skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> This is a common kneejerk response to being critical of corporate parties

> No need to put a negative label on my point of view even if it differs from yours.

Writing it off the way I did was giving you the benefit of the doubt that you weren't trying to intentionally mischaracterize my statements and instead made a simple error, the kind that would be expected to be common in such a disorienting state of affairs. It's confirmed as common because I see it 20x a day on reddit and even in person when these issues come up in conversation.

As for the nominee process, the flaws are addressed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013399
Depends where you are. Gas is certainly not cheaper for us. I did the math based on cost per KWH of fuel consumed v's the efficiency of the unit producing it. Natural gas would be slightly more expensive (marginal though...2% or so) but propane is around 3x more expensive, and with many people on oil the math is even worse.

In many regions electricity isn't as cheap as ours though, so that changes the game.
I'm not sure what 100% uptime is supposed to mean. Zero downtime, thats like saying zero bugs - it's not going to happen. Even 99.9999% uptime would be realistic, but 100% is not happening. There are factors out of your control that you cant guarantee will not even be down 1ms per year.

How do you manage 100% uptime when your db is only going to be 99.9%? The latter is almost easy, the former, even if we assume 99.99999%, really really hard.

Just silly and may show that there are some unrealistic assumptions, maybe? Or maybe the team doesn't know much about reliability -- also concerning.

Just target six nines and be done with it, or something.

In may of last year, NPM was down to 99.8 for the month.
> Kagi does no paid advertising

Because of adverse selection?

Users that are users because of marketing are somehow different?
The trouble is that optimally using that tool would involve completely draining one category of brain in the target country. That would make a missing link in their economy, but the incoming workers would terribly suppress wages in that sector in the receiving country.
We switched from MySQL at work probably ~5 years ago. Half following the hype, and half because we had a couple instances of DB corruption on MySQL and weren't ever able to determine the cause.

Postgres has been great, and it's free, so we roll it for almost everything now. I say almost everything because sometimes SQLite is a better fit-- when a DB is only a few MB on an internal app etc.
It absolutely would. But there are many many things that would make the Python world better that the Python developers seem generally oblivious to so I wouldn't hold your breath.

Probably a little early to officially bless Rye though anyway.
Three approaches for me.

1. Search topic / users, identify their online conversation areas, read/search for feedback on best topic.

2. Search google for "software topic" + " " + "Reddit"

3. Search hacker news

#2 and #3 tend to be subs of #1, but not always. Often different grades of discussion across all three.
> Basic things like "Hey Google, turn up the volume" don't work.

Just an FYI this type of instruction has worked for about a decade, actually.
Ask HN: My software "niche" is dead/dying. What skills are the most in demand?
I took a bit of a sabbatical and am returning to the workforce. The demand for my usual "niche" in software is dying and supply is extremely over saturated.

What skills, tech stacks, languages, or libraries are absolutely the most in demand for jobs and highest paying as of April 2024? Evidence for your answers would be extremely appreciated!
I am sure many will disagree-vote me, but I want to see this practice in consumer devices either banned or very heavily taxed.
People wouldn’t be snorting adderall recreationally if it didn’t get you high
The point I'm trying to make is that this thing we're calling a 'VUI' is shit. There's no reason speech has to be this boring one dimensional thing. It's like the people that designed these things have never had a real conversation in their lives. When you're speaking with another person, or multiple other people, you're constantly exchanging cues that allow the other person to understand and re-calibrate what they're saying. These are verbal sounds, non-verbal sounds and physical movements. A crinkle of the forehead, a shake of the head, an uttered 'aaaaah' or a quiet verbal affirmation in support of what's being stated. It's not a single uni-directional stream of information, it's a multi-directional stream coming from multiple multi-modal sources at the same time.

None of these basic realities are accounted for in current technology. Instead we have these dumb robot voices reading us results from a preprocessed script that it thinks answers our question. No wonder the monkey part of our brain immediately picks up on the fact that this whole facade isn't just a lie, but an excruciating lie. It's excruciating because it's immediately obvious that there's nothing else 'there' to interact with. Even when speaking to another person over the phone, there's a huge amount of nuance you can pick up on. Are they happy? Are they sad? Are they frazzled? Are they in a rush? Are they relaxed? And you automatically calibrate your responses and what you say in the conversation based on all of these perfectly obvious things. Normal humans automatically calibrate what they say, how they sound, what they suggest based on these cues. It works really well!

There's no reason voice stuff has to suck. It has worked pretty great for humans for thousands of years. We're evolutionarily tuned to it. It's just that all the technology we've created around it totally sucks and people are delusional if they think it's anywhere near prime time.
Most if not all energy/green subsidy schemes in the UK in the past couple of decades resulted in tons of cowboys rushing after the gold, and doing a terrible job and even causing serious long-term damage to the property.

No different this time round I imagine.

It's so infuriating - literally handing money to conmen
smart, you could probably do the same thing with a cheap piezoelectric microphone / transducer (actually I wouldn't be surprised if a vibration sensor is basically just that) plugged into an audio line-in port on an RPi running the show.
deosjr just posted a proposed Prolog solution in ~50 LOC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014035
There is! Start with a textbook. Most books (and practically all good ones) will include a preface or note from the author at the front saying “we wrote this with the intent of being accessible to people who know XYZ.” The best even say “if you don’t know that, we refer you to these books for those prereqs.” It’s a fantastic set of resources, but people seem to always want to consume a million blog posts instead of a couple books!

Textbooks will get you foundations, and then for more up to date stuff, you need to read academic papers. Start with survey papers and literature reviews on your topic, and when you can’t find one, start with any old (new) paper on the topic and read the related work section (all papers have them). You’ll have to learn to distinguish the “we’re building off of XYZ” from “ABC is kind of like our stuff,” because XYZ is the ‘prereq’ work. Then just go recursively until you hit stuff you understand from the textbook foundations.

Most academic resources contain pointers to their prereqs, so use them!

If you specifically want pointers where to start, this is my field so I’d be happy to point you to a path if you like.
We decided to buy fancy WiFi washer and dryer for our new house. Apparently to meet the latest bullshit energy requirements, our dryer does so by not completely drying things.

So now I put it on timed dry, and that means I can just start a 60 minute timer on my watch.
A right wing populist clamps down on migration, color me surprised, it must be because of real problems and not to appease anti migrant voters.

It's very interesting how NET migration figures are rarely mentioned when this happens. Yes migrants are entering NZ in record numbers but citizens and migrants alike are also leaving in record numbers. (not uncommonly for the exact reasons I mentioned - the NZ economy is not competitive and it's not a place educated, ambitious, career minded people can maximize their potential)
It's a goal, not a guarantee.
> So how do we make serving modules reliable? We defer the entire problem to Google Cloud. The same infrastructure that serves google.com and YouTube is used to host modules on JSR. None of our custom code sits in this hot path

I work at Google and even I do this. Services like the storage backing GCS are incredibly reliable and have teams of SREs supporting them, so I offload as much as possible to services that have more dedicated support than I'm able to provide.
> They did all this solely on his father’s income, which he earned as a public school teacher.

This has more to do with his profession and inflation than anything about halcyon days of the middle class that socialists love to talk about when it's really just a post-war phenomenon.
Noted, the blog post didn't have enough care taken to the sales copy in it.
Am I the only one here who saw the title and had hoped it was a post-mortem for Jet Set Radio? :)
This is an interesting proposal. Unfortunately, the way around this is a "business solutions" company, whose main solution is providing H1-B'd temps to large companies. There are tons of those around: local companies hire people on H1-B. Foreign companies send people over on L1.
> People don't buy the cheapest car, house, clothing, or food they could possibly get by with... Yet we constantly hear the refrain that you shouldn't spend a given amount of money on solar, house improvements, appliances, etc. that might be better for the environment if the payback isn't somehow positive with a 10-20 year payback period.

I think the key thing here is that energy is 100% fungible unlike your examples. A kWH is a kWH.
They do! I migrated to but subsequently left Australia in no small part for the reasons mentioned.
I wonder what they will have to sacrifice to make room for that on the die.
Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems [pdf]
Truthfully if you can stand the sweating buying at an 8% rate is the way to go. If rates ever go down (and history suggests at some point they will) you can re-finance, once you've agreed on a price you can't go back a re-negotiate to a lower one.
Shape typing in Python
These are proplems github customers have.
I need to quote myself on this thread https://twitter.com/sp8962/status/1534079141640904705

Steve hasn't been a relevant force in OSM for more than a decade and if you want to do OSM a favour, point people to the editor on openstreetmap.org, not any of the mobile or "simplified" editing apps.
They’re doing what Hallmark did by buying the competition…podcast analytics…everything…

Google “Spotify buys podcasts,” read ‘em and weep.

(sad tone of voice, no irony or snark)
pip and venv are officially sanctioned. (venv and "ensure-pip" are included in python-3.x) That's all you really need (after you have the desired version of python).
A Visualization of US and Canada's BitTorrent Downloading Behaviors
> But once the space race to the moon was won - and all major powers had proven they are capable of producing ICBMs - it feels like the energy and financing just went out of it.

Quite a few things have been done since then, including the JWST, all the other space telescopes, helicopters on Mars, visits to every planet in our solar system system, ...
Eno writer – revisiting the product roadmap
The use of articles in English is an absolute horror.

Unlike, say, in French where articles are 100% required, in English they are usually required, but not always. It's this ambiguity that is infuriating, especially because not a single native speaker can quantify it. "It just sounds better without" tends to be the best they can do.

One thing that helps is that having more articles than needed seems to be less annoying to native speakers than having too few. So when in doubt just sprinkle the shit out of them and pray for the best.
Every one of the M series chips has had dedicated AI hardware. AI focus has been in the hardware for years.
Wilbur: A backtracking and self-training agent for performing tasks on the web
Just to be clear, it works perfectly at -14c and above? Or is there some disappointing performance in an intermediate range?

I'm in Northern England and it's not uncommon for weeks of -5c to 5c in winter, some snowy days, plus serious damp making it feel even colder. So I'm curious if a similar system would be similarly amazing here.

I've read many people say they work perfectly because it won't hit -20c (a nice Strawman...)
I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105
You are right. By riches I meant specifically portable wealth, things like gold (and slaves) and Roman armies did bring back a lot. From what I’ve read (mostly acoup.blog), during the Roman Republic, soldiers largely provided their own weapons and armor and were motivated by a chance to get loot. (Paying soldiers and/or giving them land came later.)

But Rome (and later Constantinople) depended on grain shipments, and armies depend on grain and conscription, and the basis of that is agriculture.
Interesting... 1 Zen 4 EPYC CPU yields a maximum of 128 PCIE lanes so it wouldn't be possible to put 8 full fat GPUs on while maintaining some lanes for storage and networking. Same deal with Threadripper Pro.
Tips for a Tor Torrenting Site
I wanna work on a Torrent site for media that I'd host on the Tor network and I would appreciate any tips about It, like which tech-stacks should I use,
I work mainly on low level fields so Web Dev is very unfamiliar to me, Thanks
Curious how you’re implementing the background queue for publishing? Something custom in Rust?
You do need discoverability, but you also need a capable platform and things worth discovering.

When I look at Amazon’s skills page, it’s a wasteland. Until there’s something worth surfacing, discoverability doesn’t really matter.

That said, I do have two Echos in my house (and one Home Pod) and use them all the time for basic things.
Just a small point but google.com and YouTube do not run on the same infra as what you see on GCP, especially if you use GKE etc...

It's trivial to see because when GCP is down somehow Google and Gmail keep working.
Ya it's this guy apologies for not posting the link.
Not to knock other people's hobbies, but our dryer plays a loud jingle when done, no Internet connection required. Do other models not have this feature?
I have a LG Smart TV that I use as a dumb TV that's driven by a Asus pn51 "palm of our hand" computer running Linux Mint. Finally a Logitech MX Ergo 'thumb ball bluetooth mouse' allows me to sit on the sofa across the living room and happily browse the internet, watch movies, youtube and almost anything else you can think off. (All the details here are just in case someone else would like to do something similar, this could be a starting point.)
Ah. Thank you. What does "RTFM" mean?
No clear answers? Maybe you should ask some of them. The younger generations are constantly talking about it - while the older generations are constantly talking about it as well, just from a different perspective.

People are tired of capitalism reducing them to numbers that the powers that be -- now corporate interests -- give no shits about.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40012712
Author here, and it's quite similar in India. Everyone expects me to WhatsApp them the details, and the ubiquity of proprietary platforms is infuriating. Thankfully we've been able to use cell calls and SMS/email until we can onboard them to XMPP. (Many of us in the Delhi OSM community are free software and XMPP advocates.)
A suite of tools designed to streamline the development cycle of LLM-based apps
Former Royal Mail chief exec says he 'was not aware' group's lawyers prosecuting
In my very subjective opinion, we are reaching a question of what is the meaning of life when you essentially have most of what you need. Outside of religion, many people don't have a reason to live for, except pursuing even more wealth/goods/comfort. And if they don't believe that's possible for themselves, living in mediocrity becomes a depressing, routine grind for many.
What is your niche?
What are you interested in?
What are you talented in?
Heat pump technology is certainly out of the "early adopters" phase. It is basically the standard for new buildings in Europe (at least Northern Europe, I'm not sure about the South), and has been for years.

In Germany, where I currently live, they recently passed a law that constrains what kind of heating system you're allowed to put into your house to a point where basically only a heat pump fulfills all criteria (perhaps with the exception of pellet heaters).
'I could care less' must be the most infuriating Americanism. It makes no sense used in the context it's typically used.
That sounds like a huge push for outsourcing.
"In his witness statement Crozier said:

I do not recall any involvement in or knowledge of the oversight of the investigations and prosecutions brought by Post Office Ltd against subpostmasters, either for theft, fraud and false accounting for alleged shortfalls in branch accounts for the recovery of such alleged shortfalls through the use of civil proceedings.
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That is not a tesla.
I was wondering what was going on in their life that the alert sound from the washer and dryer weren't sufficient for the purpose. My GE dryer sings a happy "laundry's dry" song when it's finished.

You're right though, this way is more fun.
definitely thought this was about code and "don't repeat yourself". I thought it was going to talk about how it's not necessary to make sure your code is 100% dry it's ok to repeat yourself sometimes. Which it is. Specially while waiting your clothes to dry.
So if someone https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1473362460673515527 told Ukrainians in 2021 that they were going to be invaded by Russia, which would mean 100,000+ of them killed and maimed, would you also say they were "fear mongering?"

There were many people on HN, like you, the Russian government, and Snowden literally saying people were "fear mongering" because they were warning about the fact of the Russian invasion.

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1770800449777549672

Do you have any evidence or track record to support your position? Any Russian invasion predictions you called successfully? If not, I'd leave dismissals of current US Gov. understanding of the situation to the full time geo-pol pro's who do successfully predict things.
Chipless fiber for wireless visual-to-digital transmission around the human body
For those wanting this convenience on a dumb washing machine, I used a single smart plug flashed with Tasmota firmware to monitor when the power draw dropped to zero. Notifications through Home Assistant.

Not affiliated, just a happy customer of:

https://cloudfree.shop/product/cloudfree-smart-plug-runs-tas...
To be a critic you need to have a point of view.
I'd love to hear someone pronounce pork and talk in a way where they rhyme because I sure can't picture it.
Wait until you see prices in Germany...
That's just in the lab. If you buy PV modules right now the cells will not be doped with rare earth elements. And almost everything demonstrated in the lab doesn't progress beyond there (which is fine; that's how technology R&D works.)

I think the closest one could come to making the "REE in solar" claim make sense would be decoloring agents for the glass. Cerium could be used for this, but I think manganese is cheaper.
It should be possible with onboard PCIe switches. You probably don't need the networking or storage to be all that fast while running the job, so it can dedicate almost all of the bandwidth to the GPU.

I don't know if there are boards that implement this, though, I'm only looking at systems with 4x GPUs currently. Even just plugging in a 5kW GPU server in my apartment would be a bit of a challenge. With 4x 4090, the max load would be below 3kW, so a single 240V plug can handle it no issue.
And the crypto scam cheapETH
You need to abandon your apocalyptic worldview keep up with the times my friend.

Encryption export controls have been systematically dismantled to the point that they're practically non-existent, especially over the last three years.

Pretty much the only encryption products you need permission to export are those specifically designed for integration into military communications networks, like Digital Subscriber Voice Terminals or Secure Terminal Equipment phones, everything else you file a form.

Many things have changed since the days when Windows 2000 shipped with a floppy disk containing strong encryption for use in certain markets.

https://archive.org/details/highencryptionfloppydisk
see sister comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40012447
Yes, but it means nothing. If the realistic version of that goal is 99.99%, thats not very good at all.

You wouldnt applaud me if I said my goal total comp was 1M, and then i went and got a job that pays 30k.
this only applies if either you live in a bigger city which you never leave, or you live somewhere alone in the woods
I love my ground-source heatpump. I did the entire install myself, submerging the loop in the pond by my house. We get a COP of approx 3.0 in the middle of winter when its -25C air temp outside :)
You also can take a lot of it out of the manual config by creating an input_select with various options to track the operational state of the dryer (Off, Drying, Finished), then use traditional automations to trigger switches between opstates and notifications based on opstate change. There are many threads on the HA forums and community about how to do this.
>I don’t need to enter that for Apple Pay, IIRC?
Correct

>Maybe I do when using it on the web, though.
Also correct

>Or I need to do a 3D secure “approve in banking app” flow.
This is above my knowledge base pay grade. But I did understand 2/3: WINNING!
I strongly recommend "The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" by David Quammen

The old metaphor of a tree of life has completely broken down with crosslinks everywhere at all levels, far beyond what even Barbara McClintock wrote about.

It's not completely true (but in the area what is "completely true") that only the mitochondria and chloroplasts are captures or symbionts. Flagella and cilia are examples of others! Though technically they aren't considered organelles.

The book I mentioned above is really good! It doesn't simply talk about how current understanding has momved beyond the tree metaphor, it talks about how that came about, as well. Of course, being a book for the general public at talks a lot about the people involved too.
The broader contexts could be this: look at this puzzle as a way for reinvent sorting as a delegation of operations (split + combine) instead of traditional "swapping" of values. As CPU arithmetic is faster then memory operations some real treasure may be hidden in this new approach.
>My only regret was going with a Rheem heat-pump water heater in this mix. It does not perform well at all.

Sorry to hear that. My Rheem heat-pump water heater works fantastically, although I do live in a hot climate so that could be why.
Once you know how venvs work, uv will make them a lot more fun by fixing slow install and reinstall
I think you're touching on something else important, which is that, left to their own devices, virtually no one learns new things by cramming for a test.

I'd wager that when you were studying your ass off, you had books open and were hacking away trying stuff out, figuring what works and what doesn't, yeah?

You're the person I'd want to admit to university or hire for my work, and it has jack-all to do with your test-taking ability.
In most USA English, both the vowel part ("long" vs "short" in our goofy classification system) and the r/l part are different.

Most of these accents have a rhotic r but not a rhotic (lotic?) l in this position.