skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been an erstwhile FreeBSD user since v2.x (ca. December 1996),
running FreeBSD on my own machines since v4.x (ca 2001), and started
using it as my primary laptop/desktop daily driver since v5.3 (ca.
November 2004). Prior to that, SunOS/Solaris was my drug of choice.

In the past, I would update the OS and ports religiously, sometimes
rebuilding world and packages on a weekly basis. I've never once
experienced any bumpiness between v5.x and v8.x (or any other version,
but see my comments on v13 below). The OS has always been rock solid.

I have occasionally experienced some package issues, usually when
upgrading a port that had lagging dependencies -- some packages written
in PHP come readily to mind. The number of times this has happened is
more than 2 and less than 6, and in each of those cases, using
portdowngrade and waiting it out a few weeks did the trick.

Apart from OS-independent hardware issues, the only real FreeBSD issue
that I've ever encountered was in the v12->v13 upgrade. If you were
running ZFS, there was a gpart bootcode command you needed to run as
part of the upgrade process, which I sometimes forgot to do, which
caused the post-upgrade reboot to hang. Normally this wouldn't be a big
deal, you just insert the rescue CD and run the command and be on your
way 2 minutes later; but at that time I had a number of my servers
running on a VPS provider that didn't allow you to mount your own ISO,
so I had to wipe the machine and reinstall the OS from scratch and
restore stuff from backups. I don't really count this as a FreeBSD issue
per se, just an obtuse service provider. (I've since moved most of my
digital properties oceans away from that company.)

Nowadays I upgrade the OS and packages far less frequently. I upgrade
the OS with every minor release and also if there are any security
issues that affect me. I upgrade the packages every couple of months, or
if there is a bugfix that affects me, or if I need a new feature only
available in a newer release.

Since I started using it, there have been a number of developments that
have made my FreeBSD life so much better: cperciva's portsnap and
freebsd-update, pkg-ng, and of course the biggest one: ZFS. All of these
allow me to maintain and upgrade the systems very easily.

I stick with FreeBSD because of its consistency and ease of use, so I'd
be curious to know what you mean by "bumpy"?
It’s a typical size for a heat pump in a US home: https://www.amana-hac.com/products/heat-pumps/18-seer-aszc18...

My understanding is that improved low temperature performance has something to do with varying the amount of refrigerant in the loop: https://www.mitsubishicomfort.com/articles/keep-warm-this-wi...
>> I also pose this as a completely honest question, as I don't really know if you wiped out every desert ecosystem with solar/desal/etc if it'd actually affect anything else.

Presumably, you believe that there is something amongst all that "anything else" that has intrinsic importance. Perhaps for you it is humanity in general. Perhaps just yourself and your own family.

Whatever something you might value intrinsically is fundamentally arbitrary. Why not me and my family? Why not other great apes besides humans?

Arbitrarily, I value (desert) ecosystems as having value in their own right. Biodiversity is an intrinsic good, with no further justification required.
Which is kind of bonkers when you think about how much complexity there is in the gray matter upstairs, so many neurons, yet just 5-7 items in the cache at a time.

Jim Keller raised this point in one of his Lex Fridman interviews. They're some of the more worthwhile ones to listen to IMO.
At minimum, by default it shouldn't do anything destructive without user confirmation.
We are developing a teledriving system (driving a car remotely by a human operator).
Although we don't build our cars, we design and develop our own ECU.

www.vay.io
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If it's closed-source project store it in whatever proprietary platform you want. But if it's open-source and you want contributors the just do everyone a favour and use the de-facto platform.
> one reason there were major delays was because maps of underground sewer lines and plumbing were inaccurate, and needed to be relocated.

New York calls this "peek and shriek" [1]. No one really knows whats under the street until you start digging.

The Van Ness Bus line was particularly bad because it failed to adjust expectations and project management once this was discovered. In NY at least everyone expects it to happen, infrastructure there dates back hundreds of years.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/18/nyregion/new-...
> Master's degrees filter more on having the money

I was a TA and RA, didn't have to pay a dime for grad school, in fact got paid a livable salary, that was UC. No scholarships or anything special at all, just regular TA and RA work. Not sure how "typical" that is, but that money filter certainly did not exist when i was there.
Shout out to other last year phd students out there! The storm will pass
Kind of MVPs compared to the overspecifed-gold plated modern projects.
Here in Europe all modern ACs have that feature. The difference with heat pumps is that they're bigger and usually use underfloor pipes.
I'm not sure what your point is here.

The pilots of Air France 447 crashed a perfectly flyable plane into the ocean because they failed to apply one of the most basic principles of flight: raising the nose can cause a stall as the aircraft loses speed, whereas bringing down the nose allows you to pick up speed and pull out of a stall. One pilot kept pulling back on the yoke for several minutes until they crashed.

Would you say they just made mistakes, or were just plain incompetent?
Medicines should not be lifelong except with some exceptions. It is not sanctimony. I am not making a show of being morally superior, but of having common sense. It is also a fearful frustration with the mainstream trying to push on to me that Lizzo and her ilk are examples of a fit, healthy person, while crucifying Adele and Rebel Wilson for losing weight. My older children are well balanced in mind and body, so no apprehension there, but I have young ones again, and I am being diligent that they are not being fed nonsense. They can make up their mind later on the nuances after they learn to read, write, and think analytically. Common sense is evaporating and it seems there is a concerted narrative, an unintentional psy op by those who think they are acting in everyone's best interest founded on feelings of not wanting to offend anyone. Good intentions with horrible results. Sleep, eat moderately and healthy, and move. Walk, do the stairs, don't park right next to the store in the "No Standing" lane, but park your car and walk. Don't use the electric carts at Walmart if you are truly able to walk. Etc.
I agree with everything you are saying in this thread, but https://linear.app is one of the slowest websites I've ever encountered. Animation fade-ins before you get to the content, and something heavy is happening which causes scrolling to be at most 3fps.
Honestly, what you're describing would be common to almost any software engineer I know at least. The entire world of computer science, programming and software is VAST. You're only going to know about a tiny bit of it. A physicist doesn't know all of physics in depth, a doctor only has a surface level understanding of most things, and deeper knowledge of a few. Our field is the same. You're going to get to know your little niche, and bits and pieces of others.

As for tooling, if Windows and Visual Studio work then great. Vim is just a tool.
I'll wait till there's a written guide then follow it.
Well, the no-gas thing upsets me because cooking on modern electric cooktops/stoves is still staggeringly awful.
robots.txt is not nearly sufficient for this purpose.
I think it will be unappealing for a lot of them. Think about some of the logistics. Let’s assume the second campus is nearby but not super close, so perhaps there’s a 20 minute shuttle ride. What do you put at the new, second campus?

Do you isolate some departments there? That has the advantage of students not having to take the shuttle back and forth for random classes since students in those departments will take most of their classes there, but that makes it a pain for them to take electives on the main campus and separates. If they move into off-campus housing, it’s probably going to be close to the second campus and can isolate them from the broader student community. It also makes it a bigger pain for students in other departments to take electives there. Do you just put dorms there? That removes the issue of going back and forth for classes, but separates them from the main campus life.

Some people may not care about the commute, true, but for a lot of people it will be unappealing. I’ve known graduate students who worked in research-only buildings separate from the main campus and they typically found the situation more annoying than they originally expected. I would expect undergraduates, who tend to care even more about being plugged into the school social environment, would be even more bothered by it. The prestige of these schools is high enough that plenty of students will enroll and deal with it, but their top candidates tend to decide between multiple high-end institutions and these quality of life things can play a big role in their choice.
https://rya.nc

I haven't posted for a while, as I've been going through a lot personally, but I've got a couple of drafts and rough outlines I hope to be able to post soon.

Most of my posts have to do with cryptography, over-engineered silliness, or "cursed" things.

Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rya.nc

Stuff not posted on my blog:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26615938

https://web.archive.org/web/20230414155258/https://twitter.c...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10195358
https://stephanango.com/

Short essays I write about tools, philosophy, habits
I've seen heat-pump base water heaters, but never a clothes drier. That sounds interesting. Now I have something new to research, thanks! Personally, I'm always curious why there isn't a more unified heat-exchanger system built into the structure of a house. HVAC, Water, Refrigerator, they all need to move heat from one place to another, why not work together?
I disagree.

I'm a member if many local communities on Reddit and Facebook.

Where I live, Facebook Marketplace is _the_ place to go to buy and sell used goods. And it is absolutely hopping in my community. So much waste is averted from landfills due to the platform Facebook provides, which has good search, and a reasonable UX.

If all we had were the old school classifieds in the newspaper, I doubt nearly as much activity would happen.

HN just loves to shit on social media and lament the fall of old school local news, but I think that's just rose coloured glasses.

Through Facebook I do local second hand shopping, I discovered and am and member of several local niche sports and activity groups. And I see local news through the eyes and mouths of locals talking about it rather than what the one or two employed local journalists think.

If all you do is scroll /r/all or your Instagram feed than sure you're not getting local info, but you get what you consume.

And I say this as someone who doesn't like Meta/Facebook and would delete it in a heartbeat if there was a viable alternative, but the matter stands it _does_ support and encourage local communities and content in some places.
Why use dextrose instead of glucagon for lows? B/C patient liver function may be compromised more often in the in patient setting?
>but it's not clear if the author manually visited all of these pages and extracted all the headers.

"For this article I’ve used Screaming Frog to carry out the content scrape"

https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
It's just the Yanks that have subsidised natural gas in many states, and a messed up energy infrastructure that gives electricity prices in the same range as what we have in Europe while being at war.
How about Jupiter Notebooks?
This sounds a lot like doing LZ77 compression in your head. :P

Re the earlier parent's:

> Also, not all pieces are the same - 7 numbers are easier to memorize than 7 colors for most people for example.

That's because you can turn a sequence of numbers into a sequence of compound numbers. In NANPA, the phone company has taught many of us to turn a 10 digit number into an four parts: the three digit area code, the three digit exchange prefix, and two two-digit halves of the subscriber number.

Ex: Jenny's phone number, +12128675309, becomes area code 212 (New York), exchange eight-six-seven (UNion 7?), five-three, oh-nine. Sometimes, as in the case of Jenny, it makes more sense rhythmically to read out the individual components of the last four digits without grouping them.
It might just cause earlier rainfall, not more of it. There's x amount of water in the atmosphere, and you can't add more by spraying salt crystals.
I just checked again and it's back for me too.
Something to keep in mind is that governments in the US govern at the pleasure of the people so governed. "We the people", as it says in the Preamble of the US Constitution.

So if the government has an interest in enforcing copyright, that's because the people (whether or not they are intellectual property holders themselves) told the government to enforce copyright.
And you're attributing this all to sea water exposure? My intuition is that sun exposure would be a bigger factor.
Looks cool. But is LiteFS really ready for production? The github issues page seems to have some lost writes fixed just three weeks ago.

I would consider using it instead of running .backup nightly, so having a missed write vs running a cron job is a no brainer.
Atom isn't supported yet. Working on it.

EDIT: Atom is supported now, but I haven't updated the list yet.
In Perl, __DATA__ indicates the beginning of the data section of the file. A portable way to provide test data or sample data.

https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/__DATA__
> the EPA itself recently polluted an entire town's drinking supply.

hmmm i tried searching for this but nothing turned up (that noticed)... got a good link?
I live in FL and we have a backup resistive heating element that kicks in as needed. Mostly only comes on a few days in the year or for short bursts when there's a cold snap that the heat pump can't keep up with.
There’s a huge difference between helping out a citizen who has broken the law by dodging taxes and helping out a corporation that purposefully evades U.S. regulations. People rate higher than corporations. At least they should.

Note that the State Department does charge people when they are evacuated from a foreign nation.
Remember, kids, the purpose of trademarks is to prevent consumer confusion! When a person buys PYREX®, they know it's a name they can trust.
So I just need to cryogenically freeze my brain in order to copyright it?
The teams working on Next and React are pushing things a little too fast. The problem is the bulk of the consequences of their actions fall on library developers and maintainers. Frankly Im not even sure why everyone is in such a rush to rewrite all the docs, components, libraries, and frameworks for the unpteenth time.
What exactly in that reply makes you think that GTP-4 has an internal representation of "what is a giraffe"? You basically fed it the context in which to answer the question in your prompt, by asking it to consider a world were giraffe brains could be networked. The creative bit came from the human, the LLM model is a recitation of factual information that is present in the training data.
Relatedly, understand the frameworks that you build upon.

For React devs, this means learning how React actually works under the hood.
https://g33kinfo.com

Mainly a Linux administration site containing tweaks, software, how-to's, and other random stuff. I started this blog for my own benefit so I could remember those little tweaks or fixes which escape memory at crucial times when a needed repair or a new issue arose that I had never dealt with before. When I would research these issues, I would come across great posts and information I wanted to remember and posted that information here. Enjoy!
Nothing that I can think of but that's not the point, the transition is easier without having to rewrite in deno native as i understand.
> Anyway, suppose you’re building an AI to walk, there’s nothing creative about selecting 9.8m/s/s for gravity that’s simply the ideal value to achieve a desired goal.

Suppose you're not building a strawman, but instead building an AI to be an LLM. The exact sequence of what you choose to do for instruction tuning, and the metrics and labels that you choose, the prompt/response pairs you write, and the loss functions you employ are quite creative. They greatly affect the coefficients and are not simple mechanical steps and are the result of a large amount of creative choice.

We are nowhere near a point where they are an uncreative, mechanical recipe to follow.

> Just because a person is holding a camera and taking a photo doesn’t mean the result is copyrightable.

No, but in the overwhelming majority of circumstances it is. What it depends upon is whether the person holding the camera is making a significant, original creative choice.

I am not sure what courts will decide, but I am certain that there is more creativity and originality employed than you are giving OpenAI et al. credit for.
How Samuel R. Delany Reimagined Sci-Fi, Sex, and the City
Right, CLTL2 doesn't conform to the ansi spec. I just wonder if it's common to read all the way through, or as a reference in addition to CLHS, to maybe get some additional perspective on why a feature is a certain way, etc ...
> ...I don't need that. That is a very rare need for me, and it's so infrequent that I'm ok with it taking a little longer than a gas pump.

"Time is money friend!"

Emergency services, law enforcement, delivery services, long-range transport services, etc... all require rapid refueling. Each and every one.

Your single use case does not a society make.
I am a parent, and in my opinion, spending $1k on a car seat is completely unreasonable. (We bought ours used as part of a package deal with some other used baby stuff. It would have been nowhere near $1k when new.)
There is zero reason not to get a dual heat system. A heat pump vs pure cooling A/C is mostly just a reversing valve. There is almost no difference between the two which makes sense: A/Cs are just heat pumps setup to move heat outside the home. A "heat pump" heating system simply runs the other direction to move heat inside the home. Either way it is standard vapor compression with a compressor, two coils, and two coil fans.

Modern heat pump systems have an outdoor temp sensor and will avoid even trying the heat pump if it is too cold outside. Your installer should be able to adjust that setpoint. How low it can go depends on the refrigerant and rating... in the US higher SEER ratings often also means it can extract useful heat at lower outdoor temps.

tl;dr: The heat pump function is a trivial bit of material addition to a standard A/C and saves you gas/electricity even if it is only used for part of the cold season. There is no reason not to use one.
Not sure why this fear is exclusive to self driving vehicles. I have two ICE vehicles that both have multiple cameras on the exterior and 4g connectivity. Lot of mid priced cars now come with these cameras for collision avoidance , lane keep and other uses.
https://archive.ph/B8YY2
> But Git was initially written by one cranky Finn, in ten days. It totally changed the way we all work.

To be fair, Linus was trying to replace Bitkeeper, a proprietary DVCS which he'd been using to maintain the kernel for several years at that point. Mercurial, which runs on similar principles, was around at the time too. He didn't just make a quantum conceptual leap straight from SVM to git on his own in 10 days; he had a pretty good idea what he wanted to build (probably even ideas about the architecture) before he started.

It's still darned impressive; just not supernaturally impressive. :-)
I believe that's called a grey water system.
It 404s for me on desktop, after ~20 seconds of trying to load.
Threads can certainly run in parallel with one another if the OS schedules them on different cores. I did a quick experiment and the main thread and worker threads run in parallel.

https://github.com/jschaf/web-worker-experiment/

> You don't get extra calculation performance with web workers

The primary purpose of web workers is extra calculation performance. From MDN:

> Workers are mainly useful for allowing your code to perform processor-intensive calculations without blocking the user interface thread
For me it was more like the opposite, over time my confidence turned into wisdom, empathy and experience; I feel like confidence is was more of a prerequisite.
I don't know, saying something is absurd sounds more like the conclusion of some argument, and something possibly constructive if there is in fact an argument behind that. But just using these issues to make fun of people different than you feels distinct from that, no?

For the other things, I am not sure what you mean. Who is the "they" here who is demanding your hand? What makes you feel you are on some certain side against a monolithic force? Does that seem like a rational thing to feel, considering the broad and abstract concepts we are dealing with here?

This point that there is something at stake with changing the terms we use, the idea that fingers are being offered, is pretty weird to me, no offense. For me, it doesn't really make a difference if use one term or the other, as long as I am understood. I don't feel bad if I learn that a term I use turns out to be possibly offensive, I just adjust in the future so that I don't possibly offend.

Like beyond that, who cares? What even is there to care about that much?

Again, whatever you want to say to argue about this, just know that it looks really bad to most people who are not in your circle. This is especially true when you choose to make such a fuss about such small thing as what (arbitrary) signifier we use to designate one thing or another. It cannot ever come across as some righteous fight for justice/common-sense or whatever side you feel like you are on, because its simply not a fight anyone with a lucid mind would think is worthwhile.
> or better yet a login.

That's what I've done along with a growing number of others -- but I'd much prefer to be able to make it available to the general public. I mourn that's not possible without also aiding the training of AI.
Are glencairns not common in the states? Whilst most pubs in the UK would serve me a whisky in a short tumbler style glass, I would be disappointed if a decent scotch bar did not at least offer me a choice.
What do you recommend for the history of how technology was first invented?

What do you think of the Novum Organum by Sir Francis Bacon, who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I?

https://libquotes.com/francis-bacon/quote/lbz2z1a
The problem is that salt brine from seawater contains a lot of side stuff - you still need purification at a scale you don't need mining rock salt.
Love Letter by Pierre Curie to Marie (1894)
Depends on a scale. How many addresses? And will you even get them anymore? Not to far away it will become problematic to even get approved for residential usage, so the choice will be Nat for ipv4 or a 6->4 gateway.