skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this were true, then GPT4 would be better at chess than Stockfish.

Since it's not, it isn't.
even before 2.0 the game was pretty playable and decent, but it's far from everything they promised. RPG aspects are put aside and when I played I felt my impact on the story was less than that of Skyrim missions. The main quest in particular is basically resumed to one option in the end, a lot of side quests are like that, and the factions are very clear "endless enemy" burden. It's not a bad game, but it's a bad role-playing game
Genuine question, do you use the term pornographer merely descriptively or derogatorily?
Who is the competition besides Algolia? Last I checked most of the competition is either very expensive or very feature limited compared to Elastic/Solr.
Deb packages just need reinventing by some younger people.

I’m thinking: implemented in nodejs with a cli with emojis and animations.

The GitHub read me should have a minimum of 80 emojis and a meme or two.

The core dependency of the cli should be a 6 month old framework with 92 commits. When that library reaches 1 year old, it should be swapped out for something newer as the sole maintainer will have left their job and/or got bored with the project having spent so long on it
Changes to Microsoft 365 email features and storage
Agreed and the part I’m missing is these plugins which do this. Any suggestions or recommendations would be interesting to hear. Which terminals and which plugins etc.
BBC is blocking OpenAI data scraping but is open to AI-powered journalism
That conflates capital gains and income tax, which to be fair I didn’t specify. But yes, with capital gains rates, effective tax rates have gone down. Income tax mostly the same.
3,200-year-old trees reveal the collapse of an ancient empire
>"Self-contained"

I love that whole paragraph. And in general prefer their philosophy.
Someone posted a calculation on how much time everyone spent commuting daily unpaid on a work fridge and correlated it to why we have few new people stay at the company.

Even more people left and management finally caved for a four day work week.

The downside was we had more time to work and it extended already long days longer with the commute so you have to use one weekend day or more to recover.

The upside was when there was a problem, we had more time and people you could put on it without going into overtime, comp time, or unpaid time.

Convert from 40 hours to 32 hours, no.
Article title is "France bedbug panic: Officials respond as Paris school infested"
ideally yes but i don't think it can be done with the current organizational structure of the european rail network. not consistently, only bilaterally
Your confidence should still drop even if someone else presented the bet, because people are more likely to offer bets that they think have positive expected value to them.

> the author presenting the bet is a signal the author previously lied about his name

More generally: anyone presenting the bet is a signal that that person believes the author lied about his name.
There is also Pinephone, with inconvenient and tiny switches, and I have both.
In a perfect world, you’d be able to take a sleeper from Berlin to Barcelona. This has been invented a century ago.
3.6K-year-old 'time capsule' sheds light on one of humanity's greatest disasters
I'm sure that the author understands the difference between a clearcut fencing competition and the messy competition between companies and between the very people inside those companies. Yet there is little or nothing about that in the article.

Those Dereks can survive inside companies because the contribution of every single person is so tiny that it's very difficult to measure. Furthermore, most of the times it doesn't influence the success or failure of ambitious managers.

Those Dereks know it, maybe got their fingers burned attempting to be smart in the past, they do only what's needed to get their money on their bank account at the end of the month.

Move some of them in a position where their work makes the difference between losing and winning (software for a racing car team?) and they might undull themselves.
Most the AI doing image processing is architecturally very different and smaller than LLMs.
The hell happened with Murdock after Debian? His trajectory since he stepped down until his death seems quite erratic.
Recent nomad versions replace lots of consul functionality. Consul is definitely not needed at small scale, even for service discovery.
If you have an electric water heater, and you replace that electric water heater with a heat pump water heater and you replace an ICE car with an EV, your electricity usage is likely to go down.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/10/06/a-heat-pump-water-heate...

That's right, the typical household uses more electricity to heat water than they would to charge an EV.
Honestly, there’s literally no reason to use the LG WebOS software though.

Like, it’s literally just bad. I don’t even know where my LG remote is.
About Dart: it only got several people working on it and given proper attention because of Flutter... before Flutter, it was really close to die after the bet on replacing JS in browsers didn't work out.

Flutter seems to be a revenue maker for Google (which should explain why it has gained so much attention - just look at the StackOverflow tag for Flutter, or their Youtube Channel - it's really, really active and the pub.dev package manager has grown immensely lately, to the point there's packages to do nearly anything in Dart/Flutter), but I am not sure how exactly given both Dart and Flutter are open source! Are the big users of Flutter giving Google big money?? Or how does that work?
The one I encountered is color problem. I can never get xterm-256color works reliably and has to use screen-256color which supports lesser features such as italic.

Running btop within tmux using kitty also has color problems, but Alacritty also fails at that.
Did they fix that bug where Jackie after the medivac takes the girl in the intro would walk dead ass through a wall and send all the physics objects flying?
I wonder how many cheating spouses with burner phones just got outed?
This isn't versioning your state though. This is using git commit history to essentially determine state at "apply-time".

Versioning your state is a good idea and is already easy to do. For example if you use the S3 backend you can enable object versioning on your bucket and then everytime the state is updated it is versioning and you can rollback state that way. It is a good practice. Similarly, you could use the local state backend, which just keeps state in a json file in your project and then you could commit that json file to version control. Now git is versioning your state.

But the author is not suggesting this, they are suggesting to not have a state file at all. You look at previous commits to determine state. So for example if you create a new resource for an ec2 instance in your code and run terraform apply, how does Terraform know it is new and needs to create this ec2 instance as opposed to updating an existing one? Normally it would look at the statefile and if it isn't in there, then tf knows to create it, if it is already in state then it knows to update it and reconcile the metadata in state to the declarative state in the code. But without a statefile this can't be done. So the author looks in the git history at the previous commit. If you can find the resource block in the commit history you know what it was last set to. If it doesn't exist in the history but exists in the current file, then it is presumed that the resource is new. If the resource was in the previous history but is different in the current commit then it is presumed that those changes need to be applied.

I'm sure this works in simple use-cases. But at any moderate scale this could break down very quickly.
:D :D

Sorry my question was on the basis of the quality of the results, simply put .. how does players who have good semantic search turn out against "legacy" players who had good text search
Show HN: I build ADPList to take on LinkedIn
You know how noisy LinkedIn can be to absorb valuable information. ADPList is looking to gather the best expert in your field, and get you to learn from them via mentorship and contents. Let me know what you think.
I really wish the Ash website made this more immediately clear; the initial description makes it sound like Ash has a broader scope than it actually does (as far as I can tell).
Okay, I didn't know it was so popular.
Exporting more than we import isn't the same as being self-sufficient, and regardless of the terms we use, has only occurred since 2019.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/imports-...
Those pattern are all supported in fury. And it seems fury are the only framework which implement the jdk `writeObject/readObject/writeReplace/readResolve/readObjectNoData` methods except jdk iteself. Other java serialization will jsut ignore those methods, and get incorect results. But today I'll suggest to avoid to use JDK `riteObject/readObject/`. Since to be compatible with JDK serialization API behaviour, it will introduce performance and space overhead. We can register custom Serializer by fury.registerSerializer(xxx.class, XXXSerializer.class).

`writeReplace/readResolve` are an useful pattern, and can be used when needed.
Hey, some of us in SmallCo have dreams of trading in joy for a much larger paycheck at BigCo. No pain, no gain.
Bookmarked! These look like amazing study projects; the kind one can copy and learn from. Quite like how they do it in art school. Each one of them looks like it solves a nontrivial problem, and edifies the reader on the basic contours/tenets of the problem/solution space.

I love this kind of stuff, because it shows one _can_ solve a pretty juicy problem with not that much code, honestly. Also because it suggests that the industrial-strength equivalent has a lot more in for use cases, corner cases, and/or optimisations that are not relevant for one's requirements (at least not yet, maybe not ever).

I aspire to write code like that. Useful, concise, but not obtuse. Some of my code is not as significant as those examples, and maybe falls short of my ideals, but it gets a lot done in well under 500 loc. e.g. my website maker in Bash [1] (hot-builds and hot-refreshes without JS), or the JS that drives text art animations for Hanukkah of Data [2].

[1] https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite is about 350 LoC counted this way (excluding the script containing HTML templates).

$ grep -E -v "^$|\\s?#" bin/{events,metadata,templating,utils,hotreload}.sh | wc -l
359

[2] https://www.evalapply.org/posts/animate-text-art-javascript/ the text art animator.

$ grep --count -v -E \
-e "^$" -e "//" -e "/|\s+\*.*" \
assets/js/text_artist.js

213
I think pretty much all the companies who provide vector search are indirect competitors
Well, not being able to retire at 60-100k is such an US problem... It is enough to easily retirely at whatever the legal retirement age is, earlier if I include all tue benefits my boring big corp job and collectively bargained salary provide.
Does Google use carbon swaps to conceal their emissions? Maybe that's how they reconcile the difference.

A quick search turned up this: https://www.greencentury.com/google-parent-alphabet-pledges-...

Looks like a possible case of greenwashing to me.
I love travelling by train. You are not treated like a criminal before you can board a train. You can sit and watch the landscape pass by. It's comfortable.
Pi 5 is really nice but it requires a heat sink... this makes it ... whole different game to me...

I think as long as there are both 4 and 5, it is good, otherwise this is fantastic they are experimenting as they should, but there is value in being low-power and versatile in my view.
Most places calculate it as a percentage of earnings with some other factors included at a single point in time (resetting takes other petitons and seems to rarely happen). But that percentage is translated into a dollar amount and is basically set in stone from that point on. Lost your job? Tough shit, keep paying while you look for a new one.

Now imagine you're deployed and earning hazard pay when they set that initial dollar amount. Then a couple years later you're not earning that same pay because you're in the reserves. Now you have to work OT at your civilian job to make the payments and support yourself because the way the courts handle child support is ridiculous.
Not necessarily. This is exactly the kind of thing I mean, in fact.

I once had a bug scenario I wanted to reproduce with a test where the time was grabbed from datetime.now() in the first half of the scenario and indirectly via a postgres query in the second half (with a time delimited query).

With libfaketime I injected a new running service time and postgres service via the test runner. It let me do TDD to create a reproducible test - what you thought was impossible.

I could have jumped straight to dependency injection on that mess of a code base but that would have meant a risky architectural change that I would have to have done without tests. That is bad practice.

This sort of thing was not really possible in 2001 but it's possible now.
He mentions it in the video. They couldn't rely on Elm, which was too young at the time, for their migration away from Flash. The scale of creating a language was too big for Prezi's immediate needs back then
> and into the homes of others.

I really wish indoor wood burning, especially if not used for heating but luxury, would be banned at least in cities

like wtf. is it legal to harass your neighbors with smell and toxic fumes every day just because you want to feel a bit comfy (to clarify: I mean comfy by having a fancy looking fire place you use additional to your normal heating system because you like how it looks)

sure there are countries and areas in countries where for various sociology economical reasons banning it isn't acceptable at all and should not be done

but a ~4 million city where one of the _most costly ways to heat_ is by burning wood logs it's a bit of a different story ;)

and I know some parts of the city are poor and use very old ovens, but funnily they have less of an smell issue (I can't judge the toxicity) because they tend to burn preprocessed pellets for heating instead of not necessary well suited or fully dry wood for the looks
Did read the 'as applied in practice' part and then think I was talking about the idealized dictionary definition? Because that's weird if you did.
The Trump administration wanted to disband the Energy Star program[0] (Energy Star is a certification that a device meets certain efficiency standards).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Star
It's not going to happen overnight. It'll be a slow corrosion. We're already starting to see the first tarnish. In my town, PG&E wanted to charge a new home (on an existing street with existing utilities) >$300k for an updated hookup (mandated to be underground), so the owner declined and went the self-generation route instead. An occupancy certificate (at least around here) requires functional utilities, but doesn't specify where they come from.

Folks who argue against the self-generation route tend to assume that solar and storage has to cover 100% of usage. That's unnecessary, and specifically why I called out fossil-fueled backup. For my own usage, a 14 kilowatt PV array, 20 KWh of battery storage, and a 2 kilowatt generator with remote start (controlled automatically) lets me fully disconnect forever.

I haven't yet, mostly because I have NEM 2.0 and the very-high fixed grid charge hasn't kicked in yet. Once it does, there's little reason for me to stay. My system paid itself off in <4 years of avoided costs, but I did it on the cheap by buying used hardware and doing the installation myself. When I set out on the build, I projected my payback time to be closer to 7 years. Rates went up faster than I expected and my usage also went up more than I expected once the electricity was free. I ended up getting an induction cooktop, a heat pump, and an electric car.

And I totally agree with you that this approach is wasteful from the perspective of global optimization of overall resource utilization. If this were Factorio and not the real world, the self-generation approach would be dumb. But in practice, the retail cost of electricity is rising fast while solar and battery costs have plummeted. That reduction in cost has really moved the needle on the microeconomics.
Show HN: A little script to check if your Ryzen PC uses Platform Secure Boot
I got to see this talk irl and it was definitely one of the highlights of the conference. It did make me feel a little bad for how many times I’ve ragged on programming languages for having poor UX/tooling, even though it’s pretty unrealistic to expect a community driven project to invest the thousands of developer hours. I do wonder if there are ways to lower that burden, although that still doesn’t help with the cost of support and developer relations.
Did the statisticians question Letby's verdict? They are talking about inquiries into other clusters of deaths.
The good managers very much reminds me of this skit https://youtu.be/DYvhC_RdIwQ?si=Ex-kiOcrnA3PVsgI
I really havent had any problems, in Germany with amazon.de
I'm with you here. I don't like this hand-wringing suffer porn (great label btw!) about how something is wrong with the world.

We only have to consider that building and maintaining an organization is not a clear science. To think otherwise is to indulge in utopian thinking. So there will always be wasted effort in any organization, whether it's BigCo or SmallCo or Boy Scouts or the local Church. It's like, if you build any machine, that machine will produce waste. Heck, if you undertake any venture, such as cooking a meal or writing a book or running a 5k, you will produce waste: wasted food scraps, wasted words (that the editor will remove), wasted trainings (when you werent really focused, eg.)

A person being unhappy about an organization happens because of a single reason: they are placed in a position in that organization that makes them unhappy. They can change their position or the organization. Or they can recalibrate their mind to make themselves happy.

And this is what happens: people move around or change jobs or reflect and discover a new purpose.
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No, you don't. That would be simply copying them and going head to head against them. I am doing neither. Just because I am taking the general idea of selling digital content does not mean I have to know what exactly patreon does or or how it does it or that I have to do the same thing. It is like complaining that Yahoo mail isn't exactly the same as gmail. Or Office365 is not the same as google docs. The general idea is the same, but the implementation is nothing alike. If you cannot grasp that concept, I have nothing else to say to you.
"... are postulated and extrapolated to be still hidden ..."

Otherwise, if they had been actually detected,
they would not be hidden.

Interesting and challenging prediction,
but more research needed - as always.
Lots of reasons:

1) switching search engines is hard when you’ve built your information needs around one. I’ve led lots of search engine migrations and they’re not fun. I even gave a talk on the problems companies face when doing so. https://haystackconf.com/us2020/search-migration-circus/

2) lots of the new search startups don’t offer full feature coverage. So just because a company is the new hotness it doesn’t mean it can fill the need of someone entrenched in Solr/elastic

3) why risk going to a startup when they haven’t proven they’ll be around in 3 to 5 years?

4) incumbent search engines eventually catch up at the speed of the enterprise market. Why spend a year migrating when the engine your using will implement the feature for you within that timeframe?
Not to forget the inevitable techbro complaining about being unable to support a family and buy a house at anything below 500k per year. Or being able to retire...
It's called social security and it's enormously expensive and borderline unaffordable... And not even enough to retire on comfortably
You can’t CRUD without state. Just want the “C”, invoke the cloud APIs and skip the hassle.

And the author’s mental stretch of claiming git is the state is still a bit of a leap.
>"I wonder what attracts internet people to Yudkowsky's brand of crackpottery, and specifically, what about Bayes elicits their quasi-religious awe."

I think it is because a lot of people think the human brain operates on Bayesian logic.

Thus maybe the 'quasi-religious', because it is seen as a clue to how we are conscious. The human 'spark' is really math, and it is Bayes. So when talking about human consciousness, it can start to sound maybe a little 'religious' in terminology.

I'm reading Anil Seth at moment, and it can be a compelling argument.
I think the implication is the scalpers who are sitting on Pi 4s they've been trying to sell on Amazon for $100 will quickly dump that inventory (and try and snap Pi 5s, no doubt).
Sometimes I daydream about getting a fuck-it amount of money.

During this thought process I always make a plan of what open source software project I should donate, and debian is always one of the first several candidates.

Now I just need the money! (meanwhile I donate to debian anyway)
But large numbers of citizens who have always lived in the U.S. don't file/pay taxes they legally owe. California even publishes a list of the top 500 tax delinquents in the state, which shames some but nowhere near all of them into paying.

Few tax cases rise to the level of criminal offense, rather they are civil actions where liens and levies are placed against your income and property. I have never heard of someone being extradited by a foreign country because of anything the IRS did. Worst case is you probably cannot (re-)enter the country and your U.S. passport if you have one is suspended or revoked.

As a further note, often these expats only have an information filing requirement regarding their foreign financial accounts (FBAR and FATCA), not an actual tax bill (and if they had double-taxed income, U.S. gives a foreign tax credit for that).
An easy solution would be to just encrypt the whole statefile.

This would work the same as state locking works now. You can apply an extra provider for state encryption/decryption just like you do for state locking/unlocking.

It's already been requested (with pull requests) for Terraform for a while now and Hashicorp keeps rejecting it, presumably because it would undermine features of Terraform enterprise.

OpenTofu is already considering implementing this feature as a result.
Yet it works so well that the public overwhelmingly supports it.

> borderline unaffordable

It's funded by your own income; it's a compulsory savings plan.
Not at HashiCorp, but I try to respect applicants' time in interviews, and my overall process is less than 3 hours total for interviewing, across 4 people (all of which are self-scheduled). That said, when you have hundreds or thousands of applicants, people inevitably fall through the cracks unless you have an internal recruiting team entirely focused on maintaining that experience.

Interviewing sucks for everyone on either side, and efforts to improve candidate experience on my end have often been met with resistance in the company. One thing I've done is try to be as clear as possible at the end of interviews where someone stands. If it doesn't go well, I try to relate what didn't go well and how it applies to the position we're hiring for. If it goes well, my interviewers and I try to send out invites for the candidate to schedule the next interview within 10 minutes of completion, and I tell them that during the call.

So many companies are so risk-averse though, that they act like interviews are a poker game. I've generally had nothing but positives with my approach, and yes, someone may sue us at some point for being blunt and upfront, but my experience so far is people appreciate honest feedback if you deliver it kindly on the spot.