skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reminds me of my old Casio watches

If you ever want a UX example, go out and buy the following:

https://www.amazon.com/Casio-Classic-Core-DW9052-1-Wristwatc...

https://www.amazon.com/Timex-T5E901-Ironman-Classic-Black/dp...

NO NOT THROW AWAY THE CASIO MANUAL

Begin using the G-Shock first, making sure to learn how to do common watch tasks. Use chronometer, change time, set timers/alarms, etc.

Then, after doing that for awhile, trying using the Ironman. Just for kicks, don't read the manual. Attempt the same common tasks.

It's mind-boggling how esoterically-unnecessary Casio UX is.
You can run ClickHouse cluster across multiple datacenters. It will survive the failure of a single datacenter while being available for writes and reads, and the failure of two out of three datacenters while being available for reads. It works well when RTT between datacenters is less than 30 ms. If they are more distant, it will still work, but you will notice a quite high latency on INSERTs due to the distributed consensus.

I've run a ClickHouse cluster with hundreds of bare-metal machines distributed across three datacenters in two countries at my previous job. It survived power failures (multiple), a flood (once), and network connectivity issues (regular). This cluster was used for logging and analytics :)
CherryChèvre: A fine-grained dataset for goat detection in natural environments
We introduce a new dataset for goat detection that contains 6160 annotated images captured under varying environmental conditions. The dataset is intended for developing machine learning algorithms for goat detection, with applications in precision agriculture, animal welfare, behaviour analysis, and animal husbandry. The annotations were performed by expert in computer vision, ensuring high accuracy and consistency. The dataset is publicly available and can be used as a benchmark for evaluating existing algorithms. This dataset advances research in computer vision for agriculture.
Absolutely. Techno was a safe space and you could be as freaky as you want without fear of repercussions.
To be fair, firmware-based TPMs which are part of the CPU/SoC should be invulnerable to that?

However, TPM-backed DRM on general-purpose OSes is impossible in the current world and is fear-mongering. The TPM can attest to a remote party that you've booted a certain OS, but this OS would need to maintain that chain of trust all the way for it to be effective. That's impossible due to the number of device drivers (which need kernel-level access by design) and various other privileged components a general-purpose OS requires (security software, etc), not to mention the attack surface of all that.

For a hypothetical TPM-backed DRM to work, you'd need Netflix to ship you an entire OS image that you can boot (which the TPM will prove to them that you've booted), and that OS image needs to magically have all the drivers for every potential PC their customers might have, and you need to convince people to reboot their machine every time they want to watch it.

This is all unnecessary considering the current status-quo of DRM is good enough, Widewine does not require a TPM and relies entirely on security by obscurity and it's considered good enough by the industry.
No, you've misunderstood my point. If you enforce the laws then people are more incentivized to follow them, and in this case more people following the law would likely reduce the number of car-pedestrian collisions. Nobody really wants to hit a pedestrian, if they slow down and pay attention most people will avoid it.

If you don't enforce the laws then making them more comprehensive is unlikely to fix anything.
If you have the funds, why not invest in a number of startups that interest you?
Takes long term vision / supply of resources to outline/research/develop problem(s) for software developer(s) to work on. Usually why new/ground breaking things happen at university then moved over to commercial setting.
There's a pretty popular `python-is-python3` package in Ubuntu which aliases `python` to `python3`. I used to install that in my dev environment setup scripts, but have since stopped using it for the reasons you mentioned. I've found it best to think of Python 2 and 3 as totally separate languages, so I consider it a good thing that the binary name python3 is unambiguous in all contexts.
I said "underground image". Go find an illegal rave if you want underground. Go to a punk dive bar if you want punk. Berghain simply wants to make sure that it's not overrun by tourists, because once that happens, the only thing you can do afterwards is close shop. At least it's not discrimination through money like in plenty of other clubs. You cannot buy a VIP table at Berghain. That's pretty refreshing.
This is the sort of post that makes me wish for some even AI mediated chat feature on this platform.

Like what?!? is this person's mental model such that they would think/utter such a thing. Breaks my mental model.
AFAIK the packages in Debian/Ubuntu world should only be removed on major OS release (Debian 9 -> 10, Ubuntu 22.04 -> 22.10, etc).

I think that if you upgrade the OS by just changing repo URLs in apt config, the old packages will stay installed - so it will be just like in Arch situation described by the author.

For Ubuntu, their do-release-upgrade script asks you to remove packages that didn't make it to next release. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1392819/do-release-upgrade-h...

EDIT: you can find obsolete packages on your system using apt or aptitude https://askubuntu.com/questions/98223/how-do-i-get-a-list-of...
I have done it. I picked a lodge cast iron off of a stoop once and it had started to rust. I used fine grit sandpaper in an electric sander and got a decent result. Compared to the other lodge pan that I bought new, the one I polished is smoother and nicer to use.

[edit]: I did not polish it nearly as much as the mirror finished ones in the link nearby. I only did the cooking surface, and probably worked on it for 15 minutes.
It feels weird to not include some sort of ML inference tasks when benchmarking modern compute hardware. The GPU capabilities are a major factor of the M3 upgrade it seems?
What do psychedelics achieve here that ordinary meditation as in e.g. vipassana does not? They seem like a pointless shortcut, and potentially a problematic one. If the hallucinatory dynamic is specifically what you care about, that's also typical of perfectly ordinary experiences such as dreaming, or even just drifting in and out of sleep. What "treasure" are we gaining by dosing the brain with chemicals, that we couldn't otherwise?
We all kinda hate it but if you want to build UIs on the web you probably have to learn it. Start with mastering flexboxes

https://flexboxfroggy.com/

After that maybe allow yourself to look into something like cross platform flutter. https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/layout

That and the other native stuff (ios, android, the 10 windows layout languages) is not really any easier. UIs are tough to do well.
This is what made me leave gentoo, I would have to constantly remove or rebuild things that just worked fine and had no issues. I really didn't like the constant churn with gentoo so I left after using it since 2009.
Toyota's EVs Aim to Win with 620 Miles of Range, but Not Big Batteries
Griffiths was the driving force behind mainstream acceptance of psychedelic medicine with his work at Johns Hopkins. He showed that psilocybin was not only effective but was the most effective treatment for terminal psychiatric care and addiction, and he did it all within the mode of academic medical research. I hope his death was painless. A great scientist deserves no less.
I see I’m not the only person interested in pseudospheres
Isn't that just a fancy way to put "disagreeing with us"?
I think that's pretty much going against the vim mentality of offloading tasks to the appropriate tools.

This is the kind of thing I would expect to see in emacs.

That said, I can't imagine ever wanting to have a website render in my own editor, that's the kind of thing I'd like to use my target browser for.
> Seems to me that as the energy mix moves more towards renewable, to the extent that the renewable-skeptics’ prediction that variability is an issue comes true, then we would have to build gas peaker plants and start charging more for electricity at peak times.

There are a lot of different types of variability. You're talking about sudden short-term variance in supply, which is easy to deal with- just build more renewables. Bad weather doesn't cover up entire states except for extreme events, and you can just turn it off when it isn't needed. You can build a lot of overcapacity if the alternative is to pay peaker plant rates.

Increased variance like I interpret most people talking about it is those extreme weather events not necessarily hurricanes, but things like a week of no wind or heavy clouds happening to cover every panel in a distribution area. The fear being that you would still need gas plants or huge batteries to run for that one week a year, at extreme cost. The variance averages out most of the time, but not all the time.

Virtual batteries work with the former, but not the latter.

> In response to this increased market rate delta it would become more viable to invest in dynamic pricing and load shedding/deferring tech.

It's definitely not a tech problem. It's an incentives problem. The tech was always incredibly simple, and it does literally exist already- you can buy internet-connected thermostats. All you need to do is connect Nest to your local electricity distribution company and tell it how many degrees colder/warmer you will tolerate per $ saved. 45% of a house's energy use is in controlling the temperature of air and water (and that's not counting the fridge, which is another 7%).

It's as much on the suppliers as it is on consumers, IMO. Electrical distributors are some of the laziest, worst-run companies in the country. Half of them can't even do billing right; I know dozens of people who have been double charged or never charged or charged for their neighbor- nobody wants to read their electrical bill, so nobody cares. The average US household spends ~$2450 on electricity annually, and the amount you can save for how complicated it is is just below that mental threshold.

I don't see it getting better without legislation. Most obviously, a push for subsidized smart meters that don't use 1930s tech to measure electricity. Then a standardized (extensible) API and/or reporting requirement, so that devices can know the current price of electricity. A standard for transmitting that info over the house circuits themselves, if you're feeling fancy. Direct-to-consumer subsidies from grid authorities for things like ancillary services, power factor correction, and frequency stabilization.
You've got to love the idea that copyright doesn't apply to input code (from others), but does to their output code.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24117932-apple
They have a separate entrance for talent.
So it actually happened years ago and he is rehashing the same story of his 2 months at Amazon.. He has since worked at Google for 1.5 years so maybe this person just doesn't want to work for FAANG.
Prescient article. No surprise it was written by Nick Szabo (ideated Bitgold a year before Bitcoin white paper was released).
How can this be uses with PHP?
I believe you can actually still download games and stuff to a sd card at Nintendo kiosks, for use in a switch
This is a toddler argument. Driving is a time-consuming chore in most cases, so people zone out, get distracted, don't pay attention to things that are harder to notice and are much more vulnerable than the vehicle itself. We depend on driving for better or worse, doesn't mean we can't make roads safer for pedestrians.

When compared to the EU (no right turn on red), US stands out as an extremely unsafe country for pedestrians, with pedestrian deaths actually increasing year-over-year. Sure, it's not all attributed to the right turn on red law, multiple new regulations are needed.
I bet I can name the other 3 cities where that’s possibly true in the US: DC, Chicago, and Boston.

So 4, maybe 6 if you add Atlanta and Seattle (both of which I doubt have a majority share of transit), out of over 300 cities (or equivalent) with 100k+ people.
Wordplay: An accessible, language-inclusive programming language for all
Thanks, yep I'm currently working on proper support for Bogrep on macOS.
Carbon dioxide is very far down the list of problems with old coal plants.

Think of cars before catalytic converters.
In n2[1] I needed a fast tokenizer and had the same "garbage factory" problem, which is basically that there's a set of constant tokens (like json.Delim in this post) and then strings which cause allocations.

I came up with what I think is a kind of neat solution, which is that the tokenizer is generic over some T and takes a function from byteslice to T and uses T in place of the strings. This way, when the caller has some more efficient representation available (like one that allocates less) it can provide one, but I can still unit test the tokenizer with the identity function for convenience.

In a sense this is like fusing the tokenizer with the parser at build time, but the generic allows layering the tokenizer such that it doesn't know about the parser's representation.

[1] https://github.com/evmar/n2
The JWST folks contacted me about my mirror-finish cast iron. Eggs still stick.

I went through about a dozen different seasoning formulas from reddit. Still stick. Someone then insisted my #10 Lodge must be from the 40s when the iron had too much boron or whatever because of war shortages. Really.

Every conspiracy in modern times is a distraction effort from the only real one: seasoning doesn’t work.

I’m sure a few of them will show up here. They’re everywhere.
I think there's a lot of truth to what you are saying. However I still think man-made climate change is real and I think some of the response to it has been positive - like trying to design walkable communities.

But I agree there is also a lot of unnessary fear mongering and accusations at ordinary people and doomsdayism.

I hope what is essentially a positive thing (wanting sustainability) doesn't get overtaken and misused by fanaticism or people with other agendas.
Depending on what the definition of unencumbered is. Clicking on some link and getting your computer encrypted sounds like it's own means of encumbrance.
I'm curious if open source TPM would mean easier side-channel attacks. What's the reason everyone is super hush-hush around how their Hardware Security works?
This collection has been on the internet for quite a while, likely started around 2015-ish. It is highly duplicated and I suspect the total number is around 4 million books. Still a lot.

The source was from a company named DuXiu, or previously SuperStar. They collaborated with the libraries around China and scanned their collections since early 2000-ish. Before that I think they just bought some junk books from recycling stations based on the quality of early samples.

Many of the books are translated versions of the textbooks from the west (most likely the US) and many are pure political propaganda junk. Some literature and history stuff which were published when censorship wasn't so extreme.

Many of the Chinese tech companies should have access to this collection (especially Baidu for sure) but the books were not censored based on today's standards so I doubt any of them would openly use them not only due to the copyright issue but also the political risks.
This is thanks to everyone downloading cars. I hope you're happy with yourselves.
You know, all those cities that chose not to invest in public transit. Looks like they were smart, no one even uses it!
Toolkit for Ceasefire
I remember writing a logging method for a webserver forever ago, and could not for the life of me, understand why my Referrer values were not getting logged.
Finally looked at the headers, and thought it was a bug in the browser I was testing. Took way too long to figure out the problem.
Buses are only a good compromise as long as car usage remains low.

For example, in Chicago car ownership has increased as wealthy people move back into the city, and quality of bus service has declined because buses are also stuck in all the congestion that the cars generate. The city has started creating dedicated bus lanes, but they aren't actually improving the situation much because painting the right lane red doesn't actually prevent it from being jammed full of cars waiting to make right turns and double-parked delivery and rideshare vehicles.
Psychedelics are so different from alcohol and narcotics, idk how to explain. Instead of being distracted or numbed from your problems, you may concentrate on them deeply and from new angles.

But delusions can occur too. Ymmv.
Why would they prefer crypto? What's the lawful utility of it?
Do you not think that's over preparedness in 23? It sounds like something to consider in 20.
> I think the efforts of the development team could be better spent elsewhere.

Talking about this, has it ever been established if ReactOS is actually 100% authoral code? I thought I remembered someone from Microsoft discussing somewhere (maybe Hacker News?) how everyone there thought it was based on RE that wasn't clean-room or leaked code.

Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341933
Counting chickens before they’re hatched are me?

Let’s see it built for that price.

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/the-cost-for-jus...
I can't remember now and never gave measure theory a proper study, but isn't there a happy result that you can quotient out by a space of functions with zero integral to get an almost everywhere differentiable function or something? Maybe that's for L2:continuous, not continuous:differentiable?

Even a result like f(x) = nice(x) + evil(x) with |evil| < epsilon should be "happy enough" right?

Edit: I may have been misremembering the Lebesgue decomposition theorem which is not quite so nice, as the singular part doesn't just go away.
He's absolutely entitled in running his project his own way. As such, it is obvious that adoption outside of his own circle is to remain minimal.

I would love Elm to be in a position where I could advocate for it at work (aside from it being a "neat hobby"). However, the simple fact is that the way Elm is run has lead to disillusionment among advocates of the first hour. And there is nothing to indicate that this will change.

And if the guy has inspired a new generation to create something to his own achievement, kudos to him. As far as I'm concerned Elm is not the enemy, JavaScript is the enemy.
This is not mentioned in the article, but upon learning about his prognosis Griffith worked on establishing an endowment to support the continued research on psychedelics and "secular spirituality and well-being".

I recommend watching Griffith's video message [0] where he talks about the research and reflects on his condition. I also recommend the conversation with Sam Harris that someone else shared in a comment.

[0]: https://griffithsfund.org/vision/
Until fairly recently (and sometimes still), electricity could be fairly unreliable in many parts of India.
> $CURRENT_MODEL

What's the purpose of writing like this? Asking genuinely.
Intel invested heavily in P4 and made the P4 pipeline really long which allowed for higher clocks.

So for Banias started with the P3 pipeline which was already short and added the microop fusion that I believe was introduced in P4. As well a cribbing a lot of other enhancements from Netburst.

It's been several years since I read up on it so I'm rust on all the details.
Yup. The crew and achievements of 11 are far more famous, but most people couldn't tell you which number their Apollo mission was.
Scale is the question. Some societies you can get by with trusting others, once in a while you lose, but the gain overall from being able to trust your stuff will still be there is much more.
They don’t actually share an alphabet if the letters don’t correspond to the same sounds.
You don't happen to have a link to that Digikey part do you? My solution was considerably more janky and I might try to fix it.
Currency conversion at the same time made it double complicated.
I get that the mechanisms are different, but the end result is the same.

Edit: sample here with a JSON template: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/dn7-source-generators
MSDN-acquired licenses can't be used in production. Probably doesn't matter much for home usage, but I wouldn't use an MSDN license on anything I use for work.
to be honest i don’t want someone to be on my journey unless they commit to it. i don’t need some guy on my journey who is never going to invest or commit and is just there to pass time.
Exactly. It's a quadruple whammy:

1. Most residences not being suitable for significant generation.

2. The return on investment is decades long (yes, so is double glazing, but that is useful for far more households), not that most households can afford it at all.

3. The total generation capacity is piddle, especially for government investment.

4. The materials that go into making PV panels are horrible to extract.

I'm not saying PV panels are useless, but they are not much of anything. Not something my lecturers at uni liked hearing/reading, but lo and behold pretty much nothing substantial has changed since. They're too busy blowing Sustainable Development smoke up their own arses though.
Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
This is very similar to "what do antidepressant medications achieve that regular diet and exercise do not? "

Assuming equal efficacy is possible in the first place, and assuming every human is even capable of reaching those levels, there are people who can't spend the sometimes years it takes to practice meditation to a point where they can achieve psychidelic efficacy.

Why not have both available and you can do you?
fTPMs are invulnerable to interposing attacks, but if you add a second TPM and program it as Windows (eg) would and redirect all remote attestation requests to that, the remote site has no way to know that this has happened.
Its amazing how so many of us have converged on KDE. It feels like a real google-like moment where all the tech people I knew started using google for a year or two before everyone else caught on.

If I could buy stock in KDE Id have 1/2 my net worth in it, KDE to the moon :)
Even sticking within the confines of json there's low hanging fruit, e.g. if your data is typically like:

[{"k1": true, "k2": [2,3,4]}, {"k1": false, "k2": []}, ...]

You can amortize the overhead of the keys by turning this from an array of structs (AoS) into a struct of arrays (SoA):

{"k1": [true, false, ...], "k2": [[2,3,4], [], ...]}

Then you only have to read "k1" and "k2" once, instead of once per record. Presumably there will be the odd record that contains something like {"k3": 0} but you can use mini batches of SoA and tune their size according to your desired latency/throughput tradeoff.

Or if your data is 99.999% of the time just pairs of k1 and k2, turn them into tuples:

{"k1k2": [true,[2,3,4],false,[], ...]}

And then 0.001% of the time you send a lone k3 message:

{"k3": 2}

Even if your endpoints can't change their schema, you can still trade latency for throughput by doing the SoA conversion, transmitting, then converting back to AoS at the receiver. Maybe worthwhile if you have to forward the message many times but only decode it once.
From the text on Braves homepage:

> All the good of ad-blocking, incognito windows, private search, even VPN. All in a single download.

Is that really without user consent? On OSX it requires explicit permission but windows has no such permission facilities.

Nothing burger. The paranoid part of me suspects a Google-sponsored-nothing-burger.
Can someone explain to me why JSON can't have comments or trailing commas? I really hope the performance gains are worth it, because I've lost 100s of man-hours to those things, and had to resort to stuff like this in package.json:

"IMPORTANT: do not run the scripts below this line, they are for CICD only": true,