skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I flagged this post because the website seems to be lacking valid links to terms of use, privacy, cookie policy...well literally any of the links at the bottom.

Couple of other suggestions

- Setup https for your website

- Your color choices could use some work: purple+black, white+gray, pink+purple, text is hard to read

- If you're asking for money and private info like email, make sure your privacy, cookie, terms actually exist and can be viewed

- Add some domain examples this produces or anything to try and sell it better, the website as it is does a poor job of that.
We do this occasionally as a tech spike - if there’s a lot of uncertainty or if we need to evaluate between a couple different approaches, we’ll dedicate 2-3 days to hacking away with the aim of lifting the “fog of war”.
Not discounting this, but i Free-form 1:1's always have an aura of being more "improvisational" and in the moment. Good 1:1's are supposed to be semi-structured (ie not 'free form'). A shared journal, a retro exercise, etc. I have not had the experience that these build trust. Good team work, and delivering high quality work towards a common goal do that. You popping by for a 3 minute conversation in ear shot of 5 other people trying to do their work doesn't.

It may FEEL like it because those people chatting get energy from it. But it doesn't. If you need energy from people like this it's 100% a good idea. Go nuts. Personally I think people over index on this because they have no idea how to structure async team comms.

– Videos
– Longform content
– Team agreements to respond to things async without x-hours
– Team collaboration spaces
– Good sprint ceremonies like refinement
– Team QA-type exercises

Ad hoc conversations also contribute immensely to what I call "comms debt". The jolt of energy you get from water cooler talk last 3 minutes, and excluded anyone not in direct proximity. If the best idea was in the head of somebody 3 rooms away you have no way of knowing it. Add dozens of these micro-interactions throughout the day and it's a recipe for comms breakdown and kliqish behaviour.

I see this a lot in User Research. Let's "get out of the building" and talk to people. A good idea in practice, but without actual goals or hypothesis product leaders mistake the first 5 opinions they collected as fact — often cherry picking sound bytes that fit right in with their own biases (and I've seen this A LOT in older leaders). This is mistaken as research. But they love it because it has that face to face energy. The feeling makes it right, regardless of the evidence.

Trust in a team is based on good communication — and an agreement on what you expect from it. If someone posts a video to Slack do people respond? Do you have ceremonies to build togetherness and understanding? All of these things are somewhat easier when you just have to deal with Zoom logistics.

Anyone who has to clean up and index the deluge of Design Sprint whiteboard stickies knows what I'm talking about. Put that shit in Miro, thanks.
This just sounds like a bad idea. Not least of which, is that we have enough food to feed the world, and food waste has a usefulness and that is in creating new live soil.
This is so true. It still shocks me and I don’t know why. The most frustrating version for me is when the original author of a solution didn’t care all that much and would admit it was a hack but they’re no longer around - and their successor thinks that what they’ve inherited is some sort of sacred object built on infinite and unknowable wisdom. So this obvious design flaw must actually be a carefully designed feature that were simply not capable of understanding. Maddening.
not everyone wants mastodon, so alternative links would be good.
forking HN activity over to another board is unseemly, but if its really low quality non informative stuff thats fine.
Cool, that was a genuinely fascinating window into AWS for me. Thank you for sharing
Kinda how we built DigitalOcean in the early days, the software was venture funded but the HW was funded as lease lines and credit against the HW we owned originally + a decent business plan based on the growth. It's a good(/slightly scary) strategy! Highly recommend more folks look at credit facilities.
> Yes, the absolute mind boggling horror of free people being able to decide for themselves what to ingest.

Absolute horror that people ingest things based on a lie.
It's on level of this powder doesn't contain asbestos.
Just because he isn't a big corp doesn't mean he is free to lie and profit on his lies.
Elektronika UKNC/MS 0511: the Soviet more than a ZX Spectrum, not-quite-Amiga [video]
An educational personal computer, which debuted in 1987, that took the defacto Soviet standard platform, PDP-11 clones, strung two LSI PDP-11 clones off a single system bus, one controlling a 640x288 framebuffer, 192kb of RAM (with memory management, of course), and shoved it all in a keyboard:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKNC

I am vaguely obsessed with it, since it pushes the PDP-11 architecture to its limits. It is surprisingly capable because most of the computer’s I/O was offloaded from the “main” LSI-11 (clone), to a second LSI-11 clone, that handled audio, graphics, etc. As a result, the MS 0511 had a vibrant game scene and demoscene.

If you want a good showcase of tbe MS 0511’s graphical capabilities, here’s ~25 minutes of graphics porn, including 16-bit bitmapped graphics:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTXn5XU5Yo

And here is an emulation of 2-voice beeper sound:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXoL5996f3s&pp=ygUEVUtOQw%3D%3...

It had significant limitations, though - beyond only having a 16-bit data bus/17-bit address bus to play with, it never had a UI-driven OS; only clones of RT-11.
If the internet destinations I want to reach have an IPv4 address, it's obviously very easy. It's just a kind of NAT. And everywhere I want to reach has IPv4 addresses and probably will for a long time.

If they're IPv6 and I really need to reach them anyway, then I could imagine writing a special NAT that keeps a database equating IPv4 addresses (that I make up) with real IPv6 addresses on the net and doing a NAT that way. That would be suboptimal because it would mean that I'd need to add a database entry in advance for each internet destination, of course. But it seems feasible. And I can think of a couple of ways to automate it.

But, honestly, I don't know. I'm just spitballing what the best way of handling all of this actually is. Every method I have heard or can think of has some serious downside, and I don't have sufficient expertise (and haven't spent the time) to do actual cost/benefit analyses of the various options yet.

This is all a huge time-consuming hassle, and is why I'm putting the whole thing off until I have no other option.
I have to go out of my way to find doses under 1mg, almost everything they sell in US retail stores is 5mg or 10mg. Inevitably I end up with something marketed for babies.
I remember this fondly. Fortunately now that it's gone Mac OS has taken up the mantle of having a loud TTS jumpscare you on startup. It's quite common to hear "MAC OS CONTAINS A BUILT IN SCREEN READER," followed quickly by the mute button being mashed.
Next time please provide a link.
My understanding is that melatonin has an inverse correlation between dosage and effect. 10mg won't make you as sleepy as 1mg.

I take 1mg of melatonin every night, and it does immediately make me sleepy. I used to buy 10mg at the drugstore and it just makes me feel like shit for the next day.
Yes, this is the worst. I assume some people glance at the question and answer their misunderstanding.
TorToiSe (https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts) produces the best quality speech of any freely available model. However, its long inference times makes it impractical for voice chatbots like Gdansk.
This was a good read but really if you already follow the common best practices of IAC/terraform/aws multi-account I don't think you're going to learn much.

The comments in here kind of made me think I was going to hop in and take away some huge wins I hadn't considered. But I have been working with Terraform and AWS for a very long time.

If you're unfamiliar with AWS multi-account best practices this is a good read.

https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/getting-started/best-pr...
You bought a car with functioning heated seats, where the manufacturer intentionally implemented a lockout system, so you can't use them unless you pay. This is like buying a house with an extra room, but the door is locked until you pay. Yes, you own the house, you own the room, you can break the lock, but if a shitty timing chain breaks within the warranty period, the fact that you broke the lock on that room will cause the manufacturer to complain and not want to fix the timing chain because you supposedly voided the warrantly.
No.

Make whatever judgement you like about how good the analogy was. Starting your answer with "no" might be appropriate if someone says "Fortran is a lisp" or "do you think cars can love", but it's not a cool thing to say if someone just states an opinion, regardless of whether or not you liked it.
> What exactly is the rush here to come out with results right now?!

Well, the work is happening right now.

You seem to want to make it sound like impatient kids being unreasonable or something, which is a ridiculous read.

It is more a matter institutions becoming irrelevant because they literally can't keep up with their peers. Which brings me back to,

> Seems kind of stupid to do chemistry in your kitchen.

When the institutions in your country become incompetent, that's what you're left with.
It goes beyond being inefficient. It's the wrong mental model.

Chip designers intuitively visualize interconnected blocks of logic. They draw rectangles with wires between them.

To learn this intuition, writing spaghetti Verilog code that runs in a simulator is counter-productive. It's a common mistake that people coming from a software background make all the time, and that has been discussed to death. So with some appeal to authority, trust us and learn proper hardware design, hopefully it will be more rewarding and will "click" faster.
I'm largely with you on this... do the simplest thing that gets a job done, that you assume will be replaced, and don't be surprised when it's still un use a decade or more later.
Nah. I think a prototype is something you definitionally should throw away. There's a huge freedom to knowing that instead of taking on tech debt, you're committed to declaring tech bankruptcy and throwing away the code. It lets you try things, cut corners, and generally experiment. It's great for thinking through what everybody really wants.

I do agree that it's generally a bad idea to just throw out a long-lived code base. But for me that's not an estimation issue. It's because the urge to throw it out is usually a response to upstream problems that haven't gotten fixed. For example, a lot of code bases are a mess due to time pressure. But if you don't fix the process problems that turn time pressure into mess, then you're just doing to end up with another mess. Possibly a bigger one, in that stopping all productive output in favor of a rewrite usually makes business stakeholders crazy, causing increased time pressure.
I've always wondered if there's a better way of making voice assistants. With this stack, the AI will not be able to answer "what is this sound?", or give you UK-based information because it picked up on your British accent. It's bottlenecked by text. A model that can understand audio as input, and output audio directly, could be so much more powerful
Meanwhile I live 2km from Google's headquarters and I can't get more than 20mbps up.

Part of the reason is I can't afford to own here (nobody can) and property owners don't want to upgrade either. Same with EV charging.

Places like this should require property owners who rent out their properties to get with the beat or leave. Property managers who don't install gigabit fiber, EV charging, and induction stoves aren't welcome in this community. This is Silicon Valley, not Utah, yet the Utahans have us one-upped already.
Are startups built on ChatGPT about as useful as ChatGPT? I really do not see the value-add from anyone yet?

An interesting question is, what are you providing above copying and pasting a load of my data into ChatGPT in a way that I’m not sure I gave you permission to?
you just made 0 sense, you get the freedoms the GPL gives you, the GPL says nothing about you having to continue being a customer of some company
Pacific northwest? Alaska? Canada?
Is it useful to teach kids adding numbers? Computers can do it millions of times faster/larger numbers for decades.
Teamwork environments linked to white US employees going the extra mile
Maybe. I think the point is valid but in the traditional media there is plenty of ways in which the incentives and rewards lead to pathological behavior, especially with TV but also with some forms of print.
There are of course software systems with a very large bit of complexity and entrenchment... least of which the complexity added in order to avoid said entrenchment in the first place.
Do many tools fail if you boot with a kernel that doesn't have "linux" in its name?
// Honestly I'll ride it out but I do feel bad for people with kids.

When I came to the US in the 90s, one of my teachers was freaking out about peak oil and about how people shouldn't have kids because that would exacerbate the problem and those kids would have a bad life.

Joke's on him I guess. I suspect that at every single point of human history, someone was dismal about something and using it as a reason to not have kids.

If I had to bet, people having kids now are not going to regret it ever.
The issue is that this article shouting "failure" is just as prematurely as the loyalists crying "success." Anger drives clicks and Nature knows that it's angering the loyalists, especially with outright falsehoods in the article:

> graphene, frogs and pliers — can exhibit similar magnetic behaviour.

>

> Frustrated by the atmosphere of hype, some scientists have taken to mimicking the levitation videos with everyday materials suspended by string and other props

Why aren't the scientists levitating frogs above rare earth magnets to make fun of the videos? Because you need superconductor magnet, not a rare earth magnet, to do that. This is a blatant internal inconsistency, and shows that this article is garbage.

Don't trust the loyalists, don't trust the sensationalists, trust science.
FWIW I loathe AWS IAM and miss GCPs organization.
Terrible title.

...melatonin could also be a vital tool to help fresh produce survive its own journey from farm to fork, reducing the monumental amount of food loss that occurs each year.

I interpreted the title to mean it would be applied to food after it was deemed "waste" as a form of "waste treatment" of some kind.

I am not thrilled by the proposal. Melatonin impacts the immune system in ways not yet understood. This could be kind of like adding more antibiotics to the food chain.
> it's not scientific to guess a number because you proved guessing isn't a risk because it's such a non-factor. In general you just remove the non-factor.

But then you don't have a reasonable lower bound, and someone trying to debunk the analysis could, instead of throwing un-falsifiable claims of un-scientificness, make the much stronger accusation that the combined white+Jewish mean SAT score is being unfairly attributed to non-Jewish whites alone.

> They're using scores from across the 100% of college applicants when less than 1% of them apply to Ivy League schools.

Seems relevant to me - it would be very surprising if the mean of the SAT score distribution didn't strongly affect its top percentile. If you're not satisfied with reasonable extrapolation, you can find what the SAT scores are for the top percentile of white/Hispanic/Black students. I wager that sorting the SAT scores by mean or by top percentile gives the same order. But as you say, I failed high school stats, so I'm probably wrong.
> I can also download VirtualBox and run all Windows programs, that would mean that all Windows apps are Linux apps?

WINE is not even an emulator, or so its name says.
They have a new version out for beta testing. It looks like they've had recent complaints about compatibility. Like people that didn't have a joystick. And some people that applied recent OS patches were having problems. The new beta test one purports to solve those problems. I didn't try it because the version I got a few days ago works great on all of my machines. But if you had trouble you might try the beta. It's at https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxaircombat/files/Choose...
There are loads and loads of alternatives
Here's my #1 tip, most important:

Try to keep your stateful resources / services in different "stacks" than your stateful things.

Absolutely 100% completely obvious, maybe too obvious? Because none of these guides ever mention it.

If you have state in a stack it becomes 10x more expensive and difficult to "replace your way out of trouble" (aka destroy and recreate as last resort). You want as much as possible in stateless, disposable stacks. DONT put that customer exposed bucket or DB in the same state/stack as app server resources.

I don't care about your folder structure, I care about what % of the infra I can reliably burn to the ground and replace using pipelines and no manual actions.
Also, a supplement being labled "500 micrograms" has no requirement to be correct. The FDA has handwaved away the entire industry, and broadly there is zero quality control for actual active ingredients. Many supplements will claim that they've been tested, but there's no legal requirement to do so, the labs are usually owned by supplement makers, and there's no penalty for lying about any testing as fraudulent marketing claims largely go unpunished because the US judicial branch chooses to interpret the law stupidly conservatively
The blackout was just long enough to break my habit, and I found I didn't really miss it. I still drop by reddit every day or two, but there doesn't seem to be much going on anymore, and I don't stay long.
It's way higher than 1M a year.
I'm not even sure they reversed the magnet polarity in this video, it seems they just removed the magnet and put it back, so there's no way to rule out a ferromagnetic effect. Again, I just find it really hard to deduce anything from this footage, not saying it can't be a superconductor.

I'm not even sure they reversed the magnet polarity in this video, it seems they just removed the magnet and put it back, so there's no way to rule out a ferromagnetic effect.

I'm not sure either if LK-99 is a type-II superconductor but I would believe so given the papers I've read. Type-II superconductors aren't perfect diamagnets, they allow magnetic flux to penetrate the superconductor once you hit the first critical field, these flux vortices then get pinned at sites of defects where the energy requirement for breaking the superconductivity is lowest. That's what keeps a type-II superconductor levitating over a magnet, a type I superconductor or perfect diamagnet wouldn't do that. Then again I have never seen how e.g. a tiny YBCO flake (high Tc type-II superconductor) would behave if you put it in a beaker and dragged a Neodym magnet below it, so who knows.
Non-Virus Delivered, Cross-Species Gene Transfer
If you want every book to have a rating, then the site needs to have a ton of users, and if there are a ton of users then most books will converge to 3.5-4.1 "most people like it but some people don't", as you've observed.

Other than talking to people in real life, you can also look for curated lists. https://shepherd.com/ is a good site for this.

I think lists like these are better than numeric ratings and stack rankings, which don't really make sense for books and other art. The only useful ratings are "don't recommend", "recommend", and "essential, you have to read this".
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https://www.math.ucla.edu/~dmenezes/Dean%20Menezes%20resume%...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-menezes-4a2749211/
Here is a secret trick for finding information about windows internals. Prefix your search with "Raymond Chen"

So when I did a search for

"Raymond Chen" win32kfull.sys

Near the top of the results was

https://www.ragestorm.net/Win32k%20Smash%20the%20Ref.pdf

Which seems to provide a nice overview and talk about why there are vulnerabilities there.
As a solid manager once described it, "It's a lot easier to argue over an implementation prototype than to argue over a design doc."

This was not an argument in favor of not writing design docs, but instead an argument in favor of moving towards prototype while waiting for people to weigh in on a design instead of doing nothing with that downtime.
There is no concrete definition of "Drug". Most working definitions are "Something that affects you, but isn't food".
If you want to do this really well, title the meeting something generic like "catch up", don't attach an agenda or any kind of description and invite a bunch of people who weren't in the original discussion.
Well, maybe not throw away everything, but I understand the principle. There are also other areas where this could help - and one of them is "naming". Sometimes when you start a project, you don't really know what the best names are for things. Project name, repo name, service name etc. So you choose something that you think it's ok and you go ahead. As the project progresses, you realise you've named things wrong, but renaming is so annoying and tedious. Often we ignore the bad names because it doesn't seem significant. But names are how people burden their cognitive load (an example, we named our repo after planets rather than describing what the repo does - "acme-customer-module-frontend" but we named it "pluto" - now everyone has to remember what pluto is and make sure pluto is not neptune).
This seems contradictory to conventional knowledge, which suggests a higher co2 level is good for plants.

https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/greenhouse-carbon-...
"1. Experts disagree about the optimum level of CO2 for plant growth. You can find arguments for 800ppm, 1,000ppm, 1,200ppm and 1,500ppm. We recommend starting at 1,000ppm, then adjusting your CO2 levels over time with experience. CO2 levels below 400ppm and above 1,500ppm will reduce plant growth."

So this is a commercial soybean strain rather than a wild type, but I cant find any more info about the particular strain. Whose strain is this? Is it DuPonts C3 that has less omega3's in so that they can be stored for longer without the omega3 content going rancid, or Monsanto's or somebody else's commercial strain?

I cant see any strain mentioned so I cant form an opinion of my own.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-10/dupont-hi...

https://archive.is/n7weS

"DuPont knew as early as 2006 that its GAT soybeans didn’t grow as well as Monsanto’s Roundup Ready beans and didn’t make the information public until 2009,"
Why does it feel like this story will be depicted in a future Adam McKay film, and involve Steve Carell or Ryan Gosling on the phone, talking to a loan officer, maybe interposed with a cutscene of Selena Gomez explaining what the hell an Nvidia H100 is to the audience?