skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When there are high temperatures in the landfill gas, that can melt or deform some of the landfill gas collection system components,"

PVC which was used for the gas collection system systems at ~200F, hardly a high temperature. Melting occurs at about 350F. However, garbage fires are a fairly common occurrence, which begs the question why PVC, which itself produces very toxic pyrolysis and combustion products, was used in the first place.
Those are fraud, which is already illegal. Regulators should be doing some random sampling and find ad platforms that distribute it. And if there is evidence they systematically allow it for profit reasons then they are coconspirators who should be prosecuted as such.
I’m primarily a Ruby dev, but still find most languages easier to work with.

Ruby itself is not the issue. The way people and frameworks (looking at you Rails) abuse its mechanics in pursuit of “clean code” drives me crazy. An incredible number of things are downright challenging to debug because of the insane flexibility of Ruby.
> And all that you get just writing normal C++.

But, as far as I understand, the boundary layer has to still be C (the side that loads DLLs and stuff), because of the natural limitations of templated languages and linkers.

And as soon as you change any interface you'd need to recompile more parts of the code. The same can be applied with Rust using dylib. At the end, the glue code always end up being C.
> And that is why modern readers typically do not understand the argument. For example, they often think it is an attempt to “define God into existence,” as if Anselm believed that arbitrarily attaching certain meanings to certain words could tell us something about objective reality. But this is to confuse what Scholastics call a nominal definition – an explanation of the meaning of a word – with what they call a real definition – an explanation of the nature or essence of the objective reality a word refers to. Anselm is ultimately concerned with the latter, not the former. While he no doubt thinks that any reflective language user will agree that the notion of “that than which nothing greater can be conceived” is implicit in his use of the word “God,” the more important point he is driving at is that being that than which nothing greater can be conceived must as a matter of objective fact be of the essence or nature of being divine, just as (to use a stock modern example) being a compound of hydrogen and oxygen is of the essence of water.

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2010/11/anselms-ontological...

Which also has the stronger critique of the argument:

> The lesson is not that Anselm’s argument is unsound so much as that it presupposes knowledge (i.e. of God’s essence) that we cannot have. Moreover, the idea that reason points us to the existence of that than which there can be nothing greater is something Aquinas himself endorses as long as it is developed in an a posteriori fashion, as it is in Aquinas’s Fourth Way.

* Ibid
Bodily autonomy? Uh, what? You... you have the right to close your eyes.

> there's no fucking "contract law" with https requests

But there is when you sign up for a service.

This has nothing to do with human rights...
Merry Christmas man, hope this one is better for you!

I was also homeless with a car for a while, but in a much warmer climate. It's no fun!
TIL :) thanks, I misunderstood that part.
Don't forget about Micro

https://micro-editor.github.io/
That doesn't mean it's always easy to install and manage keys. For example, the author of the passh tool recommended by this post somehow managed to come away with the impression that OpenWRT's ssh server only supports password authentication.
Librera can automatically crop whitespace. And Adobe Reader has Fit Visible (Ctrl+3), which most of the time is good enough.
The quick death of WEI makes me hope that RA might end up like the Secure Boot fracas a decade ago; it’ll end up in the enterprise because companies want it in their internal IT but won’t end up being used in the consumer world.
If I don't want to view this post I can close the window. I'm on HN, a site with an existing ToS. If HN decided to put ads on display and say "if you want to read you have to abide by a ToS that ensures you don't block our ads" obviously that would be legal.
I mean, 300kB is just the changelog and >1MB is configure script... Translations take up a lot as well.

I am not arguing nano is pinnacle of minimalism, but it is not like it's 3MB of C code.
I'm curious what model you drove that led you to that opinion. I drive an AWD Model 3, but also drive a 2006 Subaru STI on the track. The STI doesn't have the original suspension (which wasn't bad, just wore out eventually) - now it has stiffer, much sportier, suspension for track racing.

All that said, I think the Model 3 feels remarkably sporty for how heavy it is. You can feel that weight in corners for sure, but I'd hardly call the ride "numb". I can't accelerate entirely through a typical corner like I can with the STI, but once the weight settles, and you're coming out of a corner, you can make up whatever was lost when scrubbing speed with instant torque. I think because of that, it feels far more like my STI than most all other cars I've driven.
The Internet immediately solved problems people had which were unrelated to selling internet service. Even before the web launched, things like email, FTP, telnet, etc. were generating real value for organizations around the world.

NFTs haven’t had that because they solve a problem almost nobody actually has: complete trust less processing of transactions small and slow enough to be handled on a blockchain. Most real world applications necessitate trusted third parties and at that point you can use a much simpler system at considerably lower cost.
It really is the "how do you pay for it" question, always, no?

How do you incentivize quality? We've seen two approaches that definitely don't work super well to deliver consistent quality. One is "proprietary, make people buy per unit" and the other is "free and open source."

(And note: I say the latter as a huge FLOSS fan. I'll still push it all day -- but only because I think freedom is more fundamental than quality in this regard; preserve freedom first, then we can think about quality control.)
It's too bad that technology in music refers to the means and not the ends.

E.g., pastiche techniques in Mahler, continually developing variations in Brahms. Even octatonicism in early Messiaen, or a 70s DJ moving his hand back and forth on a spinning vinyl and rhyming to its rhythm.

These are all things you can hear in the music that sound qualitatively different than music written without those techniques.

In the last excerpt from the article, I hear an upward portamento (smooth rising frequency ramp). But it's the same kind of portamento as one would get from classical digital synthesis/resynthesis, or even analog synthesis. It may technically be produced by a quantum computer, but it's not a "quantum portamento" in any musically significant sense.

However, maybe such a thing is possible. For example, one can adjust the partials in the 2nd pitch of a melody in such a way that the listener cannot easily tell whether that 2nd pitch is higher or lower than the first. One could then play a portamento extending from the 1st to 2nd pitch, and the direction of the portamento would reveal whether that 2nd pitch was indeed higher or lower. So in a way, "measuring" the interval distance with the portamento affects whether that 2nd pitch was higher or lower. :)
Add some AI into the mix and the ubermensch will be here in no time. Imagine people who are their own mothers/fathers and selected in an optimal way by AI to advance the cause of humanity and their colonization of the stars. Truly marvelous developments.
This is called three-way communication.
Rules are only as good as their enforcement and it turns out said enforcement is lacking in a lot of areas.
> > America wouldn’t be on a path towards electrified transport

And that is good news because? So that 100 year from now the avg temperature would be 0.005C less because we'd have substitued the black pollutant produced by Arabs with Star and Stipes Lithium (or lithium which comes from countries that are in the sphere of influence of the US)

This effort is a spit in the face of people who are alive and have big problems right now, that's the reason why they are engaging in rolling coal as a form of protest against this nonsense.
No menu bar, no dock. Not MacOS-like interface; I think you meant window decorations. I think it needs a bit more than just macOS-like windows.
I'll point out again that the moderators have said that posts with machine generated content are not welcome on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747
Having fewer people and shrinking population is bad for the economy in all cases.

Except if Robots & AI & Longevity medicine cause a radical revaluation of labor and humans start to live forever (work forever) and AI causes radical deflation in all core administrative services.

It is possible that is exactly what will happen. Cathie Wood thinks so, anyways.

Demographic collapse seems ominous, but technology superadvancements offsets it. More than offsets it with AI.
...and if there's piracy involved, then even people who can afford it and find it worth the price may not pay for it.
True, you would not return 1000 objects at once to the frontend.

I first thought it's just a backend use-case, where processing 1000 records in a paginated result is common, but the parent mentions "rails", so it sounds like a frontend use-case.
I thought a lot of that is acorns (that need a lot of preparation) and fish, not so much random food growing around the redwoods you could just pick and eat?

(Lived in the area for a long time, but not an expert at all). Did the anthropologist provide any details? I'd love to read their work
Promptbench: A Unified Library for Evaluating and Understanding LLMs
Without ads how am I supposed to hook up with the hot singles in my area that want to talk to me?
My approach was not to train the model on the documents, as others mentioned.

I built a vector database from the documents, and I query the questions against it, which is very fast. This is the RAG (retrival augmented generation) step others mentioned.

The results, which are literal extracts from the documents, but short ones, are given to the model, which produces an answer. This is the slow part.

I used many of Langchain's tools to manage the whole process.

You can try it on Supawiki, with one of the featured wikis. Then, if you are ok with a solution that hosts your documents for you, you can upload them and use our solution.
Maybe that works for pure entertainment.

I buy a lot of books, including a lot of nonfiction. I care quite a bit about the author. There's a lot of garbage out there with just flat wrong information. One of the few things you have to go on is an author's reputation.

Which, if you're making that up, becomes a garbage signal, and something approaching fraud. So for now at least, any outfit that publishes something that's supposed to be informative that's demonstrated to be "genai" derived means they've utterly lost my trust, and I won't be buying from them anymore.

There's also an ancillary issue I've never heard a good answer to. If you are publishing "genai" output, why would I pay you for it? I'll just ask GPT4 myself and not pay your cut.

If the answer is, "because we larded it up with all the signals that make it look like a human wrote it", well, see above about fraud.
It needs to let you select the seat _from the door_ before getting in, without access to the touch screen, else someone 6ft getting in after someone 5ft is in for a miserable time.
It’s a safe choice. Some systems won’t report cores correctly which can lead to reallllllly bad performance.
> whatever ideals journalism may have aspired to in the past no longer exist (if they ever even existed in the past)

This is when I like to remind people that if you do a good enough job at journalism, you get an award named after a pioneer of sensationalistic “yellow journalism” who propagandized to start the Spanish-American War: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pulitzer
There's quite a bit to get to here. A lot more of context would be required to be able to offer good advice. For example - what are your systems looking like and why are they prone to cause issues during Christmas time?

Then it comes to several things like personalities in your team, how your manager is like, but I think for me if I had to give generic advice, I would try to develop a proposal that could solve the issue and then ask to be responsible for solving it.

So instead of framing it as complaining I would try to offer solutions as improvements, and what are the benefits to be gained.

If we can improve the reliability of our systems, we can focus more on building features, we can have stress-free on call periods etc. So I would first try to brainstorm myself what could solve the issue and then suggest those improvements.

Like try to frame it as an opportunity to improve in some area.
I see. These are also not taken. Just fyi:

aicontr.actor
automatedjobs.ai
my-aiemployee.com
workedbyai.com

Porkbun has neat domain auto-suggestion.
My sci-fi novel recommendations
I think it’s fair to call creative tax dodges “hijinks,” even if they ultimately end up being legal. This is the standard that I’d apply to Apple as well (with their Irish Maneuver).

(Another example of this in B&H’s case is their store-branded credit card, which gives you a NY tax rebate. This appears to be fine legally, but it matches the general trend.)
> For those who are interested, there are much better arguments than this nowadays.

There were better argument even in his day. See:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35592365-five-proofs-of-...

Which covers pre-Anselm arguments from Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine (and post-Anselm: Aquinas, Leibniz). For Aristotle, the author goes over it in this podcast (first 30m; after which some objections are covered):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfQldsGrMfk
> > this is not 0 sum

The important stuff absolutely is zero sum. Housing , p**y and bragging rights
> lack of first-class functions and iterators/generators, as well as the general iteration protocol

can you elaborate on what you miss here? ruby has a robust enumerable suite of methods so i'm curious what you found lacking
Although I like the idea, there's no reason to posit the preservation of the myth of a lost star for tens of thousands of years. People can still see all Seven Sisters under the right conditions, and the right conditions were probably much more prevalent back before the insane degree of light and air pollution that exists today.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/many-pleiades-can...
Nano has syntax highlighting?!
> - can I additively introduce features that are not prone to the issues

> not "I'm starting over"

React and Next DID additively introduce server components. The old way of doing things is not deprecated. Your entire argument is predicated on the idea that the old way of doing things will eventually be supplanted (which is pure speculation).

> P.S. the article about Emotion is also an example of how React's "no wait, this was always a bad idea because <X>" (where X in this case was concurrent mode) is causing rippling breaking changes.

It's not a bad idea because of concurrent mode, it's a bad idea because generating styles at runtime in a user's browser is much slower than building a static css file at compile time and serving it like any other static file. Ironically you want JS to be like every other ecosystem and that's what we're doing (everyone else outside of JS is using Tailwind and static stylesheets), and you're upset about it.

The frontend ecosystem would have done this from the beginning but analyzing components with dynamic styling, and extracting those styles at build time is non-trivial. It's essentially like building a small compiler (Tailwind in fact built a just in time compiler in v2.1). The simplest solution (from an implementation perspective) is to just use JS to dynamically generate styles at runtime and that's what early frameworks like Emotion and Styled Components did. The state of the art has advanced, which as a technology oriented person, I'm ok with. Like I said several comments ago, technology should be stable not frozen. But again, you're allowed to keep using these bloated UI toolkits because server components are optional.

> Also [for what it's worth], InfluxDB's approach to breaking changes has been compared to "a random npm library" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37206194

It's worth very little. I gave you an example of a massive breaking change in another ecosystem and your rejoinder is "well some guy named 'somedude82' in an unpopular HN post compared it to npm". The arguments are getting weaker as this discussion drags on. By the way, I actually read that comment as saying "a paid database product shouldn't be as unstable as a random package". Since we're trotting out supporting HN comments, here's one from this very discussion that disagreed with you about React's stability [1].

> This discussion has been also been useful for helping me pinpoint what exactly is different about JS when I'm working with it.

This discussion has had the exact opposite effect for me. You seem to be willing to excuse any and all flaws in other ecosystems (Python's packaging story, the InfluxDB breaking changes, etc).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38742422
This is very exciting news! Finally they shipped it. Can't wait to try it.
Same.

Just like the cliché about (safety) regulations are written in blood, I assume all these "commonsense" measures are because someone pulled a stupid, got people hurt, and then won a lawsuit.

Then, per the settlement/judgement, mfg has to add another baby bumper.

"WARNING: This plastic bag is not a toy. Do not sufficate yourself!"

Okay, now I won't. Thanks for the head's up.
Have you tried living off foraged foods for any length of time? Is it realistic to be able to get enough calories, proteins, and fats doing this on your own without extensive fishing and hunting? Sounds like it would need a lot of nuts, and there aren't that many fruiting trees there to begin with, are there?
Rumors swirl that TSMC chairman was forced to retire over Arizona fab debacle
Sometime in my teen years, I had an insatiable desire to..download..all these expensive programs and play around with them. One day I got ahold of Acronis Disk Director and did some repartitioning of some flash drives I had. If I remember correctly, it had the ability to repartition the currently utilized system drive via some built-in boot environment. Well, I had to try it out. Now is a good time to mention that I was doing this on old Toshiba Satellite that would shutdown after overheating sometimes. As you can expect, the repartitioning failed at some point in the middle because the laptop shut off. What remained was an unbootable drive and a teenager that really didn't know what the problem was, let alone how to fix it.

In my voyages of curiosity, I happened to have a gParted liveUSB laying around. I booted into it, took a look at the main drive on the laptop, and I noticed a few KB or MB of free space before the main partition. I thought this was weird for some reason and decided to use gParted to "shift" the whole partition to the left (the beginning of the drive). After some time it finished and booted up into my Windows install with zero issues.

To this day, I am equally baffled and amazed that it worked.
Yes - why, as your own source says, are amphetamines prescribed at 4,000 times the rate of methamphetamine? Is there no reason for that? Why does the medical system have such a bias?
To be fair, Bedrock is more flexible than OpenAI's fine tuning. It's nice to have at least the option to pay big bucks for this. But it's big bucks nonetheless.
What about the idiots that allowed this patent?
The critique of your comment was not that you don’t know of the drawbacks, but that you imply opponents don’t. You say their opposition is “political “, commonly a way to deride an argument as lacking real substance.
And of course the article wasn’t archived anywhere. Wanted to see if it was actually a good article.
This simply isnt true. A DSLR with a sharp macro lens is a lot better than a flatbed. A dedicated filmscanner like those made by Nikon and Minolta 15-20 years ago, is very slow, but the quality is even higher
1MB is "absurdly large"? This is not the Todo app industry sorry.

This is paginated (page size of 1000) and the caller chooses only the attribute they need already, thanks.

Even successful companies care whether they need to run 1000 servers or one for something.
What a crazy, absurd take. Windows 11 already runs nearly flawlessly on Arm. I'm running Arm windows right now!
We ban most meta programming in our own code. While the meta programming solutions are fun and clever they are often more code than a functional version and hard to maintain.

We do allow the occasional use of “send” but try to avoid it. Dynamic method definitions are strictly banned.
> Well, it seems obvious that they can say "in exchange for sending you this video you must watch the ads".

"you must watch" is bodily autonomy. currently what they can enforce technologically is "you must wait" for these 30 seconds of ads, which I can close my eyes for, or similarly with technology block the domain name they are served from

> > If it were, leaving the room with the television on while ads were playing would also be theft.

> Who says it isn't?

"you must stay" is bodily autonomy. I'm not sure how this is hard to understand
> My statement is from 2023...

GP started off with something from 2004! Glad we are making progress with timelines here, if nothing else.

Speaking of 2023 statements, the ruling party in Israel democratically elected for 2 decades now, have made it abundantly clear that they'll continue to thwart any attempts at 2SS (https://archive.is/34Sg0) because 'security of the only democracy in the Middle East is at stake'. Apartheid? Yes, for security. Siege? Aiwa, security. Bombing Syria and Iran? Also, security. I'd like to smoke what they are in Knesset to be this drunk on conflict and war. And for the majority to continue to vote them in, because 'security', is telling. The result is, Kahanists are now elected ministers; but God forbid Pals elect 'terrorists'...

> Hamas backed out of the agreement and ended up submitting candidates to run

I don't see a single mention of Hamas in the 2021 roster: https://www.elections.ps/tabid/1163/language/ar-PS/Default.a... The Wikipedia page you linked to merely points out a former Hamas leader was running under a new party.

> Your article's claim that it was due to "heavy pressure" from the United States and Israel is unsourced

Abu Mazen is a puppet. No reason to believe he cancelled the elections despite ALL other factions (some 25+) wanting one. He most certainly can't do so without the support of whoever funds his little fiefdom. It is a forgone conclusion, as people say.

> Hamas was running and any pretense that they would step aside was gone.

I mean, you state that there hasn't been an actual statement (see below) but also claim it is all a ruse all in the space of 3 paragraphs...

The full minutes of the talks were published in an official Emirati document. In essence, the message of the Hamas leadership was clear: "If you in Fatah are convinced that you can get a state from Israel along the 1967 lines through negotiations, go for it. We will not interfere."
In the UK, “service and MOT” was standard practice.
D-Bus overview
It's not. Thats why it's being recalled. God, HN. Answers right in the article. Numerous people reach to turn it into a mystery.
I always find this sentiment about BMW surprising - iDrive is my favorite of the OEM infotainment systems.