skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the heat island effect the distinction is immaterial. The city itself is still absorbing more heat, this heat must go somewhere.

Your reasoning is a bit like assuming solar panels stop flooding because they prevent the roof from getting wet.
Is there a link to more info or a demo? Signing up before I hear anything is not an option. And the homepage is not that more informative: https://musicgen.studio/
That's what I thought, thanks. Interdental brushing is the one and only unavoidable cleaning procedure even if all your teeth are artificial, it seems.

Gums and inter-teeth space are still prone to pollution that can easily grow to infections and ultimately nasty stuff like periodontitis (I got operated to be cured of it several years ago).
A government bail out isn't the exclusive use of the phrase "bail out", it was both a bail out and an opportunity for investors to get great terms on equity.
Elon Musk ‘committed evil’ with Starlink order, says Ukrainian official
Cool project. How do you feel about projects like OpenSSF scorecards or even the checks that socket.dev do today on these packages to help determine risk?

https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj/blob/main/.packj.yaml

Secondly, what about impersonation where attackers imitate a popular package and its respective metadata?
Time dilation is pretty amazing.

I experienced it one time when I accidentally put the car into a a skid at 70mph. I remember calmly realising the car was moving sideways. Having time to ponder that for a few moments. Then deciding to start steering into the skid. Then think about that for a while. Release the break a bit. Finally we did a full 360 and ended up in the middle of the road again.

It seemed like it took a minute or more but was probably a few seconds if that.

Brains are awesome! (My younger self driving ability, much less so)
I was about to say, doesn't 'Cradle' revolve around a mysterious golden sphere/thing found in the ocean or in a coral bed?
There are also a lot of Googlers who got in on their first or second try and genuinely do not understand end-users, do not WANT to understand end-users, and thus are very happy to implement this stuff. Also PMs who are extraordinarily metrics-focused and will buy the koolaid 100%
9 times out of 10, I see developers making the mistakes that everyone seems to want to blame on non-technical people. There is a massive amount of software being written by people with a wide range of capabilities, and a large number of developers never master the basics. It doesn't help that some of the worst tools "win" and offer little protection against many basic mistakes.
I have actually seen several colleagues jumping into EM roles (Engineering Manager) with just a year of experience being a manager, or even from just being a team lead (technical leader, not manager).

In companies that have the first level of management at the same seniority level as the Senior Engineer, it's very doable.
Costa and insomnia should be shuttered as a public gratuity. Absolute muck from each at their very best.
I've been using my window AC unit for 10 years now. Have not had to replenish any gas...

They definitely aren't supposed to leak.
Probably not. It's not really a star chart and astrologers tend to not update their zodiac as precession causes drift over time.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/what-is-the-zodiac...
Missouri Company Makes Cassette Tapes, and They Are Flying Off the Factory Floor
Glorification doesn't have to be intentional. Steve Jobs left a trail of havoc in the lives of the people he used to build Apple. He did objectively bad things to achieve objectively good things, so to speak. The good result is tightly coupled to a bad technique. Omitting the bad technique is tantamount to glorification.

The language in your posts is also very...enthusiastic?

Speaking of hard workers, have you read about Niklas Luhmann?
I genuinely don't understand how your comment is a response to mine. Where are we going to move the billions of people living in coastal South East Asia when oceans rise and their land becomes un-farmable due to climate change?
quoting https://github.com/eduard-permyakov/peredvizhnikov-engine

The source code of Peredvizhnikov Engine is freely available under the GPLv3 license. However, I may grant permission to use parts or all of the code under a different license on a case-by-case basis. Please inquire by e-mail.
That's not really accurate. Displavement hulls are more efficient at lower speeds for the same displacement (i.e. payload mass), but at higher speeds, the speed-power relationship of planing hulls flattens allowing for MUCH higher speed transits, whereas the power requirements for displacement hulls just continues to skyrocket with increased speeds (1).

Freighters are generally displacement hulls because they carry thousands of tonnes of cargo. This sizable displacement would make it impractical for these vessels to "get up on plane" (assuming their hulls were shaped like planing hulls vice displacement hulls). You can simply carry more payload in a displacement hull than a planing hull. Planing hulls like to be lightweight. It's not impossible to make a planing freighter, just impractical - and all of that inertia and mechanical stress on the hull structure while traveling at high speeds would be very difficult to design against, not to mention very difficult/unsafe to amneuver in a sea lane or inclement weather. There are certainly high speed ferries, which are generally catamarans (for added stability) with similar speed-power characteristics to planing hulls, but those are still carrying relatively lighter cargo (humans, some cars) over shorter distances compared to fairly dense bulk liquid/material/container cargo transiting accross oceans.

1. https://images.app.goo.gl/Yn3znGUBgiM9jkB4A
if there were a way to set user-level filters on HN, i'd set one which drops all titles with subjunctive verbs (like the "could" here), everything about Elon Musk, etc.

It would be interesting to analyze a collection of user-defined user-level customization filters, as some sort of zeitgeist.
Lockheed Martin has been selling its trademark to apparel retailers
Just offhand thought is the earths geology over time tends to remove salt from the ocean. An example is the Messinian Salinity Crisis when the Mediterranean sea closed off and then mostly evaporated. The result was a huge layer of salt deposited under the seabed. And the rest of the earths oceans became much less salty. Would not surprise me if plate subduction doesn't sequester salts as well.

https://www2.atmos.umd.edu/~dankd/MessinianWeb/_private/HOME...
That would be a cool story plot: starting civilization again with all the knowledge but none of the fossil fuel power. Solarpunk?
I gather from your comment that lock-free is actually the best choice for videogames. Where consistent frame timing should be paramount.
> I don't get how other developers get so invested

That's because your investment is means-to-an-end. For others, such as DHH for example, their chosen language is a means of expression and consequently they have a very strong personal investment. The Ruby and Clojure communities, for example, largely consist of developers who have a very strong personal attachment to the language and that's understandable since these languages are much more expressive whereas a language like Java will tend to attract developers who see it merely as a tool and maybe use it because it is a market leader. Languages like Ruby and Clojure demand a broadening of the mind so tend to attract users who are looking for more in a language than the standard fare of Algol-based features.
> .htaccess is a config file type used by the Apache web server.

Yup. That's why I am saying that in the past .htaccess used to be used, but modern php frameworks no longer rely on it. Poor phrasing on my end.
Picking up the bullet destroys the evidence of the exact location it ended up in.
https://archive.ph/kCu3z
Show HN: Data Protection Access Tests
I agree. It's also not always possible to sufficiently stimulate a private function using public methods.

He was right to change his mind about the other things.

I was also skeptical about remote working, and while I think it is worse in most ways than office working, it's not a lot worse, and the lack of commute is sooo big a benefit that overall it's totally viable.
I think the main risk is that it feeds into validation of conspiracy theorists.
Decent idea in theory, but public defenders are underfunded and overworked as is.
Probably more practical to use more chemistry and find good uses for sodium and chlorine individually.
A lot of older unix software config is complicated and cryptic.

sendmail, bind, apache, older X11, sudo are examples that come to mind.
Improving NeRF quality by progressive camera placement
We shouldn't ignore past mistakes, whether by companies or governments, but our current problem is being perpetuated by the oil companies, so something has to change to stop them from destroying our future.
To the extent those vary by temperature, which is what is relevant for this discussion, the paper's methodology takes them into account. That's the whole point of doing an overall excess mortality analysis: it means you don't have to know the specific cause of each individual death or how temperature affected it. You can just compare expected deaths at "normal" temperature to actual deaths at the actual temperature (I am oversimplifying here, the actual methodology is more complex than that, but that's the basic idea).

This methodology was not made up for this specific case. Overall excess mortality analysis is used in all kinds of contexts. For example, it is used to estimate the overall impact of COVID, for much the same reasons--because it takes into account indirect effects of COVID that would otherwise be very hard to measure. The methodology is not perfect (no methodology is), but it is the best we have for this kind of analysis.
Fonts are supposed to contain perfect circles; try searching for "circle" in a Unicode character map. They only don't in practice because quadratic and cubic Bezier splines can't do them.
Something I heard a while ago:

The sea is salty because it
remembers the taste of the land.
Heat that is moved from a dwelling onto the street shouldn't really count as 'waste' heat.
You can run RiscOS on a Raspberry Pi. It's what's rox is based on I believe.

RiscOS is quite nice to use, but it is .. limited. No wifi for instance. And the filesystem uses . (dots) for folder separators, so xfering files can be a pain.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230317174341/https://www.ycomb...
For a little more detail about this: https://markalanrichards.com/posts/2023-09-10-data-access-te...

I wanted to explore the extent to which some significant UK websites include SRI of JavaScript assets.

Put together on a Sunday, needs work, curious about how best to check for CSP and whether I've missed other risks beyond just JavaScript not protected by SRI.
I refuse to believe that failed deployment can bring a company down. That is just a symptom. The root cause has to be a whole big collection of decisions and processes/systems built over years.
At the very least have a two deploys - actually removing the old code that relies on it and then repurposing it. Giant foot gun to do it all in one especially without any automated deploys.
It looks like this is capturing network traffic, but why would that contain unencrypted credentials?

I skimmed this a few times and still don’t see the answer.
I think Goldman Sachs or someone big like that had a similar oopsie. And what happened was the exchange reversed all their bad trades.
Rushed exodus frm rain soaked BurningMan could have adverse environmental impact
I really doubt you can do that at AWS.
> It wasn't a bailout, it was investment money.

Almost all bailouts are investments, whether it's a government or private bailout.

The investments are questionable sometimes, but they're still investments.
Even if we split NaCl into its constituent parts -- sodium metal and chlorine gas -- there's not a whole lot that can be done with them.

Sodium is potentially useful towards two applications, off the top of my head. (1) Na2O is used in glassmaking, and it's possible that there are -- or that there can be discovered -- Na2O-enriched glasses that can be used in construction and as a filler substance, i.e. reduced to powder and added to cement. (2) Sodium-based zeolites can potentially be useful for carbon capture. Production of zeolites, however, also requires lots of alumina and silica.

I struggle to think of any large-scale application for all of that chlorine, though. Maybe vinyl chloride production? But the world doesn't need that much PVC...
When I got to the memorable words "Power Peg" I remembered I'd heard all about this before.
There's definitely more to this story. Why was there a fixed number of "flags" so that they needed to be reused? I wish there was a true technical explanation.
I'm not a UI/UX designer, and am equally frustrated by the failures described in the article and other comments.

One item I can bring to the table from the world of designing cockpits for racecars and airplanes is that the primary principle to follow is:

Reduce Driver/Pilot Workload.

Does whatever you are doing around the workspace increase or decrease the work that the driver or pilot must do? Can the status of [thing] be discovered (read/heard/felt) with minimum time and effort? Does [thing] create an otherwise unnecessary need to take even a quick glance at something? Is something in the way of taking an action, requiring an extra motion?

Of course, there are some things that maybe it IS desirable to add an extra bit of work, e.g., a switch that kills critical [thing] maybe should have a cover over it requiring to flip up the cover then hit the switch; an extra moment of thought.

This one principle translates well to software interfaces. Screw whether it "looks clean" or not — does it reduce or increase the user's workload? Even a tiny change can make a huge difference, because many actions are repeated.

I hope this helps
Sources suggest 3-4000 steps on average for Americans, so an extra 1800 is actually a pretty big deal. 40 minutes of walking is no small thing for many.
You can have an idea of orders of magnitude though, say a billion is a cube 1000 units on each side. That is, a meter cubed with units of 1mm. Actually you could have such a thing on the kitchen table.

Edit: now a trillion, that's getting beyond comprehension. Just multiply each side by 10.

Edit edit: that "1 billion" would make for a good conversation piece. Or, easier, a container with 1 billion small grains in it.
Gasoline use is just a small fraction of the demand for oil, most of it has other uses, and those aren't as flexible on demand as fuel for cars. I'd be willing to bet that they'd start flaring it off if demand collapsed, just to keep the refineries going.

Fertilizer is a major sink of petrochemicals, and there really aren't any substitutes available on a large enough scale.
Exactly.

I worked in a place that disallowed friend functions and classes generally, but explicitly for unit testing. I never wrote another private function. Instead, there was an explosion at the tiny-free-function-that-could-have-been-a-private-function factory, and the parts ended up everywhere.
Discussions about LLM alignment often miss topics of data quality and quantity. It turns out that current models like Llama 2 use 10K+ prompts and responses for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and 100K+ human preference pairs. While the preferences are pretty easy to annotate, producing a good SFT dataset is uneasy.

https://evalovernite.substack.com/p/rlhf-math-aint-enough

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8186168
As an owner of an M4 with the ZF 8 speed, I can attest that it’s not a slushbox. It’s completely changed my mind about how a manually-shifted auto transmission with a torque converter can behave, and I don’t see any reason to ever go back to a true manual. My only real complaint is that 8 is too many gears so they are naturally narrower and the car ends up being designed around keeping your engine speed in a fairly small band, and low end torque suffers.
Xerox B230 which I got has it. You can connect your printer to the LAN and print from PC and in my case Android Phone as well using Mopria Print app as a driver.
Why does this annoy you?
The fact that individual specimens of our species are capable of reflecting, in the first place, on "what makes us what we are", is itself an example of the boundless capacity for abstraction. It is itself a meta-idea. Even earlier humans were able to talk, then pause, reflect and suddenly point out: "we are having a conversation right now". Animals (such as prairie dogs) may have linguistic constructs for various colours; but not for the the abstract idea of "colour", let alone for the abstract idea of "perception". But I agree that there is a second component to this, which is the fact that each new generation starts from the latest abstractions arrived at by the former, then carries on. So what is unique about humans is that this process appears to be boundless, both at the individual and collective level.
There's a difference between what the layman has been led to believe by Big Deutschland, and the reality experienced by those who actually have to deal with German designs. A lot of them are interesting and "elegant" on paper, but the good experiences usually end there. It feels like the fun factor of the design process is what's prioritized most heavily, which is great for the designers (and I don't say this facetiously; the fun is the #1 reason to do it at all, and I'm glad they make a living off it), and not-so-great for the poor fucker that has to repair a VW.

That's not to say that they always shit things up. I'll take Wago nuts over American style ones any day of the week. VW's VR6 engines are a simplification that would probably make my life a lot easier if I didn't have to buy them with the rest of the VW vehicle attached. There is so much more vision coming out of Germany in industrial controls than anywhere else it's outrageous. Life has its ups and downs, I guess.
> $400M in assets to bankrupt

Was this Knight Capital?

> Knight Capital Group

Yep. Practically the canonical case study in deployment errors.
A Tribute to John Fielder (1950 – 2023)
Hey, thank you for the feedback. You're right, blocking NRDs is impractical for anyone in the tech space. But I wrote this article for the general audience, who encounters NRDs very rarely. And when they do, it is likely to be malicious. (I don't have solid evidence, though).

About my domain being blocked by this feature, I guess I'll have to wait it out.
Latencies have gotten better, although not tremendously so.

Depending on your last mile tech in 2000 and what you have now, you might have gone fron dialup with first hop round trips of 50-100ms, to something in the neighborhood of 5-25ms with fiber, dsl or cable. Or maybe you were already on dsl or cable and things are about the same.

Most of a 200ms round trip is on a long distance route, and fiber routes have improved, as had routing equipment in the data path. If you're outside the US and Europe, there's been a lot more local interconnections too, so routes that used to bounce through US/EU in 2000 don't in 2023.

Saving a few ms here and there adds up, but 160 ms instead of 200 ms doesn't feel that much different.
>> if we can master desalination then humanity is in a great spot in regards to fresh water.

Don't forget that we actually mine salt, a lot of which ends up in the sea. A million years from now we might regret that ;-)
And, a planing hull is not a great shape for displacement. I think they have significantly more drag, just 2x or 3x though, when operating at displacement speeds.
There's no reason to argue about this. Everyone agrees that

1) China needs to cut more emissions in total.

2) The US/West needs to cut more emissions per capita.
Am I reading this correctly? There's only ~2k/470k packages containing malware on the PyPi registry?

That seems exceptional. The registry maintainers must be working extremely hard on these problems.
UK’s PM Sunak raises ‘strong concerns’ over alleged China spy in parliament
A cubic km of sea water would weigh a bit north of a billion tonnes.

You're right that large numbers are hard to comprehend, but being able to summarise them and convert to other measures easily helps convey meaningful information.

Saying you want to process a billion tonnes of something is immediately grokable as vastly different to wanting to process a million tonnes.

Being able to immediately convert that into a conversation about processing a trillion litres vs a billion litres is similarly valuable.

If I can process 1 tonne of water per unit time, then I know that the cubic km will take 1000 times longer than a billion litres / million tonnes.
Good point! The next version should support other config file locations. This is something of a minimum viable solution to a problem I wanted to solve for myself.

I’m definitely open to feature requests and suggestions.
Most of the heat is probably spreading by convecting hot air, not as thermal radiation. A good chimney seems like it should be more effective, though it fundamentally still can't stop the fact that you're converting quite a bit of electricity into heat.
> the original Futex

The "Benaphore" was a pretty old idea, but the Futex isn't just "Oh it's a Benaphore but Linux" the essential trick is that you don't actually need a kernel object - your "locking primitive" at all, and that idea is where this goes from "Yeah, everybody knows that" to OK, our OS should add this feature ASAP.

Instead of an OS synchronisation object which is used to handle conflicts, with the futex design the OS carries a list of address -> thread mappings. If a thread T is asleep on a futex at address X, the address X goes in the list pointing to thread T. When the OS is asked to wake the X futex, it walks the list and wakes T.

The give away is the limits. For something like Benaphores you're constrained, these are a costly OS wide resource, I think BeOS only allowed 65536 per machine or something. But a Futex is just memory, so there's no reason to have any limit at all.
What are those theories based on? Admittedly, I didn't offer much evidence; mine are based on what scholars and practicioners have long said about development. Also, it's a two-way interaction between democracy and economic development - wealthier citizens have more time and resources to demand democracy.

> But the typical authoritarian isn't quite that omnipotent or that stupid

People in a democracy could certainly believe a politician would be that stupid. Somehow a few people believe the hype about authoritarians. Plenty of examples of that stupidity, starting with Xi right now, who is taking economic decision-making from private business - even with the enormous success China has had with that - and centralizing it in the government. Look at North Korea or so many others, now and historically - it was the norm for history before democracy.

Another bit of evidence: The very strong correlation between high-income countries and democracy. No authoritarian (or otherwise non-democratic) country has come close.

Much more serious is the trendy infatuation some Westerners have with dictatorship. Ignoring the fundamental immorality - who is the dictator to tell anyone else what to do? - they are playing with high-explosives in their family's basement.
Does checking the email via the iOS gmail app count as logging in? Or does one need to explicitly log in via a browser?
A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp
It would be interesting to know how long the author has been developing software.

For me, this is the kind of stuff I questioned in my first few years. After I productionalized a few real world systems for a business, the whole “dev street cred” thing lost it’s appeal. It wasn’t about some imaginary “dev purity” thing anymore, it was about being efficient and making sure I was contributing to the bottom line.