skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can definitely see how people who did not grow up around it may see it as fake or weird or question intent.

That is the whole point, what words mean changes from culture to culture, punitiveness is relative. In some culture "great" is the neutral word, in other it is "it is ok" is the neutral one etc, so when a culture who feels "great" must mean you like it a lot come to a culture where it is just the normal thing to say they will feel everyone is fake since they say that things are great even though they aren't particularly excited about those things.
This was a selling point for the tras^H^H cylinder Mac Pros (2013), with Thunderbolt 2. I hear some teams constructed compute clusters based on that...
> They are not entitled to their business model

Why not? They're not forcing anybody to watch their videos. You know this. And they're explicit about ad-blockers not being welcome. YouTube is not a losing proposition, it is the only platform accepting everybody as content creators. You haven't provided an alternative.

But I hope that the entire platform becomes premium only and ad-free. That would be a fair solution for everybody.
Is that a comeback?

From what I've seen, it's a statement of fact. Men do it more. Women still also do it.
I thought as well. I cannot wait for the circus this year, is gonna be glorious. With AIG, writing BS is gonna be so much easier.
Japanese cuisine doesn’t use large amounts of meat but most dishes are prepared with some ingredients of animal origin. Fish stocks are ubiquitous, for example.

I can only imagine that a strict vegan would have a hard time finding suitable food.

On the other hand, a typical omnivore Westerner will usually eat far less meat than usual while in Japan.
React maybe to a point but in general no.

Immediate means you get to decide (or even *forced*) how each and every frame gets drawn. Its opposite is retained GUI which means you have a set of data structures that are automagically drawn by the GUI library. Immediate GUI libraries work with functional-like types while retained GUI uses more data-oriented / object oriented types. Immediate mode is imperative, retained mode is declarative.

Immediate can offer very low level control and easier combination of various drawing interfaces. Wanna put a button on top of your game canvas? It is basically inserting more code / function calls that just draws the thing in an event loop. However you're again responsible for parsing input (helper functions exist of course) and directing things to correct place yourself.

In retained GUI you define you need a canvas such and such place and a button with red borders and a click() callback that gets called automatically. The GUI framework does all the routing and drawing for you. If it doesn't support putting a button over a canvas, you have to do 5x work to customize it and add a new component type.

Immediate mode seems the way to go isn't it? But now you have a huge event loop that you have to split and organize. It usually takes weeks to onboard newbies and you have to write everything yourself (with the help of the libraries). If you mess up the organization, you'll have to search what exact bit of code draws what. Refreshing the UI and looks will require many manual modifications rather than a simple stylesheet change. And immediate GUI has no caching implemented. You are responsible for implementing any such thing. Otherwise you'll learn about the thermal and power limits of the system very quickly.

At its very core all GUI is immediate. Because a GPU is still a processor. A very special one that's optimized for doing mostly branchless and mostly simple arithmetic but still a processor with a machine code and memory. So all retained GUI libraries have a immediate drawing core.
I'm trying to find an "elastic theory of inflammation" .. i don't know how this is called in medicine, basically what's the threshold of your body in its current state between appropriate amount of stress (hence the elastic term, your body can absorb said stress and go back to optimal function) and damaging levels of stress. For instance in a video someone talked about how 15 min of low effort legwork (gentle biking for instance) would be perfect to stimulate cartilage cell growth.

This is also in the same landscape as hormesis (controverial or not).
Casey Muratori of handmade hero fame is one of the original pioneers (potentially the first?) of immediate mode user-interfaces.

Check out this lecture/demo from nearly 20 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qyvQsjK5Y
It's always a bit surprising to me how little monitary value very old items can have.
> There's a reason why the most authoritarian regimes in history had you avert your gaze.

You're comparing keeping your eyes to yourself with your partner to authoritarian dictatorships?
Incredible how the article and I are both talking about the rise in prices since 2020 and you two are being intentionally obtuse talking about the 60s and the 70s.

It doesn't matter at all how things were in the 70s. What matters is that car ownership is much harder than it should be, NOW. It was cheaper, so it could be practically as cheap as it was a few years ago, but it's not.
I’ve used the blood oxygen sensor during bouts with Covid, while sleeping, and while sitting at a computer (“email apnea”). It’s an important part of the reason I own it.

If Apple removes this sensor from my ultra 2, I hope I can get my money back.
Certainly some women do it.
I don't think cassettes are popular with indie artists because of their lack of durability as the article says, it's just a nice physical artifact that's easy to do in small batches.
Because if you can or are willing to BS to make yourself look good, then you can or are willing to BS to make your manager look good.
Yeah. The issue wasn't that nobody knew it was broken, it's that they knew it was broken and rolled it out anyway.
> video playback, video encoding, video effects, [...] high res scrolling (I use an 8K display).

Are those 3D graphics?

> desktop window effects and compositing,

Does Haiku use those? If not, it seems irrelevant.

> Video games,

That's the one that I'll agree with, but is depends what we mean by "daily driver"; I was thinking of what would be needed to do productive work, and that possibly restricted by what kind of work you're doing, not the ability to run literally all use cases. So I agree that it's probably not a good choice for somebody who does 3D modeling, but it's probably fine for somebody who writes web back ends.
I'd imagine their ToS which they can update whenever they want links to a privacy policy which they can update whenever they want, which is where this restriction is actually codified. The ToS probably also has another part saying they'll use your data "for business reasons including [innocuous use-cases]", and yet another part elsewhere which defines "business reasons" as "whatever we want including selling it".
In Australia we have a tax break that means 80% of all R&D costs are repaid by the government. Everything we can ever possibly classify as R&D is classified as R&D. If I take a dump on company time it's R&D because I'm a software dev and therefore thinking about developing stuff while I'm in there.
Waqra Pukará: Peru's mysterious 'horned fortress'
Pain seems to amplify and enrich artistic expression, in my experience.
Headlines everywhere: "The electric car battery fires!!"

Even if just theoretical ones. And the inevitable drones of people commenting on those stories how horrible EVs are.

(Even though ICEs are roughly 100x more likely to catch on fire in a crash).

It's hard to not see a certain % of that as pure astroturfing, indeed.
<===3

What does that mean, huh?

Language shapes the world, and yet even with these characters I can paint a picture that escapes them.

Not only does nature over reach language, even art does. What are great works of art except those most sublime objects which always provoke more interpretation, more words, because they are like black holes of meaning, or maybe more than that. They are more than what we can understand in language alone. And if humans have the capacity to create, through their own genius, or even with the assistance of an AI, something that escapes the rationality of regular language use: if even one person can do that, then language can never be the end all be all. But neither can the "normal" world, the world that "makes sense," because it is precisely "making sense" that proves the primacy of the Word. It is when we fail to make sense, when we disturb and confuse, when sense-making spirals out of control, that we escape language--it is only when the whole world threatens to collapse that we approach the Real.
Sending and receiving money on the internet is such a brilliant idea. Just goes to show you that people are taking the World Wide Web more seriously these days. Won’t be much longer and you’ll be able to order music CDs and VHS tapes and have them delivered!
> I give them way too much attention and they lose respect for me.

"Respect" seems like a bizarre lens to view this through. Are you sure you aren't misinterpreting the situation?
Is Twitter well equipped to handle the compliance and kyc aspects of being a money transmitter?

This seems like step 1 in Musk being arrested for terrorist financing or money laundering
The platform doesn't get as strong of a signal from the user about which posts they find interesting.
Unfortunately the English language makes me choose between completely conveying nuance at all times and being understood and upvoted (people prefer short and pithy over long and subtly more correct).

I agree with your followup 100%. I didn’t write it in my original as it would have watered down my main communication goal.

Whenever says something is being made more “efficient” I ask them what they are trading for what.
Massachusetts has some pretty weird laws surrounding alcohol. I've seen it in the occasional gas station, grocery store, or convenience store but for the most part here if you're looking to buy alcohol you're going to a store that specializes in that.
Second paragraph of "Common Sense" (1775): "... Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil;". Second article of the Articles of Confederation (1777):

Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.

Those powers delegated were foreign diplomacy and declaration of war, minting of coinage, and resolving disputes among/between the states. Pretty "small government" stuff. In fact, the entire purpose of the Constitution (pushed by the Federalists, opposed by the Anti-Federalists, including many of the founding fathers) was to centralize power and remove it from the states. That's why the second article of the Articles of Confederation (where Article I is the name of the country) guarantee sovereignty of the states, but a similar guarantee is not seen in the Constitution until the 10th amendment (all of which amendments were opposed by the Federalists).

The Federalists papers are just the opinions of Madison, Hamilton, and Jay (which is not to diminish them entirely, only to apply needed perspective). The powers were almost entirely with the states at that time, so the papers are mostly convincing the states to give that power up. It was the first step away from the small federal government of the founders.
Related/context: https://www.ft.com/content/9d84d534-b2dd-4cff-85d1-aee137b26...

“Data from payments markets data group FXC Intelligence show hundreds of thousands of Twitter users share links to third-party payments options either in their tweets or on their account. “Twitter is already a platform on which payments happen, so it’s kind of a no brainer,” said Lucy Ingham, head of content at FXC Intelligence.

Other payment experts have questioned whether Twitter can achieve a competitive scale, particularly in the US where there is stiff competition in the space from groups such as Venmo, Cash App and Zelle.”
Do you like soup? Most European soups taste better with some sautéed celery in them. (Or taste worse if the cook neglects their celery.)

Of course I'm assuming you are getting decent, flavorful celery, not water-logged cardstock.
> I am not expert, but I cannot remember ever hearing that before. Why would arm have better absolute performance than x86?

Better general design, or easier to include more cache. All the normal reasons one architecture might perform better than another. I mean, you heard about Apple switching all their processors to ARM, right?

> As a spectator, reading tech press about architectures gave me the impression that even in performance per watt, the advantage arm has over x86 is fairly small, just that arm chip makers have always focused on optimizing for low power performance for phones.

Intel would certainly like you to believe that. But for all their talk of good low-power x86s being possible, no-one's ever actually managed to make one.
Important with interest rates where they are.
> So much of my career has been shaped by running into developers or just people interested in programming out in the world.

This is probably less common now, but remember not to laugh at young girls in the programming section of a bookstore. In the 90s, that was a pretty standard response: no advice, just incredulity.
But don't worry, this will get round-the-clock coverage on Fox News and Sky After Dark's tenured denialists.
In Dutch this plant family is nicknamed “Bear claw” for the damage it can do.
Thanks, good to know. I may need to request a 3A 1U in that case.

I didn't know iDRAC could measure real time power usage. Pretty amazing.
Is there some kind of x86 emulator that will do the trick?
Yep.

With an application level VM (type 2 I think?) I haven't found a way to lock the cursor and keyboard shortcuts to the VM - so my three finger swipe will switch my MacOS workspace rather than my Gnome one, spotlight overrides the VM's shortcuts, etc.

Also moving my cursor to the top left/right of the screen expands the MacOS window controls, breaking the 4rth wall and getting in the way of the VM's DE controls (volume, hot corner, power, etc).

I haven't been able to enable GPU paravirtualization within a Linux VM. I think it's for MacOS VMs running on MacOS.
Ah yes, the good old days.
Boiler log feeder robot [video]
Umeboshi is made from Japanese plums (more like an apricot) salt and purple shiso, nothing else. The salt is ground into the Shiso (Perilla plant) to draw out the liquids and then sprinkled on washed ume (plum) and then left to ferment for weeks. The salty shiso draws out the liquid of the Ume and dies the green plum a dark purple color. Extremely high salt content, but no fish whatsoever.
> I've moreso improved on soft skills.

Which, among other things, are also vital.

Oversimplified: 1-2 years of not knowing what you don't know. Then 3-5 learning how to write code, then 3-5 learning how to really write software. Most of that last learning curve happens outside the editor. That's a little to linear and non-overlapping, but the essence is true I suspect.
I don’t understand what this site is supposed to do. A resume is generally one page; an academic CV is exhaustive and cannot be collapsed into one page.
This doesn't really matter. The Bluesky app has very few features, it's still invite only which limits the number of users, and engagement and active users are low. It's on a trajectory to death right now. The core of Bluesky, relay/BGS, still isn't proven. Over a year after launch there hasn't been significant progress in these areas.
Your 2022 work experience is so well written and impressive, which is partly why last year you had no trouble finding employment. Now, contrast that with the 2 bullet points in 2023; "Used C#, Unity." is an uninspiring way to describe your year of work. In 2024, your 2023 section will weight more than your 2022 section.
Lobby to socialise or externalise all the costs. Work to privatise only the profits. Typical mode of operation.
Like every Mastodon user apparently: https://www.rssboard.org/news/211/every-mastodon-user-has-rs...
Try UTM mac.getutm.app/
> installing batteries in DE engines

Sadly I think even installing infrastructure for local electrification would not get out of the starting gate, because you need to both modify all of the engines involved, as well as add infrastructure to every affected town with all of the predictable pushback from people who will react negatively the notion of installing a bunch of extremely high power, highly visible catenary on already-dangerous rail paths.

But fortunately we can take advantage of a useful characteristic of trains, which is that it's quite natural to hook up a car called a tender, normally carrying fuel such as diesel or (in the old days) coal but in this case would be a giant battery on wheels that's been pre-charged and positioned on a siding outside of town at the crest of any convenient rise, ready for connection to incoming freight trains. These can then switch off (or idle) their diesel engines and draw on the battery for power as it passes into and out of town. Obviously a fee would be charged, but towns have all the leverage here- it's not as if the freight can just take some other set of train tracks that go around the town to avoid payong it.

This has the benefit of being extremely easy to get by in on, as it makes very little demand of both freight train operators and towns respectively. operators need to add nothing more than a simple transfer switch to the engine (which may already exist) and for the towns, the same high power electric circuit as catenary, minus all the catenar, and located on a short siding safely well out of town. And of course a couple great big batteries, but they are mobile and can go where the yrains are, thus far cheaper than putting poles in the ground everywhere the trains run.
Still, why would an elegant woman carry a weather report encoded in telegraph jargon...?
> It wasn't until August when Bettersten Wade learned her son had been hit by a police car and killed, then buried in that same cemetery.

This seems worthy of an article all on its own. A cop killed someone and then hid the body? And nobody noticed anything until they found 200+ unmarked corpses behind a prison?

And this story is repeated several times, i.e. cops killed a bunch of people and buried them in unmarked graves behind a prison?

> since 2016, in the last eight years, we can identify 215 individuals that were buried behind that jail

Oh, and this all happened in the past 8 years? Since 2016 they have buried hundreds of unmarked bodies behind a jail?

This one is going to be hard for the Jackson Police to say is just indicative of a few bad officers.
I don't know the rationale, but I would assume exact preservation of data maybe the case.

Does json (yaml/others) have well defined handling of ints/floats? Especially ints with more than 52bits set?
How much total input energy (from minerals to mission success) would it take to build all the stuff to put into space so we can shine more sun into shady areas with solar panels, that are also a part of that resource chain...

Until something like this pays for itself?
To be fair, you can be typing "gcc" with the left hand, while the right hand moves to the numpad.

Efficiency.
Not only does capitalism create more wealth and uplifts society, it is also capitalists who give the most to charity: https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/list-of-top-mos...

“The surge of $27 billion in philanthropic contributions over the past year outpaced the $20 billion gain observed in the two preceding years and more than doubled the cumulative sum bestowed by the top 25 in 2018. This surge in giving is particularly striking considering the backdrop of diminishing fortunes; the combined net worth of these 25 philanthropists now stands at $936 billion, reflecting a significant $164 billion decline from a year ago, constituting a 15% decrease. It is noteworthy that some of these philanthropists have pledged their commitment to The Giving Pledge, vowing to donate a minimum of half their wealth during their lifetimes or in their bequests.”
Why would that be terrifying?
Nijiya Market in Japantown has at least plain seaweed Onigiri in far right of the fridge near the entrance for $2.79. Unfortunately it was the same price as ones with filling.
Build housing.
I decided to implement it (IMGUI that only repaints when relevant interactions occur) so that my point comes across more clearly:

https://github.com/goodpaul6/imgui-power-saving-example

Of course this is a greatly simplified example, but I can see this extending to any GUI widget that can be represented with a (hierarchy) of rectangles.
CodeParrot – VSCode plugin to generate production ready code from Figma designs
I love Japanese food. I really like recipes which focus on the flavor of a specific ingredient. Japanese food like Sushi and Onigiri made me realize how good rice tastes.

Kind of like how French and Italian food made me realize how good wheat tastes. In terms of wheat, Italians mastered the savory and French mastered the sweets.

In all these cases, the grain is treated as the central ingredient. It's an ingredient which most people consider bland, and yet it takes the leading role in many recipes.
Is 100g mentioned in the writeup a common size? A few times I tried it, visiting friends (in the US) the onigiri felt smaller than this.

Although maybe they felt smaller because they disappeared so fast.
Secret WhatsApp messages show co-ordinated campaign to oust journalist from ABC
Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240115234931/https://www.smh.co...
Carbon tet was just the beginning; advances in halocarbon chemistry eventually lead to the Halon family of extinguishing agents.
There’s no customer support per se, but when I need help I just talk to Grok! His endless 420 and 69 jokes always put me at ease.
> I assume the workers are paid hourly, so wouldn't the cost be the same? Are second and third shifts more costly?

At least for Germany, yes - by law, night and weekend/holiday work must both be approved by the authorities and compensated. Most union contracts here go way beyond the vague notion of the law and require significant compensation.
AI Sleeper Agents
Oh cool! A few questions:

When you go to fullscreen mode, do trackpad gestures target the host or the guest? eg, does three finger swipe switch MacOS workspace or Gnome one?

When you run your cursor to the top of the screen (like changing the volume in Gnome's the top bar, or closing a window in KDE), do the MacOS window controls pop up?

Do MacOS shortcuts override VM shortcuts? Like spotlight, screenshots and that sort of thing?
Me vs. My AI Twin: A Generative AI Experiment
The article keeps talking about the Chrome Browser on Fuschia being discontinued & the end of Workstation.

> At first, the shift from workstation to workbench seems like a simple name change, but the subsequent discontinuation of Chrome for Fuchsia all but confirms that Google does not intend to release a desktop/mobile device directly powered by Fuchsia in the foreseeable future.

But then it turns around and says what seems to be: oh, but the web view will still be maintained!

> Importantly, this move has no implications for the Nest Hub lineup, which will continue to receive updates and support web-based features as normal.

Giving up on Chrome as an app, a full browser with user experience - that's one thing. But if the web engine is still alive & maintained, that feels like a fairly reversible choice. It's hard to imagine Fuschia persisting without a web engine, but that doesn't seem like what the pile of inferences in this article is saying!