skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There needs go be a balance. Common tools are useful, but you need to switch which tool you use from time to time as the old one gets stagnant (or bought out and the new owners raise the price too high).

Sometimes people change tools for the wrong reason. I've been in many companies that changed their bug tracker because the old one was too cumbersome, but they never addressed why all those mandatory fields were added to the old one, and so in a few years they learn the hard way and now the new one is cumbersome because of all the mandatory fields.
Linux: written in C, hundreds of buffer overflow errors

Multics: written in PL/I, approximately zero buffer overflow errors

see also: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...
News != opinions. I am willing to pay a fair price for real, objective news about things that matter. Factual reporting.
Of course, there is no such thing as objective news but at least it is vision to strive for.

But the news you can pay for only spends a tiny fraction on this. Instead you get tons of opinions, speculation amd reports about the political game. Basically gossip dressed up as news. And other pieces about celebrities and influencers and people that actually don't matter that much to make the world work.
It is engaging but it is not especially valuable to me, as a consumer. I can do without it.
I see you've never had a conversation with a company interested in holding crypto assets but upon further investigation, realize it's essentially impossible given the way business is structured.

Custody is a spectrum, self custody is more towards cyber punk than white collar. People clearly want these assets and I predict the Bitcoin etf, when finally launched, will have the largest opening volume of any etf ever.
Cars are in fact larger partially due to advanced safety features, in particular doors, pillars etc. have gotten a lot thicker over the last 25 years.

> Larger cars aren't inherently safer.

Yes they are, you're probably better off in a crash without a seatbelt in a bus than in the highly safety rated mini the bus crashes into. Newton matters.
The article doesn't contest that view but instead considers how germs are an orthogonal dimension and that we are starting to understand better that the host and all of its cells, not just some ill defined subset called immune cells, are responsible for host health and that when functioning properly can coexist with germs without letting them cause disease.

I wonder whether this perspective aligns well with research into bat viral reservoirs as they exemplify this model.
You cite a 1965 article. That is practically ancient, and no, its criticism is not particularly significant. In the decades since, Ventris’s decipherment has overwhelmingly been accepted by scholars. That is not to say that all of Ventris’s readings are accepted – many are superseded. But the fact that Linear B records Mycenaean Greek along the general lines that he and Chadwick worked out, has long been beyond doubt in the field.

Mycenaean sources and their consensus readings will be discussed in any decent introduction to the history of the Greek language. I can recommend, for example, the relevant chapters in A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language ed. Bakker and in Colvin’s A Historical Greek Reader as fairly accessible to a general audience.
Dozens of heat records could be broken as US heat wave forecast to move east
> The post is about a specific point in time, not for all time. So there's nothing wrong with taking advantage of a temporary alignment in the data

The choice of quads as a unit was not made by the post author (John Walker), it was made by a US government agency (the EIA) and a US government-funded research lab (LLNL). Walker appears to have only chosen quads because of the use of quads by the convenient graphics those agencies have produced. The idea that they are using quads due to a “temporary alignment in the data” seems like a post hoc rationalisation - what unit were they using before this temporary alignment? Probably quads; and if not quads, then likely something else equally non-metric. It is unlikely the US government would have already been using SI units (or even a non-SI metric unit), then suddenly switch to a non-metric unit just because of a temporary alignment in the data; much more likely they use quads because that is the US government’s standard unit for this purpose, and already was long before this.

And to be clear, I’m not criticising Walker for choosing a convenient freely-usable graphic to illustrate his point, even if it is in weird units; I’m criticising the US government for its continued clinging to weird units like “quads” that almost nobody else in the world uses, when there is no good reason for them to do so.
Then maybe RIGOL should not make assumptions and not release a device with near-trivially insecure firmware.
1. They're probably right.

2. Why do you care? They're obviously losing in the US. They've been losing for 30+ years.
HR a ‘Massive Use Case’ for AI experts, Employers should watch for costly risks
https://archive.is/5TOmU - Full Title: HR will be a ‘massive use case’ for A.I., experts say. But employers should watch out for these costly risks
Hacker News is a Philistine site.
On top of that humans are very bad at converting fuel into work.

"In a rapidly changing world where inexpensive and reliable energy going forward is no longer a given"

In such a world a steam engine will give you more useful output for the same input - you could literally burn your food in the steam engine and get more useful work vs eating the food.

This kind of thing only makes sense in a world that has not invented steam engines, or at the minimum using an animal that can eat grass that you can't. (And even then burning the grass will give you more work.)
I worked on the Grav team when it was first created. Remarkable flat-file CMS that it is, it's actually found a lot of great use cases that WordPress just doesn't play well for.

I personally still use and love it even now, a good six years later.
Finally loaded. Didn't help.
How do you plan to provide line of sight through those same walls?
I think it is more complicated than this unfortunately. Studies like this have been coming out for a while now: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539812/ where 1 in 7 or 8 obese are actually able to achieve a healthy weight.

These drugs will be game changers
Those as well as emissions reasons.
> There has to be a model where such manipulative lying doesn't pay off.

The more I think about this problem, the less I feel like there's a solution. Ultimately, any news outlet is going to be responsible for whoever is funding it.

You can get the Bezos/Soon-Shiong/etc. model, in which the newspaper is treated as a billionaire's philanthropic project, which is problematic in that you've got one person responsible, and if he's not happy he can stop funding it.

You can do a broader, crowdsourced/fundraised philanthropy model, but if the newspaper doesn't make content that people like, they're not going to donate. You're almost certainly going to end up with a partisan paper, because you either need donors from the left or donors from the right.

You can do the government-funded model, but of course everyone ought to be wary of the government controlling the funding of the news.

So... what does that leave? I don't ask that rhetorically - it's something that I've thought a lot about and failed to come to any kind of a useful answer on. The best thing I can come up with is a billionaire (or group of them) endowing a newspaper with a trust that they can't take back and which doesn't allow them to exert control. But then you've still gotta have someone hiring the staff and running the place - who picks those people?

I really don't know - it feels like a truly intractable problem. I'm honestly glad for the rise of the Substack/newsletter model - at least there, I know exactly who's responsible for the content and what their biases are. Unfortunately, that's better for political commentary and the like - it's just not a feasible model for breaking actual news.
You've probably already seen it and it doesn't fit most of the requirements but some might be interested to see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
A healthy person could surely resist, but consider something like toxoplasmosis gondii that is known to modify mouse behaviour to make them more likely to be eaten by cats. couldn't it be possible that the malnourished would be susceptible to rhythmic manipulation.
You can. It's just not economical and sometimes politically tenable to do so.
You forgot the inevitable post by waiseristy mocking people who like these trucks and grouping everyone into single category of idiots.
Ahh, that—due to compute limitations we're forced to run a very small model that isn't as capable of converting 5'8" to inches. The larger model is, though.
HTML is for marking up the semantics of content - lists, headings, emphasis, etc… CSS is for presentation - how is appears in the target medium. The layout is 100% visual presentation and 100% belongs where it is, in CSS.

Dealing with multiple screen/windows/paper sizes, as well as dynamic resizing & scaling is incredibly hard or impossible when you've baked a fixed idea of presentation into your content, see: Latex, PDFs & old school HTML with complex tables for layout, for examples.
In theory if the resistance to the stuffing is higher, then it also pushes the air out harder - i.e. it's a wash.

Except that it's not, because when you compress air you heat it, and all the heat energy is gone. This is why compressed air is a terrible energy storage method.

The hotter you heat the air (higher PSI) the more energy you waste.
Retro-lispers might also find this interesting:

https://flownet.com/ron/plisp.html
Someone who does home improvements probably own a house. Shouldn't they be able to, you know, buy an apartment, if "the mising middle" apartments were available in the US and not banned by a million laws (freedom! :-) ).
America fell out of love with ice cream
I used Grav for my CS capstone back in 2016. One of the requirements was to create and host a web page with project details, abstract, etc. I completely forgot about that portion until 2 days before the deadline, and I stumbled on Grav while looking for templates. I had the cleanest, most modern looking site of all our groups up in about 5 hours of tinkering and adjusting and turned what would have been a C into a B+.

Haven't used it since, but I'm glad it still exists.
This is fabulous. Would really like to know how these work.
$2 / month sounds like a bargain. Where I live it is much more expensive.
Likely there wouldn't be as many services, but don't you think long-range transmission and a good set of scattered plants would provide at least some "modern" facilities within that time? I'm sure the ownership and management structures would look very different as well as usage patterns (probably many services would be centralized in communities).
Both of these two options other than Libredirect are fairly inconvenient for switching between instances or having to maintain multiple for different frontends. Furthermore, while it doesn't obviously guarantee it won't become malware, Libredirect is completely open source.
Some electric skateboard do. I think what's stopping many to use it more generally is that you would need to disengage the system if you want to use your bike without the battery.

More complex braking system might introduce a lot of problems to a bike where that should be a simple thing, probably easier to have extra set of hydraulic brakes in case the battery is dead.
It's like there isn't a bunch of people out there that might like the 'old fashioned' style of media. We're all kids now?

Silly article really, of course online has more reach, an analogy here is that video games should all be made a streaming service, because who buys full games up-front any more...
It is virtually impossible you’re getting enough distortion from other 5GHz networks to matter, unless your walls are made out of tissue paper. I would recommend analyzing your own devices for faults.
Pretty much any other Unix-like operating system. FreeBSD for example
I get just a little annoyed, a reasonable amount, when someone leans into a lie for a long time, gives details, won't give it up, and even if I started out skeptical, I eventually start to believe them, only for them to pull the rug out and call me gullible or stupid or something.

No, I just made the mistake of trusting you and your persistence!
Yeah as a campus maintenance vehicle these seem perfect.
If you want them to provide sources, just ask nicely.

They made it very clear that these explanations weren't to be taken very seriously and were mostly just interesting to think about. There's not a whole lot of value in enumerating the evidence of a conspiracy theory that isn't worth taking very seriously (in fact, I'd argue it's not very responsible to do so).

And let's just not agonize about whether HN is "becoming Reddit," it's a conversation so overwrought it's discouraged in the guidelines.
There are a bunch that are already made. I think this setup is really impractical, but once you have it, you aren't reliant on the supply chain to feed the power plant, but you are reliant on it for finding a source of food to power the human pedaling.
I think they meant more the syntactic representation, rather than the control flow. If you rewrite the program using s-expressions, the DAG becomes a little more clear

(begin
(0001 GOTO 0002)
(0002 GOTO 0001))

The DAG has two branches, each with three leaves. There are no cycles in the syntax, even if there is in the execution.
Watch discord have it's reddit moment where they raise prices and people aren't willing to pay, but they are locked in due to hosting huge communities in it.
Nah. Give it 10 years and it'll be the Robinhood fiasco all over again.

Instead of anticipated trades, all these nontechnical power users with novel ideas will make the mistake of telling them to an AI-- and had their ideas stolen and rushed to market by whoever paid for access to mine the logs companies told us they weren't collecting.

We already don't trust cloud providers not to spy on our infrastructure. There is little consequence in lying to us. AI will bring us IP theft at scale.

Don't discuss anything sensitive or groundbreaking with cloud LLMs. No Google Collab, no OpenAI, nothing.

Make do with a local LLM in the form of a Vicuna 13/30B GGML. And even there, you have to watch out for backdoors in Gradio/posthog or weird models that insist on you enabling remote code execution. This domain is unbelievably shady and I can only assume it's because of the low-level access it provides to our collective stream of consciousness.

This is going to turn out to be bad news long term. Don't trust cloud LLMs.
I think fell out of love is a bad way to phrase it tbh I think most Americans still feel the same way, but have been compelled to stop because of health reasons. This is mostly nitpicky on my part though and it's still a good article.

I wish I could eat more ice cream and not gain weight/ increase my risk of diabetes.
No its not, there are lots of more alternatives.
So I immediately googled because it rang an alarm bell that some octopuses would develop specialized air-breathing apparatuses — that conflicts with my basic understanding of evolution. But I wasn’t googling it to falsify, but rather to see from a more ‘objective’ source if/how this occurred.

I think it’s the same basic principle as hanging up if a relative calls you begging for money or proclaiming to be kidnapped and calling you back. The costs for double-checking incredible claims is often not that high.
It's an important life lesson for honest people that yes, in fact many other people will lie straight to your face with things made up from whole cloth that they have zero incentive to lie about. You think "people wouldn't literally just make something up", but they do. They do all the time.
It's worth noting that freedom of transit and use of public ways (literally the original "right of way") is such an ancient and obvious part of common law that the Framers didn't deign it necessary to include it as an explicit right, instead relegating it with "the rest of them" in the Ninth Amendment.
EDIT Most/all *todo tasks
I have apt with only 1 ethernet plug, but coax run to every room, so i used moca adapter to have wired internet everywhere, works great
Given how few people got cancer from Fukushima, this doesn't really help make the fears seem rational.

One death from cancer, 2313 from relocating: https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-cher...
I dunno, sounds like your beef is with the folks who buy the same truck as you for no reason other than the look, not the folks who are seeing and mocking that trend.
You too can be a proud owner of a beat up truck with 200k-300k miles for 10,000 dollars that needs another 5-10k of maintenance!

Nobody says truck people bad, you're strawmanning all over this thread. I've owned two trucks, a full sized and a compact, I'm a republican and I believe that if I want to drive a 90s Kei truck and take the risk of dying in a car accident I should have the ability to assume that risk for myself. Same as driving a car from the 60s.
Why would Discord, a product created for gamers to chat/talk to each other while playing games, prioritize anyone's need to search and get back to work?
> and right about now, someone is about to reply with 'ride a bike, cars suck!'

Naah, I wouldn’t do a thing that. I’ve lived in low-bike suburbs — hated it, but I know the score. :)
What are the benefits over https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/ ?
>> However, ancient languages are usually not understood that well, which makes it impossible to determine whether a decoding really is or isn't valid.
Yes, they're not "citizen scientists", they're just scientists.

How many people's job title is "scientist"?

Debt from a PhD doesn't mean your science is necessarily more rigorous or valid; it may imply you have a higher budget, or it may not.

I bought a copy of "astrophysical techniques" by C.R. Kitchin the other day; that's probably the same book the "real scientists" have -- if I set up a detector network and write the software to manage it and write a paper about it, all built on funds from my automation company, am I less of a scientist simply because I dropped out in the first semester of my freshman year of high school?

I don't know, the data and test rigor are the same either way.
Not by much, unicycles are incredibly unpractical though
Not everyone is using PHP, sorry. I promise that once you get past the syntax shock, Lisp is not that difficult to grok. It looks like some people here took your comment the wrong way but please don't be discouraged by that. There is a genuine lack of good Lisp outreach, compounded by trolls and bombastic essays that are high on platitudes and low on actual insight, and I'm slowly working on correcting that in my spare time.
How to fix really old Ham Radio gear.

How to live on a small fixed income.
It has always been this way. How many people who grew up on text terminals, and despised GUI-based utilities that are essentially just thin graphical wrappers on top of a CLI tool at 20x the size?

This argument gets repeated by every generation ad nauseam, even though they're oblivious to the fact that it keeps reoccurring. Everyone loves drawing an arbitrary line in the sand.
Different US states' very unique interpretation of laws on certain things is something I have seen that needs explanation to foreign visitors and people who immigrate, from countries where there is one consistent legal code and regulation system of various products at the national level...

Marijuana regulations and firearms (and limitations of different types of firearms) are two obvious examples. Other things like per-state family leave laws for employees, employment law, landlord tenant law as well.
You want to take away people's e-bikes because...there exists a class of people so poorly coordinated that they presumably can't operate any vehicle safely 100% of the time?
There are a few more components. In particular, how the build system decides what needs to be done, and how tasks are ordered, are significant.

For an excellent synthesis of what Makes a build system, I can't recommend the 2018 paper "Build Systems A La Carte" enough:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0...

By Andrey Mokhov, Neil Mitchell (now working at Meta on the Buck2 build system) and Simon Peyton Jones (one of the founders of Haskell)
There are few things in the world that I love more than riding a bike in a seriously dense megacity. Zipping past everyone is such an exhilarating feeling. Everywhere I go I rent a bike.
Reminds me of myriad ORMs used to avoid learning SQL. Except you need to know SQL to properly use the ORM.

If you need regular expressions, just learn the syntax.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-regular-expre...

Once you learn and internalize the extended grep syntax, you have a new tool in your toolbox for command line usage, programmatic usage, conditionals in databases, find/replace fields in IDEs.

Regexes are everywhere in computing where text exists: on all operating systems, in all programming languages, and in all other software categories.

Just learn the regex syntax, go forth, and conquer!
> So why isn’t wearing insulated gloves universal? I assume it makes work much less comfortable?

The proper thing to do is de-energize the circuit/panelboard/switchgear/etc you’re working on and test to ensure it’s dead before any live conductors are exposed. Insulated gloves are not needed if you’re working on dead circuits.

If you have no choice but to work on a live circuit, then you use properly rated insulated gloves. Insulated PPE and tools for low-voltage equipment are usually rated up to 1000v.
> Really part of another era, where AT&T sunk billions into the labs just for pure research. If only corporations could be a far seeing today.

I think it's only fair to mention that AT&T's motives here weren't entirely selfless: the value of much of their research was really only realized by the public as a result of a 1956 consent decree. Before that, it was largely locked behind patents; the consent decree forced them to license their research without royalties (and forbade them from competing in non-telecommuncations domains).
In the examples I saw graphs but I'm not sure I saw directed acyclic graphs... does this do graphs that respect layered algorithms like sugiyama and elkjs?
@danwilkerson, were you driving around the north hills ~1 hour ago?

Just passed one of these and thought to myself, huh, that's pretty neat, only to come home to see this post.
There’s an SF-based startup working on an electric truck for urban audiences, called Telo. Might be interesting to those who find kei trucks appealing but want a proper fully street legal alternative.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/telo-electric-mini-truck-fir...
> at which point Tcl starts to look like a Lisp-2 with a slight propensity for stringiness and a mildly unusual syntax.

I always saw Tcl as a bastard child of Lisp and sh. It's beautiful in its own quirky way.
403 forbidden link with your link but the wayback machine lets me see it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230123071023/https://media.def...

Detecting (background) radiation is the new state of the art and improvements in tech seen in peoples mobile phones.

https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/press-releases/2017/11/first-l...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwKKOPd-5cU

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2...
> you were holding the throttle open the entire time

Imagine the equivalent argument for cars.

Are you, and this argument, the reason so many newer and/or electric vehicles don't have "idle creep"?