skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given what inputs? Doctors don’t seem to be very competent at diagnosing things without a bunch of very expensive tests for unrelated things first and even then it’s just weeding out what it isn’t rather than accurately predicting what disease a person has.
Yeah, Maryland must offer courses on system building, just like dozens of excellent US universities. I suspect that skills of system design come with experience, and not every student can master the basics in schools. Indeed, not every student can master the basics of algorithm analysis. If we ask questions about algorithm analysis of the same difficulty level as the design questions, some students would fail miserably.
Big boring non-tech business that are slow to adopt new tech are moving a lot of their stuff to the cloud. So if by

> complex backend, large-scale distributed systems

you mean AWS/cloud then you are gonna be juuuuuuuust fine for a while
>I mean...you're a landlord, and now everyone has $1000 a month more...obviously you are going after some of that...what are people going to do, move? where?

I think Canada has laws against a landlord doing this type of thing, maybe up to a percentage. Also, Not all landlords are that shitty.

>same with Canada's near monopolies on groceries and mobile networks...of course these folks are just going to raise prices to capture the free money, not hard given than there is no real competition to prevent this

I wonder what the Competition Bureau of Canada would think of those near monopolies raising prices artificially? Unless there is price fixing going on, why would I raise my prices with the other groceries stores? Everyone would see the higher prices and instead shop at my store with normal pricing.
it is exactly my point that social class analysis is not applicable to the current conditions, to some large extent...
Not necessarily. If you're trying to heat water to 120º you may not want the paraffin to phase change at all. Because then you have a problem transferring heat from liquid->solid->pipe->liquid.

Phase change seems to work better for trying to maintain an ambient temperature. The input side is always going to be cold, and at some times of year far colder than others.
I’m not sure how I feel about this as regards the product. As a user, I’m happy for it to just be maintained. It doesn’t need new features, it doesn’t need editorial stuff, it just needs to continue functioning as it has done for a long time. As long as there are enough staff to fix bugs and keep it running…that seems like a good thing. Better than the risk of people changing it for little reason.
Paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-01042-7

With a much more cryptic, if more precise, title.
I'm about to book business class tickets over to Lisbon -> Amsterdam -> Vienna, for 140k points and $300 in fees. All it cost me was a few hours spread over a year as I signed up and churned through 3 different credit cards.

Easily worth it IMHO. If I'm spending that money anyways, putting a bit of effort in to maximize the rewards seems logical.
AGPL license is a non-starter for most companies
> Multiply it by say 10k users and you've done some serious harm in the world.

I would disagree.

While resume driven open source projects are indeed painful to sift through, you have no idea where these projects may lead to. We should not discourage people especially new devs from contributing. It should be upon experienced devs to learn how to quickly identify code that is worth exploring in more details. Like a year old project with no recent commits, maybe not worth looking further.
I find the worst actors to be the ones that try and fill with you with so much cynicism and mistrust that the "authentic humans" feel debased and consequently second-guess themselves.
SO/SE might benefit from a "this question smells like homework" button that could shunt questions that are posted without any code or evidence of adequate clue off to a forum specifically for homework, rather than leaving them in the general queue.
Same here, it looks like the idea was pretty obvious. Glad to see it implemented though.

Context length being so limited is the number one thing that rules LLM as possessing something that resemble “intelligence”, so if we this kind of unbounded context length we're entering into a completely new universe in terms of LLM abilities.
It’s a pretty common workflow for big business.

Wait till you hear how businesses intentionally pit employees against each other by granting different benefits at different levels so that the majority doesn’t feel as bad about things. This is, for example, how businesses got rid of comprehensive retirement packages.
Thank you!

It's all in the initial HTML payload. Each word in Italian, its translation in English, and the corresponding sidenote, if any, all have a common `data-id`. When the mouse hovers on a word, the corresponding note gets a `.visible` class via JS.
TIL there used to be a hidden Lightning connector in Apple Watch band joints.
IPFS URI Support in Curl
reminds me if how i havent added to wikipedia since about 2008
Who cares, people with homework need help too. They're beginners so asking them to formulate a perfect question or conduct research is basically a non-starter. If the barrier to entry is become a professional first, it's no wonder why the company and its user base are shrinking.
And now they also have to split some for more for the middle east. Sigh…
What fraction of the power budget do you think will remain for non-propulsion?
> Suppose I want different gaps between different columns in a CSS grid - how would I accomplish that?

Good question. That sounds like you have different groups.

eg: you're thinking of it as:

.items
.item1
(thin gap)
.item2
(thick gap)
.item3

But it's actually:

.items
.sale (thin gap)
.item1
.item2
.regular (thick gap)
.item3
People have written C code that dealt with more complex memory schemes.

The language matters less than the fact that there's a lot of existing code around. That code needs to keep working.
Blackbody Radiaton Slide Rule:

https://osgalleries.org/collectors/davis/info_and_image.cgi?...
Good point for sure. It was also relatively common for founders to take a bit off the table at Series B (or even Series A's) along the $100M path too.

Both of which skew again towards preferring those outcomes to the bootstrapping one.

#3 is definitely better in terms of your longer-term ability to make money as well. The personal brand from founding a $1B startup is very monetizable (if you must / want to) after acquisition/IPO, or at the very least to raise seed money for your next venture.

Whether or not this calculus factors into founders' decisions to start a company I can't say. I doubt the mercenary motivation is as common as you suggest, just among the founders I know at least. I think the lure is more to get to build something yourself and 'not have a day job' / sense of adventure, and the potential for money is just kind of a nice cherry-on-top.
Postgres Goodies in Ruby on Rails 7.1
It does now. If StackOverflow stopped then it would certainly not be as useful in several years time.
I agree.

While I don't use cash for everything, I do actively avoid credit cards that offer any of those "perks".
The number of security innovations they have originated or adopted is impressive.

https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html

OpenBSD just refuses many things that are must have, like Nvidia, ZFS, .. so it's not a option for all things. For things it can do, it's often the best.
I'd like to see an AI leaderboard consisting of 100% LLM-generated submissions. These submissions could then be evaluated for quality and scored, using a new set of measures for code quality.

We can also learn a thing or two about prompt engineering.
The article doesn't mention Kowloon Walled City (though one of the comments does), a more specific inspiration for some shots, which is why the shot they have of the person walking through an alley looks like it's an enclosed space. See the picture of the alley in the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City).
I'm sure the social platforms would love it if everyone would just follow fake AI generated influences instead of the real human ones that need to be paid by someone. That sponsorship / influencer salary is money that Facebook would rather be making in ad revenue. This is the path that leads to that outcome. Replace the salary of every influencer with ad revenue paid directly to Facebook.

We don't need AI influencers. We don't need AI's impersonating humans in creative fields. Let's focus on eliminating human suffering with automation before we go eliminating human recreation, enjoyment, or pleasure.

You seriously don't see what is dystopian about a machine designed to post fake images of pizza it can't even eat on Facebook while our kids go to work for $13/hr / 60hrs per week?
This is in the context of firearms, which are presumably modern repeating firearms, where they will cease to function if the tolerances are wrong.
Latency is what it's all about, but there's some "accuracy" that can be had there by having cycle accurate latency.
Nadella is not happy with 5%!
Yes, that's beginners in nutshell. It's why it's so important to educate them rather than take the opposite stance which is to chastise them for being so inept. I wouldn't take their bad questions that personally myself, it's what it is, but also I am not a person to answer SO questions so there's that.

Those who answer questions want good questions but those who ask good questions probably solve them on their own. Leaving things as they are.
As hinted at in another comment Bandcamp was sold by Epic to Songtradr AFAIK.
I mean, it's really easy to avoid all that if you don't use windows. I may be a bit confused on what point you're making.
I too wonder how this will affect the platform. I've always been a fan of how Bandcamp was operated in the past (access to high quality lossless audio, directly support the artist, nice app, etc).

This was interesting:

> Bandcamp United is looking forward to bargaining with Songtradr in the near future regarding wages, working conditions, and benefits. It’s our hope that Songtradr honors our existing progress (including Union Security and and preserving our artist first mission in our Collective Bargaining Agreement) that we’ve already made at the bargaining table.

https://pitchfork.com/news/epic-games-sells-bandcamp-amid-la...
This looks like a great project. Global Hawk [1] has all the current autonomous aircraft records (longest autonomous flight, etc.). Obviously you can't go as fast as Global Hawk, but one great thing is you don't have to worry about all the issues around fuel freezing. To at least some of our surprise, 60k+ feet around the equator was much colder than 60k+ feet around Edwards AFB and we approached the freezing limits of jet fuel.

The downside is you don't have any fuel to cycle through the computers for cooling and forced air becomes a big problem at high altitude. I'm sure you've thought about it, but what atmosphere do you plan to keep the cabins at?

Good luck on your project! Working on autonomous vehicles like Global Hawk and our DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle was one of the highlights of my career.

- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_H...
The media release has more interesting tidbits:

https://www.esafety.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/second-se...
the context ChatGPT provides around some of my error message inquiry is incredibly useful. on stack overflow, I have to read and discern the context.
As part of the negotiation to get Kevin McCarthy to the speakership back in January, Republicans made a rule change in the House which allowed just one member of Congress to bring up for a vote a measure that would let the entire body vote for his ousting.

Pelosi removed this rule when she was speaker, but to be fair she was also really good at getting her party to stay in line.

It will be interesting to see if Republicans take that rule away to avoid another mess if they manage to vote in a new speaker.
Hey, there! Recently, I was searching for an efficient way to transfer notes from Discord to the Notion API. While there were existing methods, they weren't as quick as I'd hoped. So, I took the initiative to develop a suitable solution. I'd love for others to give it a try!
I’ll offer that if you have a long lasting thread, you might consider allocating big blocks to it and having a “pool” it can grab memory from. In C++ you can use a shared pointer to release it back to the pool.

This avoids contention in user space. It also reduces fragmentation. You can also bound the memory usage by blocking until memory is free.

If memory serves, boost C++ has some code to help there though I did it myself.
I know of https://search.marginalia.nu/. However, it's been 2 months and my site hasn't been listed yet, despite what I thought was a good convo with the owner.
I find one disadvantage of SSH key auth, in case of GitHub in particular, that SSH key grants access to all the repos independently on the organization, etc, which becomes a bigger problem when sharing the machine with other people.

One can set a password on the ssh key, but I still felt a bit paranoid about it. I found a way out with fine-grained personal access tokens which allow you to choose the repositories this token will have access to [1].

My setup consists of two ingredients:

1. GPG encrypted fine-grained PAT: `gpg -c --no-symkey-cache --pinentry-mode loopback my_name` ends up into `my_name.gpg` secret.

2. A git credential configuration which is generic across git repositories:

[credential "https://oauth2@github.com"]
helper = "!f() { test \"$1\" = get && echo \"password=$(gpg -d --pinentry-mode loopback --no-symkey-cache $_GITHUB_TOKEN)\"; }; f"

Now switching identities results into setting the env var `$_GITHUB_TOKEN` to the path to my gpg encrypted token, which will be decrypted by git on the fly. You can figure out a suitable way to alias this for yourself :)

And it only activates for git urls of the from "oauth2@github.com" which allows you to clone public repos without questions.

Another advantage is that you can share the same repo with other people, no need to maintain a copy.

Disadvantage is that you have to enter password each time you push/pull.

[1] https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-pers...
If SO indeed does go down as people seem to suggest. At least those copy/mirror sites will be useful now (sad smile).

I'm still pro SO over chatGPT
Most of them aren't Machiavellian masterminds though. Most of them are barely passable managers who are mostly just reacting to what is right on front of their noses. Company is growing? Extrapolate linearly, and hire enough people to cover the projected growth over the next 12-18 months. Growth didn't increase linearly, costs have gone up due to inflation, and we can't borrow more cheap money? Lay off a bunch of people to stem the bleeding, hope the company makes it through alive.
For finding answers, Stack Overflow may be useful, but for posting questions, it is not. I ceased posting questions a while ago due to the aggressive moderation, which often labeled my questions as duplicates or too common. I was very upset with the direction Stack Overflow had taken, as it seemed to embody the very criticisms it had once had about forums. The Stack Overflow community has lost its vibrancy and has become stagnant. I am pleased that platforms like ChatGPT are emerging as real competitors.
environmental prejudice, tree is doing good things for the ecosystem, cars absolutely nothing positive, you see?
Are protesting truckers eligible for a universal basic income? Or is their next monthly UBI payment from the government, along with the unfreezing of their bank account, contingent on them giving up any protest and going home?

How many months of UBI will anybody who donated to protesting truckers be penalized for the offense?

https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/even-small-donation-t...

> “Just to be clear, a financial contribution either through a crowdsourced platform or directly, could result in their bank account being frozen?” Conservative MP Philip Lawrence asked Department of Finance Assistant Deputy Minister Isabelle Jacques.

> “Yes,” she replied.

> “They didn’t have to actively be involved in the protest, they didn’t have to be here in Ottawa at one of the blockades?” Lawrence asked.

> “No, not themselves,” she replied.

> “It could be indirectly.”
I have a lot of familiarity with competitive controllers for Melee, and $500 is definitely the highest end of the field. At that point you're buying a made-to-order controller with a custom PCB, specially calibrated analog components, shell, and other bits of personalization. $40-$100 is about average for a "good" controller.
When I saw this headline, I was hoping for direct IPFS downloading without the use of an HTTP gateway (like ipget[1]), but I suppose this will do.

1. https://github.com/ipfs/ipget
So says the Neo-capitalist.
as opposed to getting fired for performance information from the future?
Two friends used AI and $185 to start a side hustle–they sold for $150k
Possibly - my instinct is to agree with you - however, I also think the 'time factor' is working hardest against the $10M business. In the $100M case, you raised VC and are trading money (someone else's money) for time - you get there faster, you can take more risk, etc.

"Time kills all deals" can be extrapolated into "Time kills all companies".

On the other hand, in the time it takes you (even with VC rocket fuel) to get 1 company to $100M with 10% ownership, you can probably start 2 or 3 smaller business that could end up at $10M.
Thanks for sharing the paper! <3 I've been meaning to implement something like this for organizing my tools in boxes and obviously I will choose the overkill solution for sorting screwdrivers and power tools
Ask HN: New ThinkPad battery life on Ubuntu
Hi folks.

Earlier this year I ordered a new x13 laptop (core i7, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd).

Vanilla Ubuntu desktop (22.04) installed.

When I'm doing normal work on battery mode, I get around 4 to 6 hours out of it.

However if I hop onto a Google Meet, the battery gets rapidly depleted (lasts around 1 hour 20 minutes before it runs out).

Is this a known issue with Google Meet?

I seem to get similar rapidly decreasing battery life when watching 1080p movies on it.

It's virtually impossible to use this laptop on the move when I have online meetings.

By comparison, my wife's 10 year old Macbook still lasts 6+ hours when on the go, and that's irrespective of if she's on meetings or watching movies.

Is my x13's battery performance in Ubuntu normal?

Any advice on how to improve it (use it less)?

I've found that lowering the screen brightness helps a bit. Closing all other windows / applications makes a marginal difference.

Thanks.
There's an honest expectation that a chat platform is going to respond to the government at the same level a bank would?

Further, I find the government's approach to managing child abuse to be poor governance and a complete mockery of internal legislation. How is a survey from twitter intended to help them honestly combat this problem and prevent children from being victimized? It really looks like a giant "CYA" exercise by the government, and I find it hard to blame X or Google for not taking it particularly seriously.
I'm pretty sure it's just a simple majority thing, but someone please correct me if I am wrong. 97% of Republican House members != over 50% of the House.

The Republican majority is so thin, that all it took was 8 or 9 of them to vote no when they called the vote (which itself was only callable because it was a shitshow for Republicans to elect a Speaker a year ago and there was a rule change to satisfy the Gaetz crew (i.e. a rule change that permitted them to do exactly this)).
I think the time to value between the Internet’s hype cycle and real utility was relatively short compared to most other technology hype cycles, because it was like the OG computer hype cycle and so was naturally a bit more delayed than subsequent hype cycles that had as their rationale “better not miss out in case this as big as the Internet”. It only took about 5-10 years to go from the beginning of the bubble to the modern incarnation of the internet and early versions of the products that now underpin trillion dollar businesses.

But, a lot of internet standards had been in the works for a long time at that point. Not so for AV and VR. I think we’re looking at 2+ decades for a lot of technology like that. It’s such a long time it really shakes out the hypemen with short attention spans.
The Project Argus Datacenter-Ready Secure Control Module Design Spe
US developers are far better than Indian developers, but they can't compete on wages. The cost of living is too high in this country.
the center of life criterion is much more encompassing than that if you get a serious audit
I'm obviously super biased, but I think the core installation process is nearly as straightforward as it could possibly be without official support. All of the cores are distributed in a way that you can simply unzip the asset to the root of your SD card, and the core is set up and ready to go.

The only part I would really have to complain about is the folder names, particularly for ROMs. For SNES for example, ROMs are stored at `/Assets/snes/common/rom.smc`, where obviously `common` is an annoying addition to the path.
Performance Improvements in Asp.net Core 8
I love that userfaultfd now exists as an alternative to trapping sigsegv. I wish it was a bit more flexible though (I'd like to be able to associate user defined meta-data with the fault depending on address, for example.)
I signed up for a free account, but when I clicked "Continue" I got a page not found error.
Personally, I'm holding out until I can restart GNOME without logging out/losing my running applications. Previously, there were issues with it and nvidia drivers, but I think that's fixed now.

I'm running it by default on a laptop, and other than it being tricky to set global keyboard shortcuts, it works perfectly fine.
Where are you getting that 97% figure?

Due to a recent rule change that occurred when McCarthy was originally chosen as Speaker, it only takes 1 member to call for a change of speaker. The vote to remove him was 216 to 210, which is a majority.
I mean, -mdoc is so much nicer to write than -man, and the mandoc utilities from OpenBSD are so much nicer for rendering man pages than full fat groff…
This is about tech layoffs, not the labor market as a whole. Tech is an interest-rate-sensitive industry.
musk fan here, highly accurate.

even the internal tech emails of him saying "what did you get done this week?" brings chills to my spine.
Just over 20 years ago, a small model aircraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Butts%27_Farm) crossed the Atlantic in 39 hours using about a gallon of Naptha as fuel. The same year, the Design-Build-Fly club at my university built an electric aircraft which had some serious endurance and payload capabilities, though I don't remember the details. Keeping a model electric plane aloft for a day is impressive, but how many hobbyists have built something similar by now without any expectation of VC money?
Banks often trade at book values less than 1 due to the way their business works
That’s much.
You can't just use old products today and claim they are adequate For example I cannot work from home with a dial-up connection. You need a few megabits to do a video interview and get a job, to work from home, etc.

So your CPI might say internet is cheaper, but that is a fantasy, because in real life I pay 2x as much for a 50 mb connection.

Likewise I cannot use a 20 year old phone - those frequencies have been shut down.

There are several sitations where I was legally required to have a smartphone - one of them was registering a birth.

So again your CPU will claim that phone got better, but in real life I have to spend more money to remain an functioning member of society.