skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andy Klein from Backblaze here. We have done some survival analysis (kaplan-meier curves). In our case, we need to have a reasonable number of failures over the observation period to get decent results. You can take a look at some of our work here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-life-expectancy/ and see if that is what you were expecting.
Tuta is not in Five Eyes jurisdiction, it is in Germany.
I misread Engels as Hegel. Of course it makes more sense now.
A friend of mine lived in Japan for a few years and got a polite letter from his neighbors asking him...to quiet it down.
Airline Ticket Reselling
Socrates was sentenced to drinking hemlock for indoctrinating students.
> So the choice was not screening for it

No, they screen, remove, and ban people for policy violations. (And that has improved over time, at least, the violations that have slipped through have dropped over time.)

What isn't a policy violation is separate things which could be combined together or with other things to make something that would be a policy violations.
All of that is true. But what I’m saying is that the police routinely will do their best to avoid even taking a report or providing documentation, at least in the experiences I’ve had described to me. There’s essentially no expectation that anything will be done to investigate the crime.
If you're going to nitpick my comment, you should do it correctly. Inflating reported hours isn't the same thing as increasing an hourly rate. There's zero ambiguity there.
It’s a reasonable guess but apparently heat pumps win

“With today’s refrigerants, heat pumps still reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% compared with a gas boiler, even when running on emissions‐intensive electricity.”

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-future-of-heat-pumps/executi...
Sleeping better (recently found out that increasing warmth vastly improves my sleep)

Exercise.

Not eating crap (i.e: sugar)
It peaked at US$ 75,000/BTC in Spring 2021, dropped to $40,000/BTC in Summer 2021, went up to $80,000 in Autumn 2021, did a continuous slide down to the $30,000 range in late 2022 and stayed there (dipping all the way to $22,000), it's now been in the $35,000 range for the last few months of 2023, and has jumped to $45,000 range recently.

* https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD/

I am not sure why did you pick random numbers that are not supported by your own chart to illustrate your point. BTC did not reach $75K or $80K, it dipped below $22K, and it is not at $45K now.
That isn't what mental illness is, but thanks for playing.
Syntax highlighting? Aaaaaand... it's gone!
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing to Netplan for Network Configuration
I know very little about the case, but how would disparaging Tutanota help his case in this scenario? And why would anyone in the intelligence field need to justify using a privacy focused service?
In Germany, all jobs technically offer relocation. There is no difference for the employer (aside from the wait, which is comparable with poaching workers from other companies). With a bit of help from a relocation consultant, you can get a residence permit and start working surprisingly fast.

I help people move to Germany on allaboutberlin.com, and I'm publishing my updated work visa guide on the 18th. It should have all the info you need and plenty of resources to get you across.

The German tech industry is going through a recession right now, so fewer employers are hiring, but it's still possible to find work if you have good experience.
There are more than 2 sides here.

Read https://www.thefp.com/p/you-are-the-last-line-of-defense for a perspective from a liberal lesbian Jew who is concerned about censorship and current progressive ideologies. She opposes most of the alternatives that you criticize.

Admitted. That speech was given to a conservative audience. But she remains firmly liberal in the same sense that it was generally understood back when Bill Clinton was President.
For anyone else who follows along in this domain, there's an interesting competitor in the space I stumbled across recently: https://felt.com/

Pretty nice looking product and robust feature set. Love to see GIS tooling becoming more accessible.
As full stack .net dev, I am so disappointed every “who is hiring” thread. I would be game to join a trendier group of like minded devs but if you get one .net posting you are lucky, and it’s most likely rockstar.

:(
> China is listed at the #2 dynamic economy and it is common there.

I don't think that is really true, at least for kids going to university. In fact, lots of kids virtually move out before they are even finished with high school because boarding schools are so much more common there. After they graduate from university, it is very very common for young adults to live in another city, visiting home maybe once or twice a year.
They said single TPU machine to be fair, which means like 8 TPUs (still impressive)
its not him that's changed, its the medias portrayal of him
You can call it "induce cognitive impairment" if you prefer, but it doesn't change what it is.

The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4

If calling it what it is helps encourage people to stop doing it to themselves (we are after all emotion-first, rationalization-later!)... then your taking offense on my behalf (for the record, I do have brain damage) will have been an acceptable cost.
Yes. And also things like rolling out the update in batches, and then also things like golden images, where if there are two crashes or failures in the first 24 hours of the update, change to the last known good software version.
> I'd much rather wait a minute and buffer more video at reasonable resolution and bitrate, rather than switching to something unwatchable.

A full minute of buffering would only give about 5% more bandwidth for a typical 22 minute TV show. That’s not going to transform it from “something unwatchable” to the higher bitrate video you want.

It will, however, cause a large majority of people to give up on the stream. The number of people who would actually prefer 1 minute of buffering for negligibly higher quality is almost nonexistent.

This is why buffering is futile: Once a stream gets to the point of stopping to buffer, the mismatch between available bandwidth and the encoded bitrate is just too great to reasonably overcome.
It builds on top of supercomputer model output and does better at the specific task of medium term forecasts.

It is a kind of iterative refinement on the data that supercomputers produce — it doesn’t supplant supercomputers. In fact the paper calls out that it has a hard dependency on the output produced by supercomputers.
Just hope this "crackdown" does not stop the revolution which is happening in less than honest regimes. Its allowed people a store of currency which cannot be infringed, its more valuable than the scams and volatility that plague it.

Absque argento omnia vana
Ask HN: Which 5 websites have you used and would you like to see them back?
Or maybe it helps to give you those symptoms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999349#38006436
Well that is worrying.

Right now CivitAI is basically Stable Diffusion social media. It doesn't seem profitable at all, even of they are selling user data or getting subs or whatever.

But if they start charging for downloads or whatever, they may cross a line into making money off likeness, and not just "hosting user content" like Facebook and Twitter and any oldschool image hosting service gets to say they do.
> There was only ever one launch of Voyager 2.

I get that it probably wasn't in the production schedule, but strictly speaking they could have come back a couple weeks later and done the shot with the voyager 1 launch.
It was tried and the dotnet team decided to drop it: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398
We gotta be. We know Microsoft isn't gonna be :D.
Something can be both commonplace and nice to look at. I found it interesting to see the ways it resembled and differed from my own notes.
From https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685:

> LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

> An important paradigm of natural language processing consists of large-scale pre-training on general domain data and adaptation to particular tasks or domains. As we pre-train larger models, full fine-tuning, which retrains all model parameters, becomes less feasible. Using GPT-3 175B as an example -- deploying independent instances of fine-tuned models, each with 175B parameters, is prohibitively expensive. We propose Low-Rank Adaptation, or LoRA, which freezes the pre-trained model weights and injects trainable rank decomposition matrices into each layer of the Transformer architecture, greatly reducing the number of trainable parameters for downstream tasks. Compared to GPT-3 175B fine-tuned with Adam, LoRA can reduce the number of trainable parameters by 10,000 times and the GPU memory requirement by 3 times. LoRA performs on-par or better than fine-tuning in model quality on RoBERTa, DeBERTa, GPT-2, and GPT-3, despite having fewer trainable parameters, a higher training throughput, and, unlike adapters, no additional inference latency.
>> Being able to ignore strangers is necessary to keep sanity.

Precisely. Even in my clubs/bars drinking strategy of approaching strangers, I make great effort to become "familiar" to them before making the move.

In fact picking up a random stranger for a conversation is in no way different than picking a chick for a possible later "good time" in a club.

First and foremost you need to become nonverbally accustomed to them and they to you. And unless pushing for town's idiot, need to get the signals that they are OK talking to you. Otherwise especially when booze is involved, things can get messy fast. (You gotta be prepared for this situation too if you do this).
>It's traditionally not made up of adult children who are unable to support themselves. Instead it's made up of adult children supporting parents in their old age.

This does not necessarily mean the parents are supporting their adult children directly, it also means mutual support.

An example: Parents will argue "Why move out and pay a lot to a random landlord when you're welcome here and can save money?".

It is not a free ticket to freeload, the child is expected to contribute in some manner to household (Pay rent, split bills, help with chores etc.). Parents from these aforementioned backgrounds actually encourage children to stay as long as they want, or at least until marriage. It is not seen as shameful that they're past 18 and still at home.

I'm not arguing that economics don't play a factor, but I believe that's only part of the reason.
With blazor wasm you generally do have separate project for front end and api.
There’s been a ton of development in super reflective materials since the first demonstration of daytime radiative cooling at Stanford in 2014. Ultimately though, reflectivity does drop with dirt and pollution exposure over time, even for these kinds of materials. So most super reflective materials plateau at a lower number long term outdoors.

Also, just for reference, Spectralon, a sintered PTFE reflectance standard has had this level of solar reflectance for decades. So, in a sense, not that much new here. a sintered ceramic is gonna be expensive and will have a hard time competing with the simplicity of a paint based approach. Super white paints using various pigments have been well studied the last 5 years.
> However, it creates an incentive where the general public has an incentive to see the product fail

That's not really the problem. The problem is that it lowers the company value: why should I, potential acquirer, shell out $$$ to get your IP, when I can just sit down and wait for it to come down the river?
Is this not just generating a random walk from a pseudorandom number generator.
Wasn’t there some issue with debugger on Non-Windows platforms?
It's crazy to me that this is possible in the first place. Standard practice is to have a fleet of test vehicles that are effectively production except in an early release group.

Or, you know, having an A/B boot partition scheme with a watchdog. Things that have been around for decades at this point.

Disclaimer: Former Googler, Worked closely with Automotive.
So you live somewhere remote without connection to the grid? In that case, nuclear power wouldn‘t help you as well.

For everything else, I recommend googling the following terms to get started with: green hydrogen, biogas, hydropower, pumped hydro storage, smart grid.
That's why _I_ have a Dumbcar connected to a smartphone via FM for audio only :)
In the grand scheme of tax avoidance crypto must be nothing but a blip. Look at the size of the art market, car collections, yachts, villas, etc. There's a huge amount of work left to do if you want to get serious about tax avoidance before you even need to work on crypto. You'll know when there's something serious being done about tax avoidance - when an actual kerfuffle breaks out in parliament.
Apocalyptic vibe would be signs overrun with weeds and such and cars stranded on highways
While that correspondence proof is relatively new, AdS as a theory is quite old.
It sounds like it was tested on their own fleet but they accidentally pushed the wrong bits when deploying the update more widely out to customers.
Killing that startup JIT is important if you want to scale out fast.
The vehicles are drivable but software and displays go black. It appears that the 2023.42 software update hangs at 90% on the vehicle screen or 50% on the app screen and then the vehicle screens black out. All systems appear to still work except for the displays.

This is what I do with my Prius to get a comfortably distraction-free driving environment. Sounds like a feature not a bug.
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Thanks. Went to my gas and electric bills to look up the rates. Plugged in the numbers on the site. Heat pump estimated to cost me $400 extra per year for heating.

If I were doing a brand new build, it may make some sense just because I like to be "green". But paying several thousand just for the install, only to end up paying more per year: Just doesn't make sense.
Blender for 3D is what Postgres is for databases. It's really an exceptional piece of open source software and totally stands out. There's not many software projects like this.
I mean, it's the New Yorker.
> Gimp never had investors write off €4.5M of development on it.

Notably, there is literally nothing stopping other Open Source projects from being given grants of millions of dollars other than social convention.

We saw this with Godot after Unity. There's a coordination problem here, but we all mostly recognize that many of these fundamental tools would be better if we all collectively put our resources into an Open tool that is focused on serving the community rather than exploiting it.

It's just that without shocking events that prompt the bigger players to say, "you know what, heck this, let's just fund a good tool", it's very tough to get people to make that kind of investment, even though it would very likely be better for them and in the long-run more cost effective for them if they did.

I would argue that the majority of Blender's development (both architecturally and in terms of cost) happened after its commercial origins. But Blender continued to get investment because the community was invested in building a usable tool that wouldn't force them to deal with the crap of the other commercial products in the 3D industry.
Interesting to note that Ford's approach of updating software is far more conservative and car-like. It can be done fully offline via USB, but requests that you kindly upload the log files written to the memory stick back to them when complete, in the instructions as a necessary step. Presumably so they can track and stop incidents like this before they happen fleet-wide.

Rivian seems more like a "ship it and we'll fix it in the next sprint!" company.

How do other manufacturers handle updates?
So, I guess I hear you on this, although I think it's a generalization..

There's certainly a trope among developers that "the business" doesn't give us time to do work properly, including security.. and that's it's just "ship features fast"..

My take on this is that it's on us, as professional developers and particularly technical leaders, to force that issue and advocate for better practices.

I've advocated for better technical practices at several jobs I've been at, and in many cases there was no intentional desire to incentivize bad practices, it was simply that the leaders weren't aware of all the requirements, and of the consequences of cutting too many corners.

When framed in the context of business value and risk, it's not as hard as you think to introduce better standards to most software development teams. Smart leaders are open to listening and changing if it means better outcomes.

That said, if your technical leadership isn't interested in supporting this kind of improvement or helping you advocate, then maybe it's time to dust off the CV if you personally care about it.
Most of the bad parts of nature—mud, the usual unpleasant insects, an ecology dominated by poison ivy and thorn plants of various sorts—without the good parts. Nice, long views, pretty hills or mountains, ocean or nice lakes, dramatic rock formations (even for very modest values of “dramatic”), tall forests that aren’t edge-to-edge carpeted three feet high with poison and thorn plants, rivers and streams that are more than sluggish smelly mud-ditches? None of that. Zero. Not close enough to visit on a normal weekend unless you want to spend twice as much time driving as being in the place you wanted to go. You wanna go outside and enjoy “nature”, you do it somewhere that sees a lawn-mower on a regular basis, and/or is partially paved.

Really bad.
The path will look entirely different depending on the base you choose, but all paths for all bases should look roughly equally "random" because it's widely believed that π is a normal number:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
GitHub Actions Down Again?
There's nothing reported on the status page as I write this, but GitHub actions that normally get picked up by GH runners within seconds are stuck in queues for 5-10 minutes and growing.
Companies try to optimize profit for their shareholders, which includes paying as little as the workers will bear (or less, as in some cases people need to work to survive).

Similarly, I think people have the right to optimize their time and income. Of course, it can be made illegal through your employment contract. So just like big corporations, you need to include the possibility of a lawsuit and a fine into your expected outcome calculations.

Having been both an IC and a manager at one of the FAANGs, it's not unimaginable to me that there will be people who can pull off two jobs and still get more done than average.

Personally, I'm not sure whether it's an optimal strategy. You might be better off getting promoted really fast, if you feel you have the opportunity.

But I won't judge.
My point is that some things cannot be precisely estimated in any case.

What can be estimated by humans and computers alike is how much time does it take an average programmer to implement something if it's generic enough. An expert system consisting of LLM+more would spit out the stack overflow copy/paste answer and the 'more' part would give you the average effort needed to copy/paste that code in the project and adapt the variables,etc.

If you have "bugs" that you can resolve by simple stack exchange googling you need to up your project tooling and programming guidelines.

What's left is real bugs where you operate in the dark and no computer will able to estimate the size of that room because the light switch is off. Once you run head into it and light turns on, you're able to clearly see the size of the room and do the calculation yourself.
Helpful when writing shaders to describe surfaces and lighting, as well as working on the constraint optimization engines that go into physical body simulations.
> It had zero business value, but such was the state of our team…being pixel perfect was a source of pride

UX and UI are not some secondary concerns that engineers should dismiss as an annoying "state of our team" nuance. If you can't produce a high quality outcome you either don't have the skills or don't have the right mindset for the job.
It always amazes me that anyone can think this comic makes a good point.
Maybe they should have an additional phase between test deploy and customers such as "employee personal vehicles".
Absolutely - but large ensembles are just the tip of the iceberg. Why bother producing an ensemble when you could just output the posterior distribution of many forecast predictands on a dense grid? One could generate the entire ensemble-derived probabilities from a single forward model run.

Another very cool application could incorporate generative modeling. Inject a bit of uncertainty in a some observations and study how the manifold of forecast outputs changes... ultimately, you could tackle things like studying the sensitivity of forecast uncertainty for, say, a tropical cyclone or nor'easter relative to targeted observations. Imagine a tool where you could optimize where a Global Hawk should drop rawindsondes over the Pacific Ocean to maximally decrease forecast uncertainty for a big winter storm impacting New England...

We may not be able to engineer the weather anytime soon, but in the next few years we may have a new type of crystal ball for anticipating its nuances with far more fidelity than ever before.
I'm not super familiar with PHP -- if you're looking for more of a backend focused project I'd recommend the "ASP.NET Core Web API" template. If you're looking for something that serves HTML pages, possibly the "ASP.NET Core Web App (Model-View-Controller)" template would be pretty straightforward.

There's a pretty good starter tutorial for the Web API one here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/firs...

Or here for the Web App MVC one:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/firs...
> Nord Stream 2 was pressurized ready to deliver cheap gas (which German industry desperately needs) with one flip of a switch. That presented a risk to the United States, who didn't want them to be tempted.

That's a potential motive, yes. "Make it look like US/NATO/Ukraine did it to sow discord" is also a plausible potential motive. (It has also been speculated that the destruction of the pipeline gets Gazprom out of some delivery contracts via force majeure.)

> Absolutely not but when an end to it is brought explosively and one party has threatened to do just that and has the most motive:

When was an explosive resolution specifically threatened? Biden was even asked in said press conference how it'd be accomplished and declined to be specific.
Inexcusable, really.
Which is a good thing for the non-porn SD world, because a lot of the improvements from the base models in human anatomy non-porn-focussed third-party models come from merging porn-focussed models in with other trained models.

(Which parallels the role of nudes is other visual arts domains.)
Yup. I use Emacs since 2002 and am pretty happy with it. Never used an Electron-based app and probably never will.