skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All these conversations are always a rehash of "use this proprietary thing instead of that other proprietary thing". I am baffled that the conversation never ventures into technologies that put the user in control.
They are followers, colleagues, supporters as I am.

Is it against the rule to support a friend?
Good heavens that's an irritating website design.

That is the single worst site I've seen since winamp.com which told me, with 100% lossless fidelity, that the new version of the app was going to be a giant dumpster full of burning dumpsters full of toxic waste.

It alone is enough to ensure that I'd not give the company $1 let alone $179. Yuck.
Are you saying TikTok is inoculating Chinese propaganda in Americans' minds? Are you really saying that?
Could be called “conservative bias” as well, but I guess Paul has to be careful with wording.
Do you want to know a fun fact? Nuclear is even more sensitive to material prices, inflation and interest rates than off-shore wind.

If off-shore wind companies are struggling then nuclear projects are deep deep in the red.
Who talked about "economic recommendations"? The IAEA INSAG-7 report, an update on the initial Chernobyl report INSAG-1, is a quick read (I just did it in the last 20 minutes or so).

That report, which includes official translations of two USR incident reports, is all about safety and technical aspectsbof RBMK reactors, nowhere do they talk about the future use and deploymant of nuclear power plants. After all, all those reports were written by the people being as pro-nuclear as you could be in the late 80s... Granted, people back then wrote long form documents not published on social media.

I linoed to the report elsewhere, ypu honestly should read it. Including the truely damning ones the Soviets wrote regarding safety, regulation and oversight at, and around, the Chernobyl power plant, especially affecting the extension units incl. rwaczor No. 4 which ultimately exploded.
> Bluesky is an interesting exception as so far there is only one server (bsky.app). According to Similarweb, bsky.app has 5 times more users than truthsocial.com

Sources cited: bong
> > Gmail works best on Chrome.

> Is this true, and if so, in what way?

I don't know about Gmail, but Google Translate won't let me use speech functionality in Firefox.

Tangential: Microsoft Teams mostly works in Firefox, but they have some arbitrary limitations: I can't call someone via Teams or pick up the phone if someone calls me via Teams. But I can make a video conference with someone who isn't at work, and the person I need to speak to. Or just use the iPhone app.

I'd expect similar things to be "broken by design" in Gmail.
It wasn't an abundance of caution, it was things (that you might previously have eaten and enjoyed as a sesame allergee) newly having non-trace amounts of sesame added deliberately, to save having to qualify the previous possible trace amount as low enough once it was recategorised.

Well-intentioned change, unintentional bad outcome for those affected.
> If I was in a more rural area I doubt theyd object to a big wind turbine

You'd be surprised. There was a protest in my area against putting up five new wind turbines at an industrial site as the existing buildings are take down. People object that it would ruin their view... The current buildings is part of a massive coal fired power plant which is slowly being decommissioned and there are already three existing turbines.
This account is six years old and posts frequently. Do you honestly believe I would know what Y Combinator is but not that it runs Hacker News? It changes nothing about the argument that Y Combinator’s goal is to make ever more money.
Remember the section of the OpenAI Dev Day keynote when Satya Nadella from Microsoft got up on stage? One of the main things he was talking about was providing compute for OpenAI. He mentioned how aggressively OpenAI was pushing forward and that the workloads were unheard of.

https://youtu.be/XhLlRS2-BO8?si=cDQEktlWD4RzErD1&t=372
I'm angry that I have to agree here. I use DDG and Bing primarily and Google as a fallback. Increasingly since I started doing so, Google's results were just as bad as what DDG or Bing would provide. I've downright given up on trying to search certain things because I know exactly how search engines will misinterpret what I'm asking for no matter how much I clarify because the thing they try to find is more popular (in terms of number of results) than what I'm actually asking for.
it's not superpower-scale

some bored kid with a couple of hundred stolen credit cards can bring down a significant chunk of AWS/GCP/...
In one of your reproductions of the results from the paper it would spit out random other names from the dataset. But from your description of the Tom Cruise dataset, there were no other names included. Why didn't you give it the possibility to fail in the same way?
The reddit thread in official subreddit suggests otherwise, with people suggesting using 'speedometer apps' on their phones as a workaround.

I don't know, I have car from 1991 so I'm just observing the trainwreck.
Agree that that's a problem, but the couple in the articles last car cost them $500, they just wanted something that was a little more reliable, but got sold a year old Ford F-150 truck with a €30,000 loan at 22% interest.
I'd trust Carters opinion on this a lot more. He is a nuclear expert and even personally led a team that cleaned up a meltdown in a reactor in Canada.
It's a step in the right direction but it doesn't solve the problem of helping the community of users and contributors settle on a new maintained repo.
The OSI Model Revisited
Hi HN. I thought I'd share my first blog article, revisiting the OSI model. Systems interconnectivity is a complex subject, but I've not found many resources that give a practical overview, or link concepts with logical and physical examples. So I've created a couple of new diagrams for reference by technology professionals, and I discuss the continued relevance of the OSI model within the article. All comments & questions welcome. Thanks.
Who are the 'real ones™' on HN with the vision to see something that is most often inappropriate or hard to communicate here due to downvoting or lame rules? Take the opportunity to let us know here.
You just described Southern fried chicken except you didn’t marinate it in hot sauce and buttermilk for extra tender and tasty chicken.
> My main issue is that unlike VBA, I can't program it from right there in Excel.

Yeah, that's pretty much a deal-breaker. On top of the obvious thing: can "add-ins" be installed by unprivileged users, without involving the IT department? Can they be embedded in the spreadsheets? A "no" to the former is a real deal-breaker, but a "no" to the latter also hurts adoption. Nice thing about Macros and VBA is that, security settings notwithstanding, every instance of Excel is capable of running them out-of-the-box, without making the user install anything extra.
That’s funny because the left currently dominates all aspects of culture, academia, work, and society. The orthodox is solidly “progressive” right now.
As a co-founder of a tiny company dabbling in hardware as a side-project, yes please!

Half the things we are struggling with are due to upstream hardware vendors throwing a hot mess over the fence. Linux&friends being GPL doesn't help us as much as we hoped, because many important and low-level pieces are quite opaque, closed, under-documented, etc.

Anything to force the vendors to be more transparent is good for us. We already automate our builds, keep extensive notes on what works and what doesn't, etc. Our own SBOM is additive on top of the vendor's stack, so all we're really concerned with is the pieces we wrote ourselves. I don't see it as a burden any more than ensuring proper test coverage, or maintaining a lockfile of dependencies.

So yes, please make this a law.
The Big Tech companies all seem to follow the same pattern. They create a killer product, become successful and print money for a while, and at some point they all make the same decision...they all start creating the same suite of products: mail, instant messaging, video hosting (long-form and short-form), video conferencing, search, etc.

I guess I kind of understand the motivation, but it seems so wasteful.

And if their founders become multi-billionaires, they all also start a space rocket company.
(2022)

1 year ago, 411 comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33822149

Got triggered by epithelial.
We count years from year 1, but seconds from 1970? It's just illogical, arithmetic has nothing to do with it.
I'm always reminded of the aphorism: If my solution doesn't have to be correct, `return 0` runs in a couple of cycles and uses zero additional memory.

The complication, of course, is (as the original author explains) that - with respect to some problems - there are degrees of correctness in the solution space, and some specific, limited trade-offs may be acceptable.
Probably "against the Christian morality of our VISA/Mastercard overlords".
Please, please Microsoft start pushing F# as an alternative to VBA!
Yet we don't actually have an industry that is capable of doing this at the scale that's needed. I am not deeply knowledgeable of this industry enough to understand why but it looks like it's not as easy a solution as presented otherwise we would actually do it.
I wonder if putting the dishwasher in soft water mode will also reduce the risk of this. Should use less rinse aid then.
This place is a progressive echo chamber for sure.
Entertainment is much better for recreational players without pro players in the game maybe with the exception of occasional tournament celebrity. Pro poker player doesn't provide anything to anyone with the exception of a challenge to other pro players.
May as well buy the whole pizza at the supermarket then, no difference from whatever you'll make at home.
The other solution is to cap fast track capacity or price it higher, so that it's value is roughly aligned to cost. Not super ideal or fair but at least the option is there
Can someone who understands more about chemistry tell me where exactly which detergents use alcohol ethoxylates and how do I spot them from the label? Should I be concerned about this at home?
Interesting, I haven't come across NanoVG before!
Good one, even better than "too much success"
I am in the power forecasting domain, where weather forecasts are one of the most important inputs. What I find surprising is that with all the papers and publications from google in the past years, there seems to be no way to get access to these forecasts! We've now evaluated numerous of the ai weather forecasting startups that are popping up everywhere and so far for all of them their claims fall flat on their face when you actually start comparing their quality in a production setting next to the HRES model from ECMWF.
Calculating 100T digits of pi on Google Cloud (2022)
Doesn't the software/hard water mode just affect how much the ion exchanger (filled with salt) is used?
> Cooling of CPUs is awful use of this tech. Why would anyone turn down thermal conductivity?

Well, you could build logic gates out of these switching elements ;)
New syscalls may be unavailable on distributions that use old kernels. It is probably possible to tell whatever libc you use to avoid fancy syscalls, but still there may be problems. Note that the other way should work (from old kernel to new)
An interesting solution to the blind spot error (taken directly from Jeremy Howard's amazing guide to language models
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkrNMKz9pWU) is to erase the chat history and try again. Once GPT has made an error (or as the author of this article says, the early layers have irreversibly pruned some important data), it will very often start to be even more wrong.
My point was more that the "irrational modern ideas" aren't just conjured from the ether, but can be traced through history back centuries, and that understanding this helps one recognize the issue.
We've all benefited though - we've gotten awesome free email and maps
Lots of people happily surrender the cold unknown of self-determination for the warm embrace of conformity. Conformity simplifies, affirms, and diffuses accountability. It's easy to understand the temptation.
Ok, this is posed to generate some sensationalist headlines. Do we get these concentrations with regular use in a dishwasher? Does it have cumulative exposure effects? Does it even reach the gut lining after digestion enzymes and acids?

From the summary it seems that they only investigated the dose dependent toxicity.
>Routers have the ability to pinpoint and target devices, shut them off at certain times, and have global filters.

This requires non-trivial networking knowledge. Tired layperson parents need an easier solution.
See also

https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/

and

https://lukas-blecher.github.io/LaTeX-OCR/
'Do not waffle', is a good one, I find 'No small talk.' worth throwing in :)
> identifying and labeling things that happened in the past prevents them from happening today.

I think to a degree it does? To me it made me think of Freud. I don't think you need to dissect the complex origins of things. Real life is too complicated and it doesn't give you clear answers. Instead you distill human behavior to some rough raw patterns that repeat and build a vocabulary to describe them. You can then short circuit conversations by calling out patterns.
If you think ChatGPT is "counting" anything, you have massively missed the point.
Yeah I wish the Great Books or a similar "classical liberal arts education" would make a comeback, but unfortunately it faces opposition from both the STEM set and contemporary liberal arts departments. Institutionally, I can't think of anyone doing this other than St. John's.
Official:

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic

But at the moment GPT-3.5 is 100 times faster
It freezes well, 14d would be way over-fermented even in the fridge IMO.

Doesn't really save having to know in advance because it needs to defrost and prove, but it does save having to be in the mood again within just a few days for another one. (It's difficult/annoying to make so little dough as for one pizza, IMO.)
They aren't really usable in any meaningful way. Those low-end models get bought by people that mostly use them as Netflix/Facebook machines. I'm really not kidding about this; I have seen it with my own eyes. I have a friend who has a MacBook for the 2015 era, and I have only ever seen him use it to watch movies, the most tabs I have seen him use are maybe 5 and the most apps he ever used at once is probably 5 too, and just because he forgot to quit the torrent video player client I put there or something like that. It's all about prestige for social status. This is precisely why Apple can get away from selling hardware so compromised.

I told him many times that he could have gotten a computer at one third the price that would have done essentially the same thing just as well, but he doesn't believe it. He thinks Apple is obviously better and obviously longer. Even though I'm tech geek using Apple hardware before he even knew Apple existed. He also has a fetish for Apple cables and chargers, because somehow, they are the only ones who know how to build those things (not that they are bad per se, but there are better options at half the price...).

It's really a lot like a religion or some sort of cult at this point. Unsurprisingly this guy has a lot of beliefs about many things; true Apple fanboys are very often like that.

As far as I'm concerned, Apple stuff is pretty good but the pricing just doesn't make sense, especially nowadays considering of the locked everything down...
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Doing the same for rinse aid. Didn’t find a practical alternative for the main cleaning solution.
See

https://facebookresearch.github.io/nougat/

and

https://lukas-blecher.github.io/LaTeX-OCR/
this is the kind of article where we see what we want to see
ACARS
> If asked "how to make [the Bash script it's written] better", GPT-4 will produce an equivalent Python script

What an absolutely based take by GPT-4
At this point you should just leave this dumpster fire of an organization and find a more reasonable place to work. I can't relate to the people who keep inventing atrocious workarounds ignoring the problem that they work in a hostile work environment.

I work in security and can't relate to banning Python & replacing it with Microsoft crap either.
See for instance the pytorch geometric [1] package, which is the main implementation in pytorch. They also link to some papers there that might explain you more.

[1] https://pytorch-geometric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
What are the advantages over plain vinegar? Been using that my whole life without any concern beyond wanting to avoid expensive rinse aids.
Occam's razor here is that Russia has been engaged for years in a wide range activities with the sole aim of, simply speaking, creating all kinds of problems in the West. [0] Many of these are very well documented. There is no single cause - they will support both extreme right and extreme left, aiming to sow trouble. These actions are not so subtle and everybody can analyze them. Their ex-prime minister openly threatens to nuke EU countries, not just once, but on several occasions.

Moreover, Russia had high hopes the EU will not manage without Russian gas. They even made this scary video on how the whole EU will freeze[1]. But we managed to solve the problem and nobody in Europe is fearing the next winter. It would be a strange coincidence if power plants in the EU started malfunctioning in February causing country-wide outages because of some complex software problems that got undetected for months...

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01399-3
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5x4RzDL8ps
So what? Same applies to most projects in general.
The vast majority of people who play poker do not play it for the "high stakes, smoky rooms, and martinis". Speaking for myself, I regularly play for very low stakes with friends in my own place of residence and we enjoy it as both as an intellectual pursuit and something to socialize over.

Obviously your viewpoint is perfectly valid - there are plenty of people who have been irreparably harmed by gambling culture and the way that poker is marketed largely does itself no favors in that regard. My point is that degenerate culture and poker can be separated and there are absolutely healthy ways to enjoy a hobby which, yes, has a luck element to it, but also requires precise study and meticulous decision making to excel at.

From what I've read I think you are conflating the predatory nature of casinos with the game of poker. Those two things are certainly linked, but I would argue that it would be a mistake to write off a game like No Limit Texas Hold'em as irredeemably harmful due to the association.
Yeah this becomes very noticeable when you're deliberately learning facts with Anki.

For example when trying to learn immunology, "This bacterium causes neural bacteriumeritis", score 100% on the set of cards after a few sessions.

Add "What are the possible causes of neural bacteriumeritis?" and sometimes I'd draw a blank.

There's a lot of nuance in how we learn facts and their relationships.

It reminds me a lot of data structures in programming to be honest. It's a lot easier to retrieve a person's age from a dictionary indexed by first-name+last-name than from a list with 10000 objects with people in them.
Do people like that actually exist? It seems odd in a society where the words "cancel culture" are virtually inescapable.
Or how to make $250 million :
Invest $10 billion in Softbank
Scientists create a layer of intestinal epithelial cells in a lab, minus all the other components in your intestine, then expose them to high concentrations of detergent and rinse aid.

Turns out cells don’t like it.

Who’d a thunk it?
Hypothetically you could get a license just for yourself, but only you'd be able to use it which might get kinda lonely. Using a LLC is much more practical as the entity can own the radios and assign them to authorized users acting on behalf of the company.

Forming a corporate entity and paying the frequency coordination fees are going to be minimal in comparison to the hardware costs to communicate at a distance (encrypted or clear) reliably.
The weather company claims to do this (they are also the main provider of weather data for apple).
CoPilot is more than just Github. They are rolling it out across the whole MSFT portfolio.
Given the energy and heat involved the answer is most certainly yes
Vinegar destroys the rubber sealings.
Vinegar can be a stronger acid than citric acid and has the potential to damage rubber sealings. That's why many manufacturers specifically advise against it.
How would you feel about the existence of a website where I could paste into it a text box any Hacker News username, and it would reply with an accurate estimate of the job history, location history, political opinions expressed, net worth, age, marital/family status, other websites/forums frequented and usernames on those sites, etc. of that user?

How would you feel if a browser plugin displayed these details next to every username on Hacker News?
From my understanding, this article is only about professional dishwashers used in restaurants and hotels etc. that use much higher concentrations and less rinsing than consumer dishwashers. They specifically mention that they could not repeat their findings on consumer dishwashers.
of course, amusingly, it's also well-known as a right-leaning forum too

i used to think that the fact that both ideas were in currency indicated that it was probably unbiased. I now think that it probably means that the "right-wing"/"progressive" indicators are too simplistic a way to describe the actual underlying biases.
The summary says "detergent residue from professional dishwashers demonstrated the remnant of a significant amount of cytotoxic and epithelial barrier–damaging rinse aid remaining on washed and ready-to-use dishware", which might address the question about concentrations in regular use.
>Monday afternoon, 3pm. 1 hour to go until launch (4pm local time).

>I receive an email from a customer that mentions Tailscan has not been working for him after the v2.0.0 update that was pushed out just minutes before.

Pushing an update an hour before launch was... unwise.
Designing Effective Interviews for New Roles in Startups
Agree - also note that many office jobs have been shipped overseas, and also automated out of existence. When I started work there were slews of support staff booking trips, managing appointments, typing correspondence & copying and typesetting docuements. For years we laughed at the paperless office - well it's been here for a decade and there's no discussion about it anymore.

Interestingly at the same time as all those jobs disappeared and got automated there were surges of people into the workforce. Women started to be routinely employed for all but a few years of child birth and care, and many workers came from overseas. Yet, white collar unemployment didn't spike. The driver for this was that the effective size of the economy boomed with the inclusion of Russia, China, Indonesia, India and many other smaller countries in the western sphere/economy post cold war... and growth from innovation.
Construction of the synthetic yeast chromosome XI (synXI)
Gamma-Scout, Alert model.
and their reverse image search is way better
In same way I don't think I have heard fast food employees or employees in food manufacturing criticised for producing the food. Or candy or whatever.

The perception of role might be, but not for the product they are participating in ...