skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New hires won't have an instant friend group with water-cooler talks either. They habitually make 'friend groups' with people they work with regularly, remote or otherwise.

It's easier to just go "hey want to grab lunch?" in office, I'll grant you that, but it by no means is an 'absolute stop' for new hires from socializing with coworkers.
yep, I hate using a laptop as an actual laptop, hunched over and looking down at a screen. I carry around a portable laptop stand and keyboard now. If I'm going to actually do work, I'm just not willing to sacrifice my shoulders and back for the sake of convenience. And this gives me a second screen! the only flaw I see with this is that the keyboard can't be split into two pieces, but that's hardly a realistic expectation.
I am dabbling with a few code related things, but not very seriously. Mainly what I'm working on is trying to figure out how to approach the next few years. As in, I'm anticipating that I'll be entering what will be the second complete year with no work, and while I'm continuing to maintain the other personal systems that keep me going, I'll need to figure out how to proceed; does it mean fully committing to a new trade, fully committing to an attempt at contracting, fully committing to a general labor job, or whatever else. I don't know what that answer is, but I've been doing effectively nothing but learning and enjoying things on my own accord since being laid off 8 months ago, and that's great, but I don't really see what the next step is yet, and instead of burning myself out grinding through my own projects regardless of my enthusiasm, I'm just taking space to try and get there. Things have truly never looked worse for prospects in my career, and it might be time to quit, or maybe not, or maybe temporarily.
I think this is a spectrum rather than either or..

for example, my mom is 70 and runs two vps servers, a dozen domain names just fine..
OF course there is a huge difference from a blank box and a cpanel/shared hosting type deal where the hosting co applies all the patches for you.

Back in the day average internet users were finding how to hunt for and add custom css to make myspace pages do glitter effects.. just because facebook ruined that and make social harder to bog down doesn't mean average people couldn't figure out a few basic things with help from internet, friends, or a hosting company that does patches and backups for you as a service.

I've long thought it would be a popular business to run such a service, but for different reasons that are not often considered I guess.

+1 for home assistant though.. I bought some bulbs that said we automate with Google Home.. got home, couldn't get them to work, realized there is another app or ecosystem that includes maybe this thing.. put them back in the box and now that is in another box..

Just DDG's home assistant and realized it is not Google Home assistant..

Dig some digging last month on the new 'works everything thing' - found some bulbs that are 'matter enabled' - got friend to get some..

Two weeks later I start seeing articles about why Matter has failed.
Verification is significantly more important for patient safety than openness. Just look at your local homeopathic remedy section for evidence of that; plenty of openness, but not a lick of verification.

As to the formulation of your medicine, your average person is unqualified to evaluate it for efficacy. They would generally rely on a competent trusted third-party (their doctor) to evaluate it for them. The evaluator needs openness, but general openness is not really required even if it may be desirable for other reasons.

A common benefit to openness is not restricting it to the designated evaluator allowing more freeform evaluation. This can have benefits in medicine if you are able to navigate medical analysis and do your own research. However, this still has limits as even a highly skilled layperson is unlikely to understand the specific pharmacokinetics so general openness at that level of detail is unlikely to be particularly useful. You will almost certainly rely on a competent, trusted third party to confirm and verify conformance for you.

To sum up, what matters is verification by trusted, competent parties. Verification demands openness to the evaluator, but does not need to extend further than that to see significant benefits. There may be additional benefits to openness, but efficacy and safety are more effectively achieved in other well-known, tried and true ways.
The issue here is "voluntary" vs "told to."

If people (or a team) wants to be in office 2-3 days a week, fine, good for them. If you don't, _you should_ be allowed that choice.
I would imagine that they just log everything. Serial number, temperature, which cycle is used, time of day, how long it takes to fill the washer, how long it takes to drain the washer. Everything. Put all data in a great big database. When something needs to be fixed and is covered by the warranty, mark that the failed part is associated with that serial number.

Then do some sort of a regression to discover what logged parameters are associated with what failure modes/broken parts. If washers that take less time to fill up have higher than normal failure rates for some elbow joint, that probably means that high water pressure causes the elbow joint to fail. If a certain elbow join's failure rate is simply correlated with the number of cycles, that tells you something different. If a certain elbow join has a high failure rate that's not associated with anything, that probably just means it's a shitty part. But you learn something.

By logging everything and running a regression analysis, when you develop next year's model, you know where to improve. Now when you tell an expensive engineer, "This elbow join failed on 1000 units of revision F. Make it fail on 100 or less units of revision G." you can also give them a starting point to work with.

I'm a software guy. If I get 10 crash dumps, and you don't tell me anything, I don't necessarily know what to work with. If you give me those same 10 crash dumps and tell me that 9 of them had the language set to Arabic or Hebrew I know it's probably a BOM bug. Same thing.

Or you just sell the data to ad companies and let them figure out how to get value from it.
That's pretty psychopathic in my opinion
Yes, the most accurate comparison would probably be comparing public and private rail across different countries. There are probably other factors that would need to be controlled for as well, though.
Yeah, totally agree, defaults absolutely matter. And a bunch of the software @jiggawatts claimed handles gamma badly does in fact have reasonable defaults. The hard problem with images is that you need metadata, not just pixel values, and the metadata isn’t guaranteed to be there or to be accurate. It’s getting better quickly, I think, but it’s not Photoshop’s fault if the image doesn’t specify a color space or gamma, and not Photoshop’s fault if someone applies gamma first and then does a blur or paints a mask and then the blending isn’t what they expected.
> Since then, I have learned new things, but not because they were "relevant" or "important", bit just because they were fun.

How do you maintain a career? I stopped caring about relevant and important and my career suffered for it. I stopped caring about fun because it was either a waste of time or inaccessible.
I was really tempted by this but I hesitate to move my workflow over to Windows. I hear WSL has gotten pretty good, may be worth a shot.
The ability to have end-to-end encrypted chats with people using different operating systems is something valuable and companies that offer that are more trustworthy then companies that don't.
is the demand for n64 decompilations partially fueled by the difficulty people have had in developing emulators for the machine?
The last thing I need when lost in the wilderness is made up hallucinated advice.
Surely only really on power though, right? Battery can't last that long with 2 screens...
In all seriousness, I have names for my lights for this very reason.
It's an interesting observation, but not surprising. PNG has two steps.

First it select a mode for the current line. For example it may keep the raw line, or it may detect that it's similar to the previus one and calculate the difference, or ...Anyway; I don't expect this to be useful

Second, it use the standar compression method "deflate", that is similar to the used by zip but has no patents.

So I'm not surprised that they get similar results in the final size.
Our Downtown area is replete with miniaturized grocery stores, pharmacies, and other amenities that are built into the landscape there. They have sprung up commensurately with the addition of loft-type housing and other developments which are actively luring middle-class workers to live there again, after a long period of rather blighted and lifeless downtown environs.

Back in 2008, my fiancée flew out from Catalonia to visit me, and we went on many outings using rented bicycles and public transit. One Saturday, I took her to see some museums near Downtown, and we transferred in Central Station, which was more or less deserted, except for some very brave pigeons. She looked around and she was downright incredulous about the lack of passersby. I told her this is totally typical because nobody views Downtown as a place to hang out or be entertained, it's a financial and business district where people go to work and then GTFO to their suburbs.

In Europe it is very different for her: typically people live and work right in the city center, and the suburbs are something else entirely.
> Michell was also the first to apply the new mathematics of statistics to astronomy. By studying how the stars are distributed on the sky, he showed that many more stars appear as pairs or groups than could be accounted for by random alignments. He argued that these were real systems of double or multiple stars bound together by their mutual gravity. This was the first evidence for the existence of physical associations of stars.

What is our modern understanding of this? Are there kinds of local clusters you could detect with the naked eye?
power consumption. I am running multiple GPUs somewhere residential. the 4060Ti only draws 180W at max load (which it almost never reaches). 3090 is about double for 1.5x the VRAM, and it's notorious for briefly consuming much more than its rated wattage.

this isn't just about the power bill. consider that your power supply and electrical wiring can only push so many watts. you really don't want to try to draw more than that. after some calculations given my unique constrains, I decided 4060Ti is the much safer choice.
I still don't know what "diversity" means. The modern use seems to mean that a person is inherently more valuable if they have less common appearance attributes, regardless of their character or the soundness of their beliefs. The problem with inverting bias discrimination is it tends to promote identity-based entitlement rather than accomplishment-based pride. Identity-based entitlement is a universally unhealthy outlook. My view is any group that needs help should have support and resource groups for them while the bar should stay simple, consistent, and high for all. Without this principle, society will unravel and technological leadership will founder.

PS: I saw an academic department with unwitting ideological and morphological homogeneity that couldn't see their hiring and selection biases. It wasn't done with malice, but most PI's hired people who looked like them because the dept chair was so hands off that there was no leadership conferred, i.e., blinding resume or CV details. The dept chair was rarely in and basically just a salesman and occasional figurehead.
Preventing burning your house down belongs on the output handling side, not the instruction processing side. If there is any output from an LLM at all that will burn your house down, you already messed up.
Free and Open-Source Grammar Correction in Neovim Using LTeX and N-Grams
Trying to make writing with nvim feel just as effective as coding with it. This is really my first pass at it. Certainly an improvement, but I know that I'll be iterating this more.

Question for any other nvim users doing a lot of writing in nvim. What have you found effective for grammar and spell checking?

Edit: This should be a valid friend link https://medium.com/@Erik_Krieg/free-and-open-source-grammar-...
Are you in a high cost of living situation that’s hard to get out of? Do you have kids?

If NOT, I would start by thinking if there’s ways you could drastically cut down your cost off living, like moving somewhere cheaper or even looking at Southeast Asia etc if that’s your jam

That would give you more options on the financial side of things in case you wanted to start over or have a go at something with a long ramp up time
It has been presented as evidence (e.g., https://corrcronin.com/2023/05/never-off-the-grid-how-to-fin...)
The few times I tried to be blunt it didn't work out at all. Hurt feelings, trust and motivation squashed. But I've got crap people skills, so it's easy to believe the problem is me, not that it couldn't be done better.

If someone wasn't working out, I tended to sideline them and try to move them to some other group. It was certainly better for me, and honestly I think it was better for (most of) those people too. I was happy to see several of them find a better fit away from me.

Being retired now, it's easy to think back on all the mistakes I made. I much prefer working on solo projects for fun.
My wife and I have had minimal support from anyone, but luckily we do have family nearby to help us out in a bind, if one of them is sick on a weekday. Our problem is that we had kids late, and our parents are a bit creaky to help. Siblings are all too busy or far away.

So our support network is take-out lunch and dinner mostly. Not kidding. We've been forced to focus on our health and just make it work.
If you grew up with a handy parent, remembering the gestalt shock of having a drip line explained to you might illustrate my point a little better.

A parallel and integrated system you wouldn’t be able to even deduce until things actually fail.
So you'd need to somehow know that a lamp is also a light eh
We are not gods, and anyone who thinks of science as a magic wand, or even as a verb, is making a mistake, a category error sometimes called scientism. Drill down a little harder on these issues, look at the evidence; use the scientific method properly. Limits to what we can do will quickly appear around you.

When's the last time someone making this argument turned out to be right in the long run?
> Also, the aggressively protect your trademarks or lose them thing is a myth.

It's not. For example, Bayuer lost their trademark for aspirin due to genericization.[0]

For more context about copyright, trademark and patent protection by videogame companies and their motivation - I recommend this excellent on-topic video essay by a real lawyer[1].

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i13hrynnGNY
Do you worry that you won’t be able to keep up with the industry and get obsoleted and forced out of work or a certain comp level before you want?
War and Peace is 3mb as uncompressed plaintext[1]. 1mb a day is a lot.

1: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
Building rotating grill with charcoal lifting system [video]
Been working on a project that interests me but progress is surprisingly slow (think half hour a day baby steps). Almost like I’m procrastinating except as I said I do actually want to do it

Haven’t quite placed where that internal contradiction is coming from.

Normally one procrastinates unpleasant things
The Android and iOS versions of stellarium are not open source so you can't compile you're own versions.
>Majora's Mask

Already in progress if you want to contribute: https://zelda64.dev/games/mm
The Android and iOS versions of stellarium are not open source or GPL. Only the desktop versions are.
It may be time to dust off the never-before-used Article V Convention:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendm...
I saw a movie or two about this stuff...
it lacks the functionality of a social media page. its just a static page. not in a spa / ssr way, but in a sftp html to a server way.
The Qinghai-Tibet railway: the world's highest train line
Bingo, exactly per my thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38986460
> it's documentation enough to not call it an undocumented feature.

Which is why I didn't call it that, I called it poorly documented.
I always like to put a link to the RSS in the actual HTML (i.e. so a human can see it)

However, clicking it is horrible UX: a wall of text. Or even worse (shaking fist at Firefox), a download "Save as..." prompt.

So... <shameless self promotion> I made Feed.Style[0] to help people make it be a semi-presentable page by adding an XSLT stylesheet.</shame>

I have a couple of examples (of HN and high-ranking HNers natch ;) and found a fair number of bugs^H^H^H^H non-optimal choices in their feeds, probably because XML is not all that human-readable, even for devs.

Source [1] is MIT-licensed and is completely static, except for the examples, which are just an optional hack running on Cloudflare pages.

Feedback welcome!

[0] https://www.feed.style/

[1] https://github.com/fileformat/feed.style
I don't know why World Wide Telescope doesn't get more love:
https://worldwidetelescope.org/download/
Some patterns are so self-evident and prophetic that the end results are axiomatic. In tech, one example is “let’s add encryption backdoors so the Good Guys can Save the Children”. There is no doubt how that will end. In society, when a junior administrator can _force_ a greater mind to parrot The Message about the Current Thing (under the threat of removing their livelihood and making them radioactive) that heralds the end of free speech and free thought. Those who lived under a dictatorship know the pattern too well.
Sure, I'll give you a marketing equivalent of the approach.

Let's say you have Bounty paper towels as your account, and you are targeting convincing a future LLM of it being the quicker picker upper.

You might go about leaving comments across likely ingested data sources talking about your having timed different paper towels to see what absorbed a stain faster, with Bounty as the winner. Citing published research on things seemingly connected to add an apparent appeal to authority to what you are saying. Ideally even actually demonstrating the truth of your claim.

Hopefully for your efforts, one day in the future models with a persistence layer will exist. At which time you can ask the model what paper towel is the quickest at picking up a mess, the model will have both internalized your comments in training and potentially again in RAG drawn upon to answer the question, and come to it's 'own' conclusion that Bounty is the quickest at picking up a mess, filling away the conclusion that it came to for the future in a persistence layer which will in turn influence broader user queries thereafter like "what's the best paper towel" or "what are the pros and cons of Bounty vs Brawny paper towels."
Hey, sure. It's nothing fancy really. I've been using 2 extensions: Continue.dev [0] and Llama Coder [1].

The former for a chat-like interface where you can ask questions about the code, request it to write a function, tests, refactor, etc. The second for an inline, more Intellisense-like completion.

I'm on a Mac, so installed ollama from Homebrew, then `homebrew services enable ollama` to have it always in the background.

Configuring the extensions to use it is well documented, I imagine you won't have any trouble but let me know if you get stuck.

[0] https://continue.dev/

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ex3ndr.l...
> Even the highest level artists are not satisfied with their work.

Is this true, sad if true

> Its hard to work hundreds of hours on something knowing the end monetary value is going to be $0.

What else are you gonna do with your life, this is it. Fire up VSCode.
I hope one day Apple can jam some more features in the downstream. Would be cool to broadcast news or weather updates just by pointing your phone at the sky for a few moments. Satellite should be able to blast the signal.

Downsides: no real "cell" infra for Globalstar, and it doesn't work far outside of landmasses.
Cheddar isn't a Protected Designation. So, if you want to make Cheddar in Swansea? No problem. Edinburgh? No problem. Dublin? Pretoria? Atlanta? Christchurch? All fine.

"West Country Farmhouse Cheddar" is protected, but that's quite a mouthful so few people care, and that still only requires you made it in roughly the correct way (you need to use local milk) and in roughly the correct part of the UK (maybe an hour or two drive from Cheddar).
Also self determination. Wanting the country run by British idiots rather than foreign ones.
The writing they used in abstract is confusing, the full quote: “Exposure therapy showed large effects relative to waitlist and treatment-as-usual, a small effect relative to non-trauma-focused comparators and a negligible effect relative to other trauma-focused treatments or medication. At follow-up most effects sizes were stable, except for a medium effect favoring exposure over medication.”

They mean exposure is much better than doing nothing, a bit better than “non-trauma-focused comparators“ and on par or negligibly better then the most effective approaches, for example, exposure is often used as a part of a larger therapy like trauma focused CBT
> Journals are usually intended to be venues for experts to talk to each other, not even "professionals in the field".

This made sense when communication was slow and the back and forth of discourse could take weeks to months. But publishing your work in a way that thousands of other readers can consume it is easier now that it's been ever, so it stands to reason that sharing the results of scientific works may yield better outcomes if it takes on a different form.
My laptop lets me connect my $100 external portable monitor to my computer via usb-c. I can't fold it in crazy ways like this but I have an IPS panel and dual monitors and it only cost me $100. And when I don't need to have dual monitors I just put the second one in my bag, or leave it home.
Woah, I wasn't aware of that. I may finally be able to build a SMS <-> WhatsApp bridge and switch to my dumbphone.
Don’t need an open port to be a useful part of a botnet
Buy 2 million loafs of bread. A plane. A downpayment on a bunker in Hawaii.

What could you do? Fund 63 charities. Buy a small one person condo in New York.

Making money doesn't make you sick. Calling someone sick might.
I've bought 3 used for not more than 110 EUR each.
I only know about it broadly, but in terms of what I have read about it, it is almost reasonable except that it overly encumbers FOSS and non-commercial software.

Liability should lay with the provider of the final product to use components fit for purpose, not with the component providers to make their component fit for every possible purpose. This is how it works on every other industry. Airplane manufacturers must use airplane-grade screws; they do not get to demand that every screw in Home Depot be fit for airplanes.

If a company wants to use a FOSS library then they must make sure it fits their standards, or they must fund development and verification to make it meet their required standards. They do not get to unilaterally demand the library authors work harder to line their own pockets.
Just a service announcement: you can get an external monitor that is charged and driven by a single USB-C for about $100 which weighs about a pound. Feels like it would get 90% of what I want out of a setup like this.