skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who is something of a coffee nerd (QM67 machine, Fiorenzato grinder w/ timer), I'll admit to balking at doing any of the more fiddly/fussy things.

But out of curiosity, how much time does the coffee nerd community spend pondering and tweaking environmental variables?

For example, ambient room temperature and relative humidity? Can't do a whole lot about pressure, short of tracking historical trends vs present air pressure and setting expectations, I suppose.

Other factors: tamping down physical, emotional irritants, such as screaming children, freshly burnt toast, headaches, etc.

And something that is adjustable but not quickly so: the (paint) colour(s) of the room. It's been something like 30 years, but ISTR hearing that different colours can affect us in subtle ways. For example, red can help stimulate the appetite. I imagine good lighting (eg, warm lighting, avoid fluorescent) is another variable.

All this to ask: do coffee nerds consider tweaking any of the above, or only those things that are in very close proximity to the grinder and espresso machine?
What’s dishonest is that they say the 2-day applies only after they ship the item, but they don’t count their “internal logistics” shipping in this time.

How do I know that? Amazin charges your card only when they actually pack and ship the item. But the tracking on UPS will not appear until 3-4 days later

Another annoying thing about Amazon is the subscribe and save. They see it as one way contract. Many times I have subscribed to a product only to get a notification when it’s fulfillment time that was saying that the product was out of stock and I should choose a replacement.

That’s not how it is supposed to work Amazon. I take up the obligation to buy a product monthly and you should take the obligation to make sure it’s available.

It ended up being death by a thousand cuts for me and Amazon. I barely use it anymore
Set the bar at impossible so you cant be proved wrong. No system anywhere is 100% accurate, and to demand that as a standard only shows your numerical illiteracy.
Why would people push back at that?

I'd personally say "use mastodon.social", but your advise is just as good. Simply because it is a solid advise, offers a single option and points people at where to start.

Ubuntu is good to start¹, and if people say "but it's bad at thingy foo" or "it has default bazoombas! default! on!": no-one said it's where you must now commit yourself to forever. Distro's aren't religions (and even religions can be switched), they are just stuff that sits on your computer. Your next re-install or next machine might be anything else.

¹edit: to be clear: it's also good for experienced people or grumpy bearded linux-veterans like myself (24 years in and counting). I use Ubuntu. It's hardly configured even, just the defaults (well, my shell and vim have some 20+ years of config tweaks).
The scenario you present in the parent comment has echoes of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America.... - if I recall correctly they did "clean room" re-implementations of the same public API surfaces which in some cases resulted in identical implementations.

To my understanding if some piece of code is the only / obvious way to solve a problem it's not an issue.

To use a trivial example there's only so many ways you can implement a sum contents of array function, I'd imagine for many security vulnerabilities it'll be similar - adding a bounds check or whatever isn't going to be problematic just because you weren't first.
"...$2.50 that will be charged to vehicles from ride-hailing platforms such as Uber..." One simple trick can save you $12.50.

NYC is out of control with taxes and regulations, but...

When I lived downtown, each morning, the glass of water on my nightstand would have a little oil slick of sorts atop it. When everything was shut down at the start of the pandemic, the constant stream of vehicles stopped. My water was then clean in the morning and the sticky feeling I'd get on my hands after a walk through the neighborhood stopped too.

I think some people are totally nuts for how much they hate cars. It's as if they don't understand life beyond the island. But it would be nice to reduce pollution there.

I doubt they will remove the tax if the day comes where all cars are electric.
Just because it lists in the US doesn’t mean it’s a US company.
I’m all for vegan food but if you do that it’s got to be vegan first, not over processed animal product imitations. Vegan patties are not healthy and barely ok, vegan cheese is one of the nastiest things I’ve ever eaten. But you can absolutely make a vegan soup, salad, pasta, bread, mushroom dish etc that is amazing, it’s just hard because all the ingredients need to shine.
You're right about the majority of people who live in outer boroughs.

But my mind went to one demographic in particular -- Halal food carts. Those folks usually live in Queens and they have to haul their carts into Manhattan (unless I'm wrong about that).
They do. But they both cost money. My child is already enrolled in the after-school program, from 2:30 until 6:00.
> And yet this one lasted 30 years.

Main goal of security through obscurity is the hindrance.
Make it slower and harder to to detect possible vulnerabilities.

So indeed, there is something to debate.

But I guess it helps only against those with limited resources, not against nation states.
What about information about your medical records?
But fascism is the new in thing right?

I cannot see how the other poster, observing how corporations work and are treated with kid gloves in the US, could possibly think anything corporations would do here would be better than the system we have in any way.

All that would happen is this...

People in government would be bribed/funded by said groups in private corporations to look past the grift/corruption said private company did. If private company A did too much wrong, then private company B would pop up in its place with all the same actors. Because these are private companies there would be no public records requirements like are on elected officials at this time.

All of the other posters complaints are based around the electorate not being involved in local elections. Why do they suddenly think it's going to get magically better when a company is involved. You're just abstracting the apathy to another degree.
Yes and then they change it on each update. Do have a read of what their customers think about it, for example here: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0cPeurGB4WX...
I still don't see what is wrong, it prevents congestion, it is fair and equal for everyone. And if they can charge based on license number, it is no more difficult to implement.

Isn't the goal here to have less cars in the zone? Thus goal is preventing them from entering. And giving everyone equal chance to win right of entry is fairest model.
I'm inclined to agree. I'm not comfortable with the way this unfolded.

> The Dutch NCSC (NCSC-NL) was informed in December 2021, after which meetings were held with the law enforcement and intelligence communities, as well as with ETSI and the vendors. Shortly afterwards, on 2 February 2022, preliminary advice was distributed to the various stakeholders and CERTs. The remainder of 2022 and the first half of 2023 were used for coordination and advisory sessions with stake­holders, allowing manufacturers to come up with firmware patches, updates or workarounds.

This reads to me as if malicious parties were notified some 18 months before users were notified.
Voting in NL is possible on all candidates, nationwide. As it should be.

Wether it is a faction or a party, two Dutch parties who claim to be different when campaigning for Dutch elections, sit and vote happily together in the EP.

It is all representative democracy, they gave us a direct vote in a referendum, two or three times. The outcome was not as desired, apparently, so it was either done again, or ignored.

The sales pitch is that we should all be Europeans, voting for European governance... So let me vote on Europeans, not just dutchies. May be different in other countries but that makes no sense to me. A lot of countries allow voting on anyone who is an eligible candidate for the thing being voted for. Unless, e.g. like for the us Senate, where, iiuc there is an equal representation of two senators per state.
Linus on Rust in the Linux kernel [video]
>When WebP launched, it was objectively better in most ways compared to both PNG and JPEG,

It was not. Optimised JPEG was on par or sometimes better than WebP.
There is almost nothing written for ubuntu that won't work on arch or really most current distros. When I ran arch I did have to get familiar with assumptions people make due to ubuntu, but this would never be more than patching a config file or configuring some environment variable. And those are useful and transferable skills.
Amazon code that renders tracking seems obviously broken in places. They shipped a thing to me (MT) from NY, and the post office mistakenly routed it to Puerto Rico. At some point in this saga the Amazon order tracking page went from "it's running late and if it isn't there tomorrow you can get a refund" to "likely it was delivered on or around Dec 1 and you can't get a refund". Meanwhile the tracking (number copied from that same page) shows it meandering around FL on its way back from its Carribean vacation.
I really wish this had a more modern default style
In what sense were telephones a step backwards from telegrams? That seems completely wrong to me.

Unless your whole post was sarcasm...
Most high-end burr grinders have settings that allow you to adjust how much coffee comes out for a single dose. The machines also can be tuned to deliver a specific output for a given grind and dose. Given this, it's likely that the barista is still weighing inputs and outputs, even if you don't see them use a scale while you're there.
ITT: people saying this is and isn’t normal with the basis of their evidence being “feels”. None of you apparently have any relevant expertise, yet have very strong opinions.
Curious about where you live. How far are you from a major Amazon shipping hub? Here in the broader LA area, it is mostly all next day, and even same day shipping. It's all Amazon's in house delivery service too.
I suspect you live in an area of lower Amazon customer density? I regularly still buy and receive items sameb-day.
Extraction yield differences at the levels shown in the paper is no small thing (8.2% to 8.9% TDS). And I am sure an experienced coffee taster will spot the difference instantly. There is also the practical aspect of making less of a mess out of your grinder, as charged coffee particles tend to go where you don't want when to go and stick there.

But you can think of it differently and see it as a way to have a cup that is just as good but using less coffee, because it is better extracted. Less waste is a good thing, for the environment, for the coffee brewing industry, and for you.
But is it widely used? Stable? Popular? Really nice to use? Actively developed? Is it infrastructure that other higher level tools build on, or is it like unity?
We cancelled prime this year. I was surprised that shipping cost and timeframes haven’t changed. In fact, on many items it seems like it’s faster to not use prime.
Lawns are my least favourite part of America. They’re just so ugly.
Byron didn't fight there and died of disease, not combat.
More like in the 24*60 - 5 minutes between brewing and grinding again the next day. In all seriousness: it can takes surprisingly little time for ground wet coffee to form mold. Think 48h range especially when it's relatively hot.
That's Optimus, the Tesla bot. It is a separate product.
An asset store might be the fastest way to build a platform that makes money for them.
50k users accessing 1M records is actually not a very big number from a scaling point of view.

Use whatever tech you know best and feel more comfortable using.
Agreed. That'll be the defense for sure.
It’s funny that as a young-ish American, this is not what I thought of at all. Instead when I hear VW I think of the company that destroyed the lungs of a generation with cheating on emissions tests. I think you are probably right about what the person you replied to is insinuating though.
>It's not privatisation that created laws forcing a minimum number of parking spaces.

It is privatization that renders the government only capable of punitive solutions (regressive fees, etc.) rather than constructive ones (public infrastructure upgrades, etc.). Realize the revenue from these fees will be 99% laundered and swallowed up by private contractors. That ink is already dry.

>You can bet if there were no zoning laws or mandatory parking space requirements

Nonsense. This is the demented obsession I described above. You aren't making any sense at all. Working people aren't lobbying for parking space requirements; petty business owners are.
> I think some people are totally nuts for how much they hate cars. It's as if they don't understand life beyond the island. But it would be nice to reduce pollution there.

Manhattan tbh does not need passenger cars at the scale it has. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say, if you wanna come here leave your car outside of the city?
I think in our case it was driven by the company's new owners not being based in our area, and not understanding that our commute and living situations are vastly different from theirs.
The problem is it's incredibly hard to create a semi-ethical company like steam without an enlightened despot.
C sharp is pleasure to read
I literally never experience this issue. Except for a couple of actually lost packages, my prime has had EVERY package come in 2 days or less except holidays. I live in a 250k town tho, so I am not sure if there is some level of size that plays into it. Perhaps I am the perfect size to have enough infrastructure to get reliable deliveries, but small enough that I don't have to worry about all that comes with a massive city.
The last paragraph is probably what they were referring to.
Companies all over the world have discovered that the cheap labor authoritarian nation where they did they manufacturing turned out in the end to be a real political problem and business risk, so they're moving their operations to countries that don't have such risks.
The CLI is peak UX for anyone technically competent.
You can probably still get a refund if you open the support chat, experience of the blog writer not withstanding. They always have more options than the shipping page will give you.
Doesn’t have to be large groups to be different groups. That seems like a fallacious argument.

Empirically/anecdotally I bet quite a few people could with 90%+ accuracy pick a (third-generation) Iberian vs Frank vs Polack vs Scandi out of a lineup just by physical features

Alternatively take a reasonably deep look at American (North or South) indigenous tribal societies- the empirical history is thinner there but similar conclusions
I would hope so when they're using espresso machines worth $10k+ more than mine
Amazon took something like 30 days to deliver me an iPad (Pro, so $900) that was supposed to be “Prime” delivered.

I asked them to cancel the order after seven days, and repeatedly asked them to cancel, but they wouldn’t.

They seem to follow the old Ferengi adage of “Once you have their money, you never give it back”

Edit: I returned it for a refund, but was out a decent amount do money for a while.
>This is too simplistic, almost childish. Neither the US or Russia are that simple.

This is what Russians claim when you talk with them and not when only reading their propaganda, Russians feel that USA is doing too much bad stuff and they want to do the same.

All Eastern Europe entered NATO, countries that were part of USS or neighboring USSR, Bulgaria that was friendly to Russia, if you would really think then consider why this countries wanted protection from Russia, do the people in this countries are brainwashed by CIA or they know Russia better then a guy from far away or a Russian?

Russia has no legal or moral right to impose a country not to enter EU or NATO, no "what about USA" can justify this or convince eastern Europe.
How many chords did he have? I’d prefer going with body gestures. Google Soli looked promising:

https://youtu.be/r-eh2K4HCzI?si=aIVasKkvm5wtO3tu
There have been a lot of forks. Cinepaint, Gimpshop and Glimpse (RIP) come to mind.

Unfortunately the reality is if people can barely pay attention and contribute to Gimp, what chance do any forks have?

Gimp moves slowly but they do listen to their users. Lack of funding is more responsible for any complaints people have with Gimp, not some assumed "anti-Photoshop" idealism.
What's the difference between "notes" and "plume"?
No, more chemicals isn't necessarily what you want.

Coffee beans contain diterpenes, which have been shown to increase cholesterol. Paper filters significantly reduce the quantity of diterpenes in the end product.
This might be a controversial opinion here and I don't mean to offend anybody, but the distribution of engineers' effectiveness is not the same around the globe.

Thought exercise: what kind of profile would you expect of someone going into software engineering in a country where the good jobs pay 5x median wage (and ~25x global median wage) vs a country where the good jobs pay 2x median wage (and ~6x global median)?

Thought exercise: what kind of skills and experience would you expect of a 90%ile senior engineer in a country that gets lowest-bidder outsourced contract development work, vs a country that is directly employing engineers in "cutting-edge" development?
Identiconn – Connector Identification Utility
It's not an attractive scene for GUI developers on Linux. Gnome, Qt, and Electron all have some unappealing aspects. Many people who get the itch to make a Linux GUI app will immediately be discouraged by having to choose between them.
What's grok?
(I dropped off Twitter/X the moment the inmates started running that asylum again. It appears to have to do with X?)
For a given image, that's possible, but if memory serves, the good enough defaults usually led to the WebP version being smaller across a library of image samples, statistically speaking. But that may not have been true for an individual image.

And either format could be manually optimized even more.
For one thing, it’s a lot prettier than Joplin
Huh you’re right. Maybe I was remembering border to border air distance. Was looking this up a few years ago when friends were asking how far Ukraine was from my family.

Here’s a more fun context instead: after college I went on a roadtrip and covered 13 countries in about 4000 miles.
Segmentation has been tough for a Linux newbie like myself. I hope there can be greater unification some day so that applications have one install type, and come with greater predictability.
Maybe it varies by location because in Chicago it's extremely rare for things to take more than 2 days. In fact they've been stepping up next and same day delivery for a lot of items.

That being said, I'm actually moving in the opposite direction since that creates a lot of waste. Unless I really need the item quickly I use Prime Day delivery so it all comes in one box. If my whole family didn't share the account I wouldn't pay for Prime.
What I dislike the most is how unreliable "Amazon Day Delivery" is.

Several times I've bought something that I don't need that week, so I chose Amazon Day delivery, which allows all of my packages get delivered during the same day the next week.

I expected those packages to arrive, e.g. buying something for a gathering I'm hosting that weekend, but they are often days late and don't arrive in time.

Amazon was great for a few years, but it looks like something happened. They still claim they are customer obsessed and "Day 1" thinkers, but anyone can see the delusion. I wonder if Jeff Bezos sees that Amazon has gotten worse; it seemed like he truly believed in the company until his departure a few years ago, but maybe it was always just about the money.
hmm. thanks for sharing. that's the kind of stuff I don't want to do though. i already have my own software to write and use a wide array of tools. i can't afford to lose a morning on that kind of stuff. plus i want to be able to tear down and rebuild without a ton of custom config
Also, if you're taking iron supplements and your levels are still too low, you might have an absorption issue—which either warrants getting the absorption issue checked out or starting direct iron infusion instead of iron supplements. But you gotta get your iron one way or another!
I agree but CLI just can't cover all use cases - just on top of my head are graphics, animation software, video editing, circuit making...
Disregarding the regulation itself - the logic you describe here is that non-EU competition isn't regulated, so EU shouldn't regulate anything to be competitive.

1- the EU didn't "miss the internet" because of regulatory policies. At least not regulations on the Internet.

2- even if that was the case, does it mean the EU should always level itself by the worst competitors?

3- and then, assuming it deregulated LLM, how would would it lead to a place where EU would suddenly becomes competitive on that market?
Yikes.

Actually not so modern, my college was auto-grading 20 years ago.
Communication skills, Leadership skills, Research skills and newer tools for formal methods and theorem proving.

The example prompts in the "Teaching with AI" OpenAI blog post are paragraphs of solution specification; far longer than the search queries that an average bear would take the time to specify.

https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai

https://blog.khanacademy.org/khan-academys-7-step-approach-t...

Is there yet an approachable "Intro to Arithmetic and beyond with Lean"? What additional resources for learning Lean and Mathlib were discovered or generated but haven't been added to the docs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38522544 : AlphaZero self-play, LLMs and Lean,
"Q: LLM and/or an RL agent trained on mathlib and tests" https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib/issues/17919... -> Proof Assistance SE: https://proofassistants.stackexchange.com/

Perhaps to understand LLMs and application, e.g. the Cuttlefish algorithm fills in an erased part of an image; like autocomplete; so, can autocomplete and guess and check (and mutate and crossover; EA methods and selection, too) test [math] symbolic expression trees against existing labeled observations that satisfy inclusion criteria, all day and night in search of a unified model with greater fitness?
Show HN: Chatbot platform allowing you to share and integrate bots
would love feedback. I need to focus this better into something more targeted and specific. Right now this is:

a chatbot platform that allows you to create as many bots as you like, with usage being pay-as-you-go.

Share them with others, prepay the bots to share without requiring accounts from your customers.

integrate into your apps with `npm install react-nexbot`.

id love to hear ANY feedback.
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> in an attempt to head-off a problem which isn't fully manifest yet.

It has already manifested. All the dangerous uses of AI etc. are already there and used all the time all across the globe from China to the US.

> It's one thing if the forefront of innovation were occurring there, and they were then dictating how that innovation should evolve

Doesn't the AI act specifically says: document your foundational models, and gives preference to opensource? It's a much better approach than the black box of OpenAI.

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> People don't like being tracked without consent, but people haaate all the "This site uses cookies" popups.

And the law that mentions neither browsers nor cookies is responsible for this how exactly?

That will be the main issue with EU AI Act, too: the industry will gaslight it, spread enormous amounts of FUD, will engage in years-long malicious compliance.