skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While I dislike the elecronification trend, cars are definitely better than they were 30-40 years ago, in a completely different league when it comes to reliability.

I'm going to have to strongly disagree here, particularly w/r/t reliability.

We purchased my wife's vehicle new in 2014. While it's relatively well-regarded and we're happy with it overall, it's been far from trouble-free. We recently replaced the engine due to a well-known mechanic defect - but it was a defect that should have been apparent much earlier than it was, but went unnoticed because of a firmware issue in the ECM. In addition to that, we've had problems with the infotainment system needing to be manually rebooted every month or so in response to increasing "weirdness" over time. The buttons on the steering wheel stopped working consistently in ~2019. There were workaround for a while, but these days all of the buttons on the left side do the same thing (activate the connected phone's microphone), and the ones on the right don't work at all. I've torn the whole steering column and dash apart to verify that it's not a wiring issue; it has to be something wrong with the infotainment system at this point.

This wasn't our only experience with newer vehicles. Every one we've ever owned - or just worked on for friends - is plagued by these sorts of electronic "gremlins". They get worse over time, too. Yes, new vehicles are very nice with all the bells and whistles when they're new... but those same features quickly become "just one more thing to break" as the vehicles age. To make matter worse, they're typically very expensive to fix, even if you have the skills, time, and tools to do it yourself. I'm already $1,500 deep into fixing those buttons on the steering wheel, and haven't succeeded yet.

I drive a 2000 Jeep Wrangler. Granted, it's "only" 24 years old, but it has been far more reliable than any other vehicle my family has owned since I got it. When I bought it, in ~2011, I was looking for an older model - ideally it would have been a CJ-7, which was made from 1976-1986 - right at your 40 year cutoff. I've replaced several major components, sure - the engine, the entire rear end, the front suspension, etc. - but it has >200k miles on it, and the engine was poorly maintained when I bought the vehicle. What's more, all of that combined cost less than the engine replacement in my wife's 2015 model year vehicle.

There's much less to go wrong, too. There's no infotainment system to start acting funny, no backup camera to break, no buttons on the steering wheel to start doing random things they're not supposed to... it's just a vehicle.

Complexity is the enemy of reliability, and modern vehicles are very complex. Some of that is due to the market demanding new features. Some of it is due to government regulations. Some of it is just manufacturers using more complex solutions because time marches on.

... I have more to say here, but no time. Maybe I'll come back :)
The preemption condition is literally time. Just need to set a flag in threads after so much time.

There is only one scheduling thread.

That could work but that would slow down while loops of lightweight threads, but it shall work.

The design is designed to avoid putting if statements inside loops for performance reasons.

If you have 128 core machine then 1 thread for scheduling might be worthwhile rather than slow down 128 cores worth of work with an if statement.

But is there a way to run something a timer on the kernel or something so I don't need to waste a thread? It would presumably be asleep most of the time anyway.
If the whole thing about constructive termination is that they're doing this "voluntary resignation" thing to avoid unemployment benefits, then this makes sense. I had the initial impression it was about avoiding having to relocate, but it looks like I misconstrued.
And can't without Apple's blessing as it isn't a "verified" browser.
Co-working spaces are useful when an extra bedroom would cost you $500/mo (or much more) anyway.

Libraries where I live have limited seating. Cafes can be really hit or miss in terms of power outlets, large enough desk space, and noise. Both don't have 24/7 access, nor do they allow you to set up a workstation with monitors.

They are not worthwhile if you have ample space in your home and only desire to get out a few hours a week to a cafe.
Apple has PATs though, which could serve as a replacement for WEI.
No, I agree with you that a quiet “this is what we've found, this is what we think it means, please reproduce or tell us if you find something we've misinterpreted”, rather than a public fanfare, is how a potential scientific breakthrough should be done IMO.

I think I cross-pollinated this thread with another where someone was asking “if this is true why isn't it on the front pages”. The extraordinary evidence I'd want before it hits the front pages and TV talk shows is other scientific/engineering groups managing to reproduce the findings, or at least showing a significant improvement over previous discoveries (there could be a mistake that means the result isn't that big a thing while still leaving room for it to be a significant finding).
If you are working in a shell like that you should have outbound ports locked down and a list of allowed domains set in your proxy. Add in some antivirus and password sudo check and plenty of ways to catch this
Don't say gay is now law for high schoolers in Florida too. The "third graders" rhetoric was always a falsehood, the law was designed to be used for all ages of students.
basically they are deplatforming us from the web.
Oh, yeah - If you don't care about data availability/uptime, databases in k8s can be magical. It's just not suitable for high availability out of the box - Postgres, not k8s.
VRChat probably has similar problems to Chatroulette / Omegle have in terms of widespread adoption
Already addressed this argument in another reply so I’ll just link it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865508
I especially like the very American "I ask that you refrain from discussing your termination with any social contacts made through your membership in the family [...] Failure to comply may result in your severance being terminated early or withheld entirely."

In (most of ?) Europe, this severance is law and not debatable (as discovered by Musk recently), so this sentence would be outright illegal. You can talk about your salary with anyone you want, discuss it with your colleagues, that's even mandatory for mass-layoffs (through unions and/or elected representatives).

You should fight for some more rights, sometime <3
I don't 'believe in' or support Worldcoin, but I don't think it's realistic to expect any one verification system will serve everyone who needs/wants any given service. Government ID, and even governments themselves don't serve everyone in need.
Then I would suggest that you calm down and be open to creating a safe environment for people to share their ideas. People should be free to propose whatever they want for the web. You shouldn't take issue with bad proposals merely existing.
I've looked briefly at the materials synthesis (first part of their Supplementary Materials section). I agree with you, the synthesis is trivial. The 10e-5 vacuum is easily reached with a turbopump backed by a mechanical pump, nothing exotic or expensive.
Not possible in places with bad zoning or condos, but I converted a shed into a really nice office. It has a fence and a couple other features that create friction to get to it (even though only a few feet from the house). Helps a lot without being overtly distancing to the relationship.
Making an AI driven lamp, no app, no cloud based
Alternate article, not paywalled:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/25/gm-isnt-going-to-kill-off-...
I agree with the first 3 sentences, 4th sentence gives me pause. I wish you all well and with as little trumult experienced as is possible <3.
Or install the Linux version of GB Studio. :)

https://gbstudio.dev
And then after all that the enshittification begins, unfortunately.
If Europe expends much more energy to deal with cold and food production in the cold not sure that would help the world much.
> This is partly what I was talking about. Just odd dismissals of actuals scientific evidence.

I've read (and heard first-hand) similar approaches by people with a (sometimes hidden) agenda to push. There's a lot of apparently "scientific" stuff out there, written confidently by people who ultimately aren't qualified, which is lapped up by those deep into the confirmation bias of whatever is topic is.
Just to be clear, I'm not commenting on if the lab leak theory is plausible or not, I'm commenting on how none of these folks were willing to go "on the record" about it in a way that would have to stand up to the level of scrutiny they know would come.
Exactly, it's the exact same thing under a new branding. Because of that new branding, most people seem to think it's new and unique when it really isn't.
How much is latex used for papers outside of computer science? Medical researchers I know generally used word for their papers.
Life from an inorganic is tricky.

Judging from the timeline though going from eukaryotes to procaryotes is weirdly just as tricky if not more so. I mean - eukaryotes showed up after life had been on earth for 1 - 1.5 billion years. Procaryotes showed up almost right after the Earth could conceivably supported life at all.

That's always struck me as really weird. It also makes me think if we ever find alien life we're probably going to be disappointed.
So, the current stops and things get colder in Europe, but they have been having serious heat wave issues each summer. Will things be worse in the winters, but better in the summers if the current did stop?
Insane it didn't launch with one.
Ohh ... this could actually be relatively big.
From abstract: "The superconductivity of LK-99 originates from minute structural distortion by a slight volume shrinkage"

There was previously research done investigating how changes in atomic structural alignment affect superconductivity (such as by cooling). I think researchers were trying to maintain the spacing that superconductors had while cool even when it was heated up. This sounds line with that other research, though I can't find the article again, please correct me if you find otherwise.

Still likely to be rather fragile and temperamental to work with ... but this seems like it's possibly legit.
If they really believed their rhetoric why wouldn't they build on an inland ridge and pipe the water in?
No, you can have it on multiple devices. It just won't be able to grab any chat history when you first add it to a be device
The "who" is the set that is conscious. Just like a prime number is prime without having any external force make it so or requiring anything to embody the primeness. Primality is in the nature of the natural numbers. The claim is that consciousness is in the nature of sets. The latter does not yet have experimental evidence. It seems as reasonable to me as other possibilities like electrons are conscious or quantum fields are conscious mostly because both of those are well-described by mathematics.
This has been on my mind this past week(and is only lightly tangential)...but would we be able to observe adaptations being made by plants/animals/ecosystems on a timescale of years or decades...to the changing climate?

Humans will be playing mental gymnastics and politics for quite a while before any true changes to move the needle are made...but all other biological things can just make the adaptations...given enough cycles to recognize that something is different(the last 3 seasons were much wetter or colder or hotter, etc...).

I imagine these adaptations could be earlier/later migrations, reproduction habits, hibernation patterns, food gathering. Not necessarily changes in DNA.
Best to always ask which family?

Supportive, abusive, dysfunctional, a mafia with constant internal power struggles…
It’s handling all the things that can go wrong when communicating and coordinating across processes, across machines, or troubleshooting bottlenecks on running systems that Elixir (and Erlang) excels.
That's fair... I'm just saying you shouldn't compare 20hz-20khz vs 20hz-80khz then decide cats can hear "three times" as much as humans. Two octaves is more than zero but a lot less than 3x.
Haha. That’s a bad one. You’re just straight up cursed. :)
You can!

trait MyIterHelpers: Iterator {
fn dance(&self) {
println!("wheee");
}
}

// And tell rust that all Iterators are also MyIterHelpers.
impl<I: Iterator> MyIterHelpers for I {}

The one caveat is that using it in a different context will need a use crate::MyIterHelpers; line, so the namespace isn't polluted.
Why is this being downvoted? Psychedelic users keep rambling about their substances alleged wonders but in real life every “acid enthusiast” I met is heavily dysfunctional in some way.
"former user researcher" sounds like someone who was a subversive presence at Signal trying to make sure "bad actors" could be disciplined in the service of whatever politics he favors. People shouldn't underestimate that such people are in all the media orgs now and will keep pushing until the surveillance state is pervasive. Wired is just pushing propaganda and cherry-picking quotes to support its pre-determined narrative.
Remote work has benefits, but it also has significant drawbacks. I say this as someone who as worked exclusively remotely for 15+ years.

1. The quality of remote workers seems to have dropped significantly post pandemic. I think this is because, in the past to work remote at an in-office company you need to be pretty valuable. Now people who can't work well without the structure of an office are able to get remote work and coast. This means the good people are carrying a lot more dead weight.

2. Juniors simply don't learn as much or as quickly in a remote environment. Many of them just go dark when they can't figure something out.

3. Perhaps you save money by not commuting, but my wife and I both work remote. That means our companies have basically colonized 200 square feet of our house rent free. We could be using these rooms for something else. It almost feels like a 3rd amendment violation sometimes.
The publication is in Nature Communications, which is a bit of a different (lesser) beast than Nature.
point taken, but as the blog post here and many other comments have pointed out, there is a very sharp qualitative difference between just-Apple and Apple+Google doing this. Apple alone has a minority market share but together they cover enough of the market that many websites would be tempted to only allow connections from trusted clients.
We've been very surprised as to which studies made it to nature over the past decade. I can't help but conclude that the influence of (politial) bias has been steadily growing over the years. (Fwiw, i'm personally taking the climate change subject extremely serious).
"So many people don't do it because they recognize the dangers and if you do do it you will forever be changed and be a different person for the worse. Don't become a bad person so you would be stupid to take psychedelics."

This comment here supports my social stigma hypothesis as the actual reason people don't take psychedelics as much.

Remove unfounded stigma not supported by the neuroscience literature (my strong anti-drug stance literally switched in university when my neuroscience professor pointed out how completely divorced drug legality is from their health affects) and we will all see more widespread usage.
As someone who's autistic, these kinds of companies are very difficult for me. Usually the "we're family" companies are also the "let's have a social event constantly", or return to the office days are also just filled with socializing.

I get it.. some people really enjoy that, but that's not everyone. It feels like it's by design to exclude other kinds of people who don't enjoy a hyper social environment.
It's an argument against sharing whatever comes out of your a_. People ignore that argument all the time and thus we live in the Post-Truth era. Perception is reality, whatever you think or feel is true, etc.

The great innovation of the Enlightenment and science is that such things are not reliable at all. If you want reliable information, you need publicly verifiable facts and peer review.
The moment you get it you'll understand why it does exist and its true nature, then good luck! You sound like those doctors in the 70s that thought the ME/CFS is "hysteria" because they thought they conquered all wisdom of the world.
Yes, and literally the only reason I have a router is to make my LAN devices behind it unroutable from outside. (It says so in the name "router" itself.)
low accuracy is certainly a good reason to drop a project, especially when dealing with small text (<1000 chars), this is where most social media post/mini-blogs fall under.

bigger text e.g. reports, thesis etc are probably easier & cheaper to verify by humans, with help of A.I. tools (ref checking, searching...)
Yeah, me too. And that same craziness extends all the way up the stack to so much more day to day pain and suffering.
So you mention that its "like talking about dreams - it's boring and personal", why do you describe it like that? Are you not interested in others inner lives? Do you think people aren't interested in your own inner life?
I have always had the opposite experience that peoples journeys from dreams, trips, spiritual experiences are the most profoundly interesting experiences someone can share with me.
I have seen your opinion mirrored by others and am always taken back by that attitude that what is personal is not interesting.
I think the key part of moving elsewhere is that you have much less access to the in-person segment, assuming moving represents a significant hurdle to you.
Yeah that really is a terrible decision. I have had two Bolts and they are wonderful cars, but I would not buy again if I couldn't use the phone integration.

I don't really care how great their new stereo head is, cars last a long time and there's 0% chance they'll keep up with the phone over the long term.
Show HN: Dotenv-generator – a better way to setup .env files
So after being a fan of Setup.exe-s since I installed my first program 20+ years ago I always hated how manual project setup (usually configuring the env variables) usually is. This package ought to help with that (at least with setting up .env files) by making it interactive. This usually isn't meant for people/projects who have gone through the setup manually multiple times and know what values they need to use, but instead it is meant for people configuring projects for the first time (think new employees being onboarded or a project like aws being configured after installation).

The interactivity is not the only helpful feature, you can use comments in .env files to help the end user understand what values are expected as these comments will be displayed during the setup flow. If you do not provide a comment, a helpful description will be autogenerated using the default/example value.

The easiest way to use this package is to run it (Duh). You can add a `configure` script to your package.json file that runs `dotenv-generator`. If you want users to execute this script let them know by asking them to perform this after installation `npm explore {name_of_the_package} -- npm run configure`.

Ideally your project should use `dotenv-generator --postinstall` as a `postinstall` action. This means that after installation of your package, `dotenv-generator` will be run. This allows for a seamless setup of your project that will magically happen after installation. Since this is not an ideal world npm 6+ *doesn't play nice* with interactive `postinstall` hooks so I've added a check for that if you include the `--postinstall` flag it will check the npm version and for npm 6+ the script won't execute the interactive flow.It will instead print a message saying that the configuration could be done by executing `npm explore {name_of_the_package} -- npm run postinstall`. To view this output you must include `--foreground-scripts` as a flag for package installation ie. `npm i --foreground-scripts`.

The project is fully open sourced here https://github.com/lnenad/dotenv-generator
Isn't it the opposite? I was under the impression that warm water from the Caribbean / equitorial zones was currently brought over to Western Europe and the UK.

If the AMOC collapses, that heat will presumably stay in the tropics, and North Western Europe will cool.
> It is less market choice but often produces a free or subsidized product.

A lot of companies are going down the “captive customer” path wherever they can. Rental properties are a good example of this.

Nowadays, there are a handful of compulsory services that you, the renter, must pay for on top the rent and there are no options to cancel (the federal government is currently targeting this practice).

I worked for a startup in the media space that did the exact same thing. As soon as we figured out that we could pitch our product to media properties while onboarding their advertisers and forcing them to become our paying users instead of the media companies themselves, we found product-market fit and took off.
It's a tiny thing, but I love vscode.dev's Theme Tester Playground. It's the fastest way to suggest people try a VS Code Theme. For instance, I've been using LaserWave for a while now and you can see it in action here:

https://vscode.dev/theme/jaredkent.laserwave

It gives you a workspace with a handful of sample files to see various syntax highlighting bits. You can just about put any Theme extension ID in the marketplace after /theme/.

If you've got Settings Sync on, you get the see the theme in the context of your usual window layouts and some other things that interact with themes.

No install, no download, no need to switch back after you are done previewing it, just a quick easy URL to link.
Yeah, if the article posted had been accurate the headline would have been: "Why did it take psychedelics, other than LSD, so long to become popular?"

Here's the outline of the study* from UoM:
https://news.umich.edu/hallucinogen-use-other-than-lsd-on-th...

*the actual study link is in the UoM outline
Can somebody explain how this is any different to only running in a certain browser, with a certain user agent, or DRM, or with certain authentication etc?
Surely it's up to companies to choose who they want to segregate, it's not a democracy?
I've always found it amusing that people think humans would be any match for an NHI species that has technology capable of reaching our solar system.
It is not limited to 250mA overall. A physically larger specimen would be capable of more current.
As AnimalMuppet said actions speak louder than words.

“Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
> physical models are the most reliable basis for prediction

Simpler models can yield better predictions than complex ones, even when the complex model is more "realistic". The many tunable parameters and complex feedback loops can increase uncertainty compared to a simple model.

See for example "To explain or to predict?" by Shmueli (2010, https://doi.org/10.1214/10-STS330)
Yes. Also no.

First, no system is perfect. If you're a trader, you want something that will shift your odds from 50/50 to 55/45. Can some forms of TA do that in certain market conditions? I believe so. When the market is driven by certain factors, say, retail traders, TA likely performs better simply because other people are using TA. Doing TA can tell you what the morons are doing.

Also, I believe it was "The Long, Good Buy" book which covers the advantages of mean-reversion strategies and provides backtested analysis. If a stock moves by a large amount in a short period of time, it will likely mean-revert somewhat and you can take advantage of that.

Do I think any of us computer folk should mess around with this? No. The best trade is to improve your skills and get pay raises.