skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too many false positives with Pi-Hole. I never felt comfortable putting my partner on the same vlan that it was serving DNS requests for fear that something would break for them when I was out of town, unable to get into the pi-hole and sort out the issue.

I also had my banking app stop working one day. Never could get it working. Eventually I just got fed up with having to switch vlans or to mobile data to check my bank and got rid of the pi-hole.

The blocker on PFsense eventually had the same issue.

Realistically, I was probably running too many overly restricting blocklists for my actual needs.

But, I also don't want to fiddle with messing with the out of the block blocklists that also caused me issues.
You can kinda enforce it from the IT side, though.
The gene is called CYP1A2 with two variants. One variant is a rapid caffeine metabolizer. The other is a slow caffeine metabolizer. https://www.geneticlifehacks.com/liver-detox-genes-cyp1a2/

I have the rapid variant but could not sleep well on 6 cups.
A successful business is where you get enough money out to make the investment worthwhile.

Given X clients paying Y with the total expenses by Z as long as X * Y > Z the business can remain solvent.

Profitability, return on investment, scale, and whatever other metric you add changes this formula.
I agree with this. The only person who is paying money for a blog platform is someone who is making money from that blog. A blog that makes money needs tons of features for analytics, monetization, SEO, etc. i.e.: Not a clean and simple one.

I like the look of PIKA. But since I don't expect to make a dime from blogging, I'm not going to pay a dime to do it. Free/open/self-hosted solutions are the only ones I'll consider.
> You probably think that these unexpected felony murder charges have a deterring effect

Not really. I know it doesn't.

It's more like I have a limited amount of care. I imagine all the injustices and bad things in the world. There is so many of them. And I imagine them all in a rough order from the worst and most terrible injustices to the most minor ones. Idk the top might be a toddler dying of an easily treatable illness for reasons of neglect or capitalism. And the last one might be some well of person having to wait an extra minute to be served. And along the line somewhere I just stop caring with a passion. And this particular thing is over that line for me. This is what I mean when I say I can't work myself up about this.

Even if we concentrate just on this case, there are greater injustices I care about more.

The two cyclist moved down. That is tragic. My heart beats hard for them.

The fact that the cops violated policy by their speed during the chase. That's bad. The fact that seemingly there is no negative repercussion for this is even worse. That's an injustice I care about.

Then there is the fact that even if the cops were let go because of this. (Which doesn't really happen.) They would just get a job as a cop somewhere else. That is also fairly bad. I care about that.

Then there is a thing which some of the articles about this case allude to, but don't spell out exactly. It sounds like the dude got a longer sentence because he went for a trial. Practicing lawyers call this the "trial tax" unofficially. You absolutely have a right to a trial, but if you use that right you very often get more severe punishment. (for all kind of reasons) Now, that is bad. That is an injustice.

By the time I get to the dude's situation I run out of steam and care. Should he be punished? Yes. Does he deserve life in prison? Eh.... I don't think so. Was he sentenced according to the rules of the land? Appears to be. Are the laws of the land just? No, not really. Is it fair that circumstances outside of his direct control dramatically altered the course of his life? No, but I guess the cyclist would feel the same too.

Just basically the whole situation is too brainy for me to care about on an emotional level.
Do you have an example of a CLT that has a dry run flag? I am very confused on how to design one for some CLTs I'm making.

If you call an API to retrieve data, how can that be a dry run? Are you suppose to give fake examples with fake output?
The world was also MUCH poorer 20 years ago.

A good friend of mine is from a (still) poor farming family from rural Vietnam.

When they were growing up on their coffee farm in the late 90s/early 2000s they lived in what was basically a mud hut with dirt floors, and helped with the harvest directly.

That friend (and their siblings) all ended up attending college in Saigon and getting white collar jobs, and their family still runs the same farm.

The difference was agricultural technology and automation became much cheaper, so there was less of a need to have a lot of kids do manual labor, so they sent their kids thru K-12 and later college.

My dad's generation had a similar thing happen as well in North India after the Green Revolution.

His dad was working on harvesting, sowing, and other agricultural related work at all times when he was a kid, yet when the Green Revolution happened - and with it reforms in rural financing along with cheap agricultural technology - there was no reason for my dad to live that kind of lifestyle, so he was able to attend school instead of rotting out in a field.

Democratizing relevant agricultural technology AND enhancing rural financing has a night and day difference in alleviating rural poverty.
Another alternative, if you use a digital calendar consistently, is to create a calendar event in the future and write the letter to your future self in the event notes.
Drone that killed U.S. troops in Jordan likely went undetected
Agreed - this is what the second paragraph of my comment is about.
How quickly can you book an appointment with your family doctor? How did you acquire your family doctor?
Author here: Logdy is a self-hosted, single binary, open source cli tool that catches stdout from a terminal and sends it to web browser UI.
It's goal is to structure the logs and save time searching and browsing them.

This is an early version, I'm looking for feedback.

If you would like to try the tool without downloading it visit: https://demo.logdy.dev/
Latest release: https://github.com/logdyhq/logdy-core/releases
> I can't for the life of me imagine who is deciding that 110 is sufficient.

Heartless physics? :)
Not to mention the pundits (and Apple) talking about re-imagining the family movie night and theater going experiences.

Huh, yeah, Mom and Dad and their 2.2 kids on the couch, all plugged in to an AVP, for only $14,000 (I'll round down to 2 kids)...
Hi hansonkd,

I'm working on Hotseat - a legal Q&A service where we put regulations in a hot seat and let people ask sophisticated questions. My experience aligns with your comment that vanilla GPT often performs poorly when answering questions about documents. However, if you combine focused effort on squeezing GPT's performance with product design, you can go pretty far.

I wonder if you have written about specific failure modes you've seen in answering qs from documents? I'd love to check whether Hotseat is handling them well.

If you'r curious, I've written about some of the design choices we've made on our way to creating a compelling product experience: https://gkk.dev/posts/the-anatomy-of-hotseats-ai/
I've gotten 5-7 days out of a charge with my entry-level Vivoactive 3 even 4 years later. They're very good.
I hate to say it, but at this point, we need a pseudonymous publication system with some type of proof of authorship to maintain the safety of scientists while keeping the scientific credibility of peer reviewed publications intact.

The data that is coming out is so concerning, it suggests several immediate courses of action. Those who know would wisely keep it to themselves. The ignorant will reap their reward.
> during the Covid-19 pandemic, because Canadian casinos were closed, Chinese underground banking schemes evolved

Hang on, what... I want to hear more about the Chinese underground casino stuff.
I dealt with a less-than-ideally reliable pihole by configuring the pihole as the primary DNS, and an external DNS server as the secondary (most devices accept 2 or more IPs for DNS).
And surely the amount of water is inconsequential, why can't we just use grams of actual coffee? Then we don't have to worry about how many espressos are in a 10oz mug. (Nevermind what that person's considering a standard dose for the espresso!)
Good for you. That's a data set of 1.

I based that on empirical observation of my kids' friends. They don't make up stories, they just replay the star wars or Harry Potter movies. So I don't know, a dozen kids or so. I haven't done a nation wide study yet.
They don't exist in the sense that you can walk into a brick-and-mortar computer store and buy one, or see it advertised in mainstream media, like was the case with Apple clones once upon a time.
hmmm, so if the current king wants to see their face on money they gotta pay for it themselves? I guess this isn't that important given that governments want to push a cashless economy now
Stanislav Lem wrote the "Washer Tragedy" where washing machines got smarter and were taking over. I think he would have been proud of these toothbrushes...
anyone have a copy hosted? it's currently overloaded and not responding
I somewhat like Mastodon's model where you can have mostly focus on members within a community that maintains/owns the instance. Federation completely optional, though connecting communities more explicitly would be really cool!
Just for the sci-fi fun of it, I'm trying to imagine the mechanism of the laser projector featured in Snowcrash.

How about a microscopic lenticular array in a close-fitting shell over each eye (kind of like swim goggles) or even in a special contact lens. The goal is to have appropriate lenses in front of the pupil. This lens array can then be targeted by extremely precise laser projectors, exploiting the lenses to illuminate parts of the retina that would not otherwise be visible from the same projector location through a naked eye.
It's not a distraction; most of the developed countries have similar level of range of debt. Maybe that's how modern developed economies are suppose to function.
For the curious reader: that clownshow is at ~30% THC these days.
From the wiki page

> Christian Berggren, a Swedish professor of industrial management, has questioned the authors' claims and suggested that Rosling's own thinking shows a bias towards Pollyannaism. Particularly, Berggren criticized the authors for understating the importance of the European migrant crisis, the environmental impacts of the Anthropocene, and continued global population growth. Furthermore, Berggren remarks that "Factfulness includes many graphs of 'bad things in decline' and 'good things on the rise' but not a single graph of problematic phenomena that are on the rise." It "employs a biased selection of variables, avoids analysis of negative trends, and does not discuss any of the serious challenges related to continual population growth." Berggren raises concerns that the simplistic worldview this book offers could have serious consequences.
Seriously. There's like 7000 duplicates of the very same data layer in a single stack: database, back-end ORM/data mapper, front end and various caching things in between. Things like PostgREST and Hasura area great pared with fluent clients.
Worth considering that’s not all they’ll steer at you, and considering if you’d know it was happening.
That is a great comment.
I would say land value tax makes mortgage fraud a lot less enticing ;)

Sapping demand for the crime is the most effective enforcement! (Like Semaglutide is probably the best silver bullet yet to "win the drug war"...)
Unrelated but how did you like the experience? I've been thinking about trying to carve some significant time out for myself to do something outside of work like a NOLS trip, hike the Appalachian Trail, etc.
About 15 years ago when I was still in the food industry I remember a chocolatier telling me she didn't believe it was possible to be genuinely completely sure there was no child or slave labor in your chocolate.

You could get the number low, possibly zero, you could with a lot of effort get a snapshot of your supply chain at a point where the number was plausibly zero, but you couldn't guarantee it was actually at zero over any length of time. It's entirely possible the situation has improved since then, I have no particular knowledge either way.
The higher you climb the larger the screwups and violations you're excused from. But as you say, this is a ladder, not an absolute.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-bad-2023-wildfires-chart-dramat...
Even so, we lose plenty of houses because people want to live ‘out in the bush’ but don’t want to do all of these things.
The fact that a critical piece of the evidence was cell phone photos sent between workers coordinating door re-assembly doesn't exactly instill a whole lot of confidence in their permit-to-work process. I didn't like it when it was medical teams doing shift handover via a Google Doc, and I don't like it when it's a matter of flight safety either. Or, as Homer might eruditely say: "guess I forgot to put the bolts back in" [1]

[1] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiNPLIauEig)
Even if HDCP 2.3 was unsplittable (it's not, you just can't buy the tools on Amazon) it's a futile effort by rightsholders due to the analog hole. There will never be a way to show someone a video without showing them the video.
Also posted on DocumentCloud, since NTSB servers aren't responding (as of this comment)

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24410269/report_dca24...
Coolest Unknown Billionaire
> It's infuriating to me that Native Americans who lived here for thousands of years before they were colonized had this figured out

Which tribes do you mean? Some were in the plains, some were in the forests, and many more were nomadic over vast areas. There were - and still are - many peoples with wildly different lives, cultures, and understanding encompassing the millions of square miles that make up North America. Don't call us "colonized" as you imagine we're all the same.

To address your specific point, the "figured out" part was the fact that fires could only be detected by sight (or smell if close enough) so they burned regularly without a massive build up of fuel. In present times, we detect and stop fires until we can't and then catastrophe occurs.
Well yes, but in 99.9% of cases, there are roads to where you want to go. Public transport is not independent. Live in a rural area? Fsck you, no bus/train for you. Have a large dog? Nope, no transport for your dog. Want to travel at 3 in the morning? Nope. Need to carry stuff with you, more than you can carry? Nope. Want to go to a protest? Nope, no buses/trains driving there today.
I believe this video mostly covers it: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM
One of my favorite websites!

I do similar with just THOUGHTS. I send my future self a thought, often a question, and I get the answer albeit vague and difficult to decipher. Then when that time eventually comes, I answer my past self because at that moment I am receiving the past question. I know this sounds weird but that's fine. I'm not able to get any answers past ~10 years from now which is kind of unsettling, but I guess we can't live forever.
What's funny is that I was once extremely optimistic about the potential for such a device, to the extent of having sold and delivered a few million in product.

Hard experience taught us that churn is just crazy high, no matter how compatible it easy to use you make it. Getting tens of thousands of stars is not the hard part because it's such an easy concept to like. But I would be surprised there are more than let's say ten thousand piholes in active use.
Focusing on the bad is natural and makes sense because that’s what can be improved, but I feel like your mental health will be better if you focus on the bad when it’s productive and you can do something about it, and at other times realise that things aren’t that bad
Global warming is a result of the set point of the system going up more than cumulative addition of energy.

The sun absolutely blasts the planet with energy and the planet radiates away most of it. Global warming is shifting the amount of energy in the system when those things are in balance.
Well, now we're straying from the original, but there's the libertarian copypasta on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7iqxko/libertari...

> I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

> “Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

> “What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

> “Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

> ...

and so on.
We don’t post memes like that here.
My question when looking at Kubernetes for small teams is always the same. Why?

In the blog, there are multiple days of downtime, a complete cluster rebuild, a description of how individual experts have to be crowned as the technology is too complex to jump in and out of in any real production environment, handling versioning of helm and k8s, a description of managing the underlying scripts to rebuild for disaster (I'm assuming there's a data persistence/backup step here that goes unmentioned!), and on, and on and on.

When you're already using cloud primitives, why not use your existing expertise there, their serverless offerings, and learn the IaC tooling of choice for that provider?

Yes it will be more expensive on your cloud bell. But when you measure the TCO, is it really?
paywall. But interesting title. I think hotels already taking advantage...
Yeah but pretty sure Amish dialects have drifted pretty far on their own, as well.
Fun fact: Our World in Data is a YC funded non-profit

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/our-world-in-data
Yes, they royally messed that up. But as to your query: there are nice alternatives, there is this board+library:

https://gitlab.com/jmattheij/rekabit

With a bit of fiddling and some 3D printed parts you're off to the races, controls two motors and four servos and has blinkenlights. You can use the board with the Micro:BIT but you can also use it with some fiddling with an arduino (renesas will probably work best) or a Raspberry Pi 2040. It also has a whole slew of 'Grove' connectors if you want to wire up more sensors and actuators and it exports the bus.

I've added links to the 3D printed parts and some links to the originals on thingiverse, it took some modifications to get it all to fit nicely but it really works well. And those boards are pretty cheap.
https://aviationsourcenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Re...
I didn't say a system doesn't work in one specific company or situation.

I said it isn't universal and cannot be universal.
Confucian cultures
But we are comparing the pain of searching vs the pain of having to re-run the help command for each possible subcommand, and parsing through all of that. Much easier to just have one command invocation and search through it.

There is a web analogy for this in how people organize FAQs. Some have a list of section links, and you have to click on a section to get the FAQs for that topic. Others just put everything on one giant page.

Here's the problem scenario with splitting things up into section pages: You think you see the appropriate section, but then you don't see your concern answered. There are two possibilities: either the organization was counter-intuitive and your concern was answered in one of the other sections, or your concern wasn't answered anywhere. And what's the only way to be sure? Visit every single section page and search through all of them.

Much, much less painful to just have it all on one page and search it.
Counter example - I pay for my account on Dreamwidth, and so do enough other people to keep the place running. Because that way they don't need to have advertising and the whole place is nicer because of it.
I like that they incl the prompt in the paper
> Native Americans routinely burned the landscape—to foster the growth of useful plants, to clear space for farming, and to improve the conditions for hunting.
> ...
> In addition to maintaining parklike conditions, these managed blazes prevented fuel from building up, and so staved off larger, potentially unmanageable conflagrations.

Much of the world still operates like this. Check out the Chiang Mai, Thailand burning season[1].

The US and Canada are some of the only countries where wood is the primary building material. In the rest of the world, stone is used which doesn't catch fire so easily. That might help explain the fear of fires in the US.

1: https://thaifreu.de/chiang-mai/burning-season/
for sibling, as I'm over my post quota:
https://imgur.com/a/l6nqhvX

Yeah, Vive -> Index -> Quest 2 -> Varjo Aero[^1] -> Quest 3 -> Vision Pro.

Yeah FOV is worse, yeah it costs more, virtually order of magnitude more.

People are responding to "The quest 3 does essentially the same at roughly 10x lower price.", i.e. dismissal of there being a significant qualitative difference.

I never, ever opted into watching video on any headset until now. Like, yeah, I tried it. I watched stuff. This is organic "I want to watch stuff, where's the VR headset?" instead of "here's a VR headset, I can watch stuff"

Something that escaped me until a week ago was a good visualization of the pixel density. I thought the Aero was amazing. It is/was.

I assumed Vision Pro was marginally more or less than the Aero.

Actually, Aero::Vision Pro is roughly Vive 1::Aero.

[^1] that one is important, that's real street cred, you know I care, invest, and know what I'm talking about
> The US owes ~$250K per worker. The the average worker pays something like ~$8K per year in federal taxes. We added another 12.8K per worker in 2023.

But how much does the average tax paying entity hold in t-bonds? Directly, or indirectly (i.e., holding stock in companies that hold t-bonds). For example, Apple holds like $60B in t-bonds.

People tend to misunderstand government debt. The Treasury is essentially a gigantic bank. There are some entities that are so large and flush with cash that they have no alternative but to park their cash in the Treasury. If we were talking about a private bank, we'd call these deposits "liabilities." But "Treasury liabilities" doesn't have the same negative ring to it that "government debt" does.

Apple gives the Treasury $60 billion bucks, and suddenly "the government" is in $60B of debt. But in X years, it's going to give that $60B back to Apple, plus a little bit in interest. It's quit likely that the 1% interest that the government will pay Apple is orders of magnitude less than the taxes Apple will pay to the government over those 10,20,30 years that bond will take to yield. So the government still comes out ahead.

> The political incentive to lie--to tell the people that everything will be okay,

The lie being pushed by politicians is that the debt is something to worry about. Politicians have warned about debt since the country's birth. Yet, no current politician is concerned enough about the debt to actually address it.

They could pass a tax that directly covers interest payments on the national debt. But they don't do that. Instead, they lie and say that cutting spending is the only way to cut the debt. Which completely ignores the fact that Apple can buy t-bonds (thus creating national debt) and that money can not be spent - the government still goes into debt in this instance.
The paintings show some of the things they did in the colder climate. They don't show how they adapted, which was the same way human populations always adapt to things that affect food production one way or another: having fewer people to feed
> evidently a bit broken

And here I thought the author was making a fragmentation joke.
I love the older letters that have time travelled “about 17 years”, “over 18 years”, or “over 19 years”.

Apparently, this service has survived since 2003. I hope it will continue to exist decades from now.