skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly why human error is not a valid answer in the 5-why process. A good company will try to identify what makes this more likely and remove the root cause. A bad company will find someone to blame.

Reading up on Deming's work and the Toyota Production System, is eye-opening if you haven't read it. The methods to improve are publicized, you only have to implement them.
Security-concious people like to keep the complexity low of things that are involved in their day-to-day activities. Having your car mingle with your phone is kinda the opposite of this.
When It Comes to Transportation Problems, All Roads Lead Back to Cars
From Houston's director of transportation:

"Our predecessors designed roads for the worst six or so hours of the day — and the business as usual approach continues this practice even now. During the other 18 or so hours, however, the roads have excess capacity, which leads to people speeding, which in turn leads to a high number of crashes. It is dangerous, and wasteful, similar to how big-box retailers build surface parking lots for Black Friday shopping, and for the rest of the year these lots are virtually empty."
The risks around radioactive materials were very poorly understood at the time, and were largely learned by lethal trial and error.

The Manhattan Project was done to end a war killing tens of thousands of people a day, which I think can defend some grim tradeoffs.

I won't claim all workers were well treated, but many scientists were also killed and injured in this learning process.
Censorship is not limited to who does it.
Especially since it supports uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.
Private jet came ‘within 100 feet’ of colliding with Southwest plane, NTSB says
> You said that the people involved were punished: This isn't an example of law enforcement attacks on the press going unpunished.

Where exactly do you see the words "were punished" in that quote from me, or in anything else I've written? It's not there...

Something "going unpunished" means it remains unpunished indefinitely. There are lots of examples of things happening in the past going unpunished. But this is a thing that is happening in the present, which may or may not go unpunished in the fullness of time. But not nearly enough time has passed to say either way.

The signs that justice is likely to be done here is that this created a national outrage, with the perpetrators having only local small town allies, which neither the US DOJ nor even, I suspect, the state of Kansas will find intimidating in the least.

Everything you're saying is totally true for things that don't get broad media attention. My thesis is that this case is different by dint of being featured in the NYTimes and on Good Morning America.

For instance, Derek Chauvin is in jail in very large part because he came to the attention of the Sauron's eye of the national media. This is like that, and it's why I think it's likely these people will face justice.
Average total comp for an FAANG engineer in the US is more like $450k, and last time I heard numbers, Chrome and adjacent teams were more like 4,000 people.
I think Flattr does exactly this https://flattr.com/ but it looks like they may have changed their business model recently
>Today, it's really hard to make a good profit from the sports content,

Are you sure the “good” in this statement should not be changed to “sufficient”?

Just because broadcasters overpaid for broadcasting rights does not indicate profit, or even good profit, cannot be earned.

Although, broadcasters like ESPN do not even need to exist in a world with broadband. They are trying to stave off their inevitable decline in relevance, and so rather than shut down, they are willing to entertain business with people who they normally would not have.

But I am sure NFL/MLB/European Football Leagues and the rest could make plenty of profit selling video streams of the games directly to customers.
I am fully aware of the issue.

That's one of the costs with having a public website.
iPhone 15 getting USB-C sounds like a win, but Apple could ruin it all
PVH boot support, what Firecracker needs to boot FreeBSD is in Firecracker Git
The “harm” is caused when people realize it is not moral for people to use violence against each other in the name of authority, and as a consequence cease to follow the commands of authority figures. No real harm is caused when this illusion disappears, hence the quotes. The power structure will disappear, and be “harmed”, but no human being will be.

Of course people are not mature enough to self govern yet. There would be chaos if all people playing the roles of police, military, etc stopped. That’s the primal terror and darkness we need to face individually, to confront the part of self that can do violence, and learn to govern it internally, and be the ruler of the kingdom of self.

When people are ready, these institutions will simply cease to exist, and be as absurd and illusionary any other superstition.
I was annoyed by this, because I really don't want to go back to relying on a third-party like Authy or Microsoft for 2FA, but I need to be able to sync my 2FA keys cross-platform and integrate with my backup system.

Had the idea to store my 2FA inside keepass. To my delight, this feature already exists and is supported in KeepassXC and Keepass2Android.
LLM are autocomplete with context, I don't know what they were expecting
As is so often the case, the Signpost is trying too hard to be clever and sarcastic, and we have a worthless piece as a result.
The issue is that prop 13 has not caused "marginal economic" problems. It's caused absolutely fucking massive problems and is largely responsible for california being completely unaffordable if you don't already own a home there. The juice just isn't worth the squeeze here, the incentives are too distorted.
A services where you order used bike parts based on request. The local bike chop shop can then fulfill your request and send you the part. Kind of like eBay or Amazon marketplace in reverse with buyers driving orders instead of sellers listing inventory.
Imagine the kind of carnage that would happen if China ceased its shipping subsidies and started charging Western World prices for labor and materials.

They could throw the world economy into a massive recession and would probably trigger WW3 by simply paying their workers American minimum wage.
Single-payer is not actually that common, it just seems that way because Canada is next to us. The UK goes beyond that to single-provider. France, Germany, and Japan have multiple private insurance companies and get fantastic results without spending too much, but they also have a national price list for medical services, no claim denials allowed for anything on the list, and a national digital medical records system.

Source: The Healing of America by T.R. Reid.
I hope Chrome team send Firefox team a cake for this milestone.
They're offering as high as $990k. Not just "six figures"
> EDIT: And I guess the answer for "why not fix SunSpider specifically?" is that once you've done the work to turn it into something worth optimizing, it no longer bears any resemblance to the original. It probably looks a lot more like Speedometer, honestly.

I get that, yeah, but superseding the old name is probably worth it though; the internet is full of people who never get the memo except via version numbers :)

I tongue-in-cheek proposed that we match the Sunspider ASTs in V8 and either make it infinitely fast or infinitely slow. Now that will kill a benchmark once and for all!
Leeson certainly wasn't the first guy to think of it but he did in fact bring down the house by using exactly that strategy and Barings ended up not being there tomorrow one day on account of that. Lots of oversight failures.
And if that's not enough, there's a Gameboy preset here https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/
Thanks for the reference, Lakshya. Looks very cool!

(Just thinking out loud next)

If you allow me to be a little imprecise, guided-generation is prompting "just-in-time" unlike the other kind of prompting where you provide all reference tokens "ahead-of-time". Now there's work [1] out there that shows that smaller models rely much more on prompting than larger models do, i.e. smaller models are more faithful to the tokens in the prompt than the larger models which just do whatever they were going to do anyways.

Your results seem very much in line with this kind of a qualitative result --- you show that CodeGen-350M outperforms CodeGen-6B, and CodeGen-6B outperforms text-davinci-003 using MGD. Smaller models perhaps respond more strongly to certain kinds of prompting strategies than larger models do.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.13702.pdf
I think the majority of Western European countries don't even have it? Most seem to have mixed systems or no single payer at all like Switzerland (where healthcare is privatized to an even higher degree than in the US).
You may be looking for "Learn Vim Progressively" by Yann Esposito. It's also how I got into Vim almost 10 years ago.

https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressi...
Can’t imagine how awful it would be to go through the shitty Chinese education system only to not get a job. How quickly will the education ethos crumble if the narrative ceases to work?
> assuming the float is completely accurate (i.e. every decimal digit after the last internally-represented one is assumed to be 0)

Careful though - the float is probably not actually a set of decimal digits but most likely binary ones, so it would be assuming that every binary digit after the last one is zero.

Just because you wrote ‘0.1’ in your source code that doesn’t mean you only have a single significant figure in the float in memory. It’s going to be 0.0001100110011… (repeating 0011 to the extent of your float representation’s precision).

Although the Common Lisp language doesn’t actually appear to require that the internal float radix be 2 - a floating point decimal type would be valid implementation.
> However, there were 767 unique authors who committed code direct to chromium in the last week:

This also includes all people from outside the org (Google), right?

I found this but I think it's for Chrome? There are also things like v8 engine.

> The team consists of around 40 engineers, in addition to a number of PMs, test engineers, UX designers, researchers, and others. We built a lot of features in Chrome that are used by more than a billion people.) Feb 22, 2019
> would be equally shitty [emphasis added]

It's "always bad", not "always equally bad".

The upshot is that "Okay, we just need to find someone who power will reveal is not shitty." does not and cannot work in the general case (of amounts of power sufficently large to be worth abusing - your 'good' sergeants are still sergeants, not generals or absolute autocrats).
I live in France, and WhatsApp has a pretty big presence. Not a monopoly style one though, there's plenty of other apps used: Facebook Messenger, Skype, Snapchat, Discord.. I have friends who have family in other countries and some different apps will be dominant, like Viber, but the common theme is that the only time I've seen people use SMS is when they're unsure as to whether the other person has any other means of communication. Most importantly, I've never seen someone use Google's own non-RCS chat apps, like Google Chat, Google Hangout, Google Allo, Google Talk.. Google has had many chat apps, sometimes just different names for the same thing, but in the end, they have no users here. Google continuously tried to make a dent in that market and failed.

RCS is a non-starter if you need to do group chats with iPhone users or send them pictures without a massive loss in quality, as iPhones do not support RCS. As long as Apple refuses to support it, it will continue being a terrible choice in any country with significant Apple user base. An Android user with WhatsApp shares an identical experience with an iPhone user with WhatsApp. RCS on the other hand will drop you back to what cell phone messaging was many decades ago.
Yes, but Switzerland also subsidizes premiums if your income is too low relative to the premium; and healthcare coverage is mandated by law.

I don't know Swiss politics but I also assume there isn't a bickering back-and-forth by party lines that end up distorting/underfunding any sort of healthcare.
The gem of a quote at the end captures good sales technique perfectly: “It’s literally saying, What is it you’re trying to achieve, and by when? And yes, I can help you do that.”
I won't deny that poker REALLY doesn't work when it's for play money, and poker is honestly one of the greatest games I've ever played in terms of sheer depth and how much you can replay it.

At the same time, it's not the only great game I've played. When it comes to probability-centric games, I'm fond of Backgammon, deck builders, and computer strategy games which are all enjoyable when not played for stakes.

I think the first time Poker disturbed me is when I was at a table when somebody was going all-in every other hand for hours just bleeding a ton of money, not really playing the game, just having a sort of problem as everybody at the table stayed at that table swallowing the money. When you realise a lot of the fun the good players have who study poker strategy is not only at the expense of such people, but poker itself wouldn't be nearly as popular as it is if such people didn't exist and it was all very serious people reading strategy books who were all slowly losing money to the rake, the magic sort of fades. Even among the winning players, you see people who aren't technically losing money but can't stop themselves from playing despite the fact they're spending way too much time on the game, not really enjoying it, while barely making any money.

I don't know, Why not play a fun game where nobody has to suffer? You know who I see playing non-gambling probability games all the time? Former poker pros.
Xitler
it is still hard to pick an obvious alternative though,based on maturity, ecosystem, tutorials, libraries,etc. so far I will have to stick with react for my client side rendering projects(no SSR at all)
The advent of sports betting has become so fatiguing. It's impossible to watch a football game without back to back to back betting commercials. Announcers pre-game talking about odds, over-unders, etc. I can't help but feel like the chickens are going to come home to roost.

I've had a bunch of friends that went from never gambling to spending a few hundred dollars per Sunday placing random bets. All destined to lose eventually due to the insane 10-15% vig (ie. a coin flip is priced at -110 or -115).

The few friends (sharps) that I had that were able to earn a profit over a large enough sample were all eventually backed off by the major sports betting sites. One site backed off a large long term winner in order to "protect the player against creating a compulsive habit or addiction". It's literally a racket. You can't win long term. You can only lose.
You can buy UL-certified commercial products that intelligently split a 240V outlet to two different loads.[0] They're popular in the EV community for avoiding the cost of a dedicated circuit for charging.

[0] https://getneocharge.com/products/neocharge-smart-splitter
This isn't even close to the same thing and you know it. Purchasing capital assets in a retirement account is not equivalent to a bet with a binary outcome, especially when the other option as a saver is to simply hold cash instead, which is also not riskless and has never outperformed ownership stake in a broad sampling of all businesses over the average workspan of a human laborer. Putting excess income into stock is a bet stock will outperform other asset classes. Keeping it in cash is a bet cash will outperform other asset classes. Not saving for retirement at all is a bet that whatever your country's form of nationalized pension is will be enough, or you'll die before you retire.

The reason using all of your disposal income on roulette bets as a retirement strategy is bad is not because there is some probability of increasing your bankroll and some probability of decreasing it. It's bad because the long run expected outcome of repeated bets is negative. The house always has an edge. That dynamic is exactly reversed when putting retirement savings into a stock index. Betting that your entire national economy won't collapse for over four decades is inherently a smarter bet.
A microscope slide is similar in purpose to a photographic slide, and I hope most people use those at some point in their school education.
I was more thinking of choosing between Check The Rhime (Grover Washington Jr. and a sublime use of Minnie Ripperton) as it's got such a kicking beat or Scenario (Brother Jack McDuff and a bit of Hendrix) due to its influence and being such a stand-out introduction to Busta Rhymes.

Or Award Tour (Charles Earland, Weldon Irvine) or maybe just cheat and go for Excursions and Buggin Out (what a way to start an album).
Plus think of all the opportunities for checks to get “sent” but “lost in the mail”, sent for the incorrect amount (always lower than the amount owed,) and not be eligible for payment at all until the provider accrues a certain dollar amount…

Endless possibilities!
1/ I find it personally shocking that it's still OK to use checks in 2023, and doubly shocking that it's possible for a random 3rd party to cash said check without any, as you say, checks and balances in place in order to verify the identity of the cashee, and to verify that they are indeed the intended recipient of the value of the check. If it's this easy to cash a check by a 3rd party, why don't we forgo all the pretense, and send each other regular cash by mail? What's the difference?

In my crappy country the last time we used checks was like the early 2000s maybe, and then you had to put the recipient's bank account details on the check. So it's not possible for a 3rd party to cash it. And if it gets lost, no biggie, invalidate the original check number with your bank, and issue a new one.

2/ You can either write that $270 to school fees for using PayPal, or you can go to small claims and lose your mind during the process. I vote for the former.
What site are you talking about and why didn't you just name it? For someone arguing for transparency, you seem hesitant to provide it yourself.
In general I’ve preferred Firefox’s lower memory usage than pure speed.
Aren't there businesses for which self-hosting save far more money?

Infra is often a financial decision as much as technical.

(reminds me of basecamp exiting the cloud but I know nothing more than that)
There is a certain sense that Elon Musk paid $44 billion to do this, so he has every right to do so.
Because they've already taken the media heat for the switch a half dozen times, each time less intensely. Eventually, when they finally switch it off, there will be one article about it on the Register, and it will be mostly jokes.

It's a tactic.
Doing well on benchmarks is fine, but real-world code is what matters and programmers will write their javascript to match what is fast on Chrome and not test on Firefox, meaning there will be some code that is accidentally fast on Firefox, the balance will be purposefully fast on Chrome.
Unit Tests Are Overrated: Rethinking Testing Strategies
There existed profiles, and certainly they still survive, in relative shadow, that were more interested in their own solitary focused activity.

Divulgation is a separate activity from research.
Using dynamic DAGs in Hamilton to count GitHub stars
Hey folks, co-creator of Hamilton (github.com/dagworks-inc/hamilton) here. We just released a new set of features enabling dynamism in Hamilton DAGs, and this blog post demonstrates it by counting unique stargazers in github across the deprecated and current Hamilton repository.

Happy to answer any questions you might have. The idea from this API came from our original hackernews launch (as you can see, we were initially hesitant at the time... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35064120).
Well, here's the link to the post-mortem of said "horror" story on the Roblox blog:

https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-...

TL;DR The outage was caused by (a) they enabled a new streaming feature in Consul under unusualy high read-and-write load, (b) the load conditions triggered a pathological issue in the third-party BoltDB system upon which Consul relies and (c) all of that was exacerbated by having one consul cluster supporting multiple workloads.

I'd use quotes to catalog this as a "horror" story, because this was clearly a very specific issue triggered by a specific and complex set of circumstances.

The blogpost also mentions that Roblox worked closely with Hashicorp engineers to mitigate the issue, and work towards structural solutions; the post also affirms their choice to manage their infra themselves rather then moving into a public cloud solution.

Sure, Kubernetes covers loads of territory. But there definitely are niches where products like Consul & Nomad do add value.
HashiCorp: Terraform-config-inspect: A library for inspection of TF configs
I think they mean that Xanax and co are unaffected by sunlight and oxygen once excreted by the user and are showing up in rivers.
If you know you're going down for a felony and intend to fight it all the way, consider skipping bail.

You will be held in the county jail, usually somewhere in your metro area, until your sentencing. It is much easier for people to visit you in the local jail than it will be once you're shipped out to the state pen 2 hours away. After a few rounds of 4-hour commutes for a 30-minute visitation, people stop coming to see you.

Taking the fall early keeps you out of trouble too-- no babies being born 9 months into your sentence or drama arising from you "just trying to talk with" witnesses.
Anna’s Archive Containers (AAC): standardizing releases
ah, I was unfamiliar with the connotation between ctrl-H and backspace.
As a counterpoint, I've got 58,000 KM on my Model 3, which is AWD. I went to rotate the tires a few weeks ago and the tire technician found that the tires were worn very evenly across the tires and did not necessitate rotation. Checking with the tire gauge, the tire still has about half the _usable_ tread depth left. I've owned the vehicle for a year and a half, so I expect the tires to last 90,000 to 100,000 KM. These are the Michelins.
Is it more efficient to get a bundle of cash spread over 5 years and to disincentivize abuse/overuse, get tax credit for unused money?

The insane paperwork we've built-up thanks to the industry isn't really serving our colletive best interests.
Would also like to know what this is.
> The book was published in 1945, perhaps it was to do with the fact that USSR was an ally at the time?

I think it started before the war. Orwell wrote in 1938 that "today it is almost impossible to get anything printed in favour of Anarchism or 'Trotskyism',"

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia
Camellia sinensis (tea) does really well in fluoridated soils, and can be used to decontaminate them.

They're so effective at extracting fluoride that extreme tea consumption can lead to fluoride overdoses
I recognize myself very much in your words. I've also tried everything and it does not change my beliefs, fears, crippling anxiety one bit. Let alone improve my mood. Thankfully does help with mania. But the side effects are pretty bad and the doctors I've met tend to dismiss them, especially the more esoteric ones.

So I have to lie to doctors to steer them towards the care I really need. I would prefer not to lie. I tried not to lie. But when you tell them you want to quit or go as needed, they gently suggest committing you or lose interest in you. They see you as a toy to experiment on. It's impossible to be treated like an adult. It's infuriating.