skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you go see more bluegrass music. You can get this experience just about as often as you like nowadays - lots of great bands have amazing improvisational skills, and they use them!
People might not be aware, but the bulk of the support given to Ukraine has been military surplus gear, rather than cash. The US has sent tens of billions in cash for humanitarian and some military support as well, but the bulk of what’s counted in the $100B+ of aid has been in the form of weapons and ammunition and vehicles.
I know it can seem this way.

But the best consultants, and even leaders, know that sometimes the way you get everyone to listen to the people who actually know what a company should be doing is hire a consultant.

A consultants job is to find them, elevate their voice, and get out of the way.

Edit: added “sometimes” - the alternative is to build a low ego culture and listen to the people closest to the work.
Is this an Yin Yang
Thanks, this is definitely something I'd be interested in!
Nah, you just put up a big splash page. Due to the order of court XXX judge XYZ…

Let them be hoisted by their own petard.
Impermanence
Show HN: SurveyOverflow
Customer success is an alias of customer support.
Maybe someone holding their phone upside down?
I think GP just means that OrbStack will no longer be free post beta, and that was their objection.

I have no problem paying for quality products, which OrbStack appears to be … but developers hear the words “license” or “free” and then get hopeful they can get a free lunch.

As such, a suggestion, just remove this line from your FAQ:

“Educational and non-profit open-source licenses subject to approval. Commercial open-source developers must purchase a license.”

Talking about open source in the same context of a paid subscription might be confusing people.
Christian's "Ravine Palace" album from a few years ago is an awesome piece of work. Jerry plays on it, alongside some other modern greats like Andrew Marlin and Eli West.
5000 years at 50y/human is only 100 lifetimes back. That really isn't that far.
Being truthful doesn’t mean much. Actions are worth much more than words.

What trust is seeing how a product has evolved over 5-10 years.

I think you’re missing my point. My point is focusing on whether a project is open source is relatively meaningless. It’s like using the price at a restaurant to judge the quality of food… it’s almost meaningless.
"Collaborative filtering", "using past activity and stated preferences to guide us"

I can't think of areas Amazon does worse in today than these two areas.

Reviews are so untrustworthy they are just noise.

Those coffee beans I ordered a month ago? I have to go back to my orders page, search (and for some reason their search is dirt slow) - then wade through unrelated products to finally find them.

But oh, hey, you just bought a vacuum cleaner? I know what you would really like! MORE VACUUMS!

I guess they innovated on those two areas in 1998, and then since then the only thing they did was remove the `review-count-rank` sorting option so their AI can suggest Amazon Brand products.
Agreed, if you want to curate stuff use playlists, that's what they're for.

For a long time I only collected complete albums. If there was one song I liked I would acquire the entire album and digitize it into my collection. Some of the other songs would go unlistened, and some I even disliked, but I keep them all the same. Over the years many of those other songs have grown on me through their appearances during shuffle-mode sessions, or I've come to appreciate their connection to the other tracks when listening through an album as a whole.

Nowadays a lot of music I listen to is released without anything like the framework of an "album" so I have a harder time using this method, but still I'll often acquire additional tracks (or an entire discography) from an artist I find interesting with no immediate intent of listening to them.
Expert systems were a “flop” only in the sense that they were so apparently promising early on (like in the same early phase as we are in now with transformer architectures/LLMs) that people projected, well, the same kind of universal and unlimited capabilities now being proejected for technologies based around transformers, so lots of projects in virtually every domain were undertaken with wild expectations. It turns out that expert systems were wildly successful in terms of what they were useful for, but even so, but, even so, lots of those efforts failed because the expectations were so ludicrously high.

> In fact, a good portion of the automation systems in the facilities are more than 30 years old.

Not sure what you are trying to say with that, given that the expert system hype wave started about 60 years ago and and petered out between 50-40 years ago.

The rule-based systems resurrection ~25 years ago (while seeing a much wider array of practical applications developed) had much more modest expectations, and though it was centered around expert systems as the enabling central component of broader systems, almost never used the term “expert systems”.(Though I wonder if you are thinking more about fuzzy logic, because while it wouldn’t be significant for unqualified “expert systems” as such, the timing would kind of make sense for saying something about fuzzy logic systems, whether fuzzy expert systems or neurofuzzy systems, both of which had a bit of hype cycle starting in the mid-80s which, IIRC, saw lots of attempts at industrial applications with mixed success in the 1990s.)
Excellent point, also I’d like to point out it buys us quite a bit of time to figure out how to create reactors that eat spent fuel and turn them into nothing, something the DOE has been researching for the last few years.
wow, GNU's is just gobbledygook
My link was the sciencedirect link, and I could read it immediately. What do you mean?
*creates?
Of course there's not one on-duty staffer per car. You'd only need that many people if all rides required human support at exactly the same time. But in reality, most rides wouldn't require it at all. Even if there's likely to be some correlation between support requests, it'd be all cars on one street or block needing help at the same time, not all cars in the same city.

> Also, is there any path to profitability given how many billions were poured into the technology?

Sure, let's do it back of the envelope.

First, the unit economies. Let's assume that a taxi is driven for 16 hours per day (two 8 hour shifts), and the average wage for a driver is $15 / hour. That works out to 16 hours / day * $15 / hour * 365 days/year = $87600/year. This is how much less it costs to operate a self-driving car is than one driven by a human. Since human-operated taxis won't be running at a loss, this means a self-driving taxi would make a minimum of ~$90k/year profit if it got as many drives as a human.

Would they get as many drives? Would people prefer a self-driving taxi over a human-driven one? At least if the self-driving taxi is cheaper, I don't see why not. It'd be easy for the self-driving taxis to undercut human drivers on price, while still remaining very profitable. The big challenge is the service area, where self-driving cars currently have no flexibility.

The unit economies seem to check out. Is the market big enough to run this as a proper business, or is it depending on unrealistic growth? The numbers I'm finding aren't super consistent, but it seems that the taxi + ride-sharing business is something like $50B-$100B / year just in the US. The addressable market is definitely sufficiently large to pay for billions in R&D.

So really it's just a question of how fast they can scale it up, and how quickly the competition catches up.
Playing games, including video games, often involves reading, imagination, creativity, problem solving, and other active tasks. Passive video consumption certainly involves less of all those things.

Obviously, there is a lot of variance here, and Candy Crush or whatever 3 years are playing these days probably doesn't have as much benefit as some story driven game with important text dialogue and battle mechanics. But even playing Candy Crush is probably better than watching Candy Crush.
> sustain it for another three decades

You keep saying "sustain", but solar has been growing exponentially and there is still no sign of an inflection. "Sustaining" a rate of growth is the wrong concept to model it.
To further your point, almost all nuclear power plants to date have essentially been customized, one-off projects built by inexperienced teams.

If we built exactly the same design tens to the low hundreds of times by the same handful of teams, the cost per unit would be dramatically lower. This is especially true of the modern, safer, and more cost effective designs.
Well, you shouldn't transcode lossy to lossy anyways. (Transcoding lossless to lossless (with the same sample rate and same bits, although signedness and endianness may be different) is OK, though.)
I meant to say "I asked" not "I emailed" vygr!
Political polarization toned down through anonymous online chats
So, you mean the workflow-persisting behavior of something like ComfyUI?

Again, we’re already there.
Yeah, I would argue the projects requiring a CLA are exactly as you described - companies that want to keep specific future options on the table.

OSS covers a wide spectrum of projects, from the Linux Kernel at the one end, to Frank's recent half-assed attempt at a CSS editor. Clearly no statement is going to cover everything.

The set of projects that require a CLA, and the set of pseudo OSS projects has a high degree of overlap.
> the Supreme Court is a fascist institution

> that will always side with the police

Both claims are false.
I never particularly doubted Linux working for gaming, but I'm not sure if a compatibility layer to the actual dominant platform is really the long term win to celebrate here. Great for customers, but a ticking time bomb for the FOSS crowd (aside from Steam being proprietary ofc. More talking about the Microsoft dependency).
Oh?

U.S. Steel is for sale for $7 billion. One-sixth of Twitter's sale price.

U.S. Steel was once the largest company in the world.
You are confusing Tech with CryptoBros.

Stick with Tech and help build a better future.
My pet peeve is insecure configuration defaults. The Postgres container by default does not require any authentication for localhost connections, and with containers "localhost" can mean unexpected things.
For simplicity, it feels like SDXL has better "defaults". You don't have to include a bunch boilerplate keywords to wrangle it into generating good images.

The flip side is I've found it a bit harder to tweak prompts
I've been on both sides - as a management consultant at a top firm and within a corporation hiring a top consulting firm.

The grunt consultants are the ones making the slides, but they aren't deciding the direction of the project or the output. Every project I worked on as a consultant had a lot of input from the person who sold the work (their reputation is on the line!). But let's be honest, most consulting projects aren't mind blowing - basic stuff like "what is the competition doing", "what is the the flavor of the month for fund raising".

And in terms of "not having experience in the area", that's fine in a lot of cases. Often consultants are brought in to do work the company doesn't have the resources to do. Or, if it's a new area you need advice on, you partner with the consulting firm on how to do that. Maybe it's interviewing experts in the field, maybe it's creating case studies of how other companies did it.

I did work with one consulting firm that had domain knowledge (small boutique firm). The consultants had industry experience and a ton of contacts. We basically boiled down what answered we needed and they tracked down the answers.

While on both side I've never been a part of the a project where what consultants offered wasn't 100% clear to the client. HN acts like consultants are pulling the wool over clients eyes but that's never been my experience. They new exactly what they were paying for.
In GA, yeah. On commercial passenger jets with a couple well-trained pilots and a multiple-times lower fatality rate per hour than cars, there's no safer place to be if you need to cross the continental US. I doubt a self driving car is anywhere near as safe as that, especially considering how unlikely violent crime is to get anywhere on a US domestic flight, for obvious reasons.
https://archive.is/fqqxf
> The current USSC is very politicized

How so?

> departs strongly with jurisprudence as it has been understood for decades

How so?

> they want to legislate from the bench

How so?
What framework are they using for the base pages? It's amazing how fast they load! /s
You are totally correct! The nostalgia overload was messing with my memory, I appreciate your follow-up.
Ahahaha, only if they didn't trick clueless laypersons into buying much worse 5G plans by claiming that your shiny new phone needs 5G (no it doesn't, it has to fall back to 4G even or 3G networks when it's not available!).
Is there any upside to mv3 in terms of ublock/adblocker usage detection?

I understand the significant security implications (whether or not you agree with mv3), but found myself wondering if the permissionless model might make it harder to detect a user adjusting the page at a different point in the request/response/draw cycle.
Docker is still free.

it is only Docker Desktop which is no longer free.

most power users do not use or need Docker Desktop.
China builds almost one nuclear reactor a year.

This is because we over-regulate and have let all the nuclear talent die, while they have done the opposite.

It’s possible we just in the West don’t want to imagine it is.
Okay, here’s some evidence…

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairnes...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/10/11/michiga...

https://abc13.com/texas-vote-by-mail-fraud-ken-paxton-in-bal...

Now your turn, what is the harm in making people prove their identity to vote if IDs are provided free of cost?
yes, but this is a relatively recent (20th century) development that was originally introduced in order to enable the translation of foreign-language literature.
Polynesians brought sweet potatoes from South America by around 1000 ce, so it’s reasonable to suspect this was true before the 1400s.
You may have a point but you should argue against the data in the article rather than one anecdote.
unfortunately, no matter how much we want the conflict to end, it won't without the commitment of russia to end it, which means withdrawing their Ukrainian-toddler-raping troops* from Ukraine and ending their attempted 3rd russian genocide of Ukrainians**

* - per a UN investigation

** - with the Holodomor and the deportation of the Crimean Tatars being at least 2 previous russian genocides of Ukrainians
I prefer to ask something like, “What’s one thing you love, and what’s one thing you’d change tomorrow if you could?”

Everybody would improve something, and it can give you insight into actual day-to-day challenges.

If they say, “Nothing,” either it’s the one rare perfect workplace or they are too afraid or checked out to give a real answer.

Either way it’s informative.
If we analyze the computational complexity of software architectures the way we do regular algorithms, we see that UNIX was much more efficient than previous OSes/approaches.

It's demonstrated in this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4
because I want companies to inform me about cool things they are releasing? I thought that was the point of these events… but feel free to correct my assumption.
Also, not sure Twitter's price is a great example of a reliable value.
Free can mean free as in freedom or free as in beer, most people even on this site do not use "free" to mean exclusively the former, or "libre" as it's better distinguished. It is well understood exactly what the sentence you quoted means, especially as they disambiguated it through saying it will be a paid product afterwards, so obviously meaning free as in the free as in beer sense.
Isn’t it funny how quickly they went from “we won’t block for any reason” to where they are today?

And the funny thing is that their blog post complains of the following:

> In a deeply troubling response, after both terminations we saw a dramatic increase in authoritarian regimes attempting to have us terminate security services for human rights organizations — often citing the language from our own justification back to us.

Well, yeah. That’s what happens. It’s just a lot easier to justify something you wanted to do already, isn’t it?
I won't say that epic didn't delivered for the gamers. UE5 is honestly a technology marvel and bring so much values for players. I don't even talk about lumen/nanite but all the others tools made for developers to push the limits of what is doable in a game, at runtime.
With UE5.3 we even get more productivity tools, which means we can deliver faster or bigger.

Don't get me wrong, many features are experimental since 4.26 but getting them production ready is the game changer.
You average $18 per meal?
Ford had been taking a lot of reputation damage due to their numerous recalls, both EVs and ICE vehicles. Wonder what's going on
I don't remember every detail of the conversation but as I remember it, part of it was related to the office being open basically for the "expected" hours.
try Rancher Desktop, then.
Is it cheaper in Australia because it’s publicly subsidized? From what I understand in the states the only reason it’s even remotely affordable is because it’s already subsidized.
> It was pretty embarrassing.

Maybe, but you did learn a lot too. A follow-up that explains all those fixes might be even more interesting than original presentation, as far as I'm concerned.
More like 250 generations though.
Just have to suffer for a few decades under their boot, until a seismic shift in industry can undermine their dominance?
I immensely enjoyed reading this. Thanks for sharing!
It is also super useful in ye olde batch process / etl process. Designing an ingest-analyze-report process to checkpoint its work and recover gracefully even when started at an unexpected time or place means you can retry safely rather than have to manually clear out the detritus of a partial job run.
How on earth is this anyone else’s problem?

Perhaps its purpose is simply to notify any followers why things might get quieter.

Though, of course, she probably should’ve taken account of your… feelings about potentially being exposed to her blog someday. The utter nerve, apparently. After all, you’re the main character, and people must only have motivations insofar as they apply to you, right?
Especially if you stop every single step to go back, make sure that every single previous step has been correctly completed, assign roles for the following steps, have a discussion on workers rights and the equal share of labor to make sure that the workload for each of those steps is distributed equally, and so on and so forth.
There are some really handy databases with detailed insolation data available for sizing your solar projects. https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/ is one place to find this stuff.

Years ago I worked on environmental monitoring systems for snow and ice management. One of the things I did was help spec out solar systems for remote installations in Alaska and Canada.

The basic issue was "How much sun will there be in a typical summer?" combined with "How much power can we store in our batteries?" and "How much power can we draw from the lead acid batteries without them freezing?" (who knew that a discharged battery freezes at a lower temperature than a charged one? I sure didn't).

It's a pretty straightforward process, actually. The company I worked for had a pretty detailed spreadsheet to help with bids, but essentially you:
1. look up the insolation data for the install site in one of the databases with that info (like https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/)
2. compute rate of loss over time for your installation (power consumption +_self-discharge)
3. look at the battery datasheets to determine how much you can discharge the battery at any given time based on anticipated temperature ranges
4. work out what your tolerances are for temperature and insolation variability

Usually there would be a couple of options that were in the cost sweet spot where you had a bit more solar and bit less battery or vice versa. Some of these sites were up around the arctic circle, so battery was pretty important in those cases, since you're looking at months without appreciable sun combined with low temperatures.

This wasn't even the major part of my job, but it was a small company and I wore a lot of hats.
hey, you just bought a vacuum cleaner? I know what you would really like! MORE VACUUMS!

This is a common refrain, but I would be amazed if it weren't backed up by data and I anecdotally fit into the mold. If I buy a product that I really like, then I'm likely to buy it again to give as a gift to friends. If I buy something like a a vacuum and I don't like it, then I'm likely to buy a different model that better fits my needs. It seems silly when you aren't interested in buying another one of whatever item you bought, but there are multiple legitimate reasons that people would want to.
Isn't US energy generation ~1200GW? If a Vogtle is 1.1GW - 30 of them isn't even 3% of US energy generation.

We'd still need a ton of oil...
The conclusion remains unchanged, but it did show his bravery no matter you do like it or not.
I remember a lot of (porn) sites early on would accept credit card numbers from a generator. Didn’t even need a real one! Of course they’d later close the account for fraud when it wouldn’t bill but it was a surprising amount of places that didn’t actually validate anything beyond the digits being Visa or Mastercard etc.
What is the major cause of solar death? Roofing falls?
The value of stock speculation is that it gives the original owner a way to raise capital for a company that could make money later but doesn't yet. It's how founders and growing businesses raise money. And the prospect of speculators being able to sell to future speculators makes the original speculators willing to pay more to the business itself.

A speculator in these markets also has the incentive to preserve the art or stamp and protect it from damage. Which also applies to stocks, because the speculator has the incentive to vote their shares in a way that maximizes the value of the company.

None of that is happening with domain names. The squatter didn't create the name, no one did and no one needs to be compensated for that. If no one "maintains" the name it doesn't degrade in any way, it just goes unregistered until someone wants to actually use it.
SNPs are causal in that they can be thought of as perturbations of genes that occur prior to the genesis of the phenotype.

I think what you might be trying to say is (1) the presence of a SNP may not be sufficient for the occurrence of a phenotype, or (2) another SNP in high LD may be the true causal SNP.