skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just want to chime in as another Ubuntu user who's ready to jump ship after 10+ years because of snaps.

I hadn't really considered the philosophical issues around it but you have a good point about that.

For me it comes down to QA and QoL. Snaps are shit. I'm still getting those ridiculous "Close Firefox to update Firefox, this will expire in 13 days" nags that can't be dismissed. The other day snapd felt like hanging up my laptop for 90 seconds when I was trying to shut down and get out of the door.

Fuck this. 90% of what Canonical has done has never bothered me, oh there's an Amazon lens I don't like? 2 minutes to uninstall it, no prob. Oh there's a plug for Canonical services in the motd? That's fine, they need to make money.

But snapd is just trash software that's badly engineered, makes my system worse and is hard to remove (I'd have to replace a bunch of software that Canonical has pushed me into using snaps for). So barring some about face from Canonical I'm switching to another Debian variant on my next reinstall.
It makes sense that they don't want to maintain office space and amenities for people who drop in whenever, so people can either be 3/5 in person or full remote. But if you are full remote, you cannot drop in whenever you fell like it.
Wow, there’s not a whole lot argument at all in there.

Maximum power seems especially odd — power is extensive. If you have two maximum power systems, don’t you end up with double the power?
We've named our cat "Hello" just to screw with Friends, Visitors and vets. And if you pronounce it "Helluuu" it's actually kind of cute.
Yeah JSON is usually the way it's written. IIRC the IDL even lacks some features of JSON.

But the fact it exists means at least some people find JSON verbose.
Supposed we redefine wealth to be the degree to which you're able to achieve all your desires...
I see that pretty often with white Teslas at the airport
Very impressed, how obvious looking high level design flaws of Z8000. And these are not technical flaws, but sure C-level decision flaws.

Only one question decided it's fate - why SMALL startup decided to make CHEAP design?

- It was obvious, it was impossible to compete with Intel on large cheap market. But obviously, Intel would not compete on niches, where startup without legacy could make something significantly better!

Exxon as a foundation, is not good, because their money was not money of Faggin, even more than money of investors are not money of Intel execs.

So, second drawback, of Zilog's situation, that Faggin was far more limited in maneuver then Intel's tops. So why he even more limited himself with cheap design?

I see only possible explanation, Faggin just was not brave enough, to propose Exxon tops something more brave, like 68k.
Or he really was, but they chosen simpler and more traditional design for that time.

Finally, I think, Faggin was tech genius, but looks like, this time some political things overweight to obviously flawed decision.
Actually, your reference [1] states the opposite: Florida's "annual electricity expenditures are 40% more than the U.S. average"... which is caused by air conditioning.

I think you meant to state that Florida's energy (not electricity) expenditures are amongst the lowest in the US.
"If accurate, that means more than 25 percent of accounts on the platform follow Musk."

Remember Tom from MySpace? I wonder what percentage of accounts followed him...

Maybe Musk is using the same strat for success...
The authors seems to confuse and conflate both metrics, assuming correlation.
Part of me really wants to try this. Part of me is terrified of scanning my passport with an app I have just heard of.
the author's IQ is high enough that I don't think this opinion is applicable to anyone reading it

Classical Electrodynamics by Jackson (essential). This is the bible of classical electrodynamics, and everyone who works through either loves it or hates it (I loved it).

If you're smart enough that advanced college physics comes as easily as learning to talk, I guess this would be true. The author of this guide is such a huge outlier in every respect of life. I have seen and read many smart people and she's easily in Witten or Tao territory of just being otherworldly smart. I don't think she ever encountered anything being hard. Jackson for her is like a walk in park, which is otherwise regarded as a formidably hard text.
I’m certain this is what’s going on. Every move he’s made since he took over has been destructive to the foundation of the company and brand. Like him or not, he’s not that stupid. I think he’s pissed that he was basically forced into the sale for running his mouth and decided to take revenge by destroying the company.
Some people believe any electrical use and heat consumption exacerbates the carbon issue in equal amounts

Obviously the logic is flawed, but its not obvious to them and they are many
That was my first year text book in 1998. Sounds like it's still going strong!
Honestly if Fedora is working for you and you don't have some compelling reason to switch I doubt it would be worth it. I had been running Kubuntu up until recently and it's meh. It's not horrible, but not good either. And like others have mentioned the whole snap thing just sucks. It's kludgy, poorly integrated and poorly documented. Even the management tools are broken.

I gave Ubuntu one last honest chance and I am done now. I switched back to Debian recently. Seriously I would not currently recommend Ubuntu to anyone. It was okay when Ubuntu was just fancy Debian but it's a hot mess now.
And why won't something pop up in its place? This is searching for order where there is none.
There's still demand for express deliveries, but as it turns out, there's a lot more money in banking.

(And in HP's case, it's a branding decision that, frankly, is reasonable for them to go either way with.)
It might be that for the author specific case (which we dont know in details) maybe this is a good approach.

In general I disagree with almost any idea that tries to fix some problems by adding coupling between components. I think the main thesis is where there is a false assumption:

> Your frontend can finally focus on presentation and UI. Your backend can finally focus on implementing exactly what’s needed.

If you make backend create one API call for each page, you will NOT get FE focusing on UI and backend on something else. You will get FE focusing on UI and BE focusing on UI and something else.

I do get the feeling of rebellion against common wisdom that is FE and BE as separate components.

When I was junior programmer (not suggesting here that author is junior, just talking about my experience) I often found myself rebelling against common programming wisdom.

Now, after more than a decade of seeing so many changes and request I think those old programmers that gave us that old wisdom about separating concerns and losse coupling are right.

I could boil down probably all old advice into the following 3 small pieces:

1. Write code. Not too much. Mostly simple, short and loosely coupled.
2. Go against common wisdom when you understand the tradeoffs. When not sure, pick the common wisdom.
3. You can maybe fix technical issues with more people, but can never fix organizational issues with code.
I’m working on a newsletter platform that is not just another social network.

You own the content, I care about distribution.
Anything from Harald Welte (LaF0rge) is awesome. He's the world's best GSM / Phone hacker / explainer
> and the insipid slogan “Blaze your glory!”

Iam14 and this is funny: blaze, like getting high.
Would IANA assigned ports be "De Jure Ports".

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
The place for solar thermal is probably ease of maintenance. No moving parts means a lot less to go wrong, and a lot cheaper/easier to fix if something does go wrong.

That said, better house design gets you pretty much all the way there, and in places where you cannot design a house to get enough sun to heat it properly you also probably can't get enough for a solar collector to help much.
so we should be avoiding avoiding?
Grey area, sure. He legit thought a rebrand was a great idea! But shuttering the company would be a clear cut example of him intentionally sinking the company.
Surely the dip is temporary.
Yep, there's arguments linking data centers to drought: https://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/silicon-valley-and-the... , which references https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-021-00101-w 'Data centre water consumption'
The emissions of the production and disposal of this hardware is counted at part of the 99.4% of emissions that aren't data center emissions.
The article did not say state change was the only reason to flash. You removed a sentence.

There were 3 states. Different colors would have made a problem for color blind people. And 2 seconds was enough to see the LED was pulsing.
"Occasionally, there will be a thin black bar at the top of the top bar, in memoriam of a significant figure in the tech/science community dying." -- https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#thin-b...
Yes, Backblaze optimizes for planned failure rates and the consequences for their operations, and they will take cheap and fails if it's cheap enough and you can give them 10 million. that's why they didn't overly care about the seagate failures from the thailand thing etc. we need hard drives, we need to not pay $1k a drive (whatever), let's go have people buy the externals we can get. And seagate has always shipped by the truckload, and now they're cheap because people avoid them lol (legitimately).

I also agree with your point that you're optimizing for something different than backblaze. Same for a lot of homelab users. High failure rates on seagate? Umm, if they're sensitive that actually might make them worse in consumer service if they actually do fail all the time. Your whole disk (possibly array, hope you had backups) can go down and some of these failure rates have been absurd, it's like 130% annualized failure rate (everything is dying within 8 months) on the worst of it. And it's just consistently always seagate that is fucking up and while I'm sure This Time Is Different I have so far managed to evade all hard drive failure completely since I kicked seagate to the curb. including my seagate 3tb from the worst model (probably bet it's dead now tho lol) and an ancient seagate laptop hdd from my first laptop (conroe).

WD has mostly been fine except for the stealth SMR thing. I've never had a problem with any of my WD Reds, I knew what was on the market at the time (8TB red and hgst white label heliums) and I bought a bunch (8x8tb for $135/dr, it was cheap) and shucked them, and I got those exact models and it was fine. I should spin up my old USB 3.0 raid array and see if it spins, 4xWD Red 2TB as well, never been a problem (and that was 5400rpm). Toshiba has also been fantastic in terms of quality, and the X300 and N300 are basically the same in all respects other than name (the bit error stuff is bullshit). Toshiba has much smaller volume than either of the other two, but, I love their products when they're available and price-competitive, they've done great for me.

Personally for HDDs I just bought some HGST helium 14tb SAS3s from serverpartdeals for $135 a pop. the fanout of a SAS controller is nice in my environment anyway. that's gonna be my cold storage to migrate off 8x8 - I don't see a reason to run 6+2, I do see a reason to run 3+1 and just increase capacity and have alternate backups of important stuff.

You can also just buy 7.92TB enterprise U.2 2.5" TLC NVME drives for around $350, but then you need a trimode adapter (if SAS) to run them. But that's preferable to me rather than running consumer M.2 NVMe at $170-200 for 4TB. You can also run them off pcie adapter cards or M.2 slots (with riser cable) of course, but, they do run hot and I like the fanout factor, not like I'm ever going to hit anything super hard.
I settled on "Postgres" since it's the only one that does not have ambiguous pronunciation.

Also the Postgres wiki explicitly mentions it as one of the official names (on mobile so too lazy to link).
Could be also but this is what I was told by the instructor when I volunteered for stream directing at a hacker conference
> how poorly named Go is

Ahem how about Chef config management with most its tools named after poor cooking analogies.

Cookbook, recipe, kitchen, knife, etc etc.
Thanks for that. I found this exchange quite a stark difference from the "wisdom" of the Paypal Mafia:

WARNOCK: Oh, I’ve always liked mathematics; problem solving has always been fun. My saving grace in life is that I was not introduced to computers at an early age.

INTERVIEWER: Why wouldn’t it help to learn about computers earlier?

WARNOCK: I went through the university, all the way to the master’s level, so I got a good, solid liberal education. I believe it’s really important to have a very solid foundation in mathematics, English, and the basic sciences. Then, when you become a graduate student, it’s okay to learn as much as you can about computers.
Take example of politics. The left "hates" right and vice-versa. The bond within them is tight and has been going for a long time. Whereas the moderates/centrists party will never have a future because they don't have a common enemy to hate.
>This recent trend of openwashing is unwelcome because it misleads FOSS developers and users who are looking for software that can be used, examined, modified, and redistributed without limitation.

Please do not use the Free Software Foundation's acronym, FOSS, to describe the OSI's definition of open source. Both of the links you provide from the Open Source Initiative don't mention FOSS at all.

FOSS was initially defined by RMS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

FOSS leans Copyleft, which goes against the "without limitation" criteria you've used to characterize it.

This nuance is explained here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
maybe it helped that the other companies had specific physical products as an end goal. It's not like he wasn't doing stupid shit at tesla, but at the end of the day, the people actually doing the work are still focusing on making a car. He can't decide seatbelts are uncool and remove them. If you put a manchild in charge of a website, things are a lot more open ended.
This is purely speculation because I don’t work with ML, but I imagine most Ubuntu specific software tutorials can be applied to Debian as well. They use the same package manager (apt) and should effectively be able to compile/run all the same software.
Hydraulics are everywhere. Ever used a sink? Flushed a toilet? Contemplated an air filter? Felt both sides of a small fan? Wondered how, exactly, a utility pump causes water to go in the inlet and out the outlet, and tried to read the manufacturer’s spec? Contemplated that the ripples when you throw a rock in an actual pond really don’t resemble the average “look I made water in WebGL” animation very much?

if you can understand the PDEs of GR and QFT, you can apply it to this too
Security with obscurity mentality is rather still present at large.
Thank you for your suggestion. I checked the project and found that it's a bit expensive($1.5~15 per 1000 queries, 2023.8.21 https://help.kagi.com/kagi/api/fastgpt.html#pricing) and we are "freelancers".
I've never heard of that in my life - got a link to back that up?
It would be nice if apps could be ranked weighted by install order. When someone is setting up a new phone, I want to know which apps they consider so essential that they install them right away. That's a much better signal of utility (to me) than overall app install volume trends.
> how you can't even buy an express horse-and-buggy package delivery from Wells Fargo.

You're focusing on implemention details which are irrelevant. Every company changed what machines or processes they use under the hood after the industrial revolution and computerization.

From their own history [1], they weren't a general package service, but mainly delivered/transferred money. They still do this as one of their core services. Even internationally at a much larger scope than they used to. [2]

This is not the same as not being able to buy an IBM PC or HP oscilloscope.

[1] https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate/history/
[2] https://www.wellsfargo.com/international-remittances/
Small fluctuations in always on LEDs can be a side channel.
≥25%
I don't know ruby and if it's the same, but if you're not using a library like funcy or toolz for a nested get helper, you can do `dict.get('key', {}).get('key2', {}).get('key3')`. Not the prettiest, but can do in a pinch.
For reference, the OLED LG G3 55-inch TV is rated for a power consumption of 375 W, but that rating typically indicates a worst case scenario (eg. maximum brightness, all-white screen, loudest volume, etc). So your 100 W figure is probably about right.
What ML libraries are you using for captchas?
Can you articulate the personal attachment and motivation? Were they lovers? Was money paid? Some sort of quid pro quo exchange of favors? Do you have anything?
Panama Canal pileup due to drought – biggest congestion in history
How would you go about doing that?

AFAIK in ZFS snapshots are just a pointer to (an old) merkle tree[1], if you go about changing the blocks then you need to update that tree, but you can't due to copy-on-write (without paying for the copy, like I mentioned).

[1]: https://openzfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#d...
Well people keep voting for regulation, so let them have cake.
Kiba looks like a really cool framework, thanks for posting it!
The article from that thread has evidence that this was a deliberate conspiracy. Regardless of the flimsy justification, the affidavits for the search were backdated after the search happened. So the question of how valid the search may have been is moot if they are provably done in bad faith. They didn't even bother with a justification until they were worried about being caught. And apparently also targeted other local pols with similarly baseless searches. That puts the whole ordeal in the conspiracy zone and implicates a lot of people in a lot of felonies.
the graph shows it is still a class system where tattoos cement the wearer into a lower caste, as in likely harder to traverse the socioeconomic classes with them than without

formally educated people with the associated support system to get the degree are the least likely to have tattoos

while all their bastards and the alt single parent that both get ignored forever get and have tattoos, should be a much larger population, which tracks
To quantify this to put it in perspective, the research I've seen puts waste heat is in the very low single digit percentage points (I can't remember exact numbers but I think it was something like one or two percent) of climate impact - and our biggest sources of waste heat by a large margin would likely be thermal power plants, where for a coal plant for instance you dispose of more energy in waste heat than using all the electricity generated for resistive (100% efficient) heating, and that's before thinking about all the carbon and the other pollutants (and then have to deal with huge amounts of fly ash left over). After thermal power plants, the next largest sources of waste heat would likely be industrial processes.

So the more renewable you can make your energy mix, the less waste heat you have from thermal power generation, and then the waste heat from electricity use is probably pretty negligible after that.
Russia's first lunar mission in decades crashes into the moon
https://archive.is/jbpgy
The FDA takes a light touch [1] on tattoo ink in comparison with many other things that go in people's bodies.

> FDA considers the inks used in intradermal tattoos, including permanent makeup, to be cosmetics. When we identify a safety problem associated with a cosmetic, including a tattoo ink, we investigate and take action, as appropriate, to prevent consumer illness or injury. The pigments used in the inks are color additives, which are subject to premarket approval under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. However, because of other competing public health priorities and a previous lack of evidence of safety problems specifically associated with these pigments, FDA traditionally has not exercised regulatory authority for color additives on the pigments used in tattoo inks. The actual practice of tattooing is regulated by local jurisdictions.

As regards long term population studies... we'd also need to know if what's in tattoo inks has changed over time, which seems plausible?

[1] https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-products/tattoos-perm...
Because of the demand, market based pricing in Texas this isnt unusual - also, I think this is lower currently than it was during winter storm Yuri.
I'm curious about the "my words", is this a reference for not using a LLM?
Fascinating study.

For those who didn't read any of it: anxious people's brains use a different area when regulating emotions. Unfortunately the connection to this area may be more easily saturated during high emotional states.

So, over stressed/anxious brains appear to have a different routing setup than everyone else. Very interesting find!
https://archive.is/4g4uD
Can't tell from the article so I'll ask here: In general, or for people who opted in to flexible/erratic pricing?
> While PRACTICAL organizations (e.g., an employer) cater to self-interest and offer opportunities for self-advancement, a mass movement appeals to those who wish to escape or camouflage an unsatisfactory self.

> They seek fulfillment in something that extends beyond PRACTICAL acts in the present, leading them to mass movements.

I think the essay explicitly excludes movements driven by a clear practical obtainable goal, and organized around practical steps to achieve it.
> Well people keep voting for regulation, so let them have cake.

How is regulation responsible for this?
> On Friday The Star reported Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey, the prosecutor who will decide whether to bring criminal charges in the investigation, is also the brother-in-law of the business owner whose expiring liquor license helped kick off the firestorm.

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article27838815...

Judge Viar served as the County Attorney until she was appointed into her judgeship position. (It would be interesting to know if she disclosed the two DUIs, I have my bets considering one of them is mysteriously missing court records.)

> It’s unclear whether a judicial nominating commission that selected Viar for the magistrate position knew about her arrests and diversion. Members of the commission did not return calls from Eagle and Kansas City Star reporters. She would have been required to disclose both arrests in her application.

>She was never sanctioned by the state’s attorney discipline board and won reelection multiple times as a Republican candidate for Morris County attorney.

Looks like the Mayor just missed the first City Council meeting, in 3.5 years. Surely another coincidence.

God I can't wait for more reporting to come out, it's gonna be so good.

And just in case since this thread seems to be full of people needing things spoon-fed, the cops also raided the single city council person who voted against giving a liquor license, illegally, to someone convicted of DUI.

Oh, and the initial meeting, at Keri Newell's restaurant, that preceded all of this, was illegally conducted:

>The meeting was illegal anyway because, if you’ll refer back to the Police Department’s Facebook post, three members of the Marion County Commission were in attendance. That represents a majority of the five commissioners, which makes it an open meeting. Government meetings in Kansas are governed by what is whimsically called the Kansas Open Meetings Act. It’s a bit ironic because its mostly about when government can close a meeting.

Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/dion-lefler...