skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a lathe doesn't wear out that way. It just slowly gets harder and harder to maintain tolerance. Eventually a new machine will be enough better as to make an experienced machinist take less time - they always have to stop and measure as no lathe can give you absolute accuracy, but when the lathe is new it is more predictable how much turning a handle will change things and so you measure before the last operation and adjust it to the right setting vs you measure get closer and measure again.
There is a movement limiter on the elevators, that restricts the travel at higher speeds. Going full elevator at high speed will rip the tail off.

This is an automatic range limiter, not under pilot control.

There is also a stabilizer trim system, which pivots the entire horizontal stabilizer, elevators and all.

It's all rather complicated.
Metaverse != Meta headset

The promise of the former is a unified platform where e.g. a virtual magic sword bought in an RPG also works in an FPS made by an unrelated developer, and a virtual gun bought in the later also works in the former, and this is also your work collaboration environment. And now I'm thinking of ABK's boss fight sketch: https://youtu.be/w6u_EJa_sZE?si=wlYD8EhRd_PLm39l
AJAX literally is "async request from the client to the server".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)#Technologie... XML (the X in AJAX) is not even necessary as JSON came in.

Any React/Vue/Angular/... client application using `fetch` to make a request, is making an AJAX request. Just because you haven't seen the term in a long time does not mean it is outdated.
"Multiple competing options" ignores that there's a prevalent style already.

https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/840#issuecomment...

Consistency has more value than the subjective advantage of the proposal that you're comparing to the objective advantage of being phonetic. I think the prettier maintainers made the right choice.
Not much to disagree with.

2 out of 5 of them were just announced to be converted[0].

[0] https://www.ktvu.com/news/2-of-5-of-bay-area-refineries-to-s...
Here's my AI bot fetching answers from that report:

https://free.copula.ai/?file=80c04873-4cef-40c6-8c5c-6a9519f...

I just asked it if the police indeed handcuffed people trying to get in to help, to fact check what I read on Reddit.

Unfortunately, the answer is yes.
The industry is shifting towards open interoperable networks and we want to help accelerate it.

It was a similar experience with banks before Plaid came out and payroll systems before Pinwheel launched. We want to do the same for chat
he's kind of reinvented himself as a journalist/blogger type
Forecasting macro-energy demand accounting for time-use and telework
It'll be substantially cheaper in the UK.
Home Assistant users are small minority of many of these companies user bases (including ours), and these integrations being locally focused often poll HEAVILY causing an upside down ratio in API traffic compared to all other users.

The solution is to allow local interfaces (matter, HTTP, etc) but most company cybersecurity teams just freak out at this.

Oh, and the reason we don't have a full time team managing HA is like I said.. addressable market versus FAANG/Samsung.

It takes a full time person (persons) to manage Alexa, Google, Samsung, etc.
That had little to do with stairs, but it was caused by the use of inappropriate combustible materials, which were forbidden for buildings of that height in many countries of continental Europe, but they were allowed in Great Britain were regulations were much more lax.

So that event is strictly specific to UK and not representative for Europe in general.
Of course you understand you can do both, like I do.
What if AI creates/invents what comes after software? Just as software didn't exist until machines came along that could interact with it.
I always thought that's kind of a bullshit thing.

I have plenty of friends outside of work. I work for a living and I'm a professional doing a job, not a kid on a play date.

The cynic in me always felt that people who emphasize this benefit of office work just can't make friends unless people are forced to hang out with them every day.
If it makes you both feel better, I had a similar reaction completely removed except as a user of RieserFS.
Not really. The story is management wasn't able to handle a downturn and so failed to come out of a recession.
> The amount that you “win” is inversely proportional to your participation in modern life

This is true, but I think that reducing participation in a dystopia isn't necessarily a bad thing.
WebGPU IS basically Metal, but cross platform. When the W3C decided to standardize a new graphics API, Apple submitted a proposal that was basically Metal with a name change. That proposal became the basis of WebGPU, though like any committee standard it has undergone multiple revisions since then.

Metal itself was basically Apple looking at Vulkan and saying “Lol, no way in hell. That’s a stinking mess of complexity.” Then they went off and made a simpler, less boilerplate, easier to code but just as performant and powerful API for Apple platforms. Now WebGPU makes all those improvements available everywhere.

And ignore the Web prefix: WebGPU is a lower level API, like DX12, Vulkan or Metal. It just came out of the W3C, hence the name. Unfortunately the name makes people think that it is a JavaScript browser extension or something, which is is not. You can call it from a browser, yes, and the API is designed to enable sandboxed instances for that purpose, but that’s a higher level integration, just like how WebGL exposes OpenGL ES.

In fact maybe that’s a better way to explain it. Until now if you wanted 3D in a browser you had to use WebGL which gave you a OpenGL ES compatible API. Except OpenGL is ancient and GLES doesn’t support vendor extensions, so this was a really shitty situation. W3C decided “Let’s make a new low level graphics API to replace OpenGL ES, and a new JavaScript browser extension to expose that API [replacing WebGL]” and they decided to confusingly call at various times both things, and the whole stack together when integrated with a browser “WebGPU.”

However most of the excitement and work surrounding WebGPU right now is around Rust and C++ frameworks that are using WebGPU as a platform and device independent middleware framework, since the standard implementations will performantly transform WebGPU calls into Metal, Vulkan, or DX12 system calls based on what the end user system supports, making it an excellent middleware that is really easy to target. So really, WebGL is a replacement for OpenGL in a way that Vulkan was not.
Luxury apartments will depreciate into regular apartments over time. Allowing demand for luxury apartments to be pent up just means that rich people will capture more regular apartments instead.
Are these less visible than traditional wind mills? If so, maybe they could be used at sea and get around the hatred of wind power as an eye sore.
This is an interesting exercise, but for absolute longevity it's probably easier to attempt to design an organisation that will continuously rebuild over 1'000 years.

A while back we visited a site that has been in the hands of the same organisation for the last 1'500 years. The most recent buildings are only from the 1600s but the oldest structure found there had been dedicated to Mercury ca. 2'000 years ago.
> It is not that people are too selfish, but that there is not much content truly worth paying for.

That's two ways of saying the same thing.

But people are (at a much greater rate) willing to pay with ads.
"Most surprising result: reduced energy use of non-residential building was the most important factor."

Highlights:

Increasing telework by 20 % will lead to 3.6 % net energy demand reduction in 2030.

Telework shifts energy demand to home usage, offset by reductions in other sectors.

The non-residential buildings sector has the highest energy reduction due to telework.

Technological progress has the largest impact on reducing energy demand.

Behavioral changes, such as more telework, shift where energy is being consumed.
Whenever I open up Bing Chat, I do so accidentally, and it makes me frustrated and want to use Google.
Thanks for the link to the paper. But I don't think that 10-20 seizures per prevented suicide estimate you mention can tell us anything about probable cause or the lack thereof. It's a guess at the rate of prevented deaths from suicide attempts, when the subject used a something other than a gun, but would have used a gun if the cops hadn't taken it from them. It's not an estimate of how many suicide attempts were prevented: it's just a measure of how much less deadly the suicide attempts that happened anyway were. A gun seizure is a big dramatic intervention; it's pretty plausible that it sometimes interrupts a bad moment that's essentially a one-off, and sometimes leads to people getting the help they need. Neither of those effects play into the estimate you cited.

Just on the legal standard: it's probable cause that there's a risk, not probable cause that the risky event will happen. If you have 51% certainty that the subject has a 25% chance of harming themselves or someone else, that is likely to be good enough. And while it gives me no joy to defend the US criminal justice system, to me that's appropriate here. Living with someone who's making violent threats towards you or themselves is no fun at all, even if there's only a 1 in 4 chance that they'll follow through.
You have that entirely backwards. People don't generally sit around waiting for the perfect martyr. A martyr is a symptom of social unrest, not a cause. Dwelling on the specifics of the individual, instead of what they represent, is an obstacle to actually understanding the issue.
> To help you anticipate memory limitations when allocating large amounts during the development of your app, requestAdapterInfo() now exposes memoryHeaps information such as the size and type of memory heaps available on the adapter.

Oh nice, I was just complaining about that here the other day. The docs mention that browsers will probably guard that information behind a permission prompt to prevent it from being used for fingerprinting, but it's better than nothing.
IIRC many human made chemicals interrupt the reproduction of critters. esp Amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish. That's bad, right? Like compounds which act like hormones (estrogens?) and mess up all sorts of stuff and causes tumors and so forth.

Further IIRC, studies of these harmful chemicals more often than not indicate they also adversely impact primates. Enough evidence to merit further study.

But we don't.

Why not?

Humans somehow managed without forever chemicals and face cream with micro beads for millennias. Why not hit "pause" on any questionables? Let the science catch up, to better inform policy. What's few more years delay, in the grand scheme of things?

As a big fan of the precautionary principle, I'm always mystified by denial of potential risks. esp When those profiteering from the risks won't face any consequences.

If we were discussing finance, we'd blather about "principle agents" and "uncollaterized debt", and the game theory would be obvious and uncontroversial. To honest players.
> The far UV spectrum being talked about here is not the same as conventional UVC germicidal lamps, nor the same as UVA/B from the sun.

I was responding to someone suggesting outside-levels of UV exposure. If we're talking about a different wavelength, I am even more doubtful of the safety.
Really good thread. Several comments:

Flow Queuing allows applications not creating queues to bypass those that are. It is mildly different from fair queuing: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8469111

Load shedding, at least for packets, benefits from head drop more than tail drop. Only the codel algorithm does this but codel has been applied to other forms of queuing like Uber dealing with a concertgoer overload.

Kathie Nichols has given some great presentations lately: https://www.understandinglatency.com/

There are a lot of unbounded queues in many applications & libraries, even in rust. They make me twitchy. Even with bounded queues the number chosen is usually arbitrary. I wish a timed queue was a default rather than a length.

I highly recommend Kleinrocks work on these subjects.

I am grumpy big vendors like juniper have yet to adopt smart queues... despite the obvious benefits. https://blog.cerowrt.org/post/juniper/
It's basic macro. Assets, exports, capital accounts, current accounts, savings, investment. Essentially, windfall surplus in one area causes savings bubbles causes investment bubbles causes asset pumps and export dumps, usually in a different area. He cites a bunch of historical examples and then goes step by step through techniques for identifying sources/sinks and directionality.

Oh, and did you know that Ricardo based his analysis on the assumption of a closed capital account? It's interesting how the theory of comparative advantage usually gets invoked without mentioning that ;)

If you dogmatically reject the idea that political economy could possibly involve the concept of class, I'd love to hear how your analysis clusters the interests involved. In any case, he's not a CCP shill. He throws some mean punches in that direction with facts and figures to back them up. Everyone hustles in the world economy.
cheaper when not including externalities(losing critical manufacturing capabilities), which is why a proper government would take action. But the problem is our government is heavily lobbied to not protect critical industries in the name of short term corporate profits. And in many cases our government is outright hostile to manufacturing by holding domestic producers to pollution/labor regulations but allowing imports from countries with no regulations
Advent of Code 2023 in Recursive SQL
Interesting to see how we got to where we're at.

Seems like at no point along the way, as more and more fire safety measures were being added (eg. sprinklers!) did anyone think that maybe it meant some of the more egregiously expensive safety measures were now deprecated and their use should be ended.

British Columbia's government has mentioned they're looking into this and I hope we see an end to the mandated two staircases. People consistently say they want more two and three bedroom apartments. Single stairway buildings seem like one of the best ways to introduce the flexibility that would make those products more viable.
Oh, Jordan’s posts are so good. As somebody working on a database I couldn't agree more with this. Especially: https://hannes.muehleisen.org/publications/DBTEST2018-perfor...
Better or worse odds for you?
If people fork the repo, would they also be sent a takedown?
Grenfell is what happens when building regulations are poorly enforced.

In principle, each apartment in Grenfell should have been able to burn out completely while the neighbouring units were untouched, so there was no need for a second stair as any evacuation would have been limited to units adjacent rather than the entire population.

What actually happened is that years of neglect had seen firebreaks and bulkheads repeatedly compromised and then a load of flammable cladding added to the outside, because the building industry is basically rotten.

Had the same incident taken place when the building was first constructed, the damage would have been limited to the one apartment.
My journey was similar, but I started with plain EXT2 and eventually investigated (and then moved) to ReiserFS because it came back from unexpected shutdown so quickly. Knowing what I know now about filesystems, I probably could have solved my problem by mounting /mp3s read-only on ext2, but that was then.

I eventually moved on to XFS when it came into the kernel because I got tired of finding tail-packed parts of /etc/password in other important files, preventing boot.
Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron
At least 129 extant, made from bronze, some in excellent condition. Unclear what their specific purpose is.
I find that a reason to leave the house and be a part of the hustle and bustle is fundamentally good for my energy and mental health. I bet I wouldn't read in the morning as much if I didn't have that commute.

This is very subjective, as well as personal and irrational, but I find it to be true. I benefit from having a reason to go out into the world in the morning. WFH and the freedom to go to the coffeeshop or take a walk didn't match up.
The basics of RSA are deceptively simple and fun but if you actually care about security then there are dozens of details you have to worry about which are deceptively nuanced and complicated. It's fine to play around with toy implementations like this, but you should never ever use such an implementation in an application where security actually matters. (In fact, if security matters, you probably should not be using RSA at all because there are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with it if you are not extremely careful. ECDH and ECDSA are much better, especially when used with Edwards curves like Curve25519.)
Depends on where you are, up here in Finland we have no solar in the winter when our power consumption peaks. Wind is unreliable and can be too low for over a week.
Bosch does not really fit the “propped up by low interest rates and free VC money” theme.
Yep. That's what I was saying too. The first line of my comment quotes the GP and I was correcting that.
No, ReiserFS was unreliable by itself. Run fsck on a ReiserFS filesystem with a ReiserFS loopback image/wm, then your whole partition it's trashed.
It could very well be referring to bullets in the "pew! pew! pew!" sense.

I'd recommend The Military Revolution by Geoffrey Parker[1] if you're curious to know more about the transition from knights to guns and all the strategic ramifications.

[1]https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-military-revolution-geoffre...
> One day I'll sit down and just go through them all to fix them.

I like to tell this to myself every time I log onto my online banking using the 'Temporary <credit union name>' entry in bitwarden.

One day.
And if you're driving to the office, that's 450 hours where you can get into a fatal accident, with about half of them in the morning when you might be too sleep-deprived to safely operate a motor vehicle. Driving on four hours of sleep is the equivalent of drunk driving. And if your start time is the same every day, then it's likely you'll have many nights where you fall asleep too late, maybe even because you're preparing a presentation for your morning meeting...
A successful 51% attack on a major cryptocurrency would not necessarily be that impactful. So what if Elon can doublespend? He would need a lot of crypto, a counterparty, and the strong desire to waste money. Large miners could already collude to do it, it just is not in their interest.
I sometimes wonder if all the time spent inputing and tracking various not-naturally-generated "metrics" is worth it. Manager and executive hours analyzing this stuff and devising systems for it and arguing over which systems to use and crafting mandates and plans, can be extremely expensive. Expensive ICs like programmers can easily lose 10-20% of their time to task-tracking and time-tracking and shepherding various things along that only exist for better tracking. Like, if we just didn't do those things at all... would productivity go down? Or up?

The cost of doing all this measuring and evaluating and preparing-to-measure certainly isn't being measured, though, so we'll never know.
> Amazon... ...does not care if you sell cheaper elsewhere

I can't find a good source for it, but Amazon is very sensitive to prices for the same goods on other sites. My understanding is they automatically match lowered prices on a number of competitors. They are also getting sued by the FTC[1] for punishing sellers that sell lower elsewhere.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-forces-customers-...
I was just visiting a European friend for a couple weeks. They have a car but parking was a sufficient drama that they took the Uber equivalent within the city most of the time. Busses but minimal metro.
Trade agreements have allowed importing from countries where human rights are (more of) an economic externality. Domestic manufacturers can really only compete on the ability to do small batches, higher tolerances, and quick turnaround; like for R&D projects or medical devices.
I read that as a dismissal of the title: as you have experienced, chemotherapy is horrible. “Kinder” there can feel like a comically low bar.

But this is wonderful progress. Let’s hope is a lot kinder.
> anyone who volunteers to be a killer has something wrong in him

Consider the native american indian warriors who volunteered to defend their land against the invaders. Or jews in Poland who volunteered to defend against the Germans in WW2.

Does your statement apply to them as well?
>> Lower costs for everyone. Including people you don't like. Yes.

Touche. They are two different contributors to costs, and I wouldn't have commented if I weren't currently frustrated by high housing costs.
> I can't even put to words my embafflement

That's because the word is "bafflement."
Well, it's a 100% increase from that company, for one year. The next year, though, they only need to buy one lathe again. And the next year, and the year after that. Every tenth year, they'll buy two lathes.

Calling that a 100% increase doesn't seem to make sense because it actually doesn't make sense.
With the right team, I’d offer it’s more productive than a cubicle farm where folks are having impromptu meetings.

I think part of this is that when someone wants something, they have a little time to compose their thoughts.
You are on the right track. The truth is whether its making the world better or not is unknowable. To know it you have to know the future. Which is why people who strive to make value judgement always do so by predicting the future. But even if you get it right, the future has future still. Whats immediately bad might be good for the big picture, vice versa. This is doubly true for complex things like AI.

All I'm saying is that with thing like AI its entirely dishonest to say its making the world better with a straight face. It is what it is. Don't fool yourself by thinking you're doing it for 'the greater good'.
I'm sorry, but the assertions that multi-exit housing blocks take up more space is frankly bollocks.

Housing estates in Europe manage it by having proper balconies that can be used as exits, but also having share walk ways out the front.

Not only can you have two or more exits, it also means that you can secure the building more easily as there are less doors to secure.

take this estate: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RXscnAJaDRCLausL9

there are 200 flats, a mix of 1-4 bedrooms. The biggest flats are about 85m2 (~1000sqft) every flat has a separate kitchen, living room and toilet/bathroom.

There are four exits to ground level on the "C" (the top, right and bottom of the block) they are secured by keyfob. Each landing is then secured by another keyfob.

In case of fire, the balcony divider can be pushed open allowing refuge in the next flat.

These flats are made of concrete, and there are only 4 holes into the flat above/below, meaning that fire doesn't spread. That estate has a fire at least once every 2 years, and it only affects one flat.
Yes, I remember your name (also from last.fm I believe!). Small world!
Dublin to NYC transplant speaking, I'm still 3xing because of the salary difference.
> there is no better alternative

If your primary device is Android, please check out Ente[1].

We are an E2EE alternative to Google Photos. We had launched on HN[2] a while ago, and have been working towards feature parity. We aren't "there" yet, but hope to soon be.

If you've any feedback, please share it with vishnu@ente.io, I'd be grateful!

[1]: https://ente.io

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439