skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. The only negative things that were communicated with me were about missing a couple steps in communicating epic progress. Given how much they stretched to find "needs improvement areas" I would think this would have come up if it was the case, because it's easy rationale to give for why I'm not advancing.

So it could be the reason, but if it is, they're hiding it from me. I do wonder though. I try to push people to be better, but I always do it respectfully. I'll have to ask my manager about this directly, thanks for the comment!
I charge my Pixel 5 pretty infrequently, couldn't give a number though. I leave it in battery saver mode automatically when it's below 70%, and often I will just plug it in to a quick charging cable (the one from my steam deck actually) for 20 minutes to "top up" (may not fully charge but who cares). I only notice my battery life about once every other week. Other than frequent photography, I guess I don't do very much intensive processing on my phone though.
> but since our phones are ad-delivery platforms, they only give you the minimum amount of flexibility to solve it.

Three actions (volume button, tap, tap) on my Android to turn my phone from ringer on to silent isn't that bad. And even though I don't have an iOS device, I'd hardly say they're built to be ad-delivery platforms. iOS isn't really in the ad business as much.
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What? A random blog post that is nothing more than a word salad of the blogger's filenames for their notes on Kabat-Zinn's book was enough to make you conclude that he's not a real scientist and just peddling pseudoscience?

Sounds like your own standard of evidence isn't much higher than pseudoscience.
I think the really important part of the article is this:

"The Vehicle Safety Act explicitly restricts NHTSA's ability to release what the companies label as confidential information. Once any company claims confidentiality, NHTSA is legally obligated to treat it as confidential unless/until NHTSA goes through a legal process to deny the claim."

This can't have been done merely at the behest of Tesla, there must have been other forces at work to get that put into the legislation. So while Tesla is the proximate cause in this case they are enabled by legislation that is hostile to road safety.
Yes, containers on Firefox are better for that use case. Now imagine Firefox with containers and user friendly profile support. The best of both worlds in one browser.
I’d genuinely ask why the fuck he waited for all these rounds to complete if political cojones scan was mandatory for the job. These last Big Men in Power never fail to deliver the most irrational nonsense you’ve never even thought about.
KBA must die.
1. Makes sense. I have no idea how you can communicate that intrinsically in the data. Your explanation here would make a good landing page copy.

2. I was looking at this page (https://www.points411.com/p/chase-ultimate-rewards/). The heading on the first data column is "Exchange Rate (Point/Mile)" which I took to mean "Points per Mile", but now I'm realizing you meant "Point OR Mile". So that means 10 Chase points will get me 8 Amazon... "points"?

This is still a little weird, because I don't think I've ever heard of Amazon having "points". It's all just dollars. The useful ratio would be "100pt:80¢". I want to know how much money (or how many miles) my points are worth. I don't think I've ever seen a redemption at 2¢ per point, so the 20¢:8¢ thing doesn't help me in isolation. It only helps when comparing to other Chase:XXXXX ratios.

One idea: Instead of listing all ratios in common units on both sides of the ":", let the user select what they have and what they want. Something like:

I HAVE ([]points []miles) AND WANT ([]points []miles []dollars)

and list all the exchange rates only in the terms selected.

Different question: How do you determine the value of points in the first place? If the best I can do with my Chase points is 1.7¢ at Hyatt, then what can I do to get 2¢ of value from them? Some internal shopping thing?

Thanks for taking the time!
Then hop in your Time Machine and go scan the 100 year old film strip.

The DVD is likely the best quality you’re going to get
Patio heaters (at least the gas-powered kind) are prohibited in most German cities. Berlin has only temporarily allowed during Covid, as far as I know.

> It's just how it is.

It's a fairly new trend, and as mentioned above, one that's probably already over. Germany has had outdoor Christmas markets for much longer than patio heaters have existed.
I am partial to the "Cuboid" as described here https://dynomight.net/better-DIY-air-purifier.html. Quiet, easy, effective, and get all the foam you need from the duct fan packaging.
Meta is killing it with this open models. Not sure why Tamil Language is missing on Output.
That reads as a normative "should" to me. It doesn't preserve digits, but it ought to.
Downvoted for giving your opinion as if it alone is worth anything. Needs facts, mate.
Sure, most of the links are in the posts I wrote about it:

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/10/garbage-collector.html

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2023/01/garbage-collector.html

AFAIK, the Cheney algorithm is the only way to do copying/moving GC. It's tiny and elegant, and I took a picture of it for a contributor:

https://app.oilshell.org/picdir/resize?name=193n849__4477C23...

The GC handbook explanation was better than anything I found online, including in wikipedia.

But GC handbook is also not engineering-focused (see blog posts). It surprisingly difficult to write a GC -- I have new respect for this problem!

As mentioned, we ended up going to a non-moving collector, mainly because debugging is harder, it breaks tools, and it involves even more rooting. And rooting problem is hard, especially in C/C++.

The GCs in C++ like v8 and SpiderMonkey are a bit hard to read -- it is almost like a special dialect of C++. I found the plain C femtolisp and es shell easier to read. And some toy examples on Github, but many of them (even from engineers I know to be great) were VERY incomplete, and not designed in context.

Don't trust an example GC that hasn't been used in production! It probably has bugs or a bad API for rooting!

femtolisp is probably the closest thing to "small" and "used in production" that I found (since it's used to bootstrap Julia)
https://www.amerigas.com/about-propane/propane-tank-sizes I've most commonly seen the 120 gallon size at homes that use it for a water heater.
They probably see alternatives as providing negative value vs. total clarity from the platform owner re: how to use the GPU.
When running through what meta data to give in the header of a page, I found the 'twitter' stuff... kinda presumptuous(?)... that Twitter would request it's own special meta data.

But then when it was acquired by Musk I remembered I'd downloaded all their emojis, a 'just in case he pulls the plug on other stuff' thought-moment.

And now, I'm reverse-face. The twitter-card stuff is used not only by Twitter. It's a little footnote ever-bearing the rebranded name that others will find useful. So I'll continue to provide it in headers, for the evolution of Twitter that's come and will come further.
Rust's match is pretty cool as well. Here's Fizzbuzz, lifted from [0]

match (i % 3 == 0, i % 5 == 0) {
(false, false) => { },
(true, true) => { FizzBuzz },
(true, false) => { Fizz },
(false, true) => { Buzz }
}

I'm moving from C# to Rust at the moment and really enjoying it, especially now that I (almost) understand the borrow checker

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43896431/c-sharp-equival...
I have heard of travel photographers doing this with high-end DSLRs. You can use miniature painting techniques to make cameras look incredibly worn to the point of broken.
... or driving an embarrassing piece of junk car to avoid getting broken into.
More hardware can improve reliability of a few things but doesn't address the fundamental problem, which is that Tesla FSD has no coherent way to deal with novel situations, which happen all the time when driving. IMHO we won't see "Go to sleep and drive somewhere" until there is something like a general reasoning neural net on top of the ones doing the object detection and physics and such.

"That looks like a firetruck" says the object identication net, "but after reasoning about it, it is actually just a mural on the side of a building"

And nobody knows how to build such a thing yet so it might be a long time.
Why should private investigators be allowed this information at all? As the name implies they are private individuals.
I found this article helpful in understanding when not to patent something.
You're correct, it was my responsibility to understand how it would be perceived by a wider audience. Without the context of my own identity and the tone of the rest of the readme, it is just sexist.
"They were just doing their job" is not a response we accept when police and soldiers brutalize people. Why should it be the same for lawyers when they attack publicly accessible archives?

IMHO, publicly accessible archives can uplift large groups of the disadvantaged. Attacking them is equivalent to cutting public services for the poor.
> we've essentially dug up and drilled ALL of the easily available hydrocarbons

And basically every accessible ore deposits as well… You can't reach bronze age if there's no available copper nor tin, you just end up stuck in the stone age forever.
Will there be a whispercpp equivalent? Half the reason I love whisper is how dead simple it is to get running. I will take somewhat lower accuracy for easier operation.

Edit: unless there is native speaker diarization. That would be a huge value add.
Well, those "actual tests" clearly don't reflect reality. This is obvious if you actually use whisper.
Oh yeah, I have no criticisms with how that project is being run. But obviously they still decided to launch it instead of working to upstream it.
> If i weren't an iOS dev, i would have ran away

I used to wonder why anybody who is not an iOS developer would buy a Mac. Now I just accept that some people make different choices than I would - just with most everything in life.
So in a sense they do care :)
Also hugged to death ;)
Ah! A subtle point.

I'd think that it's a question of definitions at this point. If two systems are both <sufficiently unpredictable>, I would ascribe "free will" and "agency" to both.

Your reasoning seems to be almost exactly the same and equally valid, except all the signs are flipped, so you ascribe those properties to neither.

Either way the two systems are equivalent.
It may not be impossible, but it may well be feasible only a good 5-15 years after it's successfully implemented with the assistance of LIDAR (or other technologies).

LIDAR won't read the posted speed limit, it will only see the shape of the post. But it won't be blinded by reflections, it will never confuse the side of a truck with the sky, it won't miss an object or hole on the road due to poor contrast, etc. It's becoming very affordable, too.
Google is going to remove NetGuard from the Play Store for a nonsensical reason
My complaint is that I can't reorder the items so that an older clip is back "on deck" for a vanilla CTRL+V. Some programs (gVim) don't take too kindly to WIN+V.
A Simpsons TV for a Golden Age
A hacker news comment chain isn’t a great place to follow up on feedback. Email’s alright! I don’t think that’s too out of touch.
This type of language is found in many public safety type laws. It’s to encourage companies to cooperate with the public safety investigation without having to fear that their confidential information will be released. It may seem hostile to public safety on its face but it really isn’t - it’s harmful to public knowledge, which is hardly a proxy for public safety.

It’s certainly been abused by some companies but is likely beneficial on the whole because it encourages full disclosure and cooperation with the government public safety agencies. The opposite approach would be to not have the protection available and to have companies withhold information until forced to disclose by the government, most likely via a lawsuit of some kind which would take years to resolve. Years that could be used improving public safety.
TransUnion also has full control over what authentication mechanism they use. On the extreme end, they could require a Yubikey to be used. However, they deem the hassle to implement better auth not to be worth it while it's users who carry the cost of TransUnion's inability to properly authenticate people.
Not saying I necessarily agree with a pill based solution, but if we don’t see a society crippled by heart disease and related health conditions as dystopian… then I don’t know what to tell these authors…

Ah— they come from backgrounds in “grievance studies”.
I'm so glad you think so! We sure agree :). We're hoping this mechanism helps get some predictability, like that all the platforms that are listed fully evaluate as expected.
I was thinking of how cyclists will often cover new bicycles in crappy worn stickers to make them look not-new, and also Van Moof's idea to ship bicycles in boxes that look like they're televisions so they get handled better.

https://www.vanmoof.com/blog/en/tv-bike-box
Definitely, although I used to be a "aren't you going to get that" kind of person back when a phone call was unusual. The frequency of "calls" now is just insane and the signal to noise ratio is now near zero, and that is what (I believe) has led to my change of philosophy.
A ban on TikTok is not about the US government caring about their citizens. It's about a political enemy having access to data the US government also wants access to.

If it was about preserving privacy or any moral argument, they would also ban domestic social media. They have no reason to do this since they already have access to domestic data.

A second reason might be to mitigate foreign influence and propaganda, but this is also rampant on domestic social media, and they apparently have no desire to prevent this either. This seems ludicrous to me, as these tools are the primary weapons of information warfare.
Can you or someone else explain what they liked about Microserfs? I read it after hearing a recommendation for it somewhere online, but it didn’t really connect for me.

I’m young enough that I don’t have any personal knowledge of the time period to compare it with, so maybe I’m missing a nostalgia angle.

I don’t doubt that it is a great book, it just didn’t grab me for whatever reason.
Especially since he seems to be at least tangentially involved with the Saudis methinks (based on his prior "Financing to go private secured" stock manipulation scheme he got wrist-slapped for...Who knows who else the guy's in bed with. Being a supervillian is way more fun than a superhero
That only matters in a technical sense -- as a consumer, I want a flawless out-of-the-box experience. I don't care if X isn't working because of Y or Z; I only care that it isn't working.
I think it comes from users being deceived by the product UX. My impression is that using Firefox, I often don’t miss other browsers. Using Libre Office makes me miss Excel, Keynote et al. I can’t pinpoint it to a single thing, it just feels dated and inferior. Open source in general seems to work better for infrastructure than applications, even if I have my own favorites. It partly has to do with the lack of product teams like designers, but also that an app is a single endpoint that makes a hard business to sell multiple flavors.
Cody for VS Code v0.8 Released
It allows running multiple profiles at the same time. You can't open links from one into the others though, which I'm sure Chrome doesn't do either.
Seems like a useful trick for any existing manufacturer: Any defects that still mostly function could be sold to South Africa instead of being broken back down for parts.
I take great care to keep my bike dirty. I regularly maintain and grease the transmission clearance and bearings, but the frame must always be a little greasy and muddy, the handlebar tape slack and the saddle full of tape for fictitious repairs. Every part is carefully chosen for its quality and style mismatched with the others.
I was more hoping this would open up another pathway (in addition to Crossover 23 and GPTK) for Apple Silicon computers to be able to play modern games. Doesn't sound like that's the case.
Right, that's why moving collectors are only used in the young/fast generation, for reasons of space and time.

- you don't want the 2x space overhead for your entire heap

- I don't know that any copying/moving GCs are incremental. You just collect the young objects all at once -- the CLR says they aim to make it cost as much as a page fault.

I don't know the common policies offhand, but I imagine the young generation is like 512 KB to 4 MB, so it will fit in caches. The whole point is bump allocation and locality

I don't have experience with GCs where the mutator dereferences through a pointer -- my impression is that's rare, but I'm not sure.

In the normal Cheney collector, the forwarding pointers are only used during the algorithm itself. It has to update pointers for the mutator, but after that, the mutator does normal dereferencing.
They used to operate this way in the UK - the line would stay occupied until the call initiator hung up. We used to play with this when I was a kid, but I've not had a landline since early 2000s, so I've no idea if this survived the transition to digital exchanges. TBH I doubt it, and I know lots of people complained about it, because it was really annoying if someone who'd called you hadn't hung up properly as then you couldn't make any further calls yourself.
Are Cruise Robotaxis Pushing Too Hard? Or Too Slow?
LuaJIT Uses Rolling Releases
I have a similar thought experiment where I try to imagine the true essence of 'nothingness', down to even the removal of the 'idea' of nothingness and even the thought that I'm trying to imagine something. It's a weird feeling.
Perhaps the South African "Blaster" anti-carjacking device from the 90s could be adapted for solar panels?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLhWzMOccTg
Whenever I see politicians screaming about TikTok, it reminds me of the South Park Underpants Gnome business model.

1. Build platform teens love
2. ???
3. Compromise national security.

Fundamentally, the product isn't an effective way to get into secure spaces. Its core audience does not generally have direct access to those spaces, and if they did, that feels like an institutional security breakdown that they allowed any personal devices or software there.

At this point, War Thunder and Discord have both proven to deliver more high-secrecy documents than TikTok has, yet nobody's demanding widespread bans.

"Ooh, but it will spread propaganda or filter things in a way Beijing likes." And if that happens, the audience moves on. Haven't we noticed that social platforms are hyper-fickle, especially for ones targeted towards a youth and entertainment market? How many "look at China's awesome high-speed rail" videos can you slip into the feed before the kids say "screw this, I'm moving to this new platform which pioneered the Drink An Entire Litre of Bleach challenge"? They actually built a very non-sticky platform compared to Facebook (which will persist for decades because people need to talk to Aunt Bertha who never learned any other platform) or YouTube (which has long-form content of value even if the firehose of new content starts winding down)

It all just reeks of sour grapes. We were perfectly happy with China when they were a passive trading partner, a convenient "elsewhere" to offshore all that pesky polluting manufacturing to. But when they start to represent a real economic and political counterweight, producing a high-margin and culturally relevant product that's outcompeting our own offerings, we immediately start rattling sabres. I figure it's the same spiel as with Huawei and ZTE; if domestic products had been compelling enough to win on their own merits, there would be no meaningful market penetration and we'd never even be discussing a ban in the first place.

I wonder if the Vine people feel vindicated now, it feels like they could have been TikTok 10 years ago.
Incompatibility is a two-sided issue, there are enough laptops out there that work perfectly fine in Linux. But a brand isn’t a technical promise, they’ll miss with some models and hit with others.

People always complain about Lenovo in these threads, I think because they are held up as the “good non-Apple laptop” brand for whatever reason. I suspect this reputation makes people assume they can just grab any random model and it will work perfectly. That’s just a roll of the dice, maybe weighted in favor of working, but still random.
This calculus changes if you consider that on most winter days, a big part of the electricity will come from wind instead of synthetic gas.
DVDs are recent enough that the original material they are based on might likely still exist somewhere.
I just don't see how it's incumbent on Apple to implement a standard only because it exists.

It takes significant resources and impacts release schedules to, say, support an on-going vulkan implementation... I think there would need to be a business argument for it. Avoiding "shame" probably doesn't cut it.

It just strikes me as strange when people expect Apple to spend money and focus on their own personal priorities... especially for things that are inherently community-driven.

Perhaps there's a "community goodwill" argument to make, though I doubt they'll try to chase the goodwill of people who complain that Apple "has become is just a corrupted mess of greed behind a curtain of politically correct marketing videos."
It is kind of on point for us - you have to put metal grilles around your gate motors or A/C compressors otherwise it gets stolen - not surprising considering the worst gini coefficient in the world (63).
"the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions. Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small.

[...preamble] it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head."

- George Orwell, 1984.

All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of features and improvements were produced on paper, while perhaps half the users of SaaS products complained or left.
I feel like you did the wrong sort of meditation for anxiety. Mindfulness and breathing where you see the thought come and let it go is preferred for anxiety sufferers. You should not be following your anxious thoughts.

I could see how it would affect you negatively if you tried to follow all your anxious thoughts and delve into their "meaning". The goal for some with high anxiety ought to be lessening its meaning. You should just see it as another emotion with a neutral (or even helpful at times) stance. You don't lessen anxiety by giving it MORE attention. That seems like it would train your brain to think it's way too important and you'd get stuck in an anxiety loop.