skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious how reliable that air quality data is in the first place. I cannot find anything about Breezometer having invested in installing air quality meters all around the world.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sycbrdpbi

This article says they are using “machine learning” and “AI”. Makes me think it is all fake.

https://www.breezometer.com/pdfs/Ultimate-Guide-to-BreezoMet...

Their own documentation indicates the air quality measures they provide are just guesses based on their models. Page 4 basically says actually measuring particulates in the air is very costly, and so their solution is to come up with models to predict what it might be.
Exactly. This is like saying the difference between sick and healthy people is that healthy people almost never go to a hospital. It's true, but saying no to almost everything is more useful as a way of recognizing a very successful person than becoming one.
Like

cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.conffiles

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MiniReview is a game curation app/platform that does a very good job of surfacing interesting and non-predatory stuff.

Not directly affiliated but my own game has been featured on there.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=minireview.bes...
> I also carry the common scepticism caused by philosophers not getting literally anything right about the 20th-century-physics picture of the world right ahead of time

Well, Democritus did. But nobody paid much attention. Which is the fundamental problem with philosophy - absent objective criteria of validity, it becomes a popularity contest.
Because "first" and "last" don't convey priority. You have to know how the configuration parser works with defaults and overrides. Does the parser stop reading after the first match? Do later configuration directives override previous ones or are they appended to them, and if they are appended, in which order are they evaluated?
I haven’t had a driver issue in windows in ages, have you? I’m sure they still happen here and there, but I feel like this is mostly an obsolete meme at this point.
Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon for others that were also wondering.
I think Gresham’s Law applies here.

The main problem is that caring about the environment becomes a competitive disadvantage to your business when your competitor doesn’t care and is willing to do anything to get ahead. Sometimes it’s fine if you’re a luxury brand trying incorporate sustainability into your brand, but that matters less in a B2B context.

The “bad” money inevitably beats the “good” money.
I assume Bazel
This is the correct answer honestly

There's a handful of games that are good on mobile - Bloons Tower Defense 6 comes to mind (does have micro transactions but they can be easily avoided to be honest)

But the fact that you can get Retro
Arch and play any game from like the PS2 and older is amazing

If you get a controller like the Razer Kishi for example you can have a Switch-like experience

I've yet to try it, but I was gonna play Ocarina of Time and Majoras Mask using my phone and Retro Arch

Should work well
And am I correct that these dunkelflautes are becoming an increasing concern because of the increased likelihood of extreme weather events? Otherwise I don't really see why this is suddenly a bigger concern now, than it was, say, 50 years ago...?

> See https://twitter.com/DavidOsmond8 for a real time simulation of how Australia would cope with 5 hours of battery storage

Forgive me for being sceptical, but you did state that batteries have solved base load for most of the planet. Australia is probably the least convincing example anyone could pick, due to its extremely low population density, long coastline, and high amount of sun hours. I'd be much more interested in seeing this calculation for places like China, India, Nigeria, Brazil, Russia.
I still don’t understand what it means when people say stuff like “ChatGPT just predicts the most likely next word with the highest probability” or “ChatGPT is just a probability machine”. Concretely, given the N most recent words, what algorithm are you proposing/claiming it uses to assign probabilities to word N+1? Just saying “it chooses the next word with highest probability” doesn’t explain how the probabilities are estimated.
That's just my general opinion! That's a great point though, and tracks well with what other commenters have said. Sony/MS definitely have a very good understanding of their own market, so if they're making efforts to expand into mobile, there's clearly very good business justification.
I do wonder what fresh new health conditions we will learn are caused by that "engineered" fire-resistant wood in a couple of decades.

I'm also not fond of "engineered" as a form of sanitising what is really happening: the wood is either sprayed with or treated with some sort of fire-retardant that will remain on the wood for its usable lifespan. Unlike other terrible things that we use in constructions but then cover up, the wood is also more likely to be left exposed in the interior of the building as a stylistic choice.
What if we convert "abandoned" offices into hydroponic (or similar) production? Would cities allow this?
Users seldom or never printed it.

I was told that we needed it (a computer requirements document) in PDF for legal reasons. I pushed back and legal confirmed that they did, in fact, need it to be in PDF format.

I suspect it had something to do with accreditation, accessibility, and/or student aid policy compliance, since this was a school.

But legal may also have found the relative transience of HTML documents to be a liability if a student threatened suit based on frequently changing policies, because I updated the requirements document twice yearly. PDFs made versioning very straightforward from a legal perspective, because the filename and download link always "needed" to be different between versions, without requiring dev work.
Would you be amenable to a program like Keepass?

Your password store is a single file, it can be encrypted, backed up (or not), distributed/synchronized between your devices (or not). It belongs to you, not to a third party.

The inevitable rejoinder is, "what happens if someone gets that file?" Well, what happens if someone gets your piece of paper?
In my state it varies by town so nothing that covers the entire US.
Why store markdown files in Google Drive of all places and not a git repository?

Google Drive, to me, is object storage with a consumer-friendly user interface. It does not sound like the right place for constantly-changing text files for which you'd want revision history and commit-oriented editing.
Only if you ignore technology/productivity improvements.
I don't disagree, but on the other hand, so is the fiat money. Precious metals market is somewhat complicated and prone to manipulation. So real estate provides solid value that won't go away (simplifying). Groceries and such production keeps getting optimized with quality decreasing, I think the real inflation is not that easy to estimate.
I'd need to upgrade the graphics card in my PC! Minimum spec on the Nvidia side is 1070 Ti.
Pink Floyd is best experienced through whole albums. Take 45 minutes and listen to "The Dark Side of the Moon". Or, "The Wall", which could be called more "theatrical". Those are probably their two most celebrated albums, but there's more.

If you're just looking for "part of a song" to get you hooked, then maybe it's not for you. You don't need to be on drugs and I'd say it's combination of lyrics and music (but probably more music part, because they do have some great songs with few or no lyrics).
>You'd rather go to a repair shop and pay a service fee for something that you can probably do in a couple of minutes at home?

HN userbase in a nutshell
I guess one of the reasons they’re hard to convince is that they don’t understand why they should do it. Hopefully my post contains some tips to make them realize how it can help them and the team.

But ultimately, it can be a team rule to require every developer to spend some time on code review each day. I worked in some teams where you needed to review PRs to get review on your own. It worked pretty well :)
How much? Mobile games aren't any less expensive to develop than desktop or console games, but I doubt you'd be willing to pay $50 for one.
Von Neumann arch just means that the program exists in the same storage as the data being processed. Harvard is the opposite. Many Micro controller systems are Harvard.
> Anyone looking to jump ship, the Affinity suite is very close to Illustrator, Publisher, and Photoshop in capability.

Last I checked, Affinity didn't support Photoshop's XMP sidecar files because {excuses}. That's a deal-breaker for lots of RAW photographers with existing files they care about.
You should see what computers did to take the power away from a lot of labour. Or before that you'd never guess what the tractor did. Remember when the Ox started ploughing a field rather than people?

Increasing productivity is a great thing. In the US post war environment people shared that increased productivity fairly evenly. It was only once the Regan years arrived that workers in general stopped participating in the boom.
I had not looked at Nostr previously, but I think this is a good answer. The protocol README provides a good comparison against other protocols, including Mastodon. It sums up every reason that I have personally avoided signing up to (or deploying) a Mastodon server. I may give Nostr a spin, but curious to hear more here on this thread.
Perhaps to avoid a fake/tampered scanners creating a he-said-she-said situation. Independent inspection is probably a good middle ground if trust is low and expected sale price justifies the expense.
2040: What is an "office"?
Exactly.

They're doing it because they THINK they can outdo Arm.

Arm isn't standing still, and they would have had to start years ago.
If this is true then immigration is fundamentally an attack on your country's labor class.
I think some of the best games I've found on the phone have been termux and connectbot. It's really fun to try to chain together as many jump boxes as possible and minimize latency or example.

My lowest score is 100ms latency for 17 jump boxes that travel across the circumference of the Earth's equator a couple times. It's fun to try out different crypto algorithms or different ssh programs, etc, but it would be nice to have a better organized leader board than just competing with friends.

Also, trying to get the smallest portable keyboard to have the most functionality and fastest typing speed is fun, but evaluating these 3 axes gets more difficult. Drawing the smallest square possible under the curve of number of jump boxes vs latency gives a decent metric for the jumpbox game, similar to the h-index.

Anyway, these are the best games I've seen. If anyone else has good games id love to hear them.
No, it doesn't air cure. It is refrigerated to slow the reaction between causing it to cure.

It is formed and heated under pressure to cure. This is typically done in an autoclave.
In common parlance, an asset bubble is called a Ponzi scheme. Actual Ponzi schemes should be referred to as “rob peter to pay Paul” scams to prevent confusion.
Tell that to Seattle and Amazon.
I have little doubt that Amazon's back to work is about real estate and tax revenue for the city.
That's all true, but there's also research that suggests [1] that there is a gene responsible for for the mechanisms that result in satiety, and there are mutations for thia gene that either mean you are always satiated or never are (and probably a spectrum of people in between). There are people who think legitimately think it's easy because it's easy for them, even going so far as to attribute failure to regulate appetite as a moral one.

1. https://archive.is/20190419065429/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
The battery is indeed the HW part that has the most decay.

But in that 5y time-frame the SW part is the one that is the most problematic.

It would be nice to be able to replace the ROM easily after the EOL of the device.

Will self-regulate itself immediately, as then incentives to have longer life is real and you cannot force customers to just buy another device because you decided it's time.

By "replace ROM easily" it means that one has the access (keys) and documentation to do it.
The issue is significantly more complex than you're making it out to be
> Start by not requiring a screwdriver in the process of changing batteries.

Thats not actually part of the law though, is it?
More importantly, would it make money?
This literally happened in April with non-billionaires off the Mexican coast.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/1171063782/missing-american-s...
It's the same for me in the Mac App Store. There seems to be only iOS shovelware crap in the Games section. And the Apple Arcade games are mostly 'cleaned up' versions of the F2P games e.g. no more microtransaction currency to buy, but the boring mechanics to incentivise buying them are still there.

I had more luck on 3rd-party sites like itch.
To be fair, even a poor cancer patient that would receive this much press attention would suddenly be showered with treatments.

Lets face it, this one had the right mix of ingredients (Titanic, adventure, recklessness, tech, scams, greed, dramatics, and most of all, a 90 hour deadline clock ticking, perfect for a news cycle) to get in the limelight, and maybe there were some other breaking stories that would benefit from something else drawing away attention ...?
But android autocomplete doesn't make sense for coding. A code editor that implemented its own keyboard could have something like intellisense with the UI of autocomplete.
All I do is put photos inside my Hugo blog folder and then reference it in my markdown files. I’m not sure how it could be simpler than that.

I also don’t understand why someone would want an iOS app for a blog. What’s the use case?
I'm wondering if there are any advantages to having a culture of indirectness, where instead of "no" you say something like "That would be very difficult" or some other code language for "no".

Thus far, I've only been able to see downsides to not being direct in communication.
I've been finding games by watching the @RealCivilEngineerGaming YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/@RealCivilEngineerGaming). It let's me see what the game looks like, and his taste in games works really well for me.
> I’m pro growth

Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? Because people mean different things by this. Do you mean it in the "the economy should keep becoming bigger" sense or "human experience should keep getting better" sense? Or do you think it's the same thing?
> How many times a year do you think people get cancer vs get lost at sea?

Why would the novelty of a leathal crisis influence the amount spent on the effort? I dont understand your reasoning.
In industry, attach rate (aka software tie ratio) is typically the number of titles purchased for the console over the lifetime of ownership, not just at purchase (though that number is tracked as well).
Installation does not work, unfortunately
I recommend kingdom rush series from ironhide. Its the best tower defense game i've ever played.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=917027538178232838...
Well, they said the AQ for NL was “insufficient” but the same value was “good” according to Germany. So it’s not just different colors, it’s different standards for AQ.

I guess you’re proposing that the AQ meter always use the scale of your home country. Doesn’t seem unreasonable but also seems like a quibble so tiny that it could be defeated if someone more knowledgeable offered a single reason against it.
I'm sorry this makes absolutely no sense to me. It feels like a convoluted explanation for being stubborn about auto updates and then an example of precisely why they're useful.

I would take an unaudited patched-for-known-cves over just not updating any day.
I doubt it: Amazon isn’t on good terms with Seattle’s city government. They wouldn’t mandate RTO if it wasn’t in their self interest, Amazon isn’t one for needless charity.
> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot.

Interesting that even at the time he was completely wrong.

He also seems to have had the weird notion that HN was rotating front page posts every five minutes so he would need to see the 10 best links every day.

But I don’t recall that ever being the case, and it certainly is much less so these days.

The only thing that has changed is that yes, many places (including HN itself) now aggregate popular stories into various formats but fundamentally, HN is exactly the same as it ever was.
> The reason might be that philosophy is actually practically mostly irrelevant. I have not seen one undisputed statement of philosophy. And so it can neither test its statements, nor let others see their validity.

This is the core confusion I think. I find philosophy very relevant for the way I reason and solve problems and evaluate arguments, and in this sense philosophy is powerfully practical. But it’s true that for any given claim, there is always the possibility of taking the opposite position. This lack of final, case-closed consensus doesn’t mean that philosophers individually haven’t converged on true beliefs or haven’t made progress. It’s just that unlike mathematical truths, we can write out the proofs of our arguments, but there’s always someone who disagrees about one of the starting assumptions. So then civilians who haven’t heard of people like Parfit think to themselves, wow 2k years and you can’t tell me anything about ethics or logic or epistemology — it’s like bro just read the literature
It is (depends). If I'm looking to fill a position and have 5 candidates who demand X but if I can import 5 more candidates from abroad that will accept X-10%X, then great for me, I just eroded their bargaining power, and sucks for those 5 locals who will have to look elsewhere. Once enough employers have access to the external labor pool, then the bargaining power of the locals is reduced permanently, and so does their quality of life, if they don't have the skills to move upmarket in jobs that don't have competition from outside.

Immigration is great when private investments and the economy is growing faster than the labor market can absorb them (like the US) because then it fuels the fire and lifts everyone up. But, if you're in a meh economy (parts of Europe), stagnating wages, high taxes, high bureaucracy, low investments, high CoL, expensive real estate, then importing extra workers only increases inequality as it puts downward pressure on wages and only enriches the upper class who can now affords a platinum trim on their superyachts instead of a gold trim.

Immigration is a very complex topic that doesn't have a right or wrong answer but depends on the economy of a country and the situation of housing and public services which the immigrant population will need.
Yeah, I looked into a little bit. An Anki to Markdown converter would be ideal.

Question: ...
Answer: ...

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It might need an awkward silence thereafter to be truly complete.
Replaceability is not about space but design.

In particular this legislation lets the maker build sealed and compact products as long as there's a reasonable way to open them and replace the battery.
It is problematic that such class/wealth-based rhetoric is used even in mainstream publication like apnews.com and not just some far-left rag.

It does not matter whether adventurers are wealthy or not, there are plenty of high-risk activities that sometimes require costly rescue missions, while being affordable to middle-class people (e.g. mountaineering or caving). The mechanism to footing the bill should be the same, so there is no reason to single-out wealthy ones.
This article (And most notably its title) uses a narrow view of programs, how they're interacted with, and storage models. Should your car's ECUs do this? Your washing machine? A GUI program? What should they output if storage is the last page of flash memory? What if it uses 2 pages? If it's offboard, should it report the device ID? If it's a GUI, should it have a button that displays this? Would an import/export feature meet the intent?
But there are options. And instead of having people chose themselves to pick these options and refuse to buy terrible phones the EU is instead saying it will use the force of government violence against other people so that only phones of their desired non-shittiness are sold there.

I really don't thinking bringing violence into this situation is called for. The EU is showing is an implicit assumption that people cannot make choices for themselves and violence must be used by the state to get them to make the correct choices. That's nasty and a very slippery slope to authoritarianism. As a human person with volition I simply chose not to buy bad, anti-consumer devices. It is possible. And I do it without the government threatening violence on my behalf.
This is an example of the is-ought fallacy [0]. Especially when it comes to the spending of public funds by a democratic government it makes sense for people to make their preferences known.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
That's true that Kutaragi was the biggest person (and PS won't happen without him) on SCE from hardware. But SCE corporate was also made by Sony Music people. First president and vice president were from Music. So it wasn't quite "hardware company" from the beginning. You're true that the "origin" (SNES sound chip and CD-ROM) was just a hardware. I read Japanese articles like this. https://otocoto.jp/column/utsumi02/ https://www.sony.com/ja/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyH... https://www.dreamincubator.co.jp/bpj/2014/07/16/sony02/
Yes. Env vars beat constants but have stunted our thinking because we know deep down it's not a great idea to have too too many.

Config files are better, but can lead to the mess described here and typically only give us crude axes for overriding.

It's time for us to embrace & tame the complexity. If you use a feature flag tool already, you know what it's like to target different values based on rules.

If I want to experiment with changing the http timeout for specific calls from a single service in a single region I should be able to roll that out.

It's time to expand our brains and bring this feature flag style thinking to the rest of our configuration.
During the same week two Pakistanis were imploded into meat cloud and probably tens of their fellows sunk in the boat on the Greek coast. From two extreme social casts, all of them paid for their trips. Both trips incurred expenses by US and EU taxpayers. Why don't they share food and get along together?!
While you can apply zero shot learning and get the answer to a new math problem, you are only apply the learning to significant depth after a fine-tuning session - sleep.
It’s almost like “the user will choose the best product” is bullshit. It has never been true, people are not rational agents, otherwise marketing wouldn’t work at all.

The best we have is to define small markets with strict regulations - within that some competition can happen that will tend to raise better products.
It happens sometimes [1] [2]. Reduced malware and quick removal is all you can hope for.

I have an app in the Play Store and received some unsolicited requests to install (and get paid for!) adding some extra jar file to my app and hosting someone else's apps in my account. Attackers put in a lot of effort to sneak in.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/KeePass/comments/13o0s0q/ioskeepass...