skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where's the evidence that upstream cares? Many package maintainers are also upstream project maintainers or contributors at a minimum. I may be "just" a user but as a user of the unstable version of my particular OS I've submitted my fair share of bug reports, both to the package maintainer and upstream, and maybe I'm hitting some sort of lottery but more often than not, there's overlap. I guarantee you that GNOME Calculator's devs don't have a care in the world whether a metapackage in some distro that includes their software has a hard or soft dependency on Network Manager. There is no upstream for a metapackage.
Thanks for posting this. I was not inclined to respond after already providing information that he could have viewed when time afforded him. Here's hoping he has time to read a Wikipedia article instead of having people do the work for him.
It's being driven by government pressure to reduce energy consumption and dependence on fuel imports. That isn't a bad thing. It's the sort of thing a responsible government should be planning for.
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Remote: No, though will do remote for right team

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Willing to relocate: most definitely

Technologies: TypeScript, Ruby, Node.js, Kafka, Docker, RabbitMQ, AWS, can learn any language quickly due to my solid fundamentals

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Backend/service layer Software Engineer with rich experience, most recently in the fintech sector working with crypto & fiat custodian Prime Trust.

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I am a native speaker of English and have an intermediate level in French.

I am an American citizen and thus require a visa to work outside of the US.

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If you see my resume, you'll notice I have a decent amount of YOE, but my actual experience far exceeds the number of "years" that I have. Everyone learns and produces at a different pace, and some, like me, can achieve and master in 3 years what the typical dev will in 8 YOE. I credit this to my willingness to jump into things as well as my solid fundamentals I built up.

Read the resume. Send me an email. You'll see what I mean.
If you're doing such low volume, yet your service and customer relations is based on big corp style, sure you're going to have big problems.
If you sell only 300 of something, and returns are coming in, you should be figuring out why ASAP. And probably talking to the people before they attempt to send it back.
No a one-way hash is not "the password". If you have the hash you can't use it to login or reverse it to a password without brute force comparison which is why you always store a hash with salt using slow hashing algo, and not "the password", this has been best practice for years so a DB breach does not mean the password are compromised.
> We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike...

Just how Newton spent away years doing alchemy, I hope we don't lose Sutskever to alignment. That'd be a travesty.
Toyota has dragged its feet with regard to EVs, betting on hydrogen fuel cells instead. That bet appears to have been a bad one. Since they're such a small part of the EV market, their decision certainly isn't critical for NACS adoption.
Nothing you wrote refutes what I said.

A poll conducted last month asked if respondents agreed with "under no circumstances should Ukraine give up any of its territories, even if the war lasts longer and will threaten independence".

Results:
- West 86%
- Center 84%
- South 86%
- East 75%
- Overall 84%

The same poll asked if respondents agreed that Ukraine should give up any of its territories for the best possible peace deal.

Results:
- West 9%,
- Center 12%
- South 8%
- East 12%
- Overall 10%

I call this near-universal support for the war.
I don't see what one's preference in how to have sex and what implements are being shoved where is relevant to Kubernetes. So I'd rather have my coworkers to not bring that to the job unless I ask them about it. I am not showing anybody my private parts unsolicited, and I expect the same courtesy from others, especially on the job.
> has been a popular technique in C and C++ for decades, with epoll(), kqueue, libevent/libev/libuv, Boost Asio, ASE, and so on.

JavaScript is older than all of those. (Libuv in particular was harvested from Node, which was itself built on top of JavaScript.)

Obviously JS didn't invent callback-based async IO, but I think you're forgetting how old JS is and how relatively new that style of IO is.
Does anyone read this as a potential internal power struggle? I imagine there are a lot of OpenAI folks deeply concerned about AI safety and doomsday scenarios, but there is an increasing commercial need for OpenAI to keep pushing forward on developing more advanced models faster, if only because Microsoft demands it and they need Microsoft, so this is a way to appease folks internally (and maybe externally) and stop a bunch of talent flowing out to another Anthropic.
SwiftUI Data Flow – WWDC 2023 Update
These are not logical decisions. It is about the power, not the logic [1] [2] [3]. You can't fight power with logic, only with more power (just as Musk had no choice but to complete the Twitter deal when the Delaware Court of Chancery wasn't going to let him walk away because of the poor deal he negotiated; he certainly tried though, as covered in excruciating detail by Bloomberg's Matt Levine).

High level, you're never going to be able to negotiate with folks at this level; they got there because of, very broadly speaking, the "dark triad" personality [4]. Therefore, you're only left with "higher authority" to keep them in check, such as government, law, etc.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=elon+control+freak

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ex-wife-essay-alpha-alleg...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-extreme-...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

(thoughts and opinions my own, as always; I am simply putting forth a thesis based on observations and data)
> The cost will drop to nearly zero, just like the rest of renewable energy production

How and why? I could say the same thing about batteries..

I assume hydrogen might be the best option for lorries and other heavy vehicles but what are its advantages for personal cars?
> The vast majority of residential cooling in all but the most humid climates can be done with nothing but a fan and some cold water

Aren't swamp coolers only really useful when the humidity is under something like 50%? I guess I'm assuming you're talking about the US, but I don't think "vast majority" of people live in such areas. A quick search for average humidity of US states in July and August shows many of them have an average daily humidity of over 50%.

It certainly rules out every place I've lived on the east coast (Richmond, Virginia, Long Island, and the Boston area), as the humidity in those places is usually at least 60% at the height of summer when most people actually use their AC.

As a side note, I suspect most people overuse their air conditioning and don't let their bodies adapt to the warmer summer weather. It's weird how many people keep their houses under 75 °F when the heat index is only in the mid 80s.
Good explanation. It sounds like they wanted to do some organizational change (like every company does), and in this case create a new team.

But they also wanted to get some positive PR for it hence the announcement. As a bonus, they also wanted to blow their own trumpet and brag that they are creating some sort of a superweapon (which is false). So a lot of hot air there.
Not really. I also think it's remarkable and would have posted something similar if it hadn't already been pointed out.
Should heat and cool it with standing soundwaves. Salty water takes the heat, cools and falls (brine-fall) rest is less salty.add membranes at intersection points..
how do you sell shovels in a gold rush insincerely?
Has it hamstrung the government? Or is there just a governing consensus on many aspects of the status quo?
yeah but I usually feel quite refreshed after coming out of the waves, but keep in mind we don’t need clean feelings to survive, we do need fresh drinking water
I would personally use letsencrypt and then pass the cert/key into the Deno.serve call, though I am curious now if there is a more integrated solution and I'm going to dig into it a bit.
I think this has been seen before, where it turned out to be a bunch of employees. But that time it was a product launch, not a CEO's pr.
> The average user isn’t using Firefox to begin with.

that's... not a valid argument for this discussion?
market share and user conservatism has no connection to concerns about basic safety affecting everyone

judgement should be applied equally, every user and every product
Show HN: Unified interface for TypeScript schema validations (zod, yup)
Hi, all! I launched TypeSchema to help library developers like me (and product developers as well) decouple their code from specific validation libraries (like `zod` or `yup`) and make them more plug-n-play. Appreciate the feedback!
There's lots to unpack here why this isn't workable at scale.

1) Renewable energy product still has a cost associated with it, even if it is at times, excess.

2) That excess capacity, and the times when there's more energy produced than consumed might not match with water demand.

3) There definitely isn't, and won't be, enough excess renewable capacity to distill even a fraction of the fresh water consumed.

4) This means that you still have to calculate a per kWh cost for the energy consumed to distill salt water to fresh water. The average kWh might not be the same as the market average kWh price, since if you make your distillation plants oversized so you can utilize any spare energy production, but there will still be a price.

5) This price will most likely mean that the per gallon cost of distilled water will be higher than RO, or water pumped through a pipeline.

Desalination is still an extreme measure taken when all other forms of fresh water are cost prohibitive.
Took me a minute. Well done.
I assume this isn't done due to the large cost of building a desalination plant, which isn't paying for itself when it's not running. The money could be invested in something else that runs 24/7.
I agree and would add that it's a particularly good time to be a Linux gamer. I recently started downloading games in Fedora on my dual booted machine and so many games support Linux officially now, I think the success of steam deck has contributed to this.

For games that don't officially support Linux, Steam's Proton means most of mine bar two run perfectly on Fedora.

I haven't booted up Windows in months, a good outcome.
As of right now, you can only view individual tweets without an account. No replies or even parent(s). For example: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675390796718014464

Hopefully they bring it back fully, and even more importantly that Nitter functionality returns to normal.
How to write idempotent Bash Scripts (2019)
The problems with First Past The Post voting explained.
https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
Anything that makes the GC more efficient is going to be a win for the future homeowner. This might get more problematic for remodels, but we primarily work with new home builds.

The GC can often bill it down to the homeowner as antitheft, which reduces time/money to complete the build. The biggest being time. An example, if custom windows are stolen, it could delay a project by months right now.
Googly eyes on the flow meter
Keynote – Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla [video]
The lack or nonstandard support for extensions. But looking into it, I see that it looks like at least Gnome Web now can support extensions. Currently not using Gnome or KDE on my Linux install though.
don't forget regulatory moats - lobby govt to mandate "superalignment"
I think it's more a problem of entropy; You're taking a high-entropy mixture and trying to extract a pure substance. Think sorting red and blue lego.
“Default” container tabs have no user-facing UI. Tab Containers gives them a ui.
Congress Is Becoming More Nepotistic
I mean basically you're describing a solar pond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_pond) or salt evaporation pond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_evaporation_pond). There isn't an easy way to recover the evaporated water from that process; you would effectively have to build an artificial enclosed environment and it wouldn't work as fast as exposure to the elements. Basically you would need a still (as in for alcohol) the size of 20 football fields. But sun power wouldn't be enough to power it fast enough to be practical. Maybe if you moved it into outer space...
Would love to pick your brain. Have an email?
We had email on our IBM 370 back in 1978. It was implemented using a virtual card reader/punch device driver using the as-mentioned VNET.
Show HN: Cultural event scraper and listing site (in Haskell)
I used to maintain a list of cultural events (art, dance, theatre, music etc.) in London manually for friends and family, but it got quite tedious to maintain, and I kept forgetting sites.

I built this application to automatically scrape events into a queue which I can then curate, and people can see (only the upcoming ones, more filtering to come).

Built in Haskell with almost no JS (the admin pages have a single TS function to make the forms nicer to work with). This was really fun to build (and is my first Haskell sideproject to make it "into production").

At the moment there's only one source (The Barbican) but I'm planning to add more now that the core application is there. I'd also like to give it a design makeover before it gets seriously consumed as it could probably be a bit nicer to use, but for now I'm using bootstrap just to get it out the door -- design ideas welcome).

Source: git.sr.ht/~gtf/culture-vulture

Issues: todo.sr.ht/~gtf/culture-vulture
The entire south is at a much higher risk from wet bulb: https://www.iflscience.com/southern-us-reaches-dangerous-wet... so my point still stands, wet bulb isn’t an issue in Phoenix.
What I really want is extension integration with container tabs, so that I can partition the extensions myself. For example, I probably want my banking container to have no extensions, but my news container to have all of the ad-blockers, link cleaners, etc.
I don't think even Elon knows what he wants to do. He bought Twitter out of spite - as he was active there and did not like all the things that were said about him on the platform.

This was not a "we are going to Mars" moment - it was more of a "I am a petulant child, why does no one like me when I am acting horribly" moment.

Needless to say, there will be fewer takers for a one-way ticket to Mars with this sort of management.
TLDR: just because one person or even a group of them are gullible enough to be fooled by something doesn't mean that that thing is actually indistinguishable enough from consciousness to count as conscious for all intents and purposes, which is the idea behind the Turing Test. Humans tend to anthropomorphize, be trusting and gullible, and the Turing test is a short, limited scenario, with no real larger context in play. To actually figure out if something was indistinguishable enough from a conscious being to count as conscious, you'd have to have a lot of very in depth interacts with it over a long period of time, to really get a sense for how it thinks and operates. And just because something superficially looks conscious doesn't mean it will actually be able to do all the things conscious beings can — i.e., that it will actually be conscious. Nor does it mean that the processes going on under the hood will be the same as what goes on for conscious beings. Nor should bringing up philosophy of mind make you think I'm an LLM, and if it does, that probably means that you can't tell the difference between bullshit and abstraction, which says more about your intelligence than mine.
We make stingray resistant booties! Stingray stings are painful and can be dangerous, and the fear of getting stung can take the enjoyment out of the beach. We’ve mainly targeted surfers so far, but they could be useful for any beach-goer.

Definitely been dealing with the fact that “hardware is hard”. We had a design we were fairly happy with about two years ago, but have been struggling to get it manufactured since then. We’re making progress, but it’s always slow.

Our website is www.mydragonskin.com
This is a very good summary of my own thoughts regarding the Supreme Court ruling.

The American obsession with race in this specific case translates into focusing on a more superficial problem and polarizing the debate, as opposed to finding an easier solution to the bigger problem of ALDC admissions (namely: ban them), which I assume would be less controversial.
Basic fact you don’t seem to grasp is that electricity price in Europe are directly dependent on gas price as the price is governed by the price of the last capacity called which in Europe are gas driven…
Chemical plants but not only as the articles mentioned but glass ceramic etc are using large amount of electricity. The current decrease in electricity usage(that’s not only happening in Germany but throughout all Western Europe) is caused by industrial process moving out of Europe.
There is a lack of consensus, so you get the two sides using procedural details to block each other's efforts.
Let me know how it works for you if you get a chance to try it out. We learned a lot since making Litestream so hopefully it's a big step up! The underlying format of how we're storing snapshots and incremental backups should make restores A LOT faster. Litestream has to replay all WAL writes since the last snapshot whereas LiteFS is able to perform a lot of deduplication and use multi-level compaction to create a minimal set of restore data.
As far as the browser should be concerned, yes it is trusted.

It's up to another layer of security to help the user not install extensions (or any other software) that they do not want on their machine.

This security is a farce anyway. Firefox is installed in the user profile so any sufficiently advanced malware can just patch the firefox binary and embed itself in there or disable this nonsense. The extension shenanigans is just done to take away user control, with the excuse being to protect users from malware.
No, the entire complaint about Facebook and Google is the links themselves. It's not anything about embedding articles (which I don't think either company does). They just show the headline and article metadata provided by the news publishers.
I have another take on this but I think we end up at the same place.

Someone once said that Civilization is defined by our ability to think in the abstract.

Scientists spend most of their time thinking in the abstract. Philosophers too. Designers and teachers are translators from the abstract to the real and back, or at least the good ones are.

Giving scientists 'tools' that reduce abstract thought is a crutch, that when overused will lead to injury.

I don't think that's who Bret is targeting, but if it is I hope he goes back to his first principles soon and doesn't end up where many of us are, working to create something and finding we contributed to the creation of something a lot darker.
I don’t know why this was flagged, because to me it rings very true. I’m from a different country but I have been on the receiving end of poverty and teachers who at least tried to give a damn about their pupils, and some tutors too. At some point I was very surprised to learn that being not fucked up by life and having a teacher who gives a shit can work wonders on you, if circumstances allow.

It’s all about incentives and availability of resources, time and attention. When life gives too many shit lemons to both students and teachers, there’s no breathing room left for any of them to care a little bit more about any taught subject. When teachers are overburdened and children not supported by their environments, they just want to get rid of each other ASAP, and then it’s on parents to berate their kids for not wanting to study because whatever reason.

But if you can unburden both a teacher and a student from hardships of life even just a little bit, somehow a lot of attention and time free up to care about any subject, and explore it in different directions, not necessarily by what’s included in curriculum. Suddenly learning about something and practicing it can be actually fun.

Fun and joy of exploring stuff is so important yet so missing. Having some not even too fat stacks of cash can help with that drastically.
If you know how to value time you don't say stuff like this: the point of time is to live life meaningfully by your own standards (which may or may not align with society's standard)

Our brains all generate relatively the same amount of happy/sad chemicals, so it turns out the satisfaction of winning a nobel peace prize and the satisfaction this person feels fixing their dumpster dived keyboard can only be so different in magnitude.

It's not like doing universally meaningful things unlocks some kind of super-happiness, so there's no reason to shy away from "unmeaningful" things if they bring you joy.
Because water is the universal solvent and NaCl is probably the most readily water-soluble salt. Reversing that state is going to take a lot of work
> The purpose of parties is to put someone in power.

But in a 2 party system, the odds are very good that neither of the parties adequately represents you. That's the problem with it -- no nuance. As a result, every election is about choosing which candidate will do the least damage rather than which candidate will do the most good.
Worked well for us for restructuring 200 people with that. Basically the tech savy people and the ones doing most of the difficult work sketched the interactions and how the project unofficially worked and we restructured along the "real architecture".
ACCU 2023: C++ And Beyond, Panel Discussion [video]
> 1950s

For those of us who missed the 1790s.
On the low end, Twitter could end up paying hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of dollars if compelled into arbitration with thousands of employees who have already filed arbitration demands.

Ok, lets go way higher and say $5m

This is just another stalling tactic, proving Twitter isn't engaging in good faith. This company spends nearly $2B a year just on hosting. They don't give a f about $5m.
> Regular expressions look a lot like Brainfuck.

I'm sorry, have you ever seen a regular expression? No they do not.
This reads like a comment on Canadian politics. afaik this post is very US centric.