skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For instance it mentions how troublesome it is to use profiles as a "problem". Don't. Use containers. Hundred times more smooth than profiles.

Except for those of us with profile specific extensions, which containers don't help with at all.
And you are assuming that the problem is a real conspiracy theory. There is no need to assume any conspiracy to understand that the system is crooked. Even if it is "normal" to have A linked to B then linked to C, with A benefiting C, there is a moral hazard in a system that makes this possible.
I'm heartened to read a few comments like yours. This sort of sentiment was being downvoted to oblivion not six months ago.

"Oh, am I in that group that's deemed bad? To the rationalisation-mobile!"
I wouldn't take quite as strong a position as this, but as public pianos go, airports are a weird one to me, because if you're in an airport you have no choice but to be there.

Subway piano? I'm only in the station for a while, and I can choose to stay longer if I like.

Outdoor piano? I can keep walking.

Airport piano that happens to be near my gate? Ugh, I have to stay near this spot even if I don't want to listen. It's the "captive audience" part that I am not a fan of. Doubly so if the person playing overestimates their ability or the novelty of their repertoire.
Caloric Reflex Test
This is why management needs to be competent. Average CEO is 58 years old. Their first jobs were in the late 1980s.

The economics and tactics around technology has been revolutionized a dozen times over in the last 4 decades. Now, maybe a few rare individuals have kept up, but most likely, they all rely on outdated strategies from out of touch MBA programs & buzz words.

Its the same reason the market kills public technology companies' innovation and they rely on acquisition.

Its like gunpowder has just been invented and leadership still wants large formations marching against each other. "what if we invested in medical training and add washing our hands so we can keep more people alive?" "nah, more guns and marching"
I'd pay more for Exciting, and Safe rides.
Slightly more cumbersome but try Option-Cmd-Shift-v
Nice. I ended up using fff + a little script that pops you to where you select, but I'll see if this is more elegant.

I don't know about y'all, but my biggest problem with these things is that I'm definitely faster when I remember to use them, but I have literal decades of slow muscle memory that makes me cd/autojump all the time instead.

(Relatedly, why is Dolphin apparently the only GUI file manager trying to make a serious attempt at shell integration? This seems weird? I might be missing something?)
To be fair to Brave, Firefox hasn't implemented this either.
The only people that hate proton are the teams that port games to linux for a living. I personally am sad to see that icculus and flibitjibobo, to name just two, are out of work on this front.
Lots of different ways of motivating KL, but I think one that's frequently neglected in the ML era is its relationship to a likelihood ratio test. Kullback and Leibler originally characterized the KL divergence as the measure of the ability of discriminate between two distributions (ie. perform a hypothesis test between them), given some set of observations (the thing you're averaging over). You can read their original paper for free if you want to hear it in their own words, Kullback and Leibler 1951, although they go kind of deep on the stat theory.

Say you're flipping a coin N times, and you get outcomes x_1, x_2, ...., x_N. You want to determine whether the coin comes up heads with probability P or probability Q (kind of a weird fiction that there are only two options, but roll with it). The classic way to do this would be a likelihood (log) ratio test, you compute this test statistic:

Y = log( Pr[x_1,...,x_n|P] / Pr[x_1,...,x_N|Q] )

Depending on the value of Y you make a decision about whether to go with P or Q, and IMO the definition makes intuitive sense for this purpose: if Y is positive then you favor P, if Y is negative you favor Q. If it's 0 then you can't pick between them. Simple and easy, plus the Neyman-Pearson lemma basically says that it's the best you could do (among the set of decision making criteria which satisfy a certain set of desirable properties).

Having defined your test statistic Y, you might then ask what kind of values you can expect to get, even before you make any experimental measurements. Well, if you assume that P is the true probability (the null hypothesis) then E_X[Y|P,Q] = KL[P|Q]. Basically the expected value of the log-likelihood ratio, the thing you would use to decide between P and Q, characterizes how similar or different they are. When the expected value is close to 0, and hence P and Q are similar, then before conducting the experiment you can expect that it will be hard to distinguish between them. When the divergence is very large then you can expect it will be easy.
Arm's Cloud EDA Success: Two Paths to Greater Value
Mesmerizing

Can’t tell if bugs or clever

Thanks for making it
> (or most likely 16/7 based on demand, but much better than 8/5 of a typical shift driver).

Or more practically 4/5 plus a small amount outside that.
True but the driver before the world wide web would have been cable TV over fibre to the home.

She decided it was better to open the market to foreign cable TV providers and so barred BT from selling TV access.

Without TV there was no driver for fibre investment.

Where BT would have had a requirement to provide universal access to fibre, as with phone provision, Telewest and NTL just did geograhically limited roll outs of legacy coax and the rest is history.
The Chinese subsidiary basically declared independence. Last I saw the two sides were at an impasse, and the Chinese sub was continuing to do its own thing - ARM parent appeared clearly to have the law and the facts on its side, but without the ability to enforce a foreign law judgment or get into an unbiased local court, what are you going to do?

Forget it, Jake. It’s China.
Recruiters mostly pitch me on "working for TikTok," because that's where the name recognition is. No doubt this is even more true for people reading Gizmodo.
I've always found the Firefox devtools be a little less 'quality of life' like. Just my opinion. Haven't used it in a few years. But for me, I just live in devtools, you know. As most of you here, probably. Opinions?
> like... having a debugger attached to your program

Maybe this answers your own question, it’s a great reason to use a REPL, and this is a good analogy.

One thing REPLs are good for is the ability to interactively work through syntax errors. Type a line, it has a problem, so just do it again. It doesn’t have to completely stop and start over like a compiler. Syntax errors are not a big deal for a small test file, but can be very annoying if you’re working in a big project with a big build system.

I’d say not having to save a file, not having to write the command line to compile it to another file, not having to write the command line to run it (while usually leads me to write a small makefile if I have to do it more than a few times), all in addition to not having to wrap the code in “int main()” all adds up to a nice convenient way to run small snippets of C/C++. It might be extra useful to optionally auto-include the most common headers, and perhaps offer some shortcuts for common things.

I test little snippets all the time like printing the bits in a floating point number, or checking the syntax for struct packing, or dumping a quick table of numbers run through a function, stuff like that. It’s a pretty common occurrence for me to want to run a small amount of C++ code without any workflow overhead.

I also use Python and JavaScript REPLs all the time too for quick tests, even though they also take files, and compile them.(!) All language compile to machine code, so I’m not sure I agree that has to do with how well a language works in a REPL. Python’s really not that great in a REPL, IMO: you can’t easily paste copied code into it because the indentation is usually wrong.
There will definitely be induced demand. Most people don't just choose travel mode based on cost though. Travel time/convenience is the biggest factor, and AVs will probably not improve those significantly. The reality is that walking/biking/transit aren't competitive in terms of convenience in most US cities right now. If taking the train is faster than driving, people will do it. That is the fundamental issue that needs to be fixed to allow other options to be successful, and I view killing people's obsession with parking as the largest step in that direction.
> there is no contract

There are social contracts
What exactly makes an action a "legitimate action in defense?" John T Williams had a knife, but I'm not sure his killing was legitimate.
Chrome is now scanning every file on your computer and sending back metadata to google unless you opt-out in the name of "we made our browser an antivirus too!" but nobody sane believes that stuff.

At least use a different chromium based browser instead of chrome itself. Brave is a fine option.
Who says they aren't selling the data? They are probably selling it to every company trying to do a language model at the moment.
We all know. It doesn’t change the discussion of the topic in the slightest.
....oh dear.

Who's trying to run this?
Yes, this is important where you're online but not on a high throughput connection or any part of the connection has intermittent faults.

The disruption from even a few outages is enough to prefer to run things locally. We had issues with people unable to sign into Excel and everyone went mad (rightly so, as Excel was running locally not 365 but it blocked usage)

And on top of that, there are scenarios where you'd want to process substantial amounts of data that would be prohibitive to upload, process and return the results, where locally handling it would take way less time.
Just found out about this by looking into why I get dizzy when I swim crawl in the sea! The body is truly a complicated and wonderful thing.

from this page: https://www.outdoorswimcoach.com/post/i-m-so-dizzy#:~:text=B....
At some point, cheap trumps efficient.

Propane is easy to store, easy to transport, propane storage tanks are cheaper than batteries, require no high-tech manufacturing or rare earth elements, and I'd guess the energy storage density is higher.

Many (most) existing cars could be converted to run on propane and the engines will last longer and emissions will be lower as it's a cleaner-burning fuel.
I'm the other way around with ungoogled-chromium but yeah I do the same.
I find management only really ends up being a problem if they get too deeply involved in the contents of technical quality work. If they're limited to budget allocation it's actually better to have them involved.

I almost always tell management that by default I'm spending, say, 30% of my time on technical quality and ask if they'd like to dial it up or down temporarily because of a holiday or a deadline they can. I will track this and show it to whomever asks (e.g. their boss and boss's boss might be interested if they've explicitly asked for 8 straight weeks of 0% work on quality).
I doubt many people under 40 know what Compuserve is/was.
Are there really big capital inventors who will say “nope I don’t work on that exchange”?
If you look deep enough they are not exclusive. From the deeplearning book:

"Many authors use the term “cross-entropy” to identify speciﬁcally the negative log-likelihood of a Bernoulli or softmax distribution, but that is a misnomer. Any loss consisting of a negative log-likelihood is a cross-
entropy between the empirical distribution deﬁned by the training set and the
probability distribution deﬁned by model. For example, mean squared error is the
cross-entropy between the empirical distribution and a Gaussian model"

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/288451/why-is-mean...
"Mothers ... having never given birth"?!

What am I missing here?
This seems silly. Maybe the coating could be useful on a larger surface in a mildly-trafficked room. But I don't think I'd spring for a lampshade over placing a small active purifier under the lamp.
Arm/SoftBank: even an army of underwriters cannot stand up $70B valuation
That's an interesting question.

I'd be inclined to think The Wonderer has no use for a computer. Their life is mostly about survival, food, shelter...

But when society is again ready to automate calculations... it's only a hundred years before computing is back.
25-key MIDI controller? There are a few people who have gotten AHK to send/receive MIDI, and you can pick up a cheap B-stock controller for far less than a mechanical keyboard.
Every one or two years im trying out libreoffice (or previously openoffice). Every time i coudnt use it, because its font rendering was so horrible. Apparently it finally got fixed in 7.4 . Just, in the meantime i switched most writing to a markdown system... :-/
The way of ways, the full cycle of the modern data stack
Travel to the third world and ask the locals on how they deal with eating only once a day.
Show HN: I made a platform to sync from Androids HealthConnect remotely via REST
over the past 3 days, I realized I wanted to integrate with Samsung Health data the app was pulling from my watch. However, I couldn't, since Samsung Health has no API- this was pretty disappointing. I knew Samsung exported all of its data to Health Connect, an intermediary application on Android that syncs health data between apps. Then it hit me- I could tap into the Health Connect Data Store for my work! To simplify this for all future applications I might want to make, I made HCGateway! HCGateway syncs data from Health Connect to a remote server while keeping everything encrypted. It syncs data every 2 hours, which means I'll always have access to updated data. Any developer can now tap into their Health Connect data through a REST API!
(as an added bonus you can now use a unified API for multiple health apps)
Does capitalism work?
zero chance of any regulators agreeing to this plan.
Can you please explain these numbers of layman terms?

Let's say my car burns equivalent of 100kWh worth of LPG, how many kWh of propane i can recover from the exhaust gas and how many kWh of electricity i need to provide for that?
The Acrobatics of Switching Between Management and Engineering
I think I was on Prodigy a little bit before BBS' then after the BBS era began to wain it was dialup PPP (then a hacked PPP server at MIT), and shell systems.
Top VICE journalists leave to found 404 Media to cover hacking, right to repair
Some early PCs would boot to a basic environment if it couldn’t boot to any other OS. Not sure if that extended to machines that could run Win3.1, but IBM 8088 PC-XTs (and similar, but that’s what I had) definitely did that, though normally one would boot them to DOS.
Eliminating the tedious and dangerous task of driving is an enormous benefit to humanity that will save 30,000+ lives a year in the US alone. We will end the misery caused to millions from injury and tragedy, and the billions of dollars lost. We can rethink our cities and move parking to the periphery.... Humanity will benefit.

They said all these things about the Segway, too.

I think it's been ten years since I've seen anyone except a cop using a Segway. (And I'm not sure how my local PD is still using them [as of yesterday], since I thought they were discontinued.)
Cons gotta con!

This guy went from a scam credit card to a scam music festival -- then to prison for fraud. So, sure. Why not another "music festival?"
Thank you for clarifying (you said "energy density goes down due to the expansion").

Can you also clarify why galaxies don't expand, but empty space does? I suppose this is something to do with "vacuum energy", but it's not obvious to me that vacuum energy actually requires a vacuum; I thought it was present everywhere, but was only significant in the absence of other "stuff".

I also understand vacuum energy to be related to Hawking Radiation, which is black-body. But black-body radiation is EM radiation; DE is neither black-body nor electromagnetic. Why does vacuum energy not produce observable EM radiation? Is it just too weak to observe?
If you or a random reader is on MacOS, try out Orion - a Safari fork that has support for both Chrome AND Firefox plug-ins. I can't stop using Safari... I know, I'm a dying breed, and people at work were (and still are) a bit weirded out by it, but if you're like me, Orion is a very nice alternative if you want "real" adblockers (and 10000s of other plugins) at your disposal!
Fyre Festival 2 tickets are on sale
That was my first thought too - but my second was "there are people who were BORN after the internet who are now adult members of society and we're still managing software projects the exact same braindead broken way we were doing it back then".
I think he's more saying he's in agreement, but unfortunately the people who should take notice, won't.
The “more throughput for your buck” seems to hold even as you move up beyond “filter taped on a fan”.

The air filter I built out ran me about $200 without the filters. (Lumber, inline duct fan, foam tape for sealing, window screen, some other accoutrements. The bulk of the cost was the fan.)

The filters are two 3M MPR1500/MERV12 5” deep furnace filters that ran $75. They’re prefiltered with some activated carbon sheet and some window screen (to avoid the filters clogging with pet hair). This is a similar filter to what runs in my furnace and they generally last over a year in there—the 5” filters have a lot of surface area.

So all in let’s round up and call it $300. Looking at Amazon and ignoring the questionably rated all-caps-manufacturer style products, looks like they would get me an air purifier rated for 600 square feet at two air changes per hour. Similar deal at Home Depot.

At two changes per hour mine’s good for about 3000 square feet. Which means in the space it’s in it can do more like 10 air changes per hour, or one every 6 minutes.

In reality that’s a lot of moving air and makes quite a lot of noise. Day-to-day I’m running it at around 20% and sitting at two changes per hour. But when we’re cooking something smoky or during wildfire season, it’s one knob to turn up a bit and the air cleans up in here almost immediately.

I run an AirQ which measures PM1/2.5/10, among other things. Without the filter on they all hover around 20ug/m3. When we’re frying food it can easily hit 300-400ug/m3 in here and unless we open up a bunch of windows it takes a long time to come down.

With the filter on it’s 0. Not 0.something, just a flat 0. If I turn it off and get it up to 300-400 in here and then turn it back on to about 60%, we’re back below 100 within 15 minutes, and down to something that rounds off to zero about a half hour after that.

Which is all a long ramble to not really say anything except that it was a fun project.
And find a pig that catches your eye
Pkg.go.dev Is Down
https://pkg.go.dev is down
Alternative is https://godocs.io/
Getting driven in a self driving car is not so much different from getting driven in a driver driven car. You get in, you check your email, you get out across town, etc. This is the same in both.

It's not really comparable to flying in the air to a different part of the world for the first time...
Yeah mine is a home NAS, not a professional deployment. At first I was a bit disappointed at losing half the storage due to using mirrors but honestly it’s not a big deal considering the prices I managed to find on the drives. And I also wanted to expand at my own pace. The drive I recently used to replace the dead 4TB drive cost me 110€ and it’s a 10TB drive.

I got 2 so I’ll also replace the sibling of the dead 4TB one.
My disdain for Windows has nothing to do with that. It comes from trying multiple operating systems. From a development and usability I do not find Windows to be good. From personal usage, IT management and consulting, Internet hosting, and development in full stack, desktop, service, and embedded applications.

Open file locking built in to the OS is not a good feature. Sysadmin days of having to wait and delete an empty folder because Windows Explorer keeps the thumbs.db locked with no other files in the directories. Where UNIX environments let me delete an open file, replace it, or rename it. Nothing like downloading a PDF, having to rename, because it's file name is a GUID. Renaming it based on the PDFs title, in Windows, requires using notepad to type the new file name, close the PDF, and then rename. UNIX removes the need for notepad or a text editor to do this, just rename it while viewing it.

Means to run a service and also have that service run a GUI application as the currently sign in user is simple in Unix where Windows requires a bunch of API hoops to perform. Recommend reviewing Ultra VNC source code it this needs to be done.

Winforms and WPF touch event design is broken. Had to circumvent the API for standard message pump parsing to work around faulty drivers and WPF latching on to UI elements while the fingers have left the screen.

Having hit edge cases where Windows backwards capability breaks with new features. Had to hack a virtual keyboard means to work around. SetForegroudnWindow() brakes with UWP and while operating Windows in tablet mode, needed since main applications run a touch screen without any other physical inputs. This would be BringToFront() in Winforms too. This edge case is not listed in Windows documentation too.

Irony is that Windows 10 in tablet mode has the best All Applications display by utilizing the whole screen versus standard desktop mode with single column infinite scrolling.

The registry just a bad design. No way to recover a corrupt hive unless there is a backup. Where UNIX configuration files are easy to re-construct if they get corrupt. Never had a UNIX system that could not be revived where Windows must be re-installed.

All of this grew out of continual use with using DOS to Win 3.1 to Win 10 and recently trial of the terrible Win 11 regressions. Cannot event place the taskbar at the top of the screen like Windows 95 to Windows 10.

You have to pay me to use Microsoft Windows.
That would be unfortunate. We just got back from vacation and thought Oslo and Bergen were fantastic places to be car-free.
If only this was just a convenient way to remove a billboard instead of a small part of Iraq's incredibly unhealthy sex culture.
Maybe there should be a “jwlb” board - Jobs With Work Life Balance :-)

I will take that any day over those trillion remote work only job boards.
Yeah, I've seen the device, but as someone who hates using laptops, I'm not a fan ...
Not really. MedPalm 2 is already better or equivalent at all metrics except the one OP cited. So it will be just a reasonable improvement.
Switching hand to right hand only was definitely forced in the Irish education system back in the 50s/60s, I have older relatives who were forced to switch hand.
There are also people who completely ambidextrous, look at the professional snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan on YouTube. He plays against people who would have put in equal amount of time tin the 10s of thousands of hours and no other professional player can play as fluently on either hand.
The Chairman of The Fed has his assets being managed by a company that the Fed does business with. It's completely reasonable to assume a conflict of interest in this less-than-transparent environment.

The upper tiers of power don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
What use is profile switching when one has Multi-Account Containers ?