skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your thinking here is pretty close to right, but it sounds like you may be a bit confused about the difference between "standard deviation" and "standard error". They're closely related, but it's very important to keep them distinct.

In your example, you have a random variable X that comes from some distribution parameterized by its mean m and its variance s^2. We can write this random variable as x ~ ?(m=1, s^2=1). Continuing your example, suppose we sample a sequence of n draws of this random variable X = [x1, x2, ... xn] and then take their sample mean f(X) = 1/n * sum(X). The value of the sample mean will vary depending on the sample we drew, so we want to know the properties of the sampling distribution of f(X), particularly as we increase n. The standard error is the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of f(X).
To be fair we were doing this in the 80s with crappy M42 lenses and slightly less scientific method. Pentax 50mm one that came with your GDR clunker could be pushed pretty hard if you were on a budget.

The main reason for this though was to make the bokeh look like it was from a more expensive lens.
Exact same situation here...

My wife thought the show couldn't be reality. I told her I'm confident that almost everything you see in this show happened in SV to at least someone, just not the same company/people in a short amount of time.

It's like if you took every story in SV history and compressed it to one company in 6 years.
Dual fuel is also useful if electricity is expensive but gas is cheap and if you know what the efficiency curves look like for your appliances. I recently did this calculation and effectively when ever a heat pump would be less than a COP of 4, my gas furnace would likely cost me less money for the same amount of heat output. Our electric rates have effectively doubled in the past 5 years while gas has dropped in price. Obviously this situation is going to be region-specific and gets even more complicated with time-of-use billing. Ideally a smart thermostat would be able to consider all these variables and pick the most cost effective heat source for a dual-fuel setup but I don't think any of them are quite that useful yet.

Only a handful of centrally ducted heat pumps on the NEEP list (https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product_list/) have COP >4 at 5F outdoor temperatures.
Google doesn't care, they knowingly implemented the mother of all illegal antipattern cookie banners and only changed it after getting fined over $100M.

If the risk is a lawsuit after years of anticompetitive behaviour - if they're unlucky - that's absolutely worth it for Google. Chrome is now THE web browser platform with the only two remaining notable exceptions being competitors in name only, and no single lawsuit can just reverse that.
Embedding the Sophia runtime into Go applications
Or fewer than 20,000 bugs.
it's not faster, it's about as fast as C++ compiled with O3 optimizations. which is great and also much more likely to be true.
Wikipedia mentions revenues for the game being $8.5 billion. It obviously didn't hurt too much!
I was mentioning two possible inventions, separately:

1. Superconductors that retain their properties above -190C but not much higher. It is more probable scenario and would be a huge win on its own.

2. Superconductors at -23C. This ones obviously doesn't need liquid gasses to operate, and so would be even more revolutionary (more compact, cheaper and efficient). But it is unlikely (to me) that we can see such a techlogical leap in one go, without first finding something that works between -23 and -190.
Equium is using helium, a non renewable gas. Not a greenhouse gas but not really sustainable either.
A huge +1 for automating all the things as a form of practice! I don’t even think that you have to (strictly speaking) end up saving time on a particular task for a lot of automation to be worth it. The act of practicing automation makes you more efficient at future automation. Even a failed attempt at automating something can teach you stuff about why certain things are hard to automate that can make you a better engineer.

Getting in the habit of automating stuff in your editor and environment can also have a real snowballing effect. Yes, you end up “wasting” some time with yak shaves that don’t work out. But it doesn’t take long before the scope of what you can tackle in a day grows. It’s really profound how much friction you can remove, and how much friction there is in fresh environments.

Also, and ymmv, but a lot of repetitive tasks can be pretty soul crushing. Too much toil and you can come to dread your job. Automating something away almost always feels rewarding to me. Keeping yourself happy and motivated in your work should also count for something.
OpenBSD is in fact already pretty much user-friendly.
Installer is simple, althought an a textual interface.
It comes with preinstalled X server and window managers fvwm and cwm.
In the installer you can choose Xenodm to start automatically after boot, it would be your display manager and you can just simply login through it to fvwm. From here you can edit .xsession and choose any window manager you installed or pre-installed cwm.
Copy&patch seems not much worse than compiling pure Python with Cython, which roughly corresponds to "just call whatever CPython API functions the bytecode interpreter would call for this bunch of Python", so that's roughly a baseline for how much overhead you get from the interpeter bit.
I don't know, I think there needs to be some form of unambiguous BS pushback signal, a gradient that starts with minimal intrusion on discussion along the lines of "people are starting to notice that some of us are talking past our pay grade." Not saying anything at all amounts to an endorsement of penalty free bullshiting, and after enough of this the hard-won cultural expectations start to shift about what constitutes acceptable participation.

There's a spectrum between Reddit on one end, and the typical IRC channel fiefdom with its mod-permissioned voicing, invisible banhammer tripwires, and admonitions to LuRK MoAR, on the other, and I think HN is in a sweet spot/zone somewhere between those extremes, but perhaps might need an adjustment in the direction of the latter.

Downvoting/flagging somewhat furnishes this signalling, but it's too ambiguous of a signal and is often abused by people who simply want to suppress information that is perfectly valid but not to their liking.

This is where a slashdot type of lightly sentiment-coded moderation system really may be worth bringing back into fashion.
Excuse my ignorance... but what refactoring tools do you speak of? I'm accustomed to the basic ones in VS code but I have a feeling I'm missing something greater judging by your comment
At one point I installed a filter on my IM client to silently discard trivial messages like "thanks" and "OK". There were already delivery indicators so nothing was lost.

Perhaps a hello filter and "yes?" auto responder could help, at least during business hours. Then send an OOO message if after hours.
I assumed these were user-agent strings
Although I agree his words could've been chosen more carefully, they come from someone used to work with computers. Not his forte.
MS waged a lot more open war against Netscape, and documented their desire to "extinguish", "smother", and "cut off Netscape's air supply".

Google is doing more "eternal irritation by 1000 papercuts". Never one big blow, never aiming to kill Firefox, they're financing it after all. Firefox needs to exist but never be attractive to users, especially on the phone where tracking is next level.

I think plausible deniability does a lot of the heavy lifting here. But statistically speaking Firefox being the one browser hit constantly by a stream of random Google issues can't be random.

The legal and regulatory landscape changed a lot since then too, with Big Tech slowly but constantly lobbying and pushing a lot more than just these tactics into normalcy. A lot of what's normal today was outrageous in the '90s.
The piece you're missing, beyond just "gas is cheap", is that increasing the heating capacity of a heat pump costs lots of money when installing it, whereas increasing the capacity of a gas boiler isn't much more expensive during installation, but costs loads more when running it.

So technically it would be possible to install a heat pump with the same capacity as the existing gas boiler, but it would costs a ton more and it would all be upfront.
You can't really on type annotations to help interpret the code.
> you have to deep-dive into different frameworks, different tools that all do the same thing in the end

you aren't forced to use these frameworks and tools. You can chuck a NIH syndrome, and just write everything from scratch.

The only reason you wouldn't is because you aren't interested in programming as a craft in itself, but is only interested in the output and productivity.
Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect
just like the the anti drug injecting lighting of the cinema toilets
That license is not FOSS. Users beware of the impending subscription costs to come.
But WiFi 6E is approved in Europe? I'm in Sweden and my U6-Enterprise is perfectly happy broadcasting in the 6GHz bands without any region hacks.
There is a free Polars user guide [0] as a part of Polars project. It was known as "polars-book" before it has been was in-tree [1].

[0] https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/

[1] https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/tree/main/docs/user-guide
If no one carries the responsibility, no one will care. Maybe the team who worked on that moved on and what’s done is done. Not sure if R* has a team that does optimization only?
this was a big obstacle for pypy specifically

https://www.pypy.org/posts/2011/05/numpy-follow-up-692862769...

https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#what-about-numpy-num...

i'm not sure what version they gave up at
It's one of those occasional intersections where we are reminded that our reputation within HN comments does not reflect the outside world.
But you can still post racism inside /b/?
... and your heat pump is on the ground, easily accessible.

What if you live on the Xth floor? Your gas burner is small enough to be all inside and easily serviceable when it breaks in the middle of winter (why would it even consider breaking in summer?). Where do you put the much larger heat pump and how do you reach it?
Maureen Flavin Sweeney Dies at 100; Her Weather Report Delayed D-Day
I imagine the focus is on creating new things instead of fixing old things, since that will have more obvious and marketable impacts. The whales might tolerate longer load times over stale content.
No, I actually use Kagi both on my Laptop and on my Firefox on Android.

It has one killer feature: you can block Pinterest from spamming your results.
This is the right answer. I estimate no more than 1 human in a million can choose such a number at random.

Therefore if a human picks a number between 1 and 1 million, there's only a 1 in a million chance that the number was picked randomly.
Another approach is to heat the interior walls and ceiling instead of heating the air.

Neglecting clothes for a few minutes, your body both radiates heat and absorbs it. When you are in thermal equilibrium you feel warm. If your walls and roof had low grade radiant heaters on them and emitted enough infrared to balance your own outgoing radiation, you’d be warm, even if the air temperature was cold and you had no clothes on.

So if you covered your ceiling with cheap thin iron sheet metal and built small induction coils behind them and heated the ceiling instantly, you could instantly feel warm in a cool room. Exit the room and you turn everything off…letting it lose its tiny amount of heat.

So proper system design could let you have low latency zone heating. Since you usually don’t use all the rooms in your house at the same time, there ought to be more than 50% efficiency in that sort of a system.

2. Our current approach of heating the whole house through forced air is much less satisfying than having a concentrated heat source (like a fireplace) that you can just walk towards and get as much heat as you want out of. Maybe psychological factors might play in…if you “could” be warm with just a little bit of effort maybe you won’t mind being colder than normal. Maybe heat gradients are better for you than uniformly high heat.
Cython? :o
Well someone did just write "'now you have two problems' b-bazinga. Software engineering is hard."

I don't blame them for the lock.
Rather those that don't know how to use the toolchains don't.

JIT caches, AOT have been an option for years.

And if you are really motivated, you can write stuff in C just like in Python.
Implements a unique 'Frequently Used Character Quantification' (Fucq) algorithm

Test 1

Input Length: 85731
FucqEncoded Length: 52620, Compression Ratio: 1.629
Status: COMPRESSED

Test 2

Input Length: 85851
FucqEncoded Length: 52740, Compression Ratio: 1.628
Status: COMPRESSED

Test 3

Input Length: 85953
FucqEncoded Length: 52622, Compression Ratio: 1.633
Status: COMPRESSED
But apparmor is more complex system and in fact is an RBAC.
unveil(2) is much more easier in implementation and enforcing.
https://sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-faster-t...
One thing that i self-regconized is, the more lazy you are, the better tool you'll implement ! Only lazy people can know what to automate to keep being lazy at work.

The "busy" developers never or hardly see that problem, because they're happy with their business already !
I think bingchat is more likely to be what eventually supplants google. They funded the ai that created the garbage autogen pages, now they can use more ai to solve it for you in exchange for the low low price of your attention. Tesla will likely supplant google maps any day now when they release an offering. People pay tesla to drive cameras with computer vision around. Google has plenty of altitude and time to correct itself, but probably not as much as it thinks it does. It won't die but it might go dormant for a decade or more like MS.

Edit: I'm not saying tesla is building a street view clone. I can't imagine they have the bandwidth for that. But the cars recognize construction, speed cameras, police cars, red lights, red light cameras, stop signs and read speed limit signs, which all gets sent back up in real time. They might have to pay to augment their traffic data until enough people without teslas start using the app.
You can edit /etc/firefox/unveil.main and add string like "~/Documents rwx" so it would be available from firefox
I use restic daily to s3 and local.

I use bash scripts and have a ntfy.sh update if it fails.

Recommend it. Main issue with borg was a gigantic cache.
Do you live in a hot, humid climate? I think a lot of those water alarm stickers show false positives if people move from a cold, air conditioned place to the humid outdoors. Condensation is unavoidable unless you wrap the laptop in fairly airtight bag every time you go out.
How the corporate-sociocultural alliance shaped our times
The studies discussed in the article state that practice accounts for just 26% (violin playing) and 18% (athletic performance) of what counts for being elite.

So no, the whole point is that a swimmer with the wrong build wouldn't get anywhere close to gold just with lots of practice.
They claim it's water damage no matter the issue as soon as the indicators are triggered, though.
> ... We have a bad fame.

HN is too orange.
The whack-a-mole litany of significant and dangerous defects (control system, loose bolts, de-icing…) suggests a QA problem: the aircraft systems and manufacturing systems were not designed to fail safe in the first place.

As the saying goes, you can’t test quality into a product.

At some point we probably will have to throw in the towel, which would probably kill Boeing, at least for civilian flight.
Unity believes they can make up new charges on already released products that upend business models. A higher but predictable percentage of sales can be appealing compared to that.
That's not quite true. Plutonium is definitely not one of the most corrosive materials. It does have some peculiarities [1]. But they are not that relevant for plutonium pits, and the 7 stable phases are not that relevant either. Plutonium pits are made of an alloy of plutonium and gallium, which makes plutonium take the delta phase, and it makes it about 20 times more stable than unalloyed plutonium. Is it perfectly stable in this form? No, because plutonium decays, so after decades things can happen. But after how many decades? People don't know for sure, but it's many decades. The US decided to start rebuilding 30 pits per year from 2026 on and 80 from 2030. At more than 5000 nukes in the inventory, each pit would be rebuilt after more than six decades. Keep in mind that right now we are not doing that at all, and haven't been doing it for about 3 decades.

Bottom line, Russia's plutonium weapons are fine (unfortunately).

[1] https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00818031.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium%E2%80%93gallium_allo...

[3] https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-sci...
You can say: if your function is a mess, or you got stuck, try changing the arguments ?
You might want to checkout Mojo, which is not a runtime but a different language, but also designed to be a superset of Python. Beware though that it's not yet open source, which is slated for this Q1

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/

edit: The main point I forgot to mention - it aims to compete with "low-level" languages like C and Rust in performance
Did you torque every bolt every time before every flight?
Not so bad compared to what I tried a few years ago. Might finally be usable for us...
> heated the ceiling instantly, you could instantly feel warm in a cool room

Having lived in a place with ceiling heating, after the first couple of uses, I turned it off because it did nothing more than give me a headache.
I really wouldn't mind Python being faster than it is and I really didn't mind at all getting an practically free ~30% performance increase just by updating to 3.11. There's tons of applications which just passively benefit from these optimizations. Sure, you might argue "but you shouldn't have written that parser or that UI handling a couple thousand items in Python" but lots of people do and did just that.
Funny but serious q: anyone used this as drop in replacement? Who wouldn’t want to use less memory and get faster backups??
A heat pump that is used on the exhaust of a low efficiency furnace might turn it into a high efficiency furnace. This would have other benefits because you would not have to throw away an old furnace for no reason.

ANY inefficient technology could get an efficiency boost just by using a heat pump.

But for this to happen HPs would have to be much much cheaper.
UX started with hardware, it was just called human factors. And most of what they came up with then gets forgotten today.
Weird title. Just to pick one point: considering Apple has very little to do with the AI hype (Siri still sucks!), it seems pretty crazy to call Apples stock value related to the "AI bubble".
Interstate 5 (I-5) holds immense significance in Portland as it is one of the major north-south freeways in the city. With a high traffic volume, it plays a crucial role in the transportation infrastructure of the region. However, it also has a reputation as one of the deadliest highways in the Pacific Northwest, making driver safety a significant concern.

The impact of I-5 on the transportation infrastructure is substantial, as it serves as a key arterial route for commuters and commercial traffic. Its connection to other freeways in the region, such as I-84 and I-405, further enhances its importance in the overall transportation network.

Key features of I-5 in Portland include its six to eight-lane configuration, multiple interchanges, and strategic location in the city. Its impact on driver safety cannot be overlooked, as its high traffic volume and frequent accidents require constant attention and maintenance.

In conclusion, Interstate 5 is a critical and heavily utilized artery in the Portland area, with both positive and negative implications for transportation infrastructure and driver safety.

According to James Loren, an experienced Car Accident Attorney with Goldberg & Loren, "We see around 30% of our serious accident cases stemming from incidents on and around the I-5. While automobile accidents are high in general when it comes to Portland, the I-5 causes the most casualties."

Interstate 5, also known as the 5 Freeway, is a major highway that stretches from the U.S.-Mexico border to the U.S.-Canada border, with a high volume of traffic including an abundance of commercial trucking. Commercial trucks contribute to danger on the 5 Freeway due to their size, weight, and sometimes inexperienced drivers, increasing the risk of accidents. For example, if a commercial truck loses control on a steep downhill grade, it can lead to a catastrophic collision.

Bad weather, including heavy rain and fog, also poses a significant danger on the 5 Freeway. It decreases visibility and makes the road surface slippery, leading to an increased likelihood of accidents. In low visibility, drivers may fail to see hazards or other vehicles in time to react, resulting in collisions.

The steepness of certain sections of the 5 Freeway can also contribute to danger, especially for drivers of smaller vehicles who may struggle to maintain control while descending or ascending. Reckless behaviors, such as speeding, tailgating, and distracted driving, further exacerbate the risk of accidents on the 5 Freeway.

In conclusion, the combination of commercial trucks, bad weather, low visibility, steepness, and reckless behaviors all contribute to the potential danger on Interstate 5, making it essential for drivers to exercise caution at all times.
https://turbli.com/blog/the-safest-transport-modes-ranked-by...
Australia's Semiconductor National Moonshot
I run a building with 5 apartments with central water based wood fire heating, ie a furnace and radiators in various rooms. It's brick construction with no insulation. It's absolutely stupidly constructed.

The central heating is still there and used sometimes, but I installed mini-split reverse cycle air conditioners in each apartment and they work great, you just have to size them (power wise) correctly. They were 550-700 euros each installed. It's much much cheaper to pay for electricity than the equivalent amount of wood, even after the cost of the units. There are various additional benefits like being able to use the aircons when it's briefly cold, or you just want to warm up the space a bit. You also get cooling for no additional charge of course.

Mini split systems are not always the best solution, but they are another useful option to be weighed against larger central heat pump systems. All depends on the situation, but heat pumps are the present and future, nothing else makes sense.
A headache how? Because of noise or too much heat up above you?
Fighting corruption of the government doesn't undermine the country. Hiding it does.
Your comparison to the Amazon mp3s doesn't match at all the current, unprecedented situation.

The obvious issue is that copyrighted material was used without permission, and an opt-out feature was introduced without any way to remove already used training data.

If the copyrighted data that OpenAI is copying is causing financial harm to the rightful owner there is certainely grounds for copyright infringement. This is not fair use.

It is not fair to try and draw metaphors.
Ibis, a Python dataframe created by the creator of pandas, uses DuckDB as the default backend and generally beats Polars on these benchmarks (with exceptions on some queries)
Europe at last has an answer to Silicon Valley