skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a learning issue, how to use a steel pan or similar safer alternatives. There are cultural memes about what to use and why and what's easier and harder.
As far as I understand, this is non-invasive. Are there concerns about polystyrene in a skin contact interface?
Search term: Epley maneuver.
The lack of accountability happens because the government is not allowed to build up the in-house expertise they'd need to manage projects like this, because of this bizarre American idea that government=bad private=good. So the government agencies end up having to outsource absolutely everything - and not only is that expensive, it's also doomed to failure, because understanding and accountability by its nature can't be outsourced. And that's only compounded by a lack of trust, low-bid rules and the like.

If you look at the entities that have actually managed to get stuff like this done (which is something most developed countries around the world manage), it's not private industries, it's governments - but governments that were enabled and trusted to build-up effective in-house teams for doing large projects.
>It's tap water sold at a 5000% markup.

it's tap water, processed, and bottled.

The processes often include extra filtration and cleaning methods that the individual corporate groups dictate.

I'm not trying to suggest that bottled water is some tremendous value compared to municipal water, but let's not pretend that the markup comes with nothing.
This is a very myopic view. The people to do like these things have a lot more money to spend to ensure these things are around for a while.

While my view might be cynical, it is closer to reality than getting people to give up creature comforts voluntarily.
>If you're only going very popular places public transport might work.

This exception doesn't apply to cities that have their acts together.
It's a puzzle. Getting to the solution requires some pretty creative thinking. Nobody in the comments has posted the solution yet (or come close to it).
Nice project. What's your thoughts as to why benchmarked agents generalise well for programming tasks?
Well, as this post discusses, the end devices don’t need IPv4 to talk to IPv4-only services.
When I said 30+ (assuming you're still using that figure in reference to my comment; if not please ignore me) I wasn't talking about distance between places, I was talking about time spent at places.
Reminder that proton willingly cooperates with and is required by the swiss government to log and give all your activity to them.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/priva...

Their email is a scam, they own all the keys and software you use to access the email.
Yeah... there's other ways to deescalate but it involves sacrificing your ego. Unsurprisingly those who can sacrifice their ego and those who think they have to train because "Nobody should be the gardener in a war." are often not the same people.
Uh huh good job you’re a genius
I use Coway, a Korean brand for my water filtration needs. They are a good brand and actually certified but looking closely at the product manual, they do not make the claim that they filter PFAS (defined as having a fully fluoridated methyl or methylene group): indeed they only claim to filter several chlorinated substances including tetrachloroethene.
The article accepts this premise, but argues that you only need it on the provider's edge, not on end-user devices.

> First of all, let’s start with stating the obvious: most devices will have to talk to legacy services. This post will not argue against this, despite excuses for this decreasing.

> Luckily, IPv6-only devices can still talk to IPv4-only ones, and this is getting easier than ever before.
As long as one doesn't mistake carcinogenic leftovers from previous cooking for seasoning. It's somehow common to think that seasoning means some deep umami flavor from food bits that get baked into it over time, when it only means the initial seasoning of the metal as a chemical process and still means you should wash your dishes like anything else after it's seasoned. and regular seasoning isn't stripped by washing with dish soap
I have always used select dropdowns as a regular text input. I just type the thing I want until it appears on my cursor and I press enter. Never imagined repeated presses would toggle results.
To a rough approximation, yes. The blackwell chip is also ~10x larger in surface area than MTIA, so the costs are proportional.
Amazon internal tools for building codes are _amazing_.

Brazil is their internal dependency management tool. It handles building and versioning software. It introduced the concept of version sets which essentially allows you to group up related software, e.g. version 1.0 of my app needs version 1.1 of library x and 2.0 of runtime y. This particular set of software versions get its own version number.

Everything from the CI/CD to the code review tool to your local builds use the same build configuration with Brazil. All software packages in Brazil are built from source on Amazon's gigantic fleet of build servers. Builds are cached, so even though Amazon builds its own version of Make, Java, etc., these are all built and cached by the build servers and downloaded.

A simple Java application at Amazon might have hundreds of dependencies (because you'll need to build Java from scratch), but since this is all cached you don't have to wait very long.

Lastly, you have Pipelines which is their internal CI/CD tool which integrates naturally with Brazil + the build fleet. It can deploy to their internal fleet with Apollo, or to AWS Lambda, S3 buckets, etc.

In all, everything is just very well integrated. I haven't seen anything come close to what you get internally at Amazon.
Hi. Welcome to the conversation. The title of the article being discussed is "EPA Says 'Forever Chemicals' Must Be Removed from Tap Water (nytimes.com)"
To the machinery example - the dies used to make pasta are teflon coated because that means you can push the dough through the dies faster. Likewise dental floss often has PFAS coatings to make it easier to slide between your teeth. This stuff is literally everywhere and cannot be avoided.
> (I would be _delighted_ for someone to "Umm actually" me by providing a great product!)

I think the issue is, nobody would be willing to pay for a good solution since they usually come with a steep maintenance cost. I wouldn't be surprised if the in-house CD team at Amazon were putting out fires every week/month behind the scene.
Check out Waterdrop. The cartridges do just pop out and in, and it’s not zero install but it is very easy. If you can install a faucet you can install that.

I got over 99% reduction according to a cheap TDS meter at my condo in Phoenix with the 2 filter one. I can replace cartridges in seconds. I love that thing.

Zero install would probably suck as you’d have to fill tanks frequently (it rejects a good amount of water) and it would take up counter space but they do make em.

Honestly in most places you can buy the stuff for 25 cents a gallon from a machine, which is what I would do if I did not feel like installing
"Which way do I go?" orientation signage in the Boston subway system has been less than wonderful. A lot of "the obvious thing needed here is ..." not happening. Places you could stand to help confused and grateful tourists. So tempting to do a self-adhesive-vinyl signage project. And then the DNC did.

When the Democratic National Convention came to Boston (2004), the subway got a lot of nice "which way do I go? what are these stairs? if not these, then where?" temporary orientation signage. It lingered afterward, with some becoming permanent signage, and others puzzlingly not. Such an event involves massive interdepartmental communication, tight timelines, altered incentives and constraints, and additional resources. Some of the altered communication channels are said to have persisted. I might be interesting to look at events where things are "shaken up", to better understand the steady-state tangle.
The key piece being "instead." As opposed to "run dual ipv4 and ipv6 in your local network forever."
That is, uh, one solution, to say the least.

There’s a HN comment I’ll never forget where the commenter suggests that Discord move their search infrastructure to a series of text file searched with ripgrep, but Val.town’s scale is small enough that they could actually consider it.
If no one told me they were AI, I’d probably assume it was a parody group or a house band messing around in the studio. It doesn’t sound like an artist writing with intention.

And I’d wonder why they encoded at 32kbps with a RealMedia codec from 1998.
I was surprised today to find that Spectrum doesn't enable IPv6 by default. Only figured this out after way too long trying to ssh into my IPv6-only Hetzner instance.

Ended up just paying for an IPv4 address to avoid the hassle.

I don't think this is "the year of IPv6" but it might be its decade.
When will people learn that you can't trust any of these platforms?

It's easy to make the argument that the network effects outweigh the risks but I would take a stable, smaller income stream over something like this any day.
It couldn't have helped
FU, buddy!
Many years ago I knew someone who managed a bottled water plant. They didn’t use tap water, they had a very deep well pulling from an aquifer. They then filtered the heck out of it, and then added back in a very small, proprietary mix of minerals.
To people that train there is a clear distinction between "martial arts" and not martial arts. You can put away your dictionary.
> "Four countries is one country" is very different from "50 states is one country".

Except it ain't the former, it is more "A state comprising of 3* countries, and part of a 4th".

* Well if we add Cornwall, we get 4 internal GB countries, plus the bit of Ireland which came back.

It used to be that UK was described as "2 countries, a principality and a province", except it is not the whole province...
Make sure you have good air filtration too.
If the criteria and principle used for justification is social cost, the case is far stronger for criminalizing diet.

If you don't think the logic holds true, that means you think there are other relevant factors besides cost. What are they and why don't they apply to saws?

I think the huristic most people use for most laws is if it impacts them or not. People object to diet police because impacts them. They are fine with saw police, because it impacts someone else.
Saw users already have a choice, and can freely buy safety saws if the want.

In short, people like telling others what to do, but not being told what to do.
I mostly agree with the commenter you’re replying to - but I think you bring up a good point. Once you start disconnecting tables from one another, and end up with lots of small data stores, does it still make sense to bother with the Postgres at all?

I think that its value as a layer becomes unclear. Sure its battle-tested and has great query planning and similar tools, but those base based on assumptions that are largely violated with the re-architecture.

I think the architectural decoupling benefits mentioned are basically already proven though. I’ve worked at places that had many NoSQL tables per team, each logically distinct, and at places that had one database with 50+ tables in it. The breakup can be nice, in the same way that “serverless” is nice - data storage becomes entirely abstracted to the developer.
Isn't that the seasoned alternative?
> premium features like "advanced VPN and privacy-oriented AI,"

Excuse me,what
I'm sure it is depending on the intended use. It's perfectly safe and effective to wash my car, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's safe for me to consume.
Decades before I had to deal with my mom dying, I read "Grave Angels" by Richard Kearns, and I don't know what more you can say on the topic of accepting death.
Nonstick pans require less fat to cook food. Is the health benefit of avoiding shedding greater than the benefit of being healthier in terms of fat percentage or weight? I am not so sure.

Also as I recall PTFE coatings (Teflon is an example brand name) are no longer made with PFOA in the US or Europe. Yes, PTFE itself is a PFAS as well, but as far as I know it does not delaminate or shed as long as the pan is used at lower temperatures (less than 450F).
There wasn't a lot of code review going around our group in 1991 - but you're absolutely right that it would be harder to get away with today. There are a lot of hidden knobs in various places across various systems, and they are a potential liability since they're frequently untested and may even be a vector for an exploit...

sudo dtrace -qn 'pid$target::getenv:entry { printf("getenv ( %s )\n", copyinstr(arg0)); }' -c "/bin/ls -l"
Hi! It seems like the key thing for approaches like SWE-agent is that constraining the interface and then the actions within that interface is crucial for performance. In the case of the SWE-agent approach, they limit the input into the agent based on just bash terminal output, cwd and current file being worked on and then discretise the action space into a few atomic actions such as scrolling the current terminal, specific file edits, etc. which limit the context for which the agent needs to solve problems. Even without explicit top-down planning, the agent is still strong at solving small general problems.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_Contamination_of_Minnesot...

> The drinking water of 14 communities, over 170,000 individuals, and over 150 square miles was contaminated through 3M's improper disposal of chemicals
> I'm sorry about the title. As I said below; that was really meant in the spirit of fun.

There's no need to apologize! I and many others understood exactly what you meant by "no API". Some other people didn't understand the distinction you were drawing and chose to interpret their lack of understanding as you misleading them somehow, but that's on them, not you.

It was a great article that I thoroughly enjoyed! Thanks for sharing!
I completely agree with this; I remember reading that prior thread on double entry accounting and being so frustrated and confused about the use of debit/credit terminology and then, as now, your comments (and others) were very very helpful and insightful.

Something I find frustrating is the - almost - endless debate and nitpicking on small details or elements implied but not explicitly stated...but I guess people are trying to be helpful (or right).

I didn't have an account to comment then but I really appreciated your perspective; it was extremely valuable seeing a few people saying 'forget about the credit/debit nomenclature, it's confusing' and recognising not everyone knows the terminology. Now I have an account here and can thank you for fighting the good fight again.
> Especially with Windows 11, it's honestly a nice visual improvement over 10 imo.

You gotta be joking.

IMO, Windows 11 is trying desperately to look like MacOS, which is probably the greatest bug Microsoft has ever introduced into Windows besides EternalBlue and MS08-067.

Microsoft is completely ignoring a huge market segment that chooses Windows because it's not MacOS.

Windows 7 with the Classic theme was hands-down the best Windows UI. The modern shift to flatness and hiding information/options is terrible UX. It absolutely destroys discoverability when it's not clear what elements are interactable. But it looks "clean", I guess, so somehow people prefer it.
If you're on macOS and have an iPhone, 2FHey copies 2FA SMS codes to your clipboard for you.

I've been using it for a few months and it works very well.

https://2fhey.com/
There'll be no technology solution for this that scales globally for any means and usability
The average age of me is up there :) I mean to say that any 3d programming being "retro" makes me feel old
Rainbow parens, meet rainbow tables.
Tom, some advice --- you're a partisan conspiracy theorist and dont know it. I recommend you quit following the news -- your brain is incapable of "not" connecting dots that don't exist. Just relax and enjoy life. You're probably intelligent and have a good job in tech. Be grateful. Stay away from religion -- all of them -- you will be sucked in and indoctrinated. Don't place so much faith in the US government -- it's a corrupt institution.
Photoshop doesn’t move the paintbrush for you.
iGPUs like the ones in PHX/MTL have to go into handhelds and ultrabooks, so they're going to be power and thermally limited in before 2-4 MB of cache + LPDDR5 becomes a major bottleneck.

Now if you can give the iGPU a 80W power budget instead of maybe 15W, that's a different story. But at that point you're competing with discrete GPUs that can show up with GDDR6, and maybe an iGPU doesn't make so much sense anymore.
> > UK GDP is $3tn :D
> Most of which is England

Largely because of where the tax is booked, due to many companies having their headquarters office in London.

Most of the Oil revenue is raised in Scotland, what would the balance look like if that was booked in Edinburgh instead?
Those were the same video... Whoops!

Intel Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kWiRrf2o6Q&t=570s
> Since a lot of mobile networks (5G, 4G, etc.) in the world are IPv6-only, and have no IPv4, there’s luckily a solution for this already.

Ha! I have an iPhone 15 and when I switch to mobile I get an IPv4-only address! My mobile provider is Verizon. I assume results are going to vary drastically based on region. I feel there are a lot of assertions in this article without any real data to back them up. If it makes any difference, AS6167.
If you don’t know much about MMA, check out “Fighting in the Age of Loneliness” by Jon Bois on YouTube. Long but insightful.
Probably not what this is designed for, but I find making lighthearted, commercial-quality "mockumentory" songs to annoy friends to be pretty entertaining.

Example Generation:
https://www.udio.com/songs/vYXTtH1LoFqRq71EpFQcSp
Well I'm definitely getting semantic here, hopefully it is to make a good point and not just annoying.

I think the purpose behind that would be to live a happy life for oneself. How one does that would be different for everyone, but I'd see that as the why behind doing something just because you enjoy it.

Said differently, two people with the same purpose can have wildly different ways of achieving it. What's more interesting, and more helpful as things change and one has to adjust, is knowing the why and how my purpose differs from others.

For example, in the curing cancer example if your purpose behind that goal is to save lives or reduce suffering, curing cancer is just the result of balancing what you think is possible and the impact it could have. If you learn that curing cancer is more difficult, you may pivot to a different goal but for the same purpose.

It also says something of the ways in which you may accidentally go wrong. If your goal is to save lives, you may miss the mark on saving lives but almost certainly wouldn't knowingly do something that will harm people in the long wrong. If your goal is to cure cancer to get rich, you may very well accept long term damage to people if it gets you rich now and you cover your ass for later (aka most of the pharmaceutical industry).
This is true, but maintaining the seasoning is annoying. If you want to scrub your pan out and get it really clean, or leave it soaking, you will likely need to repeat the seasoning process. It gets frustrating to have to coat it in oil and fire up the oven and all of that. You also cannot cook certain foods in cast iron pans due to this. For example, if you want to make a tomato-based sauce, you will risk leeching metal into your food due to the acidity.

Personally I think each type of material has its place in the kitchen (nonstick, stainless steel, cast iron, enameled cast iron, etc)
>> The people to do like these things have a lot more money to spend to ensure these things are around for a while.

No. If these things were never invented, those people would no be asking for them. Least not very much.
Have you discussed this with management? Going above and beyond is a good way to stay employed though this market trough.
Oh I don't mind the discussion here at all, I'm just occasionally puzzled at things I thought I was pretty direct about.

Honestly though I don't like writing. Finding stuff out about hardware is fun. Weaving it into a coherent article is a chore.
A 4 bit quant of the new one would still be about 70 gb, so yeah. Gonna need a lot more ram.
Japan's transit is private and semi-competitive. (there are 10+ train companies in Tokyo), (4+ in Kyoto), I haven't counted Osaka's

It works because the companies own land and facilities around every station. Grocery stores, office buildings, shopping centers (stores at many stations), apartments, etc. This creates a virtuous cycle where the more riders the more people use their other services and visa-versa.

As for semi-competitive, at least in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto there are enough lines that you often have a choice. For example Tokyo (area) to Yokohama there's JR, Keikyu, Tokyu, (3 different companies). They have slightly different routes so if you're closer to one you might take one or the other but they do advertise trying to get you ride their's over the other's. To Hanada there's Keikyu and the Tokyo Monorail (it's own company). To Narita there's the Narita Express (JR) and Keisei (a different company) as well as local lines from both. Same in Kyoto. You can go to Kyoto to Nara via JR or via Keihan. You can go Kyoto to Osaka via JR or Hanshin.

So, if one company offers easy pay methods and another doesn't it quickly gets the reputation and "a crappy old line" (who wants to live there, open an office there, etc...)
The owner of the Dawn project also owns an FSD competitor if I recall correctly.
> There are lots of people in this comment thread who are (dubiously) trying to make the case that they did.
> The Twitter example, for better or worse, revealed that tech companies are not just a little bit redundantly staffed...they're employing tons of people who effecitvely just make work for each other.

I've been arguing since the purge that Twitter was in the "Wile E Coyote ran off the cliff and is still treading air" phase, but that argument is getting harder and harder to justify as Twitter somehow stays alive. How could firing all those people really do nothing to the operational success of the company? What were they all doing? Companies don't hire people where they have nothing for them to do. I look at my (BigTech) company and everyone is running around like crazy with 3-5X more tasks in their backlog than they can possibly do. We always need more people. How do you get rid of 80% and just carry on??? Are they all just writing TPS reports for each other to read?
Guess what happened to the entire notion of the internet? Sigh
Haha, what you said reminded me of some software where you'd hit down on the bottom most entry and the next one would, agonizingly slowly, scroll up into view but if you just grabbed the scroll bar and moved it with the mouse you'd get where you wanted faster. If you tried grabbing the scrollbar after you'd hit 'down' on the bottommost entry, your inputs would be unrecognized.

I'm positive it was MS software, but I can't recall now. I only see the memory.
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