skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And some would argue that billion dollar companies like OpenAI, Meta etc should figure out a way to compensate the people who created the content they depend on.
True Vegan (no Honey etc) is unusually strict but “there are 9 vegan options at the Cheesecake Factory, plus a handful of other dishes that can be customized to make it vegan.” https://dietmenus.com/restaurant/the-cheesecake-factory

Vegetarian bumps that to 52 menu items.
And that's Number Wang!
Yeah perhaps I’ve been misinformed but this kept saying that countries with more renewables had less efficient grids and electricity costs were higher.

Am I misreading it? I thought the exact opposite was true and nowadays renewables are generally cheaper.
See https://www.econlib.org/open-borders-and-the-environment/
As a side note, my favorite writing on Costco being Costco is here: https://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2018/6/18/costco
I get the want to immediately monetize the userbase, including to chip on overhead and whatnot, but you are competing against companies which monetize their userbase silently without the user directly paying.

I'm not sure what's truly brought to the table here until you have portfolio management (and all the costs that brings)
I'd love to be able to remove the gas completely. But the reality is that in the winter the sun doesn't shine enough and the price of electricity is such that gas still wins out economically. So I'm happy to convert any surplus electricity to heat but after that the gas burner comes on, as much as I hate it.
Gell-Mann Amnesia is the phenomenon where someone knowledgeable in a field will read an article touching on that field, see that it is fundamentally wrong, and realize that the credibility of the journalism is lacking... and immediately forget that credibility assessment immediately upon reading an article about some other field.

Climate articles sometimes seem like the anti-Gell-Man. They confidently assert the most patent absurdities and clear falsehoods, and do so in such close proximity to their main findings that people can't help but notice that the one thing they have the knowledge to judge credibility on was entirely falsified. This leads to high levels of climate skepticism.

What possible benefit could an author have sought by claiming that July will be the "hottest month ever"? Not only is it obviously false, but if true it would directly undermine the very concept of anthropogenic global warming.
You said you've "learned" Javascript. Perhaps you've passed a test. I doubt you've really mastered it or understood how it works under the hood. I'm not saying this to insult you. I only say that because I've been doing it for 20+ years, and all of us, everyone, could probably spend ten more years learning to write even better code.

On the other hand, new programming languages increase your understanding of some ways of doing things. You learn other kinds of syntax. You grok more.

I guess I'd ask myself: What's the point? What do I want to learn Python to do or to make? Why Python specifically? Why not C++? Why not PHP? Why not just take those Javascript skills and learn to write NodeJS servers, which are a whole different beast from your front-end Javascript, and which can accomplish most of the same things as other back-end languages?

I'm asking because, if you don't have a real reason to learn a language, it will just be something you learned that you never use. If you do have a real reason to learn it, you'll probably learn it because you need to. If you can't learn it by trial and error, without taking another class, then you haven't learned enough Javascript yet. All languages lead to each other, and all the information about them is available for free.

Think about what you want your career to be. Do you want to be a full-stack developer? Then Python + JS probably isn't the best choice at this point. Do you want to tinker with AI models? Learn Python because for now it's the go-to language. Do you want work on games? Learn C++ and NodeJS. Do you want a steady job in the retail sector? PHP.

If you just want to be a colossal prick you can write everything in Brainfuck.
As the guy who released all those Phoenix and Firebird and Firefox versions, I can tell you with some certainty that it hasn't been 22 years yet.

First builds were spring of 2002 and you probably didn't have those because they were still called "browser" or "m/b" back then and not made terribly discoverable. You probably mean you got with it in 2003, summer or fall, which would be 20 years ago, not 22.
Pigs are delicious though.
More like somewhere between Photoshop and Illustrator
I was hoping you would have live links to some supporting data. I did stumble into an article about an Italian crash in 1933 that is probably the support for your Vatican assertion though nothing that I read mentioned anything about a Bigfoot or a hair that wasn't from earth. It referenced Italian archives from a "secretive" unit of Mussolini's military that supposedly picked up the pieces of something that crashed and stashed them away for study. Those parts were supposed to have been the inspiration for one of the Italians who studied them to develop the first jet engine and some plans for a circular, jet-powered craft that to me sounded like it had lots of problems engineered into it so it was never gonna work. There was a lot in there to absorb involving documentation sent to the Nazis and post-war transfer of the pieces to the US.

Anyway, a link to something about the hair that isn't carbon-based so it can't be from around here would be great since you brought up that subject. It's still a "tits or GTFO" place here on the intertubes.

Thanks, pardner.
You're saying the cheesecake factory makes everything except the actual cheese cakes?
Unless “bushmen” is being used in some generic “people who live out in the bush” sense? That stuck out to me too.

(I’m very closely connected to one of the foremost Western experts on the Himba and have spent time with them myself. Definitely not the same as the Bushmen.)
Always wonder why Shopify is needed. In my case a lot of banks provide consistent APIs or buttons for payments. Numerous providers that aggregate those APIs, but no one forcing You. No need to pay middleman
This seems optimistic in terms of implementing ergonomic and performant memory safety.

> Whereas with Val, we said, let’s get rid of references, because references are the issue and so we have a far simpler model.

I'm somewhat interested but it sounds like the old V situation of overpromising.
Bitter Harvest: The Dirty Little Secret of Strawberry Fields
There’s a few motives in play; office leases, are part of it.

But senior workers were getting too full of themselves a social agents for good and political status quo is coddle the government agents and their lobbyist/think tank leaders.

Now it’s templated to some dependency imports, leetcode, some well known TF; they can backfill with lower paid newbs.

I’m working on a Linux distro where the install sets up an LLM and boots to GPU accelerated 3D viewport where a little entity acts as my chatbot.

Goal is to show the world we don’t need corporate controlled software.
I believe most (though perhaps not all) definitions of "organic" do allow phosphate rock fertilizer.
Too many problems there is actually a good thing, because it means solving each one should yield some incremental reduction in risk.
Mine Safety Disclosures is one of the most slept on blogs! Everything they write is a banger!
>It was the one tiny glimmer of hope that the market may sort this out. But it won't.

Sure it will. Get ready for the coming wave of bots that simply lie and claim to be a "real human being."
Yes. Less meat in the diet might go to more humane production but I suspect not. I try not to think about the Simpson's talking cow episode voiced very distinctly in a jewish accent with sonderlager overtones.

I love eating meat. Pork especially.
It’s the ball hitting the paddles and bouncing on the ground. It’s a very distinctive sound
Well, I set my Dash To Dock to autohide only when a window maybe overlapping with the dock. As soon I move the window away, the dock pops back up. Which is the best of both worlds setting IMO.

There are great benefits of having an (almost) always-visible taskbar, one is that it allows you to plan your actions before you move and click, and it also enables more efficient actions when you want to bring up/down more than just one window (simply due to the shorter distance the cursor/hand/finger has to move between).

Also, I'm not really talking about maximizing windows, that problem has already been solved IMO. But as far as I know, by default, there is no similar-acting alternative for minimizing window besides Super+H hotkey which for me is a bit awkward to press, plus I don't really have big hands :( also, I rest my left pinky on the left side of left Control, move it to Super sounded like a lot of effort (and then I've to also locate H???, you know what? I'll survive a few unminimized windows :)).
Isn't there a story like this for every major concert or sporting event, and then a day later they print a retraction that no, it wasn't an earthquake or anything like it? Happened in Philly for both the World Series and NFL playoffs.
Its rough and people seem picky. I've been out of work for around a year now, partially by choice. I still get interviews here and there.

Post your resume in a comment here maybe? And as much as it sucks shoot a little lower? Are you you only applying to house hold tech companies?
The parent poster no longer wishes to travel as a result of conditions of border crossing they don't agree with. Had they not elected to travel to Asia, they would have not been subjected to this particular set of laws, and a form of search they did not expect.

I imagine there were times in the past when one might not expect to have one's baggage searched at a border, and when the authorities in a given country began searching baggage, that would have been a bridge too far for some people.

I wouldn't expect to have to disrobe at the border to prove I wasn't carrying contraband, but I can't imagine why a country wouldn't be able to implement such a law if they so desired. The biometric "search" is considered much less intrusive than a strip search by many, though on the other hand, a strip search is merely embarrassing, while some folks might consider the examination of one's biometrics to be theft (although, of course, it is not actually theft).

I mean, really, the presumably peaceful gun-toting motorcyclist would have probably been turned away at the border, or worse. Whereas, on the other hand, the parent post did not imply that they would have been turned away (or worse) for having the "wrong shape" fingerprints. Unless, of course, those fingerprints indicated that the traveler was a convicted criminal on the run from that country's authorities. They're merely objecting to a form of data collection.

> Countries can make whatever restrictions they like; we don’t have to support them. That’s the power of choice. Has nothing to do with entitlement.

Indeed.
Some great copypasta material on The Cheesecake Factory's design: https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG/status/931373170791198720
Ah yes, the Assyrians could've done it in a ziggurat.
No disagree either with your logic or decisions, it leverages the best outcome for you over sunk costs and existing infrastructure (basically the same) but at scale, it's going to have to change unless something else mitigates the total system costs of gas. You cannot force the change alone. A willingness to assume communal cost is probably required in classic "privatise the profits socialise the costs" outcome.
This is a very realistic take on the subject. From an academic perspective it is a tool to be used as any other and gaining knowledge on how to better protect data is worthwhile and provides value to humanity as a whole.

DRM is one use that does not favor consumers, on the other hand we have encryption being used in apps like Signal to provide the same high quality software to every day consumers.

I'm very interested in quantum computers, specifically ones powerful enough to break AES and other types of modern encryption. What will that mean for humanity and individuals?
Nice write up. A couple questions:

- The use of “I” begs the question: what’s the “bus factor” of Tarsnap? If you were unavailable, temporarily or permanently, what are the contingency plans?

- Will you be making any other changes to improve the recovery time, or did the system mostly function as designed? For example having a hot spare central server?
you get ads even if you just stay on the brave homepage
Keep in mind that S3 predates IAM by several years. So part of the reason that access to buckets/keys is special is because it was already in place by the time IAM came around.

Its likely persisted since than largely since removing the old model would be a difficult taks without potentially breaking a lot of customer's setup
That hasn't protected copywritten works in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
Why is classified info allowed on an internet connected computer in the first place?
This is a very early type of power steering gear, with the separate power cylinder and axial spool valve; I believe this is still common on very large trucks today, but in 1959 the Saginaw integral rotary-valve gear was introduced and basically became an industry standard for domestic (and some import) cars up into the 90s, and continued for light trucks after that to this day with some small variations. The accompanying integral-reservoir pump (also known as the "ham can") has also remained nearly the same over that timeframe.
There are, again, many qualified candidates in backend and devops as well. Changing specialties probably puts you at the bottom of the pile because you don’t have experience that speaks directly to the job.
They should maybe rebrand to The Cheesecake Outlet.
Before I reached the hilbert curve section my best guess for a visually pleasing sorting would be using a 3D hilbert curve in LAB color space. So I’m very disappointed that the idea wasn’t explored in more depth. Such promising results for 2D curve in RGB space, and it wasn’t even extended to HSV?
What I could see fine-tuning being very useful for is efficiency, either getting GPT-4 Level performance out of a smaller model or pruning GPT-4 for your specific needs.

After all, if I just want to detect from text what color and brightness the user wants to adjust their lights to, it seems inefficient to use a model that's been trained on all of human knowledge, even if I'm sure it'll work just fine.
Looks like Affinity?
Keen had item collecting, lots of verticality in the maps, and some backtracking IIRC. It seems like a better comparison to Metroid, than Mario.

Anyway, most games are not as good as Mario, it is a genre-defining series. I think it is not a great comparison—what does it tel you that I’m slower than Usain Bolt?
I have so many memories of lan parties turning into reformatting parties. or everyone huddled around one person's case, trying to get theyre new video card installed.
> This is such a weird disconnect between middle class white collar workers and the rest of the country.

Want to hear a bigger disconnect? Most jobs we need to maintain our standard of living are blue collar jobs. Think waste disposal, plumbing, carpentry, textile, farming, transportation, etc... By contrast most white collar jobs are unnecessary fluff mostly dedicated to producing luxury goods, bean counting, or high-tech entertainment. About the only white collar jobs we need to live well are medical personnel.

> It feels strange to be offered the chance to work less than half as much as another human and receive substantially greater rewards for my efforts.

You are paid based on how difficult it is to hire your replacement. Blue collar workers are paid less because the availability of able-bodied people is high. It's supply and demand.
I did some experimenting with RPi assembler a handful of years back, since I used to do a lot of x86 assembler throughout the 90's. If you're interested, here are 6 completely different ways to print Hello World in Assembler for the Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/ksaj/helloworld

I kept the code as close to each other in format and style as possible, so comparisons are easier to make. I don't really know the benefits and drawbacks to each method, but they are there and available, so I sleuthed them out and got them working.
As cool as this sounds schools need to be located in the neighborhoods they serve. Some central business districts have few residents as they are purely zoned for office buildings and parking garages. Taxpayers are also allergic to paying for premium real estate. (Sometimes to their own detriment. e.g. Building a new school on the outskirts of town saves money on land acquisition but results in slower and costlier school bus routes and parents use more time dropping off their kids).
On the Windows machine I spent the past year using for work, I absolutely massive (many seconds, and I could induce it to as many seconds as desired, even for minutes) input lag when moving windows around that required me to kill DWM.exe every single day, sometimes multiple times a day.

I didn't permanently kill it like in the article, though. Just killed the process and let it restart.

I don't know for sure that dwm.exe itself was the cause. It could have been an issue with some of the endpoint management crap my employer forces on users, somehow, or maybe MS PowerToys (though I think I eventually ruled that out at some point). But killing dwm.exe fixes it.
For one thing, because if you're throwing out a world-changing claim, you yourself would like to be sure it is what you think it is.

It's an obvious test to do, so it's quite surprising they didn't do it. Maybe they did and didn't film it, I don't know - but for the trouble of a couple of minutes of time, it's weird not to have it - especially if your method is reproducible.
Verizon and AT&T are charging a new fee to customers on older unlimited plans
Because no one will pay for the updates and then they are left with an out of date phone that gets connected to a botnet and drains their bank account. Like what happened with Windows.
All these comparisons depend on so much context. Price of gas, price of electricity, possibility for home generation, climate, access to gas lines, building design, and so on.

Literally every country, or every region, will have different constraints and parameters. What's best for me, may or may not be good for you.

For me the bottom line is this; I can generate my own electricity, I can't drill for my own gas.

I'm not an absolutist, I still use gas for cooking (for stove, oven is electric), and for some heating, but since I can generate electricity [1], I tend to want to use that first.

[1] solar, and yes I have the roof, and sun available. Residential wind can be tricky, if you're really lucky a small stream is nearby and personal hydro is fantastic.
Yes, absolutely. But in the case of this house that would require a teardown and rebuild, and that would be even more wasteful. My goal is essentially to shift the time the gas heater has to come on to mid November and the time when it can be switched off completely again to early March. That leaves several months where it will run - intermittently - versus how it used to be: from September through late April. The house was badly insulated and had a very inefficient heater. Triple glazing, foam in the wall gap and lots of measuring and tweaking later as well as a new heater so we should be doing much better than before. Our monthly pre-pay went from something astronomical to zero and averages out to about 300 / month before the latest batch of improvements. I'm curious to see how we'll manage this winter.

Incidentally, that's why I over-installed on solar: I didn't care all that much about the overproduction in summer, that just gives a tiny bit of money. But it will help to substantially offset the amount of gas consumed in the winter. Even so I have no illusion about being able to do entirely without gas, but compared to how it was it is already much better (est. -70%).
US requires exactly that from a lot of countries. Good to see it being reciprocated.
Looks like oil industry astroturfing [1] to me. The group that published this (GWPF) is basically an anthropogenic climate change denying lobby group that refuses to reveal its funding sources [2].

Yeah, color me skeptical about their publication that is essentially saying gas systems are better than electric heat pumps for the environment.

- [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOi05zDO4yw)

- [2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Warming_Policy_Foun...)
Look I don't really care about Teslas so I don't really have any idea, but the article says that Tesla does NOT use the standardized EPA-mix, but instead does their own testing and gets those tests EPA approved. The EPA spokesperson said they were following the rules, but only technically. Do you have alternate information showing that it actually is the standardized mix to produce the estimate?
> One class of Congress cannot arbitrarily impose restrictions on future classes of Congress without an amendment.

No such rule exists. The closest is that an act of Congress can’t limit Congress ability to exercise its Constitutional powers in the future (e.g., a past Congress could not limit a future Congress’ ability to set its own rules), but there is nothing that prevents a Congress from passing laws which regulate the behavior of future members of Congress, as individuals, so long as it is otherwise authorized by the Constitution (i.e., like any other law it must exercise a Constitutional grant of power; here, probably, the interstate commerce clause) and does not violate any of the express immunities of members of Congress (e.g., the Speech and Debate clause), which a blanket regulation like this does not.
> The rain impacts it, charging my phones impacts it, running the AC impacts it.

That doesn't sound too good.
This was way too engaging. Has there ever been a more recent follow-up with updated numbers?
Can definitely relate to all of these aspects. Something else, along the car culture scene, people come out of the woodwork with some of the most incredible builds.

The first time I saw sub zero cooling in person was at a LAN. A local air conditioning installer had made a cube of pipes and radiators with a long shielded hose. At the end the easily recognizable, polished flat copper plate.

Me, turning up with my Thermaltake water cooling kit thinking I had something worth showing off.

Was an amazing community and pretty happy to have shared in the brief moment. Loved it so much, I bought the book.