skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have commented, toasters are already highly cost-optimized, and 'perfected', in terms of economics, marketability, etc.

Even the cheapest toaster works well enough, and most of the more advanced features either don't really work consistently or are not compelling. So to command a higher price, it's really a veblen good, some kind of status symbol etc, and any extra features need be 'backup' for that; "oh no, we didn't buy it just to status-signal, it has this feature ...".

I think there are a couple of features that could be attractive though. Faster toasting. And if the reviews etc are to be believed, steam-toasting like the Japanese toasters. More efficient could be a thing - only power the slots necessary, and enclose them to stop the heat escaping. These features seem mutually supporting.
> it would be nice to put renewables everywhere so regions can be energy-independent

Energy sovereignty is an underplayed reason for getting off oil & gas as quickly as possible. Why make your economy dependent on the whims of authoritarian states? Bad for national security.

It's a big reason why China is pursuing renewables. They are dependent on oil imports which can be easily blockaded if they ever decide to invade Taiwan.
Thing is, there have been gaps. I've sometimes taken weeks or months between jobs to travel, work on personal projects, play music, etc. Does this mean I'm bad at programming?
Disregard that; I suck cocks. See Tomte's comment:
Not everyday you see Emery be the top comment on HN.

I was lucky to be in his courses in grad-school. It's the most fun I've had in an American classroom, all while discussing serious systems stuff. A gem of a professor.
This is not my field, but I remember that article as completely undermining your claim that “academic rigor” “usually” implies “fraud”.

My take on the replication problem (I’m not a social scientist) is that we now think the original experiments missed a confounding factor out of ignorance or lack of statistical sophistication.

This is not how Ariely and Gino were caught, though. I wouldn’t call their research surprising at all (again, not my field), but their randomization failed. Replication should have found a different level of support and introduced skepticism of the rigor of their methodology.
I currently don't see it as a death knell of the "small" language, but as an enshittification of the societal discourse in relatively small nations and societies. It fosters an artificial understanding of the surrounding world. It brings in poorly-understood explanatory models from outside. It stimulates young people to shallowly imitate ghetto culture from over the ocean, not understanding their own culture. It is an impediment to the articulation of local problems that need local solutions.
Thats already the case with tablets
> I don't really see the value.

One benefit is performance. useEffect() causes cascading updates when it alters state.

The other is that it's way harder for your code to turn into spaghetti if you don't sidestep the whole concept of React where raw events trigger global state updates which causes react to do automatic re-render of UI which provides user with means of generating events. React should have one large loop, not multitude of small ad-hoc ones built on the side with useEffect().
Yeah that sounds ridiculous to me. Yes I can understand that high interest rates come from periods of iresponsible borrowing by capitalists who have become complacent due to low interest rates continuing for a long time. However, to act like this complacency, which is caused by a deep understanding of the economy and business-minded spirit, would also affect the lower classes in some way even though they are largely unaware of the details of the economy or lack the ability to exploit it, is a strange stretch. Even more of a stretch is saying that the lower class equivalent of risky borrowing because of a feeling of security is... doing crime because you feel so secure in your employment?? Why would anyone in their right mind be compelled to do crime because your life is just going too well and you have too many opportunities to better yourself legally? The claims of the article make much more sense.
Cashiers in the age of self-checkout machines are IMO a good example of a useless job, I'd rather prefer these people do something else with their time.

I would even feel guilty to make them work when they aren't actually needed. Indeed, in the current system if they don't work they don't get money, but to me it's a wealth distribution problem. I'd rather have them get the same money and do whatever they like. It would be a net gain for society and a loss for nobody.
Too bad you need a subscription to try it out.
I'm not saying this is not awesome, but it's pretty much what any undergrad computer architecture course will teach you.

It should be pretty standard for CS undergrads to be at least familiar with some ISA.

edit: undergrand -> undergrad

PS: I highly recommend Patterson and Hennessy Computer Organization and Architecture (pick the Arm, RISCV or MIPS edition... any will do) to actually learn about all these things and more.
Where did it emerge from? No mention… Sometimes the story of how it was acquired it just as interesting.
If the CPU is 32 bit, then the max RAM can only be 4GB.
Meaning as long as you mentioned it in the fine print on page 497 of your financial statement?
Nice! I have memorised a lot of Vim actions over the years, but this would still absolutely help me a lot. I would love to have this for (Neo)Vim.
> tibbi (original creator of SMT) is of the opinion that relicensing the code isn't a big deal because they wrote almost all of it.

The fact remains that the sale wasn't announced and many users found it inadvertently. Many more may still be unaware that the apps they believe to be open source have turned into spyware/deceptiveware. The author seems to have sold the privacy of unsuspecting users to a spyware company. The situation isn't as simple or innocent as 'I wrote most of the code so I have the right to do it.

It's extremely annoying when open source software terms are changed and the authors downplay the impact like this. It also applies to other cases like browser extensions and cloud software. Besides privacy, they also disregard the contributions and promotions others make.
Not sure how they still could hope to gain enough traction to become profitable. Meta is already running circles around Bluesky both in terms of active users and features.
Since with the heat pumps we need to remove extra heat in the summer heating the sewage may help to disolve some of the fat blobs.

But it is a risque idea, since we are likely to open Pandora's box of higher methane production, pathogens and smell.
Ideally you wouldn't use SDL at all, you would use equivalent native Rust libraries like winit for windowing and wgpu for graphics, which all work with wasm32-unknown-unknown.
This exact comment could have been written 10 years ago about C and 15 years ago about visual basic.
I wouldn't normally bother pointing out a small typo, but it seems important here, given the context. "cobalt" is spelt "Colablt" just before the first JSON representation of a trie.

Enjoyed the article!

Oh actually maybe there is another error. Is the "d" 'subtrie' nested one level too deep? I think it might be.
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extensions in WASM might probably be easier for portability
Norway has much less crime!
They weren't investigated by the police at all. It seems that the post office in england can do their own investigations and prosecutions… the prosecutor wasn't even the same you'd get if you steal from a non-post office.
Hacker News is a strange place.
Variety and the Long Tail
No. The companies offering bug bounties have already done more than the bare minimum. Finding a vulnerability for a bug bounty requires actual work.
Thats why most collegue students are completely useless when they graduate? Because they are.
Companies declare that they are trying to build better AI, and the ultimately purpose is AGI. Both the definition of AGI given by the company and by AI aliment/safety researchers is similar. AI safety people trust it is dangerous.

let me go continue using a nuclear bomb as a metaphor. if we don't know whether building nuclear bomb is possible, but some companies declare they have existing progress on creating this new bomb...

the danger of nuclear bomb is obvious, because it is designed as a bomb. companies are trying to build the AGI which is similar to the dangerous AGI in AI safety researchers' prediction. the dangers are obvious, too.
The problem with founders is that, in my experience, they usually can't tell who's good and who's just being useless for 12 hours in a row at the office. So they use "hours" as their metrics to decide who's the best.
> > your life is just going too well and you have too many opportunities to better yourself legally?

Internalized concerns about time opportunity cost and sense of urgency and the aforementioned poor impulse control and irrational exuberance, a mix of all of them too.

Test it on yourself, when you are in a good mood or in a 'let's go after it' mood you are more likely to be speeding, the higher the mood, the lower the impulse control, it can drive you up to 120-130 mph maybe while your favorite song is playing and there is a stretch of open road ahead. Even 140 if your car is powerful, and you don't notice it. You are breaking a bunch of laws in that moment without realizing.

It comes from within, it has nothing to do with finances, job market, savings or any reasoned thought. Thank God! Being irrational and getting away with it, and then looking back in a moment of rationality is an emotion that makes us human.
There is the case of "home laptop". Something that you rarely or never carry around, but you still don't want a stationary desktop PC for whatever reason.
Cold is preferable to scorching heat. There's a hard limit to how many layers you can remove, not how many you can wear.
Well, as in many cases, I think it depends. There are some situations where you can accept errors, but in some others definitely not: imagine you're trying to delete a set of files from a directory that contains other files you're interested in. If the AI commits a mistake and deletes some of the other files you will be disappointed. Now, you should have a backup. But what if you had the AI assistant come up with the backup command for you and by mistake it didn't include that directory?
I volunteer in a kitchen and regularly cook for 80+.

* Depending on your jurisdiction, there is likely a legal process to follow before you can do this kind of thing at all, and also paperwork to do every day. Typically this involves some form of assessment, certification (here this can be done online for a small fee, and does not take long) but also rules to follow before and during prep and during serving (keeping things clean, keeping yourself clean, separate utensils for different kinds of ingredients, how to store food, minimum cooking time vs temperature reached etc), and you also need to keep records of these being followed and also meticulously track what is in the food you are serving people - allergen content etc - and also what happened to it between shop and cooking pot (e.g. has it spent too long outside a fridge? Was it open before you used it today? - is there any possibility of cross contamination? etc). None of this takes very long, but you need to plan it in and be thorough and careful about doing it: you may be inspected at any time, but, much more importantly, unpleasant outcomes that are tiny risks when making a meal for two people you know well become near-certainties when cooking for a large population of strangers with unknowable medical histories.

* Actions that you don't think twice about when cooking for 1-2 people take significant amounts of time when cooking for 80+. Ingredients take a long time to prep and food to reach temperature. You need to plan them into your day. Also, hours of vegetable prep make you tired in ways that a few minutes does not.

* Recipes don't scale linearly. They are written so that ingredients get used in nice fractions of the quantities they are sold in and/or in amounts that are easy to measure. In small quantities, things being a little out of proportion with respect to each other isn't that big a deal. When you scale up, it makes a noticeable difference. You'll need to experiment and tweak.

A catering business will also have concerns I do not. When I cook, I am typically making 2-3 meal options (depending on dietary requirements), and know ahead of time what food will be needed when. A restaurant doesn't know what is needed until a customer makes the order, and does not then have very long to make it. Dealing with this involves a whole extra level of organisation, prep and accounting - estimate what you'll sell over the evening, part-cook/prep ahead of time and mise en place while keeping everything safe for consumption. I'm kinda glad I get to skip all of that :)

EDIT: missed one. Everything is bigger than you are used to in a commercial kitchen. The hobs are enormous (and hot!), the pots are huge etc etc. The unexpected thing here is that if for some reason you need to make just a small amount of something, it is surprisingly awkward and takes extra planning.
It must be old or weird, then. I thought older versions of MSVC were the only C compilers in real use that didn't support it?
There's always this odd religious angle to psychedelics that users and advocates have that I find deeply off putting.
There is no need for in person facilities to learn. Thats 19th century thinking.
> You could just as easily make a giant mess in retained-mode by not making reusable components.

Classic example: the Swing library for Java has layout managers, which help panels decide where their children go, and the most "powerful" one is the GridBagLayout, roughly equivalent to HTML tables with extra features and a favorite of GUI builders.

It can be used to make an unmaintainable monster layout of most of a complex window in a single panel, to structure a trivial reusable component that would be easier to write with a simpler layout manager, or to try and design intermediate level components that are self-contained and benefit from general layout configuration, with no guidance at all from the library or from tools.
US was not in Ukraine. Ukraine was not in NATO is not in NATO.

Ukrainian people had finally had enough of the russian puppet yanukovich and kicked him out.

russia then used green men and later official army to illegaly invade Ukraine.

Also the afraid of NATO story is complete bunk as Finland has now joined NATO without any objections from russia DOUBLING the russia NATO border.

russia was aggressive during czarist times, russia was aggressive during soviet times, russia is aggressive now. Trying to blame any of it to others is just dumb and evil.
Well if EVs can only do a 1200km journey from Saskatoon to Kelowna in -30F weather at $30 dollars* less cost than fuel for an ICE, then there's no way they're ready for the mass market.

($60 dollars less if those are canadian dollars)

* https://www.travelmath.com/cost-of-driving/from/Saskatoon,+C...
Well if you have a Google pixel you have nothing to worry as it won't recognise legit fingerprint 9 out of 10 times.
I don't know about newspapers in Switzerland, but self-checkout machines don't usually weigh items in France or Belgium either (or the Netherlands, if AH stores in Belgium are representative of those in the Netherlands) and these countries probably aren't as fetishised to be trustful as Switzerland seems to be.
> Egyptians built pyramids in order that their kings would live forever

Pyramids were built for the after-life. Not as a way to extend their life on Earth. Nobody could verify if it actually worked, so it's mostly a question of faith.

> Stone Age people painted the animals they were going to hunt on rocks so that the pictures would entrap the animals' spirit

That's just speculation from historians. It may be that they are right, but there are also other theories. One other theory could be that it is a way of giving thanks to the animals, and a way to honor their loss. Personally I don't think there is a single reason why they painted animals. People have always had different motivations
I'm not sure I would call this thing a blob. It is not code, but configuration data.
Why would you launch it before getting at least a few ideas to browse? Now there's some buzz, I'm eager to find something too look at, there's no meat - if we exclude the only (recursive) submission.
ML is either a subset of or synonymous with AI depending on how you want to frame it. This has been true for a long time, it's not a new thing. What does seem new is people trying to argue that ML isn't AI. It's not a historically useful distinction and it's not useful for understanding articles now.
Tokyo runway collision: How JAL airliner crashes into Coast Guard plane
> a path to freedom

Free how? Just because RISC-V is an open ISA doesn't mean that the silicon is open. None of the manufacturers release the full design of the SoC. Many RISC-V SoCs are still relying on blobs.

Most (all?) current available RISC-V SoCs are designed and produced in China. So I wouldn't be so sure about a SoC designed by Alibaba to be free of blobs, license violations, patent infringement or even hardware backdoors.
Why would it not be? As long as there is credit available, supply of it will drive demand for products and services, and property, and either creates jobs and/or affect prices also for people who never borrow. The reality is that there are very few places in the world where people in general can afford to buy property without borrowing for example, and rental prices tend to reflect purchase prices.
You'd need some way to rapidly get around Venice to prevent it just being a walking-and-gondola simulator. Perhaps some sort of parkour-esque mechanic? ;)
Same here, not my experience at all. It would also be interesting if the stores are franchises vs corporate owned.

We have Rewe, Kaufland and IKEA supporting self checkout around here and the experience is decent. The interface is not the best. Sometimes a scan fails, but there’s always someone close by who can help.
Is there a cowboy mode, where I can skip this step and 'just run it'? (excuse me if this is mentioned in the docs)
Does the strongest argument that AI existential risk is a big problem really open by exhorting the reader to imagine it's a big problem? Then asking them to come up with their own arguments for why the problem needs addressing?
India is a disaster already happening.
Are you normalizing story points accross teams?
Are y'all normalizing story points? I came accross this article and many other articles saying it is a bad idea. Someone on my job wants to do accross teams. How can I make sure to them it is a bad idea? Actually, do you think it's a bad idea?
BMW makes an PHEV X5 with 40 miles of range and the normal straight 6 B58 motor. No small underwhelming I4 in a transverse FWD config. It’s between the Model X/Y in price.

I have a kayak/bike trailer I use in the warm months. For my daily 35 miles commute I could use electricity and still have the capabilty to do long drives with all my kayak or biking stuff plus all the kids stuff.

I’m a huge BMW fan but the Model X was freaking awesome. The Model Y felt like a Ford Pinto with the hardest suspension you could find.
Yeah, the section intriguing to me was:

‘ The work of the historian David Hackett Fischer identified four major instances of inflation in Western history, in the 14th, 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries. In each of these periods, violent and property crime rates increased, and then fell once prices stabilized. When inflation decreased in the early 1990s, both Europe and the United States saw a corresponding decline in crime.’

Other sources use something called the Modified Wald Causality test, which should only be convincing to someone already acquainted with the field. The modern European data comes from Interpol, which might suffer the same collection bias as USA. We’re looking at first-order changes, anyway, so I wager this causality test can be sensible, even if the incoming data suffers from a linear bias.
Of course, we shouldn't expect the CEO of the PO to dig into code, and we shouldn't excuse the standards of engineers.

To continue the restaurant analogy, if customers are consistently getting food poisoning due to the sloppy hygiene of the kitchens then the buck stops with the restaurant owner. They'd need to diagnose the issue, put in place better training and supervision of the cooks and have systems to regularly check that standards are being met
The system prompt seems very simple and short, is it enough? does it work well?
(I don't have an OpenAI key...)
Yeah I bought a cheap ~$10 hamilton beach 2 toast unit i've been using for at least 15 years. It's fine, toasts evenly, works with bagels. What else could you want?
Doesn't metasploit, OpenVAS and others already do a lot of this? Why not contribute modules there vs. write a new framework?
Context: These were a thing from ~1880 to ~1925. An era when fire (candles, oil lamps, etc.) was routinely used for home and workplace lighting, heating, and cooking. And "the building burned down" fires were vastly more common. And nothing remotely resembling modern fire-fighting equipment was available to the Fire Dept. - if your area even had one of those.
Why do big companies ask unrealistic software engineering interview questions?
Maybe there will be soon, actually I see it as inevitable the so called "search engines" to become even more content aware, regarding synthetic text
I think that kind of messaging is largely inherently incompatible with aiming for the high-margin/high-end market whether or not your buyers agree with you. E.g. I'm perfectly fine with a variety of political symbols, but I'd think a toaster emblazoned with them looked like a cheap gimmick, and would expect it to be priced as one.
ElasticVue: Elasticsearch GUI for the Browser
This is handy but might not classify as a "write-up".

https://www.tldrlegal.com/
Does this replicate outside of the US? How is it for Singapore, or Sweden, or Saudi?
> Do you realistically think this is going to happen?

I don't think it's out of the question. All the largest YouTube competitors operate on this model. Customers are used to it.
On Linux you can specify any cloud-init qcow2 image with file:// or http(s):// and it works beautifully
Yes but that's the thing, if you pass everything by value or read-only reference you don't have to deal with the borrow checker, and that's quite acceptable when you're first writing code. That's why I think Rust is almost a FP language in disguise with imperative features added after-the-fact - and it could be taught as such.
That's basically saying that it's sucking air from all directions, not predominantly from the direction the pipe is facing. Counterintuitive to say the least.
any small kitchen appliance that says "ask for a quote" is probably gonna be outta my hobby kitchen/cooking budget
Correction: I've just realized I've drawn an incorrect conclusion, the energy per bit in the case I've shown is indeed lower than the standard 2 bit encoding, so it's actually a win! Again, for a myriad reasons, I'm not sure you'd want to use that encoding in real life, but it does consume a little under 20% less power in terms of V^2 losses.
Why did you reference that spycast episode? The transcript never mentions any of the following words: mason, shipwreck, pension, east indies.