skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dumping frozen vegetables in hot water will just cool it and leave the vegetables mostly raw. I mean I understand Americans like raw broccoli and stuff but... I don't understand the self deprivation.

And as someone else asked, is that a clear kind of mushroom soup or broth or the creamy kind?

You can make your own broth too; get some regular mushrooms or ideally, dried shitake mushrooms and just boil them for an hour or two. Removing the mushrooms is optional. You can freeze the result if you have extra.

Same for chicken; get cheaper chicken on the bone, cook it in the oven as normal, put the bones in a pot and boil for two hours to make chicken broth. You can add mushrooms to that too, and / or said frozen vegetables to let it cook properly and release the flavours.
I like this metaphor on a few levels; from an employer's perspective, a family is the same as a second job and so naturally they prefer unattached employees.
Cryogenic temperatures maybe?
Chief Seattle had it right all along it seems[0]. We should have been aggressive about considering the impact of technology on the next seven generations. It’s not too late to start of course, but it is too late to avoid dire planetary changes.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_generation_sustainabil...
It's not really an alternative. The appeal is the very organic and human look. The one you liked is certainly more apt for medieval stuff, but it still looks digital
But just because it's a webapp doesn't mean you have to use JSON for everything, it's the other way around, using JSON for everything means that the only place the data model feels natural is the web.

Which is strange because JavaScript has had the Uint8Array that makes manipulating arbitrary byte structures easy for a while, it doesn't feel any less natural than other dynamic languages in that regard. Defining a "signed message with a header" structure in terms of bytes like I described above seems like a no-brainer. If you want the payload data of your protocol to use JSON then that's fine, but that shouldn't dictate the cryptographic layers underneath.
I'm sure the animated rendered background is there to drive the following point home: "if you're reading this on a device that can't keep up then this is not for you"
Hetzner also do some crazy-cool stuff, especially around the 7950X3D, cooling, AM5 etc. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2P8mjWRqpk). They also do some amazing stuff with ARM (their cloud offering is really solid for this).
Which terminal are you using that supports variable length fonts this well?
(2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30930985
It was deliberate - maybe you realize that, but "conflating" is something usually done by mistake. Review outlets are more akin to journalists, in that their job is to sort through the noise to help improve awareness for all.

Influencers are a new breed of advertisers and propagandists, which are far more appealing for commercial goals. Don't need all that "truth" and "integrity" getting in the way.
SpaceX isn't that special. It's 70+ years of NASA work and the inevitable improvements found in 2023 tech compared to the last time NASA was actually given budgets for this.
Same here. I read a couple of literature reviews on climate change on a particular hot summer vacation in 2016. It completely voided me of all hope that humans would somehow manage to ‘solve’ the wave of misery that is rushing towards us.
In the Soviet Union, they gave its counterpart a wonderfully euphemistic name of "Ministry of Medium Machinery Building". Everyone knows what is "heavy machinery" and while "light machinery" is not a thing one could imagine what it could mean, but medium machinery? What the hell could that even be?
I think both are true. Timing plays a role but it requires the local (in a temporal sense) genius of the day to put together the pieces.

Plenty of other physicists were contemporaries of Einstein and did not see what he saw.

I suspect also that had Einstein instead lived in this modern age where, at least to this layman physics progress appears to be floundering, he too would have been struggling to stitch all the pieces together into some semblance of a whole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect

> "...the effect decreased the higher a countries measure of gender equality. This effect seemed to be due to men being viewed less negatively the more egalitarian a country was rather than women being viewed more positively."

So, yes! At least some people think so.
You can have the sax, we'll take superconductivity, the microscope, the telescope, realism in painting, the Mercator projection, concurrent programming, and the capacitor ;)
But that's only for code that's painted using the mouse, not for code typed on the keyboard.
Doesn't really count as a repost if none of the previous submissions didn't get any traction.
You can indeed visit "lemmy" in the sense of visit any instance of Lemmy, and also in the sense of visiting whichever one is tops on google, and also in the sense of visiting lemmy.ml, which is the oldest and perhaps most prominent one.

You an also exercise bad faith and construe those as overly literal references to a singular "lemmy," and position yourself as offering a correction wherein you explain what the fediverse is, a correction which depends on that bad faith interpretation, which appears to be your game here.
And that is why I don't have any "smart" devices in my house.

Except for my Internet-connected bathroom scale. It's been giving me the side-eye for a while now.
It sounds to me like this guy just wants to be a consultant. Uncle Sam must love him, because instead of taking in 3x W2 incomes he could be contracting out to each company with a much more favorable tax situation, and have everything above board. In fact thousands of consultants do exactly that and many make a lot more than 300k a year.

The only difference here is he is doing consulting in as shitty and unsustainable way as possible, will likely burn bridges when the employers find out, will never be able to take a vacation or relax, and is almost certainly working way more than 40 hours a week. Not really my idea of a good time.
Yes, custom branding, A/B testing, real time messages, to name a few
Graduated with my degree at 45 and started working part time various places.

Took my first fulltime job at 50 in 2020. I took a new job in August 2022 at 52.

I think it is a numbers game. A lot of appplications get denied w/o a single interview. Some I get denied after an interview. Ive bombed the shit out of every leetcode interview Ive taken which luckily isnt that many.
Forewarning: I am not being critical of fly.io nor their free support whatsoever when I say this.

From a technical perspective, could they have "been better" from a technical perspective? I see their name a lot on HN so I know they are doing really cool + advanced things and this is probably some super small edge case that slipped through the cracks.

Could they have added some message / do we as the HN community feel they needed to be like "we're gonna add some extra logging/monitoring going forward so it won't happen again"?

By all means, they probably don't owe anybody in terms of stability + uptime guarantees when it comes to a free tier. Sh*t happens.
We'll be adding A/B testing functionalities, feature toggling, real time messages, etc...
AI Act: a step closer to the first rules on Artificial Intelligence
I think the core issue is that they venomously don't want to act like a corporation. Which is great for early marketing and adoption but there's a reason successful B2B corporations act like they do. It's less fun and it's less endearing but it also annoys customers significantly less. I mean, the CEO has "Interim Food Taster" as his title on LinkedIn.
Neither was my reply, I honestly don’t know.

The sibling comment suggests that there are only a few foundational models on HF. They are presumably squarely within the target of this new EU law. HF as the hosting company will be in a similar position as YouTube is with local video licensing and content restrictions.
> ... students use the HTML blocks to create a resume for a fictional or historical character in a homework assignment.

This is probably the most valuable exercise described in the article. It is essentially an exercise in art, where you can reflect on the path that someone you actually admired took, and what your own representation to the world looks like. The tone of the course materials about justice and power are sort of gross to me, but maybe the physical competence and reflection will imbue the students with more character and insight than their instructors. The "write the resume of a historical or fictional figure," idea looks like a really interesting project.
https://img.ifunny.co/images/8e534b0182c6449fac238c52a3d8745...
I would. Lots of "the smartest brains" are mediocre hucksters who have bullied and networked their way into a position of authority. This doesn't mean they aren't "the smartest brains".

IME some of the more effective engineers I've worked with have gravitated towards politics, not "raw technical skill". It's not because they prefer it. They use their "smartness" to win.

The problem is that being good at social engineering >> anything else. Intelligent people often look at the system and say: "What's the point in naively following this when no one successful unless they game the system?"

What's the point of putting one of your great, well considered idea into the fold. It's far more effective the be a mediocre huckster. You don't have to deal with the uncertainty, giving your idea to someone else, etc. Better to work the social game and phone in the rest.

It works better and you don't have to deal with the crushing disappointment that goes with fighting for an idea in a horrifying bureaucracy.
> Edit: aww, ninja edit takes away all the fun :/

You know I have a degree in theoretical physics so I really should get this stuff right, but before I've had my morning coffee all bets are off :P
I've seen this more often go in the other direction, but I think it can be either way.
"The goal of Metascala is to create a platform to experiment with the JVM: a 3000 line JVM written in Scala is probably much more approachable than the 1,000,000 lines of C/C++ "

Seems like a reasonable goal.
If I were to guess, I would say an average 4th grader knows the difference between nano, milli or micro seconds. Understanding the magnitude might not be the problem for the CTO. But why should the CTO care? How does it translate to his business requirements? That's your job to explain, no?
Can't say for sure but ICANN could cancel a TLD for example here is something I found interesting:

.ZR – the domain extension used to belong to the Republic of Zaire, later renamed Republic of Congo, therefore switching extensions from .ZR to .CD. ICANN cancelled .ZR in 2001.
.YU – the TLD dedicated to the former Republic of Yugoslavia ceased to exist in 2010 and has since been replaced by .RS (for Serbia) and .ME (for Montenegro).
Why should I get a ccTLD?

Source: https://www.eurodns.com/blog/5-good-reasons-why-you-should-r...
Hipgnosis did original hitchhikers novel cover: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_...
Many of the arguments revolve around concerns that the government will gain too much control, power, and personal information. It the government directly controls financial transactions they know every transaction we make, and more importantly can deny transactions they don't like.

Arguably the US government effectively has these powers today, but beingtthat they don't directly own our banks there is a level of red tape they have to go through. As long as they are technically separate there is also the opportunity for us to change the laws and strip them of that access, once combined we give up that possibility.

The US was originally design with a very strong distrust of our own federal government. For the last 80 years we've completely flipped the script and given more and more power to a massive federal government, but the undertone of distrust is still around for quite a few Americans.
Turbo is always chat.
No bonding, undefined, unmeasurable "commitments"...
At that point, a longer war in the West meant further and more secure Soviet advances in the East.

The Morgenthau plan implied a harsh post-war settlement for Germany, and at the time was viewed as effectively inspiring the Germans to fight on rather than capitulate or revolt against the failing Nazi regime.
End User, by Alastair Reynolds
Even in the realm of "engines", who invented the four-stoke engine (operating on the Otto cycle)? Who invented the diesel engine?

Who developed the compound steam turbine?

Who developed penicillin?

The "Green Revolution" depends on synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. Who developed the Haber process?

Hint: none of them were from the US.
This relates closely to Anders Ericsson's theory of expert performance through deliberate practice. The article discusses the role of nuanced domain-specific vocabulary to describe elements of expertise before pivoting to subsume it all under the rubric of _models_. This is exactly how Ericsson sees deliberate practice working - by building extraordinarily detailed and nuanced neurocognitive models and being able to draw on them readily (and often unconsciously) in performance.
So, a problem of integration, and not necessarily one of, how did you put it, "mass migration from arab countries and africa".

And those social problems, integration of new citizens and migrants, are much more complex than "stop migration". Because even if you did, what's next? Throwing all those people out that are already there? Also those born there (not just Sweden, in Germany it is the same, not to start with France), or just those without proper passports? Everyone, regardless of passport?

Or, radical idea, just find a way to successfully integrate everyone in society, even if it means the existing society will have to change.
The problem with the author's tennis anecdote about Roger Federer's 2017 career resurgence is that in reality it had more to do with the top player Novak Djokovic's elbow injury than with Federer's backhand.

"In 2017, Djokovic suffered from an elbow injury that weakened his results until the 2018 Wimbledon Championships, where he won the title while ranked No. 21 in the world." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novak_Djokovic#Career_statisti...
Or don't. Here's a TL;DR: It's a relatively small effect where men tend to go for women more attractive than they are, and women tend to go for men who have higher status and earnings than they do.

Certain circles like to misrepresent it as responsible for why so many men remain single, but in reality people tend to match with those close to them in social status and earnings, with just a bit of the bias remaining unexplained by wage inequality.
Context: These visual programming tools were not in fact available but had to be custom-made. EDIT: This is what custom-made refers to:

> Undergraduate Fuchun Wang created a great set of blocks explicitly designed to look like SQL for manipulating CSV files. We used these blocks to talk about queries and database design in the class.

If you want to learn something, you need lots of examples. You have that with javascript and SQL, and today you even have ChatGPT.

If you want to deploy websites you need something well-supported.
the point isn't that issues and PRs exist, it's that the maintainers don't seem to know what they're doing

this is self-evident from a cursory review

link me any 3 non-trivial merged PRs and i'm happy to point out the problem i'm describing
Imagine putting the Russian flag for the Ukrainian language for an idea of how Chinese people feel about Taiwan being a country.

Whilst I understand you didn't mean to start a political debate, you have made a political choice by using the Taiwan so it's unfair to blame others for "bringing politics into it" just because you don't have understanding on the subject.

> "No one can deny that it [Taiwan] owns a flag."

1 Billion Chinese people would like a word with you.
> Should losing a single host machine be a big deal nowadays? Instance failure is a fact of life.

Depends on where in your development cycle you are. If you just got started and haven't even figured out what you're actually building (prototyping), you shouldn't really use a hosting provider that randomly lose instances.

If you're on the other hand have done everything to improve your applications performance, had to resolve through-output issues with a distributed architecture and now running 10+ instances, then losing one host shouldn't impact you too much. But you really shouldn't start this way, it's doing web services the hard way and introduces a lot of complexity you shouldn't want to deal with when you're still trying to find product market fit.
This is a topic HN just cannot talk about sanely.

"Matching" is very dependent upon culture. But HN is a non-random smattering of people from all over the globe-across very many cultures. Of course there are going to be very important differences. Considering how deep within a culture "matching" is, it probably can't be discussed by random elements from so many cultures without becoming heated.

We all love to pander to the idea that the internet is some great thing and capable of solving all social ails. Maybe it can't? Or, maybe the internet can't until all the various cultures agree to some fundamental tenets in order to interact respectfully across cultures.

A starting point could be something like "agree to disagree" or agreement to non-interact on contrasting topics.
That sucks, sorry to hear about that. This is why I ALWAYS run CRDB or Scylla as my transactional DB!
This sentence is so weird since a few years ago this would be entirely the other way around.
Ideally, estimate the business values in local currency (and be able to defend those estimates).
Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, Google, Amazon could band together and call it MANGAnese.
I see this so often: engineers who think it’s demeaning to explain deeply technical things in business terms, so they refuse. Like it’s somehow noble to only speak one language.
Better Deepfakes by Ripping Out Skip Connections
Hetzner has a record for going silent with issues FYI, just hit their reddit to see all the horror stories
Oh I have a TV that's "smart", but like you it's not connected at all to my WiFi. It's just a dumb terminal to my AppleTV. On levels of trust, I would put the AppleTV above my old Nvidia Shield and MUCH higher than my old Roku box.

My main gripe with smart devices is their sketchy software that may or may not have vulnerabilities in them and may or may not be diligently updated with security fixes by the company that makes them. If I can concentrate most things to one device...like the AppleTV, which gets updates all the time...then I can isolate problems. If I have to worry about a myriad of things throughout the house, that's something else.
Here are the current participants (honestly I thought the list would be a lot longer): https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi...
People always say "AGI" and they mean different things but I am guessing most now mean something like a digital living human/simulation of human when they say that. Mixed in with some blurry connotation of it automatically becoming godlike in power.

That stuff is very speculative. But we don't need AI to get to that level for it to be very dangerous. Just imagine that we have an open source GPT that is something like 33% smarter than GPT-4 and less brittle. Make the output 50 times faster than human thought and suppose that we can run it very inexpensively, in a "swarm" of agents cooperating.

Then you have a type of superintelligence that does not require any really speculative AI advance -- hyperspeed reasoning -- based on the current technology.

If that is widely deployed for military and industrial decision-making then something like a computer virus could create existential risk.

Also, realize that all these systems really need to emulate some of the core functional aspects of animals, like a self-preservation instinct or desire to control resources, is the right instruction and relaxation of guardrails. So when they can reason a bit better and at hyperspeed with collaboration between them, they don't need to be alive or anything to be dangerous.

Look at the history of increases in computing efficiency. It is easy to imagine 50 or whatever times output speed increase in less than 5 years. And even though they are not human level now, GPT-4 has proven that these types of systems can have strong problem solving ability.

One more thing to add is that as the AI performance increases and surpasses human decision-making ability, the hyperspeed will push competiting companies and countries to give them broader and broader goals and more autonomy. Because waiting overnight for human input means your competitor's AIs race ahead the equivalent of weeks.

I think we need to set a limit for the performance of new hardware at some point. Also we need people to understand the dangers of full autonomy and imitating animals in the context of hyperspeed or superintelligent AI. We will need criminal penalties and maybe some type of cooperative digital immune system.
We can stop private companies from selling that data if we wanted to. Once the federal government has direct control of our financial transactions, how do we limit what they can do with that power?

The point of keeping the government out of the banking business would be to keep the door cracked for the chance to improve it later. That door slams shut once the federal government has the insights into every transaction, and more importantly the ability to deny ones they don't want us to do. We also Wil have much less control over the creation of a social credit score, theoretically the government would have everything it needs to make that happen with control over our transactions.
> I also read it instantly in case they had a black hole on their hands, even though I'd expect us all to be dead almost instantly if any real "major consequence" event truly happened in the accelerators.

Idk why people think this. Black holes are not magic. They have exactly as much gravity as the mass had which collapsed into them.

As you go about your life right now the gravity of Switzerland is pulling you towards it a tiny bit. If due to some crazy event the mass of the whole country would collapse into a black hole that black hole would still tug you the same way and the same amount.
You should. I've been doing this kind of stuff on the side for 25+ years, and nothing ever gets "done." But the educational value is much higher than you think. And the skills learned can eventually propagate out into interesting paid work.

I think of them as retirement projects before I retire. When I actually retire I'll maybe finish them.

(That said, I have in the past tried taking jobs that were adjacent to my "research" interests, and found the joy of building these things from scratch is much better than fiddling with the levers on the side of someone else's thing they built from scratch years ago. I like working on and improving production systems, but if they intersect too closely to my personal interests, it can be demoralizing.)
Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG
They broke uptime for the paid tier, not just the free tier.

The relevance of paid/free is that free (and cheap paid) plans don’t get fly support over email
Tell HN: Unexpected behavior of the built-in macOS calculator
I've encountered an unexpected behavior of the MacOS calculator when it is over a certain SVG file [1]. It even gets weird when the captured screen is overlayed again [2]. I tried to reproduce it with a different SVG file and it didn't work. Maybe I'm missing something in the SVG type.

[1]: https://github.com/tomglok/mac-os-calculator-svg/blob/master/Screenshot%202023-07-21%20at%2013.30.12.png

[2]: https://github.com/tomglok/mac-os-calculator-svg/blob/master/Screenshot%202023-07-21%20at%2013.32.21.png
That’s beautiful. A monotype version would be something to see.