skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any agent that uses a tool (ie. repl/apis) essentially has a reasoning loop just like this. Microsoft Research recently got their Autogen framework up to point where the results are much better than AutoGPT/BabyGPT and the like through more optimal tool use, showing the ability to do rather sophisticated research and problem solving.

This new research focuses on responses just using its own corpus of knowledge. And this totally makes sense if that's all you do without giving a hint to what is incorrect, if indeed anything is incorrect. It's akin to asking a child after they produce an answer they feel sure about an "are you sure?", and then receiving another answer out of a state of confusion.

The main takeaway for me is if you can somehow get better performance on followup queries from simply telling it to more carefully review its approach, that your initial prompt wasn't as efficient as it could be.
Public company boards?
Also 484 pages of the pretty dense but readable, Salt by Mark Kurlansky
I don't disagree and it was posted somewhat tongue in cheek. That said, I did hope it might raise some commentary or insight into why Hacker News seems to have such a vocal cohort of posters on climate change related articles. For a community that prides itself of being logical and scientific, I've found it quite surprising how many here go against the scientific consensus on climate change.
Due to the zero-sum nature of physical space (only one thing can occupy a space at one time) driving will have to become more unpleasant.

Somehow there are entire countries who have managed to maintain walkability and humble drivers so they take more care around other modes of transit. It's really not complicated except for the stubbornness inherent in American and adjacent cultures.
A fun side note, the Western Boundary Time Series project is a neat bit of physics:
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/wbts/

One can measure the rate of flow of seawater (about ~30Sv, or 30 million cubic meters per second!) by the potential induced on salt ions from moving through the earth's magnetic field on a old abandoned telegraph cable between Florida and the Bahamas.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...
(TLDR, it's dropping about 1% per decade currently)
I guess OOM is more problematic on low-memory systems or when you have more than a nominal amount of swap.

If you have enough memory that the desktop environment, browsers, and other processes that should keep running only use a small fraction of it, the OOM killer can pick a reasonable target reliably. A process that tries to allocate too much memory gets killed, and everything is robust and deterministic. I sometimes trigger OOM several times in an hour, for example when trying to find reasonable computational parameters for something.
People are dominantly right handed, so right hand on the wall.

You need more space under your foot while descending, you only use the ball of your foot while going up.

The stairs are thicker on the outside, so if that is on the right as you descend, the staircase will be counter clockwise.
Bring back engineer CEOs. I'm sick of this trash.
I’m talking about Jim Whitehurst taking Unity in a different path and leaving us game devs the f#^k alone. We’re done. Go sell to movie studios, VFX shops, Video Wall Warehouses, digital twin and construction. Sell enterprise software subscriptions.

I think we both agree that small indie studios will not be returning no matter what promises are made, who is CEO, or what new shiny monetization idea they come up with next.

I wish him the best of luck.
Haven't tried it yet, but will check it out for sure!
Thank you for the pointers. That's a lot of things to learn since I never look into cgroup before. I'll see if there is something better there than my current "fix" (periodically run `echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches`).
>> I know it sounds crazy to leave a $370,000 job, and staying at Meta for the rest of my life would have ensured financial security, but I knew it wasn't right for me.

We all have a price on life. The problem, and why I don't see this situation as being extraordinary (although I'm happy they found a better path), are the people who need positive change, yet don't have the financial resources to get there. This person did. I know many that don't.

>> I then bought two more homes in 2022 and one more in 2023.
>> I'm still exploring right now, but I know my purpose will be to build community and help others change their lives meaningfully, the same way I've changed mine.

I don't think flipping houses helps out less fortunate people, if that is the author's goal. It drives the cost of housing up. Less wealthy people get in at the entry level of good neighborhoods by buying the houses that need repair, and do the repairs themselves. When wealthy people do this, they take away opportunity from someone else. To be clear, this is not "wrong" or "bad", it's business.
> The power bank was sucking power from my phone at about 3.4 watts.

At least on Android, there's an option to change the power direction (IIRC, it's in the same place where you choose the data connection mode). I have to use that option to switch the direction whenever I use the USB-C cable to charge my phone from my laptop, otherwise it tries to charge the laptop from the phone.
Absolutely, although sometimes I have to resort to less(1) when everything else crashes and burns on them. The advanced troubleshooting technique known as “look” is as useful as ever.
Heck, just making the plastic insert white instead of black (now sometimes blue, occasionally orange) would have helped.
See related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37798150

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How will Liki interact with emails? If I use it, how will others who don't have Liki see it?
The only thing that real physics is good for is telling enthusiastic people that "ackchyually that's not possible because of these equations I won't bother explaining, trust me bro". Made up stuff wins every time.
I'm an "expert" on corporate governance and I can say that no, boards do not get involved to the degree of making any market research -- they don't "initiate" initiatives such as a pricing model change (if you will pardon the redundancy). Public company CEOs (and their teams, really) come up with these plans. Boards do vet the executive's team business plan at the time of budgeting and during quarterly updates, but it's the CEO who is in charge of ideation and execution.
> I used to run a Linux workstation in the late 00's (sorry FreeBSD folks, I know, the shame...), and I ran a closed source PVR application on it.

It's ok, no shame. But as I understand it, FreeBSD would prefer to throw out (clean) disk cache pages under memory pressure until somewhere around FreeBSD 11 +/- 1, where there were a few changes that combined to make things like you described likely to happen. Heavy I/O overnight might still have been enough, and I'm not going to test run an old OS version to check ;)

I can't find the changes quickly, but IIRC, older FreeBSD didn't mark anonymous pages as inactive unless there was heavy memory pressure; when there was mild memory pressure, it would go through the page queue(s) and free clean disk pages and skip other page; only taking action on a second pass if the first pass didn't clean enough. This usually meant your program pages would stay in memory, but when you hit memory pressure, there would be a big pause to mark a lot of pages inactive, often too many pages, which would then get faulted back to active...

Current FreeBSD marks pages inactive on a more consistent basis, which is nice because when there is memory pressure, chancws are there's already classified pages. But it can lead to anonymous pages getting swapped out in favor of disk pages as you described; it's all tunable, of course, but it was a kind of weird transition for me. After upgrading the OS, some of my heavy i/o machines saw rising swap usage running the same software as before; took a while to figure that out.
The victorians created a lot of persistent myths:

-vikings with horns on their helmets

-highlanders all wearing tartan

-knights in plate armour not being able to get up if they fell over?
I don't mean to pile on, but please don't do this. It just adds noise and degrades discussion.

It's particularly bad when there aren't any comments yet, because threads are really sensitive to initial conditions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If they tried to enforce that on previous version they'd get sued from all directions for contract violations. It was never going to work like that, there's no way Unity could have even afforded to defend themselves against such a barrage of lawsuits.

So the only question remaining is this: Did they announce these changes with the intent to walk them back to something else, or are they really that stupid?

My bet is on the latter, honestly.
If only these people would build new real estate
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Who uses facebook groups anymore for things like that? Whenever I get organized info electronically e.g. wedding stuff its an email with a link to a website. Whenever something gets planned among friends its a group text. Whenever any event in town is happening and they put up a flyer about it, there will be a QR scan to a purpose built website.
It may very well be that rail subsidy makes sense and air subsidy doesn't. I'm not arguing for or against it. The original question pertains to why air ticket is cheaper than train. You and a number of posters here attributed that to subsidy, and I just wanted to point out that rail transport in Europe receives even larger subsidy than air transport.

There are many factors affecting pricing, for example occupancy rate. Load factor of aircrafts are in the 80 percentage - [0], whereas it's often under 60% for long distance Deutsche Bahn's trains in Germany - [1]

Another possibility is that train operators are often state owned and therefore face less competition and are less efficient than airliners, who are used to operate in a cutthroat environment.

Note that I don't claim either of the above cause train's pricing disadvantage, merely they are factors to consider. OTOTH attributing pricing advantage to subsidy is a lazy take of a complex issue.

[0] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/658830/passenger-load-fa...

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/654973/long-distance-tra...
The best feature of those little thumb screws was that the computer-side mount could become unscrewed and fall off when you were trying to remove the cable. On some machines, it was held in with a tiny little nut on the inside of the case. The nut was just the right size to fall onto a motherboard and bridge PCB traces or exposed I/O pins.

Of course, there was no way to detect this by feel.
Or, get a better adblocker.
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I was always hoping for a 3.5mm jack for a connector.

Radially symmetric, it can go in any direction. I've heard arguments this could cause connection issues since it could rotate while connected, causing small contact misses, but I think that could be designed around.
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If it makes you feel any better... for some reason there are some currently in production business jets that still require crossover cables for maintenance... so they ARE still required sometimes.
This reads like a conspiracy theory when coupled with their site's design and messaging. It's filled with many theoretical scenarios. The report it quoted was proposed by a travel agency. That would be alright, but only the speculative, sensationalistic parts were referenced.
You can turn this off in the Alexa app. I went looking for it after reading that page.

It's under Settings > Device Discovery (near the bottom of the settings). It's on by default of course.
Terrifying article.

I mean, panic attacks suck, but per this article the OP bought 5 properties within 3 years and quit his day job. I don’t know how much leverage is involved but if the RE sector turns south and there’s no six figure job to backstop those housing payments, this story does not have a happy ending.

Too much risk for my personal apetite, anyways.
Real physics requires ten simultaneous partial differential equations for the gravity, and 17 space filling complex-valued fields for the particles in the standard model, and they don't even work right with each other.

Interesting to me, sure, but I'm enough of a nerd than in the team building exercise today where we all had to write a one-word summary of ourselves on a post-it note in secret, then guess which post-it corresponded to which person, even though we were all nerds and I wrote "nerd" on my post-it, everyone else immediately knew it was mine without any debate.
> they picked an asian woman so that they could channel internet racism and sexism

Prove it.
I've largely left Reddit since they backstabbed third-party apps and frontends, and seized subreddits and banned moderators protesting their decision. Checking https://subredditstats.com, many subreddits (ranging from smaller ones like CRTgaming, to larger ones like funny) have had comment volume drop off by 75-90% in July 2023 with no sign of recovering. So assuming Reddit isn't throttling/blocking subredditstats from viewing comments (and making itself look bad), I'd say people are leaving Reddit, but unfortunately I'm not sure if any of the community-run alternatives are as popular as Reddit is now (or was before the user exodus).
> Debit card transactions are charged at the official rate of about 31 pounds to the dollar whereas on the black market a dollar sells for around 40 or 41 pounds. Egypt has kept its currency fixed against the dollar since March despite a widening gap with the black market rate.

Doesn't sound so fixed
Binary size, for one. The blog mentions a binary file grew from 220kb (C) to over 400kb (Rust).

I also doubt a garbage-collected language work very well for drivers that require precise timing (MMIO) and/or control over memory allocation.
Please reach out (again) to me [1]. We are just launching a new main board with the ESP32-C3 that might fix your issue. Happy to send it you.

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In fairness there are plenty of people who think one should not consider it a language flaw if you can shoot yourself in the foot. See: basically every C programmer.
I worked for a company once who dealt exclusively with UK address data. We compiled it from dozens of sources then cleaned, organised it and became a reputable source of truth.

Our end clients were large companies, such as utilities/marketing, who sent in their (incomplete/wrong) data - and were provided with healthy data.

Such data was used for validating buildings, for example a gas company checking for fraud or voting registration.

I learned a great deal about something so often overlooked!
I just took a 3 month break after working 12 years almost non stop.

Rebuilt my kitchen (manual work, accomplishments, yay!), visited some cool places, reconnected with old friends.

Didn’t think about work for _weeks_, at least.

Even though there’s nothing good in the horizon, yet, and, quite honestly, the money is drying up, I’m glad I took that break.

Would have been pretty miserable by now.

Burn out is not worth it.
This brought back many bad memories of trying to straighten a bent pin with needle-nose pliers and other tools that weren’t made of the job.
This is so wrong on so many levels. What about Light-Grey-Dark()?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230928045611/https://www.linux...
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Well can you prove you're conscious? I'm just gonna assume you're not otherwise. That's the kind of benefit of the doubt we'll be giving AI apparently.
Worst thing was that they had a collection of pre-made FAQs that proudly confirmed all the worst ways to understand the changes and actually left no real path for "misunderstood what we meant".

This whole stunt was a painful communications nightmare but also the rude asymmetric breaking of trust that most people saw in it.

So, this final step was needed for cleaning up that mess (and it still might need some detail work, if one looks at that apology interview), no matter how deeply strategic one wants to look at firing a CEO.
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4. Is it capable of charging this device?

5. Is it capable of charging devices when plugged into this charger?

6. If it can charge this combination of things, what wattage can it charge at?
I've been dragging around a similar concern. My solution might be to use Mozilla's Relay for the email and Privacy.com for the credit card.

https://relay.firefox.com/

https://privacy.com/

That won't stop the data collection but it should mitigate how useful it is. Maybe?
Yeah I would assume it’s the max length of the column in whatever database they’re storing the hashed password
"Named in the late 1990s, Letsby Avenue is a quarter-mile stretch of road in Tinsley which is home to the South Yorkshire Police Operations Complex."

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/perfectly-named-addres...
Maybe Amazon tags the serial number of the cartridge and correlates it to your printer with the data Brother gives them. Fucking crazy.
Honestly, there is nothing I can do about this. Everyone who cares already know and most try to do what they can. But it is obvious from the last decades or so that it isn't enough.

The only way to do anything is to sacrifice something. And since this is such a big issue, the sacrifice also needs to be proportionally big. Personally? I cannot make that sacrifice. I had lived the "low carbon emission" lifestyle before and I do not want to go back to that. I have dedicated the better part of my life so that I do not have to be in that situation again. There are people with more impact to the environment than I am and if they don't lift a finger, why should I? Even if I do, what impact would I have compared to the guy going on a private jet twice a day?

I am tired and jaded. It will be bad and I know it. I am preparing and maybe you should too. But beyond getting ready for the worst, I doubt there is much else to do.
If you are an owl, and live in the wrong (shifted west) time zone, it means you dont see sun in the morning (you dont want to wake up early.. say for a jog) and then you dont see the sun after work/school because you are screwed by being in the wrong time zone. Wrong time zone means no sun after work/school.

In Poland 15:30 and no sun in winter. In France (same time zone) there is sun at 17:30. So if you live in France you can get some sun.

Same works if you love across states in USA. The farther west the better for you.
What exactly is this “warp field”, then?
I once used a crossover cable with an old 3Com card and a Linksys switch - whatever it sent down the wires, the Ethernet port on that switch was fried and has never done Tx or Rx since. I bandaged it with electric tape so I don't connect something else, and also in hope it will someday heal.

The 3Com card was unscathed. In fact, it is probably feeling stronger after that exertion.
You have it backwards - there might be some similarities between LLMs and humans. I don't think any such almost certainly superficial similarity is meaningful in any way.
There is a YouTube channel called 'The Quantified Scientist' that scientifically ranks smart watches on various metrics - https://m.youtube.com/c/TheQuantifiedScientist

It was incredibly useful for me when I was in the market for a smart watch.

TL;DR if you want to track sleep, get an Apple Watch. Or if you are in the Android ecosystem go for one of the entry level Fitbits as they have pretty good tracking for their cost.
Buckland and Lynch are still doing the Friday seminar https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/ias
Oof. Unless I’m missing something, this is a convenience that doesn’t enable anything new and uses syntax/terms that don’t naturally generalize for future applications. It just embeds one recent trend in very specific, very rigid terms.

This is how standards get bloated.
this title/headline is ambiguous as to what it means.

claim: "Medieval staircases were built going clockwise for the defender's advantage"

counterclaim: "no they were not; medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage"... it was for a different reason, or even, they weren't even built that way.

clarifying original claim: "Medieval staircases were not built going clockwise for the defender's advantage, they were built counterclockwise."

confused? me too. and the site is called "fakehistory..."?

The title should be, "Exploring whether medieval staircases were built with chirality to benefit right handed defenders."
Board members aren't doing research, bud. Lol

Research and information is compiled for them, which they then review.

What're your thoughts on politicians who are in multiple subcommittees? Not smart enough?
A dangerous move, indeed! It's not the greatest employment market to be taking such a risk. Having said that, you have to weigh ALL of the risks for your situation. Since you fear you might be on the verge of burnout, my opinion is that you must take a break despite the risks. I say this because I once knew someone who suffered burnout, and it took them FOUR YEARS to finally be able to return to the work force. A four month self-imposed break looks a lot better than four years of being unable to work. You may struggle to find work if we wind up in a recession four months from now, but a four month break after so many years in the industry should not raise any big red flags with employers. You don't want to work for any manager who would label you as lazy for taking four months off after so many years.
As someone who isn't very well versed in DAWs can someone give a breakdown of how FL Studio is different than others? I see references to "regular linear" below so what makes FL Studio not that? Sorry for the basic questions.
hmm. What happens when you move the gap from the front to the end of the text (or vice versa)? wouldn't that require you to update all the line boundaries? And wouldn't finding the position of the Nth line be O(n).
My entire automatic light/dark support is, very early in the HTML:

<meta name=color-scheme content="light dark">

then, in in-line CSS:

@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){body{background-color:#000;color:#eee}img{filter:brightness(.9)}}

I'm not seeing this new thing as a huge win so far.
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How is this better than using CSS variables for light/dark mode? With CSS variables you have better isolation for consistency with your entire color scheme, and you can extend it to supporting multiple themes (e.g. light, dark, blue).
I would approach it by looking at the market now and seeing what's available. It doesn't guarantee there will be a great fit at the end of your sabbatical, but it should give numbers to guide by.

I feel like it's a bit like the stock market. You can't predict it, and timing the market may not be helpful. If you need a break - you need a break. If we imagine a graph, the damage from burnout will at some point exceed the damage of taking a break and not immediately finding a new job.

Might not be super helpful, but mental health quote I read recently was: if you're strong enough to leave, you're strong enough to find your way again afterwards.
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Do we know what the long term implications of this are?
Trying it right now and it feels like hacker news, simple, elegant and it just works!
AirBNB has a bit of bad press in the news lately for squatters not leaving airbnb's, and the owners cant get the city to remove the squatters who stopped paying rent, some are over a year now.

Wouldn't surprise me to see a couple stealth story ads.