skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plot summary: a man swims in a series of other people's swimming pools while working through some personal issues.

The story is allegory. The movie uses cinematic techniques to enhance the presentation and the acting is of high quality.
> War happens when one party thinks that the other party is weak enough to be attacked.

Citation needed. Besides what does it even mean? Is weakness on one part a necessary or a sufficient condition for war, or is it meant in some other sense?
> Unhelpful error codes, complex fixes ... When did Windows turn into Linux?

Hmm
From the NatGeo link, I particularly liked:

> As for Geronimo, Heter reported that he had a “priority reservation on the first ship into the hinterland,” accompanied by a harem of three young females.
I created an account in 2012 or so but never used it, 0 followers, 0 followed. To this day I still receive daily "Your twitter confirmation code is" emails, I guess someone is still trying to get into it, probably to turn it into a bot account.
The problem with the poor surviving entirely on debt is that it creates the illusion of stability, so if a stranger looks at their life from the outside they go 'well, Bob's doing fine, he has a car and an apartment and can eat 2-3 times a day.' But then Bob gets sick just enough exactly once, and he gets fired because his employer isn't legally mandated to give him enough sick days or keep him around, and then he gets evicted because he has no savings, and then his car gets repossessed because he can't make the payments without a job, and then he can't get a new job because he needs a car to drive to work from the homeless shelter. And Bob still has 4-5 digits in credit card debt.

Even worse still if he ends up sick enough to be hospitalized. Then he's probably got 5-7 digits worth of medical debts on top of being homeless and jobless.

The problem isn't (IMO) the standard of living for america's poor, it's the precarity. At any moment even a small accident could ruin your life if you're poor in this country.
> "The volume is the same because you can't change the volume of the voice in your head, only the tone and pitch."

Huh? That's not true at all, I shouted "I like crickets" in my head so loudly I told myself to stop shouting it's giving me a headache. I said this sentence in my head too, of course.
Speaker cables are literally balanced, unless you're grounding them at the speaker. I grant you that if you're grounding them at the amp it's 'fake balanced', but if you're running an amp with an output transformer then it's literally balanced.
The problem is the asset bubble and inflation eroding normal people’s savings and wages. Leading to wealth transfer. Inequality isn’t a problem in itself is zero sum thinking
Maybe add your Github profile. I'm based in London and noticed the same a few years ago when I was looking, and decided to stop applying to UK companies, I find it pretentious and a big waste of time; for me, it was mostly the 4 or 5 interview stages that seemed ridiculous, also take-home tests that took 2 to 3 days, etc. Processes that took weeks of hard work. I can imagine it just got worse now. I've interviewed some people in the last 12 months, and seen a lot of CVs. When investigating, I found a lot of people lying. It seems that LinkedIn/twitter/TikTok are important for recruiters. I don't use it myself, but I've seen people asking for LinkedIn and Twitter for some reason.

Good luck with everything, it's not your skills!
For one thing you need to listen and feel for the vehicle. Most suspension systems are only good up to about 110mph and most tires are only good at 130mph. Exceeding any of this causes excess vibration that you can feel, which becomes unsafe.

Tires are the most important thing because they are your contact with the ground and absorb most of the road noise. If a tire blows out at high speed bad things will happen. Fortunately I have never had a blow out.

Shock can also come from poorly balanced tires and a loose steering column. Everything needs to be tight and well balanced.

When you are driving fast you need to be hyper aware of what’s around you. The biggest risk are other drivers so always provide tremendous amounts of space. Driving fast does not mean driving aggressively. Do not change lanes often to dodge around slower cars. Be aware of upcoming interference to the road, such as construction.

If the experience does not feel safe and you do not feel in control of the vehicle you need to drive less fast. My first fast car was an experimental Mitsubishi Galant with a tight racing suspension. The engine was an unimpressive regular 4L engine, so it did not accelerate fast and maxed out at 135mph. But handled high speeds extremely well such that the suspension was most smooth at 110mph without excessive road noise until over 120mph.
You can do animations with PGF/tikz, the problem is you can do everything with PGF/tikz and so the whole thing is a bit of a chaotic mess. The diagrams are beautiful but the code makes me very sad.
The small wheels of scooters make them more likely to death wobble. I have personally witnessed it happen literal to the name, the rider cracked his skull because he wasn't wearing a helmet of course.

Bicycles naturally stay upright. You can push one without a rider and it will roll alone until it loses speed. Try the same with a scooter and it will immediately fall.
...yea, too little, too late, in a highly ineffective manner. We're not going to consume our way out of climate change and that's all VCs are capable of doing. In fact our addiction to managing our society via consumption is very directly related to ongoing climate change.

You want to know what would actually look like addressing the problem? Paying poor countries to not build coal plants. Blowing up infrastructure. Etc. Reduction of emissions is the only thing that matters at this point.
Is Responsible Statecraft Winging for Authoritarianism Again?
Sure, AI will assist more and more in the cases where people must write SQL or manage a database, perhaps to the point you suggest.

But my point was actually that more people think they need to know SQL today than is actually the case. Excluding people that manage databases or cases that go direct to SQL for things like complex ETL, your average business user / marketer / etc should not be asked to write SQL or have to ask someone else to write SQL for them. Use a semantic layer instead with a UI on top and it's almost as easy as natural language.

Here is a example of one I made below, but there are others out there with more support. At my company, and the last few I've worked for, we use this approach for ~all day to day querying and a chunk of backend SQL replacement.

https://github.com/totalhack/zillion
Surprised Windows 10 Home still has a command line option.
Guiding Line for New Managers
> it's sufficient that people don't expect exponential change even when it's happening reliably for ages

This sort of implied that people should have been expecting exponential change. But even if you know what exponential growth is, you couldn't know in advance with certainty if it would be the case for battery storage, renewables etc.
I have a Zen2 desktop and Zen3 laptop, and power save mode / suspend works flawlessly. Is there an errant service/app on your system which disables suspend?
Also worth noting GPLv3 has an anti-tivoization clause, which guarantees your freedom to actually modify the software in practice as opposed to only theoretically.
We can dunk on Ballmer all we want, but he was an early employee and he did negotiate for 10% of equity and profits, at a time when software was not an industry. If that's not taking risks...
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjMWpmXtKeiN__vnNO4TcttZR... is a better link; lore is the official supported LKML archive now.
There have been quite a few of these in the past. Some of the 2018 problems (e.g. day 21 [1]) required quite a lot of reverse engineering of programs in a custom instruction set.

[1] https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/21
I'm not sure how this could be removed - the fundamentals behind it are basic building blocks of S3.

Maybe raising the cost of transient storage? e.g. If you have to pay for a minimum of a day's storage - but even if that was the case this would still be cost-effective, and at any rate it seems very unnatural for AWS to charge on such granularity.

+ I would guess that S3 is orders of magnitude more profitable for AWS than cross-AZ charges, so I'm not sure they'd consider it a loss-leader.
Unless you live in a fortress you should be afraid of inequality worsening, no matter which side of it you're on. Rising inequality leads to societal tension and human misery.
Attentional bias, see [1].

Curious inquisitors can take a look at [2] in addition to [1] for a more in-depth analysis.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-livin...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty-in-brief
ROVs and AUVs indeed have the distinct benefit of not killing you when they implode.
Interesting point. More/better categorizations
When Optimising Code, Measure
Hmm. I will look into this idea. Thanks
That won’t be long now…
No, it's not.

> In a follow-up post a day after his initial Tweet, Johnie noted “inaccuracy in the ASUS router tool,”
Very nice article! And a very, very interesting person.
How does the time system relate to the clock-in expectation? Otherwise you would have 60 seconds to do it in, which feels like not much more time?
The best thing I did for my music enjoyment was meditating. Working with audio receiver instead of emitter.

It makes sense to me that audiophiles spent so much money, each new purchase gives a dopamine hit and a temporary illusion of better sound, there is probably also a bit of hallucinatory effect from intense focus.
This article resonated with me be because I have also thought of branches as something ephemeral, with the ultimate goal of packaging and delivering a change to "prod". Perhaps this has to do with the fact that I have mostly worked on projects that have the concept of "prod".

The "what is a branch" question has been very interesting for me for a while. One alternative way of looking at it is as just semantic groupings as opposed to separate universes. For almost a year I have been working on an idea[0] of having multiple branches applied in the working directory at the same time. Why? To make it easier for me to organise my changes in small PRs (eg. bugfix, featureX, unrelated refactors etc). If anyone reading this is also into the 'what is a branch' question, I would actually like to get some critique / feedback & opinions

[0] https://docs.gitbutler.com/features/virtual-branches
they can if they can say promise 3-4 days and it doesn't cost $170 a year, probably soon to be $200
The comparison to CSS for separating style vs (semantic) data was also the first thing that came to mind for me.
The film is available for free at the Internet archive https://archive.org/details/the-swimmer-1968-1080p-blu-ray-x...
One thing I’m curious about that these articles never go into: what is the eventual physical utility of all this stored wealth? As an analogy, if money is like potential energy when kept in the form of financial instruments and real estate, what is its first eventual “kinetic” form after belonging to a billionaire?

For example, if you were to trace all of Rockefeller’s fortune after his death, I would imagine most of it initially went to his heirs. But eventually, at least part of the wealth diffused out of the bloodline, and if you were to go through and account for the physical utility of that money, what would it look like? Labor to create superyachts and exotic sports cars? New buildings on college campuses? Cancer research?

It would be nice if we had a system that quantifies this somehow, because in addition to the problems created by wealth inequality, I would argue that there are sufficiently many inefficiencies in most governmental bureaucracies as to result in a similarly poor usage of money as a billionaire who spends some of their wealth to construct a mansion on a private island.

To play devil’s advocate, suppose we have a hypothetical billionaire that never spends any of their money on luxury or excess but rather devotes most of their time to figuring out how to use their wealth in a way that extracts maximum humanitarian value from it. You could argue that what constitutes “humanitarian value” is totally subjective and that decisions concerning such a large amount of money shouldn’t be left to one person. But on the flip side, would you say that most governments succeed at representing the average person’s desire for utilizing tax revenue in a way that optimally benefits society? Do they accomplish this efficiently?

I don’t know the answer and don’t really have a strong opinion either way without further research, but sometimes I wonder if despite the problems they cause, billionaires sort of represent the “exploration” part of “exploration vs exploitation” in reinforcement learning, as they slightly destabilize a societal system that might otherwise be stuck in a rut or a local optimum.
Davos 2024 – climate, chaos and war
The comments about debugging make me sad.

It shows that people fundamentally do not understand the tools they are using.

Given a book of numbers, here are two tasks:

1) copy out the entire book, but replace every prime number with 7.

2) write down the list of prime numbers in the book.

Which one is easier?

LLMs have to generate tokens one at a time, and it’s very very difficult to perfectly generate a set of input tokens except for some tokens.

Since you are almost certainly randomising the probabilities to some degree (that’s what temperature does), you’re also asking for both deterministic and random outputs.

TLDR: ask LLMs what is wrong with the code.

Ask for a diff.

Don’t ask for an LLM to refactor, bug fix or annotate code…

That’s extremely naive usage.

Back to my stupid analogy: “please copy out this book, but fix the numbers which are ‘wrong’”

I can hardly complain when I get terrible results can I?
Out of curiosity could you expand on that please?
> JS is not Lisp where a function means just one thing used

Lisp uses dynamic binding for that.

(defun do-something ()
(funcall *something-to-call*))

(let ((*something-to-call* 'turn-the-light-on))
(do-something))

The behavior depends on the dynamic binding, which provides the context...
Collaboration with external partners typically overlooked is an answer to advancing equity and inclusion within your field through your research. Actively seeking out and forming these relationships is something you are committing to doing individually.
Reading this for some reason reminded me of the Virtual Barber Shop:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

(Use headphones and close your eyes.)
> meant to address a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass BitLocker encryption by using the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE).

How can you screw up so badly that you even have the ability to bypass the entire reason for a security feature existing?

Sorry to be mean to Microsoft, I am certain there's usability reasons for this, but sincerely: principle of least surprise please.

I'd be incredibly surprised if Linux kept a copy of my unlock keys around somewhere that were available to anyone except me. That is a truly monumental fuck-up.
> It's odd that market forces aren't correcting this for Amazon.

Yes, yes, quite odd. It’s almost as if these capitalist notions of self- correcting market forces that large businesses are so keen to sell us on are based on decrepit bullshit ideas peddled by the ones who stand to profit the most, with the goal of keeping themselves unregulated for as long as possible so they can squeeze every drop of value at the expense of everyone else. Who could have predicted that a system that not only allows but incentivises a handful of individuals to amass and control the world’s money, thus allowing them to effectively make the rules, would have negative repercussions for society?

As I finish writing this, I notice on the front page yet another article about rising income inequality. Because of course there is, because it’s only getting worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-fi...
When installing the update, some users are finding themselves faced with an 0x80070643 error, a generic failure message. Unfortunately, according to Microsoft, "because of an error in the error code handling routine," this might not be the correct error.

Error in the error code code is giving the wrong error code for the error.

I'm curious how often the error code code needs touching that there is an error in there that hasn't been patched long ago. I would imagine it would be a set and forget kind of thing. Unless this error in the error code code has been there for a long time but unnoticed. In which case there might be a errors in the QA of the error code code.
We need to tackle generational wealth. Not by outright taxing it but force an action on inactive or speculative capital.
Democracy is being eroded if an actual power can be obtained through accumulating wealth.

I dont want billionaires to change the world. I want elected people to do that.
Il TECLAST P30T si posiziona al centro dell'attenzione come il tablet Android 14 da tenere d'occhio nel 2024. Approfondiamo le caratteristiche che rendono questo dispositivo un punto di riferimento nell'evoluzione della tecnologia dei tablet.
Caratteristiche Avanzate del TECLAST P30T

Prestazioni Potenti:
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Android 14 per la Massima Privacy:
Alimentato da Android 14, il tablet è progettato per garantire un controllo totale sulla privacy degli utenti. Questa versione ottimizzata del sistema operativo offre un ambiente sicuro e all'avanguardia per l'utilizzo quotidiano.

Design Sottile e Raffinato:
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Batteria a Lunga Durata:
Il processore octa-core Allwinner A523 e la GPU Mali-G57 assicurano prestazioni elevate e un rendering grafico fluido. La batteria da 6000mAh offre un'autonomia di oltre 8 ore, consentendo un utilizzo prolungato senza preoccupazioni.

Connettività Avanzata:
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Conclusione

Il TECLAST P30T si distingue come il tablet Android 14 da provare nel 2024, offrendo prestazioni avanzate, un design accattivante e funzionalità all'avanguardia. Acquista ora e scopri un nuovo standard nel mondo dei tablet.
their "featured" default setting is such garbage most of the time.
Note that the Hokuriku region is where the large earthquake struck on January 1st and at least some of the places listed has been affected.

One example is the "Royal Squid" on page 31 -- the website says that they're going to be closed indefinitely. While the building did not collapse but the tsunami flooded the building, and the parking lot is uneven.[1]

Seems like precautions would be necessary before visiting some of these sites, especially those in the Noto region of Ishikawa prefecture.

[1]: https://ikanoeki.com/blog/%e4%bb%a4%e5%92%8c6%e5%b9%b4%e5%b9...
Just saw yesterday an episode from TV show Billions where billionaire Mike Prince asked prosecutor Chuck Rhoades if he thinks Billionaires are some rotten individuals who did very bad things to accomplish their fortunes. Chuck replays: "You've said it!"

It's kind of short sighted to blame someone's misfortune on someone else fortune.
USB-PD rev 3.1 supports 5A at 5V with electronically marked cables. It's not a requirement to support it, and it's rare to find in the wild, but it's within the spec.
Computational Genomics with R
Mantras are good for orgs that are not mature enough to do actual analysis.
A lead developer left recently where I work and while it was likely higher pay that was the biggest decision to move, I suspect the real reason he left is higher ups simply don't listen when he says things like you can't just take full virtual machines on azure, refuse any rewrite/redesign while complaining about high azure spend.
https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/#root-server-details (with fair use policy)
I had to learn all that the hard way ;)
Not likely. The need for content moderation only occurs when multiple parties converge upon a third party for content supplied by a fourth party. While I understand that is the current state of social media it’s highly complex and not ideal. As technology advances this manner of information consumption, and its need for moderation, will cease to become common.
Can you do the same on Azure?
Hm, not sure what's up with that. Anyway, thank you! Sent you an email.
While I'm not familiar with the black market, I refuse to believe that an arbitrarily modified pytorch binary release has zero value.
I don't understand how AWS can keep ripping people off with these absurd data transfer fees, when there is Cloudflare R2 just right over there offering a 100 times better deal.
Tesla should donate a MegaPack battery to him :)
> I ideally want a hard link in both, but that's not trivial

Yes it is. First put the file in one folder, and then make the hardlink in the other.
Had a machine that was stuck on this update, the manual workaround resolved it.
> However war is terrible for business.

It’s not if it’s somewhere far away and you’re only concerned with selling weapons. The Great Disarmament of the European states of 2022-2025(?) will secure contracts for the American industry for decades to come.
Not true.

He asked a very concrete question :

Wow. I mean, I just want to be clear, if somebody shows up on Substack and says
“all brown people are animals and they shouldn’t be allowed in America,” you’re
going to censor that. That’s just flatly against your terms of service.

And Chris Best squirmed with non answers.
Oh no IRC and a forum are near perfect complements. Discord and friends try to integrate the two functionalities, but I've yet to see that work even remotely well.
Ask HN: Where do you buy decent-quality household goods?
Right now I need a small wastebasket, a couple of new shower curtains, a toaster oven, some food storage containers, etc. Basic utilitarian household items.

My local hardware store has a fair/poor selection at high prices, but buying online is a maddening exercise. Larger items don’t ship well and often arrive damaged. Amazon is a funhouse maze of counterfeit ‘BXOYX’ garbage, with Wal-Mart.com a close second.

What’s a person to do?
Who exactly did I harm by asking this to a community I trust? The people who answered seemed happy to do so.

But even if we don’t agree on that, I take issue with you calling me a troll and I take issue with you issue with you suggesting I’m a shill and I think an apology is in order.