skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how true "zero shot" is after you fed them basically all the text on the internet. To me, that sounds a bit like saying "this mathematics PhD mastered differentiating x3+x2 on the first try!!!".
An undergrad (non-measure theoretic) probability book with basic linear algebra and calculus is the best preparation. If you solidly understand the basic tools of probability, you can learn statistics quite easily in my experience. Without that understanding, statistics will likely seem like a bunch of recipes. However, if you are comfortable with probability, you can write down the actual problem you have and find the statistical tool you’re after with a little googling.
While using macOS is a much better experience than GNU/Linux, it isn't always it just works.

And people that never used Apple stuff only have to listen to a couple of rants on ATP Podcast, Under the Radar, Swift by Sundel, among others, to validate that.

Specially how they handle Radar issues, and stuff that breaks between releases.
If you can use help with the scan, let me know. I'm in the Bay Area.
> 4k to 1080p is a perfect integer scale. One pixel at 1920x1080 is a 2x2 pixel block at 3840x2160.

Exactly. It's one of the reasons why I mandate 4k and not 1440p, in addition to it also being a perfect 3x multiple of 720p, which is absolutely godlike for games like FTL: Faster Than Light.
Does that include building the road?
Really good write up! Concise and very clear. The optimisation isn’t overly complex, but you still brought the pitfalls to the reader’s attention. There’s a lot of those low hanging fruits around if only somebody cared to look.
SSL certs :-)
> Sometimes I wonder how good our dev tooling would be if we were willing to pay thousands a year, as opposed to the time-wasting bug-fest that is Xcode.

Look no further than embedded development. Everything costs a fortune, but makes Xcode look polished and a pleasure to use. And I really hate Xcode.
My entire computer costed $999. The GPU is probably around $400 of that.

The 4k monitor I'm using costed $70. It's a cheap aluminum enclosure around a laptop panel.
How many years of usage would you expect to get? I think my laptop was £900 and I spent around £300 on upgrade and repairs. That's £100 per year over a 12 year period.
Pretty sure that's not true. Here's one of the words in a rap song title for example https://genius.com/Busdriver-me-time-with-the-pulmonary-pali...
Protip: Buy low, sell high.
I disagree on the firewalling front. I mean sure eBPF and iptables likely scales well but for home or small business users until there’s a simple declarative syntax like PF that abstracts the need for small C programs to run as eBPF requires it won’t gain adoption or be used or advocated by many.

I’ve never had to deep packet inspect so I’m not even sure there. The article just mentions that if state tables are exhausted packets start dropping. This is the case in every switch, too. It’s a common thing. Being able to increase this is a nice stop gap. It’s not a fatal flaw wrt to PF.

Also for better or worse BSD being different is what makes it interesting. BSD devs and hackers are a fraction of what the Linux kernel and greater ecosystem have in terms of the all of K8s and other Linux foundation projects. But BSDs have been innovating within their community of hackers for years and they don’t need to just be a derivative of Linux.

That being said the concepts of eBPF could be ported and the interface adopted could be interesting. If anyone pushed or funded that effort it might be the Netflix folks.
X illegally fired worker who opposed Musk's return-to-office order: NLRB
I advise you not to give up. It's never too late to learn a language (further).

I have two elementary aged kids who are German/English bilingual and have always lived in an English speaking country.

What has worked for us:

- I always speak to them in German -- I'm not the stay at home parent so every word counts

- Media in German (their favorite shows of their choosing -- it's too easy with Netflix and YouTube these days and they watch almost nothing in English)

- Playtime related to these shows' themes is usually in German because the kids assume the characters only speak German

- We participated in a bilingual German playgroup composed of around 10 families in a metro area of one million people -- larger areas no doubt have even better opportunities

- We believe any additional language is useful for opening up a child's mind and making foreign language learning easier in the future

My kids seem to have a good attitude towards being bilingual but maybe that will change as they age. I hope they will find it to be an invaluable gift when they are grown. It certainly is fun to share something special and unique with them.
That sucks. I didn’t know that.
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I don't want to build prototypes or startups. I have a job. And in my job, my task is to write stable, bug free code that scales. Keeping it simple is important. But code patterns and software architectures exist for a reason.
Tailscale is using GSO/GRO now. They blogged about reaching the 10Gbit/s milestone.

https://tailscale.com/blog/more-throughput/
I don't want that compromise on quality. Additionally, the quality of the DLSS/FSR integration itself varies by game, and I play plenty of non-AAA titles that either don't have the setting altogether, or commit grave sins such as upscaling GUI elements.
Is the extension usable?
hello,

i've used tomato in the past, but just as a router - didn't do much with it.

but for example:

you could achieve this by periodically monitoring the ARP table via cron:

arp -n

idk. jut search for the MAC in question and send yourself an e-mail if its present ... or whatever you want :)

cheers
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I think it all depends who you believe about how batteries will develop and the consequences of manufacturing them.

On the other hand from what I understand fusion isn't all that clean itself.

The problem is that it's impossible to separate the pr from reality; only time will do that.
> neo haskell that was some random guy trying to become the benevolent dictator for life of the haskell ecosystem

No, he was trying to become BDFL of his own project! And why not?
Depends, my professional work is being done on laptops with docking stations since 2006.

So for a wide spectrum of professionals, that is good enough.

However, you're right, they have nothing to offer to professionals that need towers with replaceable parts.

For those users using a virtual Mac on the cloud isn't also a viable alternative, as Mac hardware is no longer customisable as PCs anyway.
I didn‘t have a C64 when I was growing up, but I think there were a lot of magazines for the C64 with code in their issues and I imagine it must have been thrilling to type it out and understand it in the process.

Example: http://www.homecomputerworld.at/magazine/64er/64er_sonderhef...
> Honey is about 70% fructose + glucose.

> It's about 16-19% water.

> So I'm not sure why it would caramelise at significantly lower temperatures than its constituent parts would suggest.

Wikipedia states:

> The temperature at which caramelization begins varies, depending on the composition, but is typically between 70 and 110 °C (158 and 230 °F). Honey also contains acids, which act as catalysts for caramelization. The specific types of acids and their amounts play a primary role in determining the exact temperature.

The citation is "Zdzisław E. Sikorski Chemical and functional properties of food components CRC Press 2007 p. 121 ISBN 0-8493-9675-1". It's not publicly available, so I can't cite it, but if you're really interested you should try to find and read it.
Temml: A TeX-to-MathML conversion library in JavaScript
> That seems to be different from CHI, which asserts a correspondence between proofs and programs, not between systems of logic and languages

But proofs are written in systems of logic and programs are written in (programming) languages, so if there's a correspondence between the first there really ought to be a correspondence between the second!
Why Arc Browser send large amount of user data to their server?
I frequently noticed that when the Arc is opened, even without any webpage opened foreground or background, there could be a short period that the RAM usage of the browser bumps to 8GB. At the same time, the Arc is reading a lot of the data from local storage, and sending to their server. It ends up with more than 600MB upload. The high usage of RAM will drop back to normal after the browser stop sending the data. It seems that the company is collecting some data that they should not touch.
probably something difficult to know for a fact, as most people may not pick their tools as consciously.
I however remember vividly the clean design winning me over instantly, compared to the alternatives, which were overloaded with ads or other content I was not interested in. same could and still can be said for gmail compared to other freemailers like gmx. but I'm sure google will not stop enshittifying all their services till they are ready for their graveyard.
It's titled "overlooked reasons to still buy physical media". DRM is basically the primary reason to buy physical media, so it's not overlooked.
> And yet, as if by magic, they consistently happen at workplaces that use JIRA, and not at workplaces that don't.

Considering that there are so many variables at play, it's a very flawed conclusion. You don't have enough data. It's not magic. You're just choosing to see it as you please.

> If it were manual, no-one would stop me submitting the form with the field not filled in where it doesn't make any sense.

It just works both ways. You can't have everything. Yes no 1 stops you submitting the form but you also potentially miss a lot of things. When it's discovered the context is lost or the friction is too high or they don't even know it's missing to begin with.

You might as well just not submit it then.

> They are unnecessary. Management doesn't actually use them and they don't even make sense for a lot of issues

Well then take it out? Giving you a gun doesn't mean you need to kill someone. Responsible adults? If you buy the tool at least there should be some effort in making it work?

> Sure, but most workplaces don't have a magic trapdoor where if you accidentally pushed the wrong elevator button then you can't come back without a manager letting you out.

Again, you speak as though someone died because you had a gun - not because you killed them. Maybe consider that the company should be implementing a process or system and buying a tool to facilitate. They need to then set that tool up. If all they do is buy the tool and sleep that's on them. A lot of larger companies do hire dedicated specialist to configure and maintain workflows and the like.

So I'm not saying JIRA is the best or anything. It's just never designed as something that works out of the box for everyone. A lot of the "enterprise" alternatives are way worse and that's what it won over. I'm sure it can do a lot better but again I don't see it as the problem in most cases. It's like if you buy a Mac and tried to use it as a PC and complained about not being able to swap the GPU then I'm not really sure it's the Mac's fault.
Moving goalposts.

First they are to blame, then they are poor fellows without an option.
I think the ability to be pragmatic, and make technical decisions with nuance and taking context into consideration is the sign of a quality engineer. _Everything_ is a tradeoff in engineering, and experience simply gives you more signals to know when and which tradeoffs to make.

If one can also be humble, and take other opinions into consideration, then that's someone I enjoy working with. I strive to be this person towards others.
My controversial take: cook ground meat as you would a steak. Toss the whole block in there and get a nice crust on both sides and then once you have gotten that Maillard reaction, then break it into the ground crumbles like usual. Flavor will be so much better.

Most “browning” of ground beef is more akin to steaming than searing.
A comprehensive census of brain cell types
OK. So now came the consequences, so be it then. Hopefully Hamas' human shield will stop listening to its orders and do the sensible thing of moving South.
There is encryption based DRM which is built into both the disc and player. But the player cannot brick your disc without a way of destroying it.

Also just don't ever connect your bluray player to the internet.
idk ... i think this is somewhat ... aehm ... lets call it "stupid"!?

why?

i don't have the exact numbers for now, but a few years ago a stumbled over a statistic, that flights/flying produces about 5+% of the worldwide man-made CO2.

and for comparison:

the internet - or "digital communication networks around the world" - produce ... tatarataaaa ... nearly the same amount of CO2: 5+%.

nobody stops using the internet because of this: using DVDs or linear TV instead of streams etc.

let alone writing some brain-dead "look at me how good i am to / i ditched my career because of the environment" article in the guardian ...

but flights/flying is baaaad, really baaaad for the environment!!

just my 0.02€

ps. don't get me started on this "everybody is responsible for the climate-change" crap: its "the system", its our economy build on cheap (fossil) energy.

its not "us" personally - we can't save the climate, the economy has to change / the foundation its build on.

but in our neo-liberal world everything has an individual note attached to it - nobody looks deeper into the roots of problems anymore etc.
The author doesn't mainly intend to reduce food waste. He says aged cheese develop flavors that you cannot find in fresh cheese.
Perhaps the plight of humans may be more conditional by the climate’s impact on farming and food supply than on clothing.
> To me, clean and concise code is a skill that you should work to improve.

And he agrees with you - "[... if] what you really want to be is a software engineer".
Vinegar for iOS and macOS uses the native player. Along with adblocking I rarely see the FOPRA (flash of pre-roll ads). Whenever I use a native app (FireTV, Apple TV) I’m annoyed by the now ≥10s unskippable ads.
A Survey of Data Security
And never be able to certify it for road again. Thanks
Same sentiment. Its like he reads hacker news or similar sources and is generally on top of tech news and then has the curiosity to look more into it himself and do practical experiments. I try to do the same which is why I love this content.
A Quest into the Human Brain
I love RTS games, but they're probably never going to achieve the level of success they have in the past. You can still make them, but like arena shooters, movement shooters, and fighting games, they really are from a different era that modern players struggle to come to terms with, and it's hard to justify risking putting a lot of money behind them. It's a shame, because I love all of these genres, but I wouldn't bet the farm on them.

There's always a chance and I hold onto hope. Baldur's Gate 3 is a CRPG with a budget way beyond what I would ever be comfortable risking on a genre that has been fairly niche in the overall video game landscape for 15+ years, and it paid off massively. However, being realistic, BG3 is a game that is strong regardless of your skill level and the other genres I've mentioned struggle with that.
Ask HN: Guard against users who misuse flag/report on posts
In the last few days I have seen a number of posts become flagged for no clear reason. I don't want to get into the detail of what the topic of those posts was to avoid derailing the conversation, but in my opinion they were absolutely in line with what people here would be interested in.

So, this would be my suggestion:

1. Instead of submitting a post, a user can request to get it preemptively approved by mods to prevent it from being flagged

This can take some time, so one downside would be that there would be a delay between the request and the post being visible in the forum

2. If approved, the post stays up no matter what - users can brigade and flag all day long, but the post was already cleared

3. If not approved, the post goes through the normal cycle

Does anyone have a better suggestion to reduce the negative effects of users who misuse the flag/report functionality?
I was disappointed not to find "captious", which should be the official word of this website.
Not OP, but I know people who mix two-stroke oil with the gas to have better reliability, but AFAIK you need to change apex seals sooner or later.

For me it's sad how such an interesting engine had so many problems.
See also: Learn x86-64 assembly by writing a GUI from scratch https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36153237 (638 points | 4 months ago | 146 comments)
Remote work could have been a solution to remove pressure from areas like San Francisco (and most other region where the same is happening).

And yet... we're letting this big chance dissolve within our hands.

You will never own a home... as long as you want to live in san francisco.
My favorite is Techpowerups' GPU database [0]. If you pick a model like the A580 [1], you'll get loads of information, including a comparison to other GPUs. Their tests are great too. I consult them to find the cards emitting the least amount of noise [2].

[0] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/

[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/arc-a580.c3928

[2] https://www.techpowerup.com/review/gigabyte-radeon-rx-6600-e...
Random aside, but "all politics is local" was popularized by Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, the longest continuous Speaker in House history (5 terms, no interruptions!).

GBH is 1/2 way through a podcast about Boston's Big Dig, which started while Tip was Speaker, and resulted in an enormous tunnel named after the man who shepherded its funding through Congress. It's a great listen, and, so far, is abundant evidence that all politics is, indeed, local. Thanks for the tip, Tip!

https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big-dig
I generally watch neither :)

Not into talking heads, if it’s worth saying it’s worth putting it in writing.

I used to use YouTube for music occasionally, now I’m a Spotify subscriber.
Then you fix that attack vector in the same way. People don't have to solve 100% of the problem immediately; it's still an improvement.
I have many fond memories of our child, who speaks Finnish and English, switching languages mid-sentence.

"saisinko milk", or "Where the maito is?"

That happened for the first 2-3 years, but less often these days. Though Finnish is his native language he'll sometimes say "I don't know the English for this word" rather than just substituting the Finnish word.
NASA's Psyche Spacecraft, Optical Comms Demo En Route to Asteroid
This social media platform, while it's styled with Mozilla CSS, is a product made by Khoros. From what I can tell, they're a company that makes these gray label discussion boards and social media apps for other companies.

Unfortunately it's a proprietary solution. I was a little surprised to find that Khoros has over 1k employees; this product can't be cheap.
The users of Intel cards once upon a time based on PowerVR wouldn't say that.
Calculation of greenhouse gas emissions from oil+gas production and processing
I don't think we'll ever have enough energy, we'll always find ways to use more, on earth or elsewhere.
If anyone doesn't know what that means, I looked it up so you don't have to:

captious

kăp′shəs

adjective

1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults.

2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument.
This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters
A Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions (Fritz Haber) [video]
Tempest: A Signal Problem – National Security Agency [pdf]
You should ask yourself why we still spend money on anything else but this.

Using sunshine to create a gas that releases water when combusted is by a country mile better than anything else we have come up with. It's in fact hard to even imagine anything better!

If the petroleum industry uses its money to build infrastructure to handle hydrogen it'll the best thing they ever did, whatever their motivations are.
Wow thanks, I didn't realise there was a WebGL viewer available for these! Very cool!
That might also be a good way to deal with frozen ground meat you want to use at the spur of the moment - thanks!
> I applaud him. I hope he has a new job in hand by the time he gets home to Germany.

The guy states openly in the article that he does not refuse to fly, and he only refuses when he feels that there are alternativas to taking a flight.

Frankly, I think it's all specious reasoning and the whole article reads as blatant virtue signaling. I'm sure that if anyone looks briefly under the virtue signaling veil they find all sorts of mundane non-virtuous causes for being fired.
Unsprung... deadly.
Ok I can see the point there, especially with the non-movable taskbar (and hideously large ribbon bars in Office etc.)

http://www.displaywars.com/15,4-inch-16x9-vs-15-inch-4x3
Leonard's Law: Software will be as bad as it's users can tolerate, and no worse. VHDL compilers are catastrophically bad, because electrical engineers have to tolerate them and make tape-out. FADECs don't normally crash airplanes because pilots don't like when that happens.
Exactly. Power asymmetry. The ruling class wants to preserve their fiefdom. Pretty easy to understand.
Is there a trend of people dropping flights in favour of riding cargo ships?
Basically it was a constitutional amendment to enshrine an advisory body comprising of the First People (like native Americans) to advise parliament
You are free to use only those of which you approve. You could restrict yourself to the 1000 words of Simple English: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About#Simple_Eng... or even Ogden's 850 word Basic English.

The rest of us will have more fun.
Gave a brief explanation below
If the word is so rare, there’s a very good chance the listener hasn’t heard it spoken either. Think of it as your opportunity to seed a pronunciation that you like.

(The nice and frustrating thing about English is that ultimately there are no rules. There’s no Academy sitting on a throne deciding how billions of English users speak and write — but on the flip side, nobody can fix the catastrophic spelling of this language either.)
Presumably the 2019 and 2021 releases both decided that it wasn't worth the cost to relicense the song, a decision they likely would not have needed to make if the show was made after streaming was the norm.
Safety and security updates that take the burden off you
There are several UHD drives that are “unlocked” and those with the ability to extract encryption keys from others (or software players). I doubt this will be a concern, as I’m fairly sure UHD will be the last physical video format.
> I've been here 13 years and am not aware of this pattern.

I’ve been here 11 years and see this all the time.

This, however, is not an instance of it.
> and not the designer of an experience.

You can still be the designer of an experience, is what I'm saying. There shouldn't be anything lost if writing code properly is what you always do.