skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the pads in this could last a bit longer, so you do it now or in 3-6 months, but the main complaint here seems to be the shop wanting to replacing the rotors. When replacing pads you should either turn the rotors and crack check them (magnaflux) or replace them. Pads and rotors wear together and there's imperfections you can't see with your eye and cracks you can't feel that develop. There's no way to eyeball a rotor as flat.

Unfortunately shops almost never turn rotors and many don't have the machine anymore because the cost of the time to turn rotors isn't saving anything over replacement with current labor prices. This is why a lot of previously fixable things are now just replaced.

Failing to machine the rotors flat or replace them will cause any new pads to wear more quickly and be safety hazard. Of all the things to not cheap out on when maintaining car is the braking system.

It really seemed you got mechanics that knew what to do because they were giving you correct information but they had no idea why it's done that way now.
The wording is ambiguous, but probably should apply. Also the rule should not be based on HTTP verbs at all since that's the wild west.
Reminded of Hyper https://hyper.is/
It's a lot easier to keep a gas furnace running on a generator for an extended period of time than a heat pump.
In addition to other responses, an instance shutting down has historically validated the concept of decentralization. Instance announces, people export, choose another instance, thank the old one for its service. I've seen this a couple of times now. Zero drama.
all I want, is the number of contributions in the last year, like GitHub has:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/22578

its just one number, I just wish they could add this one little thing so I could move away from GitHub once and for all. even CodeBerg has it:

https://codeberg.org/teddit?tab=activity
First impression so far:

- Migrating profile and social graph from Instagram is frictionless.

- Federation is not enabled, and my guess is it’s disabled last minute, bc when you type <at>id<at>server, the first <at> is deleted in your post completely.

- The visibility control is different from most ActivityPub implementations like Mastodon and etc, but more like Twitter’s . Kinda makes sense from business perspective, but will be tricky to see how this works across federated ActivityPub servers.
Time appeared to move 5 times more slowly in first billion years after Big Bang
Note: I found my current project through this monthly thread few months ago.

Location: Japan

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I am also part of a network of Japanese and Foreigner freelancers, with varying English and Japanese language ability, that provides services in software development domain.
Additionally, there here some long context 30B models on huggigface now. For instance:

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/GPlatty-30B-SuperHOT-8K-GGML

https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Vicuna-33B-1-3-SuperHOT-8K-G...

These will work with 8K context on even a modest system, thanks to Koboldcpp. 16K context is more exotic atm.
> Then if we do, who is paying for it.

Simple, whoever wants the news.

> In your analogy, Meta & Alphabet are installing a patio in front of the coffee shops, and offer samples of the most popular latte of the day for free and you can get as many as you want.

Nah, the right analogy is Meta/Google drive a large bus of customers (only a fraction with tickets) to the coffee shop and not everyone goes into the shop. News orgs are then asking Google to pay them for Google driving the bus.
A tale I have heard several times:

- Company admits to using FreeBSD.

- Christian groups who are shareholders complain at the execs

- FreeBSD is no longer used at the company.

CockroachDB has a similar naming problem, though that tends to be the execs themselves objecting.
>When your mind is holding items in working memory, that means that it has less space to focus and execute effectively on the main task at hand.

>Just writing things down gives some resolution of that task/thought so that we can fully show up for our main thing.

Anecdotal but there was a time in my life not too long ago where I found myself stressed out because I had so many life admin tasks to do but would also have to remember not only the task, but what I had to do, when I could do it, how far along it was. I was unable to sleep properly and day to day tasks were being affected.

It sounds so bloody simple in hindsight, but simply writing them into a kanban style app removed a lot of this stress. Every time I remembered I had to do something new I would just add it to the board. I also have issues with starting these tasks so while it's never going to be finished, at least the tasks are there and not in my brain
I don't think I've ever read through the Nvidia binary drivers that way. (They're named *.run but are basically shar files)
I don’t think this is what the author is complaining about. It seems like he’s bothered by the example of fair use provided in the notice: “One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be ‘used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.’” What he’s complaining about is that fair use law allows copies for “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching”, but the notice doesn’t mention those.

The article really does seem like breathless muck-raking. Yeah there are subtleties, and yes the notice isn’t totally clear (perhaps because that would make it really long and harder to understand by non-lawyers), but the author insists on interpreting the language “study, scholarship, or research” to be exhaustive and complete, where I read it from the beginning to be simply an example of fair use. The notice actually is pretty clear it’s just saying the copies must adhere to fair use, which kinda clears up the whole problem the author is trying to inflate. The notice says explicitly “in excess of ‘fair use’”, so why is the author jumping to some conclusion that the notice meant something other than fair use?
Are you arguing that we would have been just as slow in 1955 if "There were existing infrastructure or residents to deal with"?

The whole point of this article is that we should aspire to be better, faster, more relisilient to failures, less bureaucratic and efficient. My gut sense (subjective) is that we profoundly suck today at doing anything aspirational. But, nitpicking each of the examples as many comments here are doing, is IMO missing the point. I don't think Patrick is trying to be super objective here besides trying to be as accurate as possible with sources/number of days it took to build those projects. It is kind of silly to say "Oh, they didn't have X, Y and Z in 1955" because you cannot accurately judge what would have happened if X, Y and Z were actually the impediments in 1955. I used 1955 as an arbitrary year to illustrate the point.
Or possibly break the delicate homeostasis of our oceans, potentially endangering the oxygen cycle and all complex plant and animal life on earth.

No biggie.
I'm part of the cult, LV has some unique and quality items that are only available there, especially for woodworking and kitchen. Durable items that will last a lifetime, clear concise description, no BS website.

I had to call once for some backordered item and was pleasantly surprised that someone just picked up the phone, no automated system, no wait time.
I think it can simply be a google sheet?
Like, no, dude, it's totally sensical, historical, documented and written down for all time, part of the patent system of the United States and even if its dissatisfactional... it's actually really, truly, factual:

https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/14694/mp4-h-264-pa...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA

https://www.osnews.com/story/23299/why-flash-dissatisfies-me...
Heat pumps might work at -40c, but all the efficiency gains are lost and it's going to cost a fortune.
This is because the technology of the time severely limited the number of available channels. You’ve enumerated only three, but there weren’t many more than that. Clearly there are more than three points of view, so these laws helped balance things out until the technology for more channels arrived.
> and most people are actually pretty happy with not doing anything other than watching YouTube and playing video games.

Are you this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYoKRS_eWZY
It’s well known that Mac trackpads are a mile beyond everyone else’s (Microsoft’s Surface trackpads, for me, come closest, but still not close).

That’s not really in dispute.. the question is: why?
Not random, right? ZFS compression doesn't (at present; there have been unmerged proposals to try otherwise) care about the other records for calculating whether to try compressing something, and it would be a much more invasive change to actually change what it compresses with rather than a go/no-go decision.

As far as wasteful - not really? It might be possible to be more efficient (as I kept saying in my talk about it, I really swear this shouldn't work in some cases), but LZ4 is so much cheaper than zstd-1 is so much cheaper than the higher levels of zstd, that I tried making a worst-case dataset out of records that experimentally passed both "passes" but failed the 12.5% compression check later, and still, the amount of time spent on compressing was within noise levels compared to without the first two passes, because they're just that much cheaper.

I tried this on Raspberry Pis, I tried this on the single core single thread SPARC I keep under my couch, I tried this on a lot of things, and I couldn't find one where this made the performance worse by more than within the error bars across runs.

(And you can't use zstd-fast for this, it's a much worse second pass or first pass.)
I dunno, it might half way be protecting the Middle East from Israel as much as the other way around.

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/friends-...

Sort answer, they're a staunch ally providing security, intelligence and economic partnerships.
“The thief”: When your approach to open source is that you close pull requests and merge the diff manually under your own name.

So many large corporate-run projects do this and, while I’m sure there are some compliance reasons, it just looks dodgy.
I've read and enjoyed Dealers of Lightning. However, I feel compelled to note that Alan Kay did an AMA here in 2016 [1], and said [2]:

"Dealers of Lightning" is not the best book to read (try Mitchell Waldrop's "The Dream Machine").

I've not yet read Waldrop's book. It's on my to-read shelf.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940756
You don’t need a stuffy to satisfy. You have fingers and a tongue and toys as options. You won’t disappoint!
The red squares kill you if you touch them.

I was curious.
Suggested:

"The useless": posted a message like 'x is broken'. No screenshots, no error logs, nothing.
U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says Japan can release nuclear wastewater into the ocean
> The photo you take involved choices of composition and timing and equipment choice.

And the AI image involved choices of prompt and model, and subsequent selection from among several generated images.

I recognize that what you said here:

> Your prompt for the AI image generation is copyrightable.

> The output is not.

... probably represents the state of the law at the moment (with meaningful amounts of uncertainty), but I don't think there's a principled difference based on the amount or nature of creativity involved. IMO the equivalent would be "you own the specification of (position, equipment, relevant world state) but not the photo" which obviously doesn't do anything we want for photography. And I guess that's a part of my point. We should pick the policy we want to make sure we capture the incentives we want. Maybe it is best that AI assisted art (past some point?) not be copyrightable. But I don't think basing the distinction on the amount or nature or... propagation (I guess?) of creativity makes any sense in distinguishing flippant and bullshit photographs (at least a third of my photos, although I would hesitate to apply the labels to any particular photo by someone else) from prompt-driven generative works.
For something small. I would take a data.bin file rather than a build process.
But yes.
It could, but for ZFS, I believe it still uses all the same machinery either way, it just short circuits a lot of paths.
https://blog.drgriffin.com.au

Of interest to the HN crowd are probably these posts:

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-07-31-cracking-the-...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2021-07-12-prioritizing-...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-28-servers-in-se...

- https://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2021-01-13-facts-will-no...
As someone who is on the same path as you, many years/hours behind, thanks for sharing.
https://www.inttodouble.com/

The loose theme is intended to be how making incremental improvements in the thousands of tiny things we do each day compound to make a difference over the course of our lives.

In practice, it serves more as a publishing ground for a bunch of random things that need to be put on paper/into code.
https://zchry.org/words
SpaceX launches every 3 to 4 days. There has been no shortage of F9 for a long time. Also, the majority of SpaceX’s launches are for Starlink, not US’s government. SpaceX would gladly bump those launches for paying customers. The Euclid mission that occurred last week was only booked in December 2022, extremely short lead time for a commercial launch.

Independent space launch capability isn’t an issue. Clinging to obsolete technologies is. Ariane 6 was still on the drawing board when F9 landed for the 1st time. Since then F9 has landed consecutively - yes landing - more times than consecutive launches of any other rockets. Almost twice the number for Ariane 5. All occurred in the last 7 years, compare to 30 years for Ariane 5. Yet Europe refuse to revise the design. Now they are looking at a design that wouldn’t be competitive with F9, a decade later.
Chomsky? No, but I also like Chomsky's perspective on most matters. He's more often correct than not.
I think the idea would be to be support a way to set that HTTP URL via an API, not requiring use of an iOS/Android app?

I imagine this might be a case of documentation and support as supposedly the app is already using the API endpoints we'd like to have.
If we could make cheap small nuclear reactors I don’t think drinking water availability would even be a thing we talk about near coasts.
Thanks - I’m currently importing the whole list into Feedly, which I’ll probably regret. The user experience is so hilariously bad compared to social medias, and I’m finding it funny that today Meta has released their new threads app.

Anyway currently over 500 new uncategorised feeds have appeared. I’ve seen some German, Vietnamese and Russian blog posts, it’s total mayhem.

Lol

Update: total feeds imported 692, loads and loads of errors
What sort of Turing complete systems are you thinking of?
First real programming lesson was tic-tac-toe. I figured out a more efficient logic flow than the one proposed by the teacher.

More recently: Realising that the two senior guys who had been there for 20 years had basically created an incomprehensible clown car of spaghetti code that not even they understood.
MedusaJS is a nice modular choice
No. But what kind of evidence do you have to push this prediction?
Another scheme these PE groups have concocted is using their regional monopolies to force hospitals and surgery centers to pay an outrageous annual “stipend” for the “privilege” of letting them provide anesthesia. This is in addition to the traditional insurance billings mentioned in the article. However, I think (hope) we’ve reached peak PE intrusion in medicine with increased scrutiny like this article creates, coupled with laws passed to outlaw “surprise out of network billing” (a big tool they were using to boost their bottom line), and physician disillusionment as they realize they ended up working as a cog in the wheels of Walmart medicine. Medical practice is a weird market, revenues are pretty much fixed to Medicare with marginal flexibility in insurance contracts (you can’t just double what you charge), so the main way these firms extract value is through cost cutting (using their market power to pay physicians and mid level providers less, skimp on support staff, etc). Doctors, while typically not great business men, aren’t dumb and can tell when they are getting screwed. With upcoming ftc regulations to curtail noncompetes, a lot these docs can actually bail out, so hopefully private equity has had its day.
Do you think that Mastodon.social and other big instances won't federate with Threads?
> But the life of a grad student in a large public university can come with much more financial instability and heavier teaching loads from day one

Depends on whether you won federal grants though, although most of those end up thrown at PHD students from Ivys and Stanford (sadly?).
Science and Religion Have Never Been Enemies
I think you need to "Slack Off" more than once when your hope is low.

I wonder if there are other issues you can get e.g. if you slack off too much but your hope is still low, it just stops working.
The - now free - Datomic (https://www.datomic.com) or the open source XTDB (https://www.xtdb.com) can provide instant access to your data at any point in time. Even to different points in time within a single query, without the concept of a "DB restore" operation.

So if your main use-case of restoring a DB from the past is to run analytical queries on it, then you should probably consider these solutions instead.

These systems rely on other databases to store their data, so they inherit the backup capabilities of those databases.

Would be interesting to consider, if they could benefit from using SQLite as a backend instead of H2DB/DynamoDB/Postgres or RocksDB/LMDB/Xodus/JDBC.
Using a fractional distillation column you can also separate filtered sea water into water vapor and brine, at equal pressure, with the brine appropriately hotter so the vapor pressure of water over the brine is the same as over the salt-free water droplets that form on the cold end.

You'd then have to compress the water vapor until it condenses barely hotter than the brine, and use both distilled water and residual brine at their approximately equal temperature (water at higher pressure than brine, though) in ofc separate counter-flow heat exchangers to pre-heat the filtered source (sea) water to the column's operating temperature (i.e., where the source water just starts boiling at the column's operating pressure (you want a decent vapor pressure to have a reasonable vapor density and thus feasible power density for capex reasons)).

Thermodynamically this should match a reverse-osmosis process with equal input/output parameters (I left out that you need pumps/turbines to "losslessly" adapt liquid between ambient pressure and internal operating pressure).

One benefit would be that you could directly heat the brine with solar thermal collectors, to get away without having to compress the vapor to condense it, essentially an open-cycle Type-1 absorption heat pump, with solar feed. (Lacking an evaporator, with the condensed output being the desired pure water, and the absorber being fed with source sea water while the return from the generator after the heat exchanger is just warm brine for discharging. If water and brine need to be sub-ambient, you'd evaporate part of the condensed water to chill both the condensate and the brine output streams. That'd be partially-open-cycle.)
For me it was when I was able to complete a task that involved a lot of pieces outside of my normal daily flow.

I started as a full stack co-op, but 95% of the work was React. Then we wanted to implement Cypress to do fully E2E testing.

That led my to dig into CI (Circle), Docker, AWS, Redshift, Security Groups, networking. To make the test truly end-to-end, we had to spin up about a dozen containers, several databases, connect to Redshift. All those things were very, very strange to me and very scary.

Luckily nobody wanted to touch those things, so the task was up for grabs and my manager allowed my to try (since I was a co-op, there was not a lot of pressure to deliver other projects).

When I was done I realized that I was not just a JS/React dev, but I could dig in to other complex things and figure them out. My confidence shot through the roof and after that I wanted to work on all big projects available. Ended up switching to a backend team that does completely different tasks from my original one.
I just copy pasted all my notes into Obsidian, which doesn’t constantly nag me to subscribe
Banning recording private conversations without consent by one of the conversation members was always weird to me because of the “chilling effect” it has in people’s minds about recording perfectly legal things, or potential criminal behavior. Do I really want to record that domestic incident for use in a divorce later? What if it backfires? Should I really record my boss saying that? What if there’s a 20% chance it backfires? Etc.
NoMoreCookies: Protection against browser stealers/rats
i made a new github project called NoMoreCookies that protects users from the new stealers that are being released in the wild. it support protection for various browsers like: Firefox, MS Edge, Brave, Yandex, Chrome, Opera. and it's are being actively updated to mitigate any kind of bypass that attackers may try to implement if the tool got more popular. i thought of releasing such a tool cause a lot of stealers are being made and people channels are getting stolen and i thought that this is the time i make something that would prevent/slowing down the development of new stealers significantly and also making old ones obsolete.

you can find NoMoreCookies here: https://github.com/AdvDebug/NoMoreCookies

any feedback or suggestions are appreciated.
That's what I mean with let's figure it out and stick to execution. Production will probably not meet demand at first, but we need to get going. And we need to get going big.

- Let's make it mandatory to install fixed solar systems for new development areas and any newly build commercial buildings. The state will subsidize 90% of the cost for the initial setup for private households, for companies it's just a tax deductible expense.

- You want to retrofit your existing house with a fixed solar system? That's 90% subsizidation for you, too!

- You have a multi-party house (details needed) or a professional housing company? You'll have to retrofit your buildings in 5 years of time from now on.

- Let's retrofit all public buildings with solar systems. No excuses, execution asap.

- The state will encourage research and development of energy storage sytems by providing funds to universities etc.

We'll also need to have lots of laws changed and have our energy companies put in to place, but if the cost is low for the individual person, people will just make this happen.

Yeah, it will cost some money, but the money is there, it's just an allocation problem.
I think it sounds quite sensible. How is it different from using all fresh water as an all you can dump free-for-all public sewage system before wondering where the drink is coming from? In India they poop in the water then take a bath in it and cook their food in it. In the west we do our pooping upstream because it looks so much cleaner that way. NO! I fail to see how adding salt before desalination is any less sensible. Lets just do it.