skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the culture is also promoting gameable interviews that tell one absolutely nothing to the interviewee about a candidate except that he has managed to parrot an answer from a online guide or DDIA.

I am sure a skilled interviewee can find the difference between a guy who knows his System design from one that does not. But its paradoxical to have a guide prepare someone on so many topics of which only 1% is what one person has done in their life.
Right, it's just that the observation isn't helpful to anyone who isn't an Apple user.
ryantolsma.com
Quoting from their linked website:

> Our heat pump can generate up to 3 times as much heat as a resistor, using the same amount of electricity.

Though it doesn't mention the temperature at which this is achieved, only that the range is from 160 to 550°C.
A fertile subject for sf stories.
Sam Altman, much like the LW crowd, is an evangelical preacher. He uses anxiousness as a front when, in reality, he's just telling us about his hopes and dreams.
The brutal truth of it is that while there is beauty in the craft, in the end shipping is what matters. Getting things in front of the people that need them.

There's a nice concept in theater that says, effectively, "if you blow a line, don't broadcast it to the audience." The subtext of that is, simply, the audience doesn't know any better and what they don't know, won't hurt them.

By and large, this applies to many fields, and certainly to software development. The users, in the large, do not care over a huge amount of stuff that we, as practitioners, care about.

We're in a results business. The users care that they get the report they want or can update the data they're supposed to. How that's done, in the back end, is filed under "blah blah blah".

The reason this is important is not as an excuse to do crummy work, or to not be passionate about the minutiae that consumes us, but to be cognizant that as long as the end result is functional and capable for the user, it's OK for the processes that get to that point to be a bit messy. Don't beat yourself up over a lot of the things we beat ourselves up, or criticize others over.

Ship. Get your code in front of users, interact with them to make their experience better. We are in a service industry. Strive to be better, but you only get better by shipping, and moving on.

The confidence is that, for the most part, "it's just software" and you can fix it. You can change it later. You can correct mistakes.

Another saying is that you're not a professional until you've lost production data. Thankfully in our work, loss of production data rarely kills people, in contrast to the path of becoming, say, a doctor. If you are in an industry where people can be hurt, then that's going to be more rigid, for obvious reasons.

I have lost data, I have been SCREAMED at by clients, I have stood under the withering "What has just happened here" glare from management. It happens. Ah, the warm camaraderie of being thrown into a data entry pool to help rekey some of the 6 months of data you destroyed. A cold truth in our business is that it has to happen, as we only learn through practice, and through practice, sometimes we miss.

But to do that, we have to ship. We have to get the work out there, "I don't test often, but when I do, it's in production". Sometimes you just got to open the firewall up, let the traffic in, and see what happens.

A cynical view is the that the more we ship, the more we learn what we can get away with. There's a truth to that as well. We're all victims of not listening to "you're not going to need it". For all sorts of values of "it". But that doesn't mean we can't keep those concepts close, practice them as best as we can (because, truth is, sometimes you do need it!).

Through the work, and shipping, you learn the balance, and get more comfortable with it.
no, proxmox is too good not to use. That runs on the bare metal and then the vms are all alpine at this point.
I had this set up on a vertical wall at my previous apartment and it was so much fun. I’m working on getting it set up in my current place, too, and I’d really like to get it projecting downwards so that I don’t have to deal with taping things to the wall.

Fyi for those interested: you need a color printer. You need a good projector. You need a good webcam. I already had the printer, got a projector as a hand-me-down, and shelled out the $ for a good webcam.

It can be a little finicky if you don’t have the perfect setup. For me, I got it to work in an hour or so, once I figured out a good mounting location for the projector. Then I had to periodically fiddle with the webcam settings as the light in the room changed. I’m considering investing in black fabric to improve the contrast.

Also, I suspect much of Dynamicland’s magic is in RealTalk, which is not open source. The Paper Programs repo uses Javascript with a realtalk-esque mini framework. This means that Paper Programs doesn’t quite achieve the goals set out by Dynamicland, ie, that it spills be approachable and imminently learnable to all ages, backgrounds, skill levels. My partner and I are both programmers, and both patient, so we’ve been able to replicate a little bit of Dynamicland’s social magic.
I got bored halfway through the article. Very unfocused and there seems to be no point to it. Here is what you need to know - working memory is the ability to hold things in short term memory. Most people can hold 7 distinct pieces. What's important is that these pieces are not scalar, these can be "reference types". For example 3.14 would be 1 piece of information called "Pi" and other defined concepts are just "1 piece".

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

Working memory is the fluid intelligence part intelligence covered on IQ test, which covers 2 parts: fluid intelligence(working memory) and crystallized intelligence (stuff you memorized). Unlike what the article states, no one has found a proven way to improve working memory in a general sense in adulthood. This would be the panacea if someone did.

edit: I did get through the end of the article after all and at the end of the day it really does say nothing at all. The author just tried to tie a bunch of old concepts together.
Wait, Node or Deno for CLI tools? I was reading this and thinking "Go would make a much better tool for that job", so after seeing that you have actually used it in the past, I cannot but ask about some more info or comments your might have about it.

A language that is designed from the ground up to compile into standalone binaries seems so much more apt for CLI tools... Deno/Node, on the other side of the spectrum, requires a whole environment and runtime, which seems like a hassle. I know of vercel/pkg but that's not a first-class citizen of the ecosystem and has its shortcomings.
Sounds like a job for the orcas…
> But an expansion of nuclear could have happened

Very unlikely. Nuclear (in the West) hasn't been expanded in the last 30 years, partially due to overblown safety concerns but also due to cost issues. There has been no hugely successful nuclear build, all that tried took almost as long as the renewable industry has existed in any real sense and cost absurd amounts of money. Looking at other large german projects during that timeframe, it's unlikely there would have been more than one plant opening. The hope of nuclear advocates is that by increasing economies of scale in production and reducing it on the individual plant level the economics of NPP will work out in future. I'm highly doubtful but hope they're successful.

> Wind and solar themselves are highly volatile and require an additional stable energy source like coal or nuclear.

For wind and solar to make sense, you need complimentary power sources. Wind and solar do have very complimentary characteristics (night/day as well as winter/summer), but not perfectly. This means "base load" power sources which should run as much as possible like (lignite and somewhat black) coal or especially nuclear work very badly (economically), due to the high cost of the plant and low utilization factor. B

In a fully renewable grid, most of the day power will solely come from wind and solar, probably with batteries filling the gaps during morning and evening and some form of long term storage like P2G/Hydrogen/... will cover dunkelflauten (time spans without solar nor wind) during winter. There should be overproduction during most of the time.

In an almost fully nuclear grid, solar might be used during summer to cover ACs or similar things, but storage is still required to avoid needing build enough NPPs to supply peak power usage. France uses large amounts of hydrostorage on the alps and the european power grid to reduce the NPP overcapacity needed during the day.

This is in contrast to gas, most forms of hydroelectricity, batteries or (hopefully) P2G/Hydrogen, whose costs primarily scale with the amount of energy, not power.

Building an grid almost only based on nuclear and wind/solar without some form of flexible generation is economically nonsensical. Both can be used in the same grid to some amount, but don't complement each other well.

EDIT: https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/the-duck-in-the-room-the... explains the duck curve and the issues for base load power sources because of it nicely
How do they know what sites I consider sensitive?

How do they establish trust for an extension?

How many dollars do you want to wager that they are building this feature with the intent to get sued so that they can be forced by the courts to turn it on for sites like youtube?
I'll look into purchasing one. My Jellyfin system drive failed on an old Dell Optiplex. I just need to replace and re-image the hdd, but this looks fun. Is it well ventilated?
Yes, their result will approach mine if the amount of rejected water approaches 100%.

Their result is independent of technology, it's derived from fundamental thermodynamic principles.
https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr

Random musings of a professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside. A few highlights:

- https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2017-12-10-csu.html - My investigation into a fictitious California university and its link to predatory academic journals.

- https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2019-08-19-gene-roddenberry-ucr... - Looking into filming locations for Gene Roddenberry's TV show pilot "Genesis II" that was filmed at UC Riverside in 1972.

- https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2019-08-06-stereo-records.html - How stereo phonograph records work.
Are you trying to use Typescript separately from Deno instead of Deno's builtin support for Typescript? Are you using VSCode without the Deno extension? I think you're overcomplicating something if you're running into this issue.
https://evancordell.com/
“insel”, interactive select
and 90% of those visits are probably a GET request with a tracking number
Google Updates Privacy Policy to Allow Itself AI Training with Public Data
Fascinating exploit, and a good write-up. Not that you'd expect anything less from the Openwall pedigree. Really cool stuff, thanks for sharing!
> You don't have to accept that cops are less important than civilians. I think your position is wrong and gross, but I concede that there's a discussion to be had about rules of engagement. We could have that, if you were packing for it.

There's bad faith arguing and then there's this, you're just rushing to claim a moral high ground you don't have to move the post towards someone having to dismantle the claim that cops are less important than civilians.

In my country, Chile, there was a brief flash of time when this attitude was taken, that even if a suspect threatens a cop's life to get away, they should be given that right.

People got sick of dead cops quite quickly, and the position was just thrown into the dustbin of history, poof, there, wrong side of history, discredited, shunned, almost forgotten. You don't have rule of law when "civilians" make their own in the street and the State giving up the monopoly of violence.
Forgot to mention the blog made it to HN front page once:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478641
Crazy. So if meta can't figure that out. How about a small start up that wants to act world wide?
The legal system is not like a computer program. The line between what is "creative" and what is not concrete, but is instead up to the interpretation of the judge who rules on it.

So your phonebook modifications may or may not be considered "creative" depending on the judge and your ability to convince them. The more your modify it, the more likely you are to convince a judge it is a creative work, though.
well a simple video on social media can be 100s of MB or even more than a GB, without even thinking about livestream
JavaScript is not a good language. It was in the right place at the right time (the browser in the early 90/00s) The way it does dynamic typing is insane, error handling is hot garbage, and the GC nature of it means you can get unavoidable stop the world latency while the GC runs.

You can certainly do a lot with JavaScript and there's a massive echo system around it. But that doesn't mean it's good.
> could actually go somewhere.

Into a deeper ditch
Ask HN: What third party Reddit clients still work after July first?
Many crowd favorites stopped working, like Apollo or RiF. I used Slide from the F-Droid store, which stopped working too, so I assumed that this was it for the third party clients for real.

But I was surprised to discover that Dawn (another abandoned reddit client from the F-Droid store) is still working, even if not feature complete. And so does RedReader, which I discovered got exemption from the new API pricing. In the store there's also Diode, which is working, Infinity does too, although it has been updated to reflect on the pricing changes, and so does Stealth. I wonder, how are they not impacted by the API changes? Are they somehow still on the very small free tier? And also, what other clients are out there, that can still be used?
Thank you for your thoughtful comment, your feedback is very important to us.
Sewage treatment outflows maybe? Wouldn't be enough in a community where all the freshwater is coming from desalination, because not all of the freshwater goes into the sewage system, but it might be workable in communities where desalination is augmenting other sources of freshwater.
http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/iselect/ (already packaged in debian and ubuntu)
And using objects to do the same thing in JS
They wrote that it "appears flat". I tried to contradict that.

> However from inside this bubble there is a sort of tech dilatation where everything appears normal and flat and it is only the future that has exponential growth.
https://jonathanchang.org

Mostly bits of code and explanations that I took notes for and then later realized would make a good blog post.
Thanks for the pointer about the useless use of true.

Using builtins may be a security risk as they can be overloaded (hence the use of full paths everywhere).

I did not know about bash's extension of printf to print a date. I need to use the builtin to use it though. But I've received good advice elsewhere on how to do that securely, so I'll do it and do a write-up because it's not information that's easy to come by.

Your advice is very helpful, thank you.
> uBlock origin is ignored

That's just configuration, easy to change. And if they change that configuration in response to a lawsuit, Mozilla can play the victim and say their hand was forced.

If they had to ban uBlock Origin outright that would probably kill Firefox's (already abysmal) install base. Neither Mozilla nor Google wants that; they want Firefox to remain as an obscure but technically viable competitor. What they're doing now is laying the groundwork for banning uBlock Origin on only some websites while allowing it to continue working on most. This let's Google have their cake and eat it too; Firefox surviving as nominal competition to Chrome but no longer blocking ads on Youtube.
HallMeter – Measuring Hallucinations from ChatGPT
It wouldn't surprise me if they did something like removing a banned list entry for a common SSD manufacturer thinking a known issue was resolved, and surprise, they were incorrect.

e: A more interesting prospect, potentially, would be if they had some runaway logging thing somewhere in some cases that was blowing the SLC caching capabilities on a lot of SSDs, leaving you with the MLC/TLC/QLC/etc performance.
https://grh.am

A combination of cyber security, project ideas, and general ramblings.
Video: Iranian Navy Warship Fires on Oil Tanker in the Strait of Hormuz
Why does the US need to protect Israel? What’s in it for us? Honest question.
Hardware is hard:founding hardware engineer, we were acquired 4 years ago by a corporate. We place WiFi sensors around your network that behave like typical clients. We report on user experience and show when there are issues in your network. WiFi technician in a box.

The fact that it’s subscription based is what made us float.

The initial capital outlay, supply chain, compliance and design work is so funding intensive but can we done on budget if you are wise about it.

We had to build a full web app and rich backend to report the results, a device team to write the sensor software and of course hardware design.

About 50% of our funding went into supply chain costs just to get the first units out the door. The rest into staffing. Without the hook into the large hardware manufacturers/China we had a pretty heavy BOM cost.

It was rough but the Saas portion once it was up allowed us breathing room.

It’s critical to design for compliance in your target markets and critical to manage your spend on components. A minor design mistake in your hardware will destroy your brand - where with software it’s a patch away.

Shipping and tax costs are another killer which add so much cost overhead and are often over looked.

It was stressful I’m glad we found a corporate home as it allowed us some breathing room to focus and redesign things with a budget safety net.
So, if I'm reading it right, it's a cryptocoin for interbank settlements?

It's interesting that the local press isn't talking about this. But then, I guess the hype on cryptocoins died completely by now. I wonder if systems like that can be federated to create bridges so that PIX-like systems over the world talk to each other.
Very interesting thing(maybe sample representativeness) is that there aren't any "fast" things from the 2010-2020 decade. Does anyone have anything impressive in mind? Personally can't think of anything myself.
So because they screwed up in that circumstance I must now assume this new feature is a malicious power grab?

Sure. I guess that makes sense.

In the future I should use this entire situation when illustrating Hanlon's Razor...
I love BACEN. Best central bank in the world. That's why we've built openpix.com
And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls. They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

Plato (400 BC)
Yes, but you need reporting like this to point out when this consolidation is happening where you don't expect.

Veterinarians, for example, have also gone through this process. Most people wouldn't expect that.

You won't get anti-trust enforcement until people start to realize that we need anti-trust enforcement. And the start of that is informing them.
This can be said way more briefly:

"what would teenage you be like here"

Follow those instincts (presuming you weren't a slacker) and that's it.
It's so damn weird that Dr. Spencer -- whose job is producing the data that shows climate change -- is a climate denialist. The link in the grandparent comment, showing .12C/decade, is the very same site with the denialist claim you link to.

It's not just him, either. His colleague John Christy is also responsible for the UAH lab, and also a climate denialist.

They are different kinds of denialist. Spencer is in the "It's real but it's not our fault" camp, while Christy is in the "It's real and our fault but not important" camp. They are, however, very popular with the camp of "it's not real", and I've never seen them reject those claims, even though they are the ones responsible for the data that prove it is real.
https://benovermyer.com/blog

There is a wide variety of random content on my site. This is my blog. I tend to write more often about gaming and life in general, and tech only sporadically.
I still have to read a lot to make my mind about that, but if the mission objectives in the website are anything to go, this is kind of bullshit.

The mission statement in the website:

"
As CBDCs podem melhorar a eficiência do mercado de pagamentos de varejo e promover a competição e a inclusão financeira para a população com pouco ou nenhum acesso a serviços bancários.
"

translating: CBDCs can imporive eficiency in retail payment market and inclusion of population of none of little access to bank services.

But Brazil alread gave a big step a few years with the pix. This days anyone can open a free bank acccount in 10 minutes via their phones, and pay everything ditaglly. Your just scan a QR code, or send money using the person phone number as a key.

To mee, this seens like a attempt to remove paper money from the market and increase tax collection.
This is fascinating. It reminds me of the infamous MCAS on the Boeing 737 MAX. A system was designed, implemented and rigorously tested to be used in a specific scenario. A decision was then made much later to use it in a very different scenario without any understanding of the consequences.
https://www.mattstrayer.com
> If you want to have a tenure track "professor" position focused on teaching in a top-tier university, you need to be a great researcher as teaching skills are not considered much

Not completely true. UC Berkeley at least has tenure-track lecturers, now apparently mostly referred to as "Teaching Professors" (https://apo.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/teaching_profes...)

A random (old) job post for this: https://gsso.ce.gatech.edu/2022/01/12/tenure-track-teaching-...
Functiontrace is very good! I’ve used it a lot for hammering down bottlenecks, and it is easy to drop in to a script
Ask HN: Any good iPod Nano 7g cable inear headphones with remote?
Hey HN,

I'm looking for a new pair of inear headphones with a cable remote (yes, really!) in the NON-High-End section (about 25 bucks).

This is very important to me because I tend to listen to audiobooks when my kids are asleep and while a bright screen would maybe wake them up, bluetooth eats up my iPods battery and tends to fall out of my ears. I really want a cable...

In the last years I tried several high quality alternatives to the casual Apple EarPods Headphones.
To be fair, the original Apple EarPods worked best but they are of such a poor quality, that they mostly break after several months.

It does not depend too much on sound quality but more on usability and durability (those shitty copycat EarPods from china are not what I am looking for).

Are there any alternatives, that are affordable, good quality and support ALL the remote buttons (volume+, volume-, play_pause and the play codes dblclick=next, 3click=prev, and so on)???
Excellent! I love the scene and feel it being seen this way is appropriate.
That's just how it is these days, designers that don't use the product making decisions for those that do.
I can vaguely remember that many programs used to install themselves this way under Linux.