skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about Roman food preservation, nor about exact quantities.

I was making the points that before refrigeration, a lot more salt was used for food storage, and that salt has other major uses besides flavoring food or providing necessary physiological electrolyte. As Ed Conway writes, the production of some important industrial chemicals starts with salt.

I'm also not claiming that legionaries were literally paid in salt. I don't believe that would have been true after the very early Republic at the latest. Probably not after the first kings. The Roman genius for bureaucracy and record-keeping would have sorted out a more efficient payment system quite soon, I believe.
So turns out that someone studied this way back in 1999.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-10/27/049r-...
Considering the lack of interest by police in following stolen tracked vehicles and arresting car thiefs, I'm not so sure that the tech is a significant factor in crime reduction.
The post said:

“when she asked if chanting in support of the murder of Jews was against school policy”

She said it depended on the context - do you think she would have said “it depended on the context” if ask the same question about gays or blacks?
Do you know of NixOS and jovian NixOS? Did you consider either of those?

I may compare them in detail in the future, any thoughts on how they compare?
Some people consider "from the river to the sea" to be a call to genocide of Jews. Because, of course, they ignore the simple fact that majority of Jews don't even live in Israel [1]. And to call for a Palestinian state from the river to the sea doesn't say that Jews people cannot live inside it. And ironically the likud party which dominated the Israeli government the last couple of decades have almost the same sentence in its first point on its charter [2] and no one calls this a call to kill all Palestinians (Although some say it in public [3][4]).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country

[2] https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/original-party-platform...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_Arabs

[4] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/29/israel-jerusalem-ma...
The DOM/web browser environment is why JavaScript is such a pain - but also why it is available nearly everywhere.

In contrast, something like Visual BASIC is probably easier to start with because it was designed as a programming environment.
living room PC

Do people not use the term HTPC or "media center" anymore?
For the past few months I’ve been working out for 5 minutes every 30 minutes while working. It’s been a huge help to my productivity and fitness at the same time.
Why flagged @dang?
My Year of 2023: What I did every hour of every day last year
Get a life away from Hacker News? Is this possible?
This looks interesting, but what do I lose by switching to it? Does the Steam interface still work? The hardware? The games?
Exactly. What they said was so offensive, not because she spoke in favor of free speech. It was because after being outspoken and sanctioning students for years in regards to hate speech towards other groups, when it comes to murdering Jews, they are suddenly eliciting the importance of freedom of speech.

When you promote hate speech as free speech against one group, while punishing hate speech against all the others, it leaves many outside observers with the opinion that you tacitly approve of hate speech against that group and I believe creates a hostile environment in the entity you lead towards members of that group.
It’s best practice not to engage with angry users who use uppercase curse words. You will have more luck with phrasing questions neutral or friendly.
It's not "clever" though, it's simply how functional programming languages like OCaml and Haskell work. You think imperative is more legible because you learned primarily from imperative languages, I'm assuming. If you had learned functional programming from the start of your programming life, then you'd find it perfectly legible.
Better Spatial Geometries for Clustering Algorithms
> I just feel that ignoring all the pessimism takes a toll. I try to stay positive but it's very draining to spend energy to solve a very difficult technical problem WHILE other humans are around basically saying it can't be done, it won't work, if it works it won't be good enough or, which is as bad as, not participating at all.

Of course it does, everything comes with a price, but believe me, it's better than the alternative: Staying with them and becoming disengaged yourself. If this happens you waste so many time of your career procastinating instead of learning new awesome stuff that is not only fun but also good for your curriculum vitae.

I made it by leaving the company and re-thinking my focus. Leaving my comfort zone by a total tech switch (new programming language, from Backend to UI) helped me to get motivated again and my learning is to never fall for such a situation again.

I really hope you can make it without leaving, this would help everybody, fingers crossed. Otherwise, just leave the company.
This makes me sad :(
I put a negative review which was promptly taken down.
You mean almost 9 years old?
This was a brand name item which I'd already been using for years.
This made me literally lol.

Still.

At the end of the day, if you've tried to get paid for a service or product you provide, to some degree you work in advertising.
>on some forums it's possible to decide whether to "appear" as your username, or lurk incognito

This is a feature of every (non-private at least) forum, it's called the logout button :)
I think IKEA is on the right track with their lower efficiency filter. For a standalone air filter, you care about the rate of removal of contaminants, which is roughly (concentration of contaminants) · (flow rate) · (filter efficiency), and you probably end up caring the most about the particle size at which the filter is least efficient. So a real HEPA filter has .9995 for that last factor, and .99 is barely worse. Even MERV 13 at 75% or so isn’t so bad.

For a given amount of power consumption, you end up with (concentration of contaminants) · (flow rate) · (filter efficiency) / (power), which is (at fixed contaminant level and a fixed quality of fan) roughly proportional to (filter efficiency) / (pressure drop at design flow rate) and this is where IKEA is making the right tradeoff: those non-HEPA filters have considerably less pressure drop and only fail to filter a percent or so of the air going through.
it also skyrockets the barrier to entry for software to a point that no one but the big companies could compete.
As long as it's available to students so they can check their work for unintentional plagiarism.
This. Additionally, there is the price point of modern AMD "workstationish" systems vs. used Intel "real server" systems. Efficiency together with more performance is great, but if I had to pay double the price for a system that offers lots of performance I won't need anyway I'm not willing to pay the price.

Used Intel Systems are just way cheaper, because nobody seems to want them anymore... Everyone wants a >= 8 core ryzen :-) I personally don't need this for a little Proxmox / NAS kind of system.

However, I'm hoping for frame.work to announce official ECC support[1] on their Notebook boards (pretty likely this will never happen). I would love to just use the coolermaster case with small efficient modern notebook hardware for 600 bucks just because I don't need additional harddisks and I would just buy one to support the company.

[1]: https://community.frame.work/t/ecc-error-correcting-code-def...
That you're talking about both collision detection and economics is very telling for the issues a lot of people have with things like these.

When an economist predicts a heightened probability of a recession, people believe the economist, and adjust their investments to avoid it, this is seen as a failure in prediction.

Yet when a collision detection system detects a collision, and the car brakes to avoid the collision, this is also a false positive as no collision happened!

It's not clear why people see these as different. When the system takes the prediction into account to avoid the predicted calamity, we shouldn't see that as a failure in prediction.
Based on the definition of plagiarism in the article, I'm not 100% convinced that only intentional plagiarism counts as plagiarism - it seems like omitting proper markings around something intended to be a quote, or dropping a \cite line under a section rephrasing an idea mentioned in another paper could be enough to be considered a mild form of plagiarism, to be punished with a "light" punishment that "only" derails your academic career for half a year.

Given the concept of "self-plagiarism" and given the treatment I've seen honest students (at a different university) receive for alleged plagiarism (turns out there are only so many unique ways to implement a fizzbuzz-level piece of homework), I'm not willing to blindly assume common sense here.
Your entire post is simply countered with one statement:

$175k/year starting salary for new grads, which is INSANE. Keep in mind that for the first year, at Amazon, you also get this in cash.

If you took a young, competent, blue collar worker that makes $65k a year with honest work, and said, hey would you like to do your job at 3 times the salary, but there may be some stressful weeks, and you may have to deal with some managerial bullshit that may get you laid off, he would be head over heels excited. He would take the job, save every extra penny he could get, ride it out for as long as he can, and if shit got too rough, he would just walk away with a nice downpayment for a house and a smile on his face.

But modern software engineers seem to think that they not only MUST make that money, but continue making it, all for being able to write some extremely simple OOP code, pass some leetcode questions that one can memorize, and know the difference between relational and non relational database.

Bottom line is, if you can't manage your money/expenses to the point where you have enough runway to walk away at your job at any time because of stress, or you can't figure out what is going on with your role and manager and be able to navigate around that, then you simply don't deserve these high salaries. Plenty of lower paying jobs around.
Unless I'm missing something obvious Dale & Kruger says people that get into top schools get the premium, which is exactly what I alluded to. What can the rest of us even do?

Makes me think my class of people are just considered garbage humans by everyone.
My resolution is to write fewer stupid comments on here. Failing so far
Having an onramp to programming is nice. I also imagine there was more of an incentive to write your own programs when there weren't a million games and other apps already available in app stores.
ok but how does this work? i was expecting atleast a paragraph on HN to be honest
If on iOS Safari, you can easily (and permanently) increase font size for HN to the desired level. (Font size adjustments are remembered per website.)
It failed to detect Mullvad's VPN, and also my homebrew VPN to my house in a different country, both using Wireguard.

...which I'm actually fairly pleased about.
Nice! So that was identified a year ago and it's people who haven't updated since who hit it?
Yeah too bad it actually can't grow eternally right??
> How is it largesse when the government is doing it because it's in the public interest?

Public Choice Theory is the school of thought that the idea that government acts "because it's in the public interest" is "romantic and illusory":

Public choice economists make the same assumption—that although people acting in the political marketplace have some concern for others, their main motive, whether they are voters, politicians, lobbyists, or bureaucrats, is self-interest. In Buchanan's words the theory "replaces... romantic and illusory... notions about the workings of governments [with]... notions that embody more skepticism." -- https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/PublicChoiceTheory.html
Fusion is now a reality. Commercializing it is the next challenge, but we have working fusion:

https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-make...

You can buy a quantum computer today. They are reality:

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/how-to-buy-a-quantum-computer/

They will likely only get better from here. Too early to take that promise to the bank, but human progress isn’t generally made by pessimists.
To what level, we’ll see. They don’t call it the frontiers of innovation because of the security of outcome involved.

Public transportation is a public good and doesn’t need to be profitable. If it needed to be profitable we have a word for that: private transportation. Maglev trains are obscenely expensive to build and may never be profitable.

Brightline is showing that profitable high speed rail may be a commercial reality worth pursuing however. People bag on them, but they have already launched their first line and are working on their second. Tons of people betting against them and my goodness were there so many naysayers from day one, yet they are getting it done.

Also:

AI is a reality. That was science fiction.

Wearable computers are a reality. Dick Tracy stuff. Also science fiction.

Virtual reality is a reality. Also science fiction.

Electric cars were a fantasty that had so many headwinds and scaling problems they were called impractical, but now in just a decade or so they are commonplace.

Fully automated electronic pilots for both fixed wing and helicopters was science fiction just a few decades ago. Not autopilots but pilot replacements. Today: commercial reality.

Just in time factories with robots running the lines were science fiction until just a few decades ago. Now people use old ones for making art and many factories are deeply automated headed towards even greater automation.

Drones were also science fiction (the first cameras were on kites). Now they are so common we have to ban them from places.

Everyone dogs on the progress these days, especially big projects, but we keep making progress in big ways and the negativity is just unjustified. It’s just that the progress is adsorbed into society in such a way that people don’t realize how remarkable their every day things are.
Do you really think that engineers must commit code on a weekly basis to prevent infrastructure from crashing down because of some sort of "decay" that happens in the software naturally?
Apparently that's a call for genocide and calling for a "Sinai Solution" a la the Madagascar Plan is just business as usual.
One of the Feb 27 tornadoes hit my house. Came out of nowhere.
Like any protocol, to benefit from its network of users.
I mean, if you think about it, ChatGPT (or LLMs in general) is almost perfectly suited to being a modern Supreme Court Justice. You give it the desired conclusion and it can produce a legalistic justification that is structured similarly to something reasonable.
You are indeed missing something obvious.
I've recently started reading bluesnews again after a 15+ year hiatus. I love how the site seems to be more or less exactly the same. Runs great on all my devices (crazy I have to point that out in modern times).

For those that don't know it's primarily a game news site but has some daily rundowns of some various tech news stories so I think it fits the criteria.
I would gladly support life sentences or even the death penalty for rapists and child molesters, but unfortunately a lot of people like to complain about “mass incarceration” so most states don’t have the ability to fund the necessary prison facilities. If we’re going to let them out of prison, the least we can do is to try and keep these people away from children.
Help me out here, what am I missing?
https://xpenology.org/

> Xpenology is a bootloader for Synology’s operating system, called DSM (Disk Station Manager), and is used on their NAS devices. DSM is running on a custom Linux version developed by Synology ... Xpenology creates the possibility to run the Synology DSM on any x86 device like any PC or self-built NAS. So, you can benefit from the powerful multimedia- and cloud features of DSM without buying the hardware NAS from Synology. Many people prefer this because they can pick out their own (more powerful) processor and RAM to handle things like transcoding video.
Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
You're right. 6 spinning disks and a discrete GPU won't work with 120W. I would recommend to get the Corsair RM550x 2021 (or similar) when using a NAS with more than 2 disks or a discrete GPU.

I personally don't need more than 10TB space, so 2 10TB Seagate EXOS in ZFS mirror would just work fine with 120W as long as you don't run Prime95 the whole time. You might go up to Pico PSU 150 then.
> But we're talking about you deliberately not securing or even actively reducing the security of your property

We have different preferences about what's the right security/freedom ratio.

> You're not supposed to store loaded guns unsecured on your front porch (not around here anyways).

I don't think the government or anyone has any say about where or how I may keep my guns.

People believe they might have a say, so there are laws on the books, but they're frequently taken down by the courts.

> So how about the middle ground: Do you believe that the EPA should impose restrictions on companies' or citizens' right to dump whatever toxic waste they want into rivers?

I believe it shouldn't, but that's just my opinion.

You may not believe it, but in terms of efficiency and keeping the environment, it doesn't matter (see below)

> If you think the physical commons should be protected from predictable harm by negligence or reckless disregard, why not the digital?

I don't believe in in the physical word, and I don't believe it in the digital world either.

Regardless of my beliefs, there's a nobel prize winner who's shown that it doesn't matter how the rights are initially assigned, as long as parties can negotiate with no transaction costs.

Check the Coase theorem.

The EPA imposing restrictions create transaction costs, so I think we're better off without them
Happy 2024, in London UK I hope to meet others in the new year at Hacker News London meetup: https://meetu.ps/c/4ZYdt/5Tyc/d
The identifier for the content (image layers + manifest) is the hash of the content, and the has serves as an "address", the registry repo + tag is basically a pointer to a hash.
I was adjacent to the folks who came up with this (I think it was almost entirely Matt Jones' work creating that PDF). The symbols were intended to be useful, and there was a flurry of subsequent usage (including official labels at cafes, etc). It didn't have a huge amount of organic growth, but it was a form that journalists could write about, and it made more concretely explicable the somewhat trickier but more prevalent concept of wardriving.

It may have been an artifact of the time, but it remains to me surprising how quickly and easily a timely and well-packaged idea can catch people's attention and propagate, even now. (Note that warchalking preceded John Hodgeman's book, but he too was playing off the background curiousity of hobo signs. There's no necessary origin point for combinations like this. You're just mixing and matching what's in the air.)

Our same rough circle of people are why you talk of Betteridge's law, life-hacking, or even know about that Steve Balmer "Developers! Developers!" video. If it didn't come through that route, those concepts or presentations would almost emerged from some other corner of the online world. There was no ulterior motive, no intent to get rich or famous, just people playing as they do with what's interesting in the world around them, and the ideas they spark.
This seems like an unusually thinly hyperlinked Wikipedia article, no? Who is Matt Jones, for example?
Unity has been quite solid for me on Linux lately. It’s mainly just minor annoyances like the project settings window being too small when you open it so you have to resize it, little stuff like that. Nothing that has prevented me from getting the job done. I still prefer to use it on Linux because the glitches annoy me less than, well, using windows.

Unreal works okay for me, but I’ve had to submit a few patches upstream to work out some Wayland issues. Other than that, it’s about as bloated/buggy/slow as it is on windows. Most of the time if I think there’s some Linux-specific issue I’ll open the same project on windows only to discover it was the same.
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" is a harsh authoritarian stance but it's a common one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
Detects iCloud private relay via Cloudflare, did not detect Mullvad.
ClimateTown - https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown

Awesome videos about climate change and the politics behind it

---

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't - https://www.youtube.com/@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

Learn a lot about plants from a foul-mouthed guy

---

Defunctland - https://www.youtube.com/@Defunctland

Surprisingly enthralling videos about shut down amusement parks

---

Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games - https://www.youtube.com/@sora_sakurai_en

Very active channel by the person who made Kirby, Super Smash Bros, and other games. If you're interested in game development or game history, it's work a look!

---

Posy - https://www.youtube.com/@PosyMusic

Super calming videos about niche technology and designs with some great music over them.
Alright I'm really curious on the use case of this. Is it for debugging assistance or anything else?
Some other New Yorker typographic peculiarities:

(1) Putting a semicolon before a closing quotation mark:

... did not hide their sympathy for Eichmann or their regret that he had not “finished the job;” a broadcast from Cairo ...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-je...

But Clyde is not the urban sharpster of “The Public Enemy;” he is the hick as bank robber ...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1967/10/21/bonnie-and-cly...

(2) Including commas for nonrestrictive apposition, even when there is no possibility of a restrictive interpretation:

When he died, in 2004, his books and exhibitions were too numerous to count, and his magazine work had been published all over the world in the best publications.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/when-in-berlin...

The copyeditors seem to think that writing “When he died in 2004” would imply that he had died not only in 2004 but also in another year.

In general, the New Yorker uses a lot more commas than most other publications.

(3) Adopting American spelling overall but using the double-ell “travelling,” “unravelling,” etc., which are more common in British spelling.
I deeply appreciate Synology handling away all the Linux jank I would otherwise have to deal with myself. Easily worth the price tag of buying one of their NASes.

Specifically, I have a DS1520+ with five 16TB Seagate Iron Wolf Pro HDDs in a RAID6 config (have another, sixth identical HDD as a cold spare in the closet) and it has been running absolutely flawlessly for the now two years I've had it.

My track record with Linux installations otherwise is "I keep killing them by just breathing on them, god damn.". I'm a walking Linux genocide horror show.