skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do this a lot with various service-people… I've missed a few flights here or there, and then contacted the airline, "hey I missed my flight, Janet Buttersworth helped me fix it up for a flight an hour later, she was super cool and I really appreciate it.

Or a cable installer, I'll just ask for the name of their boss so I can put in a good word for them.

Quite sure this has been responsible for a few bonuses here and there, pay it forward, etc.
I saw this was noted online as a potential issue so I did try two different cables first and neither of them worked. It's completely possible that neither of those cables were up to spec either, so I've ordered one that is VESA Certified
to support DisplayPort 1.4 and I'll have to check and see if they work without the hack when they come in. I'm on my Mac now and it just lists 85 and 50 Hz in the display settings which seems odd.
It's different than LambdaMOO because it's transactional (or will be). MOO had a global interpreter lock, was single threaded, and each user got a tick based time slice, so there was not really the possibility for state conflict, and there was concurrency but no real parallelism.

At its peak under heavy load on the machines we had back in the 90s, there was some really bad lag as we all waited in turn to f'ck up the world together.

In my system each task (command) gets a separate thread (well, tokio async thread, so not always a physical OS thread), which is its own fully snapshot isolated DB transaction. State is isolated MVCC style (eventually including all I/O) until commit. If the commit is not successful because of conflict the transaction is rolled back and retried , and the user is none-the-wiser.

It's all experimental of course, but I've spent the last ... some time ... working in and studying database tech, so I'm confident I can eventually make it scale. Right now it's just hoisted over RocksDB as a shim but I'm ... building my own thing on the side which will eventually perform/scale much better for the heavily concurrent multiple-writers scenario.

There's still VM opcode based ticks, as in MOO, and limits on them, but that's more of a resource control / time management system to prevent infinite loops and resource abuse and so on.
Fake praise isn't recognition, though. It verges on (and sometimes is quite intentionally) mockery.
> because it means that they have to completely change how they teach with only a few months' notice

Why? Doesn't it only mean they need to change how they test understanding?
The NVIDIA proprietary driver is about the same size compiled as the Linux kernel, iirc.

The reason is, GPU drivers are basically complete operating systems, just for the secondary computer we call the GPU instead of the CPU.
Related:

The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7830881 - June 2014 (153 comments)

The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 (Source Code) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477834 - Jan 2012 (1 comment)

The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2245786 - Feb 2011 (125 comments)
> Hey I’m glad you patched the bug, but can you give the SREs a heads up next time?

I read it as passive aggressive. Pretty much everyone in my culture would read it this way. If you think it is a good example, please reconsider.
> Feds only impose a floor.

But then what is it for? It's representatives from California deciding what the minimum wage should be in Texas and not what it will be in California.

The people in those states in many cases have higher PPP than people in higher cost areas but also have a higher unemployment rate that the externally-imposed floor only makes worse.

If the people in Texas want a higher floor they can enact it themselves. But they don't, and they may not be wrong, because different states have different economies.
I don't. He's the obvious choice for this thought scenario for several reasons:

1) He's the richest man on the planet

2) He has competence (arguably, but that's another debate)

3) He already has all the infrastructure, experience, and people to do close to this exact thing

4) He's already widely considered evil or at least hated

If you sub in Bezos, I'm guessing he's got a lead on EM in the software, but he'll be way behind in other areas.

If you sub in Buffet or Gates, then I have no idea how to even have this flippant conversation, because I have no idea how to rate their ability to get the job done.

I'm confident 3 of the 4 above could solve the problems of "make autopiloting, auto-targeting AI drones, and produce millions of them." I'm sure countless people could solve those problems and have the means to get it done. Have your choice of billionaires and motives, or nation-states and motives, or aliens and motives.

Maybe I should have chosen Santa Claus. I do really have a hard-on for him.
I may regret making this comparison, but bear with me here... the thinking person realizes that the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" are in no way an accurate reflection of two camps on that issue. In the same way, what's clear to me is that dams are not anti-salmon, despite the common political portrayal that dams == dead salmon, no dams == return of the salmon. Could the fish (not just salmon, but also lampreys, sturgeon, trout, etc...) do better without dams? Sure, possibly, but let's not overlook that these dams also employ technology to cool the water to counter climate effects. And, the rate of fish through the dams is pretty darn amazing -- 95+% will survive their up /down journey. So I'm with you - we all have to study and look at the big picture and try to reign in the various political forces that may not be acting with cool heads (on all sides of the equation).
Metal blocks some x-rays but not all. The more x-rays you have, the more pass through. When doctors are xraying people, they use as little xrays as they need to get a good image of the fleshy bits, so metal objects appear opaque relative to that.
If you're using it in place of a car $1,300 is cheap. Plus you're much more friendly to the environment and your own health.
AT&T charges me a different amount every month as it is. I can’t figure out why, the bill is too stupid complicated, but the amount varies between 10-20 month to month. Why would I ever trust those people to ACH my account an undefined amount each month? If the bill amount was actually fixed and predictable, sure. But that’ll never be the case.

I really hope banks charge the carriers for bounced checks. That’s not something a consumer should have to do if their account is $3 too low because they funded the account for whatever the bill was last month.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220412005212/https://www.eurog...

https://archive.ph/z6qbR
Sometimes you just want someone to acknowledge the hard effort you put into it and share the rejoice that it’s over/complete.
> If there was no corollary hill worth dying on then there'd be no reason to specify that the hill in question wasn't worth dying on.

This does not hold. The hills in question were numbered arbitrarily. They had no value. We threw away lives to capture them only to give them up immediately. It was a pointless exercise. The phrase references this pointlessness. Attempting to assign meaning to the hill betrays a complete misunderstanding of both the history and the lesson.
Like you basically said, consciousness is just an awareness of self. Awareness of self comes as part of an evolutionary adaptation to survive and propagate.

Consciousness does not necessarily mean you are non-deterministic in your consciousness operating.

Everything may be deterministic, but too complex for us to figure out at this point.
> there's reasonable definitions of "academic" where logical unsoundness is still academic if it never interfered with the reasoning behind any proofs of interest ;)

I wouldn't really so. If you were relying on the type system to tell you about any errors you made in your program, the revelation that your type system was unsound is not "only academic" simply because your program coincidentally didn't have errors. Just like it wouldn't be "only academic" if you discovered that your car's airbags weren't functional for the last 10 years even though you never had any accidents.
Interesting images and a very well put together page.

But a little off topic, I was struck by this:

> With the powerful 1200 W heating element

A typical European kettle is at least 1800 W, comfortably less than the power deliverable from a 10 A, 230 V circuit. A typical UK kettle would be more like 3000 W, such as this one (it seems that all the kettles on that website are 3 kW):

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9363195?clickPR=plp:1:72
Exactly the world described more than a century ago in The Machine Stops, which I think should be required reading in all CS curriculums. Free to read here: https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/....
The aquirerer can pay for license to use Terraform if they want to use Terraform to compete with HashiCorp.
There are scans of other, more-complex objects on the site, such as the Nintendo Game Boy series: https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/game-boy-compendium
I dunno man, I've met some of these eastern washington landowners that have their heads pretty far up their own asses. At some point apathy and ignorance become malice.
I wish SoundCloud supported this.
What part is condescending? Asking if you thought through another approach? Or asking for your findings?
You can use a much higher dose on inanimate objects than you could on a human patient. (See, for example, airport security's ability to see inside your Macbook...)
> can you prove to me in a verifiable way that no matter what prompt I put into ChatGPT, it won't give me pornography back?

No, but if it's turning you away even when you're explicitly asking for it, it's probably doing good enough. Nobody held Yahoo, Lycos or Altavista to this standard.

If accidental erotica is the worst outcome you can imagine for the shortcomings of AI teaching, please leave worrying about this to the professionals. Consider flawed chemistry lessons, where it tells some kid to mix two things they shouldn't. That will actually cause material harm to everyone around them.
""How does a brand show up in somebody's DMs or Discord server if they're not invited?" Haberman said. But in many ways, that's the point. People can still go on Instagram to check on their favorite celebrities and influencers, but young people don't want brands and marketers infiltrating the closed communities where they spend most of their time."

For some reason, it takes people a long time to figure this out. There is no room for advertising in peer-to-peer networks which is the OG design for the internet. I have been experimenting with running private L2 overlay networks since 2008, pre-Wireguard. The networks are small, managaeable, there are no strangers, no large audiences. If marketers, advertisers and so-called "tech" companies want to try to hack into each and every one of these private networks, then let them. It will be a ton of effort to do on a mass scale, and for little reward. If they are caught I think we can sue them.

The open web, walled gardens and "app stores" will always be around for marketers, advertisers and so-called "tech" companies. If anyone wants to communicate person to person or person to small group through a third party's website/server, say, "Mark Zuckerberg" or some other person they don't know, they certainly can. Unless it's HN, advertisers, "creators" and "influencers" will all be there.
It's so annoying that they only used one example (Murray Hill) which is actually MU and not MH, which required me to re-skim it a few times to grok what was going on.

It would have been nice for the article to provide several examples of the mnemonic.

While I've been aware for quite a few years that the telephone system used to use names for exchanges (eg, Pennsylvania 6-500), it took a few MORE years for me to realize that it mapped to PE6500, or 736500. It's one of those things where, if you understand the system (like my parents did), it's obvious and it doesn't occur to you that you might have to explain the letter-to-number mapping .
4K cameras are tiny, and you could only turn them on for a brief moment to take a picture.
Zuckerberg is really damn good. He really positions Facebook to take advantages of this.
+6 or +3 is irrelevant to the scheduler when they're setting the meeting time: they want it to be 6pm regardless of any time zone changes in the future. So they deliberately do not store the UTC offset with that time. They only store the geographic location.

Then when the meeting time is approaching, the software can figure out what time zone (and UTC offset) applies, after taking account any time zone changes that have taken place in the intervening years, and appropriately set reminder notifications.

If they were to store "X seconds from the time this message was sent", then any time zone change would likely make it not fall at 6pm on the target day, so that's not what they'd want.
You don't need fermions to form a black hole. Bosons (in particular: photons) work, too [0, 1, 3], as do gravitational waves [2], so Pauli pressure is not a convincing argument against singularities.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.2778

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3880

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5898 (building on [2])
I typically find these people in corporate firms. The “I want to be friends with everyone” person.

Detangling their corporate double speak and no spine demeanor can become tiresome and counter productive.
And yet, despite all that, the median person is much, much better off than prior to all the economic development.
Tesla isnt the only company that went to China, why is this such a big concern - I bet you are using an iphone made in china.
>This is irrelevant.

no, it's the entire point. Don't focus all on the bad, we're biased towards that and it's something we should always keep in mind.

>In the example under discussion, the judgement of the work as a whole was "bad",

exhibit A. Where in that top post was the objective judgement "bad"? As a reminder:

> If you are calling out your colleagues for doing bad work, or not the way you would do it work, you should try to rephrase into praise w/ direction. “I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?” Instead of “Why didn’t you do it this way?”

We're assuming the "caller" in this case is right. When there may not be a metric of "correct approach". This is especially highlighted with "not the way you would do it". Okay, who says your way is the best way?

If you cant self-introspect and understand different approaches, as well as shortcomings in your own, then yes. I would say you are that hostile worker no one wants to work with.
No. VR is to the WWW what the WWW was to the internet. It will bring the rest of the world onto the net where previously only print, video, and audio were. AI will be the next UI medium. NLUI natural language user interface or SUI spoken user interface, somebody will come up with a better name.
> Something I haven't seen discussed anywhere, but to me is almost obvious - these various wave generators we see in discussion for off-shore use. Is there a way that technology can be used in the Columbia, Snake, etc without the need for a dam?

There are some companies doing small scale hydro, by taking advantage of the natural flow of a river, without the use of any dam/head. Eg. see https://emrgy.com, and a volts podcast with the founder/CEO: https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-make-small-hydro-more-like#de...
Well that's one mystery solved:

https://youtu.be/QacpBRPonzM?si=7kFqTOe9S9F0OORy

I never knew why Homer gave the fictional number 'KL5-3226' ("Klondike-five") for his Mr. Plow commercial.
Happy to see the proactive moderation.

Update: Didn't see your comment on the original post.
Yeah I personally store mine with the filter head on, and the plunger/gasket inner cylinder separate. Also other protip (which may actually be in the instructions), I pour the hot water onto the gasket before pushing it into the AeroPress, so the material expands and will have a tighter seal.
Photography.

Started with film when I was a kid but was always scared by my parents because of the "high cost" and then when I got my first digital there were no more restrictions.

It opened up other areas of interest that are tangentially related to it: I go hiking/camping, learned Photoshop and video editing, spend time learning about the masters in Painting/Photography/Film making, scouting for locations where to go on holidays. Even started a, not very successful but fun, YouTube channel.

It is also possible to enjoy it daily once you know what is out there.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again my unpopular opinion is that Mastadon will never become mainstream outside of tech literate communities - it’s just too complicated to wrap your head around if you’re used to centralised social media sites. There is a certain learning curve and unfortunately I can’t see it taking off for the average non-technical person who just likes to doom scroll in front of the TV
So you are saying having no purpose/meaning is wrong.

What if having a meaning is wrong too?

What if meaning is simply always a subjective thing and thus NOT OBJECTIVE.

Thus what is, is. And that's it. Anything else is just subjectivity applied.
Fantastic! Now all what I need is to have wealth to manage
I love to spot any raptor - I'm even a little superstitious about them and tend to take sighting a hawk as a good omen. I also always love to watch a heron/crane - they just seem so dinosaur-ish. Very interesting birds.
Funny Didi Commercials (Subtitled in English) [video]
It looks really great!

Is it just me or the output PDF has quite a bit of broken pages (eg after Working with Types section)?
The overall point is probably valid, but you should probably pick a different past year for your comparison.

1933 was in the midst of the Great Depression which would have greatly affected both income and expenses.
Congrats on shipping. Looks pretty great! A few years ago I was chatting with a friend of mine about a similar idea. I remember there were a lot of discussions around content moderation and biased nature of comments section of certain news websites around that time. The idea was to come up with a decentralized way to maintain comments indexed by the urls and anyone with a certain chrome extension can participate in these comments section completely unmoderated by the site owners.

Eventually there ought to be some community moderation but the goal was to keep it unbiased. If your project takes off, first thing you will have to deal with is going to be spam.
I always have doubts about others' work and suggestions on how they could do it better. To avoid constantly dominating others, I either have to shut my mouth or try to be more accommodating in how I deliver my feedback. I do a mix of both, but if you tell me to be straight with you, then I'll be straight with you.

Especially in large corporate organizations where there are vast differences in how people communicate and take input, and you talk to too many people in a given day to really get close with any of them, it requires a handshake to know that I can always indicate my roughly unfiltered technical opinion to you and that you'll take it in stride, and if you feel strongly about it, you'll have the confidence to shoot my idea down without me having to give you an opening by posing my suggestion as a question.
I'm not sure what conversation you are having or who you think you are having it with. The world you have described doesn't exist. The point here is that taking a stand is admirable but personal. You should never force others to join you. You may desire a world in which unsolicited feedback has no negative consequence but we don't live in that reality.
Caltech now refuses to look at SAT/ACT scores -- see https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/apply/first-year-applican... . That suggests to me that it is devaluing academic measures in admissions to get the racial mix it wants.
I think we just have to agree to disagree. My point was, modern Windows is nothing like Windows 95, just like modern command line experience is nothing like MS-DOS (as you seem to imply). Given a choice I strongly prefer command line for most tasks. Reducing my preference to ignorance rubs me in a wrong way.
I think it's about tone; it feels patronizing to me as well. "How does this approach handle {problem}?" is very socratic. You're asking a question meant to make them reconsider their idea in a very round about way. I think that actually comes off as assuming you're right in this conversation. I would imagine the person asking me that is being a snobby asshole showing off how intelligent they are. It's on the other person to try and piece together your wisdom you've delivered in cryptic socratic whataboutisms.

If two doctors are having a conversation about a treatment, do you think they have these roundabout conversations or do they just say "No, his liver is shot, he can't take that." We're professionals too. We should have enough mutual respect for each other to be upfront.
BOM cost is probably pretty high, but certainly not the $5k they charge.

The parts are all standard, but high-end. Considering the copious amounts of hot glue, through-hole components, and the look of those copper tubes, I'm guessing they order boards from the usual suppliers then do final manufacturing in-house.

The boards look wave-soldered with some hand work, the pots are definitely hand soldered, there is heat shrink tubing on a bunch of connectors (but all the pieces are cut to slightly different lengths obviously by hand) on a bunch of connectors...

It looks to be on par with decent boutique analog audio gear from the 80s/90s, or careful hobbyist work. They really should be using Silastic instead of hot glue, though.
Which "they" are you talking about?
Price rises yet to hit customers, says Salesforce as it raises forecasts
ironic, isn't it. "virtual signalling" as a phrase now primarily seems to be used as a virtue signalling mechanism, and hence not very useful.
Thanks.

Why are paywalled posts left or even allowed on HN? I'm sure there are other sources of this exact content. I have nothing against paywalling unique content, just don't expect me to buy a subscription just to blab about it here.
>...always encrypts with their private key, and anyone you want to hear from, you add their public key to your list of keys you decrypt to read.

I think you mean that posters would sign with their private keys and you would have a list of public keys that you would verify the signature against.

That, incidentally, is also a valid approach to email spam...
Damned, I'd have loved if my teachers only hallucinated 1% of the time. Instead we had the southern Baptist football coaches attempting to teach us science... poorly.
Thank you for the feedback. My wife feels this way as well. It’s good to hear perspectives on it.
Proper storage is just pulling the plunger out entirely.

Every few years, soaking the rubber seal in mineral oil overnight then cleaning will restore flexibility (otherwise it shrinks over time, reducing the quality of the seal).

Unrelated: using paper filters is less eco-responsible than the gold foil filter, but makes for better coffee.
Yah no idea what they talking about me
Finally OpenAI admits AI detectors are useless.
Great comment, love the effort. Next reply can you try to be more genuine and less patronizing?
I used to work in credit card risk. This money is held in reserve account. Usually the funds are held for 180 days to protect against chargebacks. That number can vary based on the card types and the country the card holder lives in.