skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Norway it’s very normal to have a stove and burn wood pretty much every day in the winter season. Open fireplaces are rather uncommon though, essentially because they produce a lot of smoke and very little heat.

I hope they do a follow up study that separates fireplace and stove.
Why does the Universe appear fine-tuned for life to exist?
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Hello fellow hackers - I work with the Permission Slip team closely (on a related and partly overlapping team) at Consumer Reports Innovation Lab. Happy to answer any questions or get answers if you stump me.

Never answered a single question. This whole thing stinks-- I'm a little heartbroken if not disgusted CR is in the game in this way. They used to be good guys back when the bad guys were a lot more innocent.
Way to trash your brand in a never forget kind of way!
Orange Pi is a great platform & I have one, but now the SBC price is hovering around $100 or more and so a the reused 1L business mini-pc makes even more sense, if it's computing you're after.
>You have just confirmed my point.

No all you've shown is that you did not read my sources nor my comment.

As is shown by you confusing the Council of European Union and the European Council.

Not only that, but you show no real evidence of knowing even how elections with in EU countries, since EU member states, with the exception of hungary, all have a council deciding who will be a nominee for their version of a commission, the only small difference is that these councils are unofficial in EU member states as it is a matter of political party/coalition concern and not a national concern, as IS the case with the EU.

So if anything EU is more "official" in being a democracy than even member states, when it comes to transparency of deciding the nominees for various positions, something NOT official in average EU member states.
Some people can and do fix their own appliances, so that's a terrible analogy
I run a wood stove all winter long and some years never turn on the central heat. I wonder how much of the extra risk is offset by

* lower fire risk from burning the fuel surrounding my house for the last few years.
* more exercise from cutting, splitting and hauling wood
* an air purifier running next to the wood stove all winter
* about ~$1,200 per year saved on fuel
* more open windows during the day during the winter due to cheaper fuel costs.

That might not fully compensate for the extra lung cancer risk but it might be significant.

Also since heat is cheaper this way, I heat my house more and am more comfortable all winter. This doesn't seem like it would offset the health risks, but it is a hedonic compensation.
Obviously not, but when your engineers are leveling lawsuits left and right it certainly doesn’t help with confidence in your company.

Add to that the kind of person Musk is and Twitter is on a nosedive, it just has an absurdly long way to fall.
These days, I mostly use WezTerm on MacOS. And ocassionaly iTerm2.

iTerm2 is slow? Man I guess I'm not a heavy command line user. I mosty open 5 or 6 tabs. tmux? Very very rarely.
Recent version of Nomad has introduced many QoL features like secrets and service discovery, though logging collection remains unsupported.
It used to be there in India, not anymore. It had its peak 7-8 years ago, now it just a place with low quality content and dozens of paywalls.
If a hotel chain uses pictures from one hotel to advertise another, that's false advertisement.

OBB should be held to the same standard.
They didn't have the 8GB Pi 4 for the first year of launch either. I think it was Jeff G who said they were planning on a 16 GB release down the road.
Possibly more universal, but there are also tools like rlwrap [1] that adds readline support to programs that don't have it. From the docs apparently the readline library ships a similar tool ootb nowadays but I haven't tried that and just noticed now when I wanted to share the rlwrap link.

[1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
He Warned Turkey About Earthquakes. Now He Fears for Istanbul.
Most of our team just use their text editor to do formatter via plugins. I also find this online SQL formatter to be useful - https://extendsclass.com/sql-formatter.html
Median household income in the US is $71k.
A blind monkey throwing darts will beat the S&P 500 some of the time.

The problem isn't that it's impossible to beat the S&P 500 (it's actually trivial), the problem is it's hard to predict which portfolio will outperform the S&P 500.
I live in Toronto. The lowest I've seen for a job listing at a tech-oriented small company was 90k on the low end(the job listing was 90k-120k), and this was for someone with 2 years experience. I've never seen a tech or tech-adjacent company offer 60k for even new grads. Most small companies I've seen offer for someone with 5+ years of solid experience a minimum of 120k USD. These are for remote jobs.
FAANG are megacorps pretending to be startups to young developers, and treat them accordingly. There are other megacorps doing tech that behave like proper megacorps, and pay accordingly.
https://archive.ph/Sckeh
Look up any of the mountain of studies that connects air particulate, in general, to cancer.

If you want to argue variables for air particulate's relationship to lung cancer, then more power to you.
Something as simple as IMBD, not literally IMDB. It is possible for famous people to maintain curated lists of their official work. Presidents especially do this, eventually putting it all into presidential libraries. Or it isn't possible to verify any information online because [reasons] and then our entire society falls apart as nothing online can ever be trusted. We aren't anywhere near that point.
This is why I bring a smokeless fire pit with me camping now. I swear it makes a difference, but could be placebo.
Why do you return to it every day then?
>Monkey brain is much more dangerous than losing a few % APY

....and you don't even need a few percent to throw it in a target date fund that regularly rebalances for you
Prezi was where Elm was conceived / sponsored.
LG OLED55C8PLA, launched in 2018. expensive, but incredible display: https://www.lg.com/uk/tvs-soundbars/smart-tvs/oled55c8pla/

can’t connect to my 5ghz wifi (80mhz/channel 149).

and the ethernet connection is only 100Mbit.
Liquidation preferences put collaborative VCS into conflict
As a Linux desktop user, web apps are very much welcome. Apps like Photopea and Adobe's new Photoshop web app are things that make the Linux desktop much more viable as a platform.
How does it compare to Alacrtitty, Kitty, Wezterm, Rio and other moder and actually fast terminal emulators?
It’s because the only people left in the Elm community are those who are content with its current state and aren’t interested in having a stake in the future direction of core components or in even knowing whether there is a direction.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8266936/

Money quote from the abstract:

"The strongest association of exposure to wood dust and development of nasal cancer is observed in those occupations where workers are exposed to hard wood dust and chemical additives are not used."

Note that the strongest association is when chemicals are NOT used - I suspect this might be more due to how people work the wood (less likely to sand particles board, more likely to wear protective gear) than the nature of the chemicals themselves.

It does go on to say that various respiratory cancers are from both untreated and treated wood sawdust, but wood alone is well known to cause cancer.
Honestly I think it is pretty realistic. The content is public, what about this would be particularly difficult?
i don't know about these new night trains but oebb.at is what made our euro trip more affordable. We purchased our eurail pass but then got so confused as to how to purchase the reservations on italian high speed trains using the reduced eurail rates. Eurail's website wasn't showing the routes and trenitalia doesn't have pricing for eurail holders either. Then I learned from some eurail forum that we had to go through oebb's website to purchase the reservations. Thank you oebb and thank you revolut for making USD -> CHF, EUR, GBP conversions super easy.
> Yes, because it's objectively unpleasant (if it tasted good there would naturally be no need to acquire a taste for it)

Who gets to decide what is "objectively unpleasant"?
They can always live in casks instead. Not terribly impactful practically speaking.
That's an interesting fact, but it doesn't seem to be an essential a part of competing with Patreon like having a basic understanding of artists' lives and business models is. The author's goal wasn't to document all the ways in which someone might try to take part of Patreon's business, they're simply documenting a few of the essential elements of a creator funding platform that Patreon competitors have heretofore failed to understand.

Allowing or disallowing specific categories of content is a lower-level business decision than understanding your customers' basic needs.
Those companies tend to attract type As, and it’s similarly easy for non type As to feel implicit peer pressure. You don’t have to work a ton to succeed.

If you prefer to maintain a 9-5 schedule at these companies, it's extremely possible as long as you:

1) genuinely stick to a 9-5 work routine (some individuals I saw struggling were actually working something like 11-4).

2) are comfortable with the possibility of not experiencing rapid career advancement, potentially reaching a plateau at the first terminal level.
Black swans from Mars? The real risks of sending alien samples home
Postgres didn't actually a requirement either. Sqlite is supported and default unless you provide configuration for connecting to a database host.
What was your approach to getting started doing this?

I’m curious to learn more about how LLMs work too.
Anyone have any bright ideas as to how we can change these economics? Zig foundation is interesting.
Built a few things with Blazor (largely internal tooling). Feels like a cross between Meteor, WebForms, and Phoenix LiveView. Fast and simple.

- Server-side rendering is great for internal apps, or public facing ones where interactivity is minimal and you enforce websocket support. Lost connections are still messy, but a single codebase (literally) makes life very simple.

- Client-side rendering is great for internal apps, or public facing ones where users are fine with a reasonable-sized up-front traffic hit. Lost connections behave like with any other site, and you can still use shared code and libraries which work unchanged on client and server.

I quite like the latter. A DotNet solution with a client C# project, a server C# project, and shared code projects, with the server running an API and the client consuming it using shared models works well and supports end-to-end debugging.

I'm also looking forward to trying the DotNet 8 hybrid Blazor improvements.

That said, when doing C# I still prefer either plain ASP.Net MVC or a separate client hitting an ASP.Net Web API (pretty much the perfect mix of scalable performance and productive development).
Wait, embeddings were used for classification for a long time now. Can somebody explain what is new here?

edit: ah, looked at the paper, they did it unsupervised, with a sparse autoencoder.
Not exactly. For java serialization, you can serialize java native object directly without define dsl and compile the schema, which are mush more easy to use. But it also means the deserialization will need to create the user-defined class, which may contains malicious coode in `constructor/queals/hashCode`. So the security can't be done at a different layer unless you are in a intra-net which no attack will happen which may be implemented at a different layer but we can't ensure that.

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Having never heard of Warp and wondering what would get VCs to give that much to a terminal project I just took look at their website and it’s obviously the AI/LLM aspect.

With that said does anyone know which open source projects are looking at LLM integration. It’s not a bad idea.
For my DCSkyCam project, htop shows 1.8 load average on my Pi 4B. It's always busy, with resources left to handle spikes based on what the camera detects (or post to mastodon/website). I'd say it's right-sized. Best part - not throttled, even without a case, fans, or even heatsinks. That probably wouldn't be the case with a Pi 5.
Very blathery, seems to have been written by an artist rather than a scientist.

Relevant part is this "One place to start [assisting pollination] is finding opportunities to encourage and facilitate the relationships between plants and their endemic pollinator partners. To that end, The Pollinator Partnership has developed a comprehensive series of free planting guides tailored to the swathe of individual ecoregions found throughout the US and Canada. To access these guides, you simply enter your postal code into their system and it will generate the corresponding document containing specific recommendations and practices to help you support plant-pollinator partnerships in your immediate area."
> EU competition probe should slow down EV adoption

That's a bad outcome, obviously, and the EU competition probe's intent will be more to make "a level playing field" for EU car manufacturers.

To be fair, we do see EU brand electric cars locally: VWs and BMVs, even an electric Skoda; but also more of the Hyundai's, Kias, Polestars, Nissans, a lot of Tesla's (assembled in China) and of course the LEVC taxis (LEVC is owned by Geely China).

And many more in the works, both from EU and other car manufacturers.

But also I feel that if the EU car manufacturers held back on the EVs that we deserve while China did not, that's on them. If they made the wrong bet, to protect their incumbent ICE business, then Geely's subsidiaries can and should supply the new vehicles instead.
Start with a 32-pin beginner uC like STM32G0, AVR64DD32 (more modern version of AtMega328pb), PIC, or other such chip.

Find a useful sensor to some itch you have: temperature, pressure, weight, time, CO2, accelerometer, whatever is interesting to you. Make a design that reads the sensor and writes it to LEDs (red is bad, green is good), or 7-seg displays, screens or some other visual device.

Order 3 or 4 boards, low temperature lead free solder paste, no clean flux (bullshit, you should clean it off), solder wick, cheap isopropyl alcohol to clean the flux after the fact, a pancake grill, and 3 or 4 copies of all the chips you need.

If you stick with larger surface mount chips like 0805 inches or 2012 (metric), a soldering iron is sufficient for rework. Smaller chips require a hot air gun.

Try to stick with larger chips like SSOP or even SOIC chips. TQFP should be doable with the sloppy then flux+solder wick cleanup method but don't go any smaller as a beginner. SOT-23 is easy.

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Mess up your first attempt. That's fine, you have 2x more tries.

Build it successfully using pancake griddle reflow method (solder paste on the pads, be sloppy if you must. Place enough so all the components stick to the gel-like solder paste in place. Heat to 350F or 138C for low-temp solder paste (you can tell because it liquefies and all the components start floating).

Use a toothpick to push items back into place, turn off heat. When cool, use lots of flux, solder wick + solder iron to fix bridges (should be super easy. If it's not easy, use more flux and try again and/or buy new solder flux+wick. That stuff goes bad every 2 months).

Done. Except you probably made a mistake on your schematic. Fix that, order new parts, try again and be happy the time it finally works.

Keep your flux, wick, and solder paste refreshed (throw out old consumables, buy new every few months) and you should be good to go.

Order a x10 jewelers loupe or x15 or x25 to visually inspect these solder joints. If all looks well, grab your fire extinguisher and turn on your electronics project! Best of luck.
The end game is pretty obvious: https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/electricity-b...
I’ve started playing with Nomad recently just to see what it’s all about. There are some annoying things with networking, but overall it’s been pretty fun so far. What made you consider it harmful?
The probability that a program is useful given the number of lines probably peaks in the 10,000’s-100,000’s.
I still feel like there must be a difference in particulate matter from things like combustion products (which we know are very bad) and those from cooking - as long as nothing is getting hot enough to char and smoke… Still a good idea to have a good exhaust fan in your range hood (and pick induction over gas if possible) but still…
>> use an LCD to imprint the photo onto them.

It's just blurry digital. The polaroid film is acting as a really lossy medium for the digital information. Look close enough and you will likely still find artifacts of digital photography in the "film" printout.
Sqlite is already supported and the default.
The clear example of quality vs. quantity. Quora definitely wins in terms of quantity.
Left out another major chunk: the conflict that arose over the eventual systemd adoption. To me that conflict altered the concept of ''What is Debian'' permanently, for better or worse (depending on who you listen to).
I've been very happy with until now, though i must admit i'm using one node swarms. But i'd rather use that (1) than sticking together a custom solution using docker compose as i see it mentioned sometimes.

(1) https://dockerswarm.rocks/traefik/
pgrx is one of the greatest enabling innovations in the PG ecosystem in a long time.

Awesome to see so many high quality extensions come out of it.

https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx
But just to clarify: a DVD loaned by a library doesn't fall under a "personal collection", right? It seems like it would be hard to argue Fair Use if you're ripping a loaner.
what's a Kelly in this context?
I love these posts. I bookmark all of them.

I feel strongly that VCS's could have much better UX and reliability. I'm trying to design one myself instead of implementing it in a weekend. (Though I do understand the constraints Linus was under when he made Git.)

I'd love to hear more about what people hate about Git.
> The results were fascinating: people who intended to settle acquired a local accent quicker than those here temporarily.

As a 26-year immigrant of Germany i feel compelled to point out that there's more to it than that. i've known and worked with many, MANY people from different countries and have known exactly four who had the ability to eventually lose a non-native accent. Two were from Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, respectively) and two particularly language-gifted women from Germany, one of whom i thought was British for the first six months i knew her.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of people do not simply lose their native accents. Native-born US'ians, like me, in particular. i have yet to meet a US'ian who can completely hide the fact that they're a native English speaker when speaking German, not because of the vocabulary or grammar, but the accent is always a dead giveaway (though it's frequently mistaken for Dutch or British by native Germans).

On the other hand, i have completely lost my regional US dialect (primarily Texan) and now speak English with that i have come to call an "international English" or "expat English" dialect which cannot be specifically tied down to one English-speaking region.

i've been told by native German speakers, but cannot really judge, that it's easy to hear that i have spent most of my time in Germany in Bavaria because that's the regional slang i tend to use. After recently moving to northern Germany, i'm finding that dropping that southern-German slang requires a conscious effort.
These are good of examples of why all the pearl-clutching around LLM's potential for deep-fakery are likely overblown. We've been dealing with fakery for millenia. Some new tech comes around, we get fooled a few times, then quickly get wise to the con.

To be clear, the pearl-clutching serves an important function, to raise awareness of the threat so that we can more quickly/effectively mitigate it. But many people take it much farther than that, calling for govt intervention or for companies to halt work until certain under-specified goals can be achieved.
Software Delivery Enablement, Not Developer Productivity
Typical reasons companies go bankrupt are: failing to make a competitive product, betting on the wrong horse, or failing to adapt to change. In all three cases they can stay consumer friendly or not - it wouldn't matter.
We're working in software, overhead is extraordinarily low. It might be a bad model for a VC-funded startup, but there's almost certainly enough demand to support a tiny bootstrapped team.
This course of action (taking a small risk of losing everything in exchange for a high probability small reward) is what Nassim Taleb calls "picking up coins in front of a steamroller."
I rarely agree with "make it illegal" solutions, but in this case, I think you're exactly right. Slapping a "Buy" button on something that is ultimately a rental seems like a deceptive practice. Too bad it's industry standard.
We must realize there always a tradeoff here. If you define a dsl for serialization data and generate the code like protobuf, the security issue will be much less. But it comes with the cost. Protobuf generated class are not the domain class, and can't be used for domain-driven application developemnt, and it doesn't support circular references too. What fury does it provide better performance and provide better usability.
Of course predicting the future is impossible. But there’s a lot more than 40 years of data to support the buy-and-hold idea. The updated Trinity Study spans from 1925 to 2009, so includes the worst economic calamity in US history. It concludes an inflation-adjusted 4% withdrawal rate is safe for 30 years in 95% of historical 30 year periods. An inflation-adjusted 3% withdrawal rate succeeded in every 30-year period.
Think Tanks can be a good place for a flag officer too, but generally they don't have as much money.

I think I'd actually prefer to see the generals and admirals getting new gigs with the smaller side of defense industry - there are tons of medium and small sized companies that could use their help.
The "only the president can launch a nuclear strike" myth. If it was that easy you'd only need to blow up the White House with one nuke and take out America.
Why are exorcisms on the rise?
Spammy low quality websites in a large proportion of searches isn't a Google problem? I'm sure that will reassure them when someone comes along with a search engine that solves that problem and people start moving to it from Google. "Not our problem!" they'll say as their traffic dwindles.
In the last year or so I've seen a big shift upwards in the focus of papers. Academics don't have the resources to beat Meta at building foundation models, so the low hanging fruit is in understanding the behavior of existing models more deeply, and how to extend or leverage them in new ways.

Within a few years the fraction of papers in AI about new architectures, training, hyperparamter optimization, etc will be dwarfed by papers about things like controlnets, LoRA combinators, multi-model dispatch networks and few-shot embedding methods.
A boost to GPU sales.
Should note this is not for sale, the auction ended a while ago in Feb ‘22, and this is an article about the vehicle, not a link to the auction site itself.

Otherwise, it’s an interesting article on a great bit of kit.

My uncle bought a Russian Uaz 4x4 back in the late 90s. Great run to run around in. Incredibly basic, even had a hand crank start if the batteries died. But dual batteries, dual fuel tanks, and no amenities at all.
Both Ghostty and Terminal Click developed with zig, it seeems...
I haven't read the book yet, only watched the series, but reading it I can't help but think that Ian McShane as Wednesday was absolutely spot on casting. I really can't picture anyone else in the role now.