skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"scsh" (Scheme Shell) has something like this and many other features that make it a good alternative to bash scripts.

https://scsh.net/about/what.html

It certainly is much more convenient than Python for writing scripts that must execute other programs.

Many years ago, I have written quite a large amount of big scripts in scsh, and it was much easier to avoid bugs and to maintain them than in a traditional UNIX shell, without being so verbose as something like Python.

Unfortunately, nowadays scsh is quite ancient and it would need some serious work to bring it up-to-date, to be able to work without limitations on modern computers. It would probably be necessary to port it to a more recent Scheme interpreter than Scheme 48 (which is an old 32-bit program).
Biometrics, physical security tokens, etc.
It's also better for society, because it incentivizes people who produce more than average to keep producing. There's an optimum somewhere.
I think, the Permaweb comes pretty close.

You can annotate any upload (arbitrary data, files, or collections of files) with tags and since the data is permanent, your links don't break.

Publication is possible too, and with the Universal Data License, copyright holders can define the terms for their part of the publication right at upload time.
>continuously invent new and more insidious dark patterns to monetize the existing users.

Which by and large doesn't work but staves off the inevitable for a while.

A lot of news has been in this boat for a while. More obnoxious patterns trying to get you to subscribe. More ads. While cutting staff to the bone and more. (And that's not even VCs for the most part.)

A lot of things that people want, not enough are willing to actually pay for.
That’s stupid. Nobody wants guns in the office. An accident will happen long before you get an opportunity to be “heroic.”
Trains are also vastly more efficient, space-wise, at moving people than cars.

As the article mentions, increasing rail infrastructure would logically include regional connections first. It's not like we'd be building a train track everywhere there's a road
“ Does aspartame cause cancer? There’s a small chance that the answer is yes – but probably only if you consume 50 Diet Cokes every day from birth until death – and even then, we don’t have any evidence that this cancer would lead to premature death. At consumption levels equivalent to the ADIs set by the FDA and other organizations – let alone at lower, more typical intake levels – we have no more reason to suspect aspartame as a carcinogenic threat than we have for suspecting carcinogenicity from chewing with your mouth open or wearing flip-flops in wintertime.”
I wonder how hard this problem is. I bet it’s actually not that bad. If I were to guess, A huge part of the problem is likely the position of the microphone.

Note that the testing data in the confusion matrix appears to have a uniformish distribution of each key being pressed. I suspect this data was not generated by someone actually typing because you would rarely see numbers and rare letters. It is possible these were simply pressed one at a time rather than in a series of rapid presses.

My guess is this approach uses the mic to identify where the sound of the key press was coming from rather than what each key press sounds like. Which does not invalidate the results but may make it seem less magical. Tbh it’s probably much worse this way because such a model could probably generalize very well across all keyboards and typing styles.
Obviously the comment discusses a shared space. If you have your own room you can let your fart rips and sniff them for fun, pull out your dick and piss in a bottle for fun, clank on your loud toys for fun, all the things you should never do with other people around that you might find fun for whatever reason. No one cares. But don't do these things to other people around you, it's anti-social.
Not podman but using rancher desktop and it has either nerdctl + containerd or docker and dockerd options and I have been using it a month without issue replacing docker desktop. The kubernetes options work well too
I'm actually visiting later this month.
Well probably almost all of them in the states, outside of the few that have made conceal carry impossible.

I once talked with my coworkers about conceal carry. Turned out probably a good 1/8th of the office carried.
At least they are not launching space rockets.
> You are not making decisions, the decisions are being made for you.

In real life, you don't always get to make your own decisions...
Jupyter AI
I tried Podman on 2 MacBook Pros: my personal one (Intel) and my work one (M1) and it basically doesn’t work well at all.

Podman Desktop simply doesn’t work, on first run it loops forever on initializing stuff (I guess it tries to create the Podman machine but fails? No idea because it doesn’t say what’s wrong, nor where to look). So I tried Podman bare without Podman desktop and it’s not a lot better, the machine starts fine and I can run containers, but every time my computer wakes up from hibernate, the containers and the machine are stuck. I have to recreate the whole Podman machine from scratch.

I loved the idea of rootless but it doesn’t work on Mac. And I won’t believe I’m the only person having the exact same set of issues on 2 different MacBooks
Turns out you can poach chicken breasts by covering with an inch(ish) of water, bringing them to the boil, popping a lid on, turning the heat off, and letting sit for 30 to 45 minutes (depending on size).

It tastes better than most other methods of cooking chicken breast other than stewing. Optional extras include salt, whole peppercorns, and roughly sliced lemon. If the chicken breasts are freakishly large and weigh more than 350g you might need to halve them. Lasts a couple of days in the fridge but the texture is better fresh.
The reason why there is a foundation that owns two for profit corporations, is so the corporations can pay taxes. It is the opposite of shady.
I think the fundamental problem you've identified is the workday is too long. 40 hours a week is a lot, and most people work more than just 40 hours, sometimes much more.

Why have society's productivity gains not gone into reducing the time we spend working? Why do we seem to have ever-less free time?

Here's the thing: long term, I don't think work-from-home is a good way to reclaim time. Losing the geographic separation of an office makes it easier to start doing work outside of normal hours. Expectations of being always-available will continue to increase—after all, you're already in your work environment, so what is your excuse for not completing that task on Saturday?
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Another unquantifiable but costly expense is stress and its effects on your health and sanity: taking your life into your own hands every time you drive, and no matter how careful and skilled you are, a careless idiot could come along and wipe you out at any moment.
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Maybe it's just me, but I would never like to pay such an amount for a subscription of a service (they charge >300 if you use C#, as I do). I maybe want to analyze my architecture on this level a couple times a year. Why do I have to pay each month? I'm missing usage-based pricing today, everyone sticks everything into a subscription.
I moved to NYC a year ago and I really don't like using the MTA. It's dirty, chronically delayed, and randomly alternates between swelteringly hot and freezing cold. Getting anywhere here takes half an hour. Outside of a few choice streets, bike infrastructure is abysmal. Riding the train feels like you're schedule is at the mercy of the whims of some random MTA employee or a weirdo who pull the emergency brake and it makes me wish I had a car again.

I used to be much more sympathetic to these types of articles when I lived in Seattle. Buses in Seattle were generally quite nice and more predictable (Google maps would usually give you a good estimate on your arrival time). Biking was a much nicer experience.

I think cities looking to make better public transit should copy the Seattle model rather than the NYC model.
Nice! As soon as the price of hybrid inverters comes down and batter storage is no longer dependent on having multiple KWh of lithium ion batteries sitting unattended I'll be more than happy go for a solution like this. For now I have ample solar here and we have netmetering so it just isn't a consideration yet but even with netmetering I'd love to just stop consuming grid power at night so overall fossil fuel consumption would go down.

The bigger problem that then remains is that during the winter months you'll be using grid power anyway because there just isn't enough sun.
Not a joke. It's fairly common in South East Asia and even has a name -- White Coffee.
"Why do some of the recipients of Mozilla money appear to be nothing more than empty shells of companies — not even having a simple website?"

This is exactly how many readers here at hacker news also run their business: you need an official entity to receive money.

And if you are doing something interesting that the Mozilla Foundation would like to support with a grand for example then you will need to have that "empty shell" because if you receive funding for a project personally you will be taxed the shit out of it and lose many benefits. There is literally nothing special about this.
MS Build of OpenJDK now with enhanced escape analysis enabled by default
>They didn't pay because the things to buy were not appealing enough.

There are a lot of things I don't buy (both online and off) because I'm not willing to pay what they're sold for--which may or may not be what they cost. I don't have an unlimited pile of money.

And most things end eventually although if they're commoditized enough they may end up continuing to be offered by somebody/somebodies at some price.
True.

I still refer to 'the 20s' as the 1920s. And 'turn of the century' as 19th -> 20th century even though we're a quarter of the way into the next.

I guess it'll be a generational thing like knowing what your nans talking about when she mentions the 'tranny' (transistor radio), your dad the hi fi, etc, etc.
It is a lot, but if you break it down it’s £400 a month or around £20 a day. Most London based jobs will have that premium baked in.

The choice people have is to move closer, and pay twice as much for a house of the same quality. So it doesn’t look too bad from that angle either.

Generally though, I think the London commuter isn’t getting a great deal. 40%+ tax, high house price, high commuting costs, long hours door to door, childcare potentially. You need to be earning deep into six figures to feel well off whilst living this lifestyle.
Yes, you need the pretrained model. BUT: for embedded applications, you could put that into metal and have the 100kb in flash which could open up some possibilities.
1. yes this is possible, although it depends on your IDE. Here is a relevant discussion for eclipse (which also links to the VSCode implementation): https://github.com/eclipse/che/issues/4609. Note: i also didn't know how this worked, so I learned something today too.

2. Yes, absolutely. Feel free to reach out to me directly, or just start contributing directly if you want
I used to dismiss air fryers as just a crappy benchtop oven, but Minute Food did a cool video explaining why that's an overly reductive view and they're actually kind cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AASP4P5vRAA

It really does work better than my conventional oven.
Question for those thinking car infrastructure costs too much etc:

How many kids do you have?

The way i see it all arguments for reducing reliance on cars comes from people in metropolitan areas enjoying single life and not planning for a family.

Giving the way my generation is with money the hostility most likely comes not from ideological reasons but simply because we are unable to afford them altogether thus it's being masked as some honorable cause instead of petty spite.
UK traditional TV viewing sees record decline, Ofcom report says
With difficulty.

The alternative is to move closer to London, and then you can take the money you've saved on train tickets and spend it on higher rent.
I think the model of “we could fix this if we just tried harder and sacrificed more” is actually a pretty bad model for engaging with problems that don’t have a known, acceptable solution (so we’re ignoring garbage solutions to global warming like, prevent Africa from industrializing).

And I don’t mean that it isn’t true that we could try harder, I just mean that sometimes “trying harder” seems to make the problem worse rather than better.

I can think of a few problems like this:

- homelessness

- cost of college

- healthcare

- housing

I’m not sure if the critical factor is that the issues are morally charged and so encourage effort-heavy policies or if it’s because “trying harder” is really a supply-side subsidy, meaning money for healthcare providers or colleges or landlords. In practice at least it seems that supply side subsidies without cost controls are essentially useless, as the cost of the subsidized good rises to match the subsidy.
Trains are more dangerous? One predictable, well mainted vehicle operated by a professional versus many cars?
Ironically it isn't budgeted in, almost all road infrastructure is underfunded and falling apart. Not to mention the externalized cost to the environment. The worst part is that poor people pay more land tax per area than rich people, so you are likely being subsidized by people who don't make enough money.

I live in America and make enough money to spend part of my year in various cities across Europe. It saddens me to think that the average American can't imagine how good life can be with fewer cars.
Good point about fatigue, hadn't thought of it quite like that before.
All of the responses to my comment just explain the issue with having a single study available on a topic. You have the same exact issues with independent grants and researchers who want to uncover some real results and not just waste their time with null results, or they want continued funding.

You could level this criticism at any study much simpler. "Oh, the researchers just wanted this to be true." Why even bother singling out industry interest?

It's why meta-analyses are at the top of the evidence hierarchy: they look at multiple studies from varied sources.

But I'd still like to know how much industry funded research converges with non-industry-funded findings. Else you're doing the equivalent of dismissing, say, observational research even though it converges with RCTs 60%+ of the time which I think definitely takes some wind out of the sails of the "observational research is BS" knee-jerk.
There is some meat to the story, I agree. But it's not surprising. The fine tuning model of course will be small in file size and not take too long to train because by definition it is applying changes to a small subset of the main model and is trained only on a small amount if input data. You can't use the small tuning model for "Teddies" with a query that has nothing to do with Teddies. You could see these small tuning models as a diff file for the main model. And depending on the user query one can choose an appropriate diff to be applied to improve the result for that specific query.

When you train a model with new inputs to fine tune you can save the weights that got changed to a separate file instead of the main file.

In other words one can see the small tuning models as selectively to be applied updates/patches.
> We had other solutions for a while too[...]

There were more solutions besides monasteries and marriage. My grandparents, living in a small town in a rural area of Austria maybe 50 years ago, had a large family. That town's teacher was single, and it simply wouldn't have been economical for her to do her own cooking, so she had a deal whereby she paid my grandparents so she could come over every day to have dinner with the family. This arrangement was so common that there was even a word for it ("Kostgänger").

I'm surprised that there isn't a sharing economy startup yet, trying to reinvent the concept. -- "Uber for warm meals". Or at least I'm not aware of one. It probably exists.

On another note: The nuclear family household with one dedicated homemaker was historically a relatively short-lived concept. Prior to that, we tended to have extended families sharing a household, and the significant amount of work involved in food preparation was surely one of the drivers of that.
What do you mean, without lots to gain? You were just arguing that the shareholders were gonna benefit so much from new productivity gains.

I don't get your obsession with Poland. It's a country I have a soft spot for, even though it's not my country of origin, but most importantly my argument is entirely orthogonal to that.
I can absolutely see this happening. I work at a FAANG as software manager and have seen multiple resignations in my org of high performers where the number one reason was “return to office”. As far as I can tell, every one of them now has a full remote job. (And higher pay for at least some)
You also don't care about the costs to other people, the poor, society, and the environment.

Too bad there are so many careless people like you.
> With the proliferation of commercial LEO imaging satellites there's pretty much always one above you.

Try buying pictures of Area 51 from one of those commercial leos and let us all know how that conversation goes.

> Synthetic aperture radar satellites work at night and under the clouds as well so if you're trying to hide an aircraft development program it's going to be rather difficult.

Which provide
I think we just killed lemmy.world
> fostering a friendly community

What about _any_ of Naughty Ol' Mr Car's actions with Twitter would make you think that this is something he's at all interested in?
They didn’t undo diabetes, they stimulated the release of insulin. You don’t undo diabetes (type 2) by releasing insulin.

And since releasing insulin only creates more insulin resistance by changing receptor density, this is just making it worse.
How about you don't tell me how to live my life?
In most of the places the HN crowd works, it is hard to live in close proximity to the office with a family, you need to be dual income earning the big bucks and if you live in a low col area, they you have no guarantee where your office is located because jobs aren't clustered close to each other.
Spray the atmosphere with reflective particles and work relentlessly to get CO2 out of the air.
I'm not ashamed to say that as soon our company enforced return-to-work policies (and not even flex/hybrid which would have been acceptable), I absolutely quiet-quit.

Bare minimum productivity.

And in my quiet-quit zone, I'm spending at least 20% of that time in the office sifting through roles trying to find the perfect hybrid/remote role.

p.s. the title of this article says "WFH perks" ... that's exactly what's wrong with how the Big Cheese view WFH ... as a perk ... it's not a perk, it's leveraging technology to make your staff more productive with the benefit of a more balanced life ... while, literally, showing mercy on them by not forcing the sardine-commute on them 5 days a week.

Anyway.
Back to fundamentals. Write something on a constrained system (microcontroller, old hardware, artificial boundaries). When it works, squeeze it down. Works for me, anyway :P
If you look at costs such as noise, just as monetary costs they will still exist, but be nearly an order of magnitude smaller. Take a single double-track train route. Its capacity will be 3x or more a massive freeway, take up a tenth or less of space. If you were to put traditional freeway-style sound walls around it, it would probably be quieter than the freeway. Tire noise is massive.
Aside from walking, getting around Manhattan is probably somewhat painful generally. It's a city that it would take a lot to get me to live there full-time although that's true to a lesser degree of most cities.

Cities like Seattle and Boston have generally OK public transit. But pretty much everyone I know personally (tends towards older) in Boston still owns a car because they do frequent weekend activities and regularly visit friends outside the city.
"Why does Mozilla continue to take donations if it doesn’t need them?"

Because raising money is literally what non profits do as their primary means of income. They cannot just "take" money from the "cash cow", the Corporation which is a separate entity.
> the real test of a paper should be the ability to reproduce its findings in the real world. ...

> What if all the experiments in the paper are too complicated to replicate? Then you can submit to [the Journal of Irreproducible Results].

Observational science is still a branch of science even if it's difficult or impossible to replicate.

Consider the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat, published in 2005 at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2005.315... .

Who seriously thinks this shouldn't have been published until someone else had been able to replicate the result?

Who thinks the results of a drug trial can't be published until they are replicated?

How does one replicate "A stellar occultation by (486958) 2014 MU69: results from the 2017 July 17 portable telescope campaign" at https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017DPS....4950403Z/abstra... which required the precise alignment of a star, the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth, and a region in Argentina?

Or replicate the results of the flyby of Pluto, or flying a helicopter on Mars?

Here's a paper I learned about from "In The Pipeline"; "Insights from a laboratory fire" at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01254-6 .

"""Fires are relatively common yet underreported occurrences in chemical laboratories, but their consequences can be devastating. Here we describe our first-hand experience of a savage laboratory fire, highlighting the detrimental effects that it had on the research group and the lessons learned."""

How would peer replication be relevant?
WFH, everything is in a 5 minutes car or 15 mins walk radius for us. The office would be 1h+ of commute away. And all that just to go there and put noise cancelling headphones to concentrate on my work.

But it's not only that. Kids need more than just being transported, fed and put to bed. You need to rush home to cook, do chores because you didn't have time to pick up the mess in the morning, take care of them. Then once they are asleep, more chores, and then your free time starts at 9-10pm, until you crash.

Being at home, especially flex time, nothing prevents you from doing laundry, and because you eat at home, you can do a bit more dishes after lunch, start cooking something for supper, etc. It alleviates my routine a lot and I also work more time with less stress.
https://archive.is/eN5eK
typically there is a reaction to ceo pay being completely removed from reality.

is it?

ceo is typically a shit job. nobody likes you except for obsessive weirdos, power-mad sycophants, etc. nobody nice. (which, when you consider the ceos…)

one year of ceo pay is enough to retire from the shit job. why come back?

so ceos must also typically be driven by absurd dollar amounts.

which, given finite life spans, the ceo would never be able to spend it all.

so why would a ceo accept a multi year deal for more money than god?

that’s right. ceos are suckers.
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Hacking for the sake of hacking is a fine purpose!
you got to 18k karma with such clueless inflammatory comments?