skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My iMessage texting from my computer is quite conversational and detailed, taking particular delight in proper punctuation and spelling.

My texts from my iPhone look like they were created by an AI trained on deranged monkeys attempting to recreate Shakespeare.
Some vegans including myself consider bivalves to be vegan since bivalves aren’t sentient.

Veganism as a taxonomical distinction between animals and plants/fungi doesn’t make sense because it would entail eating sentient plants which doesn’t track the underlying ethics.
While many software companies get away with an “it’ll be fine” attitude, that is not sufficient for all companies and industries. Sometimes things have to be provably correct.
It’s madness for me how much people in US care about GDP numbers, richest people in the world etc. maybe being very proud while in the queue for the food bank
Taxi medallions were introduced to enforce a monopoly for the wealthy taxi company owners. Take Las Vegas as a prime example, you can't get a medallion unless you are part of a taxi company. Of course you can't start a taxi company unless you are "mentored" by an existing taxi company.
It used to be spicier and even better before her son took over and changed it to a cheaper chili from another province a few years ago (which wasn't great).

I ended up trying something like 20 different brands looking for an alternative, and my favourites from least to most spicy were: Chuan Lao Hui, Lee Kum Kee, and Wa!, which I actually found even better.

I tried Lao Gan Ma again now that they're back to chilies from the original province, but it still doesn't taste quite the same, I wonder if the sourcing changes caused them to lose their specific cultivar?
Need to write something with Japanese, traditional chinese and simplified chinese. Quite a challenge. Especially clash with some other package. But still it works. Just a bit of learning curve.
Can you give an example of a sentient plant?
A modern CPU needs two things:

1. Privilege levels with preemption.

2. Hardware support for virtual memory.

At that point, it can run OSes broadly similar to what most people are using in practice.
14 minutes for an entire diskette’s content was magically fast, for the brief window of 14.4’s relevance.
I've got a really wandery cat whose range is about 1-1.5km in any direction from the house. We try to keep her within 0.5km as much as possible. If we didn't manage her location fairly actively, she'd probably wander farther.
Which countries would you say beat Sweden in these areas?

As this argument appears in Canada as well when it is top ranked in livability and people point to Sweden as the country trouncing us.

People think we don’t have a stable government and that our healthcare system is uniquely bad and that Canada is abnormally expensive.

One piece of evidence in favour of Sweden’s relative affordability (at least from Canada’s perspective) is that young people haven’t stopped moving out on their own [0].

[0]https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
This is posted every month for months and months --- anything new here?
Hilarious. Clearly she was totally forgotten and the automated systems continued to pay her. The question I guess is who should have been monitoring payroll.
Oh I dunno to simultaneously give Chinese tech companies a huge boost while more or less ending one of the US’s most valuable companies?

They could easily argue it was tit for tat.
I'm hoping to be one of those 120+ year olds...
Botulinum toxins are large, easily denatured proteins... by heating to 80°C
(176°F) for 20 minutes or > 85°C (185°F) for at least 5 minutes. Their heat resistance varies with composition of the food or other medium, and the concentration of the toxin. Reports suggest that HTST pasteurization (72°C/162°F for 15 seconds) is likely to inactivate most or all of the toxin in contaminated milk, while conventional pasteurization at 63°C/145°F for 30 minutes seems to be less effective. Chlorine and other agents can destroy botulinum toxins in water. The vegetative cells of C. botulinum are susceptible to many disinfectants, including 1% sodium hypochlorite and 70% ethanol, but clostridial spores are very resistant to inactivation. They can be destroyed in the autoclave with moist heat (120°C/ 250°F for at least 15 minutes) or dry heat (160°C for 2 hours) or by irradiation. The spores of group I strains are inactivated by heating at 121°C (250°F) for 3 minutes during commercial canning. Spores of group II strains are less heat-resistant, and they are often damaged by 90°C (194°F) for 10 minutes, 85°C for 52 minutes, or 80°C for 270 minutes; however, these treatments may not be sufficient in some foods.

https://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/botulism.pdf
Tl:dr; lazy contracts by DOI.
A five-year old can tell you the optimal strategy is agreeing
to the video game, then showing up in a tank.
This happens a lot, and you can easily walk into constructing such a prompt without knowing.
That's almost always a consequence of poor engineering. You need to consider the runtime when developing any program. With Java, that runtime is more than just your CPU and OS, it's the JVM too.
My network is dual stack and all my VMs are Debian. No issues here.
They put modern in quotes. What does that tell us?
No, that's not correct. Hence it being a (overblown US citizen internet commenter) concern with preserved food. Can something like tomatoes, not naturally that acidic in a preparation that doesn't lower the pH much, and even though you've heated it and killed things in the process and it's now in a vacuum, it can potentially still develop.
I kind of doubt those numbers, considering my 12GB 3080 gets something like 3 it/s in ComfyUI - though I suppose that's usually with a LoRA. Even if they're accurate, very few people have a 3090/4090. Keep in mind the Photoshop version would have something akin to Controlnet going on as well, which would slow things down.
Sure, but this new language wouldn't help with that.
The one thing I really wish with Katana is that it had some accessibility options. The stylized font and less-than-ideal contrast aren't super readable, at least for me.
100% chance BAH built large parts of healthcare.gov
Update link to actual article link: https://toonk.io/aws-ipv4-estate-now-worth-4-5-billion/index...
Counterpoint: A piece on Alan Cooper and the creation of Visual Basic.

https://retool.com/visual-basic/
Calculating with natural language may seem promising, but is not as productive as traditional calculators, especially when the "natural language" is actually a fixed grammar resembling natural language instead of employing fully extensible natural language (with AI, for example).

According to its documentation, this calculator has really limited capabilities. and it even charges for functions like calculating averages and converting currency.

I suspect that the audience for this type of software is quite limited, primarily inexperienced users. Users seeking higher productivity may either consider advanced software like Mathematica, or ChatGPT/WolframAlpha for general natural language questions.
The Bay Area does this with carpool lanes. The electronic billboard says $12 and you see a nonstop stream of Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, etc. and tech company busses.

All it does is force the poor to sit in traffic while some lanes are reserved for people to whom $12 is inconsequential.

I fail to see how applying this same logic to an entire road makes it any better.
Maybe its a good time to reshare this to check own trackability https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
by running SUPER SLOW code in an emulator. There is a reason every single N64 game was either sparsely textured or looked like blurry mess - 4KB of texture cache.
No, medallions were not meant to limit traffic.

Medallions were the answer to the race to the bottom that occurred (too many taxis, not enough fares, shady behavior from the taxis)--just like we are seeing again.

Everybody seems to forget that laws that exist are there because there was a reason.

The fact that medallions became perverted into entrenched monopolies was a problem that should have been solved rather than just throwing them out.
There’s a new book about them.

They weren’t anti-tech. They were workers who saw the first industrialization destroying their safe well paying jobs at home that gave them autonomy and replaced it with them having to be generic low paid cogs in a very dangerous factory they had to commute to with no say over their working conditions.

They wanted a say over their destiny. Some autonomy. A share of the benefits that came with technology instead of all the downsides with 100% of the upside going to the rich owners.

Any of that sound familiar to things workers complain about today?

From the podcast 99% Invisible: Blood in the Machine

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/blood-in-the-machine
The prerequisite technology for an automated bus system is not the ability to take the driver out of the bus. The prerequisite is the ability to credibly signal to all the potential passengers what buses are going where they want to go, where they should get on those buses, and where they are supposed to get off.

All of the automation of bus routes involved is simple computation and I don't see AI having anything fundamentally new to add to the solution. You don't need to actually solve traveling salesman or something to add value to the bus system.

I say "credibly" because you really want the system to work almost perfectly right out of the gate. Otherwise passengers will shun it because the very baseline requirement of a transport system is to reliably get people where they wanted to go.
Really like the web directory. We should bring those back.
Ask HN: How do you deal with never ending noise and distraction WFH?
I am a founder working from home on my small business, in an apartment complex in a nice location in CA. Every day there is at least 4 times a garbage pickup, by an extremely loud garbage truck. Then there is the people racing their motorcycles and cars up and down the street, the airbnbs on weekends, stay at home moms/dads or nannies with kids on balconies, the endless moving trucks, amazon/fedex/ups trucks, and so on. Then there is the endless landscaping and street cleaning trucks. Gas powered garden equipment and blowers. Even with the windows closed it is very hard to block out all the noise. How do people who live in tech metros in apartment complexes manage to concentrate on their work on a day to day basis? Love to hear stories and tips and what people have done to improve their productivity even if it means moving somewhere else.
Cultures of Writing
“generating compilable code 91% of the time” which means that almost ten percent of the time, it doesn’t generate compilable code. Given the fact that ChatGPT has gotten worse at math over time,¹ I’m wondering if this too will get worse.

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1. Although I also find myself thinking about my kids as they were developing language where they initially correctly conjugated some common irregular verbs, then they started conjugating them as if they were regular and then finally returned to correctly conjugating them, which might be what’s happening with ChatGPT and math.
your link says exactly what blog post said: root servers with 1gb/s uplink have unlimited traffic.

Other offerings (e.g. 20gb/s uplink) and small cloud servers have traffic limitations.
I was really hoping this would come with rollback support for deployments. That, to me, would be the big advantage of having gcp manage the tfstate. It doesn’t look like that’s currently supported, but maybe that’s coming in the future.
Definitely too big. I use the FitBark GPS 2: https://help.fitbark.com/en/articles/6999814-what-are-the-fi...

Which is 47 mm x 30 mm x 15 mm vs the Mictrack's 46mm x 41mm x 16mm - and that 11 extra mm would make it not work on a collar. Fitbark does have Bluetooth.
> setup a non-for-profit to manage this stuff if that's your beef.

Is there some benevolent non-profit/cooperative out there that would do these kinds of IT projects? Kinda like a credit union or mutual insurance company?
I've learned from cooking more Indian food recently that it's okay to burn spices a little. In most cuisines you're told to only bloom spices briefly but Indian food isn't afraid to really cook spices to their limit.
> How? If we replace every car driven by an individual with a car driven by machine

If all vehicles - not just cars - were driven by machines and connected to a network then there are many optimisations that they could be doing. For example you could get rid of traffic lights, yielding rules, even lanes. Cars could travel much faster if they didn’t have to worry about reaction times.

For example cars could go through intersections at full speed or close to it, timing it so they passed between each other. Cars could actually merge onto freeways and change lanes at full speed without some jerk trying to block them. You wouldn’t have slow drivers in the fast lane.
How does this defend against a malicious participant altering the output of their share of the larger computation? Even without some kind of method for e.g. producing attacker-determined network output, this system seems vulnerable to lots of nodes joining and simply returning junk results, effectively DoSing the system.
“ I work as a kernel engineer at VMS Software, Inc., and I am one of the architects for the port of the OpenVMS operating system to the x86 processor architecture.” he just happen to be in the right place at the right time with the right skill set.
Govt contracting firm CGI built healthcare.gov then the rescue staff that would later become Presidential Innovation Fellows, 18F, US Digital Service as well as Accenture stepped in. Nowadays more than a few consulting firms keep the site going.

These days there are PLENTY of govt IT fiascos, though there’s usually a contractor behind the mess. They also don’t attract the mainstream ire the way healthcare.gov did. The biggest example that jumps to mind is the VA’s botched rollout of the Cerner/Oracle platform. Plenty of angry congressmen but not headline news outside the DMV (DC, MD, VA).
How do you secure AWS credentials on a compromised machine?

Any solution that you build is going to be more complicated and less secure than IAM. In IAM, your workload/server can have an identity. The software running on the server is issued temporary credentials as needed, and only has access to resources linked to the role. How do you do this without identity and access management? Roll your own because IAM is too crazy?
this sounds like someone who is kvetching on principle because he resents private companies being involved with public services, not a legitimate complaint.

$6 isn't a lot relative to the cost of even driving to a national park for most people. comparing it to a $50 bag check or $100 in ticketmaster crap is disingenuous in the extreme.

recreation.gov is one of the very few dot gov's that doesn't make me want to put my hand through the nearest wall, precisely because it wasn't built like healthcare.gov.

the site services 23 million active users and has to handle a lot of complexity around managing limits on how many people can visit.

the author here is just straight-up wrong; consult this article for accurate information: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/hiking-and-b...

"Here’s how it all works at the field level. A manager at a National Park, Forest Service, BLM office, or the like decides that a user fee must be paid or that a site or trip is so popular that a paid permit or reservation is required to protect the resource and the experience. The consumer of those services—we the people—log into rec.gov and pay the designated fee or pay into a lottery to try to win a permit. That money goes to the Treasury Department. From that account, Recreation.gov pays Booz Allen for its work based off each transaction as agreed upon in the original contract, and almost all of the rest goes back to the individual agency. Over the past four years, says Delappe, 85 percent of what is charged goes back to the agencies. Recreation One Stop does not set those fees, nor does Booz Allen. But Booz Allen’s original contract did include specific fees for various transactions. It’s the managers in the field that set the prices. They of course try to cover their costs and the transaction costs for Recreation.gov."

TLDR: people be sayin shit. in this case "people" is some rando on substack and "shit" is "muh private company bad"
I'm not excusing it, but people had to pay for access to a computer in the first place, and ways of funding software development without selling either hardware or software, such as advertising, were not really prevalent yet.

Microcomputers greatly expanded private access to computers, and Microsoft brought programming to microcomputers.
Interesting! I've mostly added umami from mushroom powder and MSG. Anchovies or fish sauce could be an interesting addition, although that does make it more of a sauce than an oil.
no idea... doubt it. money probbably instead goes to building enclaves around park city or making it easy to go to burning man
Hong Kong school councils back university med experts’ to make city smoke-free
Saying fish are not animals is 100% misinformation.

I'm happy to let it go, but if I get a reply that I feel warrants a reply, I will.
Right. The problem with a gas tax is you pay the same driving on a rural road with no one else as driving on a congested highway during rush hour.

Tolls for entering/leaving the city at certain times (or outright bans for some percentage of cars per day) is more effective.
Have you tried blending it with a hot flash oil? My suspicion is that the two would be better than the sum of their parts.
> Why a 'Boomer' death watch particularly?

To free some resources maybe, housing for a starter.
Doesn’t London have a congestion tax that has helped?
> Either require ISPs to give static allocations

Just buy service which does what you actually want - rather than insisting it should be mandatory which means everybody has to pay for it. I have static allocations (both IPv6 and, very small, IPv4) because I care. Most people don't care.
you're stretching the definition of "event" pretty far there. if you're not referring to an atomic-clock-precise instant in time, you're going to need to elaborate as to what your definition of an "event" is and explain why location/culture/politics are important.

at any rate, if you even want to have a hope of keeping track of any of that stuff, you're going to need a rigorous and atomically-precise physical standard to actually map it all to. look at the tz database. it's a set of mappings that ultimately rely on such a standard of atomic-backed time.
Every time I hear "Data Scientist" my skin crawls.

Why is "statistician" not a good enough title? That is what "Data Science" is, statistics.
>This already exists in the form of a gas tax and road use taxes (registration).

Neither of these target congestion directly, but road use in general. As a result, they usually fail to do much to slow down driving (since the goal is basically just to fund roads).

>NIMBYs get in the way of building the lanes that already have demand and funding.

Why shouldn't somebody oppose yet more noise, pollution, and traffic in their neighbourhood? That something has externalities on the people around it is a good reason to oppose it.

>Extending it further really just ends up as a restriction on the movements of the poor.

The poorest are in many ways already relegated to using transit, which in most US cities is woefully inadequate for getting around. Effort to make transit more viable can only make these people better off.
Data engineering isn't software engineering, but it needs better software tools big time.
Which politically viable law would mitigate this problem?
> or even anti-scientific one

This might sound like a quibble, but details matter in this sort of thing. Both sorcery and theology are sciences as traditionally understood. Perhaps you meant "anti-pure-materialist?"

After all, there are notable and influential scientists who very much believed in the supernatural. Now maybe some people get a dopamine rush from thinking "Lol Newton wuz dumb," but on the other hand maybe the world's greatest minds weren't actually stupid.
Agreed. Although I don't think this is a bad idea, I think of the idea of perfectly defined laws and perfectly enforceable laws are terrifying. If every law on the books today were able to be perfectly enforced and perfectly monitored, our lives would be utterly miserable.

I'm not going to argue that's a problem with laws vs. enforcement, but either way, our society is built around ambiguity and unequal enforcement of law.
Unix timestamp (actual reference with easy math) + timezone give you absolute time to work with, such that you can work out the correct presentation for the timezone even if the timezone has undergone multiple revisions in the intervening years.

There's still a bunch of problems (timezone of event origin? Event reporting origin? Server? Client? Client + presentational overlay?) and confusing things to work through (including relativistic problems) but the consistency of the reference point is valuable. Nobody is going to confuse what timezone you are using as your point of reference when you use Unix epoch. Just use a 64-bit number to hold it.
Plants can detect sound
Whatever statute you're looking at likely defines "intangible right of honest services" and "defrauding."
Well, it sounds like you get about 10 types of distractions. Which is about the same as an open-floorplan office. Some of my coworkers have these cubes-of-silence and you’ll see those in bigger open-floorplans as well.
In what way does Brazil have unfree markets vs the US? Either now or during the last 150-200 years?
> They’re already doing that. They don’t want to pay for the parking on the robotaxis, or move them further away when not in use, so they just drive in circles taking up space and making traffic worse without even carrying anyone.

I really expected them to wait for a little more secure of a political position before they started doing exactly the thing that proves that they're entirely out for themselves and don't give a damn about improving traffic or city life.
Wow really?

Oh dang. I was using a Chevy Bolt. Its footprint is basically 13k sq in.

But I messed up the math. It’s not ~9 sq ft (which I rounded up). I lost a zero. It’s 90 sq ft.

I’ll fix my post. Thanks!
> Cars are more convenient and comfortable

I worry that this perspective alone oversimplifies the issue and doesn't consider that when riding an SF bus today one has to worry about:

- Aggressive passengers

- Stench from smoking / urine / body odor / people bringing in garbage into the bus

- Being on guard in case of theft (can't pull out laptop and catch up on work)

- Falling off seat due to aggressive bus driving

- Sketchy happenings by the bus stop

These aren't mild annoyances as the authors' wording might (unintentionally) imply, but real health and safety risks. More so if one is female or are physically disadvantaged.

I'd love to see this concern being talked about more as part of the conversation.
Check the link, the video, or the title. This is all running on real hardware.
> The same already seen happening today when Russia alone can outproduce artillery shells about 6 to 1 what USA and EU can produce combined.

This being counterbalanced quite a bit by range and accuracy advantages on the other side of things.
Two questions:

1) How do you use it on your mobile device? ( For Reads and Writes)

2) How is the performance on really large files -say 10k tiddlers?
Ah okay I see, "it was not true capitalism" :)
Read: they aren’t willing to spend the political capital. Which shows how much they truly value the issue. Much easier to bolster the status quo. Bonus: when that issue is under attack, you can rally the troops by saying “see? They’re coming after us!”