skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how we have a really urgent problem, which I can fix in the non-production environments in an afternoon, only to have people emailing me for the next month asking why this extremely important problem is not fixed in prod yet.

Sorry guys, that’s another team. They’re extremely reluctant to deploy even very important things. Separation of responsibilities means we have no other choice.
as I said, I have no problem with a webcam its just a nuisance to setup. If you think thats 'difficult' oh well. Its never been an issue yet, so I'm not gonna worry about it.
AYCE Gogi? If so, very cool place, and good food!
> they’re all technologies that have been hyped in much the same way by much the same people.

Really? I can see that for GenAI and Crypto (to my mild annoyance because I was doing GenAI before such people heard of Bitcoin), but not AR/VR.

> I think you’re just objecting on the basis that AI is obviously already immensely useful while other hyped technologies (in their current state) aren’t.

While I do indeed think AI is valuable, I also look at AR/VR and think "this is just another games console — some are handheld, some connect to your TV, this one is on your face". VR just… it just doesn't seem any more hyped than any of the other games consoles over the years that were also "revolutionary" and "amazing photorealistic graphics" etc., and mostly by different people?
As much as I enjoy the Matrix as a movie, I would never consider it a valuable social commentary about how people should live their lives except for maybe to go outside and touch grass regularly.
…ego rush, because they often couldn’t grasp what was being said or what had just happened to them. It was a primal validation, a power trip, and I wish I had done it with more humility.

Someone is still on this journey.
Your comment only serves to further illustrate the mystic of the US Office of Dear Leader. To what degree, if at all, did Biden drive the profiling, search, evaluation and selection processes? I feel fairly confident in guessing that you don’t know. Unelected long-tenure “officials” run the US government to a degree that you’re perhaps not appreciating. Journalists not reporting on them or their actions, and instead maintaining a ruse is shoddy and shady.
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The reason for the volcano is you can mix the flour in a little at a time and watch it until it hits the right consistency. That's not very relevant if you're using Gold Medal AP or some flour that's made in a high volume factory, they've got lab equipment to make sure their flours are consistent. (Once you get a really good feel for it, you also may notice differences depending on things like humidity.) If you're getting artisan flour, it's more relevant. I suppose you can still do this in a large enough bowl too, but you're going to turn it out onto your counter anyway to knead or roll or whatever, so the bowl is just dirtying another dish.

It probably does minimize the amount of flour on your shirt and floor after. And you've probably got a dishwasher. So do whatever makes you happy, but I like the volcano.
I buy all my jokes at police auction.
Conversely, after so many studies, I would be particularly surprised if we discover severe detrimental effects of PFAS as a category. So far, most of the science has revolved around the fact we can find them all over the place. They are relatively pervasive. For most of these compounds (and there are many under the umbrella PFAS) health effects at expected exposure levels have been much more difficult to prove. In fact, many PFAS are ingested orally by millions of people daily (e.g., Flonase, Prozac, etc.).
You get what you pay for. I switched to Kagi maybe 6(?) months back - totally worth it.
>Needing more people for funding just adds friction to an already hard problem and will reduce the number of such things that get started.

Because governments can't fund projects?

Not sure what you are arguing for, but IMO there is this idea of the "great men" who build cool things like Space-X. So we should let the wealthy keep their great wealth so that we get more companies like Space-X.

Except what we really get is more corporate looting, oppression and monopoly, plus the hyper-wealthy having excessive influence over government.

If the wealth is spread around, and we no longer have to be wage slaves our whole lives, then collectives of like-minded people could band together and build cool things. We do see that in the open-source world, but most contributors are not earning money they need to pay bills.
Is this related to the most minimal valid HTML? No HTML tag there.

<!DOCTYPE html><title> </title>
That's for outbound; don't forget SIIT-DC for inbound.
winners never quit and quitters never win but those who never win and never quit are idiots https://despair.com/products/stupidity
At approximately 3:20 it explains that solder is a mix of tin and lead and through some quirk no-one understands, this causes it to melt at least 100c lower than either of those two elements on their own. We don't understand how, but we understand how to exploit that.

Do we now understand why that happens?

(edit: minor side-rant about high definition 16mm films being preserved at 480p mpeg.)
I appreciate 'as if it were' over 'like it's'.
The company is run by an accountant (Ruth, technically CFO but shadow CEO). All decisions are accounting now, there is no deeper logic.
What's the difference?

1957: Gov Faubus attempts a ridiculous political stunt, even mobilising the AK Nat'l Guard, but Eisenhower federalises them, and —the guard having been an actual well regulated milita— they follow orders so the stunt is over.

1963: Gov Wallace attempts a ridiculous political stunt, but Kennedy federalises the AL Nat'l Guard, and —the guard having been an actual well regulated militia— they follow orders so the stunt is over.

2024: Gov Abbott attempts a ridiculous political stunt, even mobilising the TX Nat'l Guard, and... ?

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807
> What's the scenario where the public harm to a usage control bypass becomes more valuable to an attacker than the bug bounty?

Since the bug bounty is zero. All the time?
It's not just government that fails and makes bad choices. So I'm not interested in questions that frame the distinction as being between private decision making and public decision making. We have agree that no human organization will always make the best decisions, so the question is how do we try to improve the chances?

There was a lot of interest in this in the 1960s, but it fell away as neoliberalism triumphed, and with it the idea that some sort of multiplicity of private actors will always make the best possible choice that we could. I don't believe this, especially since "multiplicity" has frequently come down "a few, maybe 2 or 3".

Yes, I love cooperatives, though they are hard to make sustainable and successful. Big projects requiring lots of resources should be hard to start, and should start only when we agree that devoting lots of resources to the problem is the right thing to do, via a democratic process. Problems that require very few resources do not need to meet such standards, and efforts to solve them can come and go as people feel like doing.
The choice of microcontroller matters. Functional safety qualified MCUs might have the same CPU core but is built in a way that minimizes interference or common cause of failures between peripherals. The software needs to be written closely following the safety manual of such a MCU to make maximum use of those safety guarantees.
This change happened right about August 15, 2017... which I know only because somehow I happened to notice at the right moment where the branding had been updated but the page <title> had not. Here's the bug report I filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390381
Probably just broken equipment.
The thought of US citizens being even for a second treated like how the US government treats non-US-residents is absolutely hilarious. What an utter rude shock.
Fake Women in Tech
No, they aren't. PFAS (and specifically PFOA) has a carboxyl group, making it much more polar than PTFE (it is an acid). PFOA is soluble in water. PFTE is not.

Even if there were lingering PFOA in Teflon, it would be quickly washed away.

Some people try to confuse the issue by grouping together anything with a poly-CF2 chain as "PFAS", but this is wrong.
I'm surprised by this thread too.

I never flag anything because it's recorded on my profile, and I don't want stuff recorded on my profile that isn't useful to me. I only upvote submissions and comments that I intend to refer back to in the future. Upvotes are simply bookmarks to me, so my only tool for voting on the quality of conversation is downvotes. Which, apparently, I can't do for articles without spamming up my profile.

Actually I just checked my profile and saw several flags that must have appeared on a mis-click, just like how sometimes upvotes appear on a mis-click. Fortunately, unlike mis-clicked upvotes, you can still remove these.
Teflon is not hazardous, it's also not GenX.
From what you wrote I feel my fairly milquetoast opinion is now contrarian. I always thought being a generalist is actually harder than being a specialist. In many specialties there's the luxury of being able to encapsulate lower order knowledge that would be table stakes to a generalist and they're still perceived as competent so long as their specialty remains relevant and informed. For a generalist to appear competent they must not only dabble in all things frontend, backend, systems, and data stores but also know how all of these things can possibly connect or overlap.

It always seemed odd to me that someone specializes in a language like Java or Javascript. That, to me, is neither a specialist or a generalist; I'm not actually sure what to call it.
AI and Elections: A Voters Guide
> I suspect it is not someone that came and gave it for free.

I suspect that whatever price was charged was a bargain compared to what it's actually worth - and thus the transfer was at the expense of the rest of society.

> And if it was a gift, it would still be a property transfer. So still his.

And if that "gift" was stolen from someone else beforehand?
Then put your head in the sand. It’s not changing. The is and will continue to be called a Recall. No amount of chest beating or saber rattling is going to change that. Of all the inane concerns that I see appear on HN, this is the most ricidulous.
I'm not a React dev, so I can't comment on the project itself. Something I noticed on the blog post, though:
The image at the top of the page is served uncompressed at a whopping 18.5MB (9751px * 6132px)! Seems a bit extreme for what amounts to a simple logo and some text.
The author is foaming at the mouth by the end of this. Criticism of Elon is fully warranted, but criticizing him for what he's done at Twitter is unreasonable. He's the only tech executive that actually voluntarily revealed illegal government censorship.
Yes, but currently building excess capacity is a problem in itself. We can't install enough green energy production in the time we want, even ignoring the BTC demand. The extra capacity will not be fully carbon neutral and even just putting more generation in place creates negative externalities.

Given the options of "more BTC, more energy production" and "no BTC, more energy storage and shifting existing production", we as humans would be better off with the second scenario.
seems to be only for windows
I had totally forgotten how fun and sometimes nerve-wracking even when your reasoning is sound this game is. I wonder how much they would charge on steam if this game was novel.
This implementation is also really fun.
Because you can invest it in the riskless asset and have a dollar and some interest tomorrow.
> All you'd do is add all the inefficiencies of politics into business-level decision making.

While I'm sympathetic to that line of thought, I feel like it ignores the reality that most business-level decision making is already inefficient and political. Where is the competition and fairness when a sustainable business is bought out, prices increased and development halted to wring out every bit of value, and then sold off for parts to competitors when no profit is left? There are so many common business practices that are actively hollowing out the free market.
The oration struck me as a little self-serving -- especially since the heir was weak. You'd like the commoners to feel good about the family, and maybe this did the trick.

But, the prison releases do seem to indicate he was in a forgiving mood; I imagine release of the brother couldn't be accomplished without some formal process. "The one jailed for treason? I'd like to see that order in writing."
Do you wish it supported Erasure Coding for lower disk usage, or is your workload such that the extra spindles from replication are useful?
Python-based pinball software framework
PTFE is not a PFAS unless you define PFAS so broadly as to be meaningless.

They're common only in that they both contain polyfluorinated carbon chains.
The chart in the article clearly shows the last peak was 1990.
I hope they toss a few million to make sure that jumping forward and backward work properly. I can fast forward or backward once and then if I try again, it hangs. That’s pretty much my biggest Plex woe. Unless someone has a solution to that?
track marks?

I suppose if they test your blood and there is "too much" hemoglobin in the blood, you fail? Another arbitrary limit.
Ok let’s say we agree with you.

Now what?
I just posted about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235382. The relevant part is in the middle of that rather, er, wallish text, but if you read it (assuming you find it!) and have a question I didn't answer, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
Do you have the link to that brewery map?
I took your advice, and you're right, it is very readable. Seeing it in its original context also helps me understand why a logician would want to invent it.
Thanks for the link to the executive order. Now that I've read it, I'd say that an opaque system seems to be exactly what Biden wanted.

The EO repeatedly says that results and procedures will be "classified" and "consistent with the protection of intelligence sources or methods".

And the complainant not being able to represent themselves is mandated by the EO: "a special advocate will be selected by the Data Protection Review Court to advocate regarding the complainant's interest in the matter".
Thank you so much for the detailed and thoughtful response!

Do you know if anybody has done research into discoverability on linear v. pie menus? I ask because other people in the thread have asserted the subjective belief that scanning a linear list is faster than scanning in a circle, which is also my experience. Possibly because of the software I grew up using[1], I use a menu almost exclusively for operations that I use rarely enough to not know where they are; if I know the path to find it in the menu, I probably know the shortcut for it.

1: Think lots of cardboard templates that fit over the "F" keys
The goal wouldn't be confiscation. It would be to incentivize behavior to avoid confiscation. Charge less rent to mine minerals. Spread equity in business more broadly.
But this doesn't do anything for packagers - making it easy to write new packages?

So far I think the best part of helm is installing/using packages - it's the terrible yaml-template soup that is the problem?
What is the "greed at the regulators" scenario you're talking about?
AWS would not be possible without the contribution of hundreds of thousands of people and projects from the inception of the internet. It really is just a software on some redundant servers running open source software... it's not that incredible.
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users to Edge
A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)
> I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

Kind of.

If the premise that government + a few rich people is a better way to spend $ (e.g. our current system !) then how about we also try government + spreading $ around so a lot of people are well off and can "allocate capital".

The fact is a rising tide lifts all boats.
To be clear, I’m not saying it’s a good job. (Or a bad one.) I’m saying it’s better than it was before.
To generalize this idea further, it seems to me that at some point, concentration of wealth compromises the freedom of markets — whether by political influence or legal means. And that’s what needs to be focused on.
… yes it does?

It implies a central authority that has opinions on the wealth of private citizens (inappropriate) that also has the ability to act on it (dangerous) and that goes ahead and implements its utopian visions (has never not ended in utter catastrophe).
Also, your question sort of implicitly requires ignoring all the attempts to do "something like what Bezos did" that failed. A bunch of resources went into those efforts that came to nothing. This is not a zero cost to society. There was always going to be someone who succeeded at this, so noting that Bezos did so is relatively information free. The bigger question is whether the way this happened - let a bunch of money be thrown against the wall and see what sticks - is really the best we can do as a society and as an economy.
This a thing which boggles my mind. Does this mean everyone gets /64 addresses to circumvent IP bans?
Function Contracts for Kani
You can buy stuff today with it vs. waiting til tomorrow.

A dollar you own today has zero risk of not being delivered tomorrow.

You can invest that dollar one day sooner.

If there’s a general expectation of inflation, it exchanges for more today than tomorrow.
> I say arguable because DNS without CGO is still a common cause of issues and incompatibility

DNS without CGO works perfectly. The vendor specific ad hoc mechanisms for extending DNS in a site local context are not well supported. If they were implemented more sensibly, then Go, or any other language, would have no problem taking advantage of them even without the "C Library Resolver."

Speaking of which, that "C Library Resolver," in my opinion, has one of the worst library interfaces in all of unix. It's not at all a hill worth new projects dying on.
Nothing a couple of rocket emojis won't fix :D
> One benefit I see ...

There exist people who see benefits of any political stances. That is why the stance is taken. Arguing about whether it is a benefit is at the core of politics. For example, Mr Tan probably sees benefit from certain SF supervisors resigning immediately and is frustrated that they don't.

But it is better to keep businesses out of that, I believe we're better off if they are relatively neutral and thoughtless engines to achieve highly specific goals.

> But, in practice, the "support" can be paper-thin ...

1) This situation is also paper thin. I'd bet money that Tan doesn't do anything that would cause the supervisors to die a slow death. Most attack on politicians are.

2) I've had it made quite clear to me in companies I've worked at that if there was a candidate with different skin colour or gender to me they'd be before me in the line for hiring and promotions. That is paper thin support, but it is due to political ideology and I still don't like it. I would like companies to promote equal treatment and be scrupulously neutral on politics.
> However, rules are used to mitigate and minimize the risks.

Where does the rule draw that line and why is it not an arbitrary one?

Why is your judgement of that line better than Peter Thiel's or the actual athletes involved judgement?
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Lots of discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39198329
It's nice to have something that the humans know with absolute certainty so that we know much to trust the machines.
I completely agree that it was mundane and expected that's why I don't think bozos deserves to be viewed as a demigod of productivity. It was bound to happen.
I picked up my first two last year - they require a decent amount of maintenance -- more the older they are.

Home use only machines will be in better shape - my 2018 Stern pin (3rd owner, home use only) has only really needed replacements of the coil stops and sleeves for the the upper flippers.

On the other hand, my 2002 Stern machine (3rd owner, but first was on location in a Century theater where it saw thousands of plays) required in just two months of ownership:

- diagnosis and replacement of a bad bridge rectifier for the controlled lights,

- new plumb bob (machine info showed it had never reported a tilt before - looks like it had been removed before ever been played),

- clear mylar patch on the playfield near the plunger lane exit,

- replacement of the main power cable -- someone had ripped out the third/ground prong (which is apparently very common),

- redoing the connections inside the power box -- someone had decided all the connectors should just live in giant solder balls.....,

- replacement of the coin door lock mechanism,

- replacement of a flipper return spring

and it has a few cracked pieces of protective plastic that just aren't worth trying to find replacements for.

In total all together that's still less than $50 in parts, but figuring out the lights issue took weeks, and some of these required soldering. (And desoldering! I strongly recommend the Hakko FR301 desoldering tool instead of mucking about with copper braid.)

For the prices you listed, I would guess you're looking at older machines, which will probably have more issues sooner than new (but not brand-new!) pins. I suggest pinside.com for the classifieds and also the "_X_ Machine Owner" forum threads which might have game-specific info for you. Stern has very detailed manuals, and pinballlife/marcospecialties have just about every part you might need when you do have a problem.

Good luck, and have fun!
Interesting title, but the article requires registration (and possibly a substription).
I'll bite. What's click baity about it?
Do you happen to remember if the misclicks were on mobile or not? I'm planning to add a confirmation screen to cut down on flags-by-misclick, but the current intention is to make it mobile-only.
Nuclear power on moon: NASA wraps up first phase of ambitious reactor project
“Defect” implies a necessary response. A defective product is a product that a manufacturer is legally obligated to repair, replace, or refund. A “defect notice” is thus a notice that the manufacturer is legally obligated to remediate the problem.

It is also consistent with existing terminology, see: “Most decisions to conduct a recall and remedy a safety defect”. We see that the “recall” refers not to the remedy, but to the notice that the manufacturer has obligations to remedy the defect.

Note that “mandatory safety update” is also incorrect because:

“Manufacturers are required to fix the problem by repairing it, replacing it, offering a refund, or in rare cases repurchasing the vehicle.”

So, a update is not necessary, it is usually just the cheapest option which is why it is the most common. Also note how the remediations proposed are consistent with standard defect remediation as I laid out above.
If there’s just one nonsense idea that humanity absolutely will not let go of, it’s this one:

In anything other than the short term, you can really make yourself better off by making other people worse off. It’s a feudalist mentality that’s totally obsolete in free markets. Loads of people just continue buying this snake oil by the tankload, making themselves unhappy and unfortunate. Not a way forward.