skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since everyone here seems to be going on about the tech side and not the coffee side: if you find that your office's "fully automated" coffee machine produces bad coffee, tune it - they're all PIDs at their core. It may require some hacking in some cases as some manufacturers gate the settings for brew time, temperature, pressure and grind amount behind "service passwords".

In most cases it's the brew temperature that's at fault and "burns" the coffee - you have to match all four parameters to the beans you use and, especially in areas with high calcium carbonate or other minerals in the water, also the water source (if mineral content is too intense, you have to use a dedicated filter, no way of tuning will make good coffee out of shit water!).

Another all too common issue is that no one is responsible for cleaning the machine... these things have to get cleaned daily, deep cleaned weekly and the water filter at least monthly. And for heavens sake: don't use these Brita-style "open" water filters, and put the milk containers into a dedicated fridge, yes, even if it's "pasteurized" milk. Both is a serious risk for pathogen contamination.

tl;dr: good coffee means investing more time than just placing the machine in the kitchen, it actually needs tuning on inputs (beans, water) and processing (brewing parameters) to achieve a high quality output.
No one wants to hear their favorite language compared to XML noise I guess. Not trying to offend, just pointing out that it's legitimately how it feels. If you love C# this shouldn't offend you. I'd be curious to hear if someone said the same thing about F#, I'd want to know what they were comparing it to, maybe the new thing will be a new favorite of mine.
A useful feature of RAG is actual text citations, found it useful in steering the user to develop their own reading list for further follow ups
Very true... But from what I remember, he demoed for a bunch of research teams as well, which would require a bit more sleight of hand than fooling the average venture capitalist gambling other people's money.

In any case, it's one of those crazy stories.
Arrays?
Check out Grist in the ‘Access with sane backend’ space. SQLite, open source and fantastic UX https://www.getgrist.com/ and https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

I use and love both Datasette and Grist - they’re complementary.
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-co2-em...
There's a bunch of such select phrases the use of which is suggested by the top of the organization[0].

I recognize the value of some level of coordination in marketing efforts, and as I'm no expert I just follow their recommendations, like "RISC-V is inevitable".

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DEM216748
https://archive.is/Z73dQ
This is the real breakthrough of LLMs imo. Karpathy had a series of tweest about this a year ago. It makes sense: Prettained LLMs learn to continue sequences of tokens. These are language tokens but the language is so complex and rich that a kind of general pattern recognition and continuation ability is learned.
I think finetuning and alignment destroys a large part of this in-context learning, so we are currently not focusing on this ability. In the future we will train on all kinds of token sequences.
>think about the resolutions as a way of making everyone else's life better.

I think most people are willing to chip in to solve the problem. Not just for the transactional benefit of making their own life better, but also just for moralistic purposes of not wanting to see others suffer. I think what you're referring to is more of a political one, where people see their tax dollars consistently being spent without any discernable improvement in the problem. And it's natural for people to balk at the idea that the way out of the mess is to continually throw more money at it.

The second issue seems much more difficult. Again, I think most people want a society that takes care of the infirm, or those just genuinely unable to take care of themselves. But when that population gets relatively high, we need to take stock of why that's occurring. Is it because society has just changed so much that it's incompatible with so many people's constitution and ability? If so, that implies we need to restructure a lot of societal aspects or take a second look at whether all those changes were really for the better, given the blowback. As an example, was the revamping of mental health services in the 1980s under the guise of increasing personal liberty really a net benefit?
Node.js App Development: open-source Platform
The Big Ideas in Software Development
I don't understand the downvotes. This is a fair criticism. The author even points out "programs as pipelines" which is literally the UNIX philosophy. There are tools that already exist on UNIX-likes more people should use instead of reaching for a script.

I can sympathize with the author w.r.t wanting to use a single language you like for everything. However, after decades I've found this to be untenable. There are languages that are just simply better for one-off scripting (Perl, Python), and languages that aren't (anything compiled). Trying to bolt an interpreter onto a compiled language from the outside seems like a lot of work for questionable gain.
I guess there's a thing with when artists who excel at writing their own song play Other People's Material. They put everything into the "how", and unless they have a very clear idea of what that how will be and why it will be good they'll rather make more original stuff. Where the "how" will quite literally be an afterthought.
If you've got control over the type of the pointee and not just the pointer, __attribute__((packed)) can work for this.

struct foo { int x; };
struct bar { __attribute__((packed)) int x; };

_Static_assert(_Alignof(struct foo) == 4, "");
_Static_assert(_Alignof(struct bar) == 1, "");
> Not being able to see immediately if you got a reply discourages the repeated back-and-forth arguing that is common on Reddit.

People always say that, but while that may be true to a certain extent, it also inhibits productive discussions and also inhibits users from making potentially beneficial connections (I have actually beneficially connected with people IRL from HackerNews, so it is possible, and I think more such connections could occur with some changes to the site).

I think a couple add-ons could mitigate the harmful effects:

- Ability to turn them off for certain threads

- Ability to block users

- Perhaps automatically turning off the notifications after x number/count, which would basically put people on notice that they have to exchange contact info or something if they want to continue the convo (??)

Ultimately, without notifications a lot of the point of the "reply" functionality is gone.

And it's not just about "current" convos either; a number of times, I have found a useful thread via Googling and wanted to ask a question of one of the posters, but of course, if the thread is older than even a day or two, this is a totally pointless endeavor because they will never know I replied to a comment.

Who knows if there was even a point in my replying here--you may never see it!!
No it doesn’t. The article talks about an enhancement made to Twitter’s link shortener made in 2016 but makes it clear that this happened recently.
Any books in particular? Never heard of him before but I'm keen to check him out.
My first thought: "Glitch in X? That software is very mature, I haven't heard of any glitches in may years (apart from known quirks)..."
Lots of science is «big data, small but important metadata». Also «big raw data, small result data» use cases are out there. (I used to do hyperspectral stuff for a while, which lets you record tons of sensor data to get a small and neat result, think TB -> kB). So GB might not be the best or only metric, as such.
Given how opaque the syntax is, expecting to have to use a screwdriver isn’t that weird…
Sorry to say the government can take away your cryptocurrency
But choose not to? I really don't understand why people choose to have a career in politics so that they can achieve nothing at all?
The flip side is anytime you mention twitter’s descent on HN, you’re certain to attract the “I dunno man, everyone i know says their timeline is a lot more interesting now” bros.
Oh no! I never used their server, but I followed them and was very impressed about the work they did and the community they created. All the best to their family.
I think this should get a HN black bar
I understand this point; I think where most people take issue is that it doesn't seem very effective. (or maybe it is, and people are just ignorant of the impact). And once you give people a benefit, it's exceedingly hard to take it away, potentially leaving society worse off than before.
Because JavaScript rules web dev and the JS community has pushed so many mainstream ideas that have turned out to be duds. It’s a major echo chamber due to its size relative to other web dev communities.

I also partly blame the careerist obsession around always learning new technology, because it’s becoming obvious that a lot of the “new stuff” over the last decade created more problems than solutions. Don’t get me wrong, learning is an important part of the job, but we’ve created a culture of constantly pushing new technology to pad resumes and feed our insecurities around irrelevance instead of solving problems.
Kinda but different scale, the CMB era universe was about 1100 times smaller than that now, so still huge.

There may be a neutrino background behind the CMB, where the universe was even smaller, and the gravitational wave background behind that with even more of a size difference.
To what extent are they necessary if one is already receiving welfare services and resources?
Agreed that is completely reasonable. One stream is sufficient.

Unfortunately per EDIT4, it looks like it is not possible to leave this service running on reMarkable2 until the next time.

Any way to reset without going into SSH again?

EDIT: looks like enabling USB on reMarkable2 got the stream working. Curious though why did the web server work at all then (possibly sharing of common wi-fi?)

FINAL_EDIT:
I give up, there is no sense to this madness. Suddenly the stream starts working on same same https://10.11.99.1:2001/ where it was giving `waiting for reMarkable` canvas for last 15 minutes.

Possibly there is some sort of timeout for the old stream?
“The Cruise AV did identify the risk of a collision and initiated a braking maneuver, reducing its speed, but was ultimately unable to avoid the collision.”

Yea, but why? The article doesn’t actually explain the critical issue.
'The Peripheral' Canceled After Prime Video Undoes Season 2 Renewal
Might and Magic (2021)
what's the best modern alternative that is designed in this way?
It seems… unlikely that they’ve just totally lost the data (that is, what the shortened links point to). I mean, it’s clearly not being fun very well right now, but that seems too incompetent.
There's a cute little icon telling us "Feb 21" right at the top but omitting the year, which would have been ever so helpful.
They also go me for a while (and I have C in my education but with C/C++ you never know for sure) but when Microsoft invented C I knew something was wrong.
Would love to use more golang- amazing build system and cross compiler built in. "All in one" binaries are the best thing ever. I adore most of the ideas in the language.

.... but there are just soooo many little annoyances / inconveniences which turn me off.

- No Optional Parameters. No Named Parameters. Throw us a bone Rob Pike, it's 2023. Type inferred composite literals may be an OK compromise.. if we ever see them: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12854

- Unused import = will not compile. Unused variable = Will not compile. Give us the ability to turn off the warning.

- No null safe or nullish coalescing operator. (? in rust, ?? in php, etc.)

- Verbosity of if err != nil { return err; }

- A ternary operator would be nice, and could bring if err != nil to 1 line.

- No double declarations. “no new variables on left side of :=” .. For some odd reason “err” is OK here... Would be highly convenient for pipelines, so each result doesn't need to be uniquely named.

I'd describe Go as a "simple" language- Not an "easy" language. 1-2 lines in Python is going to be 5-10 lines in golang.

Note: Nim has most of these..
Sam is presented as British working class, and is arguably the hero of that part of the story. He is the least corrupted by the ring, despite carrying it and using it. And the Mordor chapters in Return of the King are all written from Sam’s perspective.

I agree that ruling classes are not taken to task; in fact they are celebrated throughout the books. On the other hand, the wise and powerful rulers cannot win on their own. Only the secret mission of Sam and Frodo could achieve victory.
Russian Spacecraft Crashes into the Moon
> The black bar is a simple gesture of respect.

The black bar is not "a simple gesture of respect" — if it was, it would never disappear. It's a sign of mourning over the passing of someone whose contributions were extremely influential to the high-tech industry, and who is/was widely known for their contributions.

> I see absolutely no reason we should stop.

Neither do I; nor do I think we should be doing that on a daily basis.
Whats the cocaine/crack situation, also other stimulants like Ritalin etc?
A Visual Introduction to Neural Networks
A good reminder that there were a lot of smartarses on usenet.
I agree with your points, however the claim of 40k of computer time is made by Bill Gates himself. Did Gates actually pay some company $40k?
UK is a varied mix so hard to say the main source. gas, coal and oil (almost entirely gas) together are about 40% of generation. The other 60% is imports, biomass, wind, solar, hydro etc.
The article itself is from 2010.
It dates to the first standardization of C in 1989. The "C as portable assembly" view ended when ANSI C got standardized, and K&R's 2nd edition was published.
Yeah, this goes back a couple of decades where "page a" was just "page-a.asp" or "page-a.php" and you did everything to do with that page in that file. Simple, and you could mostly make changes to page a without worrying that you'd break other pages.

Need page b? Copy page-a.asp to page-b.asp, gut the page-a logic, and put in the page-b logic.

Before you get too nostalgic for these simple days, do we rememember why we stopped developing web pages that way?
> Try talking to someone on the left about…

You talk to plenty of them here all the time, and they are willing to give you perfectly logical and cogent arguments. What’s with the broad brushing?

> This is happening increasingly, and mostly from the left.

Citations needed. And if you can’t provide them, aren’t you the one arguing from belief?
Imagine instead if the coal and gas burners had been replaced by renewables instead
Why does this topic warrant broad emotional engagement?
Is worrying or even caring a litmus test for something?
If I were to guess, youtube-dl fits the bill... just like browsers, it has the problem that it needs to update far more frequently than any OS/distro schedule allows.
> Destinations on the South Coast were not affected in the same way

Bournemouth (middle of the South Coast) took a slightly different path and some of the accommodation was repurposed to house students from Europe studying English. IIRC the contiguous strip comprising Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch is one of the largest non-industrial conurbations in Europe. I moved to Bournemouth in 1988 for work reasons and it always seemed to me like a large studenty-town that happened to be near the Sea rather than a 'seaside town' (i.e. one that is structured around the beach and bucket-and-spade shops). It's also viewed as Brighton's straight cousin. Christchurch, on the other hand, is known locally as 'the last resort' because of the large proportion of retirees in the population.

I also can't resist the old joke that Cleethorpes isn't twinned with any other town but is in a suicide pact with Grimsby.
> It did very well—good enough to be published, I think, as long as nobody checks the facts.

After subjecting myself to actually reading that, I wouldn't expect it to do well once somebody also checks the prose. On every iteration and in every variation of generative textual production tech I've seen so far, I'm increasingly encouraged with the thought that the only writers who will be negatively impacted are the ones who really should be.
That makes more sense. Your original sentence was unclear.
Direct link to PhD thesis:

http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/warnock-subdivision-for-def...
That sounds interesting, but the package is unfortunately undocumented. I tried https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/kardianos/task, but that doesn't help me understand it either. It's missing a high level explanation of what to use it for, its limits and some decent examples.
Isn't there a middle ground between "getting anyone/everyone to like you" and "I'm declaring anyone/everyone (out of my group) to be my enemy"?

If someone dislikes me, am I required to consider them my enemy? Is this not just a self-fulfilling prophecy towards conflict creation instead of conflict resolution?
Wow, this is a fantastic success story. I really need to start gathering case studies like this!

Absolutely love "this is Super Excel, this is how you filter data".
That is certainly the case now, more than ever before in modern history. I am not a booster for Labour at all, but at least to an extent, that wasn't always so: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerg...

> Sunak said: “I managed to start changing the funding formulas to make sure areas like [Tunbridge Wells, Kent] are getting the funding they deserved. We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”
It’s insane how blatant it is in this article. Fascism is literally used here to mean “something I don’t like”.

I don’t agree with anti-vaxxers who fought lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates. But these people are quite literally fighting for less government control. How can that be construed as fascist?

> is a practitioner of “shamanic arts” who eats natural and organic food, and has more than once been described as an “ecofascist”.

People who eat “natural and organic food” secretly want the state to control their lives? Give me a fucking break!
No, librarians curate their collections, they do not indiscriminately cram the shelves full of anything anyone gives them. Take a look at the processing of donations; most books are discarded, especially today when books are deprecated.

Libraries withdrawing books aren't banning them. If a school had banned a book, then the students would be prohibited from reading it. A student can read whatever he/she wants during free time, at home, whatever. I would imagine that if a teacher assigned a "free choice" book report that a student could even report on a so-called banned book.

The point of withdrawing books from schools and libraries is because they do not fit in the curriculum. Library shelves and curricula have finite space for materials. You can only teach N books per year, and so your school's curriculum decides which N books that's going to be, year over year.

The point of using the word "ban" in headlines is because it is sensationalistic and it angers people and makes them click on that headline and react with outrage that anyone would be exercising such reprehensible censorship. By using the word "ban" they take the focus away from the action or the content of the book and place it on perceived injustice. Even if I disagree with that book's contents, I can be outraged! How do we even know the content and theme of that book, because we didn't even read it!

To read all these headlines coming out, you would think that we are living in Fahrenheit 451 and that firemen are coming out to torch a big "bonfire of the vanities" style of deprecated textbooks and shitty novels. It's hilarious.
Oh yeah! Good ol' C-x M-x M-pepperoni-fixed-rate...
A dedicated fridge for milk bottles seems like the espresso variant of audiophiles buying fancy $1k/meter Ethernet cables.
That's what the database is, isn't it? The separation layer between the raw data and how it's projected into some interface (user or otherwise).
I keep seeing this. Left vs. Right is a red herring. It's the bias towards the media-tech-investment industrial complex that's the bigger concern, not whether it has some traditional left-wing views about the role of government.
Actually, it's branded as a place for content that hackers may find interesting. While often that tends to be technology, the stereotypical hacker mindset certainly doesn't shy away from lengthy detailed dives into variety topics. Especially topics that have a nostalgic appeal to the demographic here.
Then let's take that one example off our friend upthread's list and I fully believe their point still stands very strong. Users use the GTK4 apps that devs chose GTK4 to build with, and that stands even when an app has competition in its space. The evidence given demonstrates that pretty clearly.
Show HN: Userify SSH Key Manager
I wouldn't disagree with you but I agree with gp that you need both sides. If you had a population that was apathetic and didn't believe change was possible (and did not act accordingly), then really nothing would get done. The only way stuff gets done is through outreach and education. Once a critical mass of people truly believe that the only way forward is through intense environmental law reform, then it will happen. Of course companies will fight tooth and nail to not make it happen but that shouldn't be the primary deterrent for not doing anything about the problem.
Are those people making a deliberate choice to perceive enemies when they could work towards perceiving those enemies as neutral or even allies?
Apples and oranges, my friend.
While nuclear is low carbon, it is not cheap and does not like to load follow (whereas renewables can simply curtail and shut down when there is insufficient load or transmission for their generation). If there are consistent excess renewables on a grid, it seriously impairs the economics of nuclear. France’s nuclear reactors load follow but are hard on the mechanicals attempting to do so, and France has some serious issues with reactor maintenance and refurbishment.

Coal and nuclear are the first to be driven out of the generation mix due to their poor economics (or sometimes air pollution regulation as is the case with coal), and remaining coal and natural gas will be driven out over the next decade. Natural gas competes with renewables and batteries, both of which continually decline in cost. Peaking natural gas (vs more efficient combined cycle gas turbine) is already no longer competitive with batteries, and those generators are quickly being replaced.

Tangentially, Germany has twelve interconnectors with neighboring electrical grids. They need not stand up all of this low carbon generation themselves. They also have almost 10GW of hydro storage and almost 5GW of battery storage (so far).
“They say you die twice - first when your heart stops beating and the second after the last person on earth thinks about you”
Navajo shut down, so I think it’s substantially less today. Solar is also way way up in the entire Southwest.
I am working from memory, on my smartphone in public transit in a heatwave.

I'd sacrifice some karma but I am hesitant so go see yourself out and off to https://stackoverflow.com instead.