skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it would suck or not, it’s really the only place where laws the rules would be what the law actually is —-Truly free speech and a platform where people can legitimately vote and be part of the rule making process.

Having a public competitor to private enterprise only improves things like a properly funded USPS over UPS/FedEx or even banking.
It does seem logical that if you sail under the flag of the Bahamas perhaps you should be calling the Bahamian Navy to rescue you from these glorified pirates.
A simple change if you don't want to change it too much eg. moving away from passwords would be to use a sponge function instead of a hash and and squeeze out the same number of bits as the plaintext.
Neat! Ordered a pair. I especially love the dishwasher safety and lead-free elements
And we’ll be informed of their findings by the technical writing team in detailed release notes.
The best hackers I saw learned some turing complete system when they were children without having been taught the concept of programming. I guess for them "take the first step from being a tinkerer to being a skilled craftman" was when they learned that there is a whole field of study for bending those turing complete systems to your will. Then they spend like one day or week binge reading a programming book and understand all of it, because they solved much weirder and harder systems for fun.
Reading this makes me think I guessed the right way going “all-in” on Remix vs Next. It was a guess, but it’s just so much more intuitive and web standards friendly, serverless friendly, browser friendly…
Ask HN: Streaming reading academic CS papers?
I've been thinking about livestreaming reading papers from conferences like (https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi23), OSDI (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi23), and (soon) SOSP (https://sosp2023.mpi-sws.org/index.html).

Do folks think this would be interesting or have suggestions on approach/content?
"This Apple II is useless. It can't even run Crysis."
That's a plausible number. Pre-Elon Twitter's ARPU was $4-5, with about 500M users. If Twitter pays $1.5B to support 0.5B users, they about break even after other costs.

ARPU is very deceptive for evaluating ad revenue since regions pay very differently, but OK for this purpose.
But gerrit is open source, not proprietary. In fact, github is a proprietary platform that we shouldn't make essential to FOSS projects.
GitHub has been working on this recently and made pretty significant improvements with the new Org Projects and Tasklists in issues.

Project management for my day job happens entirely in GitHub and while it’s not perfect, it’s significantly better than it was even 12 months ago.
Rarely updated, but here it is https://boxunix.com
Well then clearly the computer will hold everyone hostage.

Have we literally forgotten how physical possession of the device is the ultimate trump card?

Get thee to a 13th century monastery!
>It's actually pretty horrifying, because blaming video games suggest that they have no idea what is the real reason for those riots.

The Macron quote I heard didn't blame video games. Macron said that social media encouraged rioters to riot, and that while doing so they felt the rush that they had felt while playing video games.
The Simpsons were designed as the typical american family in every way. When the writers invented them having a family trust they were making a statement that such trusts are commonplace and normal in American society, at least normal enough that the audience would understand the concept. Thirty years ago very few average people would have even known the word. Things have changes since the series started.
In the trades in the US we would exclusively use the term heat pump to describe a system where the “indoor” or “outdoor” coil can change from condenser or evaporator depending setting. Us HVAC guys would generally call a conventional system a conventional DX system (for direct exchange rather than chiller) or a split system (like a mini-split, minus the mini).
What do you think about spending $1k on a phone?

My question is why it's $1000 and not $999.
https://leblancfg.com

TILs mostly about Python & vim
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I understand correctly. Do you mean a) examples for increasing frequency of weather extremes? Or b) present day damages attributed to climate change (which can only be attributed in probability: this heat wave is X times more likely thanks to human emissions..)

If it's a), examples are that the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the past 13 years; also increasing are the volatility of rainfall, the likelihood, duration, and intensity of heat waves, the arctic temperature, the temperature in the tundra, the acidity in the oceans, etc..

If it's b) you can look at area of bush and forest fires, duration of droughts, areas of flooding, desertification etc. which are all increasing, and which cause tangible damage.

Of course you have a good point; it's nontrivial to "distribute" the damage of, say, the flood in Pakistan last year, into: climate change, bad urban planning, high population density, bad political response etc. But the bottom line is: the climate is changing quicker than we are adapting to it. The fact that many factors come together, and that it's complicated, doesn't mean that this isn't a factor.

I think one of the main misconceptions is that the discussion is too centred on average global temperature, or average rainfall. It's the increasing frequency of wild fluctuations (droughts, floods, heat waves) that creates the challenges.

If you like I can dig out references etc., I just wasn't sure what kind of specific examples you were looking for.
RSC feel like a poorly-documented 0.5 beta filled with endless breaking changes being pushed as default for some inexplicable reason.
AI failure is how I explain it. I would say Photoshop failure, but her hands have the classic tell.
Yeah, losing your thumb on the only hand you have left is rough. There are prosthetics, but the thumb is extremely important for overall functionality of the hand.
Tip for everyone bothered by the font

document.getElementById('message_window').style.fontFamily = 'Times New Roman'
As AI cheating booms, so does the industry detecting it
achievement name: "I'm more of an idea person" or perhaps "chop-chop"
I'm a person who thinks very deeply about stuff and that often includes latching on to something that was either said or I thought of during a conversation and then zoning out and thinking about that (just for context).

When I was younger I was single and almost never had passengers in my car. I rarely talked on my phone (before we were forced to be hands free) but occasionally I would and I'd say overall did not find having it in my hand a particular distraction (honestly what would that have to do with anything).

Anyway, I remember when "bans" came into effect and put my phone on bluetooth. I was talking to my mom on the speakerphone in the car, and suddenly realized I'd gone through a red light, and realized I'd better hang up and drive.

Tldr, for me anyway it's being on the phone that's distracting because it, as mentioned above, gets me thinking about other stuff, and I actually find talking to the air more confusing than either phone to ear or a person in the car. Though I routinely tell my wife to stop talking when I'm driving in traffic (I don't mean this as a joke) because I find it too distracting to be involved in conversation when I need to think about driving. Obviously I'm a shitty multitasker but I suspect this is true to some extent for most people.
Most Fortune 100 companies are competitive now, and the most money is extremely meaningless.
Are you sure that Perl took it from ruby and not the other way around?

(edit: a subsequent correction has obsoleted this comment)
When you start, you suck. There’s no magical “moment of insight” that suddenly takes you from basically worthless to “vital for the success of the company”. It’s just practice.

For me, I just worked ridiculous hours to compensate for the suckage, read books, listened to podcasts (when that became a thing), programmed at home, read through the code, looked at the code history (code archeology). Eventually you get good and you know you’re good because you can compare your output to those around you.

The secret to surviving the early stage is to recognise that a career is a marathon, not a sprint, and gain joy from the small incremental improvements you make. Everyone above should have worked with plenty of juniors and are just looking for people who are getting better.
Is Twitter really “in chaos?”? I still use it every day, all the content I care about is still on there, sometimes they have glitches like the rate limit thing, but realistically.. it still works fine despite the narrative
Converting an A/C to a heat pump is a bit like upgrading an old Lenovo laptop to a modern CPU. It’s surely doable, and the parts are unlikely to be terribly expensive, but as a practical matter it’s pretty specialized and no one does it.

What you do is wait for the A/C to hit end of life (or end of efficient life if new systems are enough more efficient) and replace it outright.

(I once got a quote, in an expensive market, to add an A/C to an existing furnace and, separately, to remove the furnace and add a three-head multi-split heat pump. The two quotes were almost the same price. The equipment is not especially expensive.)
I was trying to find heat pump adoption rates for Europe and US.

Seems like its still pretty low in Europe outside some northern countries. Germany is less than 2000/100000 people.

https://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/heat-pumps/top-countries

Meanwhile this link says US has a 15% adoption rate across all income groups. That seems higher than I expected.

https://energypost.eu/u-s-heat-pump-adoption-is-evenly-sprea...

Is there a better source on heat pump adoption rate in Europe and US?
It's still surprising when you see it do something like this for the first time.

I wrote a plugin to give ChatGPT access to execute plugins in a Docker container [0]. The first time it said something like "I'm going to use Python for this, oh, it's not installed, I'll install it now and run the script I just made", I was pretty amazed.

What I've come to realise is that although ChatGPT is excellent at telling _people_ how to interact with systems, it's not very good at interacting with them itself, as it isn't trained to understand it's own limitations. For example it knows people can run dmesg and look at the last few lines to debug some system problems. But if ChatGPT ran dmesg, the output would blow through the context window length and it'd get confused.

[0] https://github.com/dave1010/pandora
Same for me. Maybe the scraper choked on pagination, maybe they just took a snapshot before we posted.
at first I thought of "the stranger" but maybe a bit on the nose.
Good point. ChatGPT should be used strategically
https://issue.freebsdfoundation.org/publication/?m=33057&i=7...

This part of FreeBSD history in Japan is also very interesting to read.
Author here. We run LiteFS in production for several services internally. The recent issue was pretty rare and it took a while just to be able to reproduce it. There's always going to be bugs in all software. Hopefully they just become increasingly more rare.

As for "production ready", it's tough to define. It's more a question of risk tolerance. I authored a database called BoltDB about ten years ago and there wasn't a point in time where it suddenly crossed into being production ready. At first, it was used for temporary or cached data. Then people used it for derived data like analytics. And eventually it matured enough that it became a commonplace database in the Go ecosystem. It's in tools like etcd which, in turn, is built into systems like Kubernetes.

I expect LiteFS will see similar a similar adoption pattern and eventually move into more and more risk-adverse applications as it continues to mature. LiteFS Cloud aims to help mitigate risk by having streaming backups & point-in-time recovery.
What's the process, though? The "dissolving" is presumably rusting and then motion of water washing away the rust, but rust requires an oxygen source for the chemical reaction, and apparently Super Kamiokande has dissolved oxygen specifically removed using a vacuum degasifier to prevent interference and growth of bacteria.

I'm not feeling particularly convinced by this anecdote. It sounds a bit urban legendy. Still, I won't claim more than a high-school knowledge of Chemistry so I'm eager for someone to correct me and supply an explanation.
Interestingly, the ChatGPT Plugin docs [1] say that POST operations like these are required to implement user confirmation, so you might blame the plugin implementation (or OpenAI's non-enforcement of the policy) in this case:

> for POST requests, we require that developers build a user confirmation flow to avoid destruction actions

However, at least from what I can see, the docs don't provide much more detail about how to actually implement confirmation. I haven't played around with the plugins API myself, but I originally assumed it was a non-AI-driven technical constraint, maybe a confirmation modal that ChatGPT always shows to the user before any POST. From a forum post I saw [2], though, it looks like ChatGPT doesn't have any system like that, and you're just supposed to write your manifest and OpenAPI spec in a way that tells ChatGPT to confirm with the user. From the forum post, it sounds like this is pretty fragile, and of course is susceptible to prompt injection as well.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/introduction

[2] https://community.openai.com/t/implementing-user-confirmatio...
Also the flight was at night and the broken blades were on the inside, so not sure if you could even visually confirm it in any way.
this is such a hacker news article. your autistic childishness is actually a superpower with its own japanese word.
You're not wrong — Go is awesome at this, and on paper it's generally a better tool for the job. I had to write a CLI tool that did a ton of concurrent fetching and processing with interactive retries, pausing, and other nasty UX stuff that would have been misery in TypeScript compared to Go, but I had it working well inside of a week. I don't think the same would be true of something I'd make with Deno, or at least not with the same performance.

Yet I can model solutions better in TypeScript, I work faster most of the time, I find the people I work with tend to understand complex TypeScript projects far more readily than complex Go projects, and some tooling (certainly not all) can be nicer in TypeScript land. There are definitely trade-offs. There are some go-to packages I love to use and fit my habits extremely well in that ecosystem though, so that's a welcome benefit for me personally.

If I had to build something very fast, reliable, more readily portable, and well-suited to Go's strengths, I wouldn't hesitate to use it. For something smaller or far nicer to model with TypeScript's type system, or with a team that isn't up to speed with Go, I'll seriously consider Deno without feeling like it's a major compromise.
>You're assuming that people who are admitted to Ivy League schools a) have higher IQs than average and b) have parents with higher IQs than average.

>Neither of these need to be true.

As George Orwell said, "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool".
Stackful vs stackless, that's the big difference and the point of the original comment. Stackful abstractions are strictly more powerful of stackless ones (go coroutines subsume async/await but not viceversa).

You can have good ergonomics and performance with stackful cooperatively scheduled tasks instead of a stackless sync/await abstraction.

Async/await makes sense when you have so many tasks that you cant afford to dedicate a full stack to each of them and segmented stacks or heap allocated frames are not an option (for performance or compatibility).
wow that’s insane. i replaced an oil furnace with a new oil furnace + heat pump hybrid system for 7k in a high COL area.
Agreed, but why should we care whether Google was able to acquire service X or Y?

(It's one of my pet peeves when people elide the massive amount of innovation that happens in small companies which then gets conglomerated under one of 5 massive brands.)

I'd argue that Google's one major innovation is the ad-supported free business model for most of these services. From a casual skim, it looks like most of the revenue for the company that built what became Earth was from the military. Google took that and made it "free" for regular people.
> Germans tend to do stuff right when they do it.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport enters the chat
What's concerning to me is literally every single MP except the conservatives voted for the bill, including my local NDP rep, and not only is it's premise absurd, but they made a huge bet on it working and risked our access to public news sources. Therefore, every non-conservative member of parliament was in-favour of an idiotic bill that compromised a fairly important seri s contemporary ways to access even their own publicly funded content. If people were to be single-issue-voters at all—usually with their issue only ever representing some hypothetical tenuous outcome—now might be a more appropriate time than ever.
Exactly. It's actually a pretty smart move by the feds.

New/increased taxes are extremely unpopular. This way they get all the benefits of shiny new social programs spending without getting the bad press of higher taxes.
Right, but if someone mentions passwords in a non-technical context like a random Twitter threat, it's possible they mean the hashes.
Yes, but the US doesn't patrol international waters to protect the people or ships that pass through it. They do it to protect their own economy back home. The fact that someone flying the Bahamian flag just happened to be helped was a side effect.
My code phrase is "just a minute" -- a phrase I developed a habit for when people want to interrupt me at work when I'm not in a place where I can safely pause.
There are humans with a 70-IQ point advantage over me. Should I worry that a cohort of supergeniuses is plotting an existential demise for the rest of us? No? There are power structures and social safeguards going back thousands of years to forestall that very possibility?

Well, what's different now?
Blue-Sky Thinking
It's been 15 years and we have 50 miles of guideway complete, with 39 more underway; 41 structures complete, and 29 more underway¹.

Some of the completed structures include:

- The Cedar Viaduct, a 3,700-foot-long bridge over State Route 99 in Fresno, which features a signature double arch design².

- The Hanford Viaduct, a 3,300-foot-long bridge over the Kings River and State Route 43 in Kings County, which is the longest structure in Construction Package 2-3²⁴.

- The San Joaquin River Viaduct, a 4,700-foot-long bridge over the San Joaquin River and North Avenue in Fresno County, which includes a pergola structure to allow future trains to cross over the existing BNSF Railway tracks²³.

- The Tuolumne Street Bridge, a two-way bridge that spans the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and future high-speed rail tracks in downtown Fresno²³.

- The Fresno Trench and State Route 180 Passageway, a two-mile-long trench that will carry high-speed trains under several streets in Fresno, including State Route 180²³.

It's nowhere near 5,000, but this whole CAHSR isn't going anywhere... it's going! Slowly but surely. Would I like it to be done before I have grandkids? Absolutely. As the proverb goes though: Blessed Are Those Who Plant Trees Under Whose Shade They Will Never Sit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_of_California_Hig....

[2] https://hsr.ca.gov/about/project-update-reports/2023-project....

[3] https://hsr.ca.gov/2023/05/11/video-release-high-speed-rail-....

[4] https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/high-speed-rail/article...

(Not to reuse my comment from upthread, but.)
I had a dream the other day that we started generating electricity with steam engines using ocean water, then collected the steam for potable water
>There's diminishing returns to intelligence and inherent unknowns to all moves the serf can make.

Even if there was, there's no reason at all to think those returns are anywhere near the upper limit of human intelligence.

Wheels are far more energy efficient and faster than legs, steel more resilient than tortoise shell or rhino skin, motors more powerful than muscles, aircraft fly higher and faster than birds, ladders reach higher than Giraffes much more easily, bulldozers dig faster than any digging creature, speakers and airhorns are louder than any animal cry or roar, ancient computers remember more raw data than humans do, electronics can react faster than human reactions etc.

To be so sure intelligence would be some exception seems like hubris.
The whole blog post is written as though a major engineering effort has taken place, which a) might have happened, but that would be odd from what is shown in the screenshots, or b) hasn't happened, but is the sort of major transformational change that UX consultancies churn 'em out to speak about. And, as you say, almost all of seem almost entirely focused on UI design.
You have a better class of passengers than I! I've never had one that was helpful in such a way (although I've had a few that thought they were.)
A "few failures as part of otherwise useful regulation" sounds an awful lot like some innocent victims exists, treated as guilty.
Treating the (presumed) innocent as though guilty, by regulation even, doesn't sound all that good. In fact, seems there in fact are profound and relevant principles to not accept that.
Yes modern day a/c is usually a heatpump. I’ve noticed a lot of people misunderstanding heat pumps, and thinking it’s some sort of replacement for A/C. Or that heat pumps are some new tech.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but in this context, wasn't the Iranian ship’s action an act of piracy?
What exactly are US ships doing 10,000 miles from home?
posting that comment with that username is meta-ironic
Are you able to name a couple, or even one, if multiple are too hard?
Suggested: Achievement for excessively locking conversations[1]

[1] https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements...
No, the lab-grade stuff is still borosilicate, only the consumer products were gimped.
In my local market, if you ask an installer for a heat pump, you get something from Japan or Korea. I’ve never encountered an American unit.

(I’m referring to normal air-to-refrigerant-to-air heat pumps. I know of a really weird system that is thoroughly American and an utter pain in the arse to replace because it’s specialized and undocumented. It’s quite loud, too, because it’s single-speed, and that single speed is waaaaay too high.)
kind of cool if you think about it. ChatGPT could later on train that thread back into its knowledge base and become even smarter.