skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SUSE was bought by Novell later. Per Wikipedia:

"United Linux was an attempt by a consortium of Linux distributors to create a common base distribution for enterprise use, so as to minimize duplication of engineering effort and form an effective competitor to Red Hat. The founding members of United Linux were SUSE, Turbolinux, Conectiva (now merged with MandrakeSoft to form Mandriva) and Caldera International (later renamed to The SCO Group). The consortium was announced on May 30, 2002. The end of the project was announced on January 22, 2004."

It never really worked from a business perspective but Caldera becoming faux-SCO was pretty much the final straw.
Slaughter season is coming up, and the stores will start offering buckets of blood for sale. Blood sausage is still traditionally made in many homes here in Iceland.
Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process
> To be honest, that’s effectively what led to the US revolution — lack of due process, ability to redress grievances and representation

No it wasn’t
"Ye shall know them by their fruits" is mostly advice against false prophets. These orders aren't led by false prophets, they're simply disputing minutia where it is determined that neither side is wrong, but perhaps has a different POV or formulation. They're not preaching a false gospel.

Furthermore, knowing someone by their fruits is not necessarily straightforward. There are good fruits (and bad) that can be hidden, unseen, or slow to manifest. We won't rightly know who has "done the most good" until the world ends.

At any rate, I believe that 1 Cor 1:10-17 is most applicable here. Can you see those religious orders saying "I follow Dominic!" and "I follow Francis!"

I think that modern social communications has magnified and exacerbated the issues of esoteric theological dispute. These things are easily placed in the public square, where they do not belong. These disputes are mostly good for giving topics for Master's Theses when these proto-priests finish their seminary education. Rank-and-file Christians do not need to concern ourselves with thinking about Molinism, or whether the Orthodox accept the Immaculate Conception, or how many angels can dance upon the head of a pin.
Tech Ingredients on Youtube did an interesting video about actively air-cooling panels. In the video he uses 3 watts of fans to cool a 100 watt panel, which increases its output by 6 watts. The gains are modest (~5%), but his argument is that the lower operating temp will increase the longevity of the panels, which should make the ROI positive. I'm sure the designers of the panels could engineer more efficient solutions.

It did get me wondering about the importance of the roof underneath the panels. Most people install black panels over top black asphalt shingles for aesthetic reasons, but I wonder if some other variation would increase efficiency and/or longevity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt9qLRN7JvA
Meta-commentary: these different AI agent systems (frameworks?) sure are good at racking up GitHub stars but don't appear to have any use beyond a fun demo. My impression is that, like AutoGPT, this will simply fall over with anything even mildly complicated. Maybe it's the direction we're ultimately headed, but I'm just far too skeptical given what I've seen so far, and I don't believe we just need the right orchestration of models to pull off useful general purpose AI agents.
I was thinking one of the distros was backed by CIQ, but I couldn't remember which, thanks.
> Then, you're also not buying an EV it sounds like

Then I won't?

Instead, for a fraction of the price I may get a nice second hand muscle car, with no feature I don't want to be present. It may even have an old school CD player, I like retro :)
Bronze Age arrowhead from Switzerland was made from Meteorite
No one is challenging that.
Computers are built these days mainly to talk to other computers, due to the considerable value gained by offloading computational effort to a central location. Not wanting a computer to talk to other computers is like not wanting your oven to heat food except by friction.

And "overly paranoid, bordering on luddite" is no insult, it's a description that your comments fit. If these words are insulting, stop fitting so well to them!
Based on this logic, do we ban everything that is banned somewhere? Surely we can aim higher than the lowest common denominator.
If you like terminal programs you can also check out these other two I made:

* Painting program: https://github.com/wooster0/blockpaint

* Crossword generator and solver: https://github.com/wooster0/crustword
You Can Sell the Bitcoins You Don't Mine
It is controlled by the people elected. The only solution is to elect better representatives who need to push for stricter regulations on government behavior so that worse representatives have fewer opportunities for making a mess.
My company manages Macs with jamf. It comes with a "self service" tool that can install oss apps, apps we've licensed, change configurations, etc.
at least they cared enough to stick to their guns i guess
While we don't have hard numbers, reasonable estimates of these suborbital launches by environmentalists like [1], put them at around 10 to 20 metric tons of CO2 per passenger per launch. The average driver in the US generates about 5 metric tons CO2 per year in tailgate emissions.

Personally, I put far more value on giving people an unparalleled (and in some cases life changing) experience than a few years of commuting.

[1] https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-carbon-footprint-of-space...
We have a Fireblocks account and even when logged into that you can't see the list.
I'm reminded about how people still talk about how the original F.E.A.R. has the best AI in video games [1], while the actual behavior in a technical sense is quite simple [2] and is fundamentally designed around the player being time-pressured but still understanding what's going on. If you just plug an LLM into everything you lose that intentionality around players understanding the system without actually needing to be a subject matter expert on whatever the enemy should be 'realistically' doing.

[1]: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/why-fears-ai-is-still-the-b...

[2]: https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear...
"Inequality tends to be greater in developing countries than wealthier ones. The United States is an exception."

"In 2021, the richest 1% of Americans owned 34.9% of the country’s wealth, while average Americans in the bottom half had only US$12,065 – less money than their counterparts in other industrial nations. By comparison, the richest 1% in the United Kingdom and Germany owned only 22.6% and 18.6% of their country’s wealth, respectively."

https://theconversation.com/why-inequality-is-growing-in-the...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37067736

Otherwise, rayiner's comment seemed fine, but the "diffuse" part was odd.
Costco is generally cheaper and top shelf products.

Not my experience with Amazon basics.
Matt Levine just keeps getting funnier and funnier over the years:

> Twenty years ago, if you had told people that one day they could get paid for not mining Bitcoin, they would have said “what?” But now it is possible. Modern finance created the problem (Bitcoin mining) and the solution (paying people not to mine Bitcoin); the overall result is that nothing happens and yet people get paid. Just a miracle of financial engineering.
> Their goal is to protect their members.

That is the goal of the legal system as well.

> There are things an organization may choose not to accept that aren't crimes

Sure. Dress code, etc.

But sexual assault is a crime.
Assuming everyone's on a Mac, I'm actually surprised there isn't that much use of something like homebrew-bundle[1]. It's definitely nicer to have your tooling run natively rather than, say, trying to wrap everything in Docker, or trying to get everybody on board with nix or guix.

I think the only real issue here is that you can't really pin to specific versions unless a formula exists, and there is no guarantee that a formula with a pinned version will stick around because homebrew likes to stay lean. So to that extent it can still be unclear what version of software someone is running on after enough time.

[1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/
The primary reason why most panels don't do this is longevity. A panel is designed to be put onto the roof and stay there for 25 years, it is entirely solid state and its weather hardened to survive hail, wind and lots of sunshine. The moment you introduce water to just the panel you make the panel more efficient but you also drastically increase its failure rate, water corrodes and over 25 years its much more likely to cause a failure. On top of that the pump is a moving part and its going to require replacements over the lifetime of the panel.

In many countries around the world Solar heaters for water are quite common. Using tubes to heat water you can get near 99% efficient capture of the suns energy to heat which compares very favourably to the 20% of a solar panel to electricity. But their rated lifetime is quite a bit shorter and their pay off period looks quite different as a result.

So while there are benefits to combining them it increases the cost considerably and decreases the longevity and it just doesn't make much economic sense most of the time. Besides on a hot sunny day your panels are going to do great anyway, its clouds that really reduce the collection.

As an example my system will give me 34KWh on a cool 100% sunny day but on a hot day its more like 31KWh. But on a cloudy rainy day it can get down to 7KWh. The heat isn't as big as an issue as its made out to be.
> We assume, for example, that there is always a number following another number

Assuming you're referring to natural numbers or integers, that's not an assumption:

https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Natural_Numbers_are_Infinite
this fellow added fan cooling to his panels. An immediate net benefit on output (5.5w increased output for 3w of fan) at 60w of output.

Then there’s the longevity improvements.

Really starts around 15 minutes but a good video overall.

https://youtu.be/Mt9qLRN7JvA
We know from painful experience that some accusations are baseless. there are people who will allege harm just to get rid of an opponent they do not want to play against. As such it is really hard to figure out what of the thousands of things they can do are really the right thing to do.
How so? They can gather evidence and hear testimonies as well as anyone else can. They don't have the power of the state to compel testimony but tempered by the lower consequences of an incorrect decision.
No pricing === you are the product
Disney Sale to Apple? Don’t Count It Out This Time
"Conflict is not abuse" yes. But also, abuse is not conflict. Organizations and communities have their own ways of limiting, tempering, and mitigating conflict within them that relates to the domain of the organization. But however effective those methods are, they will be insufficient to handle cases of interpersonal manipulation, abuse, sexual harassment, etc. Because again, those things are not conflict.
I don’t have to see a conviction to kick someone out of my living room.
Both are important. The high cost of medical school means people are only going to try and go for the specialties that pay the most (surgery, oncology, radiology, etc) leaving a shortage of Drs in other specialties like primary care/family medicine.

Primary care reimbursement rates also need to be raised and we need more preventative treatments that insurance is required to pay for.
In other words, an ad to NYT Games then. Ads need not only promote an external service.
You still see new buildings in California with rooftop solar water heaters. I can't make it pencil out but builders seem to disagree. Here's one I happen to know of which is especially baffling because they have no rooftop PV despite an overabundance of space.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8027685,-122.2898842,118a,35...
Unfortunately, my dad and uncle are also turning a similar tone and I'm not sure if they're trolling or not. They inherited a 200 Yr old house and want to convert it into an Airbnb without any modifications, save for revamping the toilets and bathrooms. "We'll sell this as an experience of staying in a 200 yr old battered house to all those backpacking tourists, and charge a $100 a night for it!". Mind you, this is also a house where, the last time I visited, I was greeted by the foul smell of a dead fox which had somehow gotten inside. facepalm
Why are you being downvoted?

https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

I definetly agree with user glenda, but if anyone disagrees at the very least leave a comment explaining why!
Probably YAST¹ and the Open Build Service². I think the latter is especially great. There's a public instance of it hosted by openSUSE³, and you can use it to build packages for almost any distro and get a feel for it.

--

1: https://yast.opensuse.org/documentation

2: https://openbuildservice.org/

3: https://build.opensuse.org/
another tangent: I was annoyed to hear "I can't believe I'm talking with someone from *outer* space" about a call with people on the ISS.

For me, there's nothing outer about the ISS. It's also as low as you can go, barely above the earth, tightly bound to us. But I think it turns out it's not really wrong to call this area outer space. I'm not sure, for me it would be logical to have different words for being close to the Earth (in orbit or lower) and any other place in space.
What do you mean by Middle Kingdom? I googled it and everything I could find was about a period in Egypt's history.
who, then, should decide what organizations and people Lichess associates and works with?
Such is the problem with free speech: it enables free association.

Alternative language for what you're saying: Should we force people to allow everyone access to them/their company/their spaces? If not, how do we determine what groups are and aren't protected?

Tangential: Why would banning criminals be fine for you, and what crimes warrant exclusion? Should tax cheats be excluded from chess orgs? What about someone with a DUI?
This could also backfire with non-confrontational personalities. "Welp, I guess you're hired"
Makes sense. For Google implementing this is probably regulatory mainly, not technical. Given how expensive alternatives are, this will be a boon for small contractual actions, though I doubt any huge enterprises will (immediately) switch.

Major limitation for now though is:

> Non-Gmail users: the ability to request an eSignature from non-Gmail users

Hopefully it's addressed sooner (September/October) rather than later (November/December).
>Which laws were broken

From what I can see in this post, the laws against defamation.
Looks like you beat me to it by a minute, but worth pointing out those numbers were at around 60w of output.

The difference probably increases at full output.
Unix Is a Four Letter Word and Vi Is a Two Letter Abbreviation – Christopher C [pdf]
Apologies then, as I interpreted the OP's comment to state that since this man hasn't been convicted in a court of law, Lichess should not behave this way.
> Several claims from individuals with corroborating evidence in this case.

Claims are not evidence, can anyone see the claims?

Can I see the rebuttal from the accused?

The point I’m making is this is not “justice” it’s “injustice” because it’s not actually adjudicating a dispute. What’s happening here isn’t a “trial”.

Here’s what I understand from the article — a group of people (who likely know each other), accused a high profile competitor of sexual misconduct, 4 years after the incident. There appears to be no police report nor any other legal action.

That’s it… so to me it’s hard to say “yeah let’s ban someone and ruin his name!” Because quite frankly, I don’t see any evidence. Note: there could be evidence! I just don’t see it presented here.
agreed. those initial projects didnt go far and they werent particularly innovative imo. Doubt this is any different
> toxic for the environment

Not sure how true this is. The chemicals from the tobacco (aside from additives which I'm sure they're negligible in this context as the plant is not combusted) are.. from the environment? Nicotine is a pesticide so that would make it more toxic for certain parts of the environment, but I'm sure the environment will be fine consuming cigarettes. Way better than say a piece of plastic...

(some) cigarette filters do contain plastic, so that's not ok, but the tobacco part should be fine.
Sigh. Every HN thread.

Sigh. Every Google product.
Eh, I just didn't need it.

I learned it but never saw the need for the extra overhead.

It's full of these situations. And I'd rather just see less code due to "Attention Economy" issues-- the more things to focus on, the less focus each thing receives. It's easier on the big picture, if there's less things going on. TS has a ton of terms and concepts that I just don't need to make my business logic work.

const cat Cat cat<T Cat> = cat

vs.

const cat = cat

dto? iterface? i can define those without typescript. Just plain objects with comments about what they do and what they are.

Anyway, yep it's just my personal opinion of course.

My opinion is basically... I think in some cases there's a desire to make things overly complex, sometimes even as a way to gate keep--

I'm not saying that's what is happening here.

But sometimes I feel that way about Typescript leaking into all of the Javascript ecosystem.
> Hypothetically, if you were falsely accused, wouldn't you want a fair trial?

You can't force an accuser to file a criminal complaint. The mechanism available in this case is a defamation civil suit.
Convert image to Latex with explanation
Is there something like pytorch or tensorflow for doing deep learning with Java nowadays? Can Java be used to create programs running on GPUs?
This is so sad. I live off of Amazon brands, because they're so cheap, convenient, and relatively good quality. I've NEVER had a quality issue from them. Call me a corporate stooge if you want, but their mattresses, clothing, drugs, etc. have been a lifesaver.
I think at least some of it is outright fraud. A lot of these are being pushed by shameless spammers and former crypto hucksters. Some of the vanity metrics like followers and stars can just be bought if you have a few bucks, and boosting those numbers makes it easier to cheat and convince others to give you more money. This cycle effectively pays for itself assuming you don't care about the reputational risks.
Bad news for DocuSign
that's fantastic! for a second i was thinking facetiously about zipping a camera-equipped drone up and down the streets as fast as it can to hoover this up automatically...

but you could probably get an entire city's worth of information at once using a private small craft at altitude with a good lens?

this would be an expensive capture, but if there are enough people interested, the costs could be split...
no it's not. it subverts the principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty. with so many associations becoming mandatory (eg: i can't do my job without a google account) we can no longer allow any organization to reject people based on their own judgement. at least for the larger ones that don't have trivial alternatives.
Why is it unwarranted?
First this is a great idea. Finally there is some movement on making Google Docs better.

I haven't used the feature, but from reading the blog post it is sad to see how poorly Google executes on products, even at the beta stage.

Some context:

I've built such a product before and eSigs are more simple than they seem as long as you do a few things. 1) You need to verify somebody's identity. Sending them an email with the request is a valid way of doing this. 2) You need to make the final signed document easily accessible (e.g. emailing all parties a copy of the signed document. 3) You need to not obscure what the person is signing (they need to be able to easily see the entire document if they wish) 4) You need to make it possible for all parties to verify the validity of a signature, which is done with an audit trail appended to the back of the document. 5) Some types of contracts are not valid to be signed with eSign. 6) The parties need to agree to do business electronically, but this is mostly up to them.

You do not need to create fake wet signatures, cryptographically sign a document, or do encryption beyond what is necessary for normal compliance. Those are all UX or marketing features: they don't hurt, just that according to experts I have spoken to, they aren't a factor when going to court.

And then we have what Google is offering:

From the screenshots, I think it is only a fake wet signature. I'm not sure how valid that is.

Apparently you cannot ask for an eSignature from non-Gmail users right now. But how are you supposed to know they are Gmail users? Can Google not send people a simple email with a link? This alone makes the feature almost worthless, and for something that seems so trivial.

They also said they will only be adding an audit trail later this year. This is really sketchy because I believe it means you, nor anybody else can actually verify if it has been signed. Again, this is quite trivial: you store the audit trail in a database, and you append the log as pages onto the back of the PDF document.
I pitched an energy arbitrage system back in 2005, but it was just too far in front of the available technology. The idea was to build small grid co-ops, where endpoints could buy/sell computing power, even just electricity based on demand. Batteries, even idle smart-washing machines and IOT stuff endpoints could provide energy and cycles for whatever.

The tech is becoming possible now, but expect utility companies to launch a threatening offensive against people to stop the de-centralization movement from happening. Nicholas Carr's "The Big Switch" in reverse.
You should post that as it's own link, the concept is cool.
All linux users go through distro-hopping phase at some point after passing the first intro phase, I did back in 2007 too, but then you realize that whatever get the job done it will be your daily driver. In the past 6 years my main one is Mint, and it’s stable and overall good and let me focus on the stuff I do on the OS not the OS itself, so I’m sticking with that.
strange to me it was linked here via arxiv instead of github
This being HN, I can't tell if this comment is a joke or not.
>ban binding arbitration and all other extrajudicial legal proceedings

Sure.

>strengthen whistleblower laws so that NDAs against people with whistleblower protection are non-enforceable

Ok.

>train a subset of police to properly investigate sexual assault / harassment allegations

Not really something the feds can handle except for the minority of cases that end up in federal jurisdiction. Most policing is local.

>provide a low cost alternative to civil court similar to small claims court for situations where there is a large asymmetry in the financial resources of the two sides of the proceeding.

I was going to point out that your first two point would increase the world load on our already overworked court system. But you noticed that. The only problem with this approach is there really isn't an existing framework, as far as I know, that would allow for this. You would want it to be held to the same standards as normal courts. In which case it will be just as slow and expensive. The law is complicated and therefore requires professionals. And professionals are expensive. I don't have a solution to this. But saying, we need simpler and cheaper courts sounds nice but doesn't really work if you still want things like innocent until proven guilty and beyond a reasonable doubt.