skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Barista express person going 54mm is a regret. 58 is more versatile and compatiable.

But the recommendation was more for budget purchases. Breville also do a dual boiler with 58mm which is more expensive but if you live in Australia is amazingly good value (often $900AU which is about $600US). If you have more money still get a La Marzocco or whatever :-)

My taste is to avoid fiddly things that need too much skill like heat exchangers etc.
> I’d look for societies that were individualistic rather than authoritarian as polygamy seems to me to be a function of patriarchy and power consolidation

I wonder whether patriarchy is a consequence of polygamy rather than a cause.

It's very hard to compete with a person who has dozens or hundreds of children. And women cannot have more ten or so children, even in a non-monogamous setting.

This advantage is most visible in a hereditary aristocracy where a man could have a stable base of heirs, a large group of natural allies and the political opportunities of arranged marriages for children.

But even working class farmers would have the benefit of more free labour, and the middle class merchants could enjoy networks of trust in which to conduct commerce.

Although monogamous and eventually growing out of the middle class, the first / second Rothschilds are an example of the latter business benefit of having many competent adult children.
Maybe this will drive out some of the very low margin/very low quality drop shippers and scammers.
Got it - so the scientific community's reaction (trying to replicate) was ok but the initial authors messed up with their pre-print? That's fair.
I love these stupid statements. Or love feeling schadenfreude at people who say them. Are they delusional? Or self-aware and doing Baghdad Bob levels of PR/misinformation?

It’s similar to the response when asked how your money losing business will ever succeed is frequently “Amazon lost money for 20 years before turning a profit.”

I think this fits into the Instagram/influencer trend of faking it until you make it. And I think that some people think appearance is reality so just expect to succeed because they want to succeed. Rather than creating a good thing that is useful.
While (in general) I agree with arguments against “copywriting hell”, in particular this case it is not about copywriting itself, but about the consequences of GenAI to entire industry.

Journalists exist not without a reason, yes they work with facts and very often — open facts, but they still assemble those facts in certain way to construct a narrative, connect dots and tell us some story (not counting cases when journalist works with their sources and produce a unique inside information). Then OpenAI comes, says “thank you very much” and assemble all of journalists work into one Uber Knowledgeable Journalist who can answer all of your questions.

So far so good, we create a public good service, and copywriters are in shambles.

Until you start making money on it.

That’s where the problem.

If OpenAI would be a non profit organization like Wiki Foundation, who just wants to make internet as better place — not much arguments you can find to support NYT lawsuit. But monetization changes everything.

Basically NYT is not worried about re using its text as itself, it is worried that no one will want to visit NYT no more and will pay Microsoft/Google and get all answers from them.

Let’s put an example. There were a famous story when FT journalist discover a massive fraud in Wirecard accounting and essentially lead to a death of this organization. That articles were a result of multi-year reporting work when journalist piece by piece and step by step collect facts, meet people, and eventually spot the gap. Now, in age of Bard/Bing/ChatGPT, you don’t need to read original article to know all of this. You can ask search engine or Chatbot and get essential re phrasing of an original reporter work. You don’t need no more to go to FT, pay them for paywall, watch their ads, etc. Effectively FT make a huge investment into their people to allow them spend 2 years on this issue and report it and now have a 0 leads to their website because all of them are eaten by Google and Microsoft who will sell you their ads and retain you in their monetized products.

Imagine that you built a for-profit paid library for some task. You make a code available through paywall and ask people to pay you to get to it and solve their problems. Then Microsoft comes, sneak beyond paywall, scrap your code and publish it recompiled and slightly optimized version in open access, so no one longer ever need to go on your website but ask Microsoft to show them your code.

Would you be happy?

All of this cases for me make this case not such easy and straightforward as it seems to be “bad copywriters against progress of humanity”.

At the end of the day, if NYT/FT/New Yorker and others will stop publishing their work and fire all journalists, will ChatGPT tell us same depth level stories as we read there?
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JS is still going to be used by those compiling to WASM. WASM modules will need to import host functions from the JS environment. JS is an unappealing compiler target for a number of reasons, but I'll highlight one relevant to Scheme: no tail calls.
“Pobody’s nerfect”. The ones who refuse to acknowledge their shortcomings, refuse to adapt and learn, to try something new, those are the difficult ones.
> I don't know France

Then don't try to put discredit to the saying of an insider. GP is 100% right. I've been back after about ~5 years living abroad and the country is in an astonishing decline on every plan (educational, moral, economical, political, diplomatic, security, judicial, medical, etc. the list goes one). And most of it is stemming from the policies enforced in the last decades.
The English article sounds more like he started looking for an emergency brake after he had notified the conductor (and apparently failed to convince him of the urgency of the situation), not before. The German article is much longer, but only mentions that both the passenger and the conductor could have prevented the accident if they would have pulled the emergency brake immediately, but that the conductor was acting "by the book" when he insisted on inspecting the damage himself before pulling the brake.
The whole point is it's only deciding (3) things (config, data, cache), not (N_programs) things.

> If I want .chromium, .0ad, etc. instead of .config, I'm SOL.

Technically not SOL, you just need to set the launcher of whatever binary to set the XDG env vars to $HOME/.programname on launch.

Or use links.
Holy crap, it wasn't until this moment that I realized they're all Toy Story characters...
Travels in the Americas, Albert Camus.

I’ve admired The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger. This book is a collection of his journals from a couple of trips he took to North and South America in the 40’s to give talks and visit with friends and colleagues.

I particularly enjoy the style of writing he uses in these journals.
They want a way for a government provided list to block URLs on your browser.

I predict that hackers will find a way to replace the government list with their own in 3, 2, 1...
From the comments:

>When you become a publicly traded company, promises like "Don't be evil" cannot be honored

I'm usually the king of cynicism... but is this really what people believe?
Well the article and the title here on HN both says "520km in diameter", which gives an idea (although there's more than the diameter to estimate the damaged caused by an asteroid, but 520km in diameter is quite something).
I'm European, from the former Eastern Bloc.
Interesting theory. If I tell you I read Jurassic Park, does that that mean I'm a brontosaurus?
No humor allowed, let's instead talk about how to use Rust (the language) to prevent the newly interred to rise again.
This was what I ran in to. Very aggressive editors and trolls who demanded things be written in a certain way. Edits to "their" articles trigged them and they would then edit your edit. It got ridiculous
First time I learned about Bedrock Linux was ~2 years ago via r/unixporn. The redditor who posted was using it with Nix to develop Haskell. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/p5cit0/bedrock_li...
We didn't need to, we had official letters from the Vampire Provisional Government that they're packing up and moving to (what we today call) Romania.

(That's also historically the first recorded incident of organizational rage-quit after losing the game to a cheese strategy.)
You could just ask, and we'd answer "it's just a simple problem so both of us can see what it's like to work together." You'd be surprised how many people show up who don't actually know how to write a for loop.

And if you didn't like the experience you wouldn't want to work for us so the interview would be a success too.
It doesn't make any sense, law done by bureaucrats with no clue about the topic... I would expect country like Germany would leave this to actual neutral experts (ie not those running addiction clinics since they all keep telling everybody that all drugs should be banned completely forever... just like asking head of DEA in US how strict weed policies should be, well since its most of their work is cannabis no wonder it was handled for long time cca same as heroin).
They mean principal component as in principal component analysis. There can be a multitude of principal components.
> teams that don’t really care about my tech stack

Relatable. I'd love to talk to them about my private Rust projects.

> You can blame the company for making these teams up (I did/do), but that how things are.

But... how did this work out in practice? There's a software project in language X, framework Y, domain Z, which everyone was familiar with, and you were brought in not knowing X and Y? That's like hiring for a Java position where the applicant couldn't care less for that the language. Strange.
India's digital economy creates a new vote bank all parties want to woo
And rejected it because it was a nightmare of security issues and poor performance. The idea isn't bad. The implementation was.
Still running Debian for the past 20 years and still hosting my own stuff in my closet! Thank you Debian!
The question about what you're building such that you care about perf characteristics of CSS is an effort to understand you, I am sorry I failed to come across that way.

Outside of consumer apps I am struggling to imagine a case where the HTML/CSS perf delta would be more important to capture than faster development time. I suppose part of why that doesn't seem like a good faith question is because you don't believe Tailwind dev time to be faster, so the tradeoff that I'm trying to evaluate is totally inane.
What are you trying to say here? Can you elaborate? As far as I'm aware English predates the internet.
I'm reading/listening to book at the suggestion of a friend who strongly recommended it. I initially balked because of exactly the association you are talking about, but it is a much deeper book and really not about solving that problem. It is a book that asks you to look at your relationship to pleasing people and all the impacts, and it is, so far, worthwhile for me to look more closely at that.
That's a good feature- I don't want to see any recommendations.
People were excited by expected breakthroughs in the past when global warming or overpopulation or whatever weren't that popular. They had other world ending scenarios back then but though they wanted to turn dearth into gold or to find the fountain of eternal youth, those were unbundled from the expected second coming. No reason to connect them now.
Calling out aluminum and pens is like picking lotto numbers after the drawing. You're ignoring the mountain of failures that were all incredibly promising and had incredibly smart people spending incredible amounts of time and money on them.

Scientific advancement comes from exploring every path at once, quickly pruning failed paths and doubling down on successes, with enough stochastic jumps to keep us out of ruts for too long.
None of this WAS published.
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of camera/setup do you use? How do you find the results? I have been experimenting with this but the equipment I've been using (a mediocre 4k360 camera) gives pretty bad results, and I'm wary of spending a bunch of money and still getting images I'm not satisfied with. I have a bunch of my own street view contributions that were fun to make, but they look nice because they were taken with my phone and I had good control of the process.
It’s absurd that an article exists to allow French govt agents to display messages in my browser.

How is that even enforced?
It's like anticonception; more measures means a lower chance of the undead running amok. I mean they're already consecrated and buried, it won't hurt to also add padlocks, stakes, coins, sickles, and (another thing I haven't seen in the article) a cage around the grave.
I have a related gripe: Why do devices feel the need to make a sound and flash the display when they are finished charging? How often have people thought, "I want to go jogging now but I will wait until my phone is charged." More often they are asleep and it wakes them.

The "unplug device now to save energy" is a dubious harassment notice, especially when a hungry device goes into several charge cycles per night. That is really the sign of a badly implemented charge method with insufficient hysteresis.

My Dad had a Samsung phone he hated because he said, "It whimpers in the night" and turning off sound meant turning off the ringer.
Une Histoire Populaire du Baseball

https://blacklephant.com/ouvrage/une-histoire-populaire-du-b...

Yes, a book about baseball written by a Frenchman. Interesting that did focus on the "big names" (Ruth, Gehrig, Mayes, etc.) but instead focused on Edith Houghton, Victor Starffin, Moses Walker, Bonnie Baker, Bill Veeck, Effa Manley, Amanda Clement, AG Spalding, Bill Lee, and Juile Croteua.

Yes, he talks about other famous players, but it certainly is a different perspective. As an amateur baseball historian, it was well written and different from what I'm use to reading.

If you can overcome the small problem of it being written in French, and you like baseball, I highly recommend it.
Care to elaborate? I know professional engineers in Canada get a designation but I’m not aware of anything similar for software engineers.
If anyone is interested in the subject I can suggest "Vampires, burial and death" by Paul Barber. It's repetitive but good. In fact I have discovered this book on HN.
That was for their Master-Dik EP. Big Black made the same apology for their Headache EP. Both records had the same sticker: "Not as good as Atomizer, so don't get your hopes up, cheese!".

True in both cases, I haven't listened to either of those in decades, while Atomizer remains essential listening.
Big +1, macOS has a lot of UX wins, but their config directories aren't one. Also XDG allows me to have at least some things in the same place on Linux and macOS, which may be a very niche need, but still something I appreciate.
Stross has done better work since. I don't love his doctrinaire interpretation of Lovecraftian tropes, but the Laundry series still reads well, and he does manage later on to go some less well trod places with it.

Skip "Equoid".
From Vitalik's article:

> Even if less than one percent of misinformative tweets get a note providing context or correcting them, Community Notes is still providing an exceedingly valuable service as an educational tool. The goal is not to correct everything; rather, the goal is to remind people that multiple perspectives exist, that certain kinds of posts that look convincing and engaging in isolation are actually quite incorrect, and you, yes you, can often go do a basic internet search to verify that it's incorrect.
Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco
Interesting, and clearly a lot of work's gone into this (60,000 lines of Typescript), particularly the UI, which is impressive (if, sometimes, over the top). I've been developing a similar system (http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/TOC.html) and it's interesting to note the similarities and differences.

Similarities: code as directed graphs (less obvious in FMJ); can only connect outputs to units of compatible type; if and wait (looping is handled differently); sticky values; sliders. These design decisions are practically forced on you, but are often absent in earlier visual dataflow languages (e.g. Prograph, LabVIEW).

Differences: (1) inputs are named in Unit, ordered in FMJ (though they're named in formulas and edges can be labelled). (2) I experimented with automatic code layout but found this was too slow and not always what I wanted. Well done for getting this to work. (3) FMJ is now fully homoiconic - this maybe isn't a priority for Unit.

The Unit design philosophy is explained in https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit/blob/main/src/docs/conc... . This doesn't mention earlier approaches (e.g. the Manchester Dataflow Computer, Prograph) and it seems to be based on vaguely similar ideas developed more recently (Morrison's Flow Based programming; possibly React and similar systems for web development - I'm unfamiliar with these).

I have a number of questions:

(1) How does the type system work? Is it Dependently typed, Hindley-Milner, or something more basic? (FMJ is Hindley-Milner, with dependent typing partially implemented). How are new types be defined?

(2) How is the visual representation stored? One criticism I faced was that people wanted a readable textual representation which would work well with existing version control systems, a problem I have now largely solved.

(3) How are runtime errors handled?

(4) Is recursion supported? (I assume yes, but I didn't see any examples.) What about macros?

(5) What does Unit compile to? (FMJ has an experimental compiler where programs are compiled by running their source without evaluating their inputs, output is Lisp.)
Revolutionary implants can restore 20/20 vision to blind and visually-impaired
The old Europe feels cornered by this tech and acts aggressively to defend itself.
Yup, I started with RedHat... forget what version, 4, probably 5? Really couldn't get behind the rpm system. I think Debian might have been like the 2nd or 3rd distro I tried and it stuck a lot better. This was back in... 97 or 98? or so.

Still using it today in the home lab/personal server in the basement.
Toward Powerful Probes of Neutrino Self-Interactions in Supernovae
Do you maybe recommend some open source projects to contribute to as a way of learning ML?
The methodology in the study you link is suspect. Instead of changing just one variable, whether the phones had their batteries on or off, they changed other parameters. For instance, in one branch of the experiment the experimenters introduced a radio loudspeaker 60cm from the hive. This is particularly problematic when the measurement they used to determine the status of the bees was --wait for it-- sound.

I also saw nothing done in the experiment to separate whether the observed effects were caused by vibration, noise, or electromagnetic effects.

I sincerely read it with an open mind, but it doesn't look like a well-designed study.
> Ironically this is exactly where the current ruso-ukrainian frontline is.

I think it's quite common to see front lines and new borders form around ethnic or cultural borders, instead of existing / established country borders. Or that there's clear cultural differences on old borders, like for example where the Roman empire's borders were, or the borders between England, Wales and Scotland in the UK.
> The more code you write, the more you have to maintain. Sure, of course there are times where you need to re-implement something from scratch. But those times are rare (or should be). Making something from scratch without strong justification is a strong signal, just not a positive one.

It really depends on what you're working on. A package to manage a dentist's office should be as off the shelf as possible. I don't care about I/O and try to do as little as possible, using whatever's off the shelf, but my HFT buddies are bumming the hell out of it, customizing the kernel, and whatnot. You may use elastic search to save you time and money, but the folks working on it have probably run over it so much there's nothing but custom code left.

It's all context.
A lot of modern conflict seems to arise from resource constraints. That doesn't mean removing those constraints wouldn't lead to peace (maybe just different constraints), but it seems possible.

What if we somehow eventually figure out how to move our consciousness to computers? If possible, it would make our biological signals from earth of our current civilization only present for a blip on the radar and for all intents and purposes look like we were snuffed out.

I'm assuming SETI already looks for Dyson Spheres/Swarms and civilizations around black holes though, so perhaps you're right and nobody ever quite makes it to that stage.
Right, thanks, I forgot about that.
I would love to hear some more details about what was on the other side!
It's been actualized recently, but there's a sort of vaporware bermuda triangle within physics of revolutionary holy grail advancements that repeatedly garner an enormous amount of hype and press, but almost always fails to materialize into anything useful.

It consists of

* Room temperature semiconductors
* Useful fusion power
* Quantum computers something anything useful outside of a simulation

It's a bit of a meme at this point. These things have been twenty years away for forty years. I wouldn't go as far as saying any of these things are impossible, but I would suggest physicists roll their eyes at these announcements for a good reason.
We want more thinking about business complexity and much much less thinking about accidental technical complexity.

I agree that I've seen people build monstrous things full of pointless technical abstractions to do the simplest business requirement possible.

I've also seen people build the stupidest collection of logic into a maze of rules in one simple but massively long class to accomplish what is actually a trivial business problem that could have been clearly solved in 5 lines.

I would rather they spend a bit more time thinking about how the business problem and whether they are solving it appropriately.
I have used netmaker and their netclients inside my kubernetes cluster to have access to all k8s pods over a secure wireguard tunnel. No need to worry about ssl certificates on my admin dashboards for my longhorn, pihole, portainer, linkerd and other admin dashboards. Also, no need to k8s port forward everytime I wanna access a specific service inside the cluster network. Netmaker and kubernetes for secure and manageable cluster network access is unbeatable I think.
I’d rather read a joke than a debate about whether jokes are acceptable.
Yeah, lots of people have been saying the same thing as of late. There's a bunch of fusion designs that promise bigger outputs than inputs, but so far that only holds so long you look at the most convenient parameter: the energy going into the plasma, and the energy being produced as a result.

Once you take into account that you waste a lot of energy heating up the plasma, and that you capture less than 100% for energy production, and that there are all sorts of auxiliary costs like magnets, the picture is a whole lot less rosy.

I support research into fusion energy, but IMO it's very likely it'll never be used for commercial energy production. It might eventually make it into spacecraft and submarines, but I think before it becomes practical to build a powerplant, renewables will eat its lunch.