skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious why you pretty much can't find any mainstream brand of coffee made from Robusto beans - I have never seen a Robusto bean coffee in any grocery store I've ever checked - all 100% Arabica. Seems like with 2x the caffiene there would be a market for it. There are plenty of high-caffiene specialty brands of Arabica - why not just get 2x in the same amount of coffee? Besides, I think the caffiene content they show on the labels is before roasting and the more they roast it, the less caffiene afterwards. There is a misconception that the darker, the more caffiene but its actually the opposite. Just dumb stuff I wonder about...
> a string of improvements that have saved a substantial number of lives over time

As a primary metric, should there be some other one to focus on, like quality life years or something?
I think all four of my ancestor comments are common "New Yorker" things.
> Are you still unethical when you don't know about your incompetence?

You're correct that reality can be more complicated, and it depends. I can imagine a scenario, e.g. the plot of "Manchester by the Sea" which doesn't seem completely unethical. I find it hard to believe in this case that he was that incompetent. I think he took what he believed to be a calculated risk, and I'm guessing he didn't go around broadcasting that information to the other people on the tour.
https://www.raileurope.com/ might provide some of this.

(I haven't really needed it myself, the longest journeys I've made have only covered two countries at most.)
On an Android phone, Linux is effectively an application runtime.

This is a good way of putting it, and it’s sad

Our OS is no longer open source -- they built the real one underneath
> so losing 50% of the iron in 333 cycles doesn't seem like that big a deal.

Where does the Iron go??? It's not like Fission or Fusion is happening, right?!
Doctor Walmart will see you now
Which is not a RoR issue. You get those accidentally if you write plain SQL as well. (Actually passing the AR query fragments makes the n+1 easier to avoid in complex situations)
I ran NT 3.51 on a PS/2 486-66 with either 40MB (maybe 48MB) RAM and a scsi disk. It was nice compiling VC++ programs on it.

I now use a Surface Go3 i3 with 8GB. It's enough for just about everything I need. Web browser, running script language web apps, Java IDE, StarCraft 2. Disabling a bunch of stuff on Win11 makes a big difference. Whenever it felt slow I looked at Task Manager CPU and googled the process name, tried disabling it and only re-enable if necessary. Oh I also have a Peltier cooler+fan that cools the back of the unit when gaming to prevent throttling.

The PS/2 NT machine was top spec at the time. The Go3 is utilitarian now though should be like a supercomputer.
> fund’s purpose is ... demonstrating that prescribed and cultural burns are low risk, so private insurance companies will enter the market.

How does a fund demonstrate that? The linked legislation (https://wildfiretaskforce.org/prescribed-fire-liability-clai...) claims "rates of escape and loss are very low" already. Insurance companies' actuaries are experts at quantifying loss, so if it is low already...?
The Holocaust likely would have been impossible (or at least far more limited in scale) if IBM hadn't sold them the tabulators they used to collate census data on their Jewish population.
Valetta and Nicosia will be fun to connect
Reolink are the perfect price/performance for home use, in my book. Are they perfect? No. The focus drifts on some models after time (they'll fix it on their own, just not perfectly crisp all the time). The quality of video is "ok". Etc.

I'd love to go Axis, those are AMAZING. But an Axis dome camera is about $600 and Reolink is $90. If you're a business, Axis is the way to go. For home? Reolink.

All the individual cameras in my house are on their own LAN simply because they are plugged directly into the Reolink NVR. I can block the NVR from internet access if I choose. Doesn't seem to need it, other than for remote camera viewing. Which I can do via tailscale.
Yes, but the lawmakers are the ones that should abstain from referencing closed standards in the law, not the standard the one that has to open itself because the law references it.

Or maybe the law could create its own official standard that simply paraphrases what the closed standard says, effectively making it open.
C64 lovers would likely agree with all of those points.
The crisis of loneliness: We have never been more connected, or more isolated
I have something similar and have had for several years. Just needs a recent-ish kernel and decent distro!

I try to avoid virtual machines unless there is an absolute need to virtualise the hardware as well - in most cases single kernel, multiple containers is preferred.

Specifically, I use Debian with systemd-nspawn unprivileged (user namespaced) containers (managed by machinectl), defined and built using mkosi as BTRFS subvolumes (a BTRFS mounted on /var/lib/machines/ allows nspawn to create copy-on-write containers from a 'template' container).

The nice thing about nspawn is being able to create simple declarative configurations with private namespaces. With a private network namespace it has the concept of 'zones' which are containers that share the same (private) bridged network. systemd-networkd has built-in configs for both the host and containers to do automatic configuration.

I use this to create per-domain (e.g. example.com) zones with multiple function-specific containers (one for router/firewall, another for DHCP and DNS, others for single-sign-on, database, web, mail, and whatever else is required). I use veth to connect the zone selectively to the host interface public bridge interface providing external access if necessary.

This allows 'development' 'test' and 'production' domains using mkosi to define and build each repeatedly as needed. In the non-public domains the zone can be configured to use the same public IP addresses as production will use without it leaking outside the zone.

I use IPv6 only in the zones with both ULAs and global prefixes and DNS64/NAT64 in the 'router' container if the zone needs to make outbound connections (to IPv4 destinations).

I use netfilter rules applied to each zone's bridge interface to impose firewall restrictions.

Using veth pairs one can connect two containers (or zones) directly rather than using the common zone bridge interface.

I do dev work on the host itself; if you want to partition application usage I'd suggest keeping it simple by using multiple user accounts, one per 'task' so $USER configs and so on are all kept separate.

In the 'development' containers I do things like bind-mounting the base source-code directory, or project-specific directory, into the container. I do all source-code work on the host but build and test in the appropriate container.

For example I have 'linux-builder' container where I do out-of-tree kernel builds for multiple architectures. The container has the required crossbuild tools installed. Recently this has been used to build latest mainline kernel for amd64, arm64, and powerpc64 (for the Xbox 360!).
100% agree it just sounded like in this instance the first time they'd hear about it breaking a customer's workflow[0] would be in that customer's production environment. I've been on both ends of solutions where customers are either technically or financially incapable of having robust test environments for even critical software, especially if they're relying on someone else to write it.

[0] https://xkcd.com/1172/
> Sensing (S) vs Intuiting (N). This is about how you process new information. S people see what's actually in front of them - they think and talk more in specifics. In general, S types are better at detail oriented work.

What about someone who is strong intuitive, but starting the next moment they're very detail-oriented, and also the person you'd most trust for meticulous coding that had to work?

> But I find these letter rules make a great shortcut for 97% of people.

Do we want to try to hire people who have qualities that would spanning these headshrinker buckets? If so, maybe we're dealing a lot with that missing "3%", so trying to pigeon-hole people would frequently be counterproductive?
Because the user would rather wait a minute to load Photoshop, than have MS Paint that loads instantly.
I use SizeUp which gives keyboard shortcuts for what Win key + arrow keys accomplishes. There's probably something better but I'm used to it.
> even if one thinks Red Hat's totally in the right—why volunteer time helping out RHEL, now?

Because a paid Linux is the correct way to building an incredible seventh wonder of the world.

- As opposed to Windows, it’s still open-source. You can recompile it, send it to friends, and more importantly, maintain it if RedHat dies. Linux will stay 70 years while Windows will die with Microsoft.

- Linux is truely the most marvellous act of humans. Name another OS which landed on Mars… nevermind took off from Mars. Name another engineering piece on Earth that was the result of the generous contribution of hundreds of thousands of people.

Today, RH wants money. It doesn’t remove the other positive aspects of OSS, and it will help build better bigger companies with more marketing power and thus, more weight in this world.

Which can also be a good thing. I totally see why, even though a contributor can choose, it’s still worth helping a private company on OSS.
Constitutional rights are defined in large part by case law. It’s incoherent to say that SCOTUS’s rulings are violating people’s Constitutional rights.
Spontaneous and deliberate creative cognition during and after psilocybin (2021)
The root cause of inadequate demand for commercial real estate is a combination of WFH skyrocketing during Covid and rising interest rates and the resulting mass layoffs. How the city government of San Francisco caused Covid or rising interest rates I'll never know.

> What you're seeing isn't a market failure it's a correction.

When a "correction" is big enough to disrupt an entire city's economy, you can go ahead and call it a failure. Either way, it's exactly the job of government to mitigate the impact of these corrections/failures.
Meta says it will block news from Facebook, Instagram in Canada
Depends what you want to do with it really.

https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi/products
Thank you from someone begrudgingly paying thousands of Euros for IEC medical device standards pdfs!!!!
Well I admit I used to be of a similar opinion as well, but seeing this explosion unravel over the past few months has me convinced that it's can't possibly be right, at least not to any degree that objectively matters.

Perhaps language is the wrong term to use, since it's not what LLMs are really about. They're about text. There are very few things that cannot be expressed as text, albeit in unconventional ways like base64. Being opaque to humans doesn't mean that with enough data a neural net can't be taught to "see" images that way or "hear" sound files for example. If the original assertion is true, then there must be some kind of universal barrier to skills that cannot be expressed in text. That sounds completely crazy to me, since we humans are also likely just organic data that could be expressed as text with some encoding. The main problem is interfacing with it in some way that's actually useful, which is the extremely hard part.

Another thing to consider is that with a formalized enough language (i.e. a programming language) one can be far more exact in explaining things accurately than any natural language with its cultural specifics and inferred nonsense. That's probably why LLMs designed as coding models first and foremost usually outperform those that aren't in solving unrelated arbitrary problems.

> Note that humans are animals too, btw. And conversely, I would consider nonverbal people as humans as well.

Humans are animals in the biological sense, yes. But very much not in the societal and skill-transferring sense.
Does that mean Safari on iOS will also support it?
That’s been going on a long time. In 1978 in Byte Magazine you would read about kids who were trading their soldering iron for hand-coding machine language. The beautiful people started showing up in the 1990s boom and have come in in waves ever since.

I was amused at how quickly the ignorant and indolent dropped NFTs like a hot potato when they realized that (1) ChatGPT could write their pitch deck and (2) ChatGPT’s pitch deck was more likely to be funded than theirs. (Not because ChatGPT’s pitch deck is good but because theirs is bad.). The blockheads are still doing their blockhead things, somebody is still buying BTC, but few outside a hard core could care at all.
> I don't see why a team being in Hawaii would lead the manager to lose their job.

It's just a hypothetical.

In my circle, it seems popular thinking that remote work could lead to less managers.

Time will maybe tell if that's true or false.
The people who will pay will be the same people who currently pay.The authors of standards are usually not paid by the standards bodies and get no royalties. They and their companies even have to pay for the travel required. The technical reviewers are also often not paid by the standards bodies.

The purpose of the current system is to defray the costs of the printing press, since there was no other way to disseminate information 100 years ago. Now that we have the Internet, paying for individual standards is unjustifiable and should be ended. This is made worse because of the increasing number of standards that effect anything useful. Countless problems have happened because people cannot affordably access the hundreds of standards they are supposed to be using.
How many of them need to be treated with chemotherapy? Because then I'd say we've done poorly if that's still our secret weapon.
On my work machine it’s all the ‘helpful’ software IT have added for info sec and asset management and god knows what, they just love to pile this crap on until the machine runs like a dog!
Build a front end for your local weather?

[0] https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api
I'm from rural Colorado and have known several farmers and ranchers that have died by suicide. Most were quite wealthy and very lonely. The inability to find a woman who is willing to be a farming/ranching wife has left them with no companionship and no heirs to their farms. I conjecture that is what brought on the despair.

Where did all the young women of the community go? To college, to get their art degrees and hang out in coffee shops. I don't blame the young women. Farming and ranching is a hard life and their wealthy farming/ranching daddy's can pay for it. But it leaves the one son who stayed on the farm lonely.

A few I know have resorted to mail-order brides from Asia, South America, or eastern Europe. Cross-cultural marriage is difficult but easier than being alone, I suppose.
Wow, I can play StarCraft2 (non-competitively) on the Mac now.
??? I originally said that GPT-4 could be a component of a system that learns without updating model weights. You said that was unrealistic. I said I already had a prototype and offered to bet you that I do actually have this prototype. My reason for offering the bet is that I know you know that what I wrote is actually realistic, thus, you will refuse the bet.

I believed refusing the bet would force you to acknowledge that you were wrong, what I wrote above is actually realistic. You know it's realistic which is why you won't bet (and you shouldn't bet, you will instantly lose). I don't want you to give me a thousand dollars, I want you to acknowledge what I said was realistic.
It's legally incoherent, but it's far from logically incoherent.
I think a cloned whole chicken is a real chicken, but I don't think a part of a chicken is a real chicken.
I'm glad I could help. And yes, I can see how it can be difficult to distinguish them, especially since there really wasn't any word that truly has become obsolete in those sentences, except the specific meaning of estado, it was just a matter of how everything works together, both words and phrases.

Also note that even in the modern version I made, some sentences sound formal, or perhaps literary, such as "que en aquella tierra hay" rather than the super informal "que hay allá" or the middle ground "que hay en aquella/esa tierra".

Also note that I completely botched the spelling of lucuciones adverbiales by adding an accent and eliding the plural, oops.
The point is that for whatever level of fizz-buzzing they feel they need to - far too often these companies can't fizz-buzz themselves when it comes to basic interview hygiene. You know, like maybe reading the candidate's resume and cover letter (or talking to the recruiter to whom it was explained "I haven't worked with language X at all, is that OK?") before asking them to code over the phone for language X, for example.

Or even post a job req that accurately reflects the true needs of the position in the first place. Or (getting back to the subject of this thread) when giving take-homes, provide reasonable instructions as to what is expected and by when (and under some reasonable time frame), etc -- see for example this chestnut, posted just now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452104

A two-way street, and a bit of common sense. That's all I'm asking for.
It Wasn't for Me (2016)
While we are here, is there a way to completely disable (not just reduce) the stupid, useless desktop switching animations? \o/
Isn't there currently an ongoing, large scale, multi-year, violent social protest going on in France? At least some portion of the people must be pretty unhappy about the state of things.
New renderer, dark mode, auto save, resume on open, HiDPI, tabs, and I'm sure a lot of things I'm forgetting.

Don't forget what Notepad.exe truly is -- a testbed for new technologies. It's not "just a text editor" to Microsoft.
The point is that the compiler helps you “read” it. This takes mental effort off of you.

I agree that not everyone thinks this is true, but this is my experience. I do not relate to the compiler as a straight jacket. I relate to it as a helpful assistant.
Using electricity to run a heat pump will beat combustion in efficiency, and that only becomes way more true when the energy source starts as electricity being sunk into creating a synthetic fuel.
The Opinion argues that those affected by the standards, for example citizens buying products subject to the standards, should be able to know what those standards are, and at least in principle be enabled to verify if the standards are met. Requiring third-party verifiers would be a way to deny ordinary citizens free access to the standards.
If you're interested in this, you would be remiss if you didn't check out David Lindow's work. He does contemporary ornamental turning and builds the specialized lathes to do it:

https://lindowmachineworks.com/our-team/david-lindow/

A celebrated period work on the subject is Holtzapffel's work Turning and Mechanical Manipulation. It is available on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/HoltzapffelVol5_1884
What part of the world? I've heard that the cost of converting office spaces to residential is more than building new.
Yeah, sux to not have the SQL standard. Flipside, allegedly it is nearly undecipherable (on hearsay, not IME)
Write it into the law that self-dealing to evade taxes is fraud, if that even needs to be spelled out. Also, vacant properties would count as vacant whenever they are not productively occupied, even if there is an active lease. Have a city inspector perform periodic spot checks, like how health/fire/etc codes are enforced. Fines for violations scale with the property's assessed value, rather than being defined as flat dollar amounts.

Seems pretty simple.
> and the ride height lets them see the road much better.

Ah... and then everyone will get a SUV with similar mentality and then we will get SUV-extra even higher and "sturdier" to feel even safer?

FFS... world is not hostile, riding in compact city-car is not harmful. At best it's the mentality that "everything outside wants to kill me" o_O Get a tank maybe?
4/5 of your last comments are about this topic.

The government shouldn't conceal information to mislead the public without some compelling reason. Since no reason exists here, the government shouldn't have done that.
Thanks for the kinds words, take good care !
Launches into PoSh 7 x64 in <1s for me on Win 11.
You are right if it's only a single business failing. However, even JPM or BofA won't survive if >25% of their customer deposits are withdrawn in a matter of days, let alone other smaller banks.

If 100% of businesses in a certain sector are a "failure" according to your definition, then I suggest your definition is wrong.
> Their job is to do the work and leave the communication bits to journalists.

Yeah but here is the thing. If you systematically exclude journalist. Don't give them any access. Hide everything you are doing and not even provide basic video footage of a engine test, they don't have anything to work with.

And of course that is even more true when Arianespace is flat out hiding damaging information that tax payers should know. And ESA supports them in that.

Major issues with Ariane 5 fairings were hidden from the public and it took a long time until it came out.

Lets face the facts, ESA has constructed a space monopoly and the monopolist is doing everything to hide its failures from the public, not giving journalist access so they can't talk about it. Journalist that are known to ask critical questions are routinely not invited to events.

If that is the kind of society you want to live in, be my guest. But I prefer that we actually have some accountability from our tax pair funded agency and monopolist.

> The good side of this is that science gets done reliably, on predictable budgets that span decades and not years

That's just not really true. ESA has as many project go over budget as anybody else. The Ariane 6 is a massive delayed and has a massively increased budget (and no end in sight). And we could talk about many other projects too.

The idea that ESA is some unpolitical agency that just executes perfectly is what they want you to believe and they downplay all the issues. Journalist that report on these issues have to find the details the hard way. But because space is so uninteresting in Europe there is not much good reporting on it.

Its also not true that ESA is humble and unpolitical. If they have something to brag about they do so pretty relentlessly. Go read ESA and Arianespace comments about SpaceX around 2015-2019, the were basically all over them selfes talking about how much superior they were.

And reticently they have done a lot of political lobbying to increase their budget and pushing for European space flight.

They do all these things, its just less visible to the public because the public cares less then in the US.
That’s…really surprising? A ceiling fan uses about 75W a hour. A MacBook Pro has a 100 Wh battery and last about 4 hours so 25W per hour. Your laptop and monitor should be lower than any other appliance.

That being said, there’s a lot of options nowadays which is exciting! For instance, you could have a 200W port panel and a 1kWh battery system from eco flow that should run both with room to spare. Anker has a new system meant for patios but it’s only for Europe.
Death spiral, transmission charges, and prosumers in the electricity market
The judge cannot disbar them, but the opinion provides all of the evidence necessary.