skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s a thread from biology stackexchange about this which also refers to CETI.

https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/108499/can-whale....
yeah Xah Lee's ergoemacs. You should give it a try.

I don't think we disagree. cua-mode is better than nothing.. but just enabling CUA feels kinda lazy bc it's easily improved

from Xah Lee himself：

http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/modernization_cua-mode.html
i don't believe you. hundreds per month in A/C vs hundreds per year. what kind of car do you own? numbers please?
> Its a UI over your k8s clusters.

Not really. It's a deployment tool, the UI is there to help see what's happening with deployments. It's not intended to be a primary interface to cluster management the way k9s or Lens etc. is.

> They just merge, and code gets deployed.

How does "code get deployed" though? There has to be something that's actually (1) monitoring branches and (2) running the equivalent of `kubectl apply` to deploy manifests. That's what ArgoCD does.

If you're saying devs are using k9s or kubectl to manually trigger the apply from a branch, that has all sorts of drawbacks, which is exactly what Argo is designed to address.
> 2023-2024 for the cores.

If your benchmark is x86 from ~2016-2018 then maybe. But the competition is moving forward as well (and Intel, AMD and ARM have a lot more money to invest into R&D)
That's an exception, for several reasons. The US government isn't going away any time soon, and can't just die or go bankrupt like a normal customer. Also, the government has an interest in keeping multiple contractors competing with each other, so they'll intentionally spread work out among competing contractors to keep them all busy and in business. It's just not like any other company.

Also, defense contractors frequently have multiple customers, in a way. First, many contractors sell their stuff to foreign customers (after getting approval from the USG of course, frequently with degraded capabilities). Lots of countries are buying the F-35 for instance. Also, contractors frequently have multiple customers within the government. They might sell to the Air Force and the Army, for instance, or the CIA and the NSA. Those are all different agencies, and act like different customers, without that much coordination between them, and each has its own funding and does its own contracts with contractors.
There are over 300 million fire arms in the US. Yet other than criminals shooting rivals, and people commiting suicide, almost no one uses their gun.

Even if you include full time criminals and suicides, that still means basically 0.001% of fire arms are used to kill someone every day year.

Most gun owners are decent people that want to protect themselves, not use it to cause hard to the innocent.
> If you make over $66k, your income tax is 9.3%, going up to 13.3% if you make FANG money.

The marginal rate is 9.3% above 66k. If your AGI is $67k your taxes are ~$3000. There is no 13.3% bracket. There is a 12.3% bracket for marginal income above $677k, which fewer than 1% of Californians earn.
https://archive.is/ki6Vs
There is no safety to check on a glock.
That’s a residual germanic influence (Mädchen is still neuter today, while Junge is masculine)
Growth rates are expressed as percentages. The underlying value, GDP, is measured in money.
This is not a bare-metal vs Cloud comparison, the Cuber PaaS is supposed to run on anything including cloud based on their docs. So when they say "save 80% on cloud costs" I am assuming they mean for eg. save 80% on using Cuber on GCP compared to deploying same workload on GKE.

It would be very absurd to claim something like - I was using i9-13900KS but realized I could run the same workload on my raspberry pi, but hey I also used this packaging tool in the process therefore I saved 80% costs because of the packaging tool.
> How do you expect to communicate with the ocean [the maybe-conscious alien ocean] when you can’t even understand one another?

- Stanisław Lem, Solaris

I think about this quote a lot. Every time I look at a bug, go to the zoo or try to talk to a toddler. Solaris is the best.
I specifically said Austin, not Dallas. If you haven't looked at Austin real estate prices lately you might be in for a shock.
What if we get rid of the step up doctrine? Then they can't avoid it indefinitely.
not OP, so personal opinion here:

Starter kits are usually opinionated, have too much in them that I may not want, I may want to do things differently, and like was said in a sibling reply, I would also want to understand my own config better...
PONGS
And you reject the Mac, right? Thats the given? Or would a secondhand M1 Mac do you?
Heroku had their share of problems recently no? It seems mismanaged and on the way down, sadly..?

And you say Heroku, "etc", but the thing is that there is very little heroku-like alternative. What "etc" is there really?

The real alternative is a Linux VM with docker-compose.

Once you outgrow that, managed kubernetes is the logical next step, even for a small team.
It's very much worth taking it as true.

I was in the same position as you initially and it took a week or two to get the muscle memory but it's so smooth to navigate using keys near the home row compared to arrow keys.
A fair point, but the land is all developed because of the high demand. Unless we restrict ourselves to the peninsula, there's lots of land - it's just too far away.
they didn't even explain what they were talking about. Where I'm from, lightning is an electrical discharge weather phenomenon usually accompanied by thunder
That is more or less exactly what it is, if you tell yourself you have rights after backing a Kickstarter then you are doing it wrong. That's why you are called a backer and not a buyer. It's interesting that someone would back a thing without actually knowing what kind of relationship they are entering in.

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

https://www.kickstarter.com/rules?ref=global-footer

So, within the rules: it is 'an obligation-free playground for tinkerers' more than it is a place where you can buy cool stuff that doesn't exist yet.

And in this particular case it worked exactly as it should. Obviously there are some Kickstarters that are fraudulent, where the initiator has no intention up front to ever release what they say they intend to build. But those are indistinguishable from your typical other failed Kickstarter, the one where the ability or funds did not reach far enough to stretch to the point where something tangible got delivered.

If you want to be 100% sure you get what you back: don't use Kickstarter, you will almost certainly be disappointed. If you want to back people that have the intention of doing interesting things with low expectations of actually receiving that which you back Kickstarter is fine.

A very strict reading of the rules means that Kickstarter can be exactly that: an obligation-free playground for tinkerers, who may at some point deliver something back to you in return for the money you give them. Your 'backing' is essentially a donation, there is a pinky promise that the recipient will try to do what they can to deliver on their intentions.

Some projects are more up-front about this than others, but in general it helps to understand the kind of arrangement you are entering into before deciding to back any kind of project.

This is the project page for this watch:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/920064946/oscilloscope-...

The timetable seems - to the hardware oriented part of my brain - wildly optimistic. Otoh 10 years is probably much longer than the original project was intended to run, likely there were serious troubles sourcing parts and/or with the final design. But the person behind the project felt that in spite of that headwind they still were obliged to deliver, even if that happened much, much later than intended. I wished all Kickstarters would end as happy as this one.

https://help.kickstarter.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005048113-...

So: other than a 'gentle-mans agreement' you do not have much to go on in terms of rights. Finally: the amount of money raised for this project is so low that I'm surprised it managed to run to completion at all.
What's wrong with it? It demonstrates how to communicate with the device, and uses a common display to show the data. Since the focus is on the anemometer, I don't think that the display matters much, as you can just use the wiring and code for the anemometer
I'm looking at this and thinking, "you know what, this could be an awesome personal tool as well".

This is definitely outside of the use cases described but I can definitely see myself hooking this up in an IFTTT style to funnel things into my todo systems using the HTTP provider.

Will poke around this soon.
> Not integrating so well with other open source licenses is one of the cons.

That depends on what you want. If you want a license that will play well with closed source software, then yeah, it's a downside. But the GPL family comes from the perspective of a developer who wants to retain their rights while respecting others' desire for the same. If you care about your rights, then this is an upside.
232 pages! I guess I have something to do on my next flight.

MH370 is probably in my top five most fascinating topics. I hope we can get to the bottom of it one day.
Only if it's over 21. : )
Tell me you’ve never measured current with an oscilloscope without telling me that you’ve never measured current with an oscilloscope.
Truganini may passed but members of the Pintupi Nine and other groups with no European blood remain alive.

Oddly, portions of mainland Australia may have been as genetically isolated from each other as Tasmania, once particular environments were settled (ocean, river, desert, etc) they appear to have remained stable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truganini

day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591

Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21416
Actually in bed, trying to fall asleep, at 23:00 is typical. I'd prefer to get in bed at 22:00 but my wife is a night owl, so this is a compromise for us.

Some sleep deprivation does accumulate to the point that I might turn off my alarm and sleep until 7:00 (when our kids are trained to get up) and skip running some mornings, but I hate doing that; I immediately feel like I've fallen behind schedule so the morning becomes more stressful, and I'm mad that I didn't get any exercise on top of it.
The thing is I don't want to spend hours and hours to customize the thing. And, those customizations often have undesirable side effects (like degraded performance, messed up app themes, issues after updates, etc). In Gnome I use stock Gnome with a couple of extensions and that's about it.
Scapegoating - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scapegoa...
These people oversold Austin to themselves, which is hilariously fitting.
I feel you. I am using both cua mode and arrow keys proudly even after a decade of using emacs. Sometimes convenience is more important than keyboard efficiency. I learned to avoid (or even turn off) cua-mode where necessary (e.g. when recording key board macros).
A property tax isn't a flat tax, as the people who own the highest value assets--and are thereby able to use them to extract the highest rents from other people--are paying higher taxes for that continuing privilege. The reality is that homeowners can feel poor but they are ridiculously richer and more powerful than people at the same income level who are merely renting.

If you want to limit property tax, but you don't have really really strict rent control laws (which California does not: some areas--including, notably, San Francisco--do have some minimal mechanisms, but they pale in comparison to the power of prop 13 for property owners) you end up with an extremely unfair tax system...

...which, though, does favor people with more money, and so this actually furthers the narrative of how the people who moved away from California because they wanted to not have so much tax on their income are now realizing they have a lot of assets and want to capitalize on that in California.
Not a Dyson sphere, a Dyson swarm makes more sense and its doable since it can be very sparse at the beginning and grow denser with time.
Or rather at low wage locations like India :)
Anybody know how it compared to AppleWorks/ClarisWorks? Or Gobe Productive?
If you look at a property in the Bay Area, it seems mortgages are significantly more expensive than rent. So people can't be buying for the purpose of making money off renting it out, or for the purpose of saving money by not paying rent. People must be buying for the purpose of making money from the price going up in the future. Property tax prevents it from going up in the future too much, thus it will prevent prices from getting so high.
Turning two lives into one, or, things that worry me about Bess, after I’m gone
Yeah but people freak out when they see Gradle, Bash, Bazel, or even wacky raw Python.

The real competition is, what will LLMs write better? Because I have zero interest in learning new DSLs, I just want whatever will be most text based to use through an LLM.
Great post, but I've got to say, I love the aesthetic of your blog/website.
Why would a south Indian meal involve naan and lassi?
There probably should be increased vigilence: Testing, immunisation, masking protocols. I have not heard it has moved from aerosol to fomites, so I am unsure handwashing needs to come back at scale for every single touch, but the drop in gastro suggests improved handwashing protocols overall were a net win.

Masking over anything else? Or testing over anything else? I like that there are combined flu(a+b)/covid tests now. I think that helps.

Nobody talks about what an annual Covid shot might look like, if we can now combine it with flu jabs, I'd be happy with a booster model of annual.

Nobody talks about immunisation rates in Africa and the developing world, or their death rates.

The intensive care rates, and death rates fly under the radar in Australia. We've stopped caring. There has been an uptick in the sustained rate of mortality all causes, I don't think stay-at-home/WFH has actually helped reduce deathrate overall because sedentary lifestyle probably accounts for some of the increased mortality.

It may take another 5-10 years for surplus mortality demographics to nail down what really happened. The post-Mao population dynamics of China took decades to get into a good shape, you simply can't hide the size of the cohort going to school and university when the due dates roll around. Some estimates (Jung Chang, "wild swans") were over the top. The government definitely minimised them. I will be very interested in the US, and Russian effective back-calculations because I think surplus deaths will turn out to be far larger than some people want to admit. It may affect the 2024 US elections by cohorts voting age and intentions.
The private sector is not expected to be able to self-regulate by free market advocates. With the exception of anarcho-capitalists, those who believe in a free market regard the government's role as integral, in providing public goods like an effective justice system that polices misbehavior like fraud.

What distinguishes a belief in free markets is believing that misbehavior—that government bodies have a right to punish and prohibit—does not include mutually voluntary interactions, like selling high-risk financial instruments to willing customers, who according to a court, are deemed to have provided informed consent to those risks.
They're temporary initial construction jobs and a few low skilled remote hands running around.
How does that differ from a sales tax?

Sales taxes are not progressive and therefore unfair. Bezos and the janitor pay the same tax for the same thing (though in fairness, Bezos does buy more things).
They do. Someone I know had a bit of fame for helping find a lost hiker from a photo.

https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1400806794667102208
Why light reflecting on a flat surface appears stretched out vertically
Same, but I suspect there's a bit of selection bias going on there in both our cases. I just don't think I'd be able to sustain a friendship with the kind of person who owns guns and handles them irresponsibly, and I expect the same might be true of you.
This peace of mind is also outsourcing responsibility. Having someone else to point to when shit hits the fan is very valuable for a manager.

In this case they can't even get blamed for their vendor choice because both AWS and Azure are now so big that they're in "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" territory.
I'm not sure if what you're looking for even exist today (as much as half of m1).

Other than that, I think your choice is generally between consumer-focused ARM-based Chromebooks with MT Kompanio 1380 like Acer Spin 530 on on hand, or enthusiast devices like MNT and Pinebook on the other.

https://liliputing.com is worth keeping an eye on.
> People don’t go around popping shots at technicians or waving their weapons around in the US.

I think that's highly dependent on where in the US, and what kind of neighborhoods and people these technicians are working in.

The idea that such places exist in the US does not surprise me in the least. But at the same time, there are certainly places in the US where the majority of gun owners do handle their firearms responsibly.
They have to pay for showing links, and those links do send traffic to news sites. That is indisputable.

You’re phrasing is just incorrect, honestly. Linking to a website is not at all taking the site’s “content”. And monetizing search results doesn’t do anything “at the newspaper’s expense”, what expense has a news site incurred by someone sharing a link to their site?
I don't agree. Committing to deeply technical work to the point of mastery absolutely transfers to many other disciplines, even non-technical ones.

You really want to know what's causing the talent shortage? The attitude that being behind the scenes is worthless toil.
Great idea!

Even though this has already been created -- I think it would be an interesting project to attempt to create one's own oscilloscope watch...

Functionally, it's just a 3D printed watch case, watch bands, an 8-bit microcontroller, LCD screen, battery, oscilloscope probes, a little bit of custom software, and some circuitry to block excessive currents...

Oh sure, it would probably be much easier (and cheaper!) to buy this than make one -- but I think it would be highly interesting to learn what goes into making one...

Any serious student of electronics should, as a project, make their own oscilloscope... it would be a great teaching project!

All of that being said, kudos to the inventor of this excellent oscilloscope watch, it looks really cool -- you'll probably sell a whole bunch of them! So, well done!
In SF 105k is poverty line.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/under-100k-low-income-s...
You should see some of the nextdoor and facebook communities. So many people are super eager to shoot someone over pretty much any petty crime.
Debian is an operating system for a single computer.

Think of Kubernetes as an operating system for a cluster of computers.

You can rent managed Kubernetes from any cloud provider.
I cried
I'm the system architect and code quality gate in my company, and I feel you... my job is to keep things sane, consistent and extendable. GHA as well as Azure Logic Apps are booth helpful in the small scale but, omg, so far away from reusable or even able to deploy the same damn thing on different stages from code.
To GHA: I find the GHA just look the same as Azure DevOps Pipelines yet they GHA don't hold your hand when designing and evaluating the steps.
+1 If OP has a big yard, a well-maintained house, and decent schools nearby, that almost immediately puts you over $1m in Austin. If their house actually has some serious square footage or acreage, $1.5-2m isn't ridiculous.

You can take hits on one or more of those requirements to get the price down but it's not apples-to-apples anymore.
Sorry, but we face this every single day, with every single industrial food that include extra ingredients (e.g. preservatives) wrt to old granny's classic recipe and we don't call it "consumer deceit".

It would be a fraud if the label on the product you buy omitted some ingredients, but it's not the case here: Microsoft doesn't claim its binaries are the result of a vanilla make on their source!
<3 nix & NixOS
False dichotomy, corporations are another (somewhat powerful entity).

They don't tend to use direct force either, but there are private militias...defending yourself from a gang or haywire corp is also an important thing.

People like to take the big argument, defense from govt, and tear it down from a broad level, and then ignore the many other lethal threats posed. There have been a couple shootings in recent memory, where citizens quickly resolved the matter far faster than law enforcement could have hoped.

Situations too, where men armed with axes etc. went on killing sprees in other countries and mostly people were unable to respond.

I don't think everyone should bear arms, or even that it should be common, but I do think the right to defend yourself is a pretty inalieable right. If gun ownership can help with that, then by all means...
My most powerful "getting to sleep hack" involves paradoxical intention... if I'm ever unable to fall asleep I think to myself "I wish I could stay awake but I'm just so tired" and I'm out within a few minutes.
I fail to see where I said anything about Blow's personality. :) I can despise the guy but still be impressed with his work ethic and accomplishments.

If only righteous people are allowed to make things the world would be much poorer.
How does Emacs (and most addons) run on Windows?

I'm tempted to try it out, but knowing the community is (righteously) Unix-fist I'm not so sure it's worth the trouble.
If you work as a cable technician, 6 customers a day, that's around 2000 in a year. If 1 in 100 is mentally ill, in a bad mood (TV broken!) and with a gun ...

Maybe there's some selection bias: You'll tend to meet angry people, who are more dumb (couldn't fix the problem themselves?)?

Maybe in any weapon loving place, a job where you visit lots of people at their homes and help fixing something that's broken, is mildly dangerous?
"Theft" doesn't just mean "physically taking something away from someone else, who now no longer has it". As much as you might like it to mean that, that's not what the law says.
This is one of my favorite dishes. It only takes a couple ingredients (ground meat, fish sauce, peppers, basil plus optionally palm sugar and maybe some garlic) and only takes a couple minutes on the wok. Really cant be beat!
In today's money $1000 in 1999 would be worth about $2000. Which is still considerably closer to $1000 than $10,000. Any other trivial nitpicks you'd like me to address? https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1000&year1=199...
So is concrete.
>There is a difference between "understanding the work" and "knowing how to do the work".

True. However, the relationship between them need not be a "Total Function" but definitely needs to be a "Partial Function" to a certain degree. You cannot be completely divorced from the "How" and hope to have a good "understanding" of the system.

>Managing a team of deep-sea welders is VERY different from managing a software team, which is again different from managing a team of people building a physical machine.

This is precisely the point; domain/technical knowledge is needed to effectively Manage a project. This is independent of knowledge of techniques of Management.
The problem today is that entire industries have been created out of thin air which posit that the latter is sufficient if one follows a certain process/methodology which is patently absurd.
Texas is larger than the Bay Area, but Travis County is not. It's not like you can live out in Lubbock or any of the hundreds of square miles between and get the benefits of living in Austin.