skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is incredibly hard to achieve in practice if you're not running something nix, and even then there are leaks of dependencies on kernel syscall APIs.

You're misinterpreting that guideline. The text says (my emphasis):

> Most programming languages offer a packaging system for distributing support libraries, such as CPAN for Perl or Rubygems for Ruby. Libraries installed through a packaging system can be installed system-wide (known as “site packages”)

It's not saying not to depend on the operating system (of which glibc is part), it's saying not to require particular language package manager packages to be installed on the machine.

Agreed that the other ones you mention are silly, though. Especially the one about environment variables - that isn't actually reasoned advice, it was just the authors writing down what was most common in Ruby development at the time, on the assumption that that must be the best thing to do.
It doesn’t sound like you’re comprehending the level of reading comprehension that dragon tamer is capable of. They can literally read a sentence, understand it, and then take action, making easy profit.

Which in the context of modern anti-intellectualism makes a lot of sense it’s not unlike calling Y equals MX plus B machine learning. Soon arrogance will mean being able to form a complete sentence.
i'm not sure i follow how any individual amazon driver creates more value than someone who works with a more scalable technology
I got one. I love it so far. I never liked the original Kindle size, since it was too big for my pockets, at which point, why not offer more screen? So I had generally preferred readers that are more small tablet / iPad mini size—Boox Leaf 2 was my favorite.

But this is big enough to fit in my pocket, so I hope to have it with me pretty much always. Also, it’s a decent FLAC player—supports microSD, though it complains about USB-C headphone eating up power (as opposed to Bluetooth).

The camera will be handy for when I don’t have my phone—I’d like to be able to be without it (ok, I have a cellular Apple watch) without that “but what if I need to??” feeling.
[dupe]

People's thoughts over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37856754
"One app - one repo"

Where did you see that being expressed?
oh i didn't know TIL
Would you feel better if it was a public company really? I don’t find them to be particularly accountable to anyone or anything beyond profit.
I know you're trolling, but for any other readers who are curious, this is happening now because of increased funding at the IRS from the IRA that was passed in 2022, with part of the funding directed to performing audits on the highest earners. Prior to the IRA, the IRS didn't have the funds to fight Microsoft's lawyers on this issue. Now, they do.

> The effort, building off work following last August's IRA funding, will center on adding more attention on wealthy, partnerships and other high earners that have seen sharp drops in audit rates for these taxpayer segments during the past decade.

> "The years of underfunding that predated the Inflation Reduction Act led to the lowest audit rate of wealthy filers in our history," said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-sweeping-effort-t...
Even new Kindles are still a bit of a pain when dealing with ePubs, unfortunately. You can't just copy them onto the device, because the Kindle itself doesn't support ePub. What Amazon did is change its Send To Kindle email/app services to support ePubs, so when you use them it handles all the converting for you. If you want to put an ePub on your Kindle without going through Amazon's services, you still need to do the manual conversion dance with Calibre or similar.
https://12factor.net/codebase
Well, plastic in the landfill is a form of carbon capture. Eventually something will evolve to eat all that stuff, though it might take a really long time.
I had not seen this terminology before. Thank you.
If they can detect your ad blocker then they can choose to refuse to serve video to you. I can't think of a business reason why they'd disable your account as that'd do nothing but generate negative PR.
Yeah, and commenting on HN while I'm in a bitchy mood isn't especially productive either.

I don't have my copy of The Wizards of Langley immediately to hand, but that's where I remember first seeing details of the project, ages back. When I get the chance I'll see what that has for further reference; given the time of its publication, I suspect a lot of other sources derive at least in part from there.
Maybe just create another account to use youtube with an adblocker in a different browser profile
the whole point of the law is to avoid people being able to take their base insticts out on others. your feelings about what is "too much" are irrelevant.
Space OS is trying to bring back the personal computer – this time in the cloud
I agree. A large number of people would be prevented from doing things with their phones and their email that are required for every day life now. They would upset a lot of people that would be forced to find alternatives to Google and likely never return.
I have had Tinnitus all my life, since I was a kid. At the beginning it was intermittent, now it's permanent, to a level where I understand why people have suicidal thoughts. Concentrating on tasks is quite difficult and every audiologist I visit tells me to deal with it because there is no cure.

What I find fascinating is that when I meditate or start falling asleep, I can consciously enter periods where it disappears or it becomes bearable. Like if I learn a trick with my brain in which I can mute it. Sadly entering it requires a lot of effort. And when I wake up or leave the meditation state (which is hard to reach because of the tinnitus) its impossible to reproduce it.

Mine I am sure is due to problems with my jaw (bruxism). One thing that helped with the jaw (but not the tinnitus since it is now fully embedded in my brain) was with botox injections. If you are on early stages and if you think the jaw is a main factor in your tinnitus, go to a neurodoctor and ask him for botox injections in order to treat it.

About the Lenire device, two things: it requires dedication and time, which I don't have, and you cannot event rent it. Selling it is also forbidden. In essence is an mp3 player which electrocutes your tongue. I have come with many such solutions and all are the same. Snake oil.

One last thing: the tinnitus is louder in periods where I experience more lack of sleep and stress / anxiety. It might sound cliche, but meditation, yoga, even going for a walk (no phone, no headphones, just a walk) really does work in reducing its volume.
I don't think Google cares about that. The bigger problem would be encouraging the use of YouTube when logged out, or from a smurf account.

...But Google still probably doesn't care. I suspect the population of YouTube adblockers is big enough for them to care about the lost revenue, but not a big enough fraction of the general population to create PR issues or to lose revenue from smurfing.
> Still, upon banning red dye No. 3 from cosmetics in 1990, the FDA downplayed its dangers, noting that the risk of developing cancer from the dye appeared to be less than 1 in 100,000—small compared to the risk of natural disasters (70 in 100,000) or the risk of a train or plane crash (6 in 100,000). Representatives of the food industry had similar messages, with one industry study reportedly saying a person would have to eat 724,000 cans of fruit cocktail a year for 70 years to ingest an equivalent amount of red dye No. 3 as the rats fed the high 4 percent diet dose.

This feels like maybe another example of expending a lot of political energy on something that will have no impact, while almost certainly expending a lot less energy on more important matters.
This is well said and insightful! I will reflect on this kind of phenomena and suspect I will be able to see it in the world going forward. Awareness of this will be useful to avoid the pitfalls described here. Thank you for making this contribution! :)

I funnily think that many of the people poo-pooing the email patch method here, would just as merrily join in on HN were it an email mailing list collection, haha! :)
C is a multiple of current but is linear with (nominal) energy, no reason that would force this.
Good point, I phrased it poorly. Because of the effects of the specific action, I think an act utilitarian should still refuse to be mugged in this case.

The policy I was describing is just a mental shortcut, a part of adapting morality to human beings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-level_utilitarianism for more in this direction.
> the US government spends orders of magnitude more cash, at much lower levels than the federal level, more than any billionaire does in their life on a yearly basis

Are you really comparing a government responsible for something approaching 350 million people a year and all their infrastructure and support services with a billionaire's lifestyle expenses?

Fun trivia: I once looked at Bezos' net worth and the City of Tacoma, and according to all their records, he could "afford" to buy Tacoma. A city of 220,000 people. Every residential, commercial, industrial, government building in the city. Every street, road and highway. The utilities. All of it. One person... buy a city of a quarter million people.

And I posted about it on HN, thinking people would be similarly agog as I was. Apparently not. Several said "Oh, that's not as much as I thought he could", or "not too bad", etc.
Boox devices run Obsidian and I have been working on an e-ink optimized theme[1]. This seems like a really fun device for reading, I wonder what it would be like for writing?

[1]: https://minimal.guide/features/eink
> Behold <a single counterexample that is far less commonly encountered by consumers than phones, tablets, laptops, or external power banks>

People still use AAA batteries, and that probably the most well-known, premium brand of rechargeable AAAs.

> Consumers care about the amp-hour capacity of larger devices for various reasons. They need to figure out how many times they can recharge a phone from an external power bank. They want to understand how much less efficient their laptop is than their tablet.

But they do care about the metric prefix? mAh far more established and slightly more convenient to use than Ah for these kinds of batteries.

Edit:

> You have also ignored that we can express 0.8Ah. It doesn't have to be 800mAh vs 2Ah. Since things less than 1Ah are far less common for consumers, it would be logical to just show everything in Ah, and then represent those smaller things as fractional Ah, if we're afraid of multiplying and dividing by 1000.

I haven't ignored that, it's just not a very appealing thing to do and doesn't answer any of the problems with switching the customary prefix.

Yes. It would be possible to relabel all consumer batteries with Ah instead of mAh, but why would anyone want to go through all that trouble?
The DirectTV satellites are in GEO, a particularly crowded orbit which does not naturally deorbit.

10 DirectTV satellites pose a higher risk of causing Kessler than 30,000 satellites at a 300 mile orbit.
But most consumers probably don't care about the internal pack voltages or whatever, all of that is just implementation details. All they care about is how much more time that battery is going to give their device power. Which if they know how many watts their device uses and how many watthours their battery is good for, they'll roughly know the answer.

For a lot of people, all they really need to know is the watts and watthours. Everything else will just line up in the implementation. If I know my phone uses ~1W on average, and my battery is 18Wh, then I know I'll get roughly 18 hours of life on that battery. If I want to charge the 18Wh battery in two hours, I'll need one that can supply at least 10W after charging losses.
Which means that there is no particular reason to believe that it can't still be faked. Given the nature of the disorder, it is hard to see how it could be otherwise.

Given the rate at which prescriptions are being handed out, it is extremely unlikely that they are only giving prescriptions to people who actually have the disorder.
If Nomad provides workload scheduling, a runtime, workload networking, service networking, and some sort of overall orchestrator/controller plus an API, then it has these same services. Running them in one process instead of ten doesn't make it more lightweight.

You're free to run either on one node, but other than for toy purposes like demos and learning, why use a cluster compute system when you're not actually running a cluster?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37838636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830877
> Email is just used to receive the patch, you should use a tool meant for the job to actually do the merge.

I know because I also actually did this.

You still had to do this locally and then turn it into an email and had no real indication whether someone else had seen/tried/reviewed/etc. it

> However; today tools like the git cli itself, or magit + smerge-mode (my personal preference) are as good as GitHub, if not better.

I can totally believe for you: this is the case. For most people, though: it will not be. Feel free to prove me wrong by creating a(nother) project that gets thousands of contributors entirely through email.

(If you're actually Linus Torvalds, though: you win, I'll shut up now)
"Session" is a good way to think of it. If it's inactive for too long, it can be closed and forgotten, etc. But "connection" is the correct terminology. You just sometimes need to be clear that you're talking about a TCP connection and not a physical connection, or even the logical connection that makes IP packets routable. It's one more layer above that.

But yes - both sides maintain state about the connection. Senders will re-send packets if they go too long without being acknowledged. They will slow down large batches of sending if lots of messages are being dropped (essentially throttling in case the network is being overwhelmed and they're making it worse). And receivers will acknowledge packets as they're received and assemble messages back in the right order if packets arrive out-of-order, or bits in the middle are missing.
Show HN: A beginner web development course with AI bot reviews
A course for beginners where they set up environment, learn basic shell commands, install node using nvm, VS Code, Github, create their first PR which gets an automated review by a bot.

Wish I had something like this when I started learning!
> Using Wh or mWh instead of mAh would make this whole problem go away.

Amp-hours (Ah) has been the 'standard' way to list battery capacity for decades, see for example the boating/marine world. I'm not against changing it to something else, but there's a long-tail of legacy here.

Also, while we're at it, can we change away from listing the brightness of light bulbs in watts: this may made sense with incandescent bulbs initially, but we're not beyond those.
Get kobo sage / Elipsa 2E.
I have a decent print of the ZX Spectrum 48k hanging on the wall near me now.

At one point I had an A4 print of the iconic "prompt" screen from the same model:

https://i.imgur.com/zfIIHQQ.jpg

That font, and that line, does make me very very nostalgic.
I have migraine headaches and keep a headache diary. I see parallels between days with headache and tinnitus.
> I’ve had tinnitus for about one year now. There is no permanent relief or treatment. Lots of snake oil.

Half of the 200+ post comment section reads like those bottom of the barrel YouTube ads with the AI generated voices: "Try this secret trick to cure your [condition]." It seems to always happen when someone comes here to ask for opinions on disease, food, health or fitness. People, don't go to HN for medical or nutrition advice.

So far, we've already seen: Magic audio tracks, shocking the tongue, steroids, and Ambien, and those are only the top few root subthreads.
Loom is probably the simplest billion-dollar piece of software, but it's also excellent software and I am happy they're getting paid.

Screen recording before Loom was a pain. You had to open up some program, start it, save the file, upload the file somewhere, and share it. And if you had to edit the recording at all ... probably start over.

With Loom it's all one click and it's ready to share the instant you hit the Stop button. At my company we make and share dozens of Looms per day and it's a key part of maintaining a remote culture.
Very similar to my experience- modulo my role more in the AI in production, operations side, aka MLOps

MLOps leads/lags research depending on your application patterns so it’s an extremely dynamic place to be to see what’s happening

I’d argue based on what I’m seeing with implementations, and importantly how FLEXIBLE transformers seem to be, this is the most true part of this article:

“we’re going to get way further with the Transformer architecture than most ideas in the past”
If a late-stage PhD student in the same narrow technical field can't review the paper, then it's almost certainly a problem with the paper. After all, junior people are the primary audience for any paper. Also, PhD students often have more depth on their research topic than the professors.

The sibling comments about making sure that most reviews are written by senior researchers also make good points. That should be checked by the program committee or editor.
Is it for relaying any tcp/udp or just http? At first I thought it was the former but it understands http headers. Does it support any other protocols?
"logarithmic encoding" appears exactly once in TFA, but ok
> practitioners of other moralities curiously form epicycles defending why the status quo is fine anyway

This is exactly what the Bentham in the story is doing!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37856754
I don't see why the utilitarian should trust a mugger's promises of secrecy or non-replicability though?
You can do some of this through the GitHub web UI and sometimes I do that.

I didn't say that, though, so I'm not sure where you're coming from here.
Nothing I hate more than a useless "helper" function that wraps a built-in feature of the language and gets buried in a "common lib" package that you need to inspect when you want to understand what is going on, instead of just relying on your knowledge of the language. Do we really need a function to map a dictionary and a list of keys to the corresponding values?
I took your original comment as a complaint about using watthours in general, as watts are already a unit of speed. Implying you'd prefer to not use watthours. I guess I was wrong on reading it that way.
Steroids are part of the diagnostic procedure for tinnitus. Your audiologist should have mentioned it; I'm shocked they didn't.
He is the most "uncomfortable" NASA astronaut I have ever seen. He seems to really not want to be on camera whereas every other one I've ever seen is fine with it.
Good for who? Receiving billion dollar must feel good.
I can see the appeal, but I offer:

1. thickly cut doorstops of wholegrain crusty bread

2. apply very mature crunchy cheddar

3. cut banana, not mushed, is layered on top

4. a blanket of either ready-salted or salt and vinegar crips

5. and the killer blow, on the opposing slice of bread, thickly, oh so thickly spread marmite.
There is no hate here nor anything intended to be a personal attack on specific individuals, but clearly my comment struck a nerve.

This comes across as a saddeningly extreme armchair psychological evaluation and extrapolation to just attack my entire character.
Yeah I’m aware of Blackhole but honestly these sorts of hacks are fine for me a software engineer but not for regular users which is what trivially easy means to me.

There is no good reason it’s not possible in Quicktime to record the system audio along with the screen.
Secrets in code is bad practice because it puts the secrets in source control and gives them to anyone with access to the code.

You separate out the secrets to keep them secret.
I was expressing amazement that you took the time to provide a "fix typo" mechanism.

In the real world, many of us would take the time to fix a splinter in a well-traveled floor. I love that your appreciation for robust protocol includes a mechanism for moving the digital world in that direction.
The article is wrong FWIW. By default a child is a member of the same process group as its parent no matter how many levels deep.

Shells push each job into a separate group, making the shell interpreter the process group leader. Thats why suspend works, it sends that whole process group to the background.

Depending on how an interpreter is setup a shell script might end up under its own progress group if the shell always creates one... usually when invoked as an interpreter it shouldn't be making a new one though.
The big thing missing from this document is justifications for the rules. It's almost all just rules. Are the rules good? Hard to say, and this document won't help you find out.
> People still use AAA batteries

Consumers do not know the amp-hour capacity of coin cells or AAA batteries. They don't know and they don't care. Consumers put a coin cell into an AirTag and come back a year later to replace it when their iPhone tells them to. They don't care about the capacity. It's not relevant to this discussion at all. The percentage of consumers who care about the capacity of those types of batteries is certainly tiny.

> But they do care about the metric prefix? mAh far more established and slightly more convenient to use than Ah for these kinds of batteries.

It is not more convenient, since consumers do not think about <1Ah values, virtually ever.

> Yes. It would be possible to relabel all consumer batteries with Ah instead of mAh, but why would anyone want to go through all that trouble?

And I repeat: We could represent all distances in millimeters just in case, but we don't.

LA is only 4,506,163,000 millimeters from NYC. Very convenient.
I suspect that my wisdom teeth that did not warrant removal may be contributing to my tinnitus in my left ear.

Anyone get relief from wisdom teeth removal?
The pollution of the night sky with tens of thousands of satellites to provide a paid service. I only mention paid in there because I do think if it was free then at least it could be explained as a common good - but this isn't it, it's the opposite of a common good - it takes a resource available for ALL humans on Earth to make money for an American billionaire.

>>If someone else did this would it be fine?

No it wouldn't, I would be equally upset at any other constellations like this.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37856754
All global aviation is less than 3% of global CO2 emissions. Rocket launches are a very small fraction of aviation.

The vast bulk of manmade CO2 emission is from coal burning for electricity, construction, and fossil fuel powered ground transport. The rest is a long tail. Aviation is small.

It doesn't make sense to focus that much on the long tail yet when huge improvements in CO2 emissions can more easily be achieved by focusing on phasing out coal for power generation, oil for cars, etc. Closing just a few coal burning power plants has a lot more impact than trying to stop people from flying.