skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a personal preference. I do want the manufacturer to lock down the device when I am handing it to a young kid. Zero need for any administrative assistance is a major selling point. I can point to a ton of kid’s computers from the 90’s that included a basic interpreter and no permanent storage so a reboot fixed any problem, they where toys not general computing devices.

As to TCP/IP, a Commodore 64 included the capability to use external storage to exchange information. You don’t need both, but the capability to directly exchange information with similar devices is a major hallmark of “general purpose computing” unlike say calculators or other specialized devices. Palm 1.0 included an email application, thus TCP/IP was a core feature. Instead you need to go from palm > computer > palm, just like say an early iPod or USB stick.

Thus palm started as glorified terminals, and people still loved them.
Did something like gather.town had any usefulness or staying power with conference organisers?

I thought its stated goal was to create a virtual environment more conductive to the very useful small talk between presentations.
When Tucson experienced a hazardous chemical spill during evening rush hour[0] officials required everyone to shelter in their homes to avoid the poisonous fumes outside. At the same time they closed tons of roads for miles around the area, even the inbound road access to many residential areas. What could people do who needed to get home to their kids? They had to park their car and trek a few miles to their homes. So much for staying inside.

I don't know my point really except to bring up another instance where local emergency response did not make sense and it is incredibly frustrating when it causes additional harm.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2023/02/15/1157174863/tucson-hazardous-c...
I ask in the initial calls even when I already know what the answer is. Sometimes, there's a discrepancy between the two that can be a clue that you should look more closely to see if the company is a straight-shooter or not.
How does that even work? Shouldn't it be already expired by now? di they single handily destroy the VR space in one click of the approve button?
Any GC (General Contractor) in Massachusetts (US) can build one of those for you. They are called "Ranches" and "Raised Ranches" depending on how deep the foundation is at your front door.

Any GC should have a huge stack of these plans sitting around, or has worked with a designer that can quickly edit a pre-existing plan for you.

FWIW: I grew up in a Raised Ranch built into the side of a hill. One side had the basement mostly buried, the other side had the basement wall mostly exposed with a garage. The front door was at the point where the basement as 50% underground, so the entry has a very high, and impressive ceiling. At the end of the day, it was still a box with the roof you want.
Slackware itself: 4 -> 7.
I also dump coffee grounds onto our garden, but I put eggshells in with it. Unfortunately our garden is tiny and mainly concrete, so it's only really a couple of flower beds which are now virtually buried in a testament to how much coffee I get through.

https://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2021/01/14/coffee-grounds-eg...
> I couldn’t get directory sharing to work using SPICE tools, so instead I ended up creating an .iso with Firefox and all additional software I needed.

Yeah, I've run into the same issue with Win7 x64 recently. None of the QEMU guest utility drivers is running on Windows at the moment - I have no idea why.
Yes, but also not easily right now. We’ll be adding more supported ways to load models soon, but right now things largely assume using our model registry (and API Key is how it validates who is authorized to use which models).

The “why” is because this has been an internal project for years that we just open sourced, and while it was internal this wasn’t needed. But we’ll add it soon! (PRs also welcome; we’re happy to talk through how that might be architected if you start an issue/discussion on the repo.)
If you're using JS modules and ESLint, you are using a frontend build. You can certainly go back to the days of jquery and vanilla CSS with none of the advantages of modern dependency management, transpilation and module loading, but if you try to do that at even a small company you are not going to last long. These tools exist for a reason, and most people who don't see the point of them were not around for the bad times before the existed.
I'm not saying everyone should stay home. I'm explicitly acknowledging that the average policy works for the average person.

The people that I know that fought fires are Rural and not even on a distribution system. They saved their home while the firefighters passively watched their neighbors houses burned down. The firefighters orders were to make sure there were no fires by a Road intersection, and since there weren't, this meant standing around doing nothing for 24 hours within shouting distance of houses burning down. A good example of how public priorities don't always match your personal priorities.

I get that people hate non-conformists and deviance, but Not everything needs to be an us vs them zero-sum game.
This is one of those areas where everyone lists it as required for the job but in practice you very very rarely use it beyond the basics. Pretty much everyone has an infra person and in most places it's all automated off of the git commits. You'll very rarely touch the cloud and when you do it will be for trivial stuff like updating secrets.

Add whatever cloud/container tech they're looking for into the skills part of your resume when applying. Take a day or two and do a crash course on Docker/Kubernetes. That will be enough to pass the interview. In fact, I think I've been asked 0 cloud/container questions during interviews. Tech companies don't really ask specific technical questions beyond Leetcode/System Design. Kind of odd but that's the way it is.
Linkerd 2.14: improved multi-cluster, Gateway API conformance
C/C++ performance pitfall: int8_t, aliasing and the ways out
> Here's the thing: The idea of planning a house without taking into account the site where it will sit will never produce a good house.

That is untrue

Perhaps not the "best possible" but relocation of houses is very common and practical. Kitset houses are transforming the industry
Show HN: E-Ink Powered UK Rail Departure Board Using Badger 2040W
Hey HN community,

I've recently embarked on a tinkering project that merges the versatility of the Badger 2040W with the practicality of an E-ink display. Inspired by the UK Rail departure boards, I've created an E-ink version that updates in real-time with departure information.

Would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or similar projects you've come across!
I realize you have a different usecase in mind, so the following feedback might not be that useful to you. I also haven’t reviewed your API design, so perhaps you have already considered this angle.

I picked up a habit in Go package design which I now apply everywhere: one of my immediate first thoughts when evaluating a library is how it creates or uses threads.

When I see that a library wants to consume all of the available cores of my system, or uses an internal task scheduler or threading mechanism, I worry that it will compete for CPU time with the other processes, threads, etc. that my system and process are using.

On the other hand, I appreciate when a library exposes an interface for me to offer it threads or a scheduler, or even better if it offers primitives that I can use directly in my own threads or tasks.

Perhaps this is mainly a problem for high-concurrency servers and UIs, but it’s always one of my first thoughts, and Rust is an ecosystem which needs to support those usecases. Many threaded libraries, even otherwise very good ones, are not designed with this in mind and it is a problem.
> If you like making art, keep doing it. From an economic perspective however, you really should consider if your job is at risk from being eliminated by automation, if you depend on it to survive. No hate, just pragmatic advice.

I mean you've basically described why people are upset over this. These systems could displace them, using their own work to do it. It's perverse.

What happens to art if people can't practice it professionally? Isn't valuable to our society to have people who are able to master this skill and make a living doing it? The AI community seems to not think so.
"if...I want a function which gets me the stats on active accounts ... should that function live in the Users, Companies or Accounts context?"

Answer: It should live in a new context. I would call it `Stats`.
COVID-23?
Could you provide more details about your approach? Is the context store based in vector-embeddings?
Because a diode that becomes on has a very low resistance, there will indeed be great spikes of current, which is a desirable thing, because this causes faster switching times between the logic levels.

This is a reason why DTL circuits can be much faster than the RTL circuits, because in the latter the resistances slow down the charging and discharging of the various parasitic capacitances of the circuit.

The current spikes are not a problem (because they are very short in time), they just require the presence of good decoupling capacitors close to the gates, to keep the current spikes localized, and various other shielding or decoupling measures may be needed, to avoid creating radio interference above what is accepted by standards. This is unavoidable for fast logic circuits, regardless of their schematic.

There are only two ways to make a logic circuit faster, either making it smaller so that its capacitances become smaller too, or increasing the current spikes that can be delivered by the transistors. The problem in logic circuits is that the transistors always limit the current spikes to lower values than desired, which limits the attainable clock frequency, and never that the current spikes are too high.
For people using 1Password you can get it to act as an agent to lookup keys directly in your vaults. Again, great integration on a Mac where you can use your fingerprint each time the key is required.
So I gather “BSL” isn’t British Sign Language then?
Price dumping is a very specific claim, and one that was not in the article you linked. By your definition, if I go to my local bookstore and they have a best seller discount at the front, they are price dumping, too? Sales pricing is a thing that is allowed by many contracts from publishers to sellers. For mostly very good reasons. (That is, you are misunderstanding a lot about that case by thinking that Amazon was breaking a deal with publishers to sell at a lower rate. That was contractually allowed by their current agreement with publishers. The "suggested retail price" was basically that, a "suggested" price. Apple helped the publishers move to a new contract that allowed the publishers to flat out set the price.)

Again, I'm not really wanting to defend Amazon here. I suspect it wouldn't be hard to find practices of theirs that I disagree with. I am not convinced they are or were breaking antitrust laws, though; by evidence of them not being accused of that.

I don't really have an opinion on the Epic case. Such that that is just another non-sequitur. Apple has been guilty of antitrust violations in the past, despite not having a monopoly. Any other argument can be fun, but is a different argument.
More discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239584

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37239172
They seem to think they're going to pull a Sci-Hub and just flout the law so long they start gaining mainstream acceptance. The problem with that is Sci-Hub is distributing material we the people already paid to create through taxes, so people are inclined to support them. Secondly and more importantly, Sci-Hub is a small group of people who operate outside the US. The IA is a multi-million dollar organization headquartered in California. The IA can't just ignore lawsuits.
Nah, cinemas have this one nailed with popcorn.
I’ve seen impressive demos with just LLM direct to SQL. Can’t wait to see what people build with these new tools.
On the left the unusual cloud looks very much like the contrail of a missile like object flying mostlt vertically.

But his jet would be too high for a manpad, and a fighter jet would have likely fired from above cloud cover and missile wouldn't have left a contrail. There is some separation between left suspect cloud and the start of the jets con/smoke even. The visible jets con/smoke is wobbly which makes it seem like the was jet hit and then started tumbling before it breaks apart at quite low altitude. Whatever happened rapidly made the jet enter unstable flight.

Is it likely the plane was shot down if so likely a shoot and scoot system like pantasir S1, or the cloud is nothing and it was a small bomb on board.

I put my money on faking his own death.

Mostly uninformed hot take.
OG.cool: Display headlines directly inside your link's OG image
Not necessarily, he may have outlived his usefulness. Assuming Putin and Prigozhin knew; now only Putin knows.
one thing i haven't been able to figure out with .local is that with multiple connections (wire to the lan, wifi to the internet, and vpn to the office network), the computer seemingly picks one of them at random for its .local address. i don't know how to fix that without setting each of them manually.
What I love is that Winamp has not changed one bit for the version that is on my Windows laptop.
Those in-page notification popups are annoying. The desktop web seems to have become a wasteland almost as hellish as mobile.
If you want VOC on top, BME680 is great. I can detect a #2 and when it really is time to change nappies with it...

https://github.com/BoschSensortec/BME68x-Sensor-API
Actually they are hoping to snag the person that has extreme wage compression, working a 85K job that is worth 150K, who they can get for 95K...
> I don't think you've actually done the math on that one.

Since you are implying that you _have_ done the math on this one, would you care to share links to analysis/modeling that backs up your position? I'm always open to being persuaded.

Recently I have been citing https://emp.lbl.gov/utility-scale-solar/ for the claim "solar is cheap on the margin", and modeling like https://theconversation.com/up-to-90-of-electricity-from-sol..., https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g... for "storage isn't going to be too expensive for some time".

To be clear I'm not making any particular case for how we cover the last 10% or so of demand, though I'd note that gas peakers are already a thing that are required to solve this problem, and yes they are expensive, but not unfeasibly so. My claim was it's cheap on the margin, right now. In a decade when we're closer to 100% it might start to get more expensive to replace the marginal % of generation with solar/wind.

Nuclear doesn't help at all with the intra-day variable portion of the demand curve, it's just lower-variance so you don't need to worry about inter-day fluctuations. It seems that most of the time, a diverse blend of renewables averages out the inter-day variability so it's not clear to me exactly how much we need in storage to guard against "no wind / no sun" days. (Is this the mirror problem that we currently have, where a heat wave in TX means the mostly-not-renewable grid can't keep up? Sometimes we see outlier weather-related demand-supply mismatches, and spot pricing / demand shedding are typically how we respond to those outliers.) Over-provisioning wind and solar might still be cheaper than building nuclear and/or storage, or perhaps green hydrogen might be a better option. Or perhaps we keep some gas peakers around.

For the intra-day variability we're already seeing lots of mixed-solar/battery being built (see the LBL report I linked above) which tends to be in the ballpark of load-shifting the generation 4 hours, which is most of what we need for intra-day gap between demand and solar peak production. This is still affordable vs running coal plants, and only going to get cheaper over time.

Anyway, this isn't my field and I'm open to being persuaded, if you want to share some modeling that you think is better.
Yeah it is so difficult to align these. I had two interview loops going and the other company was my clear favorite but the loop took like 2 months while the other was two weeks. So what I ended up doing is that I took the first job and now in a month or so I am going to quit and move to the other. It sucks but I literally had no other way because I cannot predict the result of the other interview and I cannot ask the other to wait freaking two months
Yeah, because rationalistic, non-populistic Spaniards don't ever exis...

Oh wait, their main novel which might be the most important novel ever, (at least for the spark of modern times) it's a fight between idealism and materialism making fun on the old farts!!!

So, who knows, Libreoffice for everything else means an office without ties to Microsoft and any corporation making your yearly profits slave of what Microsoft thinks on their licenses for your desktops.
If biodegrading generates greenhouse gases than we’ve officially surpassed global human capacity.
That’s okay, rto mandates will make everything worse.
Yes, because Prigozhin would be so incredibly stupid as to not have foreseen that possibility and taken out some insurance because of that.
Please do not use ARM in 2023, Bicep is a much nicer alternative for a native IaC language.
Shiba Inu Plans Shibarium's Public Restart Days After Botched Launch
I’m not defending Rumsfeld, but this is entirely too simplistic.

Rumsfeld was hired by Bush. Colin Powell sold the invasion to the US public and the UN. The US Congress overwhelmingly supported use of force. Who knows exactly the extent of Cheney’s involvement. Rumsfeld only had authority because of the chain of events before that.
Stop buying into the "Putin is a master planner" bullshit. Putin is an average human who got high off his own supply and started believing his own rumors.

Wagner mutinied because Putin barely has control over anything anymore, and Prigozhin was getting a little fame, and had a legitimate army at a time where Russia couldn't even defend it's own territory from a raving band of humvees, real mad max shit.

The Wagner mutiny was not some plan. At least not for Putin.
> Why is it impossible to generate a male model wearing anything other than rolled denim jean shorts?

Its not, I got rolled-but-long white denim pants, white shirt, white tie, and white jacket, with white deck-ish shoes but selecting “Formal” on the clothing tab and entering “Clothing: white-tie formalwear”.

But, yeah, there is a definite denim bias.
That depends who is doing/reporting the matching. This could very well be an Epstein-like situation where we'll simply never know the verifiable truth.
Show HN: I Built a Free ChatGPT Prompt Generator
// Any thoughts on how to approach that?

This may sound quaint but I find that being forthcoming and asking the question you have works.

During the latest job search, I would just ask for a range and say myself that "obviously where I fall in the range depends on my candidacy, I won't hold you to it."

If they tell you the range is something like $120K to $150K, it tells you what kind of seniority they are looking for - whether they know it or not - and how much they value people of that profile. If they tell you it's like $150K to $750K - then you know they are really wide open to range of experience and impact. Someone may say that a $600K wide range is meaningless but I don't think it is. If you're more junior you can count on being towards the left but still know they can afford to give you a bit more if they like you, and if you're very senior you can recognize that they have room for someone like you and have an appetite to pay. You'd be totally self-unaware to go into the process hoping for $750 and then landing at $150 but that's more on you.

So I am fine asking for a broad range - it's way more meaningful than no range.
I associate cubism with multiple viewing angles of a single thing, as opposed to multiple things viewed from a single angle. But definitely agreed that cubism was a rediscovery of a lot of earlier artistic traditions of interpretation that fell out of favor during the ascendance of "realism."
Yeah, it's going to be a long time before we can get completely away from hydrocarbon fuel. There's nothing that comes close for energy density for something that is practical to use. (Hydrogen beats it considerably but comes with a million headaches. There's a reason SpaceX doesn't use hydrolox engines despite their considerable performance advantage!)

Thus we should be looking for efficient ways of turning clean energy into hydrocarbon fuel.
I grew up on green CGA, goldenrod Hercules monitors and grayscale mono VGA ones.

Indeed, for the past decade I also prefer the light themes, though I find these dark themes pretty usable too:
https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes-pictures

As I've noticed, the main problem with dark themes is the low contrast usually.
These modus themes were designed scientifically, to meet the contrast ratios recommended by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Also, back in those days mono-monitor days, people just kept the brightness at the same level they used during the day and complained how tiring is it for their eyes to "use the computer for so many hours".

My eyes never got tired, because I was constantly adjusting the brightness to match the ambient lighting and I've drastically lowered it, when I was coding in dark.

I've noticed that dark-theme users (eg during live streaming) crank up their brightness/contrast to compensate for the low-contrast dark themes, then they are surprised to be blinded when they open a webpage, which is extremely likely to be light themed and they keep complaining about light themes...
I like the fact that the fourth "False Dmitry" might have been a false False Dmitry, actually being the third one.
This is what i thought, until i stumbled across ReAct prompts. The tldr is you prompt the llm to give its thought, provide it with guides for actions to take,(you do this through code) then give the answer back to the llm, itll continue in this loop. for the lennon questions

> Me: What was the moon phase when john lennon was killed?

> GPT: Thought: I need to find out the moon phase on the date when John Lennon was killed.
Action: google: Moon phase on December 8, 1980
PAUSE

I didnt code this I just did the search my self following is the google result

> ME: The Moon phase for December 8th, 1980 is a Waxing Crescent phase.

> GPT: Observation: The Moon phase for December 8th, 1980 was a Waxing Crescent phase.
Answer: The Moon phase when John Lennon was killed on December 8th, 1980 was a Waxing Crescent phase.

these iterative thoughts and actions really sold me on it. theres papers that go more indepth
About 3,000 metric tons in LEO[0]. Don’t worry about mass above LEO, as there’s far less up there and it’s not decaying any time soon.

LEO velocity is about 8km/s.

Plugging that in to mv^2 gets you about 200 trillion joules of kinetic energy.

Assuming the chemical (burning) energy contained in space debris is negligible, that 200 trillion joules is the maximum energy you’d transfer to the atmosphere if all this debris suddenly deorbited.

The sun, in contrast, transfers about 430 quintillion joules per hour to the earth[1].

So the kinetic energy of all LEO mass is about a millionth of the energy the Earth receives from the sun every hour.

Prob not a heating concern.

(Please check my math. This was a wonderful nerd snipe but I did it on my phone while defrosting chicken nuggets).

0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652....

1: https://thatsbyers.com/blog/how-much-energy-does-the-sun-rea....