skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t want to suggest this person themselves is wrong, but it seems that this is just part of the back and forth among scientists and not in and of itself the correct answer.

Meta: what if this researcher themselves is exhibiting Dunning-Kruger and is overconfident.
In HN, to create a new line, you will need to leave two lines in the editor instead of one. And thanks for the links
No, liability insurance pays out your _liability_ for pedestrian's medical bills and/or death caused by you. That's the point.
I read somewhere: "The first thought you have in reaction to something is a mirror of how you were brought up, the second thought is a mirror of who you are".

So the defining thing isn't reacting to a shiny thing, it is what you do after that initial thought and whether you can see yourself falling in the ever-same traps and do something against it.
I wrote some large TCL applications between 2005 and 2015 that used an in-memory SQLite database to store the bulk of the data model. Indeed, having a relational model was a huge win...except for some patterns (tree structures, certain kinds of polymorphism) where it was an enormous pain.

Cell seems to hit a sweet spot here.
Ran into this with TikTok "Creator Marketplace" (for buying ads), password limit of 20 characters... $200B company.
So why is "addictive" a quality in a game? So you pay for more IAPs?

This may have been good when games were pay once, but these days it's maybe something to stay away from.
check also: marine snow
You’re probably gonna be downvoted but I somewhat agree with you that it’s possible that it’s a domestic actor pretending to be from an enemy of the US.

If I were to ever try to hack a western company, I would do it through a proxy in China to encourage the authorities to give up pursuit
I have a lab, and I had a lot of configuration state that was annoying to maintain and fragile. I switched to vmug because it has a semi decent terraform provider and I now put most things in TF.

TF to bootstrap vms + rke cluster. TF to deploy helm charts. Still some per app config/backups to mange but I just copy container volumes to all the machines in the cluster with the csi plugin and then back everything up to zfs nas via truenas on NFS.

Runs primarily on 3 dell rx30 series, and then my desktop and htpc are also in vsphere running gpu centric things when I'm not gaming with them.

Vmug is pretty perfect for this -> $180/yr = 16 or 36 physcial sockets.
They're paying more than they would have paid for a cheaper/lighter car. The fuel thing is made complicated by EVs with heavy batteries. But the fact that they've paid _something_ greater than they otherwise might have doesn't mean that they've paid their fair share. Road maintenance in most places is _not_ fully covered by gas taxes; other tax payers also contribute. If a subset of vehicles are driving a large cost in updated guard rails, it's not enough for them to pay somewhat more than other drivers -- they should pay enough that the rest of society isn't subsidizing them.
I think this comes down to whether your better technology is meaningful to customers and how hard your better technology is to replicate, and whether you are any good at sales.

In general, I think if you have a better product (on a dimension that is meaningful to customers), then you should be able to win sales, particularly if the industry is growing and all your potential customers have not yet purchased a solution.

And if you are winning sales, you should not need to sell the company.

I would be very careful in acquisition talks that you're not just giving the tech away to your competitors for free and you're not getting bogged down and distracted for a thing that will not materialize. You have little leverage if you have no sales, because you have no credible alternative, and even less if they've learnt enough from you to replicate your tech.

If your potential acquirers are struggling to meet customer needs right now, and you cannot just poach their customers, and they are willing to give a good price without you having to disclose much secret sauce, it could be worth it, but I would try and poach their customers first. If their customers are looking to start using you, that should significantly increase your leverage above and beyond their internal struggles.
> ...making excuses when you read this article for why the power hierarchy is against you, or that there is bias in the results

> ...this post triggered you

Definitely the language choices of an unbiased perspective from someone who doesn't have an axe to grind
Futility of Shortening Iterations
Not only that, it would take only a minor change to have a huge impact and reduce deaths and injuries: https://youtu.be/YpuX-5E7xoU
It a very unpopular idea in this forum and in general in the western world which is basically 'growth by all possible means'. More consumers - better.
I don't know your financial situation but a few years is a long time to have a computer you don't like enough. Sell it on eBay and use the funds to get one you do.
And no amount of discussion changes anyone's mind.
I heard David Letterman say within the past decade that on the days he did not feel the show was very good, he couldn't bring himself to even leave the building until it was dark outside, out of shame.

Meanwhile, at home, I would practically be shaking with excitement waiting for the show to start, I so appreciated it.

This tale somewhat suggests that people who perceive themselves as incompetent and inauthentic might spend more of their time striving at work, which could raise the bar, maintain a high standard and eventually breed something resembling confidence.

Or it could just continuously undermine their natural confidence and sense of self-worth and debase them such that they are easy to overwork and manipulate. It can also just feed into fears that invalidate the satisfaction of any jobs well done, leading to burn out and feelings of futility.

People who are overly confident can behave brashly and do damage, while automatically imposing costs on others, in the form of the time it takes to crack through their false beliefs or the duplication of effort it takes to walk back their mistakes.

So, this is kind of a nothing post, basically a lament. It's not clear whether suffers of Impostor Syndrome or Dunning-Kruger type symptoms have an easier path to a more moderate position, but each one seems likely to be rampant in just about any workplace.
I do think insurance is probably the right tool if you want people with more dangerous vehicles to have to pay more. However, the limits are too low. I live in New York, which requires insurance of up to $50,000[1] for the death of a person involved in an incident. However, most lives are worth more than $50k. If the requirement was insurance up to $10 million here instead, you would find the safety of cars constraining the market a lot more, and people wouldn't be able to get away with the kinds of externalities they do now.

[1] https://dmv.ny.gov/insurance/insurance-requirements
at 35mph?!?!

You'll be sent into the air. Not 400feet or anything, but you will not simply be rolling gently over the vehicle, then hop off and continue your day.

How high do you think someone can fly without cracking your skull when you land on pavement?
I wonder if that's a case where folks in leadership feel like their job is to show confidence, provide direction, and they still maybe know they don't know enough (I mean who does...) and they still make the call (right or wrong).

Perhaps more of a poor leadership thing we observe.
I'm listening. Do you have evidence of IDF planting evidence? Do you have motivation for why they would do this?
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you pay taxes because you live in the EU, even if you leave it brifly..

On the other hand, i am a EU citizen that live abroad and i do not pay any taxes in EU.. Unless i am visiting when i have to pay sales and services taxes..

But i pay taxes in the country i live, and i have to do it even for income i earned abroad..

And sure, there are some countries that make you pay income taxes if you are a citizen even when you live and have income abroad, like the US, but one could argue that you still have access to government services even while living abroad and those are paid via taxes.

this does not change the fact EU laws stop applying when you leave and restart applying when you come back..
Sometimes I am deeply struck by how much COVID has changed our lives
No, I advance a half-baked argument, don't take it as a maxim. All I am saying is that some developments in agriculture that may seem as advances today may not seem so if we take a longer time scale into consideration.
They didn't 'rob them of their land.' The word "Palestinian" used to refer to jews.

Obviously it's all a bit complicated but a lot of people seem to have the idea that Israel was created out of whole cloth. They were pushed out of literally every other country in the region - https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fh... - so they're clearly hated for reasons other than what you stated.
The notion of a homelab is really, more of a suggestion. I have, what you might call, a "homeprod."

"Be aware, the video server and sync server will be offline between the hours of 8PM and 10PM on Friday, March 8th for hardware upgrades. Expected downtime should not be more than 20 minutes but please plan around this disruption to essential services. Other services should not be affected during this work."

Like someone else mentioned in this thread: It was really best described as a "home network with more than one computer." But you can't really put that on your C.V. under "experience."

"Improved SLA uptime on client's network to five nines. Upgraded storage controllers in a live environment without disruption to established services. Deployed k8s cluster into a production environment serving thousands of hours of compressed video files with real-time format transcoding."

I will freely admit, my home network probably needs to be pared down a bit. The problem is the salvaged hardware and good deals at the liquidation auctions accumulates faster than I can cart it off to the street corner. There's also far too many laptops floating around the house doing nothing useful that could be donated away. A lot of the homelab is salvage or bought at (in-person) liquidation auctions. There's some new stuff, but I rarely need the latest and greatest for my setup. In my home network diagram I try to document everything that touches the network so I can stay on top of the security patches, and what has access to the outside world and in what way.

https://justinlloyd.li/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/home-netwo...
I think that's more about leadership. For whatever reason "we" seem geared to follow people who pretend to know their way forward even when they're completely lost, perhaps even more lost than average.

Like Teddy Roosevelt said - 'Speak loudly, aggressively flail about, and you'll go far.' Or something like that.
we can support a larger population, but we can't support a larger population at the current meat consumption levels

I guess we'll find out if we're willing to eat less meat, or if we'd rather a certain % of the global population to starve... so far it's looking like the latter
The thousand character classic was also used to teach the reading of chinese characters in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, though perhaps to a lesser extent than the three character classic. I have no idea to what extent this is true today, but it certainly held up until the 19th century.
"Forgiveness is a personal choice"

This is the core of the matter, and even more: feeling "anger and resentment towards someone who wronged you" in the first place, is a personal choice too.

To put it another way, the real question is not "Can Letting Go Set You Free?" but "Who exactly took away your freedom to start with?"

The mock game theoretic prelude in the post is confused and obfuscates these simple facts.
toss1's comment [1] says

Ford F-150 = 5,700 Lbs
1995 Ford F150 = 3886 Lbs

Which makes me wonder: why are these (non-electric) vehicles getting heavier? Is this from engine/parts needed for emissions compliance? Is it perceived safety? Are we getting worse at manufacturing?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39642641
IMO, this thing is Nix, it just needs better UI and a lot better documentation.

The problem I've realized is that for many core Nix developers, the source is the documentation. Which doesnt scale.
I also do this with AHK on Windows, even using the same keystroke. Though I add a small 10-50ms delay between each keystroke, otherwise the input can get mangled sometimes.
> ...prices remain historically high, propped up by lingering low supply. In June 2023, the median listed price for a home in the U.S. was $448,000. As of January 2024, this was $409,500, ...

Housing in modern America looks far too much like a millionaire's-only game of musical chairs. This proposed tax credit sounds nice, but it won't create any more housing.

What is actually needed is enough chairs for everyone.
They've created a system where literally the only people who are remotely interested in participating in that system are people who love gaming the system.

Until they fix that, the rest of us will always have better options than that.
Very frustrating that any place where I can store code has way more security than what's more important to me: place where I store my money. Financial companies still using SMS for 2FA!
I was mistaken about the currently proposed legislation[0], which mentions ByteDance specifically and is broader to include any app from a "foreign adversary country" defined elsewere.

It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, . . . a foreign adversary controlled application by . . .: [app store] or [internet hosting]

[...]

FOREIGN ADVERSARY COUNTRY.—The term “foreign adversary country” means a country specified in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code.

USC Title 10 section 4872(d)(2) defines the adversaries as N. Korea, China, Russia and Iran. [1]

0. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...

1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872
I'll go against the grain and recommend running your lab on Windows 11 Pro and Hyper V (often included with reclaimed PCs). Hyper-V is a very capable hypervisor and Windows hardware compatibility is excellent. Remote mgmt can be done over RDP, SSH or WMI

Nearly everyone has a spare PC lying around collecting dust, and within an hour it can be running a dozen VMs . Reclaimed HP & Dells are cheap and include a Windows Pro license. otherwise they can be had for $20

I recommend Alpine for the guest OS. It's fast to set up, natively supports Hyper-V hosts and compact (about 1/10th the size of a debian guest).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualizat...

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Hyper-V_guest_services
I wish I could upvote it many times.

Failure is not normal and it is speaks badly of you no matter what's the reason.
Most people including me are not perfect and it will happen but that doesn't mean failure is alright, that means that we're an problem.

The only thing one has any right in their life to ever blame are themselves.
> It is factually the case that brain development continues until around age 25

No, its factually the case that brain development continues for most of life, with different capacities peaking at wildly different ages on average (with some peaking after others have gone into significant decline), and considerable variation between individuals in each capacity, with executive function, specifically, reaching a plateau starting around the mid-20s on average (but again with considerable variation among individuals.)
https://archive.ph/cUGoK
One is over-estimating what you know and are capable of. The other is, under-estimating.

The former is a problem because it often comes from a lack of self-awareness (and peers willing to speak up when you faulter). The latter can be a problem because it prevents you from fully offering what you have to offer.

Of course there's a sweet spot, but if you had to favor one or the other, lean towards Imposter. When you're in DK-mode you're far more likely to make "bad yeses" and those can be painful.
I've worked remote since 2001 and hope that never changes.
Egyptian pyramids are (not) where they're supposed to be
I don't think the polynomial given in the article was calculated via Remez. Perhaps the author merely meant it as an illustration. Here is Wolfram Alpha plotting the error of equation from the article:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=plot+sin%28x%29+-+P%28x....

You'll note that the error is small near zero, and large near pi/4, which is characteristic of a Taylor series around zero, and not the characteristic "level" oscillation characteristic of Remez approximations[1]. Note also that the polynomial only includes odd terms, which is not something I would expect from Remez unless it was run on the symmetric interval [-pi/4, pi/4].

I ran Remez for the problem and after 4 iterations obtained a degree 8 polynomial with error less than 1e-9, but it didn't look anything like the polynomial given in the article.

1.7209863008943345e-05x^8 -0.00024575124459624625x^7 +7.194649190849227e-05x^6 +0.008268794893899754x^5 +3.425379759410762e-05x^4 -0.16667692317020713x^3 +1.5422400957890642e-06x^2 +0.9999999106213322x +8.526477071446453e-10

Although of course the first few digits of the low-order matching terms will be very similar - any polynomial approximation method will agree there because they are fitting the same function, after all. But by the time we reach x^5 or x^7 the agreement is very loose, really only the first couple digits are the same.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximation_theory
I believe that laughter and humor uplift mood, reduce stress and enhance overall well-being. We have a tradition at work once a month we go to some comedy show
I run a more mundane setup using the most possible boring choices (lol) and it's been reliable. I occasionally restart random things and pull network cables to fuck with it to make sure that it can recover.

* Hardware: A regular but small (SFF) computer + Synology NAS

* Software: Ubuntu distro + Docker containers bare

* Configuration: Git-versioned Dockerfiles and docker-compose.ymls

* Storage: The NAS with Synology Hybrid RAID

* Backup: TBD... haven't figured out a cheap and automatic way to backup 20 TB of data off-site

I run cameras, a media server shared with friends, a shared place to dump project files, a DNS server (just in case the Internet goes down so that everything local still works) and supporting services.
I work from the Drive-thru.
There will be those events that change our lives forever, many of which we don't think about because they happened before many were even aware of how things used to be. For example, the changes introduced due to 9/11.
Train and freight companies seemingly operate with impunity, have a crazy amount of influence over politics and regulation, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars thrown at various mass transit passenger plans over the decades, there's hardly any progress with regards to passenger solutions. These companies don't even have to lobby, apparently, because their influence and regulatory capture make them incredibly powerful.

They pull down around $260 billion a year in the US. $20ish million goes toward political donations and lobbying, by all 6-700 corporations - the stuff that's trackable, that is. Makes you wonder what you'd find if you could follow the money.
Imposter syndrome imposter syndrome, a/k/a IS².
Neat, thanks for sharing this, will definitely be a good back pocket list.
What are the externalized costs? We need to fund a committee to research and create a study to get the costs. And these are constantly changing especially with climate change so we'll need to fund it indefinitely to propose new regulations and rules about max car weight, shape, wheel distribution, center of gravity, among other things.

Don't worry, this won't be new regulation, just a sweeping ban of certain vehicles based on a number of factors

Do you ever think what the externalized costs for having thousands of regulations are to businesses and consumers? Attitudes like yours is the reason I can't buy a kinder egg in US or European eggs have exactly opposite regulatory requirements in US vs Europe.

We eschew this kind of complexity in engineering. It's the most obvious thing in the world. Anybody that works on complex systems will tell you the same. But we view regulation and government as immune from these kinds of tradeoffs. We hear things like "this bad thing should be banned" and never stop to think what that means in practice and what fragility and distortions it adds to the system
But they really don't. The liability limit requirements in all states are way too low to cover even a single pedestrian injury of moderate severity. Michigan has some of the highest requirements with a $50,000/person liability and this has resulted in more than a quarter of drivers simply driving without insurance because it is so expensive.

If you get run over by a car in California and you're lucky enough to get hit by one of the 83% of drivers that has car insurance, and one of the ~90% of drivers who stop for an accident, the insurance company is required by law to provide you $15k in coverage for your injuries.
Given that the canopy itself modulates the moisture in the air, this explanation seems to provide a bound on the outlier of height relative to other trees more so than an absolute barrier.
I’ll have to play around with this but glad to have another great library with this mindset.

I always am unsure of whether to go with unpoly, livewire and htmx lol. Maybe this will push towards htmx
And apple does follow the law..

Apple devices that are within the EU laws jurisdiction does have access to third-party stores..

apple devices that moved to another jurisdiction are no longer subject to EU laws and therefore no longer have access to third-party stores.

The big question i have is if i with my non-EU iPhone will have access to third-party stores as soon as i step into EU, even if i do not live in EU and i am not a EU citizen.
Thanks, xclip was the tool I was looking for. Sadly I switched to Plasma 6 two days ago and Wayland doesn't seem to have a similar tool (wl-paste just reads from the clipboard and not from the selected text).

After so many years, Wayland is still such a mess...