skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's similar to when you try to print something, and nothing happens.

1. is the printer turned on?

2. is the printer out of paper or ink?

3. does the cable have a loose connection?

4. is it the wrong printer driver?

5. do you need to reboot windows?

6. do you need to power cycle the printer?

No help anywhere. You just try things one by one, sacrifice a small animal, and then maybe the printer gods will smile on you and the printer will print.
Yeah. The difference being the existence of laws. So why don’t others do it the Russian way? Campaign laws.
I mean the Great Firewall works fairly well so it’s a matter of political will not technical capability.
Too much syrup? I don't think I have ever seen that. To little is common though, to save pennies I guess.
There is also mention of filtration, pre chilling of the tanks, and the syrup ratio.
The absense of such campaign would mean that Kremlin has so low esteem of Zelensky that they think any replacement would be to their detriment. And this is even after taking the collateral damage to the Ukrainian image as a whole into account.
Did he create the PDF in LaTeX?
Unfortunately I have to disagree. I started going to the gym 6 times per week in august 2023, my muscles are in way better shape than before, my heart is great, but the biggest weight loss was still at the beginning from diet.

It's a pain. I religiously go and alternate 3 HIIT sessions (shadow boxing/stationary bike) of 30 minutes, with strength training of 60 minutes (push, pull, legs).
The very rare times I skip have been when my legs are overly tired (boxing, bike, legs + 40 minutes walking 5 days per week it's a lot for muscles).
And yet, I'm struggling to lose the remaining weight. My hunger has increased with all the muscles, I am able not to gain weight only because I eat healthy, but the amount I eat increases. I can power through with will and a lot of water, but it's really hard.

I thought I would solve with sport but I didn't. I'm in good shape, but I have more weight to lose, it's annoying.
Is this an American thing?
The McDonald's Coke is terrible where I live, and sometimes I'd rather just get water.
That varies a lot based on location. Some McDonalds have a bare minimum of syrup going into the water.
Plus the environmental impact of driving to get a single coke.
Before these recent solar projects, the generating capacity of this area was mostly coal and hydro. The hydro capacity is already exhausted, so the only room for growth is in fossil fuels.
Still tastes like shit.
It could be insane and endearing!
>remember that unlike almost any other industry, Pharma is allowed a __monopoly__ on drugs for a long time, and because we can't import drugs from outside the US (try buying from Canada), they control prices almost perpetually

It's not a monopoly per se. Anyone can import drugs as long as they meet the relevant regulations.
That must have been an amazing ride. Note: in my opinion, a small, lean, focused team is the right way to build an OS. I haven't seen the "throw an army at it" approach succeed for building the core of an OS or platform, as it becomes almost impossible to keep coherence in the system.

And, yeah, that GMSCore joke is too real.
Eliezer Yudkowsky says that it will be the end of humanity…
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/humanitys...
Whenever I see comments about how slow public projects are these days, I think about this documentary:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/race-under...

It's a PBS special about the history of the Boston subway (which was one of the first in the nation).

To give you an idea of what construction safety was like back then, they would routinely encounter gas lines, cut them WITHOUT turning off the gas, and keep working.

Obviously, this led to lots of explosions but also very quick construction. If you are optimizing for speed over safety/environmental/etc it's pretty surprising how quickly you can build something.
You're confusing two different parties involved in the monitoring here: the FCC and the station owner.

The station owner likely knew within a few hours to a few days that the tower went offline. At the very least the power bill would have been very low or non-existent that month which would make it pretty obvious. And to your point they could tune their FM radio to their station frequency and see if it works.

The FCC is a federal organization. I doubt they have an office in Jasper Alabama. So the FCC monitoring is the one in question here. Because as soon as the FCC notices the AM station is down, then the FM translation (which is what the station was really marketed around and gaining its viewership from) is shut down. Which means the station owner is out of a job. The FCC's monitoring is probably not realtime and I could see someone at the FCC getting an alert that this AM station in Jasper Alabama is down and they do think to themselves the monitoring is bad or flaky and don't immediately panic. The FCC isn't going to be able to just tune their radio to the AM station to check since they aren't in range of the station.
As of a few months ago, 99% of the ads I see are cryptocurrency scams. Blocking them doesn't help because the same ads are each being posted by dozens of accounts.
> click to close windows does not really close the apps also bothers me.

It closes App Store and System Settings. I wonder why they operate differently.
Egan is great. Another good book is Incandescence. Only problem is that some of his novels contain some kind of loneliness. Can't describe it.
Yes, but as you say, not in the meaning we discussed here.
I agree with you in sentiment but this part:

> From a technical perspective, Google could compare whois domain registration details and snapshots at the Internet Archive with the allegedly infringing URL.

No to Google abusing the Internet Archive’s servers. If they want to host a mirror of their own and hit that, fine, but you know what they could be using instead? Their very own Google Cache.
Nature's Spoils (2014)
Yes, it's an over-simplification. But this is an area of the country where capacity factors are in the 25-30% range: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39832 (the Ute Mountain Reservation is in the very Southwestern corner of Colorado, a little bit of New Mexico, and a little bit of Utah: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ute+Mountain+Reservation,+...)

So even if you discount the capacity by a 25% capacity factor, and use the lower cost per reactor that I originally quoted, this is still cheaper than nuclear. And that's just the up-front investment. Operating costs are much cheaper for solar as well, the majority of the cost is in the initial build.

Given that transmission isn't free, there are areas of the country where solar has a lower capacity factor than this, and solar and wind take more land, there are still cases where nuclear may be a better investment. I'm just pointing out that there are plenty of simple, economic reasons why solar and wind are growing at a much faster rate than nuclear; it's cheaper overall, it requires less up-front capital, etc. Nuclear is likely to fill niches for a long time, but investment in nuclear is not going to be the major way to decarbonize.
Malicious bots using the same technique as nitter to get into the site, and X blocking them will affect both.
When the EU's biggest competitor to Apple, Google, and OpenAI is Spotify and Booking.com, there's a serious problem with the EU.

It shows that the region is barely capable of encouraging innovation that will meaningfully advance technological progress, which is the single biggest predictor of quality of life in human history.

Yes, the EU might be nicer to work in, more vacation days, less layoffs. Such a view is shortsighted and does not consider how suffocating innovation impacts humanity long-term, because your 15 extra vacation days simply will never measure up to the literal humanity-changing advancements technology provides.

In essence, you have improved QoL today but sacrificed it for generations to come, because your region has decided that it's not important to craft regulations that balance entrepreneurial spirit with consumer good. Ask any startup how difficult it is to deal with GDPR, I have literally seen startups give up over this.

(Is GDPR good for consumers? Of course. Was it designed with literally any feedback from people interested in starting a business? No.)

Perhaps the US has too far on one side, but the EU has clearly gone too far on the other. And the EU can continue to freeload off the US's advancement, but if the EU's current model were to become global, there's precedent that human innovation would grind to a standstill.
I'm not convinced AI scraping has anything to do with it. A company resourceful enough to develop & train AI is fully capable of setting up infrastructure to massively create bot accounts to bypass the loginwall.
I worked at McD’s in high school (which is why I haven’t set foot in one in twenty years) and had a roommate who managed one a few years after, which was about the time they started their race to the bottom on food quality.

Glad to see they still use the metal canisters for the soda (milkshake mix did come in plastic at the time). Those fuckers were hard to move though. Need some upper body strength which as a cyclist I did not have.
McDonald's greatest strength is consistency.

That said, bottled coke bought in bulk, the right amount of ice, and some straws would do it.

On the other hand, keeping it a drive away maybe keeps her from over-indulging.
I do something similar for coffee.

It's more than the drink to me it's a big part just getting out of the house and a change of pace.
Some time ago we did a blind tasting of various colas (commercial, bottled, among the candidates were the typical brands).

Our simple result was, that there is a direct correlation between tastiness and the declared amount of sugar content...

Edit: so a plausible reason for Coke tasting better at McDonalds may be that they mix the syrup with slightly less water.
While I'm not a fan of McDonald's nor Coca-Cola (nor any unhealthy giant for the record), I love how they care about the details for making it the best of what's possible with they have in this sense.
In the grand scheme of things a sample size of 15 SBC is the same as OP's: 1.

While I definitely agree that for a home setup it is overkill, in my dayjob I work on industrial embedded gadgets, sold 10-100k pcs/design, expected to run without reboot for years, sometimes for decades. And most of the weird issues end up usually on my desk for investigation. While I admit that this might not have been completely obvious, but when I referred to the sample size, I was referring to such numbers, taken from this experience.
Really sorry about this. Do you happen to have logs for us to look into? This is definitely not the way we want
> your comment is terrible and a big tell you have no idea of web technology

You can't attack another user like that on this site, and we ban accounts that do, so please don't do it again.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars
There is a slight problem with that - it doesn't invalidate the idea of testing, but you do have to think about it. Taiji is not ring/cage wrestling, it was created as a fight art, and its most efficient applications usually will break bones, dislodge joints, generally do things that are outlawed in most fighting arenas nowadays. It also was not designed with a limited ring around it, which changes the dynamics of movement. So, just by putting the fighter in a ring and defining allowed/forbidden moves, you're biasing the experiment in favor of a modern contact sport practitioner.
Agree on the adoption of open standards. That’s a step in the right direction. But even with secure boot on the pi, it’s still missing a TPM for other cryptographic operations. We use a lot of Zero Trust stuff on x86 and you can’t do that on the Pi.

The Pi is fine for videos/images (less proper storage), but chokes on a lot of modern web assets.
This actually looks very reasonable...?
Yeah, I suppose they get paid the same either way. Why go out of their way trying to be imaginative?
As a train commuter, wireless headphones are a massive improvement over wired for my semi-daily commute. I used to have the headphone wires constantly getting caught on my bag, other people's jackets, getting twisted and knotted in my bag, etc.
(I'm a Diet Coke addict, so below is only about that, not regular coke.)

I personally never find McD's are better than others. If anything, I found their ratio on the leaner side.

Out of my mind RN, I think Jimmy John's has the best drink. Their unsweet tea is great, too.

Freestyle machines often (but not always) suck, but I figure most of people already know that.

Also I think variation between stores are sometimes bigger than variation between brands/chains.
Dav1d 1.4.0
> The United Kingdom, merely described as an "extraterritorial floating base of the U.S.", should be cut off from Europe.[9]

We can only wonder how much influence did Kremlin had over people voting for Brexit.
Thank you for taking the time to explains this.
I am still a bit confused, if external consistency is not trying to solve global serial order, but only solving read from client point of view, such that all committed transaction before read timestamp will be returned and none of the transaction after read timestamp will be returned.

I am confused on why each data node have to wait 7ms to commit, isn't it easier to ask whichever client is reading to read from the maximum uncertainty timestamp?

Assume the following example

nodeA is on time
trxA arrive nodeA at (true time 7ms, A time 7ms, B time 0ms)
trxA commit by nodeA at (true time 8ms, A time 8ms, B time 1ms)

nodeB lag by 7ms
trxB arrive nodeB at (true time 9ms, A time 9ms, B time 2ms)
trxB is commit by nodeB at (true time 10ms, A time 10ms, B time 3ms)

nodeD ahead by 7ms
trxD arrive nodeD at (true time 9ms, D time 16ms, B time 2ms, A time 9ms)
trxD commit by nodeD at (true time 10ms, D time 17ms, B time 3ms, A time 10ms)

For example if client C is reading and client C lags real world time by 7ms

ClientC ask to read node A and B for transaction on real-world time 11ms local time 4ms
instead to ask all transaction before 4ms, ClientC will ask all transaction before 4ms + 2x_uncertainty(14ms) = 18ms

trxA(8ms) < 18ms -> trxA will be read
trxB(3ms) < 18ms -> trxB will be read
trxD(17ms) < 18ms -> trxD will be read

Instead of asking each node to wait to commit timestamp, this guarantees any commit happened before read in real-world time is read, and none of the commit happend after read in real-world is read (since we are requesting read at the time read happens)
China has no environmental regulations to worry about when building out nuclear and has great incentives to do so, but their goal for 2035 is a meagre 7.7% of electricity generation from nuclear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China

So China, surely the best case scenario for nuclear power expansion anywhere in the world, will go from 5% nuclear power generation today to 7.7% by 2035. That is about all that you need to know about the potential contribution of current and near future nuclear power technology to solving the climate crisis.

As we need to be basically net 0 CO2 emissions by 2050 at the latest, there is simply no scenario in which nuclear can play more than a minor part in solving this. Meanwhile renewables are cost effective investments today, you simply need to improve the regulatory and infrastructure context (transmission lines). Yes, solving storage is required as well, but that seems vastly more feasible than somehow beating 80 years of real world experience telling you that putting it all on nuclear is not a politically or financially viable path forward.
Yeah, those numbers don't account for how much wad more painful for the placebo group
As someone who has only been using GPT-4 since its release, I am pleasantly surprised by how far open LLMs have come.
Why some aging spies won't walk out of U.S. prisons, long after the Cold War
Harshest punishments for those whose actions cost lives and badly jeopardized security, analysts say
For a single person doing this: zero impact
FOSS projects like FreeCAD suffer without product owners
Love them or loathe them, pinyon-juniper woodlands are a biofuel battleground
Agreed. The Tinder data is probably heavily skewed in a few ways, one of which being age. (Another being bots.)
Confirmed, happily. My step-kids from my previous marriage are reaching this age and after several years of grunt-only communication, suddenly they are back in my life. It was obviously hard for them and lots of things happened that were out of any of our control, but even in this situation, they came back. It's a joy.
Not a single mention of netbooting the Pi instead of relying on crappy SD cards which wear faster than I can type this.
I believe that the US should work to end coal plants regardless of who is buying power from them.

Oh and I'm more of a fan of Ethereum. They've now moved to PoS, which consumes a fraction of the power, and there is actual utility on that chain. Moved my bitcoin to wbtc too, but looking forward to more decentralized versions of it eventually.
Plenty of identifiers can be spoofed (email addresses, for example). This doesn't mean they are not useful. 911 operators for example can use caller ID to locate someone who couldn't disclose their identity or was disconnected too early.

Getting rid of something useful just because it doesn't work perfectly is dumb. It's replacing infrastructure maintenance and improvement with demolition.
A few bars in America do coke with ice exceptionally well. Not sure what the trick is but it's always from that multibutton nozzle liquid delivery device.
Going out on your own may not be always strictly better or more rewarding, but this founder story is just one datapoint. Since most companies have an employee equity pool that is sized at only 10-20%, working for them is by definition giving 80-90% of the value you create away to the founders and investors. The rewards of either starting a company or being a sole proprietor (e.g. indie dev or consultant), can therefore be expected to be very substantial, on average, perhaps even 5-10x per unit time worked, and that's not including the secondary non-financial benefits of not working for someone else (e.g. freedom, autonomy, etc.). I do wish more people were aware of this principle, because the willingness of engineers in the aggregate to acquiesce to 10-20% ownership is why VCs and founders become so inappropriately rich by comparison. Just my 2c.
Never enter into a negotiation without leverage. This sounds exactly like the type of negotiation I engage in.
I do agree that it is a human problem that affects most of us to some extent due to corporate capture of regulatory processes by those who are supposed to be regulated. When you have (1) no oversight or (2) oversight with limited enforcement authority or (3) oversight with enforcement authority that does not function as an effective deterrent then you have created the situation we see today.

Those who should be regulated end up writing the regulations that govern their activities and so they do this in a manner that offers the least friction to their operations at the lowest cost to them.

It is definitely not just a tribal problem here in the US. It is endemic in the corporate world and in government. That's why I mentioned that part at the end of that post.
I'd be willing to bet that the majority of results you find in that search will be men talking about how much women care about money... of course some women do, but far far from all of them
https://filebin.net/29yn8bqtq6cx34ii
> First, you can easily take on a team with a wildly different focus — mobile developers, infrastructure, ML engineers. You'd need some time to get up to speed on the big-picture technical struggles of your new team, but most companies would take this shot. If you don't want to be an EM any more, you're well-positioned to move to a project or product management role.

Have to comment that this is just completely wrong and we need to stop telling ourselves this. I’ve experienced a lot of pain with EMs who have no idea what is really going on in a codebase because they have little domain expertise, no idea what tradeoffs are made by developers, and, crucially, do not ever punch the keys and commit anything. Why? Because frankly, they already have the job.

If you don’t ever interface with the codebase and don’t really understand what it does, but you still feel so inclined to steer the ship, you’re a product manager, not an EM. Possibly worse because there is more credence given to you? This is most likely advice for someone who just wants to issue vague edicts to a team that frankly does not need them.
Updated link: https://filebin.net/29yn8bqtq6cx34ii
People are lucky when there's some intersection between what they like doing, what they're good at, and what pays reasonably well.
The frequency of software bugs is what has allowed the hardware manufacturers to omit ECC from most computer products.

Every time when a program crashes or remains stuck or data corruption is discovered, the user automatically assumes that this is a software bug.

While it is indeed true that software bugs are really much more frequent than memory errors before the memory modules happen to become defective, in a computer without ECC the user can never know whether it has been a software bug or it was a hardware memory problem.

So many memory errors remain hidden by the abundant software bugs, which in most commercial programs, especially in those from Microsoft, almost never generate error messages from which the cause of the error can be determined.
BioNTech and Moderna have entered the chat.

That's pretty much precisely what happened in the COVID-19 vaccine race.

Though to be fair, basic research into mRNA vaccines dates to 1989, clinical trials to 2001, though quite obviously not for COVID-19 vaccines themselves.

The Covid vaccines were actually formulated within days of widespread public awareness of the disease. What took months were clinical trials (begun April 2020, Phase III by November of the same year), and emergency use authorisation by December 2020, and ramping up production and distribution, the first less than 12 months after the WHO had first announced the disease, the second (widespread availability) within 18 months.

Different conditions and treatments are of course widely divergent. Vaccines against viruses are reasonably well understood and simple in principle (trigger an immune-system response without triggering the disease), though even here some viruses can prove difficult to vaccinate against (rhinoviruses, forms of viral hepatitis, HIV). Pharmaceutical treatments against cardivascular, neurological, oncological, psychological, and other conditions are quite different. And in the case of infectious bacterial pathogens, I've been hearing and reading about the lack of effective novel antibiotic agents for nearly 50 years. In the case of some ancient scourges (totally drug-resistant tuberculosis is at or near the top of my list) this is truly terrifying.

The other challenge is that what the pharmaceutical industry focuses on --- chronic conditions facing wealthy populations with high-payout insurance --- often fails to match the true personal and public health concerns of humans at large. Much of the pharmaceutical industry's concentration is on relabeling or recertifying existing drugs, either to a new condition or with mildly tweaked formulations or delivery which serve to extend patent protection. Neither greatly advances the pharmaceutical formulary, and many at-risk populations go unserved.
the thought occurs that Jane was obsessing over such matters as a disempowered member of her society. another thought is that romantic nonsense was a mind virus created by the elite to psychologically knee-cap the middle class.