skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m with the artists on this one. Our obsession with converting everything into input for an algorithm that spits out an ill-defined number (what the hell is “vividness”?) needs to stop.

Usefulness is immaterial here.

Is he allowed to do this? Yes.

What's wrong with presenting a page count and word count, for example?
Have you ever loaded or unloaded a truck? It's the definition of difficult.

Do you have things shipped to your house? I think most people would consider that essential in 2023.
"previously unanticipated risks" really? we will smash it, it will be ok... oh it launched rocks? how unanticipated
You’ve probably heard of fluoride salt reactors but in the last few years interest has exploded in chloride salt reactors. The difference is that chloride salts can dissolve plutonium much better than fluoride salts can, thus chloride salts are uniquely suited to building a fast reactor fueled by spent fuel from light water reactors. Fluoride salt reactors could be fueled by U233 (rare isotope not available in quantity yet) or U235. They make U233 in the course of operation but they’d have to be seeded with U235, the trouble is the non-proliferation regime doesn’t allow using 100% U235, so you’d have to use something like 20% U235 diluted with U238 which in turn dilutes the thorium and means you have to deal with plutonium and the minor actinides.

See this for more info about this reactor:

https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2122/ML21228A222.pdf
The word "some" is definitely an exaggeration here.
The word 'unexpected' doesn't appear in the article. It's a fairly safe bet that the team of people capable of hitting a 581 foot object 6 million miles away with a 13,000 mph slug would have expected the ejection of material from the impact.
Linus Torvalds Reviews the Bcachefs File-System Code
No, I don't think I'm. For example, China's quality science output just surpassed the US in the last few years, according to Nature Index.
There is, I think, a bit of a disconnect here; crypto people have long since internalised a theory that people want to use micro-transactions for absolutely everything (they are strongly incentivised to believe this, of course); at this point many are in so deep that they just don't realise that to the average person this is pretty off-putting.

I think most people would assign negative value to someone paying to post (that is, someone who has to pay for attention is probably less deserving of your attention than someone who doesn't) but I suspect that many crypto enthusiasts genuinely don't realise that this is the case.
That's a strange straw man to put right in the title. Why would I think it was migrants?
It'll be more a case of the 3G areas being smaller and no signal areas being larger.
Therapy as a way of aligning with your subconscious
Two answers:

• The operating costs are very low, since all Easyful does is email your customers your content when they buy it.

• Our team at nicer.io is primarily a product agency, so when we make our own apps like Easyful, SimplePerks and Smallchat, they don't have the pressure to be highly-profitable. We often end up getting good connections, agency customers and referrals from these apps, and keeping them running and supported is pretty low-cost for us.
There’s no proof you exist but there’s proof you belong to a group by comparisons.
It's really awesome how different people are able to engage in this hobby with different requirements.

For me, working on a real 64 is essential but I don't care about disk drives at all. So a Commodore 64 + Ultimate II+ (or pi1541) is a great combination. I love being able to use real 64 joysticks with no lag.

Keeping the hardware going is half the fun - I have replacement chips for everything on the board, diagnostic carts and have enjoyed picking up soldering again.

For Assembly language programming though, Visual Studio Code + Kick Assembler + Vice + C64 Debugger all the way!! Makes the development and debugging process completely seamless.
You can find convection toaster ovens which are effectively air-fryers.
Smart variables and placeholders in your ChatGPT prompts
Some thoughts on the common challenges of automating and optimizing recurring AI prompts in your daily life.
Both are fine for vpn performance. However, Mullvad has won me over with their business practices.

Mullvad accepts my payment for a month of use at a time, and I manually renew it (after I receive a reminder) each month. If I don’t need a vpn the following month, I don’t pay for another month. I also find Mullvad works a bit better on Linux too.

I just got hit with a 2 year auto renewal charge from proton for my old proton account (email, storage, vpn) for roughly $200 with no email reminder. I thought I had cancelled the auto renewal, but I apparently hadn’t. When I went to cancel it after receiving the charge, the process was full of dark patterns and offers to continue my service, ending with the inability downgrade because it required me to manually delete emails for 30 minutes to free up storage to downgrade to the free account.

It feels like proton has shifted their focus to metrics and profit growth over user experience while Mullvad simply provides a great product with no trickery.
Ever heard of Sensible Software?
Enterprises love Angular… which is now on version 16. Speaking from personal experience, the level of breakage between Angular versions (specifically v13 to something newer) is far greater than what was found in Svelte 3-to-4.

Svelte is substantially similar to plain HTML, CSS, and JS than any other framework out there except for htmx, and htmx gets there by actively avoiding any JS (punting to AlpineJS, which will have its own major version change issues) and therefore limiting the scope of problems htmx can tackle on its own.

htmx is great for what it is, and I love that it is helping people understand the inherent power of HTML before JS even joins the chat. However, it's not a complete web development solution like Svelte (or React, Angular, Vue, Solid, etc.).
I've seen Infracost around and think it looks cool, do you have any plans to add support for Pulumi? One advantage Terraform seems to have over Pulumi is the ecosystem of tools that support it.
> other than to prime people to look upon your writing with lower standards.

I have to admit, a fault of mine is that I sometimes do the opposite. When I read stories about someone younger than me achieving stuff, it's easy to look for faults to diminish the accomplishment.

"High school student made X? Pft, I found a small flaw when skimming the story therefore the whole thing is probably bad and I don't have to feel bad about not achieving the same at that age."
I’m old enough to remember high wall cubicals.
The idea that employers need to give you everything you want is strange.

They give you the least they can possibly get away with.

Sure - some small subset of employers competing for the best employees will do this. But the average employer? I'm skeptical.
> The process described in that Reddit post reads like a parody of tenure-track searches in academia.

Tenure-track hiring is nothing like that. Is it rigorous? Yes. Do they take dumb formalized tests? No. Rather, they typically present their research to the faculty.
Depends on the timeline. Things are changing very rapidly. Automation seems to be coming at us at an exponential rate.

The expectation that it's going to be business as usual is just as short sighted and archaic with regard going into an office as it is with the idea of work in general.
Good to know and, yes, that was the issue (grub-mkconfig without grub-install). Somehow I've never had this issue in Arch before now and wasn't aware of this idiosyncrasy.. but now I know.
The Crimean issued passports are accepted only by Russia and other occupied areas such as South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Practically they are required for many domestic tasks, and Russia won't let you leave the region with a real passport so you need one to get out. The European Union has emphasized to its member states that possession of one of these "passports" should also expedite the issuance of a humanitarian/refugee passport.
Open plan offices suck, no doubt, but that's not why I don't want to go back to one.

WFH means my whole life doesn't center around my job and its schedule. I'm home for when my kids go to and return from school, I can make lunch or dinner while sitting in the kitchen with my laptop, and I don't have to spend a couple hours a day commuting.
Most of the time drivers are.. driving. And the drivers have hand carts for larger or heavier items (which still have significant limits), and most packages are the size of a hard cover book. So, really, almost all of the job is driving with occasional chances to stretch your legs and deliver a small package. And the job is average of about 43 hours a week (they have very exact data on this), which is probably less than you put in and definitely not 10 hours/day.

Sounds like you have a pretty nice SWE job, perhaps in the valley? But your experience is not typical.
The scientists had known for a long time that this was a possibility. That's part of the reason why the Dimorphos / Didymos asteroids were selected, their current orbit (even if altered a little) and any debris generated will never come close to Earth.
Epic Systems did as of 5 years ago
Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry my negative comment got to first spot on what should have been a positive post. I understand why the decision was made, and I think I'd have done the same.

I really hope you guys stick around, Mullvad has exactly the posture that we need from security services.
The entirety of "big data" is built on get data->???->profit.

That's what's always been behind the push for ai, the hope that these ML programs can extract gold from the ocean.
Alternatively come in early or stay late. Joel did get it right. Open spaces are fine for light tasks but a huge drain on deep thinking.
It shows you a few pages if you are previewing the book (i.e. "look inside"). But if you are using search, it will show you where your search query shows up in the book, no matter what page the search query is found. This means you could theoretically search a book sentence by sentence, and it will eventually have shown you the entire book. I'm not claiming this is an efficient or practical way to game the system and read books, only that google books does contain the full copy of the book text and can reveal the contents of any passage. This is basically how Prosecraft works (at least what i glean from the article) - it doesn't let you read a whole book, even though it may contain a representation of the full text.
cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)
> glass

The acoustics are also terrible, as are the visual distractions of watching people walk past and peek in every 20 seconds.
The title is not clickbait. WhatApp is known for being encrypted. Context provides the reasons why....this issue is not new.
Where do you source your crystal balls? Mine never seem to work quite right. Maybe I'm holding it wrong?
> A terrifying side-effect of AI is that everything is now potential "training data" and there's financial incentive to vacuum up any and all possible data.

Good thing that extensive user-tracking by advertising companies already prepared us for it!
Don't worry we're already working on it.
It moves the puck… to the United Nations. I fail to see the problem here.
I meant to not starting with the issues of CI but the complexity of it and how many solve it. There is the simple shell script idea which mostly runs on this one CI system and nowhere else. Or the we use a build system which abstracts all kinds of things away but need a good chunk of knowledge to understand why it’s there in the first place. Developers from camp shellscript with the desire to keep it easy ask: „why do this etc etc“. It’s not that their wrong it’s mainly the ignorance of other things like build reproducible builds and platform and system tools abstractions that make these more complex. To just expect that some developer who never dealed with a multi arch/platform product to just willingly jump into the complexity is unfair.

I also don’t like the current CI landscape. I still run a Jenkins at work cause it gives me the most freedom and I know it best (it’s sadly what keeps me off other systems, at least I know what parts not to touch). We use gradle which I really liked 5 years ago. We also use it for other non Java systems since it is pretty adoptable. But the recent version changes bring more and more weird changes which make it harder and harder to maintain custom plugins for it. The rules to code build plugins are more stricter enforced by the compiler which yes is good for gradle but hard to maintain as one needs to read up and understand why one can no longer access a file input outsite of a build execution phase for example even though it worked fine for the last 4 versions. And then there is more.
Way too much! But I'm not sure where you are going with that point. If suddenly lithium (batteries) were to become a necessary resource for the US, you can bet governments will be destabilized to prop up the lithium supply.
> The old European and US car makers are however failing quite badly. What they produce is hot garbage

That's not what I've seen in the numerous reviews I've read. Plenty of others get reviews similar to those of Tesla both from reviewers and their owners.

Tesla has got by far the best charging network, and their drivetrain is top notch, but the car shaped object they put that drivetrain in is not great. The old car makers seem to be learning how to make good electric drivetrains faster than Tesla is learning to make the rest of the car.

> at a huge loss per car.

Aren't you jumping the gun a bit? It took Tesla 12 years from the time they started actually shipping cars to the time they started having profitable years.
This is on my reading list. This little bit sold me on it in the past:

> The bottom of every page is padded so readers can maintain a consistent eyeline.

Such a tiny and, in hindsight, obvious detail. It's surprisingly pleasant. When I noticed that, I knew I had a passion project in front of me.
No - it may work for some employees but it's not far from what will make people who prefer remotely want to suddenly return to office.

More importantly, return to office, as the end goal isn't a good end-goal. Sure it can work reasonably well when everyone is in the office, but the pandemic 'experiment' has clearly shown us that remote, hybrid are also workable models. Each model: all on-site, hybrid, flexible have their pros and cons and the outstanding organizations of the future will be the ones that can create an environment where people who thrive in each model and co-work.

The right end-goals should be around more around the lines of productivity, teams hitting/exceeding their goals consistently, employee retention, employee happiness among other things.
As an occasional mullvad customer im glad to hear.

That being said, I wonder why we arent hearing about any cases involving them and cybercrime. Letter soup agency smear campaigns or actual cybercrime.

They operate totally in the clear as opposed to Tor and other overlay networks, but unlike with Tor, there are no "opinion articles" or biased news articles slamming them as pedophile enablers.

I just find this odd. /Paranoid schizo mode off
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/07/30/private-offices-re...

https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/01/16/why-we-still-believe-i...
You respond to my reaction yet not the one who projected "callousness unworthy of a human being". I can't take your criticism seriously.
If all of this results in an office layout revolution that includes many individual offices opening into shared team spaces, I am 100% here for it.
Even with that, no company has paid me enough in 20 years to live near the office that is safe and family friendly. Sorry not sorry.

BTW I keep hearing benefits of "RTO" - but I've never worked for a company that only has a single office, so we end up on video calls with other teams and team members anyways even when the company didn't allow WFH.
I've always understood "tits or gtfo" to suggest that if you are mentioning you are a girl then do something related to it (show breasts) or else shut up about being a girl when its not relevant.
How long has the FOXP4 been known of? A quick read of the wiki for it shows most articles made after 2020 with one I saw in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP4

If it is responsible in transcription it could be pretty fearful.

EDIT

HN has been discussing this for a very long time I see

I found this today

What is the Function of the FOXP2 Gene and What Chromosome is It on?

https://metamind.substack.com/p/what-is-the-function-of-the-...
I think a lot of people on here have not been through a real recession. Not saying that everybody will go back to working in an office, but thinking one can simply demand anything only works when employment is high. During a recession, it is either social assistance or one takes the job that is available.
This article fails to mention anything about whether or not the magnitude of deflection was considered successful.
Humans are like mammalian cockroaches. Some will make it.
Some mushrooms require microscopic examination of spite shape to distinguish between possibilities and edible varieties.

It's best to find safe species in your region and learn to distinguish them and their look alikes by forwarding with a very knowledgeable and experienced mycologist.
“The Swiss legal system, while not perfect, does provide a number of checks and balances, and it’s worth noting that even in this case, approval from three authorities in two countries was required, and that’s a fairly high bar which prevents most (but not all) abuse of the system.”
This is fantastic, thanks!

Any pointers / references / books that you’ve found particularly helpful in your learning journey?

I know about Karpathy’s video series (and accompanying repos). Anything else come to mind? Thanks!
SQLedge: Replicate Postgres to SQLite on the Edge
Honestly, trying to fix the problems of: 1) expensive office space and 2) people not coming into the office with 3) more _expensive_ office space is just the kind of McKinsey-level thinking we should expect.
Meanwhile, my startup is profitable, hiring, and permanently 100% remote across 7 countries. Hiring is easy.
People who like WFH will never want to return to the office unless perhaps the office is a 5 minute walk from home (they may be forced to, but they won't want to). For many people the time and cost savings of avoiding a daily commute cannot be offset by a nicer office.

Those who are happy to return to the office in general are those who do not like WFH and prefer more contacts and a change of scenery.

A nicer office makes things better but it will not change people's minds on WFH.
I wonder about a parallel for paintings. What if there was an analysis stating exactly the brushes the painter used, the number of strokes, the exact pigments, etc? Would that, in your opinion, "suck the 'soul' out of a painting"?

I could see this as a brilliant learning tool. A tool to provide deep insight into something that would be very challenging to quantify personally. I think all this would make future authors better, not worse.
The Nuremberg Files: ISP Censorship
And windows.

So in essence, it's supported by everything these days.
Looks like a cool guide. Something seems off about this, though. Can't quite put my finger on it.
Great point about the multiple API calls. One of the big problems we’ve heard about using SCPs is that they are too late. If a deployment fails because of them the developer needs to go through another pull request/code review.

Estimating costs for serverless technologies upfront is definitely challenging. We're thinking of bringing in the last 30 days of usage for these resources to give engineers some visibility.
Is this the first time that Hurricane Electric has censored a website on their network?

From what I viewed on Kiwi Farms a while back out of curiosity, I came off with the opinion that it was paparazzi for internet celebrities ran by the worst of the 4chan users - cyberstalking, incredibly dicey jokes/senses of humor.

Even if the website is abhorrent, I wouldn't want it filtered from the internet, especially by such a large company like Hurricane Electric.

Maybe a group of people hated the site so much they've been badgering anyone and everyone possibly connected to it to block it and they've finally found an "in"?

Not sure I agree with the blocking of the website since traffic should be free-flowing irrespective of it's content in my opinion...
We lack the radiation-proof shell to withstand ourselves.
Due to the chaotic nature of orbital mechanics, small changes in initial conditions become large observable differences in behavior over time. It's also helpful that there is essentially no turbulence in space so every observation over time results in more and more precise estimates for the true orbital parameters of the body under observation.
Would just like to comment that the presentation is top notch, really appreciate the level of detail put into it.
You need to look at net profit not gross which is much smaller. The net profit margin 10%.
It also works if employees collectively bargain.
But publishers will have to deal with a lot more content thanks to LLMs.
Corporate America is done with COVID for the most part. I don’t know of any non-medical office still doing any significant COVID mitigations other than possibly retaining enhanced cleaning protocols.
I think you misunderstood me. You seem to take my comment as input to an assumption that I think they are logging.

I don't know if they are logging or not. They say they aren't. The audit says they didn't see evidence that they are.

It's impossible to prove a negative.
Apple does, at least in some locations. Others who have more current knowledge can chime in.
Note that Mullvad's WireGuard settings offer a "multihop" feature, meaning the VPN destination your ISP sees and the VPN endpoint the end service sees differ.
> I think its fair to say that RTO is not about data,

What data do you have to support this, other than a personal anecdote?
> commute

Not only time but expense and accident risk, especially for an automobile commute.
Want people to RTO? threaten them. Constantly remind them they are replaceable, never reward good behavior.
Yep, for sure! It's on the roadmap. We are friends with the folks at Pulumi too. Love what they are building, so hopefully we will get some bandwidth and add support. And Cloud Formation too. Azure ARM ... haha there is a lot more to build :)
Covid hasn't gone away though.

Returning to an office is my idea of hell though. Getting I'll because some random employee won't take the time off or WFH because they have a cold/flu/covid is plenty enough reason to say "no"
I know the US hates IDs, rightfully, but fingerprints and photo ID is common in less free parts of the world. Wait until you hear about mandatory DNA sampling!
The proposed solution ignores the $5 wrench attack.
I read through the first couple parts, this is exceptionally well written, clear, and AFAICT, accurate. Nicely done.
So far automation helps rich people get richer, and that's about it
Yes, that is Silicon Valley's sales pitch in 2023. Progressing humanity forward is old hat.
I think you're misremembering. It's usually "humans aren't descendants of monkeys".
Wheat gluten spurs brain inflammation in mice
the paper:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jne.13326
What's funny is that in the crypto world, projects that have similar tokenomics as Worldcoin were often called "Sam coins" - low float, high market cap, and a vesting schedule that allows the founding team to relentlessly dump on speculators and holders.

Trouble is, the Sam in question with these coins was Sam Bankman-Fried
I'm not moving to the real-estate market near an office. Poor working conditions are certainly one reason to avoid the office, but being able to live where ever you want is also a huge deal.