skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every application developer or UI designer should be forced to sit next to a non-technical person for a couple of hours who uses a slow machine (partly because it's infested by programs and services that they absolutely don't need), while browsing the web or using common applications.

It breaks my heart how much precious time and nerves of these users we're wasting.

They use outdated devices, that still should work perfectly fine, but are grinded down by extremely slow programs.

They don't understand many of the fancy UI patterns _at all_. UI elements without text are the worst offender. Animations and hover effects routinely and reliably get in their way.

They get confused all the time because their UI changes: "I could always click the frobniz here, but now it's gone and everything looks different."

Their system is basically stuck in "dark patterns".

Their internet connections are often relatively slow and unreliable, but common software assume that it's always available going full blast.

To do even basic tasks, they are nudged into registering to this or that, when often a simpler, less invasive solution exists.

They spend ungodly amounts of time navigating stuff, while getting distracted by notifications, misleading information and so on. Often giving up in complete frustration.
It's literally the second hardest thing to do after the biking/running/swimming/skiing itself. Fueling is the operational excellence challenge of endurance sports.
For many NLP tasks (which is what I mostly use LLMs for), hallucinations can be prevented with simple, procedural checks against the input or a controlled vocabulary. For example, for NER tasks, you can just check whether the extracted entities are valid relative to either of the two.
Storage is not the unsolved problem. While I cannot say that I have personally done the calculations in detail, I can say that I have engaged with people who have done the calculations, and spent a lot of their life doing those calculations.

One of them in particular helped write this: https://e360.yale.edu/features/three-myths-about-renewable-e...

Do have a look, if you care to.

Also, I have no clue what "HALY" stands for, and searching for this term didn't lead to anything concrete either. I'm assuming BY stands for 10 billion years.
Initially Ubuntu 20.04, but I upgraded to 22.04. Finally got it working -- turns out a lot of things that reference `--cgroup-driver="systemd"` are doing it as if it were run in shell, which means that the quotes around "systemd" get removed by shell, and would lead to an error & ignored options.

Nothing was showing whatsoever when using 20.04, so I wonder if there were some missing dependencies somewhere there...

I'll probably write up everything I discovered at some point, there's a lot of pieces that you have to cobble together from pretty disparate sources (network plugins, config files (which!?), etc).
Well, with the current state of mathematics in the US education system... blindly following Asia is a step up.

I do agree with you that in theory we can do better than asia, but that is too high of a milestone given that we are basically currently significantly worse than Asia on all fronts.
Air conditioning can increase external temperatures in cities by approx 2 degrees C.
How did you determine which claims in the report were facts?
If they are a contractor that works in construction or some other similar field, the F150 can make sense. But otherwise I agree.
Can it handle time? Calendar planning using GPT-4
99% sure the parent post is sarcastic
If they had given you a seat that gives you power, money and influence, and you had the knowledge to expand it both for yourself and them, what would you do?

Nothing? Well that seat would vanish pretty quickly.
I didn't read the article but a few months ago I randomly came across https://www.posner.com/case-closed and gave it a read. I haven't really read much else about the Kennedy assassination and the various conspiracy theories (certainly no other 400p books on the subject) but came away from the reading pretty impressed with the thoroughness of the argument. Spoiler alert, the argument is that the official story that Oswald acted alone is almost certainly correct and evidence to the contrary is entirely unconvincing when examined in detail.
Tobacco companies selectively disseminated hyper-palatable foods
this is at the same level as drone-based package delivery - a drone looking for a problem.

it would make far more sense to enable each room to essentially neutralize life forms inside the room. non-lethally.

mass shooter in the school? everyone in the hallway go night night.

that’s a bit limiting though. maybe we could just get something installed shortly after birth…
If you have to make decision, and lack information, time and money to even try something to understand the best decision, you are having problems bigger than technical ones; and even the best engineer in the world will probably not do better than a dice
Not him, but an Anonymous of 18+ years.
The boards I frequent have been doing more than "just fine".
It is really an oasis in the desert that is the "modern" web.
You don't like it? Fine, stay away. It's most likely better that way. You aren't missed.
I almost feel like writing positively about it should be avoided. Simply to keep it as decent as it is.
Servo Pistons: DIY-friendly low hysteresis actuators with integral sensing
As long as companies and quarterly earnings exist they will abuse their market position
LOL this guy is amazing and does amazing things. I would never think of something like that.
Chrome coprolite

“A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprolite
I have seen ISO 27001 implemented twice, both time it was led by someone who knew the game (each time it was different person). I don't know the budget but from what I have seen to have these guys who knew the drill was crucial..
"Unpredictable delays during frame rendering cause jank"

This is usually not serious inflicted and the presentation threads will be higher priority than the simulation in order to minimize visual 'jank'

Lockfree game code ain't fixing jank from the OS.
tl;dr your wealth should be measured as "1 house" not in dollars.
Five seconds of googling will reveal:

> https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/extreme-t...
>
> The study found that extreme heat and cold killed 5.08 million people on an average every year from 2000-2019. Of this, 4.6 million deaths on an average occurred annually due to extreme cold while 0.48 million deaths occurred due to extreme heat.

The study is here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

This shows that cold deaths outnumber heat deaths about 10:1, so global warming is a net positive when it comes to avoiding death.

Additionally, heat deaths currently happen in countries that lack air conditioning because it was not historically needed. This is rapidly changing. Fortunately, cooling takes less energy than heating, which seems paradoxical at first, but it makes sense if you consider that cooling doesn't need to generate heat, but simply move it away (which also requires energy, but less than raising the temperature of a closed system by the equivalent temperature). Additionally, heat pumps can run on electricity from renewable energy sources, rather than heating which mostly uses fossil fuels (yes, heating can use electricity too, but that's currently an order of magnitude more expensive).

All of these factors show that moderate global warming is good for mankind: it reduces overall energy use, it reduces fossil fuel use in particular (which is great because it's fossil fuels that are contributing to the greenhouse effect), and it reduces human death rates. You rarely hear about this, however, because the media is committed to pushing the false narrative that the world is on a path to global destruction.
Han civilization was vastly different from human civilization as we know it today, so it seems you're agreeing with me. I wasn't claiming humans would go extinct, just that there would be a massive upheaval that would entirely change civilization.

Also, the Earth has never been as inhospitable to human life as it's expected to be since any known civilization started, so there's no historical precedent to compare to in terms of speed or effects of adaptation.
Polaris Is the Closest, Brightest Cepheid Variable. Recently, Something Changed
Those numbers are for Colossus. Blobstore, which backs the cloud object store, is different, and used to be a lot higher.
Vast majority of data rarely (if ever) gets read so you use a cache for that
Recently watched a related short vice doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kDseTCNGyA
Interesting from Ercot:

> Why the Request to Reduce Usage?

> * Heat. Continued statewide high temperatures.

> * Demand. Texas is seeing high demand due to the heat.

> * Solar. Solar generation starts to decline earlier in the afternoon hours towards the end of summer before completely going offline at sunset.

> * Wind. Wind generation is forecasted to be low this afternoon and into the evening hours during peak demand time.

I understand the wind part, but how can you blame solar here? Surely the description they give here is entirely predictable?

https://www.ercot.com/news/release/2023-09-07-ercot-expects-...
( vpn needed outside the US )
Commission really is not that different from ministers or cabinet in general. In most countries these are not elected positions, but selected by government currently in power.
You are being fleeced by some shady repair business. Can you point me to the user manual of your machine where it calls for such frequent recharging?
Jurassic Park at 30: how its CGI revolutionised the film industry
Not as long as there are policymakers who aren’t making an equal or greater sacrifice.

You want to have an impact on the suburban middle class guy/consumer, start with less jet set Davos/Aspen environmentalists.

Coercion or deception by any means will only make them (and others) dig in deeper.
The Closest Black Holes to Earth Are Probably Hidden in This Nearby Star Cluster
Tim Cain: Fallout Was a B-Tier Project [video]
> I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure this is the same kind of fraud that Holmes got nailed to the wall for committing.

Interestingly, she was found guilty of defrauding investors, but acquitted with regard to defrauding patients: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
> largest economy's also contributed the most over their history

While exporting most of that technological development and scientific research to every country too...

Or maybe someone can believe China can make 7nm chips at a fraction of the historical emissions of other countries at 5nm, with no knowledge transfer
Just to reiterate and point it out, this was 60 years ago.
Trees, trees are a much better solution. Very simple yet effective solution to urban heating problem

https://creativelyunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/temp...
Maybe it's a long term strategy - get everyone on your SaaS platforms and then, once everyone is dependent on you, start picking winners.

Or just keep raising the bar and watch people go crazy because you already have something like 1% of all the money ever printed. Why? For the sheer cruelty of it, seems to be a good answer.

A lot of decisions being made at the moment seem to be 'we could be empathetic and kind but where's the fun in that, lets rinse them out like rags' type of decisions.
At this point the effects of the JFK assassination are so far back in history that new knowledge of possibly real and alternative sequences of events should have little impact on society as it is now. Let’s say it was orchestrated by political enemies—what effect would this have on things today? The state of US government is so dramatically different from back then.

This kind of discussion is really only interesting from a historical perspective. It doesn’t really have any bearing on modern politics or society.
“Entrepreneurs often write about what’s going right, but too rarely write about what’s gone wrong“

They do in retrospectives like this after they achieved later success.I found that a lot of rich and successful people in different domains love talking about pass failures after they eventually succeed.

You very very rarely see a post on here from someone who failed, and they do not know how to fix the issue or their next move in life.
I've been on the other side of this. We talked to this startup about their product and they claimed it had exactly the features we needed. We said fantastic and were ready and willing to hand over $10-20k to them for this, and they just kept stalling and making up excuses and demoing things that didn't actually do what we actually needed. Eventually they had to admit that they couldn't deliver the feature we needed. We were rather pissed off and cut all future dealings with them. They could have ended up with at least $50k from us over 2-3 years if they'd been honest and showed willingness to work with us, and instead they got zero.
Funny, adopting authoritianism sounds like "vote for me to be your dictator"...

Do you consider yourself sane and intelligent? Ever wondered if you could also suffer from evidence bias, thinking everything from the point of view that the elite trying to force something down your throat?

Or maybe you have the certainty of Principal Skinner? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAuR5bkIlQ
Simple Xmr Escrow Service
I made dkycoins because i could not find a simple monero escrow service that allows you to use your own mm.
What law do you believe made domestic spying legal?
It's not necessarily at one stretch, it could also be for several days camping away from services.

One of the places I've long wanted to go is about 100 miles from the nearest town with a gas station, but the roads are particularly rough so I don't expect to get highway mileage or anything close to it. In my past off-roading I've gotten roughly half my highway mileage, so let's say it costs 200 "miles worth of gas" to get there.

If it takes 200 miles to get in, it also takes 200 miles to get back out, plus some margin for error, plus whatever I burn while I'm there. A few days of cooking and stuff can burn a few gallons, more if I'm also running the fridge, which is really nice on a long trip. Add that I might want to visit a few sites over a few days, and I could easily see needing more than my existing 500-miles-in-ideal-conditions range.

It's trivial for me to carry another 10 gallons, which doubles my highway range to 1000 miles, and that's with one of the most fuel-efficient hatchbacks on the road. A larger vehicle would need quite a bit more.

I simply don't know a way to do that with an EV.

Now admittedly that's a contrived example, but it's a just-slightly-more-extreme version of some real trips I take from time to time, and it's a trip I do honestly plan to take one of these days.
Trees are a much better solution to urban heating. Proven with millennia, eco friendly, and makes cities beautiful and desirable to live

https://creativelyunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/temp...
Then the problem is not missing information, as stated. There is enough information, if you have enough experience.
Difficult to calculate that given lock-in. If you've outsourced everything infrastructure related, you aren't in the same market without substantial upfront investments being made.

Amazon/Google/Microsoft/IBM et al. all know this, it's why there are significant incentives if they know you can walk.
Relativity Space leases test stand from NASA to boost Terran R development
SaaS companies are owned by billionaire-investors.
or actually investor-companies. The ones at the top of the world.
Same ones who get the printed dollad on their hands first to spend it before other common folks wake up to the fact that it was printed and starts loosing value

I red somewhere that 80% of dollars were printed (=made up digitally) in the last 3 years. so the inflation is now coming fast, 1$ = 20$.. that's 5x the prices.
And most common things have only gone up 50 to 150%.. more to come
> the post-restart recovery tried to load several hundred HN tabs at the same time. Firefox no longer does this; restored tabs are loaded lazily, when they become foreground tabs.

I wonder if this is the problem with Safari on Mac. There is some Critical Number of Tabs, beyond which it refuses to stop the beachball. I have to go into Safari on iOS to delete tabs from the Mac.
Ah, thanks. Sorry. I meant "Kennedy's car seat" and not, "Kennedy's car."
Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)
Who is the “we” here? Because it sounds a lot like _you’re_ assuming it can be be built for the people who are going to be tasked with doing so.
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ooh interesting. So it’s kind of like having iNet inside iNet, like node is implemented as an iNet itself (or a sub-iNet)?

we will probably need some graph-theoretical way of defining the env for it to be able to spring up a towel of meta-circular interpreters
> Bezos/Amazon: changes in the laws concerning mail order and paying taxes for items shipped from one state but being delivered in the other (there are 7000+ taxing jurisdictions in the USA), which made it impossible for smaller businesses to remain compliant;

While it is more of a nuisance to be compliant it is definitely not impossible or even very hard. For our small company's home rolled e-commerce system (long story) I researched and then implemented tax estimation, collection and reporting to accounting down to the zip+4 level in a week or two.

It does involve buying a subscription to jurisdiction level tax data and ingesting it regularly, but I don't recall it being expensive.

In addition, many states are part of a uniform system which makes the estimation easier.
Unless we want to try to compete on labour price/working conditions, we are going to have to globally compete on having educated workers designing cutting edge solutions. It's in everyone's interest for lots of people to be educated.

People are skeptical, I think, because many degree programs have opened up for which there is little use for their output, and little employment opportunities afterwards. Not only that, but many existing and useful programs have pivoted away from useful work and building on other knowledge, and have begun futilely re-creating the same experiments with minute differences without really trying to identify anything worthwhile. It's hard and probably wrong to say that people that run these things should hold themselves and their students to higher standards, but clearly somewhere somehow there is a culture mismatch between what people hope to find when they enter vs what they actually get.
Source?

From what I can tell, that is the only good predictor we have. See Tversky's work with the IDF or the available CTA methods for studying expertise, e.g. CDM.
The Case for a Small Universe
There was a recent study on this issue here. [1] Globally from 2000-2019 there were about 5 million deaths per year associated with "non-optimal" temperatures. This accounted for more about 9.5% of all global deaths. 8.5% of these were because of cold, and less than 1% were due to heat. So if the heat increases, it could be expected to lead to a global reduction in temperature related deaths, which is pretty neat!

The most interesting thing about this study is an initially paradoxical (but not really when you think about it) finding. The most mortality from high temperatures came from Eastern Europe, whereas the most mortality from low temperatures came from Sub-Saharan Africa!

[1] - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...
> And the takeaway is to make sure your cofounders are OK with this first.

Let's not forget the employees who will actually plan and build the features. I've seen not one of these deliverables fail because executives forgot to tell their team in time. Or, in fact, tell at all.

It's easy to get overwhelmed with all the white lies and forget some, I expect. It will damage relationships and employee morale. The white lies are not free.
Yeah, it was just the large accounting firm where I got shouted at for no reason by a partner.
How Sony's Hawk-Eye electronic line-calling system transformed the U.S. Open
Fwiw I published this post when my startup was falling apart because of my mistakes and I had no idea how to save it (and in the end couldn't).
Having extensive experience in criminal courts, I can tell you that no DA that I know of would ever attempt to prosecute a police officer. For a start, the DA relies on its close cooperation with the police as 99% of the DA's office business is brought to them by the police. Secondly, any DA will tell you that convicting a police officer is incredibly hard. Juries generally do not like to convict police. Judges even less so.

Having studied thousands of police reports, what is almost worse than testilying is that most reports are works of fiction. And the reports are what gets the defendants into court in the first place. Testilying only matters if an officer takes the stand, and an officer often only takes the stand in a trial. And 99% of criminal cases are resolved by plea before trial in the USA because a defendant does not want to risk a trial where the officer can lie and send them away for decades.
It was about what transpired on the missions.

When I was writing a paper on the history of D, I had kept a lot of records, such as emails. I was often surprised when the details didn't quite line up with my memories.

This is one reason why one cannot get a fair trial 40 years after the fact, if any of it relies on eyewitness testimony.
Minding the small stuff in pull request reviews
That would line up with Landis’ statements now: he claims to have heard a louder, different shot, which was ultimately the fatal blow.
> and their automobiles, of course, which some attorneys used as a comparison for how they wanted their PCs to work.

This is reasonable. We don't ask people to understand ICEs in order to drive their cars around town.
Fortunately fonts usually don't contain perfect circles anyway, because the designer will optically correct any circles so that they don't appear to bulge. Kabel is the closest font I found with circular formas; LineTo's Circular is also quite close but slightly taller than wider.
> organization that takes collective decisions promotes people who like collective decision-making, and turns away people who prefer individual initiatives

Collective decision-making by definition means that the interests of the whole group will be taken into consideration.

"Individualistic" decision-making means the interests of EACH single individual take, or should take precedence. That means either

a) Autocratic decisions by a single Great Leader

b) Conflicting decisions by many individuals.

If those individuals see the light and start agreeing that everybody should have the right to vote on decisions that affect everybody then it becomes collective decision-making already. It becomes
democracy.

Think about elections, what are those if not collective decision-making? Is this article trying to say elections are bad?

INDIVDUALS RULE is their suggestion, right? Yeas but which individual? Start a fight let the biggest man with biggest gun decide? Me me me. But in the end like the Outlander movie-franchise suggested: "In the end there can be only one!" -- if you go down the route of individualistic decision making.

The question to address is what are you deciding on? Things that affect everybody, or things that everybody can decide for themselves because those decisions do not affect anybody else.
And then OpenType added cubic bezier back in.... by embedding postscript font definitions.... Before they went one better and added support for embedding SVG for emojis.

(I ported a tiny TrueType renderer from C to Ruby, and looked at what it'd take to add OpenType support, since OpenType uses the same container format; font file formats look like they were designed by a drunk student as a prank)
FAA says SpaceX has more to do before Starship can fly again