skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing this. Too many stories about this tech get flooded with dommer comments.
And imagine me monitoring your home. You lose privacy, and I know when you're on holiday and I can rob the place.

It matters who's doing the monitoring. With a home security system, it's you – or whoever you've delegated to –, and you chose to set it up; with these operating systems, it's somebody else, and you have little choice in the matter.
The most fun I had with DNS was having the Great FireWall of China start blocking Walmart’s mx record IP addresses for their email (back when they just did an IP block based on DNS resolution of a blocked domain).
I expected this to be a woke rant, and thus expected to be angered by it. Instead I found it to be both reasonable and wise.

My favorite:

12. Let people be wrong about things - about facts, about politics, about you. Leave them to it. Learn to walk away from and let it all go.

This is even better as a principle of personal interaction. The poster presents it, I think, plausibly enough, as a pragmatic, make-your-life-easier rule, but there is also much spiritual wisdom in not defending yourself against accusations (especially with people you know and love).
No the movie really just was bad. I’m not even sure what the goal of the movie was. To make Napoleon look bad? To show his human side with his relationship with Josefine? Honestly afterwards I just have no idea. Really it was just a weird speed run through history. They just jumped from random event to random event over the course of like 25 years. Contrast this with the movie Lincoln which portrayed him during a relatively short period of his life. Ignoring everything else (there are many reasons why the Lincoln film is much better), the fact that the Napoleon film tries to cover so much really is an odd choice.

I personally would have walked out of the movie, but I was seeing it with a group of people and didn’t want to be too overly negative. (Afterwards I found out that most felt the same.)
Seems similar to having to pay higher gas prices in rural areas.
I might be out of my ballpark, but what about Rosetta ?

As far as I can tell you still get a battery life increase even when running x86 apps.
You throw a lot of things!
Definitely buybait and a shame that a blatant advertisement has made to YC news front page. What's next? Novelty toothpaste for nerds?
Windows has had `winget` as a central package manager for a while now. It works great!
The bank probably just bundled and sold on the mortgage. But somebody is holding the mortgage, and it is likely they borrowed for 15 years fixed.

But when the brother paid off their mortgage, the previous holder can now use that money to buy back that 15 year fixed bond at a massive discount. That massive discount is the huge favour the brother did.
Quality (materials, construction) and specs (bandwidth, max wattage) are separate questions. I got the impression wslh was asking about the former
AI Is Designed to Lie
There's no worse way to be right than being technically right. Most of these points are essentially the state of the art of desktop operating systems, or pure speculation, and the fact that they aren't perfect or widely used yet is usually because of tradeoffs that must be made in favor of usability.
I'm in the same boat. Firefox and Ublock origin, and I never see ads, and have never noticed a significant slowdown.
It's probably an interesting project, but it seems to hard to discover or interact with another player or to see how other players have interacted with the world. It's not clear that there is a coherent world for the game.
"Longshot" is heartbreaking, and certainly, "True Names" should be more widely read.
I think this says more about capitalism in current year than anything else. Speculative energy triumphs utility. Ford has a market cap of $41B. BNB, a token used by crypto exchange Binance, has a market cap of $35B.

Musk is just good at playing the game. And as they say, don't hate the player. Hate the game.
I feel somewhat similar about the arrival of AGI, I definitely want to cherish my time now more. I think it is at least plausible that these are the last years of anything resembling any value. Even beyond my own existence. It is not exactly the same, with AGI there is more uncertainty about timelines and outcome, and there is no general expert opinion that one could defer to.
Having paid for and enjoyed Narwhal and Apollo, I really hated the official app. After some digging, I found https://github.com/lo-cafe/winston and that's working for me. It's not simple - you have to generate your own Reddit app id and secret, be able to Xcode from source and have a valid Apple ID to install the IPA, but it's worth it to me to spite the enshittified app.
Are they actually the exact same people?

Groups change you know.
We can measure the distance to stars in the galaxy, that gives you model / shape.
Yeah my understanding is

1. the slope of self-perceived ability is lower than actual ability

2. The y intercept is dependent on difficulty of test

Therefore with an easier test the better testies are more accurate, and with a very difficult test the worse testies are more accurate because of where the lines intersect. Meaning DK is artifact of test difficulty.

This also means if the test was difficult enough you could create a bizarro-DK effect where the better testies were less accurate.
He Sold Burritos Out of His Apartment Window. Now He's Running a $7B Startup
Your comment is asking which of two methods of estimating is correct.

Neither is correct, in that neither gives the actual objective truth. Both are correct, in that they both give you estimates that can only be incorrect if they give a zero probability to the actual objective truth.

Even statistically, assume the true value is 0. Is "2 ±5" or "1 ±7" the better estimate? Assume the methods used to derive them consistently yield similar estimates. Which one is the correct method?
Add to that "Thang" by Martin Gardner (yes, that Martin Gardner, you Scientific American old-timers). I read it in an Isaac Asimov-curated short story collection once upon a time and it remains one of my favorite short-shorts.
> And with regards to rockets, there's a reason why sensible people pulled the plug on the Apollo program, there is nothing for us up there

Just ~infinite area and resources and energy and ability to dominate the Earth from a physics standpoint?
Since this is just begging to be hung in a workshop / man-cave, I'd like to mention a related poster: [0]

Extra legit because Nick Offerman's non-acting job is running a woodworking shop.

[0] https://www.nbcstore.com/products/parks-and-recreation-swans...
Of course, in the same sense, a cancellation fee goes into any other company's profits. The idea is that if you aren't taking up a spot, someone else can the resource and ostensibly pay for the service (those with free Supercharging notwithstanding)
The point is that is not a turning point. We are still accelerating towards a wall, and maybe, just maybe, we will just go to at a constant speed in some years. It is not slowing down, is not turning back, and the natural world and climate system is crumbling down in front of us, in a steep way, this year in particular.

Heatwaves will start to kill people big time, The Ministry for the Future style, in the next few years if not this very one. But we keep accelerating.
At least in the seattle area it doesn’t feel like the supercharger density is keeping up with sales of cars. AFAIK there have only been super chargers built around the periphery of the region in the last few years and many existing chargers are older lower power chargers. The east side (Bellevue, Redmond, etc), which has a HUGE EV following, with Teslas everywhere, has precisely zero super chargers.

We happen to live near one of the few high power super chargers in the entire region. Three years ago there were always charge spots. Now there are often 6-10 cars waiting for a charger in a parking lot not designed for queuing. I see anger and rage regularly, and I would wager sooner or later there will be fights and maybe worse.

The $1 fee feels fine to me, though. It’s a rare need to go to 100%, it’s not great for the batteries themselves, and that last 10% can be the majority of the charge time. I do wonder how they will handle cars like mine with free supercharging for the life of the car. We don’t even have a credit card registered with Tesla.
Can you give an example? Generally speaking, when you buy hardware with bundled software, the hardware is cheaper because the software company is paying the hardware vendor to bundle, effectively subsidizing some of your cost.
Classic.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Name one product or service manufactured by Musk companies that has brought a new paradigm in terms of quality of life for the consumer.

This is a ridiculous straw man.
True names is so far ahead of the world. What vision.
susan cooper and d&d, for me.
While not addressing the root of the problem, I have mine set up to reboot every morning at 4am. I don’t have anything on my local network that can’t cope with that outage so it works alright for me but not great if you’re running devices that don’t handle an outage well.
I agree that "Linux" is not secure, but there must be at least a few Linux distributions that are made as secure as they can be.
Depends on the community. Some subreddits I used to go to migrated off the platform or closed down entirely, but many others just reopened with new staff and proceeded as usual. Not sure if activity was affected sitewide, though it feels a bit more quiet than it used to for me.
Fun fact about mystery-o-matic.com, and I suspect the HTML page generated with linked software : with JS disabled, you are able to see all clues "for free". When you don't know what the UI ought to look like, you just read them before realizing you're not supposed to.
Gptheus v2 with OpenAI models: ChatGPT with voice and face
> Complicating this picture is shells. For a long time, many shells have kept track of a name for their current directory themselves, often materializing this in the '$PWD' environment variable. The shell has to keep track of this name as a text string or the rough equivalent, which makes it potentially less accurate than the kernel's version. However, it has some advantages, because unlike the kernel, the shell knows what name you typed in order to get to the directory, which may not be the actual filesystem name of the directory because of things like symbolic links. Shells often use this knowledge so that names like '..' and even '.' work on the text version, not the filesystem version.

Related reading: Lexical File Names in Plan 9 or Getting Dot-Dot Right (https://9p.io/sys/doc/lexnames.html)
Doesn't that fail the minute one of your programs decides he needs a different package version or one that doesn't exist all together?

It looks more efficient and easier at first, but ultimately it becomes less and less maintenable and the "dumb" inefficient approach of shipping all the things at once becomes better.

It's like in real life, the more you are dependent on different peoples/incomes, the more your life becomes complicated and unlivable. Just ask someone who needs multiple jobs to survive. But we went ahead and implemented just that into software. Kinda madness...
This guy wins the award for "the simplest possible thing that can possibly work" today!
Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely keep an eye on it. I think due to risks risk now (or trying to have the biggest impact) things are being focused on those with cervical spine injuries whereas hers is in the lumbar section.
> I just don’t see how someone with no experience at all with programming can ever be expected to make an interactive web page in just 6 weeks.

I think it's possible with mentorship + React, esp. because many of his students may have had prior programming experience. Start with something cool to motivate learning how something works.
Article feels like a personal attack towards D and K.
Yes, a tiny, inobtrusive "hey, we offer paid support/automatic updates" after doing a terminal update.
Are broken full-frame cameras becoming available? Where large sensors might be sourced from? I see quite a few sensors available on ebay. Problem then might be getting specs.
> Novelty toothpaste for nerds?

One that changes color the longer you brush so that you know you've brushed sufficiently (and not just blood-red to indicate your gums are now bleeding).

One that changes color based on where the calculus on your teeth accumulated, so you can target you brushing.

One that does the brushing for you, just keep it in your mouth for 3 minutes and rinse.

Oh lord...
For the record, I was talking more generally about all the software (including much of what I've written). It's just awful in almost every way, but also beautiful in so many others.
There was at least one computer in the past that used quinary (if that is the term), i.e. it's vacuum tubes had five distinct voltage levels IIRC. This was done because less voltage would have meant more tubes, hence more material, more power consumption, and, importantly, more points of failure; more than five levels would've been too difficult / error prone to distinguish, also resulting in less efficiency.

It is not out of the question that some silicon blueprint could or does result in a component which can safely distinguish between more than two states.
it is, it's still fairly complex.

wish there is something simpler but statically-compiled with python syntax, something like crystal but for python developers.
There's a subreddit full of this stuff - https://www.reddit.com/r/VXJunkies/ - with some great writing in it.
First Republic Crashed and Burned. This Bank Wants to Copy Its Business
Even the URL is perfect :)
Here’s a link to exactly where gas tax goes:

https://lao.ca.gov/Transportation/FAQs#how-does-the-state-sp...
CAGR is misleading because it tracks population when what is more important is household growth. Household size has fallen from 2.63 in 1993 to 2.51 today, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but means you need 5% more houses to hold the same number of people.
With the kernels devs attitudes toward security vulns, of course it is.

Then again there is stuff like SELinux available which balances things out.
I wonder if it could be a background source that we don't understand. Maybe some freak coincidence where particles come in in exactly the right angles to fake a hyperenergetic photon. Or somebody messing with laser pointers. Or birds or whatever.

I used to work in particle physics, and never shared the confidence of my colleagues in rare events. If you just have 3-4 signal events, considering the expected number of events, you might statistically have a discovery. But you can't be sure how your detector is going to behave for those extreme events, because you have no benchmark. You have to assume a proton is a proton, an electron is an electron, and no weird things happen at high/low energies and angles (or that you understand how things change).

It is even worse if you are trying to disprove some specific model. You see no events of a certain kind. Does that mean you disproved the model, or that your setup (detector, triggers, event selection ...) is just blind in this very narrow part of the parameter space?
You know what, I thought I remember hearing about it when they raided his doctor's office but now it seems like it's actually unfounded.

I normally try to avoid spreading rumors so here's a source on the other two claims:

Elon Musk's strange ambien tweet:
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/elon-musks-strange-s...

For the Bill Gates claim, there was a scene in that documentary he made where he goes off into a nurse's office to get IV fluids and it's like a weekly thing he mentions, I'd have to rewatch it to find the exact spot where that happens: https://www.netflix.com/title/80184771
NYC Congestion Pricing Could Unleash a Transportation Revolution
Why do people keep linking to archive.*? It just endlessly redirects to captchas for large swaths of users.

I've heard they have some tiff with Cloudflare or Firefox or I don't actually care, because I don't have this problem with any other site.

Their site is unreachable, by their choice*. Find some other service that doesn't discriminate against users of the most popular open-source web browser, please.
Good point! The loops, however, don't inspire the sort of confidence that would lead me to personally believe this person was concerned about data locality. I might be wrong though hehe

I think that this is a good reminder, however, that there are few "absolutes" when it comes to programming and that there are always edge cases where some things that look like "code smells" or even look plain wrong have their place.
I did. Ironically, it was almost impossible to get to a human representative to close the account: At one point, the IVR would literally end the call after authenticating me due to "problems with your account" (presumably my pending/stuck account closure request).
"Libertarians are like house cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don’t appreciate or understand."
I love Ted Chiang, and "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling" is maybe my favorite of his stories. Certainly the one I think about most often.
Incidentally, it’s also what AssemblyScript uses: https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript/blob/main/s...
Yeah, I know I shouldn't complain but I've lost faith in this project.
In theory yes, but there are plenty of cables that outright lie about their specs and there are probably plenty of people buying the wrong specs and then complaining about slowness. For example, the iPhone update anecdote could be caused by USB-C 2.0 vs. 3.0 (3.0 supports faster data transfer).
Fundamentally, this stuff takes a certain shape of brain to get. Either it clicks, or it doesn't (not that it can't take a good while to click). I have seen the specific thing that most people won't get inaccurately described as 'variable assignment', I think it's more about looping, but either way, you can do it or you can't.

You always read about someone who's trying a new method of easing students into it, confused why everybody else puts stupidly hard concepts up front. Then, later, they post about their rather high failure rate, and possibly lament that there are not enough battle-tested educational resources that are designed for this tack and that's why they failed.

What's really going on is that when you put something 'hard' up front, the class self-separates into people who get it, people who think they can get it but don't yet, and people who are not going to get it, and the latter group quits.

Being able to code is a lot like a Hogwarts letter: there is a lot of learning to do, there is a lot of variation in ability, you cannot do much without being taught, but there is also a baseline of being able to do it at all which most people fall short of. If you wind up with a class that cannot necessarily all do magic, the earlier you say 'now, let's all make some magic sparks', the more you have time to teach the students who can.
Chat Data is a flexible platform that enables you to create AI chatbots using your chosen data, custom backend, or pre-trained models provided by us. It offers flexibility in both the frontend and backend, along with a comprehensive user analysis tool.
Also: “Your Whole Family Is Made Of Meat” https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=484 which became the title of a Dinosaur Comics book.
> I understand the need for such a thing, but the wild amount of indirection that is needed in microservices world is astounding.

What does this have to do with microservices?

I'm trying to debug my monolithic service:

Was it the database? My own business logic? The HTTP framework? The reverse proxy we run to terminate TLS? Was it an authentication or authorization issue? The network appliance in front of all of this? Did the queue fail to persist it at a layer above this? Was it the hosting provider?

You outlined any distributed service.
There have been some experiments with uncooled diesels that almost made it.
Compared to a standard economically motivated criminal hacking business that will certainly attack any commercial deployment (i.e. the default threat model). Security exists relative to your attackers, not compared to other security solutions. A cardboard box is a thousand times more resistant to penetration than a paper box, but neither is adequate to protect jewelry.

For software security, a trivial amount of resources like a mere 3 FTEs and 1 elapsed year will almost certainly defeat any Linux deployment. It will also almost certainly defeat any Windows, Mac, BSD, VMWare, iOS, Android, or any other commercial OS deployment. But, just because everyone only knows how to make cardboard boxes does not make any of them secure. And again, even if everybody else only knows how to make paper boxes, it does not make the cardboard box adequate. This is the case even if nobody in the entire world can do it; a cardboard box does not meet the minimum specifications, period.
Douglas Adams actually wrote a few Dr. Who episodes.
Hacking my filter coffee machine
That it happens, sure. You do a study like this to get the magnitude of the effect to enable folks to make models of this kind of thing which helps pricing and planning for shocks.
USB-IF Certified
This is the other end of the solar/wind puzzle. And it will work in the same way: individual consumers operating in their best self interest.

My power company just came out with a new rate plan that I jumped on: 8 cents for all but 5-9, which is 26 cents. It's pretty obvious the "duck curve" is slamming them pretty hard. I'm making it mostly work with creative home automation and timers on my car charger and water heater, but with just 6 kWh or so of batteries I could completely eliminate my peak power usage. I don't have any place to put solar panels on my property, so I'm looking forward to sodium batteries making this a viable way for me lower my electric bills.
Nobody is taking the weird of one message posted in a medium as non-discoverable as Discord as enough legal stability to build a YouTube competitor on.
Oh, like the grid would get overwhelmed? Yeah could be like you get charged peak rates based on time of day instead of based on wherever oil futures are at.
In the US it’s typically opposite of this. Rural areas have cheaper fuel.
I would really like a "reasonable" monthly price for a VPS with a GPU. Even a consumer card like a 3090.

vasti.ai have the best prices I have seen, but comes with limitations, and still not the best deal for an entire month.
You task a bunch of people with reducing congestion and put them to work at a cash-strapped government agency and this is what you get. The one and only way we know which will reduce congestion which also generates revenue for the agency. Pay no attention to the fact that the result may be worse than the problem being solved.
Feel free to post a link.
If there weren't so many cars and the associated danger, it'd be easier to use public spaces and not feel like your "small" apartment is cramped.

I bought a house and miss my 2-bedroom apartment. Enough that my wife and I are considering moving back into an apartment and renting out our house.
So wonderful to see Smullyan recommended here!

Though I have to add, as a huge fan of Ted Chiang, that you missed one of his best short stories, and certainly his shortest story - it's about a page long and will probably take less than five minutes to read, iirc:

"What's Expected of Us": https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
Sometimes I get fooled by that sub.
See also Leslie's iconic piping speech from the brief but excellent series Patriot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx3ivkUPT6k