skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beginner Nix question.

Regarding .dotfiles

It seems that there is a push or desire to have everything declared via nix and/or flakes. What I rarely see incorporated is 'git clone' or 'stow' for dotfile management. My simple question is: why not both? What is so wrong with using a 3rd party system as part of the deployment.

Let's say I want to fiddle with my vim/neovim .rc file. If I change it 10 times in the course of an hour, and run 'nixos rebuild switch' (did I get that right?) each time to set it, then I'm going to be spending a bunch of time/CPU cycles rebuilding world.

It seems to me a hybrid approach would work best.
-nix rebuild scratch for OS-level modifications
-git push/pull/clone for frequently modified files.

Nobody would ever suggest using the nix approach for storing their 'recipe folder'.
Didn't you read the article?

It says that you can eliminate the risk by boiling the water. we need to require that all of these have an electric kettle element that raises the water temperature to boiling before it enters the nasal cavity.
You could make the argument that things were more complicated back then. They had a real need for well written comprehensive manuals. Nowadays I guess we don't because they don't appear to be made much any more.

See also schematics. I watch a lot, perhaps too much, of people repairing old electronic equipment. And they always seem able to whip out a set of schmatics to help them diagnose the problem. In some areas things get worse over time.
What is the actual problem with this tho? The US has used Hollywood to influence worldwide discourse for generations.
In other news, the Wright brothers didn't have a pilot's license and operated without FAA permits for an airfield!
Discussing objective engineering tradeoffs is not the same as spreading FUD. It's baffling that you are so quick to shut down conversation and get combative. I never implied that there are no mature Go projects, just that the burden of maintenance is different than that of other languages that choose to break out more functionality into libraries, and that having a comprehensive stdlib is not 100% upsides as you implied.
"one minute" is much easier to mentally estimate than "43 seconds" or whatever. Can even be readily timed with an old school analog clock... just wait for it move from one tick mark to the next.
They just left out Bun like that
Can't tell if the new company would be able to host the same exact material. It's already come out that the White House pressured Google and Facebook to promote covid19 vaccine content. YouTube banning Russia-linked channels doesn't seem like their own decision either. The US doesn't control its media nearly the same way many other countries do, but there's still some control.

If you look at the rhetoric of lawmakers and lobbyists supporting the ban, a lot of it is about the content.
- I bought you flowers
- Oh how lovely
- Their unique DNA is stored on a blockchain
- Taxi!
I don't really understand why I should care.

To me "This system is broken because of bad organization and institutional incentives which led to a bloated and useless admin structure which ultimately led to poor research outcomes. Also funding is very low and all the good people went elsewhere." seems like a problem that solved itself.
> Is "make today's cities larger and denser forever" really the solution?

Tokyo Metro handles 6m+ riders a day with a population of 40m. So, yes, at least until you surpass 40m people.

> Or can we figure out ways to disperse and decentralize things instead of just feeding more money back into the hands of those who own and control the current cities?

“Disperse and decentralize” is exactly how every city I have ever been to is built.
Is the music and color correction deliberately designed to give off creepy sci fi vibes?
The Storybook use case and the MSW use case is fairly similar to me: develop your SPA in separation from the backend and this is how Storybook was pitched to me and is usually pitched. Both allow me to hook up the backend after a component has been developed.

> the play feature beats E2E if you want to show a smooth demo for clients/fellow devs

We actually haven't used this at all, but it's a neat feature.

The tradeoffs we evaluated were:

- Storybook allows to develop components in isolation, but requires to structure your components in a very specific way that is detrimental to how React works (see my other comment with the Oxide in the thread).

- MSW allows to develop your whole app in isolation but it lacks all of the bells and whistles that Storybook has (e.g. testing, various plugins, demo, discoverability of the components).

But in general, our use case is developing an internal SPA using Tailwind, so we don't exactly have a component library that we need to develop in isolation. I can see the value of Storybook if that's the case for your team. Many other companies maintain their homegrown UI library that could benefit from all of the features of Storybook, so it makes sense for them.
Zero because techies don't pay for shit. That's why they're rich.
Let's see:

- Millions of monthly unique users [1]

- Super Addictive product, multiple visits per day [1] (if you're anything like me)

- No revenue to speak of

Valuation - probably $500M+, because nothing in VC valuation land makes any sense ;)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454140
Code in Place
I don’t think sfh have been foisted on us by stupid or conniving urban planners.

It’s more interesting to ask why people don’t want to live in multi family dwellings. For example, if hearing your neighbors is a big part of the problem, would building code requiring sound baffling in every multi family start tipping the scales? Or if crazy neighbors was the issue, what about legal structures that let residents approve of new owners? (Yes, risky territory, but humor me for a second)

Multi family is generally seen as less appealing. So if you want people to live in multi family, how do we make it appealing?

You can see small attempts at dealing with the problems in e.g. the elimination of shared metering, which invited freeloader problems that simply don’t exist with individual metering.
Prop 65 was incredibly dumb, since it never required the notice to quantify the risk.

My phone case and cigarettes are not in the same risk category, but they get the same prop 65 warning.
And friends offer to help friends. Enough of this nefariousness.
Leaving a gun in your car is irresponsible; that's a very common way for them to get stolen.

The modern thinking on this is that you should carry it on your person at all times or leave it at home (e.g. if you're going to a place you can't carry it). Additionally, frequent "administrative handling" of your gun (like unholstering it in your car and re-holstering it when you get out) needlessly increases your chances of a negligent discharge, so moving it off of your body when you get in your car is also discouraged.

Of course this doesn't mean that everyone knows/thinks this way (and many don't), but from my discussions with other firearm advocates, this is the modern school of thought.

So—to answer your question—a Glock 19, and yes, as it's on me already ;-)
What I've read is that no established manufacturer was interested in developing a non-military supersonic engine, probably because they don't expect to recoup the costs.
It isn’t a totally new concept, in CSP (concentrated solar power) plants, a molten salt is used to store the heat as well.
A while ago I discovered the lesser known Tichy diff algorithm that seems to preserve more context and is better suited for big code refactors: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220439403_The_Strin... via https://bryanpendleton.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-study-of-di...
10 cases in several years, and "in all of the cases, the people had some sort of immune-compromising condition, mostly cancer, but also solid organ transplant and HIV. This likely put them at higher risk for infection and severe outcomes."

So yes, use distilled water... but in terms of risk factor, I don't think it's too high.
Can you share more about your career shift. What you did before and what you do now. And why the shift was triggered by closedAI 5?
What "bullshit"? Giving you a better and more privacy-preserving system than is currently available via any other means? I truly can't understand the level of entitlement and off-kilter worldview that leads to a statement like this!

Some people just can't be pleased.
Here's how we implemented the Myers diff algorithm in VS Code:
https://www.youtube.com/live/yWy-0TNVsLg

On top of the core algorithm, we have many heuristics to show much nicer differs in many cases.
heads up, we found the root cause yesterday's errors so should be working now
I acknoledged as much already quite explicitly. Yes there are pieces that can't be copied.

>this would be like saying hey why not just use tailwind? that is like 10% of the equation.

No, my point is that they're going "I see there is a perfectly fine tailwinds implementation that would cover 10%"...but fuck that we're just going to reinvent the wheel on that 10% anyway.

Even you - by example - reach for an existing proven solution, tailwind. That's precisely my point...IRS did not reach for tailwind (UK's proven solution)...they decided that's too Not Invented Here...and built it from scratch.
What made you choose the GPL license for this?
You may have missed the part where I said I was not arguing that our propaganda machine is stronger. I was purely pointing out that your assertion—that Trump's election in and of itself proves that our propaganda machine is not the strongest—is false.

You have now given a bunch of supporting arguments, and also made a raft of assumptions about me that seem to be...well, very much assumptions, with no actual basis for them.

I don't actually have an opinion on whose propaganda machine is stronger, because I don't have enough information to form a cogent one.
If we get to another habitable planet we’ll plunder that too.

Turn it into graphics cards for “inference”.
I am going to steal that name. I find that computational overcooking happens more and more because the easy questions that can be asked with sequencing datasets is starting to dry up.
He didn't really explain why though.
That is emphatically not the status quo.
This is honestly the wrong angle to take. I’m a raging environmentalist and your decrementalist comment is making my blood boil. Advocating for a reduction in standard of living is not the way to go about environmentalism. Using science and technology to make Manhattan project tier changes to energy generation and transportation are. There is a way to reduce your impact almost completely while still maintaining the existing standard of living.
I agree with Precision and Probability. I’m a cyclist so I care about the window of time that I’m planning to ride. I use Apollo Weather to plan my weekly bike rides. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apollo-weather/id6444899572
Well, that's incredibly effective. Thanks!
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I always use boiled water as it makes the salt crystals dissolve better.

Hari Om Tat Sat
Lots of torque. 1000lb-ft of it according to the article, which is far more than most passenger cars and roughly what a large semitrailer truck or bus would have.
#studybitcoin
> If you know your mind melts when you see it, then why consume it? Why install it at all?

For the record, I don't and never have. Occasionally something leaks through to me, including epiphenomena like this discussion. HN can be stressful at times too, but it's still somewhat useful and it'll be the final thing of this sort for me, should it ever kick the bucket (hope not, though).

> We must acknowledge that they make decisions voluntarily.

There's considerable behavioral determinism when exposing a population to addictive substances and propaganda. Modern neuroscience has basically killed the myth of free will. From an adversary's perspective this is awesome. From a profiteering actor's (corporations, drug cartels, influencers, casinos) perspective this is awesome as well. Would you like some sauce with this social capital?

> Regardless of the source, either we should regulate data, including streaming videos of all kinds, or we don't. Singling out a company seems like a political stunt with zero real world impact.

Sure, for all I care we can pull the plug on all of them and be better off. The systems we had for scientific, journalistic or cultural innovation and dissemination were sufficient and much better behaved (private TV can go as well). No more "professional" streamers (haha). No more perpetual reinserting the same recycled info into the collective goldfish's mind.

This would also abolish the "need" for storing the 86263961826th minecraft let's play, freeing up exabytes of storage space in the process.

Small online communities, that can actually (federatively?) host and moderate themselves will survive as they have before the maelstrom.
That is a point of view. In terms of gatekeeping public events, requiring a negative test certainly is going to reduce the number of people who show up with covid, but with only antigen tests, you're reducing the risk maybe 50-60% or so. If you're going to require people to do something annoying, it would be a lot better if the risk reduction were more than that.

When you say "humans are good at quickly acquiring community immunity", I don't really think we've done that with Covid. Covid is still over 2% of all deaths in the U.S., and it's causing way more disability and injury. We won't truly know what it's done to us for years.
Try to build a multi unit housing development in just about every SFH neighborhood in North America and you will quickly discover the layers of laws that actively prevent it.
I know that the situation at Los Alamos was, at one point, 5 administrators to 1 scientist. That doesn't jibe with the 7% figure op there, but I imagine I don't know what a management fee corresponds to. The administrative overhead at LANL seemed to be completely unlimited.

Every public university I've participated in has had an ever expanding court of nobles that don't do anything except give the universities money away to each other and consulting groups (who ironically always recommend cutting off the heads of the nobility).

Departments are stuck seeking out private funding at this point, which doesn't seem like it should be legal, but it seems to be unprosecuted at the very least.
Sounds like any other game that AI powered search finds new optimal strategies. Chess , go, poker all have new strategies that no human thought of for hundreds of years. Some of them seem obvious in hindsight but that’s how knowledge works generally
That's one way of removing the excess cash out of the economy.
Some of the most hilarious and enjoyable parts of gaming is manipulating the environment in ways developers didn't anticipate. With more intelligent NPCs there will be opportunities to give them instructions, and let them go to get it done.

Crafting instructions that lead to NPC's working to achieve a goal that wasn't anticipated, and provides you with a resource that couldn't otherwise be had in the game, will be a whole new aspect to gaming, and inspire a desire to experiment and explore.
If I could get a really well sound-insulated 3 or 4 bedroom apartment, awesome, but it's either just too hard to find, or too hard to verify that it'll actually be quiet without some certification/guarantee.

With a SFH you can control your own destiny to some extent.
I will watch Rushmore tonight.
Either you don't understand that American problems flow overseas or are just naive. American problems get exported en mass to other people via social media and the tech people still continue to flood with visuals on them regardless of where you are.
With WASM, you get better isolation than a regular virtual machine, you can be more granular with scheduling and the attack surface is far smaller than a regular VM. When compared to namespaces containers, you don’t need to rely on the kernel attack surface being tight for security. And you get to intercept all syacalls ala gvisor with less complexity. The downside is interaction with specialty hardware and performance.
Checkout Rain World
novelty is secondary to implementation
Hey I was there too :)
Has anyone put out a voice-to-text interface for OpenAI? Or anything in the Ollama-verse?
If you’re not, you use a car, or maybe priority seating. Nobody is saying ban cars, but make them unnecessary for the average person.
Double Space Court Case: court case spends weeks arguing about formatting
Company intends to be the first to mine the moon
A Paraplegic Philosopher's Suicide Note
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> Despite the reduced dimensionality of the feature representation, application of standard clustering methods remains problematic due to the high dimension of features (30) relative to the sample size (159). To mitigate this,

and I'm done.
> [Sand] Can store a lot more heat by volume.

A quick caveat/clarification: It's only true if you're pushing the system over the 100°C mark. Otherwise a volume of liquid water--with its greater latent heat-capacity--will outclass the same volume of sand.

Water's heat-capacity is 4.186 J/g°C, while estimates for sand run towards ~0.830 J/g°C. If we also assume the sand is 1.6x denser, then our below-boiling water still comes out ahead at ~3.15x the joules per volume.

There are hints [0] this system tops out around 600°C.

[0] https://polarnightenergy.fi/sand-battery
There's some interesting companies in this space.

https://gofourth.com/ - focusing on grid storage, uses graphite (carbon) and liquid tin for heat transfer

https://antoraenergy.com/ - industrial heat and electricity

https://rondo.com/ - industrial heat

You can find interviews with their founders on the Volts podcast.
The problem here is what people believe are reasonable and what is actually reasonable are pretty far apart. COVID will cripple you for the rest of your life if you're unlucky. Chance of that happening increases greatly with each infection. It is not the flu! It's not a cold!

Certainly in any medical context, *everyone* should be wearing N95s (at minimum). This should in particular not be optional for anyone calling themselves a medical professional or working in a medical office. This should not be controversial; it's basic preventative care.

For particularly sensitive people like this gentleman was, more substantial protection should be employed. Facemasks. Superior air recirculation.
ditto on M2 Air, Sonoma 4.3.1 (23D60)
China beat them at their own game so now they want to take the ball and run home.
My unsubstantiated opinion: Once AI gets to a point where AI agents can act "perfectly like humans", our preconceptions about "friendship" and "companionship" will fundamentally change. We will realize that we can develop deep bonds with AI as we do with other humans, with no "weirdness" attached.

There may still be holdouts, but the society will largely see them as old curmudgeons resembling the people of today who claim that "humans are incapable of maintaining long distance relationships, and you're only fooling yourself if you think you're in love". Or as a more extreme example, people who maintain that interracial or intercultural marriages are inferior to marrying in-group, because "shared experience" is fundamental to love.

All speculation, of course. But I'm a firm believer that humans are foolish and flexible - we're very easily fooled by anthropomorphic things, and AIs are the ultimate anthromorph. Our monkey brains don't stand a chance.
It's part of the real world, and the problem still exists. A solution is still needed. But sure, in day to day life most people better focus on something else!

Currently in California, there is some push at the state level to try and move things along - and override some city rules. Also one surprising city noticed that their past gridlock is not helpful (Berkeley, CA! Surprising because they are said to have invented restrictive zoning).

Then some cities in the Los Angeles area somehow managed to never get in that rut at all, and allow construction. And they are not exactly hellholes because of that.
Americans are conditioned to relish double standards.
Same here. I understand it would be dangerous to transport something so large, exposed to the wind. But couldn't they partially assemble it and then do the last parts on-site?
and add that a lot of mid-tier nations around the world, at their best universities, are getting very worried
Housing discrimination, Jim Crow, anti-asian immigration, and red-lining laws were locally voted on and approved.

That doesn't make them just or a good idea.

>Why do we need a single solution for everyone, in all areas?

Because we have a severe housing shortage. Because why should a crank three blocks over get any input at all into me wanting to put a multiplex on my private property. This isn't advocating for a single solution, it is advocating for a revisiting of a set of rules that are increasingly being found to be the cause of very serious social problems that benefit very few people.

If you want to live in a place that is only SFH with no businesses, that necessarily places a restriction on a historically allowable use of someone else's private property. Zoning is a VERY recent invention.
> I think people mainly think of it as "their home and their community" rather than "economic extraction"

It doesn't matter what they think. Some people also talk of "protecting property values".

At the end of the day it's all ways to restrict the allowable number of units per square foot of land.

Those people are enriching themselves sitting on a piece of land. It's not the value of the building on the land that is going up.

This modern landed gentry are not improving the economic value of their land. They are extracting the economic value through higher resale prices. Because *other people* are doing productive economic activity nearby.

It's the same idea as "everybody works but this vacant lot" [1] on a large scale.

> Doesn't that strike you as obvious bullshit?

No. You can go read the paper, come back and argue methodology.

The economic GDP gain for a person from West Virginia to NYC is large.

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ev...
Ah! I was able to open the link in a proper browser. I'm using HACK on iOS.

Thanks for the condescending comment.
In addition to what others have said, isn't one of the weird properties of water that it tends to take in energy easily, but not give it back so easily? I've never really understood how that works, but I think I've leqrned that at some stage. Hence why it's used in cooling so much. Somebody jump in and tell me how wrong I am, or if I'm on a track that doesn't lead completely nowhere.