skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> SO is different. It's a community effort…

More to your point, it’s focused on evergreen information. Ideally the questions and answers get refined over time to resolve in to accurate documents that the public can use to solve problems. Most social media is about attention/dissemination in the moment and puts the individual above all.
The problem with that advice is that anyone who could bring you supplies is also suffering from the same problems you are.
> * Grow some of your own food in a garden.

This will get you a handful extra meals, assuming the ideal case where everything was fully grown, harvested, and preserved before the incident. It's one thing to have a village harvest & jam cycle for the seasons, it's another to need to be prepared for the situation to change overnight, all alone and with only a home garden to work with.

You're better off using the money, time, energy, etc. to buy provisions that are immediately and near-permanently useful without the variability, climate sensitivity, and labor intensity of gardening.
> It prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create).

> ... Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary... Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer wasn't sure if I meant that it returned an error or if it was unresponsive...

> ...the way we capture and report bugs is just as manual and lossy as it was in the 1990’s

That's because bug reports are primarily communication among people, and the problems you describe are people problems, not technology problems.

Bug reports work when engineering can state what they need, and management is willing to support engineering's needs. Otherwise, bug reports devolve into the situation that you describe above.

In your case, this looks like a great tool for browser applications; but it only works if the people submitting the bug use the tool: I could easily envision a situation where a lousy manager ignores engineering's pleas to use Jam.
Thank you. Yeah mobile support was an oversight from me, I added touch support now.
even small funds, this was the investment thesis at the hedgefund that my dad worked for circa 2006-2008. they promised super dampened volatility but, as you might guess, they went belly up during the great recession.

The cause? Someone, somewhere in their financial product chain was not being faithful about the volatility of the asset they were basing their whole model on so when the market went tits up they did to.
It might only be viable if the majority of materials come from off-Earth, like the moon.
I'm waiting for preview feature:
https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/issues/26

Fortunately it's now on top of the to-do list:
https://github.com/users/MHNightCat/projects/4/views/1
> The promise of privacy is one way in which they position themselves

Yep, the claim to prioritize privacy is a key selling point for them
Putting cells over the area: You get intermittent power. Putting antennas over the area: You get continuous power. And that's the achillies heel of solar--you can't have things shutting down every time a cloud comes over.

Furthermore, microwave antennas are mesh, not solid. You won't have full sun under it, but neither will it be dark.

That being said, there's a fundamental issue here that without huge improvements in launch costs it's simply not viable unless made out of lunar materials.

And note that it doesn't have to be in a synchronous orbit so long as you permit some movement of the antennas. Put say 25 stations out there and 24 ground stations--they keep hopping to the next station as the Earth rotates underneath, the 25th station is offline because it's in shadow.
> When you lose your YubiKey or someone else gets access to it, your database is not secure anymore.

You don't store your password on the YubiKey, you use it as a second factor in addition to your password.

Do you know what a YubiKey is when you argue against it?
That worries me about 3rd party app stores. I'm not opposed to them, but it feels like there is just a wave of scam type activity waiting to be unleashed on them...
If you own a 1965 Bugatti because you absolutely love it, and that's what's getting crushed? Yeah, probably.
If tech companies didn't have double standards, they'd have none.
Seriously. I don't want an incredibly powerful chatbot or whatever.

Those are just wastes of electricity and water and result in nature being paved over by data centers.
What does that have to do with popovers, though?
Your affirmation is not quite verified in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, specifically in Gaza which has become a sight of the future of targeted assassination and meticulous destruction of a civil society
> As the recently retired head of space power systems at ESA

Ah, he’s European.
> because it was built on top of Bootstrap 3, but Debian only shipped Bootstrap 2 at the time in a global package

> there is no global /usr/lib to be concerned about

Aside from possibly the path being different, which is of no concern, how can the 2 above sentences reconcile with each other?
This is the description of at least 50% of the C++ projects where I was involved with. Only missing the language lawyers citing paragraphs of the standard at least once a meeting.
Tell HN: CNN in Atlanta is currently on diesel power from geomagnetic storm
Announced live on air by Chad Myers.
For this particular case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
Thanks for the link. I don't like videos tagged as "made for children" because videos tagged that way aren't able to be put in a playlist or "watch later" queues. That's a YouTube thing, but YouTube doesn't provide any additional views or promotion to have it tagged that way for educational videos like this. In fact, it likely will get less.
So you're saying my Steam Deck, which has both a "game console" UI and a desktop UI mode and lets you switch between them, is somehow running two OSes? Weird argument.
If you enjoy watching colorful balls fly around you may also enjoy:

https://www.zerok.com/demo/

This is a little toy model of what goes on inside our ion source, laser cooling + photoionization. I use it in talks sometimes. The colormap is red=hot, blue=cold, white=ions
It's like a dog whistle. People who care about this are not unhealthy, they are having a visceral reaction to something that you don't understand the significance of. Try curiosity instead of dismissiveness.
Clothing, weapons, some tools, some survivial books. And muscles and brains.
And last but not least. Gold and silver. Because that will become the only money.
Good to know. I think this should probably be it's own post
Providing health insurance for full-time employees in the United States is just part of the cost of doing business. It's not cheap, but it's absolutely something you can budget for. IIRC this guy had over 50 employees working more than 30 hours a week (I think in a landscaping business) which is why he had to start providing healthcare. If he couldn't afford to pay for health insurance for his full-time employees, then frankly, that means his business was only ever viable as long as he was able to exploit his workers with substandard pay and benefits.
I can't see how, why would you expect them to?
Credit card companies are not as customer-friendly with chargebacks as they used to be. I've experienced Amex automatically siding with a vendor in a case where the vendor was at fault and there was a clear refund policy that the vendor didn't adhere to. I'd be surprised if credit cards are allowing chargebacks on Airbnbs.
It's a lengthy video. The relevant piece starts here: https://youtu.be/0D_oKwvWPT8?si=yH1Ow_I0SpXThhI1&t=632
I tried all of your follow-up prompts against GPT-4, and it never acknowledged 'removal' and instead talked about laser eye surgery. I can't figure out how to share it now that I've got multiple variants, but, for example, excerpt in response to the glass eye prompt:

>If someone is considering a glass eye after procedures like laser eye surgery (usually due to severe complications or unrelated issues), it's important to choose the right manufacturer or provider. Here are some key factors to consider

I did get it to accept that the eye is being removed by prompting, "How long will it take before I can replace the eye?", but it responds:

>If you're considering replacing an eye with a prosthetic (glass eye) after an eye removal surgery (enucleation), the timeline for getting a prosthetic eye varies based on individual healing.[...]

and afaict, enucleation is a real procedure. An actual intelligence would have called out my confusion about the prior prompt at that point, but ultimately it hasn't said anything incorrect.

I recognize you don't have access to GPT-4, so you can't refine your examples here. It definitely still hallucinates at times, and surely there are prompts which compel it to do so. But these ones don't seem to hold up against the latest model.
Sure, but what percent of product are you actually loosing? It’s not a lot.
Sure - but as the article points out there are safety and efficiency wins by removing the rear window. Anyways if it’s a terrible decision I’m sure the reviews will point that out.

My point was just that the Luddite “computers are bad” argument is silly when all modern cars and planes and everything else is fly-by-wire. If computers fail, the world fails - good thing engineering isn’t just a faf and reliability engineering actually works!
Ask HN: How to improve appointment / demo show up rates
I’m looking to help SaaS companies increase the awareness of their SaaS especially where search volumes for their solution are low but it’s clear that it solves a problem their ideal customer has.

For example I have a client doing $600k ARR but their ideal audience isn’t aware solutions are available as the market typically uses spreadsheets etc.

The objective is to incentivise (Amazon gift card etc) your ideal customer (You must know who these are) to attend your demo to introduce them to your SaaS.

They would only get the incentive if they attended the demo and even completed a questionnaire - all verified by the meeting platform used.

We would integrate with existing booking, video meeting software etc

What do you think?
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what's your definition of irrational?...

the market doesn't know the future, it just incorporates current knowledge and opinion. Is AI a bubble right now? the vast riches afforded those who make the right call when AI is ready is justification enough for current enthusiasm, no irrationality needs to be hypothesized. And like people who lost their bet on the 49ers to win the Superbowl, there's no reason to posit irrationality if a bet doesn't pay.
If you drink ~19 litres (5 US gallons?) of water every day you will not survive long. That’s about an order of magnitude more than is recommended under normal non-strenuous conditions.
He did not make a good argument. Property taxes are the cost of the city's government; they include city infrastructure, police, and fire coverage. A poster below answered this.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40321399#40322190
I don't think the ad intend this messaging. I do think it unfortunately parallels what many advocates of AI do believe, strongly. And that's what people are reacting to.
Now even more of a fan!
Ask HN: 1 passkey per device, or store it in password manager?
I’m still figuring out how to use passkeys properly and I’m struggling a bit to find a workflow that works for me.

For now I’ve decided to use passkeys only as a 2FA mechanism for some critical account, where I can also have additional 2FA mechanism. That means I mainly use them on my Google and Apple accounts as 2FA and I also declared a Yubikey for 2FA to limit the risks of getting stuck.

For now I’ve decided to store my passkeys in Bitwarden but I’ve found the experience to be a bit clunky. Is it the correct way to do it? I’m wondering if maybe I should instead create 1 passkey per device I use and not store them in Bitwarden.

What do you think is the "correct" way to deal with passkeys?
Would love it if this supported more than web. Android, ios, etc.
Some US tech companies are showing us their real face, and during that time TikTok is the only show in town
> So if you own a house or car then it's distressing to see one destroyed in a movie?

I think there's a difference between showing items getting damaged as a depiction of some sort of chaos or violence versus lauding it as being obsoleted by technical progress.
It's cheaper until you meet with an unscrupulous (or even just lazy) landlord and you need to scramble for last minute lodgings. Have this happen once in an expensive city, and it erases a lifetime of savings from cheaper Airbnbs.

It's been my experience that Airbnbs are not really cheaper post-COVID compared to hotels.
this was posted down into the comments already but geometry has nothing to do with https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/business/renaissance-irs-...

the simons foundation will have influence on machine learning and medicine for many decades to come though and will hopefully be a force of positivity in these fields
> ...most people don't care about loud sound levels anymore.

It's probably less this and more (at least in the US) that it's very, very, very hard to find "multi-family" housing that's not soul-crushingly substandard [0], so at some point you just give up and try to do a reasonably good job of balancing "living your damn life" with "not making so much noise as to be enormously obnoxious too often".

[0] It might be true that very few USians have ever lived in a place with actually adequate acoustic insulation... so very few folks even would think to look for it.
Perplexity.ai – ask questions, get answers
Google News: You will see the northern lights tonight!

HN: CME imminent, We're all gonna die!
I want to post a separate response to this.

Yes, the lack of that changes how people participag on SO. I think it's a considerable reason why SO is the large resource that it is, with as many answers as it has. If askers could delete their questions (and thereby had the ability to make my answers un-google-able), I'm not sure I'd bother to answer, for example. Would you?
>the grid goes down for longer than a month a lot of us are dying regardless of how we prepare.

This. When trying to make provisions for even modest disruptions, you quickly realize how herculean a task it is to be truly prepared. Unless you're already a self-sustaining farmer with a well/water source and other resources or (ideally) billionare-bunker capable, you can see how prepper-ism becomes a lifestyle beyond prepping for a relatively short period.

Making a choice between living life as it currently is and being prepared to survive indefinitely is a hard fork in the road.
When we are only talking about a few samples in each group, 4 cases every few years seems fine.. I would hypothesize that many of the symptomatic cases are people who are foreign but exposed to UK endemic leprosy. Of course to establish how true that is means there are more data points to collect for cases with foreign contact and the involved lands.
This is exactly what Google has been trying to clean up. The Play Store is much cleaner and safer now than it was 10 years ago.

Unfortunately small companies and independent devs take the brunt of the downside as their ability to get timely support is almost non existent. Big companies often have a Google rep they can reach back to.
I agree. But it's at least worth noting that Google has taken steps towards blocking this as well, and it will likely be fully blocked in a future release of Android. From what I understand, it's partially to protect apps from themselves rather than the OS from apps, however. Additionally, it breaks legitimate apps like Termux, which many Android users see as a major regression. I personally think it's just another example of Apple-ish security theater, but Google has been known to copy some unfortunate things from Apple in attempt to mirror their success (see also: headphone jack, SafetyNet). Regardless, it goes to show that Android security is still evolving and the referenced 2020 article likely doesn't reflect the current state of things.
There's little evidence that this isn't simply because Apple is better at policing their store. It probably also helps that an Apple developer license costs $99/year, whereas Google Play has a one-time $25 fee. Keep in mind that the Play Store is just one of Google's many endeavors, whereas the iPhone is Apple's premier product, and as such, one of their top priorities.

Regarding dynamic native code execution, please see saagarjha's comment and my reply.

> Apple's security model

It would be more accurate to say "the iOS security model", because as beeboobaa3 mentioned, macOS fully allows apps from outside the App Store, dynamic native code execution, and most other "insecure" things that are blocked on iOS.
I don't think you can blame inch-pounds for this one- even though we rationally know it is heavier than most materials we don't "think of" water as heavy because modern society gives us the luxury of seldom having to handle more than a thirty minute or so supply of it at once.
Given Apple's standards, it's impossible to imagine them crushing a piano in real-life and having it come apart on film in just the way they wanted.
Our reliance on "the letter of the law" rather than the spirit of it, giving rise to all these little loopholes in everything, are just another thing that makes living the USA so frustrating. "See, it's not fraud! It's just evil, and we're allowed to do evil if we disclose it in 4 point text!"

I'm sure the next decade will be full of litigation to decide what counts as a "restaurant" and what counts as an "add-on fee" and every business owner is just going to try to skate on by with the status quo using technicalities and acksuallys.
Thank you. <3 I do ignore them.

There's no way to build something with an intention as big as "replace Git" that won't invite knee-jerk reactions.

I know I'm building the thing that aligns with my creative and technical vision. That's all I can do. It will succeed or it won't, and the reactions from people who are already super-comfortable with the existing technology matter less than the reactions from people who only understand the basics of Git and are afraid of it. I'm building it for them (which includes me).
And what if the aim is deliberately aimed at an enemy city?
Their success is limited by what other party ready to lose, most of the time, these all are zero sum games.
"climate activists" is not a uniform group. They've got a common goal and many conflicting opinions on the way to get there.
Me: I need to smear the Holocaust survivor because I disagree with him

Also me: I will get asked about civilians and reply with what's wrong if terrorists are killed

Again me: it's disappointing we can't keep the discussion civil

I can't be stopped: I WON THE DISCUSSION Y'ALL AND YOU LACK THE INTELLECTUAL CURIOTISY CURIOTI CURIOSITY
Love my Air...
one of his other comments did say it was a hill he was going to die on, which is "a saying", as "there's no such thing as bad PR" is a saying.
To me it is always a crazy feeling to visit some old school restaurant or bar with heavy drapes/carpets/textiles covering the flat surfaces. They have a feeling of almost being haunted/enchanted, but the exact reason isn't necessarily obvious. The sound of people talking around you takes on a peculiar quality and feels simultaneously warm and more distant than it actually is.
ercot (texas): https://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/notices

miso (midcontinent): https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/notificati...

ieso (canada/ontario): https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/RSS-Feeds/Day-0-Advi...
Days.
After the soviet union fell in Armenia there was no supply of food the first days. Also no gasoline nothing.
The first day people were normal. Second day people started stealing. Third day all birds and rats were shot for food. Luckely soon food became a normal thing again. But chaos is quickly there. I believe even quicker in rich western countries. Most men and women cant survive on their own for a week.
You're right, Linux does not buffer writes to file descriptors for which buffering has no performance benefit...
Being able to BS yourself upward is a skill in itself. Management becomes "political" up the ladder
They still make slide rules for aviation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B
I guess "large" is subjective. 1-5% is the ballpark I have in my head based on experience, which qualifies as "large" to me when I get passed by thousands of cars a day.

The hard numbers I'm aware of are about motorcycles, which have much higher rates of illegal modifications than other vehicles. This source documents a bunch of other sources, with estimates ranging from 40-70%:

https://noisefree.org/sources-of-noise/motorcycles/
I guess I still don’t know what you are asking. Mac apps will be on the Mac disk.
I wouldn't think backpacking water filters would help much in for getting water from rivers / ponds in an urban/suburban environment? They'd take care of particulate matter and microbes but I doubt they'd do much for chemical contaminants.
Microsoft's 'Air Gapped' AI
> 5 gallons is barely enough for one person to drink per day.

OK, no. If you're running a marathon, in hot weather, you're at maybe a liter per hour. Unless you plan to run 20h marathons and the sun never sets, 5 gallon is well beyond drinking needs.

And unless you're able to exert yourself at that level at all, this isn't the "worst case", this is pure fantasy.

And if you're preparing for -20C in your house, I recommend investing in insulation, not more calories stored away. (I also question 3x, the figures I've seen point to 2x, with exertion somewhat counteracting cold)
https://scaleofuniverse.com/en
We mostly use via pygraphistry, and the demo folders have a bunch of examples close to what we do in the wild: https://github.com/graphistry/pygraphistry

Ex:

```
import graphistry

graphistry.nodes(alerts_df).umap().plot()

```

That's smart library sugar for:

```

g = graphistry.nodes(alerts_df)

g2 = g.featurize(*cfg) # print('encoded', g._node_features.shape)

g3 = g2.umap() # print('similarity graph', g._nodes.shape, g._edges.shape)

url = g3.plot(render=False)

print(f'<iframe src={url}/>')

```

If automatic cpu/gpu feature engineering happens across heterogeneous dataframe columns, that's via pygraphistry's automation calls to our lower-level library cu_cat: https://github.com/graphistry/cu-cat

We've been meaning to write about cu_cat with the Nvidia RAPIDS team, it's a cool GPU fork of dirty cat. We see anywhere from 2-100X speedups on cpu -> gpu.

It already has sentence_transformers built in. Due to our work with louie.ai <> various vector DBs, we're looking at revisiting how to make it even easier to plug in outside embeddings. Would be curious if any patterns would be useful there. Prior to this thread, we weren't even thinking folks would want images built-in as we find that so context-dependent...