skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not being able to call your card issuer is a reason to change issuer. I would put 30+ minutes wait time in this category, although I know someone who is a seasoned hand when it comes to getting through tasks during phone waiting times.

It would be nice if card issuers avoided deadnaming, but there could be an innocent explanation for why a card was issued with the wrong name.
She should hand back the money she got for her work on "diversity and inclusion."
The US justice system has a notion of "joint and several liability", where we say "both parties are guilty and both are liable for the damages". I think that applies here:

- It's the assembler's responsibility to make sure the exit door bolts are properly tightened, and

- It's the manufacturer's responsibility to find assemblers that correctly tighten door bolts, and the manufacturer's responsibility to design doors that don't explode, and

- It's the airline's responsibility to find manufacturers that design planes with not exploding doors, which are assembled by assemblers that correctly tighten door bolts, and checked by the airline's own maintenance teams during regular servicing of the planes.

Everyone should be looking over and double-checking everyone else's work. But that's not how the 737 MAX was designed or built.
> India will become the next asian super power

This is highly unlikely. India has a geography that more or less ensures that it's going to be a big player in its region, but it relies on imports too much for its industry and is hemmed in too much by its geography/neighbors that super power status is not likely anytime soon.

> The China-India war will have to go hot

Why would it have to go hot? Nuclear war isn't going to happen without existential stakes for either side and a conventional war would be extremely difficult to wage with the Himalayas in the way. In fact, that is in part why China annexed Tibet so that India couldn't sneak in a forward position on the other side, but it doesn't make a Chinese invasion of India that much easier.
Sure. And a book has a cover with the author's name on it.

But he really wouldn't thank me (not that he'd say so) for some DIY project that wasn't as transparent to use as commercial versions--and he'd end up not using it. He appreciates that I've put together the photo collections given that I've scanned and kept a lot of photos he wouldn't other have access to but he'd like actually displaying them to be as easy as possible.
> I think most even semi-experienced developers know this.

I've met plenty of pretty senior people believing the opposite and most of them likely aren't good liars.
I was pleasantly surprised by the Play date and feel ok at this price point taking a bet that this will be an enjoyable novelty.
> You have to ask the vendor for data to dispute the vendor!

Isn’t that literally the purpose of discovery in lawsuits (a practice that long predates digital records at all, much less SaaS)
A number of newer ones are ventless (although still very much the minority in North America), but only some use an actual heat pump to recycle the heat. IME most of the cheaper ventless dryers just reject the heat (but not the moisture) into the room they're operating in.

This is still a win because it doesn't depressurize the house (any air you vent out of the house is eventually replaced by outside air, sometimes via dirty areas like crawlspaces and attics). But the heat pump ones can run off of a low-power (~1500W) circuit whereas the condensing ones typically need a higher power (~5kW) circuit.
>Your automobile trip to the grocery store is far riskier.

I feel it's important to provide complete information. Flying is safer per mile traveled than driving. Driving is safer on a per-trip basis.

So if you compare your trip to the grocery store to your flight to visit extended family, the trip to your grocery store is safer. But if you compare 10,000 miles of driving back and forth to the grocery store over many trips vs a single 10,000 mile flight, the flight is safer.
How do you define "Full UNIX"? Technically, even the 8086 can run Unix (or at least Unix clones like Coherent or even Xenix), just sans protected mode.
Seems like chat gpt4 is an overkill way to do web searches.
>The Mongol Khanates were indiscriminate murderers

Their atrocities were brutal and ruthless, but not indiscriminate because they were designed to achieve certain goals.
Well said.

Don't forget about modern industry, scientific advancements, personal freedom and other privileges we enjoy today
My cat organized her collection of mice corpses in a very properly aligned cemetery behind the stairs in our cellar. About 15 when we found it
Startup culture is basically entirely about disruption and challenging status quo. It's not really any more arrogant than general startup mentality, which admittedly is very often arrogant (facebook for dogs, seeking $1B in investors!)
Human suffering is not taken into account by those elitists who are furiously pushing for more "green" (aka grossly inadequate and more destructive than fossil fuels) energy.
Yes I am assuming an ideological view of history is "wrong," as do almost all working historians.

Nothing is "inherently correct" in this domain, historians subscribe to this model because it is most generally useful for their purposes. Ideological history is most useful for purposes other than strict historiography. Notably and notoriously propaganda lol. What are you getting at here?
The Pareto Principle of Developer Experience
Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)
Why Gen Z is plugging in wired headphones and tuning out AirPods
> But the airplane never became popular—although it became briefly famous when a heavily made-up example starred in 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk-vHw-mstI
LG stoves are next.

They will be upgraded to PoS: Proof of Steak
No opposite interpretation: both TFA and the WSJ article agree that the report[0] states there is little extremism among active duty members, which we already knew[1], and both agree that there is more extremism among veterans.

The only difference is that WSJ highlights extremism among veterans is similar to in the general population (a level) and Vice highlights that extremism among veterans is growing (a delta). These spins are not contradictory.

Edit: the report lends support (albeit with a "is slightly higher" against the WSJ position and a "may be" for the Vice position) to both, on p.iii:

> IDA’s review found no evidence that the number of violent extremists in the military is
disproportionate to the number of violent extremists in the United States as a whole, although
there is some indication that the rate of participation by former service members is slightly higher
and may be growing.

[0] https://www.ida.org/-/media/feature/publications/p/pr/prohib...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23412986

Edit 2: The Department should also work to counter false information campaigns and build critical thinking
in the force by providing training and instruction on how to be a critical consumer of information.

I should hope everyone agrees that "read the primary sources" is necessary to being a critical consumer of information!

(for secondary sources, I recommend the STASM analysis framework from [Linebarger1954], a work which had been both inspired and cleared by a previous incarnation of the Department.)
I got a non-connected Omron precisely because of this. I keep track of readings manually in a spreadsheet. Takes less time than the actual measurement taking. Also makes me super aware of my blood pressure values and ranges.
> We also realize there is a natural curiosity about valuation specifics. With this $75M round, the business is valued at $500M. In the last two years, the market has changed substantially, driven by rising interest rates and higher cost of capital. This means our valuation is lower than our previous peak, but we are happy to finally be marked to this new market.

Looks like a massive down round from a "valuation" of $2 billion. Was overvalued anyway.
It still seems worthwhile to make the distinction; it might be possible to think of them as the same thing at a high enough level, but the actual libraries and algorithms used are different.
Maybe we're getting different lists, the 5th one down for me is a Samsung with WiFi

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/6416171.p?skuId=6416171
…the Citroen 2CV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citroën_2CV#Pre-production:

“In 1934, family-owned Michelin, as the largest creditor, took over the bankrupt Citroën company. The new management commissioned a market survey, conducted by Jacques Duclos. France at that time had a large rural population which could not yet afford cars; Citroën used the survey results to prepare a design brief for a low-priced, rugged "umbrella on four wheels" that would enable four people to transport 50 kg (110 lb) of farm goods to market at 50 km/h (30 mph), if necessary across muddy, unpaved roads. In fuel economy, the car would use no more than 3 L/100 km (95 mpg‑imp; 80 mpg‑US). One design parameter required that customers be able to transport eggs across a freshly ploughed field without breakage.”
https://archive.ph/VVpHG
Every DBA I've worked with has had performance tuning as one of their top skills, both at the installation-level and query-level. Sometimes it's optimizing a query using some hard-earned knowledge of the RDBMS, and sometimes it's keeping logs and data on separate storage.
Regulations for stuff like this seem frivolous and overly restrictive, until you remember that what seems completely benign when one person does it is potentially destructive to the future of humanity when done at scale (like burning oil, throwing away plastic, etc.).
You don't have control over drunk-driver-in-heavy-pickup-truck-who-is-browsing-instagram-while-speeding crushing into you on the road.
I put all these 'smart' devices on separate network (wifi) that has adguard home as resolver. It makes ir relatively easy to identify what is which device talking to and even block it.
The X32 lost to the X35 (which became F35), not the F22 Raptor.

The X32 performed worse in range/payload capacity, Boeing had lots of difficulties developing STOVL on the platform, the delta wing design was less efficient, and Lockheed was still riding high on its success with the F22 program (which no one has really bothered competing with decades later) so it's unlikely that aesthetics were the deciding factor.
Nintendo's store is the only one available on a Switch. That is almost a congruent comparison.
So that to me seems separate from the minimalist syntax. The problem isn't the flexibility, but the sheer combined density. The problem isn't even necessarily the odd extra operator, but that there are so many of them that are heavily overloaded/

I don't think the projections example is possible to reproduce in an ergonomic way in e.g. Ruby or Python, but you could certainly imagine a syntax extension to allow something similar. Since a closure in Ruby is just another object, capturing arguments and returning a modified closure is trivial, but the syntax won't allow leaving out arbitrary unnamed parameters, and so you'd need an ugly placeholder value; amending the syntax to allow e.g. "f(x,,z)" with an omitted value in between set to some placeholder object wouldn't break anything, and might well be useful. There are certainly parts like that in k that seems valuable.

The dot-syntax vs. a more functional syntax I think is purely subjective - all of us understand both, I just happen to prefer an OO syntax. d.amend(i, f, y) or amend(d, i, f, y) isn't what'd break us. Not the "@" either if it was one of a smaller number...
I hadn't seen that. Worth a look. ;0)
I'm seeing 75.81
I wish that I could feed my washer and dryer into my home automation system, but I can’t. I want to do this so I know whether the laundry will get stinky or not. Right now I measure the power consumption and have a sensor on the door of my washer and dryer. That works, but imagine if I could just get an mqtt stream of events! I will never connect an appliance like that to my network in the real world, but I can dream!
It's a good thing most foods now have sugar substitutes like splenda and you can request sugar substitutes in your coffee as well. HFCS is a non-issue.
17 years (missing a word.) Link for those unfamiliar like me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_conviction_of_Andrew_...

That seems grossly unfair. Based on what I'm musing, at bare minimum, 3 million would be appropriate.
A washing machine that is networked can be scheduled to run automatically when electricity prices are low, or when your local solar panels are at full production.

Unfortunately, it can also be used to pipe data from your TV that you intentionally have not hooked up to the internet because you don’t trust the shady things certain TV manufacturers do with your data.
I got an "Aura" one. It works well and supports connecting a google photos album.
Not knowing much about golf, what's the difference between the two?
Is there a specific paper or something you can point me to? Or are you talking about like llama.cpp? Because I thought that referred to the fact that it was originally one c++ file named llama.cpp?
Why did I get downvoted - I am asking a legit question. I don't understand.
Given the ratio of upload to download I think you probably nailed it.
Exactly this. Filling some kind of a database with terabytes of data is not the difficult bit, serving it is...

To claim that something static is "Twitter-scale" is just misleading IMO.
I can't imagine there's much value in LG knowing how often I wash my clothes.

On the other hand, it's nice to get a notification when the cycle is done if I'm on the other side of the house. Refrigerator sending a notification to my phone if the door isn't closed could come in handy some day too.
But they are unlikely as cost efficient and feasible at current population/economy scale.
The Gee Bee isn't ugly, its cartoonish.
How easy is it to put consumer BLE chipsets into a monitor mode? It sounds like it'd be fun to "wardrive" (more likely walking around) with a BLE "scanner".
Seriously? It can't be scheduled if it's not networked?
It's great as a game console. The crank is a gimmick to a degree, but it's genuinely useful and fun for many games. Some games don't use it at all so it's easy to play as you wish.

Personally I'd prefer a bigger version that I can see better as my years advance and my vision gets worse. But, regardless, it's home to some great games.

The best thing about it from a developer point of view is the SDK. If you went the DIY route you'd have to start very low down the stack. I guess it's up to you: do you want to make a game or the scaffolding?

Obligatory plug: my Playdate game YOYOZO made it onto Ars Technica list of Best Games of 2023. And other games like Direct Drive have won awards and nominations. I feel this means the platform can definitely be taken seriously.
Aftermarket car parts is a thing, so I don't really see your point.

Actually, you don't seem to be arguing in good faith. If apple just allowed it, 3rd party app stores would spring up over night.
My first thought was something failing and repeating, but note the upload is far greater than the download.
You can do radiant cooling with an air-to-water heat pump just as you can with an air-to-air or water-to-water heat pump.

The main issue is managing humidity so that the dewpoint stays below the emitter temperature.
In this context it is referring to a specific product called "Personal Computer" made by IBM.

Just like when someone says they bought a record on compact disc, they are referring to Red Book Compact Disc Digital Audio Standard. They're not referring to any other discs that are small.
Colored functions represent exactly the failure state of types: When you've over-tuned your typing to the point that it takes substantial refactoring to make something that should just work, work.

Whether a function is called asynchronously or not should be a decision of the caller, not of the function itself. Sometimes it doesn't make sense for me to continue when I don't have an answer yet. Sometimes it does. That makes it the caller's concern.

The solution to this in Javascript would be to simply make every single function an async function, but that introduces a bunch of clutter because async/await is a feature to be bolted onto an existing language, rather than a paradigm to build your language around.

In contrast, look at Elixir: No function coloring to be found. Want to run something asynchonously?

res = Task.async(&any_function_i_like/0)
\\some other stuff
out = Task.await(res)

(that's syntax sugar for spawning a process that will die and produce a result at some point and then waiting to receiving a message from it). Want to run that same function synchronously?

out = any_function_i_like()

No colors, no nonsense.

"But wait!" you might be thinking "What happens if the task fails?" Well, that's up to the caller, too. Maybe that only rarely happens, and there's no logical path forward from that failure, say, a very tiny meteor punches out the processor core that task is running on. That's okay, by default if the child process dies, so does the caller. This is passing the buck, but is the correct answer more often than not, so it doesn't make sense to make the developer do extra work to make it happen. But maybe a failure is somewhat likely, and we just want to keep trying until it works. That's easy, too! Just spawn a supervisor process that'll make a new copy of the called function if it fails. One more line of code relative to the async case. Maybe the function is just to make some side effect, and it doesn't matter if the parent crashes or not. Maybe it does.

There's a lot of different cases when it comes to concurrent programming. It does not make sense make those decisions unilaterally for someone using your library. Leave it up to the caller to decide whether your function is synchronous, asynchronous, long-lived, independent, dependent, etc. Unfortunately, that's hard to tack onto a language as an afterthought, so we get Async/Await.
LG doesn't care - the advertising industry does.
Alaska temporary switched to the flexible travel policy because of this incident, so you should be able to change your ticket fairly easily.
"True Crime" as a genre is littered with unscrupulous hosts. But not all of it is in the gutter. In fact, some of it produces a public good. I admit I am attracted to these stories and try to choose carefully. If I may - two recommendations:

"My Only Story" - an adult man notices with horror that the man who secretly raped him as a school boy in South Africa is still working as a teacher. He quits his job and starts a podcast about how grooming works and how the school system is letting pupils down. All the while he is trying to expose this man for who he is without being sued - so he has to dance around the man's name. It is riveting. The story unfolds live as he finds more and more fellow students who were victimized willing to go on the record. This leads to naming names.

"The Root Of Evil" which features (in part) a retired Los Angeles homicide detective who believes his surgeon father was behind the famous Black Dahlia murder. He brings receipts. An astonishing amount of historical material is unearthed including cassette tape audio from the 70's.

Story telling is such an integral part of the social experience. Like everything it can be corrupted by greed and bad incentives. Not every True Crime podcast falls into this trap.
What's the difference? I'm still not actually sure where R sits these days but it is certainly my impression its confined to an ever smaller niche of social scientists and non-CSy folks. As more and more fields becme programmer-native, that niche becomes naturally smaller. Most, if not all, quantitativepy trained students now (and have been for a while) are bilingual in Python for glue and analysis and C++ for compute. R is also not a great fit for HPC, at least, they people attempting it are as few and far between as Windows supercomputers these days.

Rstudio is arguably Spyder, and they seem well positioned to blow it away if they let go of R.

I've worked with a few numerical fields now (physics, medicine and neuroscience, some of the largest consumers of academic HPC) and I can count the number of R folks without hands. Even friends at consulting firms and fintech, and they're also not using R. Or am I missing something?
Gates isn't the only one. John D. Rockefeller basically eradicated hookworm in the American South, and was instrumental in funding a significant number of the country's historically Black colleges and universities, among many other things. Andrew Carnegie all but invented the public library in America (and some in the UK). Herbert Hoover fed Belgium and Russia after the First World War.

If the government had taken their money in tax it could have done some of these things, but I know of no reason to think it would have, or that it would have done them efficiently if so.
The notion of most top talent leaving is very much opposite of true.

Some reasons for better than ever demand in IT are the creation of alternatives to some gone paid western products like SAP or migration of the existing solutions to open-source stack: e.g. from Sql server/Oracle to PostgreSQL and/or adding Linux support instead of just Windows.
I can see some data collection (after it is announced and agreed upon) being useful. How hot was the water coming in? How much water did this cycle use? Was the cycle stopped? Was it stopped and restarted, and if so, when? (So as to tell between "I missed that sock" and "I wanted to add some liquid a quarter of the way through") What time of day am I being used? Perhaps even a "you did a load two days ago and now it is getting mildewy" alarm.

Some data could actually be valuable for product design and iteration. That sounds like a few kilobytes per month.
> we are too disconnected from consequences of our seemingly abstract, technical, impersonal work

i think it's important to be connected to your work (when it matters, like your former boss said), but I realized that we're all just human beings, and we each have a set capacity for such things

a few people may be able to knock out life-saving operation after operation and just pound a stiff drink before going back
to the OR the next day for years on end, but the rest of us can only do that sort of thing for a year or two tops before 'shutting off' (or burning out)

going back and forth between 'boring, but dependable' and 'exciting, but mercurial' seems to keep my personal trajectory interesting at least :)
The next post in that thread is even weirder. Apparently, you can use the Wi-Fi functionality to.. "download cycles"? Like, the machine itself includes some presets for certain washing procedures/cycles, and the app provides additional ones. But the question is *why?* Why didn't they just include them on the washing machine's hardware? It's not like you'd need updates for these cycles - imagine needing to download Denim Wash 1.4 or something.
Meanwhile, I'm here with:

* Smart Air Filter

* Smart Air Fryer

* Smart Meat Thermometer

* Smart Sous Vide

* Smart Coffee Maker

* Smart Blinds
Haven’t checked the source code yet, wondering if profiling of code without frame pointes is supported. Curious on their approach.
Here's an old pcap from an LG dryer to the same remote host(s).

https://gist.github.com/Jonathan727/9ef58e7a64806d1e01112b20...
Given that ideology can be quite corrosive to truth (selection effects on transmission of information will distort things and that's just one of the effects), an approach that tries to avoid ideology is likely to get a more accurate view of the past.
A380 can loose only one engine and fly, same as smaller planes, they can loose an engine and land.
This comment is kind of hilarious because I felt similar feelings which is why I took down my site!
critical mass of cpython devs