skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Procrastinators tend to delay tasks, often focusing on less important tasks while ignoring the critical ones. They may have poor time management skills, often underestimating the time required to complete tasks

My understanding is that most research on procrastination suggests that it is not caused by poor time management but emotional management, and that the appearence of poor time management is more a symptom than a cause.
> Is it not clear why that makes the latter entity less sympathetic and more likely to lose?

Yes, but that entity is clearly violating the law and is archiving material that is already (by definition) archived by somebody, just not publicly accessible. This strategy is about preserving the more valuable non-alternatively-archived data.

> Even the act of doing it would imply that they expect to lose.

They're clearly violating the law, they've lost already on a similar case, if they don't expect to lose they should fire their counsel.
Good luck asking people to turn off BT. It’s a faf having to do that in an era of smartwatches and wireless headphones.
World Plugs
Also how come they can be drafted or sing up for military service. Shouldn't we put stop to that and set minimum age to much higher level let's say 25 or 30? It can be similar lifelong mistake.
"There's really cool stuff happening industry-wide, and commercial potential is growing, but nowhere near as fast as the cultural hype that has infected certain parts of tech space these past 12 months or so."

This, all day, everyday.
I'd say a 48% vote to do something is a mandate to do a pared back version of it, yes. She was just incredibly cautious as a politician, and as a result hasn't really left much of a tangible legacy as far as policy impact goes.
Is this more a property of these breakthroughs being very hard or very desirable? What would be achievements of similar impact that might be more achievable?

I'm asking this in part because I was thinking way too much about applications of superconductors during peak LK-99 hype and now think room-temp superconductors would be the greatest possible discovery (we wouldn't even need fusion about because solar cells in deserts and a global superconductors grid). I wonder if I got to that conclusion because I obsessed over superconductors for weeks and if I'm missing other equally amazing, possible, future technologies.
Isn't that just gpl2?
He made off with about $33k. I wonder if it will have been worth it for him in the long run.
2024 Defense Bill Threatens Future of 3D-Printed Firearms and Basic Gun Rights
Lol it's amazing to see how defensive people get about letting people use their dirty drugs in public.
In my previous job, I was hired in a team of tech leads, each in a different domain. But the development at large in that company was web development, which I didn’t know how much I’d end up disliking. So I focused on my things within the company minimizing interaction with tech stacks I didn’t care about.

Current job, I was hired in a team of macOS devs for a macOS product. Several reorgs, mergers and downsizing, my old team is basically gone, and I find myself in a team of web devs and backend engineers.

I do miss having people around who can keep up a conversation in my tech niche.
You can try SpiralLinux, that is just Debian with a lot of drivers included: https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=spiral
It's a different beverage. That may sound precious or twee to you but the flavors of the same beans prepared in these three ways will be different; there's no other way to describe it.

Espresso is going to be more intense, probably sweeter, and stronger.

Pourover is typically brighter and less intense, but obviously you drink more of it. When I make filter coffee, I prefer pourover.

I do not care for Aeropress coffee or its sibling French press; for me, the mouth feel and flavor are inferior to other brewing methods, but obviously this is a preference thing.
Or even better, buy six million identical batteries, label them, discharge them randomly, run some rudimentary tests, and announce you’ve identified a room-temperature superconductor!

…Too soon?
Philosophical texts are not novels; they are more like scientific publications, requiring prior study. Unless you have a solid grounding in the history of philosophy, they are incomprehensible.
Please do the VIC-II chip next
First time I used Debian was 2005 when it was the easiest option I could find to install Linux on a Sun Sparc Station LX with netboot. Still my favorite and my go-to Distro.
i'm not talking about GUI but rather the camera/picture processing. Yes, I know that electron is fast, I have very good experience with VSCode, which is maybe even faster than "native" Idea in Java, however IDEA does much more for me, so can't really compare.

Maybe I'm too old fashioned, I don't know. What I know is that creating multiplatform native application is really hell (I did that), and Javascript is much cheaper, that's why everyone is doing electron, which literally launches up another separate google chrome in your memory... Yes, it's cheaper, but memory is much more expensive nowadays, than it used to be when I started programming...
Let's pick elementary particle sized nits...
Tim Berner Lee's office most likely had noise from planes landing at Geneva airport, but still most likely was on the territory of France :-)
...what happens in the next 50 years?
This is a big barrier to starting cool websites. Perhaps a local offline AI instance with its own keys could help?
They miss another core argument the cost to transport and store it is quite high.
At this point, aren't sellers gaming the system enough that the overall rating has become effectively meaningless? Individual reviews, maybe useful. But its not like the olden days where you could scour amazon for good products, ideally you would have a good idea what you want before even visiting the site.
I own variants with white/black, white/red and white/brown (the oldest I have).
Depends, but in general would say no.. energy is speed times mass, and mass is cubic in the size, while speed is linear.

Angle is complicated, I mean unless it is very shallow all will still go into earth? I wonder if and at which angle it could impact earth's rotation, but for that then direction is also relevant (:

*: Ah, interesting, the neal.fun/asteroid-launcher also gives same energy for different angles except very shallow ones.
I disagree; a typical quartz watch only has a few seconds of drift per month, so if it only syncs once every few months it's still fine for most wrist watch applications. I never need second accuracy when I want to know what time it is.
Is there an easy to use C/C++ toolchain which targets the JVM? That may be the answer, because essentially that was what gave us WASM.

Getting C/C++ code running in the browser was the motivation for Emscripten, and eventually this evolutionary branch gave us WASM (via asm.js).

(and at the time there was plenty of competition: Adobe's Alchemy/Flascc which targeted Flash, and Google's (P)NaCl which compiled to native instructions and later (a subset of) LLVM bitcode, but notably, there was no similar attempt (that I know of) of a C/C++ compiler which targeted the JVM)
> They seem to be advised by a bunch of decrepit dudes who stopped learning about computers before the OSI model was created.

I suspect its more like "dudes who know nothing about computers (let alone the OSI model)" coming up with dumb ideas. These ideas are all approved and encouraged by advisors under the influence of Big Tech interests, which are more than happy to achieve regulatory capture [0] to protect their proprietary and closed consumer products from consumer-orientated FOSS projects, by making it harder (or even impossible) for these to even operate on a fully free capacity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
what do you mean it's an interactive system of shitiness?
You would need a dual boiler for this. IMO the best value dual boiler on the market is the Breville dual boiler.

Alternatively there are standalone milk frothing devices that might suit your needs while allowing you to buy a cheaper espresso machine.
Thirst trap techniques? Like what?
Note that there are a bunch of ICF approaches that don't use lasers and potentially have much higher conversion efficiencies, though they are all pretty experimental and I wouldn't bet on any of them in particular.
Short sighted decision making that doesn't account for the larger ecosystem. Sloppy code that barely meets the requirements. Zero coordination on a release that clearly left another team scrambling because it placed significant load on their service/ introduced a disruptive user story/ broke or delayed another team's clearly announced pending release.

The list goes on, but the bottom line is that many folks will be happy to optimize for their personal "local minima" but literally harm the organization in the process.
The proposal before that had a clarification by Lauterbach that the alive plant does not count to the 25g, so u shouldn't grow 3 plants at same stage of life
That just means that smoking while pregnant is immoral? Which I think most would agree with.
using a ratio based cost effectiveness, viability etc. estimate

Isn't this sorta how the "free market" works? People/corporations invest money based on their judgement of viability, effectiveness, etc..

Right now, the majority of the collective mind trust is betting on new battery technology. But feel free to convince them otherwise.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, and the thoughtful architecture.
Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson.

A mindblowing vision and project of a vehicle that would offer the capability to truck TONS of stuff as far as, say Saturn, or offer speedy travel to Mars.

Born in the nuclear optimism of 1950's, killed by politics and bad optics of nuclear bomb enabled spaceflight.

The more I read of the book the more exciting the topic became. I did not realize how superior and feasible the nuke powered spaceship would be if built.

I hope Orion will fly one day, it's that awesome.
It reminded me how important information design is.

Amazon has an average number of stars there, but it's no longer visually shown - instead, just a number. I have relied on the stars being "filled up" for so long that it now felt like every product was basically the same: a single, lone star. It was so harder to get an at-a-glance feeling of which products were good and which not-so-good.

And unforutnately, that's probably Amazon's goal.
The conclusion here veers quite rapidly into scientific endism (we've more or less reached the pinnacle of human science, and no further significant advances are likely to be made) and malthusianism (we lack the resources to do so anyway and are headed for decline as a species).

For me, that colors everything that was said before it, and causes me to reinterpret the objections on cost/efficiency as being rooted in "we're not there yet, and because we're at the end of scientific progress, we'll therefore never get there".
"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo

It made me change the relationship to my belongings.

Also practical tips on how to organize the stuff that actually works.
JIT works after some time (spin-up), and still it's always memory vs cpu tradeoff. But you're right, today java's JIT gives near native performance. Btw I wonder how does memory cost compare native vs in-browser for the same application, like e.g. Photoshop. Anybody knows?
Do you suppose the elastic block stores of the public cloud providers operate in a non polling manner?

The incredibly low level of latency and high levels of iops preclude having it be based on software interrupts, I think even in scenarios where sr-iov is available to the hyper visor.
Dito, with the difference that I also used RHEL and ArchLinux a lot. But my main box, the one that needed to work: Debian.
It think they mean more like "nothing on the home page looks interesting show different stuff". Sometimes YouTube will decide " I'm only going to recommend these 3 videos to you for the next month" or just misses the mark on the stuff I'm interested in watching
Fully disabling BT is a niche feature imo, for me the button does exactly what i want: disconnect bt devices. I still like airdrop to work etc.

So, I think this is exactly how it should be. If you for some reason want to fully disable BT, which is weird for avarage users, you need to put it some effort
Not really at all. Anything can use the XDG spec, it has absolutely no coupling to systemd. Really it's about apps chosing between

- use some form of $APPDIR variable convention

- using some app-specific $MYAPP_CONFIG variable (ick, but at least it's configurable)

- just dump it in $HOME and pollute that top level namespace
But these factories scale. Second, it's only a single component that needs to be installed and tested, reducing labor costs and the number of components that could have an issue. It all adds up / someone's done the math.
Practically universal. Even if there's a Linux distro going out of it's way not to set them, many tools, including big ones, support it anyway (also on non-Linux Unices). In practice I've never encountered users with a distro that didn't have these variables set.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=john+8%3A7&vers...
It's very complicated but I can see why certain industries wouldn't want this idea popularized.
France has always been pretty bad at running an economy.

Ofcourse for the rest of Europe this is a good thing- French military ambitions have been consistently sabotaged by this oversight. Good military, brilliant engineers and capable bureaucrats but terrible merchants.
And wars are won on the stock market.
State Official Refused to Release Water for West Maui Fires Till It Was Too Late
This archive link still shows the paywall for me.
Interestingly, I am seeing (on Amazon.com.br) a slightly different test of ”percentage of 4-star ratings or above”

I don’t have an opinion if this is good or bad for customers yet.
There it is; if I could go to my boss and say "I reduced our costs by three quarters of a million" there'd be a fat bonus for me. Possibly.
Singh's Fermat's Last Theorem is a better book, IMO.
can you prove your solver is complete?
Yeah I had to max inputs on that calculator. Pretty wild.
Seems like maybe our ability to find and divert these asteroids might make all that burning of energy worth it, no?
You’re right! I still haven’t read up on how Django does it, but I’m assuming it must make a migration file? Obviously I shouldn’t assume but how else would you add things like indexes and whatnot?
I don't see anything wrong with humans wanting to control the climate to turn it back into the ice age that we're used to. I just wish we'd be honest about it instead of appealing to naturalistic fallacies.
Yes. Data is important and we still need a way to go and fetch it. Schemas are complicated, and we still need to navigate them. In my experience, the LLMs of today are not at all good at writing complex queries.

SQL has been around for decades. I imagine it's going to be around for decades more.
I don't get your argument about the frame problem. Maybe it's like squeezing a big pillow inside a small bag. A bulge forms that won't fit. It's the frame problem. Turn the pillow around, squeeze it into the bag again: a bulge now forms on the opposite side: it's the hallucination problem. I can see how one could be the solution to the other. Hallucinations as a lack of rules.
So do you move microwave oven around on extension cord so often it will sync?
Show HN: Strich – Barcode scanning for web apps
Hi, I'm Alex - the creator of STRICH (https://strich.io), a barcode scanning library for web apps.
Barcode scanning in web apps is nothing new. In my previous work experience, I've had the opportunity to use both high-end commercial offerings (e.g. Scandit) and OSS libraries like QuaggaJS or ZXing-JS in a wide range of customer projects, mainly in logistics.

I became dissatisfied with both. The established commercial offerings had five- to six-figure license fees and the developer experience was not always optimal. The web browser as a platform also seemed not to be the main priority for these players. The open source libraries are essentially unmaintained and not suitable for commercial use due to the lack of support. Also the recognition performance is not enough for some cases - for a detailed comparison see https://strich.io/comparison-with-oss.html

Having dabbled a bit in Computer Vision topics before, and armed with an understanding of the market situation, I set out to build an alternative to fill the gap between the two worlds. After almost two years of on-and-off development and 6 months of piloting with a key customer, STRICH launched at beginning of this year.

STRICH is built exclusively for web browsers running on smartphones. I believe the vast majority of barcode scanning apps are in-house line of business apps that benefit from distribution outside of app stores and a single codebase with abundant developer resources. Barcode scanning in web apps is efficient and avoids platform risk and unnecessary costs associated with developing and publishing native apps.
This has been on my list for some time, since I came across this great essay by O'Gieblyn on spontaneity/habit.

One that I bounced off of recently is A Fire Upon The Deep. I don't get it.
They are abysmal, because they are leaky, yes.

The dream of one code base to rule them all, can easily turn into a nightmare when going outside the golden path.

And really, a large majority of apps are doing basic CRUD stuff, easily doable as mobile Web.
It's pretty common to bolt on features, like how a lot of powerbanks have a light or a belt loop built in because why not.
Surplus is where the monthly interest income is being used for their budget, for that is the best way to ensure financial stability.
Clubs Only hash n cannabis

Personal ownership, potentially edibles made from flower only (any kind of extraction but cbd is illegal), and any kind of food/tobacco /nicotine/other drugs is illegal in social Club law
The articles are becoming as ubiquitous as the "wake me up when" comments. I should know, I was about to post that.
The worst bug I encountered was when physically relocating a multi rack storage array for a mobile provider. The array had never been powered down(!) so we anticipated that a good number of the spindles would fail to come up on restart. So we added an extra mirror to protect each existing raid set. Problem is a bug in the firmware meant the mere existence of this extra mirror caused the entire arrays volume layout to become corrupted at reboot time. Fortunately a field engineer managed to reconstruct the layout, but not before a lot of hair had been whitened.
The REFORMS checklist for ML-based science
"Easier to read" is relative. For someone used to lisp syntax, the Python looks quite natural - only the parens are in the wrong place.

E: And I guess the lambda and explicit list-cast too. cf.

(count (filter #(> % 17) ages))
This is call a 'ristretto shot'. In some of the starbucks reserve locations you can get a large volume of ground coffee and a ristretto shot, and it is very creamy without as much acid/tannins.

Also, the ristretto shot is often used in flat whites - one of the main differences (the other lesser one being milk texture)
I live near the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (aka The Laser Lab) and took a tour one day. They have an enormous bank of huge capacitors (think refrigerator-sized) that they charge off the power grid since there's no way in hell they can get sufficient energy directly. Laser fusion is one of those things that's possible but seems unlikely to ever be practical, though something may useful still come from it.
Emscripten has shown that Javascript is a terrible compilation target, that's why WASM exists in the first place (Emscripten started with compiling to vanilla JS, which was then 'standardized' into the asm.js subset, and finally ended up in WASM ... each of those steps improved performance, and a Javascript/asm.js backend would never have been accepted into upstream clang, while WASM is "just another ISA").
They are competing for the same market. Unless fusion can be much more economical than solar?
Good, they may become redundant and many of us would love that.
Amazon is nothing but a giant flea market these days.

Everything is 5 stars through fake reviews and everything lies about it's capabilities.

Just today I was looking for a hairdryer and the top one advertised an RPM of 150,000. That'd put its 2 inch turbine spinning at almost 900mph. How much you want to bet the sound barrier isn't broken every time you turn that hairdryer on?
You know what happens if people that are not experts talk about something they are not experts in?

Physicists are no exception.
Making online shopping return reminder app. My wife buys lots of clothes (in different sizes) and returns what doesn’t fit well.

It’s a headache to remember return windows for different merchants.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt to Launch AI-Science Moonshot
Unit: Next Generation Visual Programming System
has anyone heard or used this?

It reminds me of node-red or something but i want to learn more. Can't find much examples or resources at first look.

Would love more examples or to hear about people using or experimenting with it.
I’m fairly certain the owner of the domain is unrelated to the Cicada 3301 challenges beyond hosting a fan site. Their PGP signature is completely missing from the website, and in the words of 3301 itself: all messages will be signed with only their key. Besides, 3301 hosted everything on the dark web, not a clear web site. This is an interesting anecdote, and personally I’ve always thought the challenge was alphabet agency related, but I truly don’t think you found anything beyond a fan boy.
At its roots, is the usual "my team vs others" from school playgrounds.
That would be amazing. Same with clocks for that matter.

That said, do these radio signals contain the exact time for that timezone or is it more of a synchronization signal that goes "it is now exactly 0 minutes, 0 seconds" once an hour? Since the image shows that the signal crosses some timezone boundaries.
Debian is more important than ever, in face of corporations abusing open source.
How do you get the opportunity to build training or inference pipelines at big tech?
I mean five star ratings have always been flawed. Any system where getting 4/5 is bad means the raters are confused, and then it's GIGO. This weird % five-star thing is a workaround for that GIGO because they're treating 4 stars as the same as 1 star.

Personally I'd switch to a "good/flawed/terrible" rating system and just give viewers a pie-chart (or a stacked-bar) of ratings.
Was it strictly necessary?

I’ve worked on a code base where someone implemented the core data structure as a tree instead of a simpler data structure. It was completely unnecessary for performance and killed productivity on the project.
I still find them useful. I use rating volume + ensuring rating is above 4 + checking whether the brand has a legit amazon store/landing page mostly to try and avoid duds. Individual reviews are useful for specific questions. As much as it sucks these days it's still better than going to your local durable goods retailer, having only one option to choose from with no ratings at all.
There's also the angle that it's just something for the researchers at that lab to do, gives them a purpose. And in exchange, the US has a perpetually well staffed nuclear weapons research lab.
> To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.

Those persons don't understand the spirit of the One they serve. If they did, they would act differently.
AliExpress with faster shipping.