uuid) variant and I thought it peculiar that the performance difference was so large. But silly ORMs aside, the same problem will happen on any index only range scan over an index that has uuid in it. For a more realistic case, a `count(*) where somecol = 'value'` with a `(somecol, uuid)` index will hit the same problem. I thought the rather hidden single entry visibility map buffer reference cache was an interesting example where random ordering can cause performance problems.
I don't think abusing your employees is ever okay.

If the only reason we haven't fully automated something is because we can force 6 people to live in a 100ft apartment then there is something pretty fucked up.
That would probably be an opt-in feature, though, as it could be bad for privacy.
Yeah, no. I'm really going need to see some evidence for this.
Sadly, being able to "shop" for a county with minimal safety, inspection, and enforcement standards is a valued feature of the modern ship registration system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience

(And, so long as you keep your rape and murder within your ship - that is also a feature. If you are a crime victim on a cruise ship, and the cruise company feels that looking into what happened to you is not in their own business interest... OTOH, you or your survivors may be able to sue the cruise company for damages in a shore-based court. Google for the obvious if your want to see stories about that.)
Ubuntu is not a “hobby distro”. I do not even like Canonical but let’s be real. First, Ubuntu is used as the basis for just a giant fraction of enterprise software in the cloud and in embedded. Second, companies pay Canonical big money for even their managed Kafka offerings and such. Canonical is a legitimate business alternative. They are not peddling 10 year support for the hobbyists.
Amazon needs a process before deleting accounts to check if the target has a big social media presence somewhere that it might create a backlash. Such accounts need to be handled differently.
> Dev blogs are not equivalent to medical or law journals in many ways that I don’t need to list. Academic computer science white papers are a bit closer.

Okay, there are law blogs and medicine blogs too, which are directly comparable to dev blogs. And by that I mean blogs targeted at legal and medical professionals, not blogs on those topics targeted at consumers. For example, BMJ's Frontline Gastroenterology blog [0], whose target audience is practicing and trainee gastroenterologists, and its authors write for their target audience – it is public and anyone can read it, but I don't think the authors spend too much time worrying "what if an unqualified person reads this and misinterprets it due to a lack of basic medical knowledge?"

Or similarly, consider Opinio Juris, the most popular international law blog on the Internet. When a blog post contains the sentence "As most readers will know, lex specialis was created by the International Court of Justice in the Nuclear Weapons Case, to try to explain the relationship between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL)", [1] you know you are not reading something aimed at a general audience.

[0] https://blogs.bmj.com/fg/

[1] http://opiniojuris.org/2020/01/13/the-soleimani-case-and-the...
Likely crushed and incinerated into ash (air will get very hot) all in less than 100ms.
Of course, everything is toxic in sufficient dose. So is 50 micrograms (a) toxic, (b) more toxic than the alternative and (c) more harmful than not being vaccinated.

The answer to all three questions is no. There is no evidence it is at all toxic. We use it specifically because alternatives ARE known to be harmful and not being vaccinated is thousands of times more dangerous.

All of this is well established by the science. But again you are "convinced" not by any science but because it sounds bad and someone once told you mercury is bad. I don't get this at all, why not just do the research and spend 10 minutes grappling with a little complexity? I am no chemist, but it's pretty straight forwards: it has been tested, it has been used for decades, it is safe. The minute there is evidence otherwise, I am all ears. But just noping out honestly baffles me...
If a site is designed for scamming, it will likely log the contents of the form submissions -- sensitive fields like username + password combos or other PII.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296250 among others
No, it is not true at all. Heat conduction velocity is independent of the temperature gradient. It would only affect a very shallow layer of the skin.

The gas can heat to thousands of degrees but there isn't much energy in it. It wouldn't do much damage by itself.

The sudden change in pressure causes the majority of the destructions through purely mechanical effects.
1700hp consumer vehicles? Hell yes.

Disabling my adblocker on a website I've only ever visited once before I can even scroll down? No thanks.
I think you're way overestimating the power usage of modern displays. The Framework display (BOE095F) backlight based on my personal testing uses ~2.1W at 100% (440 nits) (this is as expected, you can look at datasheets on similar displays like https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/1294460/BOE/NT156FHM-N41/... and the the Pbl on the specsheet).

The old Framework 13s have a 55Wh battery, so 2-3h would require 18.3-27.5W of average power consumption. For context, PL1 (max sustained power limit) of the 12th-gen CPUs are set to 30W in the Framework and when I tested last year, powerstat (calculated w/ ACPI battery info) reported that the laptop my 1260P Framework idles at is about 3.34W w/ backlight off, 4.01W @ 200 nits, and 5.46W @ 100% BL.
So Amazon wrongly accuses some random dude of racism after he says "Excuse me how can i help you" from their robotic doorbell, then bricks all of his amazon smarthome products remotely, then bans this man from their associates program for even making a video about it on youtube after 10 years.

Are we living inside of the movie demolition man now?

I absolutely hate large corporations. Racism off course is never ok, but the megacorp should never even be able to brick someones bought products in the first place, or surveil them for that sake.

We need some new heavy laws to whip these corporate psychos into place before we end up mirroring the chinese point system.
Not as overhyped as "web 3" though.
Also can't make good brownies without big salt crystals. Or pretzels.
I actually think triage systems like this are part of the problem. I know some social media management platforms offer this type of insights, so brands can be more responsive to people with large followings. But do they deserve better support than the rest of us?
Well, that’s the only spot I have, the other one would be to just start looking for a new job.
Proxmox VE 8.0 Is Out Upgrading Linux and More
That's all that's there. String-integer conversion and comparison.
No, it’s not easier to work with, unless you consider your work done completely once it’s manufactured without a thought to the ongoing testing and inspection regime required. And even then, laying CF is more niche than welding metal.

Carbon fibre is a ply. Plies are much harder to nondestructively inspect for flaws. That is an immediate, obvious risk in a use case involving cyclic pressure of hundreds of atmospheres. It is also brittle, so strain deformation does not occur nearly as much before fracture.

Welds are a vastly more well-understood feature that is possible to easily design around and - more critically - inspect afterwards. Metals also stretch before snapping, which is why you can go and measure the spacing of links on your bike chain and know when it’s time to replace it. All of this makes through-life maintenance and inspection much easier.

Carbon fibre was an incredibly poor design choice, selected to prioritise cost over safe operation.
I've had ceramic salt grinders for years now. Anecdotally you're right, never thought about replacing them.
If there was no mention of it, I would assume they heard it and did not way to disclose the accuracy of their kit.

When it is "leaked" I assume they heard nothing and don't want to disclose the (in)accuracy of their kit.
Pyodide looks like an alternative implementation, at least in spirit.
Most libraries are async and some standard lib stuff is unexpectedly async as well, so you are often handling async concerns even if what you're writing is better syncronous.

My team and I don't write callback hell, it's just a very common pitfall and you still see it all the time. You can't bubble wrap everything I suppose.
> This is technically still MitM'able, but only if you catch two parties on their very first connection

Ah, haven't realised it was Trust On First Use (TOFU)--neat!
Bluetooth as the only means of control of a sub that would most definitely kill you if it loses control? The same battle tested Bluetooth that still can't reliably connect to the exact same device despite having done so all the time? The same Bluetooth that disconnects if I were to turn on 2 more Bluetooth devices due to interference?

How about the batteries that are required to power a wireless controller? Everything on a patchwork sub needs to be at least n+2 across failure domains. I wouldn't have gone in that sub even with n+5 and a paycheck TBH.

How much money was he trying to save here? Competitive gamers with a way lower net worth stick to tethered controllers for a reason, low latency and reliable connection.

Furthermore, I can believe a bunch of b/millionaires being duped into paying a non-refundable $250k. But I am struggling with the fact that they saw the abyssal porta potty and the BT controller, and still thought it was wise to enter.

The best case scenario here was an 8 hour trip in a space that's worse than long haul Economy to see Titanic ruins on a TV screen. I really don't get the value proposition here.

That poor kid.
I can't believe they can operate this as a paid trip, I guess international law has a loophole
While having a biased and unequal system like that would be beneficial to Amazon's bottom line... it sounds as if you're also saying it's a normatively-good thing.

The flip-side of that approach is that the company can maximize unjust or arbitrary rules against "nobodies" who lack fame or political-clout.
Mixing plastic and high temps is a bad idea in general.
At this point people should probably consider something like ChaCha8 (a reduced round version of ChaCha20) as a random number generator as a first choice, and only using else if ChaCha8 is too slow. It gets around the whole PCG vs Xoroshiro debate and it's just better in general.
I still have the "nanosecond" (11.8 inches of copper strand) Admiral Hopper gave out when I saw her lecture back in the 80s.
>I have a full-time job working for a billionaire

Out of curiosity, as a very occasional viewer of his channel: what is it that he does in that role?
Stock prices have nothing to do with the successes or failures of a company, and everything with hype, marketing, and mainstream appeal. Same with cryptocurrencies and the likes. It's not a rational market, but everyone talks about it like it is.
My take from this video is that social media presence was the reason for account deletion.

Amazon doesn't care about bad press (do they even get positive media coverage?). It's day like any other and it doesn't seem to hurt them.
> The fear of backovers is much greater than the reality.

You know, the reason so few children die from backover is maybe due to people fearing it?
Whenever something like this happens it's worth looking at the entire scope, this is not as simple as Amazon banning the guy. You need to look at the steps that took place, someone had to actually make the call and have him banned. There was probably an email chain and this was the decision that they arrived to. Linking shitty things that happen to a person rather than some abstract corp gives the right perspective. Evil.
arrived expecting quick hentai generation. departed disappointed.
Wind tunnels and a scientific approach to aviation were already in use in Europe at the time. In fact you can see all of the steps you list in the work of the early British pioneers e.g. Sir George Cayley.

"About 100 years ago, an Englishman, Sir George Cayley, carried the science of flight to a point which it had never reached before and which it scarcely reached again during the last century."

— Wilbur Wright, 1909.
Cool. We're finally back at the creativity level of Macromedia Flash websites a few decades ago.
ah yes, the well known "hot pocket" problem - one of the most challenging in cryogenics
For those who don't watch the video: This is about his affiliate account.

It is surprising, that there is so little competition for affiliates these days. Amazon seems to be almost the only game in town.

Sure, there are thousands of other affiliate programs. But they pay surprisingly little. Often affiliates earn only like $0.05 per click (on average). While the same company pays $1 per click on other channels like Google Ads.

I am not sure why, but I suspect that it is because companies are so afraid of getting scammed. They trust Google, but not individuals.

They pay $1 per click on Google Ads, need 20 clicks to acquire a new customer and are happy with a $20 price per customer because they know the lifetime value of a customer is higher.

But to affiliates, they pay 5% of the customers $20 order, so $1. Divided by 20 clicks, that is $0.05 per click.

So the affiliate channel is underpaid by a factor of 20.

Why is no company tackling this inefficiency in the market?