skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so frustrating arguing against things like this because no matter where you put goalposts, they always seem to move. You can that CA has terrible transportation systems. Compared to what? Texas? New York? Florida? All the other big states have similar problems. The US is large. we have bad transport, but california's transportation systems sure are better than just about anywhere else you might consider moving in the US. Then in the same breath that you complain about overloaded transport you point to a single transportation project as somehow indicative of a problem as well. Then you talk about potholes? Literally everywhere has potholes. I guarantee you I hit more potholes in rural idaho by an order of magnitude (where there is the luxury of paved roads!). Infrastructure is wildly expensive to maintain and population density is quite low.

Up until this next point I was content to just mark you a troll and move on but your comments on california's electrical systems are incoherent bordering on bizarre. First of all, neither the distribution system or transmission system have anything to do with the argument around taxes. Every inch of it is funded by electrical utility rates. Additionally, california has one of the most advanced electrical systems in north america! California in fact pioneered the CALISO, which is an electronically interconnected system of generation that incorporates load and generation in everything essentially including and west of wyoming. They did this because they were voluntarily transitioning to a system of increased renewable generation to reduce carbon emissions and slow the rate of climate change for everyone, so they took it upon themselves to create a load balancing system from whole cloth incorporating dozens of utilities and hundreds or thousands of industrial facilities and small independent generation plants. This program has been incredibly successful and now controls generation and load of nearly the entire western half of the united states. Additionally, California's transmission systems include pretty advanced facilities for moving huge amounts of power from generation rich areas to load rich areas including projects like the California DC intertie, and countless other existing projects in addition to plans from the CALISO to add nearly 10 billion in new transmission in the coming decade. You literally picked the worst possible thing to criticize California on.

Compare that to the typical bastion of 'don't tread on me' flag waving government-hating libertarians, Texas. Texas has the most laughably incoherant energy policy in the nation, and it shows. The texas grid fails under a stiff breeze and still manages to have incredibly expensive energy prices.

The craziest thing about all of this is I don't even live in California, I just can't stand people that can't appreciate the staggering level of planning and engineering that goes into a system like an entire State and they spend all their time grumbling about potholes and wood distribution poles (?!). You're missing the forest for the trees.
You're describing the "any" function, which actually does return false in that case already.
Before callbacks, there were function pointers and there was no Garbage Collection; And before function pointers, there were JMPs, trampolines, and labels in ASM.

I don't share any reverence for the Twisted callback patterns that AJAX also implements. And, the article isn't about callbacks.

Promises in JS have a separate success and error functions. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

MDN > Async function:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... :

> The async function declaration creates a binding of a new async function to a given name.

> The await keyword is permitted within the function body, enabling asynchronous, promise-based behavior to be written in a cleaner style and avoiding the need to explicitly configure promise chains
Nothing in there I disagree with, my disagreement was mostly over the 'largely'/monocausal suggestion of your original comment - migration definitely is a big part of the story of the modern urban Democratic party.

What's interesting is that one of the articles linked indicates that this Democratic shift has been substantial even among people who have generationally been in the same city for a long time. I don't think this really undercuts migration as a massive effect, but indicates the impact of your neighbors as well as perhaps some realignment of the Democrats towards industrial policy that benefited people in the cities.

> Thanks for taking the time to thoroughly read these (and in more detail than I did!

Quickly skimming articles to see if they hold up is a skill learned from years of highschool debate, only a minute or two to prepare to respond to your opponents arguments

Likewise thanks for the discussion :)
How indeed.
AFAIK PC power supplies are actually one of the most efficient power supplies out there so I'll use them as a reference. The Titanium class of power supplies is around 94% efficient at 100% load and 90% at 20% load [1]. On the other hand plain old transformers start at around 95% and can go even higher. Random internet source claims that it can be 98.5% efficient [2].
Of course you cannot run your computer at AC. I had mostly grid-scale equipment in mind. I just wanted to use something relatable as an example.

[1] https://www.velocitymicro.com/blog/what-is-psu-efficiency-an...

[2] https://www.electricaleasy.com/2014/04/transformer-losses-an....
Indictment says:

At all times relevant to this Indictment, ROMAN STORM, the defendant, was a naturalized United States citizen who resided in the United States
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Observing nature is really fascinating, and it's everywhere - even in your fridge! Should you find something you can't identify try https://inaturalist.org/ which makes recording, sharing, discussing, identifying and correcting audio or still image media based observations easy and is of great utility to biologists tasked with understanding and environmentalists protecting our remnant biodiversity. Just be sure to mark cultivated specimens as 'casual'. Also a great lead-in for kids to many branches of science, structured thinking and (in the lead-up to Christmas) fun stuff like microscopy.
You want tuples. They've got index-based access, and all your useful things in erlang:element/2, setelement/3, append_element/3, delete_element/2, insert_element/3.

With a big caveat that modifying tuples isn't great for performance unless the compiler or optimizer determine that mutating the tuple is acceptable rather than providing a mutated copy.
> Yes, setting between Hydra and Postgres (tuned) are somehow aligned.

very somehow, since Hydra essentially is allowed to use 4 times more CPU cores.
> I wouldn't put trains and smooth in a single sentence.

I had over 500 hours in Factorio before I felt comfortable with signalling. I got so frusturated with it originally I just ignored it as best I could.

But the "chain in, rail out" thing as others are mentioning really is the key. It's not always as perfectly simple as that, but it's a very good starting point.

You break everything up into blocks ... if you place a chain signal right before an intersection and a rail signal on the way out, you'll be there for most situations.

Most.

My most complex map has about 50 trains running and all intersecting each other and so far, everything is running smoothly on that one. No trains slamming into each other and everything running efficiently as far as I can tell. Almost all of it is just that "chain in, rail out" thing.
On the other hand, for many years they were maintaining most of everyone's plugins on their own repos. It's not like Hashicorp hasn't been an honest servant of the community.

I understand people's dislike of the license change, but Hashicorp isn't Oracle.
They did not relicense.

All HashiCorp have done is made their own future contributions subject to BSL, not relicensed any previous contribution, nor do they have the ability to do that without copyright assignment of each and every contribution, which they do not have (specifically I have never signed a copyright assignment, and nor has at least one other of the top ten contributors of all time).

Nothing about MPLv2 prevents inclusion in a commercial product provided the attribution and file-based copyleft provisions are followed.
There are definitely other circles of people round the world, but they generally don’t have that same element of, “you can turn up at this place on this evening and probably meet somebody you want to talk to.”

I think it’s an intrinsic thing with British pub culture, the same can be applied to various genres of literature, game design, films, and so many other things.
What do you want to do, ressurect Guy Fawkes? Put a destroy the world switch in IT infrastructure? Kidnap Sundar wife's dog? Inspection triggered ransomware a'la Heisenberg? I have a better idea: serve the spooks loads of ads and The Daily Mail headlines.
If you ever see Paul Erdős mentioned on a math article, it's just for funsies, not real world.
If you are disruptive to the point of violating the law, then you should get arrested. That's the point of having laws. It's not "it's normally the law but if you feel your thing is important enough to violate the law, then nah, never mind, you do you".
*Further Reading*:

- [GPT-4's decline over time (HackerNews)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36786407)

- [GPT-4 downgrade discussions (OpenAI Forums)](https://community.openai.com/t/gpt-4-has-been-severely-downg...)

- [Behavioral changes in ChatGPT (arXiv)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09009)

- [Zero-Shot Replication Effort (Github)](https://github.com/emrgnt-cmplxty/zero-shot-replication)

- [Inconsistencies in GPT-4 HumanEval (Github)](https://github.com/evalplus/evalplus/issues/15)

- [Early experiments with GPT-4 (arXiv)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712)

- [GPT-4 Technical Report (arXiv)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774)
For what it’s worth, literally every vendor that operates in its customers’ AWS accounts does this. Create a cross account role, trust the vendor’s account, and give it read only permissions (although don’t use the built in “read only” role since that includes access to things like S3 objects.
I submitted this post from Twitter about how there's no moat in AI startups that's basically confirming what you're saying, I'd recommend giving it a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36761643
A week ago I switched to Manjaro after spending the last 12 years pretty significantly on Ubuntu. While I did it for unrelated reasons, it's amazing how many minor niggles that I'd gotten used to on my Thinkpad laptop have completely disappeared:

* My wifi used to slow down multiple times a day, and speed up again after I turned it off and on.

* Right-click context menu in Firefox often failed to copy links to the clipboard.

* The file dialogs in Firefox became weird after an upgrade a year or so ago. I could no longer hit Esc to dismiss them. 50% of the time, pressing ctrl+o to bring up the file open dialog and continue spamming o's into it until I killed Firefox. Or it would spam ctrl+o's spawning ever more file open dialogs until I killed Firefox.

I blamed Firefox for many of these. But now I'm not so sure. Manjaro has been great.

I didn't realize the extent to which software can vary at all levels between distributions. Now I think of distributions like different places with different weather. If you don't like the climate in one, try another one (maybe just off a USB stick). It might be very different.
Are you thinking of "deconstruction"?
Directly answered by [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37266016
I understand what you think the difference is but I think you’re wrong
> what the legislators thought the law was supposed to do.

I suppose it was to protect the (online) newspapers? In a more general way, not let the internet become facebooknet?
They just released one of the largest updates ever adding a whole new NPC faction and a bunch of features. And it runs better on PSVR (foveated rendering) and switch (AMD FidelityX). It's an incredible achievement, and I keep dreading the inevitable post where Hello Games decides to move on... I hope it never happens.
It sounds like he was paid, and gets to work on his app. It may not be maximizing the value, but it seems to be similar to accepting a job at a company. He has steady income instead of long term rights.

Perfectly reasonable choice. So would putting a second license for paying customers as an available choice.
What reason is there to trust any provider when you don't have direct read access to their servers?
This article was an excellent counter to the anti-hype-hype.

Seems like the AI hype was so great, that now there is an anti-AI hype saying AI was just another over hyped tech that is fading, and this wave of hype is turning into another AI-Winter.

This article is great at pointing out that AI is really still growing, just now in the 'building' stage. All the corporations are now off building things with AI, but in their own gardens, and not publicly hyping them.

The slower growth state of the typical hype cycle, when the slow adopters are doing their adopting.
How have you never heard of a package lock, yet are criticizing other people's knowledge and tone?
Especially when they specified a radius in km(!).
Could you expand on this with some wider context, please? I’m not particularly familiar with Jasper, etc.
One thing to be aware of, is some filters system have been found to introduce microplastics. I think it’s primarily the container/piping that does this, but it’s been a long while since I’ve looked at things. It’s not unreasonable to consider the filter housing also as a source.
Exactly. But the people who stocked up were labeled as some kind of idiots and nutjobs that didn't trust the system, by the exact people who swore the system was correct about the severity of covid.

Call it anti-social if you want, but don't call people preparing for health preservation stupid.
> Shipping 27 batteries from amazon or china so you can replace them every 2 months is carbon-intensive and resource-intensive

You seem to be criticising some fantasy scenario that has never happened in the real world, and likely never will.

> people want to know that a used phone isn't going to be full of shitty parts

How often does this happen? I have never seen this issue come up in my life, I bought my phone second hand. Have you ever bought a second hand phone ?

Parts avaliability bites all the time. The manufacturer told me to throw away previous phone because a microphone jack is broken.

> we are trying to bias towards longer device lifecycles

You are not if there are no repair parts avaliable. Things break, thats normal, you can't overengineer every screw to make them last forever.

> sue apple for "breaking their phone" when their knockoff part uses a legacy driver

As they should, it is my phone after all. Imagine your car manufacturer shows up in your garage at night and removes something because it's "legacy"
I can say that, the scientific computing community has been affected deeply because of this move. They wanted to eliminate "The Freeloaders", but the collateral damage was enormous, and they either didn't see or don't want to see what they have done.

The thing is, the big majority of these systems won't flock to RedHat, and won't continue to use CentOS.
About 20 years ago I was an openbsd and freebsd admin, webhosting mostly. Then the rest of my maybe 16 year career was debian with some sprinkles of centos/rhel

What would bring me to bsd today? Not in a negative way at all, I'm curious what people love about it. I barely remember much about it. I loved pf over iptables but I don't remember why. It has jailed containers which.. I think people still love? I'm not sure.

I'm reading about appjails and these sound interesting.
So your point is the laws prohibiting people from blocking major traffic highways are racist and should be abandoned, and people should be granted free pedestrian access to the highways, while driving should not be performed on them at all? Or what's the point of comparing this to the "whites only" sit-ins? Are people wanting to drive on the highway doing it because they are racist?
I remember Twitter asking me to send them my photo ID to remove a tweet with my personal details (someone doxxed me). It's not like it wasn't obviously doxxing.

I won't miss Twitter one bit.
Good advice wrt friends, but:

> Its gonna get better.

My partner got a lot of this as she was dying of cancer. It did not get better, and this kind of "optimism" helped no one, just the opposite.
By contrast, over the last 8 years I've migrated a number of small micro services up from every version of Scala since 2.10 with no problems, maybe some minor dependency hell with some of them. I've even upgraded a simple project to Scala 3 with no code changes.

It depends on what libraries you use. The big hurdles tend to involve macros and Spark.
What everyone forgets is how valuable each second of astronaut time actually is. 1300$ for a slightly better pen is probably a great deal for the agency.

The shuttle program (excluding ISS) worked out to roughly 1 million dollars each hour an astronaut spent in space including when they were sleeping. Space stations are significantly better but anything that marginally improves astronaut effectiveness is worth quite a bit.
Any ebay / china laser can be unsafe. I did some test orders in Germany and 2 from the three 'high power' lasers I bought for less than 10 euros were easily over 100mw, and are even labeled as 200mW and 350mW. Very illegal to sell to consumers, but no one is checking. Ebay kicks the listings if they mention the power, so they just.. don't mention it. Buy a "high power laser pointer" and chances are you actually get one. They diodes are dirt cheap.

Even at way lower output power you will damage your eyes by just looking at the dot on a wall.
Use it indoors and all it takes is one unlucky reflection on a shiny object and you will wake up to a detached retina the next morning.
I used the subset that has me in it.
SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief over Environmental Damage
If I were a mad scientist I'd attempt to transplant bat mitochondria into mice.

Bats must have lots of adaptations in their mitochondrias to how much calories they burn.
You can create unlimited FTP accounts locally in a config file.
But this is because the workloads they execute changed, right? Http only before, to more general code today. I didn't see anything there that said gvisor was inferior, only that a new requirement was full kernel api access. For latency sensitive ephemeral and constrained workloads gvisor/seccomp can make a lot of sense and in the case of google handle multi-tenancy.

Now if workloads become less ephemeral and more general purpose, tolerance for startup latency goes up, annd probability of bespoke needs goes up making VM more palatable.
How would signing malware prevent that malware from being distributed? I feel like there’s something implicit you haven’t stated that I’m missing.
Satisfactory added a blueprint system in Update 7, circa November 2022.
Seconded.

Step 0: deploy your own PKI, install certificates on your motherboard firmware, sign your kernel, sign your modules.

Step 0.5: Sign your DKMSs from Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel.

Step 0.75: Re-sign everything because you missed a step.
Chime – Capable. Focused. Fast. An open-source editor for macOS
Which icon sets do you find superior, in particular?

Note that parent meant the UI holistically, and not just icon sets.

AFAIK, this way of thinking about the design of the entire system, and not just in discrete segments is largely unique to macOS. I think it is because Apple has a design language they try to enforce as rigorously as possible, even onto 3rd party developers, which gives the OS & all applications on it a very uniform and consistent feeling.

Windows is the worst. Microsoft has a design language, but they barely encourage it even among their own apps (Settings vs. Control Panel as one example).

I will make a strong claim: I don't think any O.S. developer takes design truly seriously besides Apple. Definitely not Microsoft, partially Google with Android, and certainly not most *nix distros (with the possible rare exception like System76's Pop!_OS).
> Factorio performance is also fantastic

I still don't know how they pulled this off, and as a software engineer I've read all of the development blogs.

It is still impressive that you can scale this thing to huge mega-bases, with things smoothly gliding down coveyer belts, inserters swinging, bots flying around, trains everywhere, biters doing biter things all over the exposed (essentially endless) map ... and no problem in most cases.

60 FPS/UPS.

It almost seems as if the entire thing is written in handcrafted assembly compared to how other games perform.

I'm sure parts of it are.
Did anyone else misread the title? "USB-C [electrical] device uses wood dust to trap [...] [sic]"

IMO the title could do without "UBC".
There's a few actually free sites that give you most of the info that the others charge you for. All the good ones I'm aware of are listed here. Free, no signup, instant search results.

The truly free ones tend to have a tab to search by just a phone number, and you'll never get a fake loading bar.

At one point they accurately listed every address I've ever lived at, relations, phone numbers, email addresses, and even some usernames I can only assume were linked to me as part of some database breach. A few years ago I went through and "opted out" of a bunch of these services for myself and a few of my family members. Looks like I'm still unlisted/removed 2-3 years later.
T-Mobile US profits just keep rolling in. So only thing to do is axe 5k workers
The UK is really struggling with being a small country again, what leverage do they have with their 3.1% of global GDP?
Isn't it a waste of computing power to produce 6000 fps and only use a fraction of them
Show HN: Vlly – Turn all your users into playtesters [VR]
Hello Hacker News, I'm Tremayne and I built Vlly - a tool that allows VR and Spatial Computing team to automatically generate video clips of key user moments so they can understand why users are leaving, how they're using features, where bugs exist, etc. You just install the unity plugin, add a line of code where you want to track, and watch clips of your real users in a dashboard. It's super easy to use and install because I wanted to make it easy for indie devs to use while focusing on building their product.

It's like Hotjar/Fullstory/Sprig/etc for VR and Spatial Computing.

I was working with some VR teams last year and the best advice anyone gave me for how to do user testing was to either be directly next to my user or hire a playtesting service to do these manual tests for me. I thought it was odd that there wasn't something like Hotjar/Fullstory/Sprig available for VR and Spatial that would allow me to just watch clips of when someone was using a feature.

I took the idea on the road (shout out to AWE2023) and it turned out this wasn't just an issue I had so I built it.

Happy to answer any questions or speculate on what could be.

If you would like to try Vlly - it takes less 5 minutes to setup: https://www.usevlly.com

Or get started directly by installing the unity plugin https://github.com/tremayne-stewart/vlly-unity
That "smarmy psycho liar" was an introverted developer-turned-ceo who was in over his head. He is now beloved by the community. Sean Murray is a legend. They have been over-delivering on NMS for the better part of a decade now without charging for anything but the base game.

And yes, they implemented all of it. Everything that was promised and much much more. Just check out the trailer for Echoes that dropped yesterday (the new update for the game): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqpVCwwuyh8