skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But ... all this goes for humans too! Is the argument that we should just outlaw driving alltogether, all possible forms?

One famous example of that is how to react correctly when the car starts to slip due to speed, braking, or driving on water, mud, sand, snow or ice. I think everyone knows people's reflexes are to floor the brakes, and start wildly turning the steering wheel, which only results in total loss of control over the vehicle. Is anyone demanding drivers learn to correctly handle cars or other vehicles under these circumnstances? There are only very minimal efforts, because it is completely impractical to teach many humans better driving practices. So we just accept the flaws ... and the constant stream of victims this generates.

Reality: Yes, a driving AI is not ready for all possible situations. It just isn't. It will never be. Is that a problem?

Also reality: Humans drive drunk. Humans drive while under the influence of drugs. Humans drive trucks near kids when they're so tired they can't keep their head lifted up. And roads are full of dead cats, squirrels, mice, ...

Also also reality: AI driving software can, after an accident, be taught to handle the situation that caused the accident, and the result of this learning process can then be uploaded to all instances of this software. Humans will keep making the same mistakes, with the same consequences, over and over and over again. Perhaps there is very slow improvement (mostly by modifying roads), but it takes decades.

Practical view: I have driven around in Mountain View next to self-driving cars. One thing's for sure: self-driving cars behave much better than human drivers. Including me. It's very irritating how good they behave on the road. If the roads have many self-driving cars, I'm pretty damn sure it'll result in much fewer accidents and lower transit times. Never mind that self-driving cars of course solve the parking problem. I don't get why people hate them.

And I hate this goalpost moving where AIs are compared to multiple top-performing humans, that you see everywhere. Of course, there are now cases where AIs have actually beaten groups of top-performing humans (translation, chess, Go, robot control, ...)
I've been on some local events which have grown through the years, and with size, everything became worse sadly... It started with 50, 60 people, you could go talk to the speaker, you could try out some gadgets, see the demos up close... Then it became bigger, more people, more organization, and in the end, it was the same as if I watched stuff streamed online, just less comfortable and more expensive.
Oh I forgot they are Salesforce now. We had to argue with Heroku, sometimes for weeks, before they even acknowledged they had hour-long outages that affected us. I hope Slack doesn't go the same way.
I recently purchased an Epson Eco Tank printer (their budget mono without a scanner) [1], I'm quite impressed so far. The first thing I did was print 200+ pages, and it kept up well. My biggest cost now is the price of paper (as it should be). I would suggest ink jet still could be useful, especially with cheap refillable ink rather than this expensive cartridge bullshit.

I remember years ago wanting to buy a new ink cartridge for my HP printer. In the shop the printer was something like £25 (printer + scanner, black + colour ink) - or - I could pay something like £20 for black and £25 for colour cartridges. I explained to the service person "so you're telling me, it would be cheaper for me to buy a new printer, throw the printer in the bin and just take the cartridges out?". They answered "yeah". I tried to refill the ink cartridge manually with a syringe and an online guide, but never could get it to work due to their "smart secure" cartridge lock-ins.

HP time and time again prove to be a massive problem in the printing industry. I think I have said on HN a few times that I would be very much interested in building an open source ink jet printer (including head) - it can't be impossible.

[1] https://www.epson.co.uk/en_GB/for-home/ecotank
I wonder what / how it will be in couple years.
This feature is now built into macOS system-wide (it's called Presenter Overlay)

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/facet...

Still great for Windows/Linux users though!
I worked for a company that did this in the 1990's. Small gas turbine, the size of two show boxes (200hp) powering a generator, which charged the batteries and/or electric motors.

The advantages are efficiency, low weight and no gearbox is needed, as the turbine spun at over 100,000 rpm and the generator was fine with that.

The main disadvantages were noise and turbines need more maintenance than piston engines. No LiIon batteries back then either.

The project only built 1 finished prototype.
> If I count the cumulative hours, days, weeks spent at writing templatetags

Django has support for Jinja templates so you could just use that and call methods in your templates, which negates the need for most template tags.
That wouldn't be 95% of market, more like 50-60%, and a strain to use even for those apt. Not everyone is an Infocom playing nerd.
And keeping the phone as water resistant
You can scale locations. In a fair area you can always add a hall until you run out of halls, then you move to a bigger fair in another city.

What doesn't scale is the people who organise everything. If they don't want to organise ever bigger events, then they are free to switch back to a smaller scale. It's not only the organisational overhead that increases, but also that a bigger event is not just a bigger event, but also becomes another type of event.
It's quite hilarious that the commenter didn't want to create accounts in all the apps he described, still the crux of your proposal is .. creating another account.
Intro to Semantic Kernel – Part One
> Dynamically typed programs have much simpler structures and are much easier to reason about and test than their static typed counterparts.

That just makes no sense. Both programs have the same underlying structure, but it's hidden in dynamic languages. Having no compiler and type system makes reasoning much more difficult, there is no discussion about that.

> The larger the program you write with static typing, the worse it becomes compared to it's dynamically typed counterpart.

Again, that's just not the case: try refactoring Python code without type hints in a large code base. It takes a lot more time and effort and you can never be sure you caught all the cases affected by changes. The compiler tells you about every change needed to be made to arrive at a working state.
The NSA employs US math professors in number theory.
It depends you, my choice is camel case
The act of discovery – Jerome Bruner [pdf]
For me it's stuff like the size of toolbars. They are too small and i tried a bunch of scaling before but couldn't get it right. The size of borders is also an issue where it seems like theres a few pixels i need to grab onto to resize a window so its difficult to do. Recently i ran into an issue in Nautilus where it doesn't auto refresh the contents of a folder when files are added, and there's no refresh button in sight either - you have to know the shortcut is F5. There's just a lot of tiny issues like that that keep cropping up. Then linux people will say "oh it works for me" and that's the end kf of the discussion.

There are also plenty of apps like Unreal or Davinci that while supported on linux tend to be more buggy just because they have a smaller user base and less investment by companies.
> but, and sorry to be so blunt, fuck em

But maybe please don't fuck them?

I use Chat GPT 4 for one-off scripts, to explore new technologies/frameworks.

Sometimes it's great, but I find it hurts me as much as it helps me in terms of time.

The only big win is it really helps me start doing new things whereas without it I would procastinate more.

I've seen a colleague mention a Chat GPT discussion in a PR in what I thought was a straight-forward issue, where Chat GPT was just wrong. I find that worrying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_medallion?wprov=sfti1
What is the most simple docker-compose.yml needed to get this running? (No I don’t want to run that command they show I want to use docker compose and am not an expert yet) - thanks
Investigating emotional experiences in eSports spectatorship: League of Legends
Also disengenious given that people will assume chatgpt style chatbots, but the queen died before chatgpt became generally available, meaning this was likely some eliza level bot (and the quotes suggest that too).
I'm curious if somebody from Slack could comment how much the acquisition changed Slack technologies.

I have first hand info from Avast - Norton merger and turning into corporation which doesn't value good RE talents was ridiculous and I've worked in corporate before, but this was just another level.

Middle management and up, their technical knowledge ended at turning PC on, hehe.

Btw they forced everybody even devs/RE guys into switching from Slack to Teams.

But still I have respect for original owners who build this AV company from 0. Too bad over the years it turned into this BS, where gathering and selling people's data is a normal thing for them.

At least there are guys from ESET, which is where people really care about fighting malware.
Sony confirms data breach affecting 7000 employees
Is it me, or this site is super slow/heavy to scroll?
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A friend would do this with his Apple M1 laptop when we would play something online. He'd take some frozen fresh cheese out of the freezer (in a plastic bag) and put it under the laptop. Otherwise, his framerate would crater. Sometimes, in winter, he'd put a coat on, open the window, and play with the laptop on the window sill. Apple laptops tend to be slim and silent, but their thermals always seem to pay the price.
Looking up soccer stats is not illegal so the company doesn't have to block it.

Blocking the website instead of punishing them in their performance reviews (assuming it does impact their performance, if they're still productive why even care) is useless, they'll use their phones and still spend time on it.
Is there a list of these clubs and organisations, and are they only in Germany?
i once repaired a macbook pro, around 2011, which didnt boot anymore with a towel, blocking the vents and constantly powering it on until, it overheated. it must have been enough to bridge a broken solder point. Took 5 Mintues. Worked for some hours to get the important client data and project files off of it.

the idea came to me after the ibook gpu problems which i repaired with a manipulated tealight (3 flames) placing on the gpu, having the ibook upside down, and also turning it on all the time (it directly went off) until it worked for ever.

i was a broke student at that time and loved McGyver growing up when i was a kid.
As someone who's spent the bulk of his career in Rails and then Phoenix, to me it's the other way around: everything else is just so goddamn slow and unproductive. Don't people realise that it doesn't have to be like this?
There is the Camp in Summer: https://media.ccc.de/c/camp2023
Even with a hot ambient temperature, you can still keep your devices at a safe temperature by increasing air flow with large external fans. You need larger air flow because you'll saturate the air quicker, and you have less thermal run-off (close to max temperatures).
How does it go with things like tracking or serving personalised ads?

Genuine concern with anything google. Current and future risks.
For 1) lock-free atomics are also allowed.

In C++ there's actually a lot more freedom. You can access non-atomic non-volatile-std :: sig_atomic_t variables as long as you don't violate the data race rules.
Agreed on all of those points - Loved Lastpass when it first appeared, felt stung by the doubling (quadrupling?) of the fee and exported all my data to Bitwarden a few years ago. Haven't looked back since.
I'm reading it line by line, some parts are really difficult to ingest and other parts go very easily. Once I finish reading it first time I plan to read it again, this time I hope to get more from difficult parts based on the context I already have.
It's funny that one argument openai used to keep their models closed and centralized is so they could prevent things like this. And yet they're doing basically nothing to stop it (and letting the web deteriorate) now that profit has come into play.
"I don't need a compiler because I never make mistakes".
I have always wondered about that.

If optimizing repeated atomic loads is indeed allowed, waiting for a signal by spinning on an atomic load could loop forever. Yet I have the feeling most people consider such code to be valid. Are they wrong?
I don't want the "cleanliness" of Pixel software in any of my devices.
> That's mitigated by the lack of autoloading so you can learn the structure of the project by looking at the import statements at the top of the files. Unfortunately that means that you have to waste time by writing those imports.

Although its been a while, I do remember struggling a lot with autoloading in rails for two reasons: you can't find your dependencies from the code itself and when it breaks down its quite hard to debug. Maybe things are better now with rails and when you get really proficient you know how to find where things are - however that increase the learning curve which is supposed to be a benefit with rails. With django, I can generally look at the imports to see what this module is using. With the help of the right tools I can:

- 'go to definition' of any symbol and 99% of the time land in the source, even of django itself
- automatically add imports so you don't have to write them
- automatically sort and format imports and see the unused ones

With the optional static typing that is being greatly improved with recent releases, things get even easier.

I prefer this a lot above the rails 'magic', for me it is a huge time saver because my memory is not so good, there is minimal friction moving around between code and is various dependencies to see exactly how its done. With rails I'm more often looking at the docs (not so great) or examples, with django I'm most of the time looking at the source code itself or running the shell (which is very, very good).

> Model.objects.filter(...)

Its called a manager. I understand you don't like to type 'objects', it fits in the rails culture of being allergic to redundancy, though I can't really empathize with it.

> The real time waster is the templating language which in Rails is basically Ruby and in Django is not Python.

I hate both but prefer the django template language. I'm surprised this is such a time waster for you. I think its good practice to not put too much logic in the templates so the division of labor in django is much better imo. But then again, I'm not a good frontend person and have problems with the deeply nested structures in html. Everything can help me simplify the template is a huge timesaver for me, bugs in the frontend code are terribly annoying. Honestly I hate frontend.
I recently had the problem of trying to convert STL to STEP (3D printing vs CNC), but made no progress with this. Is something like MeshLab suitable for this? If I can't find a solution I may just end up writing a tool to do the conversion for me...
I thought we were discussing about ChromeOS for developers after all.

> ChromeOS got good and is wildly underrated for software development.

There are laptops sold with Linux support in mind, those Asus netbooks were such laptops.

As for DRM, just install Chrome, the Web nowadays is ChromeOS anyway.
It’s not the most reassuring to see deflecting language:

“Users are having trouble connecting”

“Some customers are encountering various errors”

They know exactly what’s going on, at least superficially via usage metrics, and should be able to quantify it.
I’m looking forward to the day there is a HN post about printers that doesn’t go straight “buy a low priced laser printer… I have a xx from 1987 and it is working just fine”
Erfakreise ("Erfahrungsaustauschkreis" — experience sharing circle) are official sub-organisations. They are listed under https://www.ccc.de/de/club/erfas

Chaostreffs (chaos meetings) are loosely coupled to the club and listed here: https://www.ccc.de/de/club/chaostreffs
so I assume he has the M1 laptop with no cooling, the basic macbook?

Because I have a M1 max macbook pro, and it never gets hot ever. It also never really makes any noise.

My main game is cities skylines and civ 6. Don't know if those are not that intense since they are quite some years old. But I dont need to resort to crazy stuff like your comment.
Yeah Apple do it right on their machines, at least the laptops. There is no excuse not to do this for other vendors but it costs fractionally more so they push the risk on to the users.
Why was it cancelled last year?
I saved a ppt in OneDrive the other day and it disappeared. It hadn’t synced, but it didn’t only show locally, it had completely disappeared!

I closed ppt and re-opened but corp IT has disabled history in ppt so I couldn’t get to it again.

It just magically showed up an hour later……..
where were you working that had a marble floor?
So that you get to bake it yourself?
yeah those had bad solder joints with the GPU.

I assume it had a discrete gpu in it, which caused issues with stability.

I fixed mine by putting the gpu in the oven for a few hours. Continued to work for a few months. Then i did it again, and it worked again for a few weeks. Couldnt fix it a third time though
Every phone in this price range have DP alt mode over usb c. Every Pixel phone nope.
My concern with Chinese property rights is the nature of the land use right rather than the respect those rights receive for from the government.

For example instead of buying a house in China, people obtain residential land use rights from the local authority for a period of up to 70 years [1]. AFAIK this translates to a 70 year leasehold contract in British, which isn't that much. It's very possible, in theory, to 'purchase' a house in China and have be unable to live in it within your lifetime.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_law_in_China
> Some 'agile fans' have been promoted up a few notches at Lockheed, that is all this is.

Maybe. I definitely do not have first hand knowledge of anything.

What I do remember is that a few months ago SpaceX's Starlink was playing cat-and-mouse games with Russian jamming attempts. They had an issue where the Russians couldn't jam an already established connection, but because of some protocol weakness they could jam the establishment of new connections. Within a very short amount of time they patched it and rolled out a fix both to their satellites and the receivers which negated that particular jamming attack.

When that happened Dave Tremper director of electronic warfare for the Office of the Secretary of Defense commented that they envy that level of agility. He said that current way how the Pentagon responds to such challenges would have taken much much longer.

Not saying that this recent news is directly related to that event, but observations like that can prompt the defense sector to offer solutions like this.

more details on that particular case: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/04/20/spacex-shut-down-...
It's only every ~4 years, though.

But there is also Easterhegg around the Easter holidays https://www.easterhegg.eu/

And the Gulaschprogrammiernacht in early summer: https://entropia.de/GPN
I bought a first price laser printer few years ago, it was twice the price of a inkjet printer with the same quality, and B&W only but it paid itself by having more ink in the package and not having ink drying when I'm not using it
Did you pay for the roads you drive on or your freedom others died for? Do you pay for insurance? It’s kinda hard not to indirectly pay for others bad choices.
They did not know in fall what the hygiene regulations in December would be, and since organizing the congress means lots of effort and expenses, they decided to wait it out.
What does "manufacturer" mean in this context? I don't think Qualcom or Foxconn can give a rat's ass about whether you pack Gmail or not.
Not really. It comes across as an extremely contrived example, motivated by a desire to show one language is better, and misusing the other language in order to arrive at that goal. In other words, typical tiresome language evangelism. I think your abuse of "mutable" is about on the same level of someone writing bogus code in an "unsafe" block and then complaining that his foot is gone and Rust did nothing to prevent it.

No one sane would mutate elements, free memory or throw exceptions in a sort comparison function. To demonstrate fairness, you therefore need to at least also show how you could use Rust "unsafe" to break the sort, which is also a language feature you probably wouldn't want to use in this context.
Agreed, the main advantage of Markdown is it's easy, so encourages quick ephemeral notes which would otherwise be plain text, and if done properly (i.e., written as plain text with some extra conventions) is readable as plain text, and you get a pretty view on GitWhatever.

If you want big formal documentation, are you sure? It has less value than you think and imposes a maintenance burden which will eat your life. If yes, then use DocBook or LaTeX.
Blue Origin, Sierra Space Orbital Reef Space Station in Limbo
The first three are surprisingly good, especially the 2nd and 3rd, and especially if you like those old style Sierra. Oddly charming, and Larry really is just looking for love (and often finding it), he's just a bit of a hapless loser.

Regardless my point is it is a good series and surprisingly tame. Sierra adventures have a ... style but I love them. The main thing is: save a lot. More than you think.
Entropy is a measure of the number of possible states.

In unbounded/infinite time, all states will be cycled through. However diffuse, all particles in space will be akin to H2O molecules in an ocean of water: they will move freely, interacting with each other, each assuming any number of positions. In an idealized ocean in boundless time, every H2O molecule will occupy every possible position, and then every possible configuration will repeat.

Post heat-death, the number of possible states that describe maximally (or near-maximally) disordered and diffuse systems is almost -- but not quite -- infinitely larger than the number of possible states which describe structures of some sort, indeed of any possible sort, emerging. That "not quite" does a lot of work, in view of unending time. So, in boundless space, in boundless time, should protons and other elementary particles not decay, very interesting things will still come into existence with some degree of statistical regularity.
>Modern astronomers now consider its distance from Earth to be about 7,200 light-years or 2,200 parsecs.

>SN 1006 lies well beyond 1 kiloparsec, and it did not appear to have significant effects on Earth. However, a signal of its outburst can be found in nitrate deposits in Antarctic ice.

Something from 7200 light years had an effect on Earth!
When that's happen, then it's time hire a programmer. Just like all those site builders don't make web developers disappear because you'll eventually hit a limit and need a programmer to solve the issue.
The terms of service prohibits deep linking. Here's me breaking it: https://store.app/terms

Seriously though, WTF? So much for "the web always wins".
You can not even determine that you are in a simulation if the simulator does not want you to know.
Does anyone have a practical experience running Mojo in production?
I personally don’t have an issue with the government using commercially available data.

I do have issues with certain data being commercially available.

But if the data can be bought for money legally, the government investigative and intelligence agencies should have access to it.

If we don’t like this, we should address how this data is collected and sold, not try to limit government access to it.