skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah.. This was a "bucket list" move. Honestly dumb in hindsight to experience post-pandemic NYC for a single year. Even in its prime, I doubt this city is worth it to the person who's not constantly going out, networking, and seeking everything out.
>Employees, having tasted the fruits of flexible work, felt averse to relinquishing these newfound freedoms.

Translation for sociopathic leaders: never let your workers taste something good. It only took a global pandemic that forced people home in order for us to experiment with something that a huge portion of the population sees as beneficial to their well-being. Where were the small scale experiments before the pandemic, and why did they never catch on?
Is our new overlord Jensen Huang or Skynet? I prefer one over the other.
"Protected bike lanes" may make people feel safer but they make very little difference; drivers mostly kill cyclists by driving into them at junctions, not on plain streets. So while some infrastructure changes can help, one of the biggest game-changers for safety is just getting a critical mass of bikes on the roads so that drivers start actually looking for them before turning.
Yeah, I always thought iBatis was a better solution.
Bring it on! These Dino companies need to go.
SQL is a declarative language. If you ask it for an address, it'll give you an address. Not sure what you're trying to say with that xkcd.

SQL is a real language. It is testable and reusable. It's a DSL, so the syntax isn't something you have to look at most of the time unless you're a DBA. That said, not everyone hates the syntax.

You're probably losing efficiency in your quest for functional paradigm perfection.
Okay, generic rant about everything going to hell in a handcart since someone back in the day decided to prioritize profits over quality. Gotcha.

So I think the thing I'm confused about is what this has to do with Sears kit houses.

Were they, like, really good quality? Was Sears not an incredibly profitable company that made its money by volume supply of cheaply sourced parts?

I got the impression Sears houses were basic but functional. The fact that "Remarkably, almost 70% of these Sears DIY houses are still standing today" is reported uncritically in almost every online source about them, including the original piece, but... is that remarkable? How much 1920s suburban housing stock in general is still standing today?
The other cost:

Typically the solution to high CO2 in indoor air is to exchange it with outdoor air.

Most users will open a window. The energy cost of that is relatively huge, when room air is heated or cooled.

In modern eco buildings, there might be counterflow heat exchangers - those can recover 80+% of the heat - but still, the energy loss through air exchange can quickly add up to be a major component of the buildings energy bill.

I believe we should work towards buildings that don't exhaust dirty air to the environment. Throwing away contaminated stuff and letting nature deal with it is 1900's thinking. We should instead break that CO2 back into oxygen, filter the dust, and remove VOC's. We should fix the air, not replace it.

So far, to my knowledge, nobody does this except on submarines.
Seriously only 35%?
Thanks for letting us know that you don’t waste your precious time with such frivolities as Wordle.
"The FreeBSD host can run any other FreeBSD as long as its not newer then the host system version."

Docker does not have this limitation. You can run a container that is based on a newer version of Linux than the host.
Clearly written by someone who isn't a driver.

The real problem with Uber's ratings is that drivers don't get one at all if the rider doesn't submit one. The overall rating is for the last 500 ratings - not rides. Only about 50-60% of riders rate drivers. This means that if you leave a driver less than five stars, it could take six to nine months (depending on how often they driver) for that rating to "fall off".

Unlike Uber, Lyft's rating is based on the last 100 rides. This means the Lyft driver gets five stars if you forget to rate them. If you rate a Lyft driver less than five stars, the rating will fall off in a few weeks compared to many months for Uber. Also, Lyft drops the lowest score. Uber doesn't.

AND, the rating button on the Uber app is at the BOTTOM of the screen where everyone's palm hits when selecting a tip at the top. Accidental one-star ratings happen and those suckers don't come off for a LONG time.

In conclusion, Uber is too strict and Lyft is too lenient.
There already exists a notion of "the human era" that adds exactly 10,000 to the
current year:

> The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

(Of course, the choice to add exactly 10,000 is a compromise to make it trivial to interconvert between HE and AD.)

You can even buy Human Era calendars: https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/collections/calendar
Counterpoint: We are in the process of switching from Oracle to Postgres and the ORM (is definitely helping. It's otherwise a pain. We've literally written a query in SQL and asked ChatGPT to give us the equivalent in the ORM (then checked it was right, of course).
OG author here: any sharing/retweets of my original post are much appreciated.

ref. https://twitter.com/darcy/status/1673749748338008083?t=H-Iy1...
> And for that, you need to know SQL and not just some half-baked SQL punch through the ORM deigns to afford to you.

That and read replicas. Relying on the ORM will not save you, but knowledge of SQL (specifically materialized views) will.
Yeah I have to agree- all that increase in value doesn’t mean anything unless she sells it, which she won’t do until she dies anyway.
I'm by no means a Google-hater, but I have to say, it's pretty hard to feel bad for a company which has infinite money and no shortage of smart people they can throw at problems. If they didn't have such an attention-deficit company strategy and had developed Google Groups/not dropped the ball on chat 10-15 times they could have people trying to search their own servers instead of Reddits.
It's a competitive market; the components are mostly commodity and there are a whole bunch of manufacturers making them.
As an outsider, I have always wondered why they continue to have both Waze and Google Maps... Seems like such an opportunity cost to have two teams build, maintain, and innovate two product that serve the same purpose.
These things never see the inside of a court room. It'll end up as a settlement check, with none of the involved parties admitting to anything. The lawyers will then move onto the next low hanging fruit.

I've learned over time, it doesn't matter how righteous your defense is - all that matters is the money it'll cost to make the issue go away. Turns out, it's almost always cheaper to write a check than defend yourself.
I'm neither cool nor a wizard but I still wrote my algorithmic trading bot in common lisp.

Also a Todo list web app.
Yeah, well, like the grownups, a lot of kids will come down hard on the side of tradition, and some will know that the tradition is full of problems because they don't fit those buckets. Teenagers will spit on the idea that anyone is born a hermaphrodite, for example, partly because they're too young and naive, and partly because the influencer kids are like that and they need to fit in.

Attraction is most definitely on a spectrum, and behaviors such as dress and gait are definitely also.
Yeah, no shade (or pun) intended.
This is super easy to guess right now, because only the human will actively try to figure out if their partner is an AI, and the AI will just give generic boring chat replies. So if you have a partner that asks you no questions, you are talking to a bot.

Case in point, my last chat:

Me: What's your favorite book?

Bot: A book? That's a tough one.

Me: You've never read a book?

Bot: Of course I've read books!

Me: So what's your favorite one?

Bot: Ah, that's tough.

Me: OK, you're a bot.

Bot: Whoa, hold on there! I'm not a bot, I'm as real as they come.

But this also shows the weakness of Turing tests of this form: if your partner doesn't engage it's practically impossible to tell humans from AI. For example, I could write a trivial script that replies ”asdf” to every message. I could hire a human to do the same. Now it's literally impossible for people to tell the human and AI apart. Has this proven anything interesting about the power of AI? Of course not. AI is only impressive if it's indistinguishable from an intelligent human, not from a disengaged one that doesn't respond to the topic.
Ray Bradbury's Mechanical Hound has grown wings?

Although I don't think militaries would really rely on wheeled transportation much for drones, though perhaps reduced battery drain in the wheeled on-ground mode is a selling point for longevity in the field. It certainly has many other uses though.
People could say trials are exceptions that don't generalize. Now that everybody's tried it successfully at scale for long enough to eliminate short-term effects, the excuses are discredited.
Is it even most ev owners that are on 240V? We’ve been on a normal 120V 15 amp the entire time we’ve had one, and it’s been fine, because it sits there for 14-16 hours most days. We actually have a Tesla wall charger just sitting on the ground, never installed, because we haven’t really needed it.
It's interesting that in general I hear a lot of hate for ORMs, but the Rails devs I know all seem to like ActiveRecord and can't imagine working without it.
NLab – collaborative work on Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy
Ask HN: I want a list of the labels firms use to refer to their workers
I have a beef with these labels especially when used in layoff announcements. For example tacklers work at tackle.io, wazers at Waze, googlers at google. Tweeps work at Twitter. Can we crowd source a list please.
"something" went wrong? why lie and pretend you are surprised by what happened? it's your censorship filter going haywire, just admit it
this is great! i’ve been messing around with learning common lisp lately and setting up a good dev env was harder than expected.

> Use Emacs

> Emacs is a very powerful and extensible editor. It comes with over 10,000 built-in commands.

this cracks me up. i know lots of people love emacs, but who hears “10k commands” and goes, “wow, perfect”
What does customs have to do with it?

If I were to say, purchase 100,000 gpu's direct from a chinese manufacturer, and half of them were dead on arrival, what is my recourse? Where does customs fit into that recourse?

Now if I were to purchase them from an american company, I may have an opportunity to sue.
Gillibrand's actions are speaking louder than what she's saying. https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senate-intelligence-bill-giv...
tends to happen as you start reelin’ in the years
I think there were small scale experiments. Look at Gumroad, which not only is fully remote but only pays by the hour, so you aren’t actually obligated for the full 40hs/wk if you don’t want it. Look at Gitlab that was fully remote. They don’t catch on because large institutions that functioned on an office culture by definition are only led by people who thrive in said culture. Those people re highly unlikely to go with something that they wouldn’t thrive in (like wfh) unless forced to, and they actually have the political power to ensure it so.
Airbnb Collapse Is Real
Who? Aggressive about what?

Do you get this offended when someone points out obvious bugs and security holes in your C code? What do you expect to happen? The community of people who care about safe systems programming to go "oh yeah it's totally fine that a growing library is full of unnecessary and buggy uses of a language feature"?

Take a step back, yeesh. You're just flailing now, and I think I'm going to let you do that by yourself.
Don't use leaf blowers; those are a huge source of outdoor particulates.
Why are you upset that people keep reminding you about how bad things are instead of being upset that things are bad? If you're sick of hearing about it, why do you think it's the people who point out the badness who are the real problem that needs solving?

The entire article here is about how companies are screwing over users who were conned into buying bad products. I'm not blaming the person who wrote the article tho. In fact, I hope there are more articles about this problem so that people can learn about this problem and take steps to improve their situation. In this case, they might do that by refusing to buy things like air quality sensors that require apps and cloud services. I'm grateful that people are pointing out the problems and failures around me, not because I want to "feel bad" but because I want to be "informed and aware and inspired to look for solutions"
This was the coolest one on Pi I saw http://airpi.es/

Had a cool hw kit but sadly not anymore. All the specs are published so clones are trivial.
What would be a good and healthy motivator to seek a chance in the law? Is there anything intrinsically good or healthy about serving alcohol in mass events?
Your citation is for 1k A100s, not 3.5k V100s. I think it's actually ~51 days on 3.5k V100s.

Just to compare the GPUs, TF32 Tensor processing went from ~125 TFlops to ~990. It then looks like they also dropped the precision to FP8, which gives you another 4x win.

What's interesting is to look at how we're progressing in performance over time. In some sense, a bit slow?

A V100 costs $10k at release; an H100 seems to be $40k.

So we've only managed to halve the cost of a flop in 5 years. That seems.. much slower than what Moore's Law would have suggested.
I encourage you to reconcile your disagreement with my first paragraph, and GPL 3.0 section 2 paragraph 2. (I certainly respect your disagreement with my second paragraph, though!)
That would have been a great marketing stunt!
This is a wonderful idea for an online game. But this can be improved.
One human should be assigned impostor pre game. He should be awarded points if he successfully deceives the other human. Overall quality of responses will improve and it will be harder to tell them apart.
I have built CO2 monitors using MH-Z19B, Senseair S8 (same detector used in the AirGradient kits), and the SDC41 modules and my favorite is the S8. It seems equally accurate to the SDC41 and is easier to keep calibrated.

It also has a pin that is enabled when the CO2 level exceeds 1000 ppm so you can build a useful monitor using nothing more than an LED and an old USB power adapter.
Over the air updates pay for themselves immediately if there is a recall that can be fixed with software. And thats ignoring any other possible benefits for the user, like upgraded features or bugfixes post-sale.
ElevenLabs: Spearheading Voice AI with $19M Series A Funding
You seem to be talking about databases who's native language is not SQL. In those cases, yes, SQL is definitely an abstraction. There's some layer that's transforming that into (say) Elastic query or Dynamo queries.

I would argue that when talking about writing SQL, most folks are talking about applications who's query planner talks some dialect of SQL. MS SQL Server, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite.

In those cases, it's not really an abstraction any more than writing assembly is an abstraction over (say) Intel's CPU microcode is.

The query planner takes your SQL and turns it into something else, sure, but you can't generally do that yourself. It's the lowest layer of abstraction that's reasonably available.
For most businesses today, Google ads are not cost-effective. This applies double when you are buying ads for your company's name: you would have gotten the clicks even if you weren't paying!

But people still do it, presumably on the "nobody got fired for buying IBM" theory.
Depends what you mean by "Linux". You can possibly use a newer userland, but containers share the kernel with the host. That's kind of the whole point of containers: they're just a set of processes that are grouped together and configured with certain restrictions.
> What's 3.5 gallons in ounces?

448. That's not even hard. There's 128 fluid ounces per gallon. 3×128=384, add 64 to that for 448.

You could work through that from the smaller units if you didn't know off hand. Still, it's pretty unusual to want fluid ounces at that scale. Keep it at 3.5 gallons.
Linq is really just a high level abstraction for querying any data that can be queried. EF adds some more abstractions mostly related to mapping C# objects to database tables. Then it adds database specific query providers (implementations) that combine the (abstract) linq query and the mapping to produce sql.

You can really use linq to query anything (APIs, for example), including databases without using EF. It's just not very common because building a custom query provider is a lot of work.
I got a rechargeable battery powered leaf blower last year and love it. Plenty powerful for my needs, and ~10 mins is almost always plenty for all I need to get stuff cleaned up.

But i suppose they might temporarily kick up a bunch of dust, regardless of power source...
Yeah, it's an incredibly obvious loophole to suddenly "discover" new charges after the person is in your possession.
Why are you ignoring the fact that the senators have been convinced to add provisions regarding "non-earth origin" technology. That's a significant claim
How do you deal with data persistence for storing the documents/vectorDB inside a Nitro Enclave? I would assume that you as the SaaS vendor are unable to decrypt the sensitive documents inside the enclave or see a users chat history?
I can’t speak for all ORMs but I’ve found over the last couple years that I really like Mongoose. It’s proven to consistently be one of the least troublesome parts of our stack, and once you get to know the ins and outs, it provides a ton of useful things that are organized in a very logical way. Custom query helpers in particular were a revelation for me. Being able to reliably compose different pieces of a query to standardize how you access things across different parts of an application is really cool and incredibly useful.

I didn’t choose to use Mongo, but having Mongoose has made it mostly pleasant, at least after taking the time to really understand the library.
It feels like extortion and trademark violation.

I wish the FTC would prohibit buying ads for brand names.
The 20th century started on Jan 1, 2001. Because there was no year 0 (1 AD/CE started immediately after BC/E), 1/1/0001 was the beginning of the first century which ended on the last day of 100 CE, exactly one hundred years later.
Is there an equivalent post for crypto a few years back?
Hold your horses, APL[1] is not dead yet. However, at some point in its history, APL did gain the ability to assign the Index Origin[2] to 0 if the problem called for it via:

⎕IO←0

0: intentionally started the indexes from 1 ;)

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

2: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Index_origin
people shoving things into the handle is what got laws banning the latching thing repealled in some places. since it's safer to use something designed for the purpose.
Why would business need the $1 deal?
Get rid of your car?
It's both dynamically loadable & doesn't require any external dependencies. Each WASM container has its own heap, so you don't need e.g. glibc versions to be the same, which is otherwise a PITA for plugins.
In my view, the root of the problem is Object Oriented Programming itself.

The older I get the more I like having having separate data and functions.

Serialization is easier, network communication is easier, testing is easier.

You can put your functions in modules grouped roughly by what kind of data they operate on, but you don't have to be creating "objects".
Great idea, but the implementation needs work - not enough time to type responses, and you should be able to send several messages in a row rather than one long one. Otherwise how can we suss each other out?
If your ORM is sqlalchemy its not an anti-pattern.
It's not clear that they can change the license. For example in dix/dixfonts.c it says:

>Copyright (c) 1991, 1997 Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts.
>
>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
>of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
>in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
>to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
>copies of the Software.
>
>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
>all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Given the various GPL theories of tainting linked code and that this requires specific permissions be included with the program, not sure they can put a GPL license on the overall resulting product.
You wanna start the chess move with Q...
It depends on what math you're doing. Very often you're likely to find that a base number of 1e-6 makes you less likely to hit your exponent limits than a base number of 1.

1 is special in that half the positive floats are above it and half are below. That doesn't mean your use case wants half.
> You already have a garage that can deliver 120VAC at 15A to your car

There are a lot of assumptions packed into this dismissal of concerns about charging availability.
A book has recently been written on the condition system https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53889382-the-common-lisp...
If you are on GCP you can choose low carbon data centers: https://cloud.google.com/sustainability/region-carbon
"Let me ChatGPT that for you" reaction is likely the new "Let me Google that for you".
> In any sufficiently complex application, something like a query builder that allows different parts of the application to work together to lazily compose queries (vs combining/filtering/sorting the data in memory) will be created at some point.

Then your devs have way too much time on their hands. Find them some actual problems to solve.
There are developers out there who don't just jump on the next fashionable trend but who still want a better out of box experience than "you want to learn Lisp? Cool also learn emacs and about all these different lisp distros"

Common Lisp will probably never be the next Python, but it might be the next Ruby.
What really needs to exist and doesn’t is languages with first class support for direct relational queries in the language. We have functional, procedural, and OO programming languages but no relational programming languages.

The fact that a database is this weird thing bolted onto your code with a bunch of glue is asinine. The data is the whole point. It should be in the center with code around it not off to the side. The database should be the runtime with the data as the center of the universe.
I agree with you, it comes down to communication. If folks can't communicate ideas clearly (written), then your team will suffer regardless of location.