skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about the smell of a dying C64 power supply? Anyone else?
Hey, author of article here - I'm planning to write more about this later in the series but it didn't really fit the story about PMF & setting objectives so I could not round it out more in this one unfortunately.

But I've realised I might have to write a separate post just about this specific incident and what we did to bring the spend and results back on track!
This is a good one :)
This happened to me at 18 and my cat when he was 16. Now he's turning 19 and I'm turning 43. He and I can confirm it is much better than dying. Mine was sliced and diced and I'm stuck taking a pill every day. For his they used a radioactive pellet to kill the extra tissue and he doesn't need to take anything.

This is happening much vastly more frequently with cats and some folks suspect a now banned chemical is to blame.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/magazine/the-mystery-of-t...

If this happens to your cat there are 3 choices.

- Die soon

- Take Methimazole. It will partially control thyroid levels but not well so your cat still dies but later than option one.

- A vet implants a small radioactive pellet destroying the problematic tissue. Most cats will live as long as they otherwise would have and few have to take thyroid hormone.
Microsoft is inventing porn or drugs, but for text: very engaging and very hollow.
That Python ML code is calling C++ code running in the GPU, one more reason to use C++ across the whole stack.

CERN already used prototyping in C++, with ROOT and CINT, 20 years ago.

https://root.cern/

Nowadays it is even usable from Netbooks via Xeus.

It is more a matter of lack of exposure to C++ interpreters than anything else.
Which needs to be Chrome for some features of Google Meet.
The bureaucracy of Scrum and how it’s gravity warpa every other decision within the organization.
It’s threatened a few times but turned away in the last decade or so.
Thanks for finding the original, and I did suspect it was translated from Russian due to the odd phrasing, but if it weren't for that site translating a copy and Google subsequently finding it, such interesting things might've never gotten discovered. As I mentioned in the other comment here, there's lots of videos on YouTube about these boards too, but barely any in English.
and the public school system
Hi there! Which printer are you using? Can't be a new one at that price, surely?
Thanks! I will keep that in mind next time.
huhu, "alarmingly"
Thank you! Feel free to drop your email in the header of the site to know when I post my next article :)
Downvoting buggers, why?? Lol
Poorly attended movies lose screens more quickly and move to cheaper venues (second-chance theaters, video/streaming) faster. Theaters want to get consistent usage of their screens if possible -- offering cheaper seats for cheaper movies would be counterproductive.
I copy pasted my <img> tags cause I had to 'remake' the blog and completely forgot to fill it in, if you are using accessibility functionality I am very sorry -- please allow me to update it briefly

Have a nice weekend :)
> the economic, social, political and technological miracle, that no democracy has even come close to replication thereof, that was ... 1930s Germany

And then what happened? It’s almost a given that autocracies outperform in the short run, given a good leader.

Across history, balanced political systems have been at the core of great civilisations. In the West, but also in China (oligarchies), the Indus Valley (actual democracies) and in North America (mostly oligarchies). When strong emperors reigned, the civilisations were flashes in the pan.
I did. I don't post, and I only browse when I need help finding a place to eat in a new city. I used to browse every day for at least an hour.
That was particularly bad for a few reasons
1. There wasn't any weather station in the areas so people didn't know the storm was coming.
2. The LA area didn't have nearly as much of the US army corp of engineers' flood control systems it has today.

LA nowadays has an incredibly robust flood control system. I wouldn't be surprised if this ends up being a bad thunderstorm and mostly a nothing burger.
because it's about ad money and maybe paying to promote a podcast (idk. if that is a thing)

white noise content is the best example of "user most likely doesn't active listen" so an ad on it isn't worth much

for other podcasts you would assume people listen (through yes they might not, but Spotify has no practical way of knowing that), so ads are worth more

Additionally the ad industry values that their ad is associated with "premium content" (whatever that means) and while white noise is "highly valuable for the consumer needing it" it's not "premium content" as it doesn't has much content. I mean it's literally noise, well fine tuned noise you could call art, but still noise. So highly valuable but not premium.
Yeah, and since C++17 the language is already quite productive for scripting like workflows, the missing piece of the puzzle is that there are two few C++ REPLs aroung, ROOT/CINT being one of the few well known ones.
Also, football. The real football.
> Applying Occam's Razor I think the main contributor for most people is probably American portion sizes.

That's not an answer, though. Or at least not a root cause.

Why are American portion sizes bigger?

Why do I need to eat more American food to be satiated?

In China, I'm regularly taken out to banquets, where people stuff themselves until they can't eat anymore. I do too. I still lose weight. Other places, we feast too. I'm then full for a long time.

In the US, I'm back to hunger pangs a lot more quickly.
> After the expansion completes, old blocks remain with their old data-to-parity ratio (e.g. 5-wide RAIDZ2, has 3 data to 2 parity), but distributed among the larger set of disks. New blocks will be written with the new data-to-parity
ratio (e.g. a 5-wide RAIDZ2 which has been expanded once to 6-wide, has 4 data to 2 parity).

Does anyone know why this is the case? When expanding an array which is getting full this will result in a far smaller capacity gain than desired.

Let's assume we are using 5x 10TB disks which are 90% full. Before the process, each disk will contain 5.4TB of data, 3.6TB of parity, and 1TB of free space. After the process and converting it to 6x 10TB, each disk will contain 4.5TB of data, 3TB of parity, and 2.5TB of free space. We can fill this free space with 1.66TB of data and 0.83TB of parity per disk - after which our entire array will contain 36.96TB of data.

If we made a new 6-wide Z2 array, it would be able to contain 40TB of data - so adding a disk this way made us lose over 3TB in capacity! Considering the process is already reading and rewriting basically the entire array, why not recalculate the parity as well?
Waypoint 6 wants a number 12 and 3 number 8s - 9NM away and they want it in 3min31
This is an interesting site, but I'm not entirely sure what it does. Do you have any context?
What’s your source on all of this?
Yeah, that's the one I'm remembering. I kept hearing "this hasn't happened in 84 years" and was thinking, didn't it just happen last year? But apparently Kay was a good bit weaker than Hilary will be when it arrives in San Diego.
HashiCorp’s New Licensing: a new benchmark for presenting license change
Hate to break it to you but people literally soak alcohol in wooden barrels for years in order to leach a multitude of chemicals out of the wood just for the flavor.
> the First World War was an massive exercise in proving that nothing that could be gained from a major power war would be worth the misery

And yet the "war on terror" happened. US companies gained a lot from that even if the average taxpayer didn't.
That's because you don't know any esoteric nazis (lucky you). Look into Savitri Devi. It's a common trope to think that neo-nazis only like caucasaians to the exclusion of everyone else; in reality a lot of them are into ethno-pluralism as long as its combined with separatism and oppression of 'inferior' ethnic groups. The same people that grumble about race mixing being degenerate (by other people) will also endorse scientific selective breeding for the production of superior genetic stock (by themselves). A lot of political extremism is rooted in reproductive frustration.
Hey there - author of article here. Story is actually not made up! However, I'm a developer now so don't do consulting any more.. Merely writing this down for my own record and if it can help/inspire anyone else :) Thank you for reading though!
Important to note that this is 6B queries per second at peak, not continuously.
Why bother enabling YouTube history tracking, they will just send us down a dark pattern of enabling a paid subscription.

If anything, it has strengthen my resolve not to turn on history tracking on Youtube.

We have over 143 alternatives to YouTube.

https://alternativeto.net/software/youtube/
This. I don't use Facebook at all and have tons of other pathways for communications.
Autonomous Soaring for Improved Endurance of a Small Uninhabited Air Vehicle

Michael J. Allen, 2005

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20050041655/downloads/20...

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Guidance and Control of an Autonomous Soaring UAV

Michael J. Allen, 2007

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20070005019/downloads/20...

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WindBots, 2016

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190001543/downloads/20...
If you have 80 uninstalls and 60 installs now, how was it doing before the acquisition? The previous owners must have grown this with installs > uninstalls, can you see how they did it - e.g. by running ads, word of mouth, seo, directory listings etc.? And do ask your customers why they are leaving and fix that if possible. Good luck!
Very cool, I have an abandoned web game side project and may try to run it on this!

One question, am I correct in understanding you bake in the assumption that 1 lobby = 1 container? I can see how that’d be desirable for the nice properties it gives you architecturally but if your game isn’t very demanding (mine’s turn based) might that end up stranding a lot of resources?
The innovation/future exists, but is not evenly distributed. For example Diamond planes [1] have:

- The same G1000 (NXi)
- A composite body
- Jet-fuel burning engines adapted from recent Mercedes diesels
- Computer control of that engine through one knob instead of managing the throttle/mixture/prop separately like cavemen
- Crash testing, like impact absorbing seat structure and separately enclosed fuel tank modules that are unlikely to rupture instead of just filling the wing.

And a new one costs about the same as a new Cessna 172 that's been essentially unchanged since the 60's except for the G1000 like you said.

But "the same" is a pretty nice house in most of the country (~$600k) so everything is hand-built, so costs are high, demand is kept low. Commercial students trying to get their 1500hrs mostly just need the lowest cost, not the nicest or safest.

Another big area of innovation and also lower costs is in experimentals and/or light-sport. LSAs should be getting a lot more capable soon with MOSAIC [2]

[1]: https://www.diamondaircraft.com/en/private-owners/aircraft/d...
[2]: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2023/july/25/mo...
I wonder how stable that suspension is? I can imagine it would be quite disappointing to try and make power and to have some water come down, leaving you with a silted up storage tank.
Knowing more languages helps your memory, wow, who woulda thunk it. :D

I speak 4 languages that I got for free, without studying them. Just by being an immigrant, and connected to different european countries. This type of multilingualism is quite common in central europe. I remember meeting kids in Brussels who could speak 10 or 12 languages even, insane!

And yes I can confirm that it sure feels like my memory is very good. I often describe it as a gift and a curse. Ignorance is bliss takes on a powerful meaning when you can't forget things.
Voila! Three connected pools, none of them Olympic or at the top :-)
Hi there - author of article here. The problem for them was mainly that the agency running their ad account counted "demo requests" as their top metric and mistakingly counted all demo requests that came in as attributed to the marketing spend. So they reported on faulty numbers during the entire year. Hubspot showed that direct ads actually didn't work at all (mainly because they didn't really have PMF yet). Needless to say, that agency got fired pretty quickly.

I've realised I might have to write a separate post just about this specific incident and what we did to bring the spend and results back on track. Thanks!
I wish Apple and Oracle would have just sorted things out and made ZFS the main filesystem for the Mac. Way back in the day when they first designed Time Machine, it was supposed to just be a GUI for ZFS snapshots.

How cool would it be if we had a great GUI for ZFS (snapshots, volume management, etc.). I could buy a new external disk, add it to a pool, have seamless storage expansion.

It would be great. Ah, what could have been.
Executives aren't an industry, they can come from anywhere. From tech to government.

Or both, one client was a government appointee who came from an executive position in publishing, she knew she couldn't take the same style into a much less private organization. Turns out she brought her new understanding and style back into private life & business.

If you realize you don't really have to be blunt & jerky, even playing the critic archetype isn't so necessary, and it's more like a habit maybe, it turns out that this realization often opens new life opportunities and mental pathways...
When the planet is this hot, the dice are loaded.
When compared against Python, more than enough.

C++ is one of the supported CUDA languages, even standard C++17 does run just fine on the GPU.

Metal uses C++14 alongside some extensions.
I tested right now and it's 5:
Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio/Visual -> Background Sounds -> on/off/sounds/etc.

It may be the number of items that are part of why people consider these settings "hidden". The "Accessiblity" menu is now 23 items long, and the main Settings menu is 53 Apple items plus over 100 application items.
I mean, your birthday also happens after you are already a thing.
I've worked in a bunch of restaurants and now work with restaurant software (we're hiring some cool positions if you are interested [1])

The one thing I'd be a bit wary about here is heat making that paper unreadable. I've seen a bunch of kitchens intend to run thermal printers in kitchens, but had to switch to impact printers because how quickly the paper would turn dark in the ambient heat in the kitchen, plus the heat lamps on expo station.

Thankfully the author isn't relying on this for anything absolutely critical (also aviate, then navigate anyways) but I'd wonder if on a sunny day without any clouds there, how quickly that paper would degrade.

[1] https://boards.greenhouse.io/touchbistro/jobs/5058791003
That coup allowed a liberal society to flourish in Iran... now look where they are. I'd rather have US coups than any type of Iran-Russian autocratic regime.
> For example, the Canadian politicians who focus the most on that subject, and who impose onerous "carbon taxes" on everyone, spend a lot of time in planes flying all over the country, and even overseas. Most of this travel is unnecessary and pointless.

Do you have data indicating that the politicians who don’t focus on the subject are more modest with their travel?
Some of us are just unlucky and face a bunch of challenges with CPAP.

I was first prescribed a full face mask. I didn’t tolerate it well. I swallowed air and woke up every morning feeling like I was going to vomit.

I had to teach myself to breathe through my nose while sleeping (with no help from the sleep clinic, of course) and then switched to a nasal mask. This was extra challenging because I have a deviated septum and can only really breath through one nostril.

I’m a side sleeper and it took me a long time to find a pillow and sleeping position that didn’t hurt or break the mask seal.

Along with all that, I just find it uncomfortable to have a thing strapped to my face all night. I still really can’t fall asleep without some sort of sedative.

It’s just hard for me.
It has nothing to do with individuals not being great, organizations of perfectly talented well intentioned people still end up with a mess eventually.
Yeah, I remember it well because it put out a nasty wildfire that forced a lot of our neighbors to evacuate.

As one person out it, “When you’re praying for a once-in-generation hurricane to come save your home, that’s a stressful week”
The useful part of blocking isn’t reading someone’s content, but being unable to directly react in a discoverable way to it via reply and quote.
Reminds me of mindfulness practices, having a word for it, and linking that word to a trip to the Maldives is likely what makes it so intensely memorable.
At least we have some control via elections and petitioning the government
For "precisely" read "correctly". Unless the implementation language is exposed to users of the implemented language, it doesn't matter what the implementation language is. gfortran is written in C and C++, but that does not mean Fortran programs are written in C or C++.
As I said, I've been developing software for the past 40 years. In that time one thing I have discovered is code style conventions is 100% a waste of time. Actually, I take that back - they're a 110% waste of time. Why? Because code style conventions have nothing to do with the performance or maintainability of the code and wasting time on such trivialities is destroying team morale which is destructive to productivity.

I haven't done any code reviews for the past 15 years. Why? They're a complete waste of time. I follow the "show me, don't tell me" mantra. Show me evidence your code works. That evidence is in the form of repeatable tests. I'm going to review the quality of your tests - did you test the so-called "blue sky" case and a few of the most obvious error cases? Cool. People are stunned when I don't even look at their code. I don't need to.

Does this bite the team in the ass every now and then? Sure, but not as often as you think. When it does it's a teachable moment. I now have a younger engineer wanting to be mentored by the old gray-haired guy how they can improve. I always tell them there's no single best or right answer - engineering is all about trade-offs. I teach them how to recognize those trade-offs and how to evaluate them. As time goes on they come to me while they've evaluating the trade-offs and I can help them work through it. This is far better than any code review checking for style conventions. Besides which, architecture and design matter far more than any silly code style conventions.
One data point, I’ve been affected by this for decades now. I had no idea before the article that others experienced it too.
I feel like that would be fair, and that the laws should be updated with provisions for this for anything containing api generated content.
Suggestion. Rename from `func` to `fn` so it's more aligned with Rust.
This applies only to under-specified prompting. I usually go in with a finished image in mind, and use very long prompts and inpainting to make it real. It can take dozens of images to get the prompt to reflect what I have in mind, then several more iterations to polish it. While I can technically produce several images per minute, I usually spend about 30 minutes to 1 hour to get the output I want, and more if it's going to be an extra large or complicated piece.

This is very much like the "is electronic music real music?" debates when people can quickly throw together some presets and hit play.
"Do you have data indicating that the politicians who don’t focus on the subject are more modest with their travel?"

Why would they be if they don't care as much...?
"There are complex reasons for our dire wildfires, but scientists say climate change plays key role" [0]

"Our forest management practices, they've been like this since about the '80s. So why is it we're seeing the bad fire seasons now? It's because the weather has gotten more extreme."

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wildfire-fac...
Kind of, but the aim is to deconstruct language and thought patterns, instead of pissing off people. As if Zen monks were doing it.
Yup. This was my experience, more or less. I was lucky enough to do an "at home" test, and so I wasn't given whatever they had on-hand. But when I was prescribed a CPAP the adventure began...

First the insurance adventure. They wanted to rent me a machine at rates that qualify at rates that would violate the geneva convention for war crimes. $327 for the 1st month. $50/mo for the next 10 months. Then I'd be eligible to buy the unit for some unspecified price. Total of AT LEAST $827 in rental fees PLUS whatever the sale cost was. Told them to fluff off and bought a top-of-the-line unit online for $499.

Did my research and got the mask that had the best reviews for someone like myself.

In advance, I had done a little research about CPAP's but I had no realidea what to expect. When I met with the sleep doctor, when he prescribed me the CPAP, he asked if I had any questions. I told him directly, "I don't really know much about them, what should I know?". You'd think whatever spiel he gave me would be a solid basis for life with a CPAP? Hah.

Did my own research on how to get comfortable and used to using it. First night I use it, I wake up in the morning and my chest is ON FIRE. Fortunately I didn't jump directly to heart attack, which apparently a lot of people do. Turns out my chest muscles were just sore - super duper common. A side effect almost everyone has the first few times they use a CPAP. Guess what my doctor DIDN'T Tell me about? And that about summarizes how useful my doc was.

My Primary Care was way more useful than the sleep doctor. But I never tolerated the CPAP well. Because I'm technical, I had OSCAR pulling data the very first night. Reviewed it every day, learned how to get into the CPAP service menu and make adjustments to the system. Still had problems with it and eventually gave up using it. (Note: I did have heated and humidified, played with those settings a lot. Tried several different masks. Putting the mask on or keeping it on wasn't the issue, my body would just freak out in the middle of the night - every night, when wearing it. Even after weeks of trying. My sleep was worse with the mask than without.)

You know who I never heard from again? The sleep doc. It's been 3 years (almost to the day) since I got the CPAP and they've never contacted me. Could I have reached out to them? Yes, but what good were they? They didn't set me up for success. They didn't follow up even one. Their use was to write me a prescription and that's it.
First, sorry for the response delay. I don't know why I didn't see your answer.

As for the case in point, in fact, I think CSS can be as fast if not faster. But that's totally for me to prove. Hehe.

That's why I'm working on a set of simple rules for efficient styling with CSS. A website with documentation, examples and tools is in the works. If you're interested, I can give you a heads up when it's online.

Feedback from Tailwind users is important and would absolutely be welcomed!

PS: thank you for the explanation.
> yet the "war on terror" happened. US companies gained a lot from that even if the average taxpayer didn't

The War on Terror, and invasion of Iraq, were massive American policy failures. (The article I quoted says as much.) Had Xi not become a dictator and Putin not invaded Crimea and then the rest of Ukraine, American hegemony would be on a downturn as a result of those fumbles.