skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not new but incremental advances in tech has allowed for

1. Solar power to become economical

2. EV's to become viable

3. Smartphones to become very advanced and cheap

4. Electric motors to become small and efficient enough for home/commercial drones

5. Advances in heat pump efficiency

6. DC inverter based heating/cooling solutions
so.... if banks make "super profit", doesnt that imply they managed to gouge customers by charging them excess % on their loans and fucked depositors by giving them less % on their deposits?
It was a different time then

approximately 1.7 billion years ago, during the Statherian period of the Paleoproterozoic, and continued for a few hundred thousand years, probably averaging less than 100 kW of thermal power during that time.
I think some methods of ML might be useful for things like HVAC or allow generation of controlling models that would be more cost efficient.

But GPT or LLMs... No. They are not for that.
In particular if that boilerplate code spans multiple projs and type inheritances for something that really could be done in about three lines. Boilerplate has its own obscurity problems.
> It's the right trade off for most people as the only USA 2G nationwide network is T-Mobile's. They are going to turn it off in April 2 2024 (1).

A US-only analysis of this seems not especially useful, since Android is used worldwide. If anything it is more popular outside of the US than inside of the US, making US-based analysis even less illuminating.
I think we are using different definitions of realistic. If you take the meaning that realistic is that the world should be as in our Middle Ages you are right, if you take realistic as showing how things would a more practical look at how the world of GoT would be I think the above does not really matter.
I dream someday of finding a browser with a "never autoplay video" setting that actually works.

(Note: brave might work - I haven't tested it enough though.)
Hours after the SOS message from the Gansu ultramarathon tragedy
Obra Dinn is a fucking masterwork. Love this guy.
> If EFF cares no much about privacy on the web they should be in favor of this proposal.

Not true at all in the slightest, even with the sorry explanation Google employees tried to conjure.

> To prevent ad fraud either you need to increase the fingerprintablity of users on the web, violating people's privacy, or implemented a form of remote attestation, which protects people's privacy.

Not true either, you don't have to do any of that. And why exactly should the client be responsible for ad fraud? These suckers, advertisers, try to track me without consent for years and abuse every legal gray area there is. Boot me from a service if you don't like my client for all I care, just be transparent about it.

> You can even make an attestation service for your own browser.

I don't want that. I do indeed vet clients connecting to my service to defend against attacks, but WEI comes with a cost I would never be willing to pay.
Programmers Not Proficient in AIGC Program Face Obsolescence in Next 5 Years?
There is a very interesting topic, do you agree?
I'd love to know if puppeteer passed that test (probably). I have had exactly this problem many, many times and it is incredibly frustrating.
LVMH doesn't have public discount sales on their clothing items.
Once a year in NYC(for U.S. offices) they would have an employee only discount sale where all their offices came together and you could go through racks of their clothes.
I wouldn't call that high science. Average the velocity and vector of a drag event over the first few frames, keep averaging with more frames, and start moving everything to the predicted end-point with a nice ease-in-out, you're most of the way to "optimizing over the space of possible values".
Same. I couldn't get into it. I've heard a lot of good things about it but I think I was expecting more like an interactive story (which I think is an actual genre of "game" now). Instead it's actually hard and I only play games to relax.
> In our environment, porting a package to our OS may require a little, or sometimes a fair bit of modification to make it work and we often need to be able to read/understand the upstream code in whatever language it's in and change/add to it.

What one needs to understand will vary so much depending on the upstream package and how it's normally built (what it expects) that I think even someone with experience in packaging will sometimes get stuck or need to seek help or advice. The more substantive the porting work is, the more that will be true.

That said, this kind of thing is pretty common for Linux distro packagers, and the weirder the Linux distro is, the more true that is. It's not at all unusual for Nix folks to add special build params, patch upstream software, or mangle binaries with sed in a post-build step to get them to understand NixOS' unusual filesystem structure, or to build offline in the restricted sandbox.

So I'd reach out to contributors to BSD ports systems, especially if they added ports for Linux-centric software, and contributors to really weird Linux distros (NixOS, GuixSD, GoboLinux, Void Linux, etc.).

I've never been in charge of hiring decisions anywhere so idk what the overall landscape of DevOps job candidates looks like. But I've done DevOps and I definitely do, and my friends in roles associated with that title can definitely do at least some coding and scripting in a way that I think suits most packaging tasks well. If a DevOps person has a CS degree of previously worked as a developer, they can probably figure out what they need to when it comes to patching upstream software to get it to build. Even if they don't, if they do some recreational programming, they can probably push through.
Esp32 isn't a very low power device. You'll never build anything with a battery life measured in months off a coin cell with it.
Huge emphasis on metrics: 6 of his 10 points. However, those only apply to a rather small subset of projects, mostly big web apps or SaaS projects.

In my recent experience, the biggest point that applies to the vast majority of software projects is his second point: user documentation. As often as not, you get pointed to a website, on which it is impossible to find anything useful. Maybe there's an FAQ, but the questions were never asked by actual users.

If there's a problem, or something isn't properly documented? Maybe there's a support email, or an online ticketing system. Whether you'll get an answer is a lottery. For one piece of software, I submitted a ticket in February asking for clarification of their poorly documented API. No answer, so in March I submitted another ticket requesting an answer to the first ticket. Promptly answered: I just need to be patient. To date (August), nothing.

Development schedules for anything "online" are always crazy: You've got to get something out there, fast. Decent documentation never happens, because the company is already off on the next project.
C++/WinRT is now in maintenance mode
Well, back to Win32 and C I suppose
Do they work on it because they hope it will be useful, or because they hope their crypto-fiefdom will be valuable and make them rich?

Behind the impenetrable jargon, Urbit has always put a lot of emphasis on this "digital real estate" aspect. For example:

"Urbit IDs are property, and we think of the entire registry of Urbit IDs as a vast territory of digital land."
[https://urbit.org/overview/urbit-id]

It's not exactly an altruistic open source project if your fundamental motivation is to become a member of the digital landowner upper class.

(And if you scratch the surface of Urbit, you'll find the creator is a reactionary extremist who has said he prefers feudalism to democracy. Those ideas are embedded in the platform design that makes lip service to decentralization but actually concentrates control to the very few.)
The first operating system based on grid-based architectural theory
The world's first operating system to abandon traditional hierarchical architecture and propose a grid-based architectural theory.
This is not a Googler's 20% project. You can expect any major feature released to have been infected with Google's morality and mentality of being an ad company needing to extract profit out of free products.

You cannot apply Hanlon's Razor to megacorporations.
GrapheneOS has had 4G only mode for a while, not sure about the rest. I wouldn't be surprised if there'd been some communication on their end.

I wouldn't say malice but some of their practices are hostile.
>World’s largest study shows the more you walk, the lower your risk of death

that title makes 0 sense knowing all organisms eventually die.
Reality is that only severe measures like lockdowns are effective at containing the spread of respiratory illnesses (and even then it’s debatable how effective), and most people have accepted the risks so they don’t have to go through that again.
https://www.robots-everywhere.com/cellsol/ have fun with this then!
In other words, you just ignore the topic.
For the price being within spitting range of a Titan seems pretty damn good
I dug into the FDA docs and relevant studies over the post few months.

As far as I can tell that warning might be just boilerplate for antidepressants these days.

Similarly for foetal harm it's on animal studies and they advice effective contraception for 1 week after last dose while they collect data.
Launching Recast – converts articles into bite-size audio convos
Because the old world had plagues (diseases that spread fast and kill) and the new world did not. Plagues and pandemics are zoonotic, and the new world just didn't have any domesticable animals except llamas.
It also implies a booming, healthy economy where more people want money to start businesses. Also, you can choose your tyrant. If the bank you're at offers you shitty deals, switch the bank.

Nobody forces you to accept bad deals. By the way, do you have time to talk about this amazing money-doubling service I've created?
Show HN: Minimal note-taking app
No accounts, barely any UI chrome. Web-based note taking app with real-time collaboration. Visiting homepage generates a new note with a unique URL.
15 of the most relevant questions on leadership, along with sample answers. See how do you fare as a leader on the real turf...
He has a point about shitty US support around parental leave though.
Saying that you’ll use data to make decisions doesn’t change that - most people can’t tell the difference between meaningful data and random sets of numbers with a headline, so it’s still trust awarded to the most convincing salesman.
Didn't stop him from raising 300 million again from a16z.
Looks like we DDoS'd the server...
next: where is the intersection of "old enough to know better" and "young enough not to care"?
> One needs to know the platform/language and tools to package software

How long is acceptable for your packagers to struggle with learning a build toolchain and its quirks? How many language ecosystems are you working with at your company?

> And don‘t get me started with CI etc.

Respectfully, I'd like to get you started on CI. I kinda feel like the landscape of CI platforms right now sucks, and a lot of my daily work is integrating with them. I'm curious what your gripes are!
Black box (obsolete) and regular box are the same thing, they're simply called boxed warnings. In case you think this is semantics, boxed warnings are a determination by the FDA of a risk of adverse reaction so serious in proportion to the benefit of the drug it must be considered when assessing risks and benefits.

The warning you are referring to is a regular warning which is used when there some evidence of a causal association but a causal relationship has not been definitively identified.

In this specific instance it is based on an association of increased suicidality in a study looking at all antidepressants for all depressive indications and specifically in patients below the age of 25, not specific to this drug or drug class. This warning is accordingly present on all antidepressants.

I won't go into the knowledge base behind this warning, its magnitude and variation between drugs but it is readily available online.

Suffice it to say medical experts do not view the risk serious enough to merit a boxed warning and should the FDA have wanted to absolve themselves of blame as. you suggest it would be boxed.
Yeah, I can't deal with it anymore.
I see some mentions of Spain and Hungary, what are the chances of contagion across governments?

What about contagion to other sectors Oil & Gas?

Retail players (P&G, Unilever, Nestle, Etc.)?
Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing
All studies which say they lower risk of death implicitly mean "from avoidable causes, prematurely"
Doing devops/sysadmin, I frequently find myself spending 90% of my time on the last 1% of systems that I can't declare out of scope but that are broken/nonconforming for "business reasons". I'd be 10x more productive if I could just turn those off. Every time, I try to make the fixes/write the code that will smooth the next time, but the next thing always arrives before I finish. I've written enough code to recognize the same pattern in any large codebase.
that exposes your credentials to one of the servers. probably doesn't matter in most cases but it's not as cool as the scp solution suggested here
Yeah if you look down, it used 920 in g and 0.02 in mg that's where the extra factor of 1000 came from. I think the 0.02 should also have been in g.
The End of the Road for Cloudflare CAPTCHAs

https://blog.cloudflare.com/end-cloudflare-captcha/

Discriminate against all but "major browsers". Why.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/get-started/c...
> Both Zurzuvae and Placebo showed improvement in HAM-D over the 15 day period

Which is why everyone wanted to see it compared to Alprazolam/Xanax or Zopiclone
New Brain Cells Erase Old Memories (2014)
Ah that's what it is. Opening up API server that's allows anonymous auth is a very bad idea.
> I now have no idea what technical debt means in popular use.

They define it as "the effort to model the problem, developing algorithms, collecting samples, and inquiring expert knowledge" (end of page 4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.03028.pdf)

I, and I believe everyone I've worked with, believes it to be the cost of future work required to fix/change a decision your making now. Literally the opposite of what they say: the upfront cost of developing a system.
> I wonder what happens to unsold Ferrari cars.

I suspect they are mostly built to order.

I've also heard Ferrari will vet their customers - not selling to customers that upset them - like customers who lend their cars out for published performance tests.
and if that very same person followed the directions one time by pure chance, you would say what?
The suicide warning for antidepressants is misleading. They don't cause it, but what happens is antidepressants start giving you more energy and more ability to function before it starts helping with mood.

So if you're already suicidal, you can get the ability to act on it before you start getting relief from ideation.
all from Opera Mini:

-
https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in
7f3e45c3cebfb90f

- https://steamdb.info/login/
7f3e4a04bf7a0e39

- https://www.zabbix.com/forum/
7f3e4b681f8f1cc6

- https://casetext.com/

7f3e4cab4af40b05

- https://namemc.com/login
7f3e4debdf6cb7f1

- https://spinroot.com/
loads normally, no delay or blocking

- https://camelcamelcamel.com/
loads normally, no delay or blocking

Adammartinetti, I appreciate your interest in doing this, but would love to hear that CF maintains a giant white board in the developer area with the name of every TLS 1.3 web browser known to mankind (the same data on a Group Policy-enforced internal home page would be even better), to reinforce the idea that it takes more than Google to make the world go round.

Personally, I'll add myself to the list of people who think you've created a game you can never win, and thus shouldn't be playing.
Everywhere I've been recently has devs doing the ops. This includes big places you have probably heard of.
And no automation or performance dashboards would have made them “not eventually fail”. (Among other reasons - I like how this article just assumes your product is Saas)
Speaking as a layperson and casual observer, I understood some of the words in this thread.
I never know that for sure, but it's a safe guess. It's become a bit of a hilarious trope here in Portland. The people who are always complaining about the rest of society's wanton disregard for the environment are the ones who aren't riding the bus. Their kids are the reason they're so worried about climate change, which is caused by overpopulation, you see. Nothing racist or Malthusian. They're shuttling their kids to soccer practice in a Subaru, how much more eco-conscious could they get? And when dad puts the kids down, he gets online and complains about how everyone else's consumption is ruining the world.

When you talk to other people who don't have kids, they always make sure to let you know they don't.
working on it hehe
No, it's actually possible to waste a human's time unlike an AI.
Apple, Samsung, and Intel to Invest in Arm IPO
Special Relativity: Lorentz Transformations (2018) [video]
To corroborate my claims from another comment, I'm calling you out as a recognizable Nix fan on HN. ;)

I told you us Nix weirdos enjoy packaging, GP!
Why would more older people be going into the work force? Counterintuitive.
edit: bearblog getting ddos'd, here's the repo https://github.com/bkitano/llama-from-scratch
There's multiple orders of magnitude in difference between the amount of fuel a ship carries, and the amount of oil a tanker can hold. Think measured in hundreds of thousands versus tens of millions of gallons.

If we start accounting for every single externality for every solution for a problem we come up with, we might as well stop leaving the house at all.
Scala had a lot of implicit stuff before Scala 3, but while very powerful it was also very tricky and hard to understand at times. In Scala 3 there is still a lot of implicit features, but a bit less powerful and with a bit more explicit syntax.

When I see how some younger developers in our company struggle with some magic of the Spring Framework, I doubt that implicit code pays such a large dividend.
dash is significantly faster than bash and lighter weight, too. I added tab completion and use dash as interactive shell as well as scripting shell.
> We need better treatments for PPD

It was compared to placebo.

People are rightly highly suspicious of Big Pharma.

I like the idea of a novel class but I won't pay attention to this new, expensive drug until it proves significant efficacy over older cheaper drugs (like Alprazolam and Zolpidem/Zopiclone).

Technically it's a Z-drug (like Zolpidem/Ambien) which are non-benzodiazapine positive allosteric modulators of GABA_A
However, since it's a neurosteroid most will probably not think of it as such. (It's name does begin with Z though... And end in -one like a steroid).[Note below]

Anyways, it's licensed for 2 weeks only, side effects are drowsiness, sleepiness and cognitive impairment. You mustn't drive within 12 hours of a dose.

It's best effects are where the depression is associated with insomnia and anxiety.

It was compared to placebo not Alprazolam (Xanax) which has some antidepressant activity. That's just how you seek market Auth when nothing else is licensed. That's just smart.

But you have a GABA agonist you must only use for the short term with primary anxiolytic and hypnotic effects. That will be widely used because otherwise you need off license script and will likely put even more people on the path to SSRI.

[0] this is a reckless insightless cognitive impairment think Roseanne Bar racist tweet.
Are people flagging comments they disagree with rather than downvoting them? I'm seeing a lot of flagged top level comments.
Firstly, I am mocking you. Nobody said you could eliminate every source of malign influence any more than you can prevent all domestic violence. Secondly, you support public funds for nudging. You have already admitted as much with your street story. Do we really need to have the conversation about how taxes aren't voluntary? Like... really?

Maybe you're not aware, but the thing about mother birds rejecting their chicks if they're touched by humans was a nudge. Not like an exaggeration or a miscommunication. A straight-up nudge. You literally funded your own scientific gaslighting hahaha.

Maybe that's not consequential enough for you. The thing about masks not working was a nudge so you wouldn't buy up all the masks. Then the thing about masks stopping the spread was a nudge. You got cross-nudged on the same issue by the same guy. And that doesn't even get into what people were told about medicine these last few years.

Go ahead and defend your ludicrous utilitarianism where you can monitor and track and account for all possible consequences of your publicly-funded disinformation via your surveillance state.

What of the people who die because your deliberate falsehoods? Do they get restitution? Or they're just collateral damage on the avenue to utopia?
Thank you for this great review. They are really good and helped me get into my partner’s phone
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What exactly happens to old hardware? Is it easily recyclable ?
Nah, widespread air filtration would cut down a number of infections, as would masking in healthcare settings. But to the parent’s point, these are not implemented because of lack of efficacy, but because they’re contrary to the (false) narrative of “Mission Accomplished.” If we reacted to water-borne illnesses in the way we’ve done to COVID, we’d have cholera everywhere and kids still being crippled by polio.
I’m a similar age. My view of tech was shaped by sites like slashdot and the thought processes which went into that culture, but put control of my equipment as the important part. It was an eye opener when I entered the workforce and found tech people who genuinely loved the Microsoft eco culture, which makes sense given how much stuff was built for IE only.

I wonder how world views were shaped with those entering the industry post GFC and with google and aws on the ascendency.
The Ruby versions are a bit underwhelming, this is not 2+2=5 but much more underhanded:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=F3feRCr6S64

(recommend watching it by doing the four "tests" before going to the reveal)
Not disputing you can have breaking changes.

Radical implies Angular v1 to v2 types changes, which was disastrous for a lot of people who had built large complex apps on v1 that then had to be maintained for years because a v2 rewrite was too big.
Tech review sites put extreme pressure on manufacturers.

When the review sites only review one thing, corners get cut to make that one thing look good.

Any honest manufacturer who did what they thought was best for the customer, not what got them the best reviews, went bankrupt long ago.
“Risk of death” that is reduced isn’t a lifetime risk (which is obviously, as you note, irreducible) but an annual risk (which is, in fact, reducible).
The problem comes from our upbringing, where we were told that the news was important.

But, news today is not the bulletin headlines and long-read newspaper investigations we knew news to be in the 1980s and 1990s. News has now morphed into an amalgamation of the worst elements of social media and reality television.

By reading a publication such as The Economist once a month, you can attain a more comprehensive understanding of global affairs than you would by watching daily news broadcasts.
You can almost guarantee that. Even if they don’t want to share it, a Freedom of Information request will force them to.
The opposite. They started with low latitudes, up to London. The initial target market was big spenders, and there are progressively fewer of those north of London. Starlink in the high north remains hit or miss, particularly in mountains.
Dude might be a woman.