skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Readability is a complex matter in that it depends a lot on the reader, their expectations, and how well they handle some cases vs others.

On title case in particular, I wonder how you would feel if it was applied to everything in the text, and not just the title. Would it be more readable ? For me personally it absolutely wouldn't and I'd be infuriated after three lines.

Then if most people were on the opposite side, I'd think we'd have at least a few prominent use cases where all the text would be in title case, and I can't think of any.

Is title case's point to just make it clear it's a title ? If so, we have so many better ways to convey that (bold, underlining, spacing, positionning, bullets and markers etc.). On the baby and the bath water saying, the more I think of it the more I see Title case as just a relic of some old practice I'm not sure why we cling to in this day and age...what's the baby, what am I missing ?
They are dead and the piece that got promoted is just another regular piece
But the premise isn’t that using only lowercase increases legibility. The Premise is that Not Using Title Case Improves Compression and Also Increases Legibility for Author of Article.
Icebox igloo tool helps build a geodesic shaped igloo much like a 3d printer with all types of snow.
https://grandshelters.com/icebox-igloo-tools/
That may be how Microsoft would like to portray it but I disagree.

A production system is a system that is operated to serve its actual purpose rather than being used as a development or testing environment.

From the point of view of in-house IT, the company's email server is a production system. It is what they produce for their in-house customers.
About 80% Limit with iPhone 15 models
PeaceTech
I was going to call this price completely crazy for anywhere, then realized I pay $40/kg for Parmigiana-Reggiano, but that seems justified since it’s coming all the way from Italy to Kansas. Seems like intra-EU cheese should be more affordable!
I mean, there's a "Covid-19" badge in the middle of the bottom row.
This group is also known as CozyBear, if that rings a bell. The US government named them years ago in an announcement kicking out several Russian diplomats. I don’t think anyone is worried about being wrong on this.

https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0016/
Honey I federated the search engine – finding stuff online post-big tech [video]
"any access to customer environments, production systems, source code, or AI systems" does not mean root access. It can also mean access to data.
No one. Most likely this won't happen in our lifetimes. No Starship refueling in orbit, no lifting larges masses into orbit, or to the moon, much less Mars. It's not "maybe a few years," but not anytime soon, not anytime worth planning for or fantasizing about.

You can continue to believe in the ever-moving Musk goalposts, the sci-fi future always a couple of years away. Come back in those "few years" and let's see who got it right.

I watched the first moon landing on TV as a child. Like many people I have wanted to see orbiting space stations, moon colonies, travel to Mars and beyond my whole life. Watching a narcissistic grifter hijack those dreams with bullshit and lies to feed his own ego and bank account makes me feel more than disappointed.
If you're married that helps too. I live in London, not the middle of nowhere, but I find it pretty hard to make friends here who aren't just closed off to new people and hard to get to know below the surface unless you are sort of around them for a long time. I dunno maybe the American culture of friendliness helps too. British people take months of consistency to get past the small-talk stage with.

Edit: Also I now work at a company that has a 3 day office policy, which is one of the top reasons I chose the job. I think they're doing fine and they have no intention fo changing. It's not impossible.
Simulating a minimal cell in the browser
Have you ever wondered how life’s most basic units, cells, operate? As a programmer and cell biology enthusiast, I embarked on a journey to simulate the simplest cell using TypeScript.
Worth noting that the executive producer of the show, Patrick Spence, was asked about why Adam Crozier was not present in the show in an interview with The Times. Here is a timestamp of the question and answer: https://youtu.be/3KfMptK294M?t=251
I love how an obvious bug that should have led to a rejection of the delivery of the system - or an emergency fix as per the support requirements these large contracts always come with - has instead transformed into official DfE policy.

That's just so typical of the newfangled digital bureaucracy: it's far easier to change the workflow than it is to fix the software.
Really? What the hell? That seems extremely unsafe, why are people doing this? Are 12A fuses cheaper to make than 3A fuses?
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I don't know anything about this, to be honest this comes from ChatGPT, but anyway it reckons:

> The allergic reactions to penicillin are caused by the beta-lactam ring in the penicillin compound, which is not present in the Penicillium roqueforti mold.

Do you know that to be incorrect? Just searching it seems correct about beta-lactam allergy, but I'm not sure about what's in P. roqueforti.
Can Artificial Intelligence become conscious? [video]
very interesting, and in theory easy to fix
That is how it has been defined at every SAAS company I have worked for. When someone says there is an outage in production, it means your product.
Nifty.

Please be aware that this is not a "spotify client" per se. It gets the data from Spotify, and plays the audio from YouTube.

It's an interesting invention, and worthy of the first page, if you ask me.
Seperator (6 bits)

Black King pos (6 bits)

Maybe we can even skip the separator?

Since each player has to have a king on the board. So the first piece in the list is the white king, and everything after it is white, until the second king in the list, and then that one and everything after it is black.
Bishops can only be in one of 32 spots but you need to know which one (ordering?).

I was thinking of that but piece type is already 2 bits for 4 piece types so you can't have unique color bishop types without adding additional bits. Ordering wouldn't work since you can only have one bishop or an extra one or two of same color etc.
Jimmy Fallon was on this years ago: https://youtu.be/jKThXf5c6wY?si=vhJc55S29ZtvZRDe
If the blog post was written by their internal IT team, you’d be totally justified in reading “production” to include their internal systems.
Using 3 bits for piece type (including empty) and 1 bit for color makes a simple matrix enconding of the board just 8x8x4=256 bits. Add run length encoding for empty squares and it will be much smaller.

4 bits per square has room in it for RLE flags and even counts, without increasing the worst case size.
Scaling laws in terms of loss are well established.

How loss translates into higher-level capabilities is anyone's guess.
Docker Swarm seems to be underrated, from a simplicity and reliability perspective, IMHO.
There's been a few simple experiments in the UK - where consumers have been encouraged to reduce usage at peak time that have been successful. But as you say its going to need the appliances to support it. Everything needs a "Get this done by X o'clock" whether thats a dishwasher/washing machine/car charger.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/23/households-gre...
Sorry for my edit but I didn't want to get into a conversation about something I am not actually comfortable trying to be an authority about. I realized I was reaching past what would be reasonable for me to represent in a substantive way.

I hope you understand my hesitancy in such a public medium, and I appreciate your feedback.
Sounds like a nice place to work at.

> the fans are going 100% always

Can this not be configured via the bios? I imagine there should be a fan curve setting somewhere in there.
It's not even that: it's a device for non-dermatologists, to decide if they need to make a referral. "Cleared" is definitely the right language here, this might only be a Class 1 medical device, it's not making any diagnostic claims.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626
Ideally we should using technology to do what we intend to do.

Unfortunately the reality is that technology uses us and makes us do things we normally would consider stupid.
You forgot about the oversight responsibilities, though. Just because you delegate work to an agent doesn't automatically mean that you are not responsible for the consequences of any action of the agent. If what you say was true not a single company ever would be successfully prosecuted because companies don't do anything on their own, all their actions are through their agents.
Of course, a classical trade-off. That’s why I’m taking time to discuss that here. The cost incurred by upstream updates reshuffling the hull makes it for hard budget and timeline decisions and risk management. That’s why larger projects with many deps prefer stable upstream, both the runtime and the libs. There’s also compliance and certification that come into play in regulated industries. Lots of moving parts to keep track of. I need to know what the upstream vendors are up to so we can plan in advance. With JDK, a big trouble is the push to JDK 17+ now within the ecosystem. Sonar Cloud for example now wants JDK 17+ starting next Monday. But you can’t even build your JDK 11 bound projects with Gradle that runs on JDK 17. You could separate the build stage from the run stage, of course, but that’s not really enough in the end. Same story with Spring. With .NET by contrast, the ecosystem still supports the legacy .NET Framework target and you can still run your antiquated projects. Not the same with Java anymore though. It’s pulling the rug.
It mentions crapita, surely you aren’t surprised?
This specific notation makes no sense in a Physics context. The names of the variables encode information that is lost if you use purely positional arguments. If I take a state function F(V, T) and its partial derivative wrt T, things like notation ∂_2 F get much murkier and context dependent than ∂_T F or ∂F/∂T, which benefit from a general consistency of notations. Ultimately, the function F has a physical meaning and the orders of the arguments is completely irrelevant, but what these arguments are is important. The Leibniz notation should certainly be improved or replaced, but not by this.

I mean, they even fuck it up in the sentence after their equation:

> The Lagrangian L is a real-valued function of time t, coordinates x, and velocities v; the value is L(t, x, v). Partial derivatives are indicated as derivatives of functions with respect to particular argument positions; ∂_2 L indicates the function obtained by taking the partial derivative of the Lagrangian function L with respect to the velocity argument position.

From what they say at the beginning the second argument is the position, not the velocity, so ∂_2 L is ∂_x L, not ∂_v L. Which is a really easy mistake to make because every single equation needs to go back to the definition of L to make sense.
Seeing as we are forced to spend most of our waking hours working I would rather that I could get something out of that time other than wage slavery.
> In Oak Brook, Illinois, near Chicago, on Monday, television reporters found Teslas that were running out of juice while in long lines for plugs at a Supercharger station.

"Running out of" is not "dead".

> At a Supercharger station in Pittsfield Township, Michigan, just south of Ann Arbor, the battery in Ankita Bansal’s Tesla had only 7% of its charge left. She plugged in, but the car wouldn’t take electricity. Instead, the display said the battery was heating up.

So the battery wasn't dead or dying, it was heating up to charge. The car will do it automatically if you navigate to a known charge.

> A few stalls away from her, Kim Burney’s Tesla Model 3 was charging just a little slower than it does in normal temperatures. She had driven farther than she thought on a trip to her dentist in Ann Arbor on Wednesday morning and wanted to get close to a full charge for the rest of the day’s travels.
> So she told the car she was going to the charging station and it was ready by the time she arrived and plugged in.

And one user with zero issues

I really expect The Guardian to have better headlines. There are zero dead or dying batteries in the actual text, why is it mentioned in the headline?

Ahh, it's an Associated Press article reposted. That explains the clickbait headline.
I'm wondering how many hacks like this must occur before companies start caring about hiring good developers with a proven individual record instead of those who can solve the most gimmicky puzzles in 30 minutes.

There are developers out there with excellent track records who have built bug-free solo projects which prove their excellence and yet can't find a job in this economy. Some of these developers have also proven themselves to work well in a team so there is no excuse to ignore them. They are excellent both as lone wolf and team player. Companies should desperately look for them and recruit them. Only such developers can save companies from technical decay.
Most likely those chargers weren't prepared for extreme cold.

There are Tesla chargers literally above the Arctic Circle and I've heard for zero cases where they stopped working because it was too cold.
I used to wash my truck once a year, then I just ran out of time.
Minimal is an open source distraction-free theme for Obsidian
I think the proper thing is a judge issues and order for them to stop doing that. And when they do it again someone spends a weekend in jail.
Do you spend a lot of time reading Norwegian news?
Contradicts the recent one from WEF.
Actual Title:

Github Copilot Workspace Announcement (Video)

This looks very nice (thanks for the link) but no need to hype and editorialise it by invoking 4.5/5.

The existing engine is powerful enough to provide frameworks like this, see eg third party offerings like Sweep.

https://sweep.dev/
I don’t like the accepted answer here, because it criticises Leibniz notation without explaining what it means – and apparently without actually _understanding_ it, since the author several times writes words to the effect of “this is nonsense” in reference to expressions that in fact make perfect sense when interpreted correctly.

The salient issue that the author of that answer seems not to have understood, which we here in the land of the Y Combinator should have less trouble with, is the distinction between free and bound variables.

In lambda calculus, variable binding is explicit and denoted by a lambda. Leibniz notation binds variables in just the same way: the operator (d/dx) binds the variable x in the expression to which it is applied.
> In our industry, the idea of something using XP is ridiculous.

Only because of the lack of (security, drivers) updates though right? If I couldn't use Linux or macOS I'd rather use XP (if it were current) than anything that's come since.

(I also don't need accessibility features which I'm sure have come a long way.)
I love how they are trying to push their software issues onto people.

Once the person has provided proof once it is the DfE's problem to keep track of that and there is no obligation to keep providing it.

At some point, to keep asking to prove something 'or else' may be construed as harassment in addition to being idiotic.
Well, I would love to spend extra money for them to verify and guarantee that the RAM is stable at e.g. DDR5-5600.
However, maybe I am not part of a big group with this one, and since I am currently not in the market for this kind of workstation, maybe the target audience would literally be zero.
Number of chess pieces are dynamic so you wouldn't know if white pieces are over and next piece is black king (kings don't have a type bits)

But now I think about it, instead of a separator I could simple use 4 bits to represent how many (non pawn) chess pieces there are for each player. It is at most 15 (7 initial + 8 promotion) so only 4 bits instead of 6 bit seperator shaved another 4 bits!
Just use an 8x8 raster font. 8 bytes per character are hard to beat, still perfectly readable, and who needs fancy smooth outlines anyway ;)
NUC with 10gbit eth - can you recommend any?
Google hiring process was always flawed. They didn't hire talented generalists. They hired people who gamed the hiring process. Most of them are mediocre at best. As an anecdote, I worked with a couple of guys who were later hired by Google. They weren't stellar in my team (in fact I was glad they were gone), and I have a hard time to believe they were stellar at Google either.

When you have a lot of mediocre developers, you can shift them around from one project to another all day long, but it won't improve your bottom line. The only solution is to fire them. Unfortunately for Google without the change in the hiring process, they will continue to hire the same kind of people that they just fired. From this perspective Google has become the "normal" company a long time ago.
> i've stumbled a few years ago on a math book that described the original concept of "infinitesimals" and how a whole different way of doing calculus exists.

Was this book "Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach", by Keisler? It's an awesome book. It's free to download at https://people.math.wisc.edu/~hkeisler/calc.html
This is why I use the 76 app at gas stations. You can pay on the app and the pump is unlocked. No swiping or tapping.
I agree fully, I believe that my Home Assistant energy dashboard has done more for our energy consumption than any other measure.

If you’re in the Netherland you can get something like a “slimme lezer”, plug it into the p1 port of your energy meter and it will pop up in Home Assistant with the right sensors.

The energy dashboard will give an overview of your gas and electricity usage, solar production, proportion used from grid/solar and even a home battery if present. It’s really great.

Combine it with some Aqara (zigbee but easily overloaded) or Shelly (WiFi and I find them very robust) energy monitoring power sockets and you get a very good idea of the simplest measures to take to save power. You can even add cost/kWh and M3 (gas) to the sensors in HA.
Japan's SLIM spacecraft lands on the Moon
This is very cool. I remember I got sucked into things like Ramda going down this functional programming rabbit hole :-)

https://ramdajs.com/
These aren't meters (in that sense) - generally they're reading from CT clamps placed on the tails from your meter.
The post if you want to read it directly: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b98b29cf-27d9-49e0-b10b-1848399...
I saw in the summary that you planned to open source it, do you still think you'll do it? I was thinking to build one for self (e-ink + battery powered so can move it around), and trying to avoid reinventing the wheel
I’m aware. I was alluding that the CPS would be involved in any criminal cases against the PO.
Just wanted to say I appreciate the time you took to write this up. Really shows the hidden reality behind the words "why not just..." which is so often the cause of unforseen headaches, which are usually a result of quick and shallow thinking without admitting there might be things not considered / unknown.
Corollary: people are cheap and lazy, so if you want them to not do something, make it cumbersome in a way that does not justify the cost difference, or vice versa.
Private prosecutions are still possible in some US states and were more common historically: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_prosecution#United_S...

Also: https://law.umn.edu/events/what-process-due-history-and-use-....

I’m not saying that private prosecutions are a good idea, but they’re not completely alien to the US.
If you want to do VM workflows, I definitely would recommend to upgrade the RAM (and probably the SSD) when buying the machine. Yes, it is not cheap with Apple, but still no reason not to get an Apple machine, if you are in the market for one in the first place.
The big bonus you get is not only the nice hardware overall, but the ability to run Linux on a very fast ARM-Machine.
> letters make no mention of a deadline or the fact that their payments will cease if they do not respond within 28 days. A spokesperson said this was “to avoid causing upset”

This is the most stereotypically British thing I’ve heard this year
248 is max in my case (actually later I noticed I could shave another 4 bits), if there are less pieces, there will be less data

But probably with encoding your solution would be better
Around 8 years ago I was working remotely for an Eurozone country while living in a non-euro country. I used Wise + Revolut to convert all my income and buy an apartment (or part of it). The exchange rate + transfer costs were unbeatable. Revolut was even better but had a yearly cap on 10.000€ or something like this.
The "1 in a million" number I believe got directly from the CDC website a number of years ago. I couldn't find a specific number there there now, but you can look at the statistics from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). At a quick glance, it looks like they have criteria [1] for when they'll automatically pay out; this includes, for example, having anaphylaxis within 4 hours of receiving the vaccine.

According to the stats [2], there were 134 million MMR vaccines administered between 2006 and 2022, and 28 "compensable concession" claims -- where the Department of Health and Human Services determined that compensation was warranted; and an additional 124 claims where they ended up paying but don't necessarily admit that it was warranted (either ordered by a court or settled out of court). That's about 1 in 1 million for claims paid out, and 1 in 4 million for "concession" claims.

There's no indication in [2] of exactly what the claims were for; looking at [1] it could be anything from death from anaphylactic shock to even include things like "Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration".

This page has some investigation about deaths related to various vaccines, including the MMR vaccines [3]. A lot of the deaths were related to children with a compromised immune system or unsanitary conditions; the report says that there was evidence that MMR sometimes causes anaphylaxis, and that anaphylaxis can be fatal, but that they didn't have any actual instances of MMR causing fatal anaphylaxis.

Regarding the original point though: even if deaths are due to unsanitary conditions or compromised immune systems, and even if modern medicine can often successfully intervene to prevent death in the case of anaphylaxis, the fact is that injecting things into the body has an inherent risk, no matter how small. But the risk of not doing the injection is far higher. We'd like there to be an "always safe" option, but that's not the world we live in.

[1] https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vaccine-i... page 2

[2] https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vicp/vicp-stat... page 3

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236284/
Is that how English law works, or is that your moral opinion?

IANAL so genuinely curious
But the lack of cheap gas fucked up a small but important part of the german industry: chemical commons. That cripples the economic competitiveness and together with other negative developments, e.g. the change to EVs, will result in very hard times for the Germans.

In consequence the right party is rising, in eastern Germany to an already serious level.

You will see where this way goes.