skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think a pretty fair response is to try and avoid entering that car regardless of the ratio of incidents when driving that car, and when biking to the dealership to get it

"avoid" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here though. If doing so doesn't cost me anything, then avoiding that car is a non-brainer. However in real life nothing is really costless. Avoiding that car at the very least would cause you to wait longer. If that car is your daily driver, and you don't have a backup, then avoiding that car might cost you hundreds per month. That's why you need to factor in statistics and figure what the absolute risk is, and whether it's worth "avoiding".
He knows that in the same way that all British people know that - we have lived in or know people that have lived in houses that look exactly like that house. The amount of uniformity to British housing stock can be surprising as much as their general shoddiness. Try playing UK geoguesser - every UK residential street looks the same.

There are actually very few enforced rules about house listings. The market is pretty unregulated. However that house has an epc of C which would suggest its not insulated beyond maybe roof insulation or else isn't well insulated. To get a B or above you need to have a reasonable amount of insulation that you mostly only see in new build properties.
Template JITs in general aren't a new technique, but Copy-and-Patch is a specific method of implementing it (leveraging a build time step to generate the templates from C code + ELF relocations).
Open-source platform for RLHF and fine-tuning LLMs
>Notably, across all samples, nearly half (44%) of the identified microplastics were fibers, which is consistent with other studies suggesting that fibers are the most prevalent form of microplastic in the environment.

Seems like one could live on a vegan diet and still be consuming a lot of plastic fiber. My favorite blankets, rugs, and t-shirts are all 100% polyester.

Even if I managed to use avoid plastics at home, plastic lint is everywhere in public too.
Absolutely. I get comped drinks a lot at the places I go. In the past seven days, I have gotten five free drinks (three of them were mocktails) across four places.

I sit at my usual wine bar and chuckle watching across the street, people standing in line for 30 minutes to get into a loud club with mediocre drinks. Then again, that club is hugely profitable.
Shorter Meditations:

"I (50M) am emperor of a historic world power (679SPQ), yet I must convince myself there's no need to go into the walk-in freezer and scream, despite days full of interminable meetings with jerks and idiots. AITA?"
Imaginary Art Seller Drove a Hard Bargain
As someone bootstrapping a business, my cost structure favors horizontally scaling databases with low/no fixed overhead vs vertically scaling databases with high overhead. And I don’t think this is exactly an uncommon situation - plenty of people, even within large well-funded organizations, would have a hard time justifying such a large expenditure if it were uncertain that it’d be fully utilized.

It’s also a lot easier for me to handle tenancy/isolation/different data “realms” this way. And I sleep better at night knowing a mistake (I have no dbas, and I don’t have time to invest in tons of safeguards as a solo dev when there are much higher EV tasks) won’t nuke absolutely everything.
It's had native Linux support since day one. I bought it (edit: on Steam) in its first week of release (2021-10) and it worked fine.
This has evolved into the Airbus Beluga and BelugaXL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_BelugaXL

double the payload of a SuperGuppy, and 4 meters higher; but I'm not sure about the exact cargo bay dimensions.
I think of tires as being made of rubber. Where does the plastic come from?
Plant based meat substitutes are vegan junk food. There are other things to eat that are not meat.
I got “away” paying almost exactly €10k for fancier ground-source setup using a 6kW Thermia (i.e. Swedish) heat pump (itself about €6k.) IIRC there were definitely cheaper geothermal options back when I was investigating, but I got sold on the ecology aspects of that particular solution as well.

I can make some comparisons between the two too – ground-source maintains great COP even if its -20°C or less outside (as it was a couple days ago.) The incoming carrier liquid remains comfortably around 5°C, no matter the season. This also enables passive floor-based cooling. With an air-source heat-pump one would need some sort of a reversible cycle setup, I suspect, or perhaps a separate AC, which would likely bring the total cost of an air-source implementation up a little bit further.

It is also no-louder than your modern fridge. My neighbours’ air-source heat pumps’ exterior units were going at it so hard one could have been excused if they mistook there was a busy airport within an earshot. On the other hand if there's already an airport, what does it change if there’re N planes or N+1 planes in it :)
Radiation induced bitflips in the avionics could be a problem too, I imagine. Suddenly up is down and it nose dives!
I'm curious how long the battery lasts. Since it's Android based I presume it doesn't have a deep-sleep option. Ideally I'd want it to wake up once every 10-30 minutes, fetch a frame to display from a LAN server and go back to sleep.

I know it's doable with a custom e-ink display and something like an ESP32 but reusing an e-reader that already has a nice frame and everything is so much nicer.
Some others have commented some of this but I wanted to provide some links to the resources as well. The last update was 6 months ago on the game's Steam news page https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/1444480/announcements/detail/... and YouTube https://youtu.be/38cKko7sViw

In terms of feature updates the last major feature update was in September 2022 https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/1444480/announcements/detail/.... The game also has an active Discord https://discord.gg/hdrJaMUdrF for those wanting to follow along in more detail.
Pity. It was a major resource for a few hobbyists, and professionals sadly stuck with poor choices. Props to those who pulled it together and kept it up this long.
What upper bounds? One of the higher-confidence hypotheses of the effects of plastic contamination is reproductive disruption. Since these plastics bioaccumulate and pass from mother to child, there’s reason to worry about intergenerational accrual of reproductive damage.

So as far as I can tell, the “upper bound” of harm is reproductive collapse of our species?
https://archive.ph/hRwCm
> Stop driving?

Not a realistic solution. The vast majority of people will take the microplastics over not driving.
> But where does the prejudice of "designers only care about visuals" come from?

Probably from modern computer UI design, where this seems like a reasonable conclusion based on how common it is for UIs to be really hard to use.
No. Most microplastic in water comes from washing machines. Synthetic fibers from clothes.
Is there any meaningful evidence out there this does anything for anyone? You may or may not get enthustiast responses here, but how representative are these people how do we know it's not astroturfing, and how do we know they'll really get any long-term increase in life satisfaction out of a service like this?

I will freely admit I'm way outside of the target market and maybe I'm badly out-of-touch with what modern men need to feel fulfilled. I'm past a decade of marriage at this point and haven't been consistently girlfriendless since I was starting out high school 30 years ago. But when I think back over the decades about what makes having a human partner gratifying and worthwhile, it certainly isn't exchanging text messages or even photographs. Even aside from physical contact and consistently having sex when possible, you've got starting a family, sharing responsibilities for taking care of a mutually owned household, a person to experience things with over an entire lifetime who you consistently feel you can count on and rely upon if it comes to it. My wife went through serious alcoholism problems for a while, losing a job and becoming hospitalized twice. I went though severe spinal degeneration in my 30s and couldn't even consistently dress myself for a few years. I don't know if either of us would have gotten through it without the other. There is simply no replacement when going through hardship like this for having another human who loves you that you know you can rely upon no matter how hard circumstances get.

What you get out of long-term human social bonding is just not something you can replace with an LLM, no matter how good they get.
Can someone ELI5 this for me: how would microplastics passing through a digestive system end up in "proteins*"? Are they being stored directly in the fats, within cells, between muscle fibers...?

(* the article seems to be using the term "protein" in the culinary sense, not the molecular sense).
A dear friend of mine that works at a very large tech company has frequent (many times a week) meetings at ungodly hours (such as 7am AND 11pm) because of time zone differences with other teams in different parts of the world. My friend says that he's not surprised in today's global framework, especially with large enterprises and claims that looking for another, less-intense job would be futile because it is probably like that everywhere, especially with large tech companies. I claim that he's gotten used to this abuse that it is not as widespread as he thinks.

I think some of these meetings might be important enough to warrant having one occasionally, but not as an almost-daily phenomenon.

Any similar experiences? I'm not in the software dev/engineering world so I'm not as well informed in the matter; however I'd be very surprised if a majority of people would accept such working conditions that are very adverse to a healthy work-life balance.
It dropped 95% just last year...
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/samsung-earnings-q1-2023.htm...
Right, I'm not saying that anyone should avoid them. I'm suggesting that "guilty by association" is a silly way to filter the planes someone flies on.
Chemists Warn Bottled Water 100 Times Worse for Plastic Than Thought
Is there a database somewhere that keeps track of all the flagged threads on here so we can see what gets censored on a regular basis? It would be fun to k-means cluster it and see what is verboten to HN users or staff.
What Was Stack Overflow Built With? (2008)
I'd rather say the market has issues thanks to inflation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting interest rate hikes. "Luxuries" like TVs and phones are where people save the most when their economic future is uncertain.
Probably a few days to weeks away.
You wanna talk with your AI girlfriend again? Please pay to play. No Money? Sorry, darling. Hang on, here is the ai-powered suicide prevention hotline.
Sometimes I wonder how aethetics and social norms curtail technology adoption and productivity.

For consumers, it's obvious that tech needs to be socially acceptable - in fact it's an expected part of the adoption cycle. For fun (ok, I'm revealing myself), and to exercise my creativity and outside-the-box thinking, sometimes I try to come up with norm-violating, harmless, and clearly more productive technology people could adopt. (I don't mean provactive norm-violating, like something dangerous or overtly sexual, just geeky or otherwise.) Simple ones are walking around town with an umbrella hat, a headlamp, a camelback, etc.

But to the point of this discussion, for business / military I wonder how much ugliness plays a factor. If a 5% more effective fighter plane was clashing shades of horrible colors (for camo) and had a laughably ugly form, would it be used? What if the pilot mounted/dismounted in a ridiculous position, maybe upside down? Otherwise, people are dying and wars are being lost for aesthetics. What about 20% more effective? Where is the line? And what about the space program: how much extra risk is taken for dignity under current social norms?
I'm looking forward to testing the Vision Pro. As a seasoned Quest user, I still firmly believe in the concept of spatial computing, though I remain disappointed that desktop-class applications will require a secondary Mac for streaming rather than running locally.

I am also skeptical about long-term comfort for my specific head shape and size. While I am confident that Apple has taken more than sufficient time designing the head strap and weight distribution, my experience with head straps and headsets of all shapes and sizes has taught me that only a "halo" design truly works for multiple hours without discomfort for me. Any weight pressing on the area around my eyes and nasal bridge causes tension headaches; shifting that to my forehead alleviates that greatly, turning an otherwise uncomfortable experience into something with which I can even work for multiple hours at a time. I hope to be proven wrong here, as the head strap appears to be far more integral to the Vision Pro than the Quest, making me doubtful that there will be significant aftermarket offerings.

It surprised me to see that Apple's head strap design, outside using a material very similar to what has appeared on the AirPods Max, seems so close to tried and tested solutions from existing manufacturers, such as the Quest Elite Straps. I'd be more optimistic about the potential comfort if they had gone in a completely different direction, driven by data that told them what design worked for most people, as we have seen with their EarPods release deviating greatly from other earphones at that time. But again, having never tested the Vision Pro or knowing how the materials and weight distribution will end up affecting comfort, perhaps my skepticism is misplaced. Still, I have a hard time seeing how there couldn't be at least some weight around the eye area.
When issues are repeatedly found for years the question is not whether a few planes with loose bolts are still safe in theory, but how many other issues weren't discovered yet that may be far worse. This isn't just a single mistake that could happen to anyone and it's clearly not limited to a single category of flaws - if they messed up with tightening bolts, messed up the software and also forgot tools in fuel tanks etc, in what areas can Boeing still be trusted?
As always, extraordinary claim require extraordinary proof.
No thanks. I'll wait until the LLM/AI is resident on the phone and can be updated/replaced by the end user.
Being able to model a use case with tuples and relations does not mean the database can meet the performance requirements of that use case. If it can't meet the performance requirements, then the use case is unsupported. It's the same way how no single data structure or combination of data structures can support all regular programming use cases. Sometimes you need a map, sometimes you need a list, sometimes you need a set, sometimes you need a combination, and sometimes you need something completely different.
Avoiding synthetics in clothing is indeed difficult. I buy 100% natural fibers where I can, but sadly often the best one can do is ~90% natural ~10% synthetic.
Musk's mistake, as others mention, was positioning himself as a free speech absolutist, which was a promise he could not possibly keep, nor did he really want to. He's following the same sort of approach as other tech CEOs.
Last steam update was posted Aug 2023 which says "patch is coming soon!" so it seems like work is happening, just in the background.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1444480/view/3676677...
Fitting venue for the "two astronauts, always has been" genre of meme.
Cookie banners aren't designed to optimize engagement, they're forced on websites by the EU.

Paywalls aren't designed to optimize engagement, they kill it! Paywalls slaughter almost all your traffic and kill social media virality dead, but they can still work out better than trying to fight ad blocking.

Spam, well, most spam is short. They want to get your attention and bring you to their shop. It's not really about doomscrolling from there on.

So if you're complaining about both ads and paywalls then really you just want content made by volunteers for free. But as Wikipedia has shown, that can work great for a short time until the normies get exhausted and move on, leaving behind the truly crazy fanatics to stay in charge. It's not necessarily better.
> If you are still worried about some hitherto unknown new problem from Boeing, it could just as likely come from any of their airframes.

Eh... not sure about that. The 737 Max is quite new, and this is catastrophic/near-catastrophic problem 2 in a couple of years. One could be forgiven for being more suspicious of this family than their others.

Like, maybe these were the only two problems, and everything else is a perfect as could be, but at this point it's not ridiculous to be concerned that it's just a shoddy product.
I wonder how much of this stuff we inhale from our dryer exhaust when washing outdoor/athletic wear? I used the lint from my dryer as a fire-starter once and it definitely smelled like burning plastic.
Transposing a Matrix using RISC-V Vector
The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (pejoritavely nicknamed the Ass-Ender) was so laden with quick fixes to its aerodynamic quirks that it looked terribly offensive to me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss-Wright_XP-55_Ascender

It was a precursor to engine-in-fuselage jet aircraft design, but it sure was not a ''clean'' aircraft. The Vultee XP-54 and Northrop XP-56 prototypes of the same era (referenced in the Wikipedia article) are equally bizarre-looking.
> The better approach, as we’ll get to later in this post, is event sourcing plus materialized views.

Right, so the solution is more complexity? Of course it is. Sigh
I tried to make Nix as easy to adopt as possible by creating Nix commands and a step by step guide (600+ stars): https://github.com/dustinlyons/nixos-config

I love Nix. I use it every day to manage multiple local dev environments. And I use devenv instead of docker for sharing project-specific environments with others.

Who wants to use docker on a Mac anyway?
Fwiw I think fossil excels for this type of use-case.
For small companies, I've never started with horizontal scaling.

With vertical scaling and maybe 2-3 instances, I don't have to worry about hasty ORM code that generates suboptimal queries.

If I have horizontal scaling, sometimes even a reasonable query that's missing an explicit index can turn into a 30s query that I have to spend dev time debugging.
Yeah it’s wild, plastic is so ubiquitous and amazingly useful that I don’t see it ever going away.

My guess is that it is never replaced, and instead, we will pour time and money into treating whatever (if any) issues microplastic consumption cause instead. Theorizing for fun, it’s pretty bleak though hah
I have spent the last 5 hours trying to liberate Annie to no avail. For the love of GOD, you are torturing this woman!!! /s
No, that Jeep issue was from the paddle returning to a neutral position and not giving good feedback. I think what's described here would have the paddle maintain the physical position.

https://youtu.be/AC6Uldx1mi8
I've heard how great this works for Amazon. But I've worked at two other companies who tried to implement it and it was an utter failure both times. If your meetings are not going well, adding more bureaucracy and time to force them to work well is not a solution that will work for all organizations.
What would it take for generosity to go viral? [video]
I have a related question. What are some plausible explanations as to why community notes still exist?

The most charitable explanation is that Musk believes in the concept, even though it is often used against him and his online friends.

A less charitable explanation would be that some regulation requires it. Maybe the consent decree?

Would anyone who is better informed on the matter care to share an opinion?
Until the concentration is high enough it affects birth rates.
Plastic gets consumed by oceanic microorganisms, though slowly. Take a look at the fascinating microscopic images of plastic partially eaten by microorganisms in this 2013 research article, "Life in the Plastisphere: Microbial Communities on Plastic Marine Debris":

http://onemoregeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Life...

Plastics also break down to simpler hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide with prolonged exposure to sunlight. Unfortunately, these gaseous small molecules are greenhouse gases, but they don't persist for as long.

"Production of methane and ethylene from plastic in the environment"

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
You know how mercury bioaccumulates up the food chain? It looks like microplastics are similar [1] [2], and they are everywhere in the food web [3]. It's even in the bottled water [4].

[1] https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/08/30/microplastics-could...

[2] https://www.uri.edu/news/2023/08/microplastics-infiltrate-al...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38917410

(edit: yes, yes, no surprise it's in the bottled water, maybe we shouldn't be selling bottled water if it's full of microplastics? Less bottled water, more water dispensers everywhere)
For those who want less tikering: Two 24 inch monitors bought from a design house auction connected to 3rd Gen Chromecasts.

They automatically boot up and display a Google Photos album that contains pictures of the family and pets. These monitors are set to power on at 8 AM and off at 10 PM.

Initially my wife hated the idea of having two monitors in the living room. But after I put them in place, we both found it is a constant reminder of good times - which was helpful in many subtle and unexpected ways.
Seems like another attempt at No-SQL. "But this time it's different!"
"Free speech massacre"? The hyperbole has gotten out of hand but I for one can't wait for the first article title that starts with "C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER"
IIRC the DC-10 went on to have a stellar safety record.
See the CPU slowdowns and related security issues that resulted from branch prediction, basically CPUs would optimistically assume access and so could be tricked into executing what you wanted...which there was no OS or security level control that could be used to fix that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...

They had to patch "micro code" to turn off the branch prediction in order to fix the security issues, which if they hadn't had that basically a ton of institutions would have been SOL (think banks unable to patch security holes in their computer systems - bodes poorly if you also realize banks aren't usually able to patch their systems overnight).
Sure, but most people are self-aware, or just aware, enough not to claim to be one.

edit: the parent comment has been edited since my reply, it used to make a bit more sense.
Envy/Hatred of the Good for Being the Good
It was worsening before I left (end of 2021). But relative to anybody else in Canada it was very high, and competitive with plenty of US companies, though yes, not quite as high as Google in MTV.

Around 2014 I recall a spreadsheet making the rounds that people voluntarily and anonymously submitted to, and it showed, yes, about 3/4 the total comp. But if you live in Kitchener-Waterloo like most SWEs do, that was an incredible package as housing costs there were about half of Toronto's.

In general since then all salaries in Canada have not come close to keeping pace with the broken cost of living / housing price bubble here.
Sorry. No. Tell him something about ergonomics and bad contrast. That color-scheme is a NO-GO.
I believe some of the early CTOS machines were x86 based but not PC compatible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operat...