skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are more likely to ask Bret about computing issues.
The nature of the data as proprietary or not, important or not, is not relevant.

Parameters, or actual arguments, are values; data. Not instructions.

Valuable data is still data. It's significance doesn't magically turn it into source code.
I work in this space. Medical devices mostly, surgical robotics, active implantable devices (LVADS, artificial hearts), dialysis, monitoring and testing and also orthopedic stuff like bone taps, drills, screws and surgical navigation. I have a portfolio website at www.iancollmceachern.com
Building on early success isn’t even easy. I had some early success in mine but then years of stagnation until I developed enough understanding to iterate in a way that didn’t feel like a trivial waste of time.

On the other end, the suffering paid off. I’m a much better thinker and researcher for it. However, it was brutal getting there.

What I found interesting and I think is true for almost everyone is that doing a PhD is hard, but it will likely be hard for different reasons than you expect. Because of the PhD students I knew as an undergrad and their experiences, I expected to be grinding out work in lab 12 hours a day. My advisor didn’t push me that way (thankfully), and gave me a lot of freedom, but that also meant having very few training wheels and guidance (I liked him as an advisor and he cared / wanted to help as he could, but I got into topics he didn’t know much more about than I did for a long time and I just had to figure it out myself). As a result, my PhD was less of a death march but more a constant battle with existential dread stemming from the uncertainty of whether I’d ever figure things out.
The probability and cost of failure? And/or alternative revenue streams with lower volatility available to people with the skill to pull it off.
I assert that establishmentarian propaganda is soulless trash, and you conclude that I want more corporate propaganda? You seem very confused.
In an operation like that, do they heat the syrup under low pressure to reduce the boiling point of water?
Yes, RO is energetically the best, but places with geothermal excess, like iceland might choose the heat based method as they have free heat = the still warm water discharged after power still is warm enough for distillation.
Not really, in the housing industry, it is generally job bid instead. The contractor taking longer just means they get paid later and don't get as many jobs done.

Also, Unions hate this right?
I don't care what the intention behind ugly art is, because ugly art isn't something I want to see regardless of the intention.
Show HN: Expression calculator and tree structure visualizer
I was learning about mathematical and logical proofs, and stumbled upon the tree structure through that.

Originally, I was going to code something to make a tree from a logical expression, but since I was still learning I decided to start with something simpler, numbers and variables!

I've also written an article that goes into detail about how and why I made this, you can read it here:

https://code.kavpix.com/number-tree/essay/part1/
Maybe having something like confirmed identities and actually retaining some ownership over what you contribute online might be a good idea...
You realize most windows users will simply go with the flow?
Nope, but I'd be keen to learn of your results.

I was also aiming for Xen initially. However, my host just crashed (can't recall the exact dump) when I tried running a Xen kernel - Alpine or not. I never confirmed if it's due to the Intel N5105 lacking the proper CPU extensions to support Xen or if I could hope to hassle the machine vendor for a firmware update to get it working.
50 in 50 Keynote Guy Steele and Richard Gabriel (2010) [video]
Since Oct '21, so almost two years. But yeah, it's a more recent addition.
I come from a traditional full-stack engineering background (web frontend + backend) and recently founded a smart toy company[1], the first product built on ESP32-S3. I took a few weeks for me to get comfortable writing firmware (although there is another more experienced engineer doing the primary work and electrical).

I'm really excited for Espressif (the chip maker) to roll out newer versions of their microcontrollers on RISC-V. I would love to see a renaissance of inexpensive personal devices.

[1]: We're pre-launch so nothing to share now.
You can use Astro as a build system for React if you want. But using Astro files lets you do some more interesting compile-time stuff, like resizing images for production from their sources.
All source code is data. Not all data is source code. Data may be encoded, but that doesn't make it source code either.
I could code my own browser or pay someone to do it. There are endless possibilities.
But lexical provides so much more semantic data. You can build actual operational transforms while for prosemirror the quickest way for collab editing is almost always binding it to a third party CRDT like y.js (which while admittedly works, makes it somewhat hard to customize compared to op transforms).
I think there is a huge hardware startup ecosystem in the bay, I'm part of it. Especially for certain hardware specialties like medical,semiconductor, defence, space, etc.
> Facebook has decided to be unreasonable, irresponsible, and started blocking news.

Are they acting unreasonably though? There is a product, and the government rules it has a price. Isn't Facebook allowed to go, sorry, I don't like that price?
Right, but that’s easy. If desalination only required lifting each unit of water a few inches we probably wouldn’t say it’s particularly difficult.
Slightly off topic, however, the post references the Carlsbad desalination facility. If you find yourself in San Diego and like oysters, I would highly recommend you checkout the Carlsbad Aquafarm. Take the tour and pick up some oysters.

What's really interesting and relevant to the topic is that the oyster farm serves as a pre-filter to the desalination plant and there's an symbiotic relationship between the plant and the oyster farm.
I'm perfectly comfortable with the wide range of motivations people have for participating in protests and riots.

The comment I was responding to however is making assertions about "the real reason" and that rioters "don't care." Which I simply don't accept that they have the authority to make broad statements like that.
Would be interesting to compile a "spawn of unix" diagram similar to the craigslist diagram, of startups that carve out niches of unix functionality.

https://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-c...

ftp/rsync => Dropbox
suc => Slack
...
There’s some irony here about being a journalist yet not even considering individual privacy. Seems indicative of a missing journalistic quality lol
There is talk about pumping sea water into the Saharan desert in certain parts, which gets at that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2b7ztWvFOg
At Sense we make a home energy monitor that provides real-time appliance-level monitoring using machine learning. Hardware is indeed hard as everyone said it would be!

https://sense.com
It's not an issue because Phoenix is always dry, so the wet bulb temperature is always low.
You said files, not inodes. Those are two files sharing one inode. If you want to count inodes, specify that in the question.
Right now (2023-07-05T13:35:45-0400), and for me, it is not.
I haven't actually been to Bletchley Park, which I consider to be a personal tradgedy.

There's some very old school computing equipment in the Science Museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Museum,_London definitely worth a visit in my opinion.

I would also try to find the London Hackerspace for a tour, usually some interesting things going on there.
> it's synonymous with individual speech.

Graffiti is individual speech, murals commissioned by the local government to glorify itself are not.
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Everybody will know if this happens, though. Why not save the vitriol for when and if it actually happens?
I've been moderately happy with Tecware Phantom series keyboards. Per-key RGB, socketed switches, etc for $40-$50 USD.

I'll never go back to membrane keyboards.
The moral bankruptcy of Ivy League America
Not yet. I’m hoping to, so I can fully focus on it.
NRE into the production line, especially hard tooling for plastic is huge. Plus all those things you mentioned, especially inventory risk are often underestimated.

Don't forget that any manufacturing run itself is a huge risk. Tiny changes that need to be made to address anything from RF performance to fit and finish can invalidate a run and just burn up hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars (depending on scale)
I think if these got to the point of "worker stared at floor for 7 minutes" it would be invasive. If it tracks when a vehicle shows up to site and leaves.

That being said, as someone with digestion issues, tracking bathroom habits is offensive.

In short, yes this is invasive. But much like AI, this type of thing isn't going away, there is just going to be more lawsuits about it in the future.
My issue isn’t the mechanics of what is happening. I believe the AI is being used as a shim to work around otherwise prohibited behavior.
Yes but you don’t need two launchers for that, only the latest one. Countries financing its development will want to use as much as possible to bring the cost per launch down.

As implied by the comment I’m replying to, the only reason to keep Ariane 5 flying would have been its good track record bringing business on the commercial market but that’s not going to happen because Falcon 9 gets all these customers now.
Yes, it is more reliably and inalterably inadequate to pay Twitter’s debt.
Once more I an happy to use the ESR version of Firefox where stuff like this tends to only land much later. Add on top of that the Debian patches and default settings and it's a fine user-agent again :-)

Edit: oops, looks like 115 is the next ESR version, does that mean it gets this "feature" but for a long time will not get proper UI go control it? :-(
First, even if the author is mistaken with regards to GM foods, it's credibility with regards to shoshin shouldn't be affected (e.g. how are GMO and shoshin related??)

Secondly, your hypothetical super toxic GM food doesn't exist. He was referring to reality, not to sci-fi horror movies GM food where a mad scientist makes a maize expressing lethal bacterial toxins.
The problem is that you are not entitled to someone else’s property simply because you want it and don’t feel like paying for it.
GQ pulls article slamming Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Zaslav after complaint
What might strike a balance for most is a weekly summary of most important news from around the world + daily local news. For this I use the section called “The World this week” in The Economist through their rss(https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/rss.xml) and for local news I’ve subscribed to a popular local newspaper physical copy that I read in the morning with a cup of tea. If I feel like digging deeper into a news piece from either of the two, I’ll just google it to read long form articles on it.
Yes, really. The pilots checked flaps/gear multiple times trying to diagnose the speed & altitude issues. The article says the pilots assumed that was the expected performance of the old engines, but I haven't read the transcripts to see if that's another speculation/editorialization by the author. Theorizing that better expectations for single engine performance could have avoided the crash is no more of a leap than what the author made.

The point of ETOPS is to ensure that pilots can continue to operate the plane on a single engine, and that the likelihood of dual engine failure is vanishingly small. It explicitly requires manageable pilot workload (which was cited by the NTSB as a failure/contributor to this crash), and is implemented in part through more rigorous maintenance and inspection.

You're right that ETOPS would not be required for a flight like this but aside from the notable flight envelope difference (since ETOPS focuses on engine failure while cruising far from airports) the considerations for ETOPS are very similar to considerations that would go into prevention this crash in the future.
It's even worse than this. When it's news about foreign territory then the media is even blatantly lying. They distort facts to make them conform to biases and to give a negative slant. Part of this is to maximize clicks, bad sensational news sells better. Part of this is bias inherent in the journalism circle. And because it's foreign territory, readers never find out they are being lied to.
Most of the air pollutants are generated inland, and most of the poor quality air remains somewhat local (or within a couple hundred miles) from the source. Oceans provide a lot of space for the particles to diffuse and eventually get captured.
The worry is a local increase of salinity levels, due to putting the brine back in the ocean. I think that is a solvable issue though. We can harvest some of the salt and then mix the resulting brine with reclaimed water. Then spread that out instead of dumping it in one area. We could also create inland salt deposits.

The biggest issue is cost for these plants and it isn't worth spending the political capital to build them yet.
Mirror: https://archive.is/tlA8T
Let me know when SuperSuperAlignment is announced. Until then, this is just marketing bs...
This sounds like great tech. Keep at it for the benefit of all of us.
I stand corrected. I see the link to his Mastodon instance is! Wow, completely missed it.
Took me awhile to remember what it was called, but TinyPilot [^0] by mtlynch is pretty cool. Michael sometimes writes about running a hardware business on his blog [^1].

Not exactly a startup, but a small business.

[^0]: https://tinypilotkvm.com

[^1]: https://mtlynch.io/posts
Supra isn't a Toyota; it's a BMW, so it isn't exactly helping the case that Toyota is on the right development path. They have to use a partner for high performance applications since they can't be bothered to develop their own.

B58 is a truly great combustion engine, but the idea any turbocharged ICE can compete with an electric motor for input lag is ridiculous. B58's twin scroll turbos certainly reduce lag compared with more run-of-the-mill turbo engines, but even naturally aspirated race engines with light flywheels feel laggy after driving even low-end BEVs.
TIL what cauliflower ear surgery is. Thank you. FYI everyone it does not involve injecting cauliflower the food into the ear.
A desert is a living ecosystem. Evaporating salt water would leave behind substantial salt solids. Think Great Salt Lake.
Fascinating. Our Volvo does this for backing up and getting warnings from sensors. It uses the individual speakers from the direction of the issue. Works great.
All of this makes complete sense, it just felt shocking because HBO has such greater cultural cachet and prestige than Discovery, which I didn’t even know owns an empire of reality shows aside the ones on its channel. Guess that really illustrates how what is seen as good TV is increasingly decoupled from what is actually watched on TV. There was a recent meme about how the “little-known” ABC drama The Good Doctor was obscure to the Twitterati but is, in reality, a long-running series with viewership that dwarfs the Succession set.

And on the subject of reality TV, this is a good retrospective of how many cable channels from MTV to Bravo have drifted from their once lofty, even high-brow identities into domination by reality television. It really is a ubiquitous trend.

https://youtu.be/Vd1gqLVHZWo

I wonder what genre will succeed reality television. Maybe they’ll find a way to adapt Twitch streaming or vlogging for television, and then they will have to pay even fewer people.

> We may all want to watch Ballers or some other a tv show starring The Rock

As an aside, apparently not, judging by what happened to Young Rock. :p
We make tiny Linux servers packed with real devops tools (but also sporting a somewhat-easy-ish-to-use UI) for home-hosting and self-teaching: https://pibox.io - works great with Jellyfin!
All of this "our tech is so powerful it can end the world" stuff is just marketing buzz. The real threat has always been OpenAI and others keeping these powerful systems with high capital moats, locked up and closed sourced with selective full-access.
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Israel does this for a different reason: To collect minerals from the dead sea.

It doesn't increase rainfall.

Israel is actually desalinating water and rejuvenating a river, which eventually will reach the dead sea (although that's not why they are doing it, but it makes the point that evaporating water isn't doing much).

Maybe you mean on a far larger scale?

Well - the ocean itself is much larger, and water evaporates from its surface all the time. Humans aren't going to make an evaporation zone larger than the ocean.

Also: Water does not (mainly) evaporate because of heat, but rather because of wind. There's lots of heat in the desert, but not much wind. The ocean has a ton of wind.
We don't have time to do things one after another, we have to switch heating, transport and most everything else to electric while simultaneously improving electricity generation.
Exactly, desalination is very popular in arid countries. With renewable prices trending down, it's getting cheaper too. Basically, don't use consumer grid prices because those still include a fat profit margin for the energy suppliers and their sunk investment in legacy expensive generation using gas, coal, or nuclear. If you are within 40 degrees of the equator, which is where you'd find most arid places, solar is a very good option for generating lots of energy cheaply. Cents per kwh basically, possibly dipping below 1 cent per kwh in the not so distant future. And since you can store water in reservoirs, it's OK to not be desalinating 24x7.

A thousand liters takes about 3kwh. It's not really that expensive. If you run a very inefficient house in the US, that's actually what you'd need per day. You might consider some cost/water saving solutions if that worries you. But, either way, we're talking cents per day per household basically.

Not nothing. But cheap enough that it is a common solution to get water in places that have average incomes far below those common in places like the US where desalination is mostly science fiction.
Relatively high energy cost since you’re undoing an endothermic reaction, you need to do a lot of it since we use water in large quantities… but most of all, the planet naturally does a lot of desalination for us already through various geological processes, so our “price point” for desalination is $0 per liter (infrastructure to capture rain, dam rivers, or tap groundwater isn’t literally free, but it’s pretty close - especially when it comes to the marginal cost for the next liter). It’s not difficult to desalinate per se, it’s difficult to desalinate extremely cheaply and at huge scale.
If you're writing your server side code in JavaScript, yeah. I don't think it will be pre-eminent. I think it could be popular but much less popular than Node.

There are server side WASM runtimes for other languages, though. Including ones that let you write endpoints entirely with WASM (and its languages like Rust and Go*), like Fermyon and Dapr.

* https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs
It's less about tracking how long they're there and more about when they showed up. We do the former because we can, but the GC really wants to know if and when their subs are showing up without having to be on site 24/7 waiting for them.

For example, they can look back through yesterdays events to see that their plumber showed up - and then they'll know they need to go check on the work. The alternative is trying to get the plumber on the phone to figure out if the work had been completed or not - which is difficult in 2023.

There's not a lot of unioned workers in most states for residential construction. But autoworkers, and anything else in manufacturing would be used to the constant monitoring. Commercial construction also typically has fulltime site superintendents, who would do this anyway.
The math is this:
BOM + cost to acquire a customer + cost to sell the unit < sale price

Otherwise you don't have a business. Please don't ask me how I know this.

10x is a rule of thumb, YMMV. You just need to make the above inequality evaluate to true. You can (maybe) raise money to deal with the various non-recurring expenses. Oh and you should pay your employees too.
I was seriousy shocked of all the abuse when I had to install a new winblows laptop for a relative. How is any of it legal?

What should be made illegal?
We should make it illegal by law.
Does it have HTTP/3 features like WebTransport?
ok what's the alternative
This is a little known fact outside of the HVAC trades as everyone associates mini-split systems with the infamous wall-mounted indoor unit. I bought this LG unit[0] which I used some duct-foam board to build an adapter for and fanned out ductwork for that zone. People are amazed when I tell them this is a ducted mini split.

[0]: https://www.supplyhouse.com/LG-LDN127HV4-12000-BTU-Multi-F-C...
A curated data set is still a data set.

I imagine it is not settled law, but there's a clear argument to be made that regardless of the difficulty in curating the data set, it's still a data set.

Can it be licensed and sold. Yes, surely. Is it proper to pretend an open source license is sufficient protection, probably not.
Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US
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I'm quite ignorant of American arbitration laws, but don't these boards issue default judgements if one side refuses to participate?

Also, does anyone have any realistic numbers on how much losing would cost Twitter?
And this article is mostly talking about everyday concepts like learning. But there's no denying that the idea of beginner's mind is used within Zen in a special sense. From Dogen's essay On the Endeavour of the Way:

> Because practice within realization occurs at the moment of practice, the practice of beginner's mind is itself the entire original realization.
Fully agree that the existing copyright and intellectual property systems are dire need of deep reform. But to get people on board, you can't just propose burning it all down, you need to point to a viable alternative. Say, limiting copyrights to something sane like 15 or 30 years. Or making it easier to invalidate obvious or trivial patents.

Or do you really want to do away with notions of intellectual property altogether? You can make an argument for that, but there would lead to deep economic changes, and you need to anticipate what the end result would look like. You still need some way to encourage the creation of new content.

Pointing out that our copyright/IP system is broken is easy. And you're right, it's totally broken! Coming up with a fix is hard work.