skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their extended support model still allows for backporting fixes into jessie of all things, which released almost 8 years ago.

So your evidence that they don't update things is that they backport new fixes to an EOL version? Even if that made sense, 8 years is 0.8 decades; I think a lot of the pushback is that you said "decades old versions", which is to say "versions of packages that are at least 20 years old", which is wildly out of line with reality.
I always here people having such trouble at CA DMVs and I wonder how that ends up happening. I don't have any problem and I go to pretty busy big city DMVs too. I think its because I book an appointment ahead of time online, because whenever I show up they usher me right in to the clerk past the line of pissed off people outside. One time when this happened the person first in line nearly fought the DMV worker for letting me in, people behind him had to try and calm him down and I got inside as soon as I could.
> 1991 - Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum travels to Argentina for a mysterious operation. He returns with a large cranial scar, invents Python, is declared Dictator for Life by legions of followers, and announces to the world that "There Is Only One Way to Do It." Poland becomes nervous.

Lmaoo
I don't remember what they were, but Mary Beard had some seemingly credible criticisms or just updates to Gibbon.

I got through a significant portion of the decline and fall but got bored somewhere after Justinian as the decline and fall of my interest in the Roman empire begins somewhere around the state conversion to Christianity.
Correction, thanks to dri_ft:

The film maker responsible for The Red Pill is Cassie Jaye.

Alex Lee Moyer was behind TFW No GF.
From a textbook economic perspective you are, of course, correct. And your conclusion that we shouldn't hate the player is also correct!

But that doesn't mean that we can't hate the game.

Capital-isms and market competition are two very different things.

Currently we have A LOT of capitalism AND very uncompetitive markets.

What we need are competitive markets, and the -isms hawked by the multi-generational holders of Capital be damned. (Which, these days, put far less stress on competition than they typically did in the late 20th century. See: Venture Capital-ists clamoring for regulation in greenfield markets, on the explicit basis that too much competition is dangerous!)

What does this look like? Primarily:

1. Stronger anti-trust laws,

2. more anti-trust enforcement,

3. assurance that labor markets are efficient,

4. lowering the barriers to entry for new competition, and

5. substantially shifting the tax burden in the meantime.
>If you want better accuracy

Oh, I have no criticism of your project at all, and my comment wasn't intended as such. (And I am very sorry and apologize if I wrote it in a way that conveyed that sentiment)

It's just that with every development, every inch in the expansion of these models' capabilities, my initial reflexive response is the horrible misuse to which it might be applied. Scenarios quite literally flash through my mind fully formed.

This is the foundation of my ambivalence on this technology. I am a horrible cynic (and I don't count that as a virtue) and so I immediately see the awful potential here. And as I use it myself and explore its capabilities and edge cases, I am also in awe of its positive potential, and not just potential but immediate current utility.

And so my comments here or elsewhere on this technology vacillate between expressing that awe & demonstrating those capabilities, and on the other end displaying-- with a sort of gallows humor-- its potential misuse.

With respect to your project, I am impressed. I like it very much. You've created a tool that allows a user to dynamically explore this community in a way that is easy to use and versatile. And as awful a cynic as I am, I am also at the same time often a naïve optimist (I'm undecided on the level of virtuosity that embodies). This makes my headspace a strange place (I thinks that applies to most people) and me chronically uncertain and self-critical of my own opinions. (This is something that I do in fact consider a virtue. I am sometimes horrified when someone expresses something with absolute and unshakeable certainty)
That's only true if the fee is greater than the paid cost, but the fee is only 40%. That means people still get back 60% of their money.

To put it another way, they could pay a $40 fee or lose $100 by doing nothing. Most people would rather pay the fee and get their $60 back.
This is an either-or that has a big old third option: Neither India nor China are actually on track to become superpowers, they're just modernizing. The idea that simply having a TON of people is the magical ingredient in being a superpower flies in the face of the existing superpower, which relies on geography more than population.
> Central bank is to increase interest rates until unemployment rate increases

I might be old fashioned, but last time I checked, government's job was not to drive down living standards.

Maybe their job is to ensure that a resource-show like rising energy prices does not hit, by majing economy rsillient and relying on diverse suppliers
> in the world

Sample of countries that don't permit self-service gas: ~Belgium~ (maybe not, see below), Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and Uruguay. See https://itif.org/publications/2019/07/29/self-service-gas-in...
Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
I'm not quite sure what you mean? In most any case I can imagine, uint64 is quite enough to count money in pennies, assuming inflation doesn't get truly out of hand.
I can't block youtube ads on my iPad.
It's sad that some of us even feel compelled to assess this tradeoff.

I feel for you.
Hmm, I'm 51 next week and those multi-millions aren't quite in my grasp yet. But I live happy and comfy, which is great considering that many people don't/can't.

We were truly never rags to proper riches, but...

- initial "rags" was moving around between shitty towns a lot, changing schools and losing friends, occasional homelessness, occasional food scarcity, and having no role models for sustainable lifestyle, job, and economic practices.

- "riches" was living in (renting) a nice house with a pool in a nice upper-middle class neighborhood and attending a good private school. and having a slick-ass 386sx PC with ATI VGA Wonder and Soundblaster Pro ;)

I was in college when the house of cards came falling down, so it meant trying to stand on my own two feet while my dad lost his house and got incarcerated and my little sisters had to work at walmart and apply for welfare. I had to take care of my mom at the same time that I was getting married and starting a family.

It was a very humbling experience. What stayed with me? Humility. Empathy for people who are less fortunate. A disdain for unrestrained capitalism, and sympathy for its victims. A strong work ethic. An aversion for taking financial risks.
> But after some more research we heard a bunch of negative feedback about Socket.io and one of our team members had a poor experience using Socket.io.

Would have loved to have seen a section devoted to what feedback you heard, what the team member's poor experience was, and how you felt confident that Elixir & Phoenix would solve those problems.
Dubbleosix is "zerozerosix" in the original. Maps one-to-one, I'd say.
Yes and the first step to solving the problem is acknowledging it.

In order to change some thing you have to prove that it’s happening.

In the case of “What underlying structure creates society’s problems,” increasingly more research is pointing to inequality itself and lack of democratic participation/ownership in the economy. These are the foundational factors driving poverty and precarious economic conditions for an increasing proportion of the population.

The Lions share of corporate profits go to existing shareholders and only rarely employees, and even rarer do employees compose the majority of shareholders (you have no shareholder power as a FAANG employee different than any other retail investor - namely, none)

So no it’s not irrelevant. It’s very relevant if people want to actually have power in determining how the organizations they join are operated.
Show HN: Wolfia Codex – Ask anything about any code
Hi HN, we’re excited to show you Wolfia Codex (wolfia.com). Wolfia Codex allows you to ask any question you want to any codebase. Unlike using a generic tool like ChatGPT, we provide context to the LLM by retrieving relevant snippets from the actual code. We started by indexing a bunch of popular open source repositories, and you can request your favorite one. We plan to monetize by offering a paid version for private codebases.

We do this by using vector embeddings (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings) to index a specific codebase in a vector database. We then use OpenAI’s GPT 4 model with a dedicated prompt that combines your query and the most relevant results, based on similarity from the vector database, as context to provide a relevant response to your question. The answer is generated as markdown to display things like blocks of code. We also let you see the relevant snippets of code used to generate the answer for reference, ask follow up questions, and we have an option to share an answer.

My co-founder Naren and I used to lead engineering teams. We often had to stop the team from working on their main project and ask them to write documentation to help onboard new engineers to the codebase. That documentation takes days of work to write and ends up being stale very quickly.

Wolfia Codex allows new engineers unfamiliar with a codebase to ask pointed questions without having to always interrupt a co-worker to get answers, nor having to have them write lots of documentation.

We would love to hear what you think: don’t hesitate to share good and bad answers in the comments!
Show HN: How I made AI watch YouTube for me!
Hey friends!

We built an AI app to make it easy for you to consume long YouTube videos This app converts videos to short blog posts with a Python app powered by Langchain and EvaDB: https://github.com/yulaicui/youtube_video_qa

Here's an 3 minute blog post based on an 8-hour video from MindsDB AI Developer Convention 2023:
https://medium.com/evadb-blog/ai-generated-summary-of-mindsd...
Could be solved with a simple expectation for reading emails during work hours company wide. Btw, I don’t check my email when outside workhours and don’t care what anyone thinks... There’s an emergency path directly to my phone but that isn’t to be abused or gets banned away. It hasn’t happened in years…
The inability or unwillingness of city police to deal with camps of the homeless would register as a cause, to me.
golang is pretty rudimentary versus the BEAM and OTP. It is hard to compare erlang/elixir to a traditional language. They benefit from the fact that you can run literally hundreds of thousands of processes on a single node all doing their own independent thing and managing their own state.
Who are these seven outdoor enthusiasts leading the way?
Fascinating that a large portion of the Indian Ocean surface is ~100m lower than the global “sea-level”.
Or don't use ChatGPT and avoid going off on a tangent when it hallucinates something.
I do this as much as possible and it generally works fairly well.

Less so now that the power company cut down a tree that helped shade my roof, but I can usually make it into mid-afternoon before having to kick the AC on during the summer highs. High Desert in SoCal for reference.
Lead Chromate, not Lead.

But apparently it's also not very soluble in water, so the question about sinking stands.

Possibly, a chemical powder is much finer than a ground-up plant matter, and takes longer to settle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_chromate#Safety_hazar...
> To have record-breaking profits means that are markets are record-breakingly inefficient

or more innovative companies captured the market share of less innovative ones, e.g. lockdowns bankrupting brick and mortars in favor of online giants
I'm not disputing that's what is happening, but I do find it interesting _why_ its happening. Consider a scenario where consumer demand for your product jumps rapidly. The two normal profit maximizing responses are to raise prices and increase output. Ideally do both.

On the Odd Lots podcast, it's been discussed in various markets that companies that survived 2008 learned to avoid large capital investments when their competitors all went out of business chasing market share. And if market incumbents are all too afraid of making large, long term investments right now, output can only go up after new entrants to the market appear.

The online discourse seems to favor cigars and shady board rooms, but it seems just as likely to be risk aversion.
The GPL does not say that they are obligated to sell you the next version.

The entire point of the GPL is to let you own the software you have bought and, examine, learn and change.

The rule Red Hat have brought in is that if you exercise that right then they don't want to continue selling their software to you. That is totally within their rights, it's not like they are suing you for illegal distribution.
Have you seen this happen? It is surprisingly difficult—not impossible, just difficult—to light a small gas spill on fire.

The reason that gas stoves are difficult to work with is because the flame so easily goes out. Under the right circumstances, gasoline will ignite, and the gas stove is designed to make that just barely possible. The picnic bench is a less ideal environment for lighting gasoline on fire. The movies make it look like you can just drop a match or lighter onto some spilled gasoline and get a raging inferno, but if you actually try to do this yourself (safely!) you may see that dropping a lit match into gasoline often extinguishes it.

Depending on the ambient environment—the wind, temperature, how much gasoline, etc.
An opinion presented as fact.
Don't get forget a lot of MPs are landlords. And not just Tory MPs.
Sounds like the solution to that is just a large deposit that’s refundable upon arrival?
Pacer charges per page, but if you keep it under $30 in a quarter the bill is forgiven (so free).

You'll eat up 300 pages pretty quickly - there's roughly 20 filings between now and March 10 which I'm guessing is around when this article came out, probably too many pages to fit under the free limit but then again a lot of the activity isn't very interesting.
I used to think California's was bad, then I tried to move my license to Chicago... that took 8+ hours (literally... got there before opening and stayed until after closing) at the local office there, 4-5 different sets of lines (3 of them in the same office), and I think a total of 12 bureaucrats, queue watcher, and security guards.

Then I tried had to do the same thing in Oregon a few years later. That took one person about 20 minutes to finish.

It's just crazy how much variance there is between states & offices.
> From all available sources, it is apparent that the viewport was designed and certified down to a depth of 1300 meters, not 4000 meters.

Wow. What kind of hubris could look past that huge red flag?

Apparently the kind that thinks it is interesting that it deforms by several inches and not scary
Wow good luck with your project. Virtual assistants are not my thing. But if I were to try again, this would certainly be my first choice.
Yeah, but they make shorter buildings out of steel and masonry, too. Next time you're apartment hunting, you can call ahead and ask whether the building is lumber construction, if you're not sure.
The “Musical Main Characters” in Tears of the Kingdom [video]
Thank you for articulating this. This is not just about monetary policy, but structural failures and regulatory capture that are creating unprecedented opportunities for rent-seeking.

Personally I also believe that the pandemic only accelerated this, as smaller players were disproportionately disadvantaged in many key markets where economies of scale dominate.
The Switch not only has a web browser, but a web server! (afaik its only used when downloading from the Switch's media browser app to your phone)
Glibc grows non-main-thread heaps by 4K at a time
There's a lack of forthrightness in publishing a stock photo without a disclaimer. "Lack of forthrightness" is an anti-signal. Stock photography on a commercial website is an anti-signal.
Did you expect ChatGPT to generate a meaningful response?
This might be a tragedy if the commons type situation.

Sure, it's great to enjoy coffee in silence, but would society be better off if we tolerated and included all aspects of life?
There is a lot of variance between different DMV offices in California, between different services, and between the individual staff members who are helping you.

I've had no-appointment things get done in 5 minutes as a walkup, and also 3-hour waits despite having an appointment. Total crapshoot =/
Idéfix, not Idéafix! "Idea" is "idée" in French. It comes from "idée fixte" which means fixed idea, like you say, or in other words, an obsession.
I think this is the most likely answer. Everything in Germany was collapsing at the time, so a garbled message being sent, or incorrectly received seems likely. Consider the circumstances:

- 6 days after US and Soviet forces linked up bisecting Germany

- 1 day after Hitler's suicide

- 5 days before the unconditional surrender of the Flensburg Government
Nah, this is an ECO101 take - a simplifying assumption for modelling.

You spend the rest of the degree learning history & how to model when you don't have the simplifying assumptions
Please give us the inside scoop on whom was at fault as you appear to have already decided based on the limited information that has been released to the public. If you have another source for FACTS relating to the matter rather than your arm chair analysis. I’m all ears.
Nobody is ever forced to "play the game" so you absolutely SHOULD hate the player. They are choosing the play a game that hurts others and rewards them.
Well, as is the case for pilots, it generally leads to the employees hiding their mental health issues and not getting help for fear of running afoul of FAA regulations and barred from the cockpit.
>another (probably pricey) MCU

The R7FA4M1AB3CFM costs $3.42 at quantity: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/R7FA4M1AB3CFM%252...

For an Arduino board, voltage and pin compatibility is an absolute hard requirement. (The only reason you use Arduino is to use Arduino software or existing peripherals/shields) ESP32 has fewer pins and is a 3.3V part.
Right. Article is from 2012 as well. The communication landscape arguably has evolved a lot since then.

With Slack, for example, you have so much fine grained control. I don't know if it makes sense to implement a blanket "shut off communications after hours" policy
Solar Power Bails Out Texas Grid During Major Heat Wave
If you’re running something in production you’re almost certainly making money off of it, so maybe you should send some of that money to RedHat for licenses?
Frankly, I'm beginning to succumb to the belief that even knowing the truth, or attempting to find it, is a lose-lose activity. First, I have to dig for it and evaluate the probabilities, credentials, incentives, and context until I'm confident. Second, I have to obscure my informed opinion.

While they're ignored up to the point they do blow their brains out, they're then a welcome addition to the number of gun deaths, which is often used interchangeably when referring to statistics describing gun violence.
"We can't have police, this will lead to a slippery slope that will lead to a 1984 police state."

"We can't not have police, this will lead to a slippery slope that will lead to Mad Max anarchy and roaming bands of killers and warlords riding in really awesome-looking semis."

That's the entire problem with the slippery slope! Two entirely conflicting, equally compelling arguments can be construed with it, starting from the same simple question - "Should there be police? Yes/No?"

Just because the bottom of a slippery slope looks awful, or can't be seen isn't a reason to do, or not do something - because I can construct a million awful slippery slopes for any action you do, or not do.

A slippery slope argument eliminates all nuance from a question, and provides no guidance for answering it well. That's exactly what makes it a logical fallacy.
A Potentially Comet Will Fly by Earth Next Year
RPI does have emergency generators and UPS for their campus. The sign was on the fridge so that someone wouldn't do something crazy, like pull it away from the wall and unplug it. Someone going to the circuit breaker and killing the power to the whole area is not something any reasonable person would do or expect others to do, the same as I wouldn't expect the cleaners to "turn off the lights" by smashing the bulbs with a broom handle. It isn't exactly reasonable to come in after the fact and say "of course someone might try to turn off the lights by smashing the light bulbs. Obviously, you should have had cages around the lights to prevent this. How negligent of you."
I have a friend--a software engineer--who was convinced when ChatGPT came out that it would be able to do things like invert sha1 hashes, if only you found the right prompt.

There's a lot of magical thinking around LLMs, but in the end they're "just" fancy Markov chains.
To me school was a big culprit and can track the beginning of stress in my life. A lot of times it was just stress for the sake of getting used to it and I get that but it’s quite cynical
Musk and Bezos Offer Humanity a Grim Future in Space Colonies
> does not include theoretical rents

If only you could do that then I might still be a landlord :-)
If only someone like Samsung or Google would make a phone that allows side loading to meet your needs. Too bad Apple is the only option here.
Suit over ‘unauthorized’ sale of web domain name advances
Milton Friedman - Only governments create inflation

https://youtu.be/F94jGTWNWsA

“Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money. Any other attribution to other groups of inflation is wrong.”
Not just that but the air crew and passengers being aware of this and it affecting their day and making them reckon with this person's death. The grief of the pilot who has been without any human injury or death on their craft. So much!
I believe most vehicle AC compressors run directly off of the serpentine belt (12v power comes from the engine anyway, why send it through the alternator and battery?) or, in the case of electric cars, off of the ~400v traction battery. The compressor draws around 1-2kW at full tilt, so in all cases it's best to run it directly off of the main power source with as few intermediate conversions as possible.
ChatGPT is a booming technology today, moving fast forward from what used to constitute the AI industry only a couple of years ago: simple yet effective chatbots. It has only recently entered the digital space but already created a whole new AI sector with a realm of exciting applications and use cases.
Except the leaders of a competitor will almost always take a big exit and let the private company be bought, because fuck you, got mine. You only need to convince a few people to take a payday, and most people are not running businesses out of some strongly held ideology of public market competition, but rather because they want to be rich.