skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn’t read any more once I got to:

“Chipotle, an $87B company that makes food that you can easily make in your house“

I’ve made carnitas; it takes about six hours.
Thank you for your work. It is appreciated :)
Because it would almost guarantee jail time for her and many many others from directors, to project managers they deserve to be asset stripped and jail sentences. Fraud. Mismanagement of public funds. Misappropriation. Perjury. Take your pick.
Realistically most people just don't have the resources for this sort of thing. It's not necessarily a matter of want but a limitation of needs. Assuming one has a family that could cover, they would still have a job with responsibilities. Not everyone can afford to risk termination or go without a paycheck for a week even if it's the most intelligent option.
Nearby TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet may have a rich atmosphere after all
Yep, a Telegram bot to "track it all": https://t.me/geektrackbot
What feels like a self-inflicted issue though is that the switches are fail-open, not fail-closed.

To allow for swappable bezels, the switches (on the plastic bezel) in fact just introduce obstructions in optocouplers (on the camera board screwed to the metal lid), which—I don’t know what they do due to Framework’s refusal to release the schematics, but I guess just cut the power line of the camera resp. the signal of the microphone using a couple of MOSFETs.

The problem is, the camera and the microphone are live if the obstruction is absent and disconnected if it’s present, not the other way around. So all it takes a hypothetical evil maid to make the switches ineffective is to pick up the edge of the bezel with a nail (it’s not glued down, this being a Framework) and snip two teensy bits of plastic off to make the switches nonfunctional while feeling normal. This is not completely invisible, mind you—the camera light will still function, you’ll still see the camera in the device list if you look—and probably not very important. But I can’t help feeling that doing it the other way around would be better.

I vaguely remember another vendor (HP?) selling laptops with a physical camera switch, but given the distance between the switch (on the side near the ports) and the camera (on the top of the display), I’m less than hopeful about it being a hardware one.
Scientists are mapping Earth's rivers from Space
That's the case in many common/similar agreements, but the OpenAI agreement is different because it's specifically clawing back already vested equity. In this case, I think the consideration would be the company allowing transfer of the shares / allowing participation in buyback events. Otherwise until the company goes public there's no way for the employees to cash out without consent of the company.
Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid
If you don't understand the format yourself how can you ever trust that GPT is actually giving you an accurate result?

The problem with using an ML model to parse stuff you don't understand is that you then have no way to verify the accuracy

If there are no stakes to the results then that's fine to trust blindly but if this is something you need for your job, that's risky and franky stupid to trust to ML
I think the challenge is finding these rare, valuable places in a sea of noise. Gone are the days that you'd stumble on them, with Google et al keeping you blasting down freeways with no chance of turning into a quiet cul-de-sac where you might see the perfect home for sale, or at least rent it for a while. I still find value and joy on the internet, but it's much rarer and typically the hold-overs from a previous era, or tenuous things like following a handful of YTers while ad blocking still works.
Not a US right expert. Isn’t the “you can’t criticize ever the company or you’ll lose the vested equity” a violation of the first amendment?
Don't forget the farms that feed humans and their farm animals.
Anything to cut down on the amount of moving parts required to operate postgres is a huge win in my books. Good job.
It's not safety-critical for a plane, in the sense that if a plane's GPS fails it can still get by safely.

It's safety-critical for aviation, because if all GPS fails, then the additional workload across the system means that a crash is likely.
Yeah, that's just the nature of work right now. Get close enough to see how the sausage is being made, and someone will freak out and pin it on you as a means to cover their ass. I wouldn't be surprised if she made the fatal mistake of voicing concern.
Hoping for relief by the end of El Niño could be short lived. The latest La Niña years were among the hottest years of this century.

And regardless on which stage of both we are now, positive feedback loops change baselines, every push forward reinforces their action to a new level, like less floating ice means more (dark) water exposed to sunlight and higher heating speed, and less ice formed in the next colder season, or that with hotter climate more permafrost thawed, and more greenhouse got released by that natural process over really vast areas.

And it is not easy to fix something without affecting a lot more in a complex system, like is the global climate one (or the one that includes it, with human systems, ecosystems and so on). You push a simple change without considering the whole of it and it might or not change the single metric you want to change, but it probably will affect many others, that may take time to be noticed or us being aware of how important they are. And as we are coming from (and depend on) an stable system, any big enough push will move the system further away from that stability.
They are referring to Elon Musk.
In addition to that the hypothesis asserts that a local minimum is likely not good enough. This is different from a few years ago when most thought that the solution space was full of local minima so parameter initialization wouldn't matter that much. But that is perhaps because the threshold for acceptable performance is higher so luck is more important.
Which books are in background?
> no inclimate weather

Last time I was in Dubai the outside temperature was 41C. Wind “chill” took that up to 49C.
Okay but if you kept all that mass inside of Earth's orbit then you would not change the center of gravity, and Earth's orbit wouldn't change.
If he really did it in a week, why hasn't anything come out of his AGI startup yet, two years later? Maybe it wasn't as easy as he seemed to imply, despite his towering intellect.

Anyone can read an absurd amount of text in a week. To absorb and understand it all is a different matter entirely.

Seems more likely to me that Carmack simply convinced himself he'd understood it all. He does seem to think very highly of himself.
I think AI would be a better to use for explaining code. I’d use that instead, of creating code.
iOS 17.5 deleted photos reappearing bug alleged to extend to wiped devices
The analyses leading to the loss estimates I mentioned were done in 2010, shortly before the Shuttle's retirement, due to recognition of the previously poor risk analyses. As is clear from the issues seen with Starliner, this normalization of deviance has been significantly reduced, in that it doesn't seem to affect the newer style of contracting. Both Dragon and Starliner have had to scrub launches and make fixes for things that would be considered to not be a big deal if they weren't carrying humans, and are expected to review and justify any deviation from expectations even if it was fine previously.

We're seeing plenty of normalization of deviance with SLS and Orion though. There were the issues with various backup systems and IIRC no life support in Artemis 1, with issues with the heat shield only recently being made public, yet Artemis 2 is intended to carry a crew. So I would not be surprised if Congress only finally gives up on that waste when they cause another crew to be killed and can blame NASA instead of themselves.
> I'd want to be able to define a model like "I think the fair value of a company is its net current assets plus its last 5 years of earnings", and have the tool email me whenever I can buy shares in any company substantially below that price, or sell them substantially above.

Be careful with investing using a model like this: you're basing the value of the company entirely on its historical performance and not at all looking at what its future may look like. It's a great way to end up in value traps.

Exaggerated example, you see Intel's stock price has taken a huge dive that puts it under your limit so you buy a bunch of the stock. But it turns out the reason Intel is now cheap is because ARM, AMD and NVidia have eaten its lunch, and its future looks incredibly shaky.

Likewise, selling stocks that are substantially above some past valuation is also a good way to exit from positions that are likely to continue to outperform. Stocks get "re-rated" by the market when their future prospects have improved. That's not a great time to exit the stock - if anything it's a time to buy more.

YMMV, value investing is still successful of course, but you do need to look forwards not backwards.
Which books are in the background, I can't read their titles because picture is blurred too much?? Help please !!! :)
Downvoted you because the top comment in the link straight up goes against your comment. I hope you’re not spreading FUD on purpose.
I agree. We travel for work and disappear for a week. I've disappeared for 4-5 days to party with friends and my wife and kids have been fine with it. Obviously the work travel I don't control much. The party part - I'd be getting some serious conversations if it was happening every month. However, if it was to improve my career prospects I don't think anyone will hit much resistance. I mean provided you use the time well and don't get into a space of watching youtube clips of Dune 2.
Vitess

Planetscale

Lack of simple HA in Citus is a big pain point.
"Two experts were set to support McBride’s case, but commonwealth lawyers sought to have their testimony quashed under public interest immunity laws. The laws suppress information that would prejudice the public interest if they were made public. "

I have a hard time understanding why they couldn't do a closed court hearing, is that not an option in Australia?

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/27/david-mcbride-af...
> It basically requires an act of congress or the President to change it once done.

Isn't the mere passage of time also a remover of classification? Like isn't there a default time from the creation date?

Or it must be positively declassified by an action?
I often look previous years posts when there is nothing I can find interesting for the day on HN.

Go back few years already and most links are dead.
They aren’t win-wins

It’s a ruse - it’s a con - it’s an accounting trick. It’s the foundation of capitalism

If I start a bowling pin production company and own 100% of it, then whatever pins I sell all of the results go to me

Now let say I want to expand my thing (that’s its own moral dilemma we won’t get into), so I promise a person with more money than they need to support their own life, to give me money in exchange for some of the future revenue produced, let’s say 10%

So now you have two people requiring payment - a producer and an “investor” so you’re already in the hole and now it’s 90% and 10%

You use that money to hire people to work in your potemkin dictatorship, with demands on proceeds now on some timeline (note conversion date, next board meeting etc)

So now you hire 10 people, how much of the company do they own? Well that’s totally up to whatever the two owners want including 0%

But let’s say it’s a typical venture deal, so 10% option pool for employees (and don’t forget the 4 year vest, cause we can’t have them mobile can we) which you fill up.

At the end of the four years you now have:

1 80% owner
1 10% owner
10 1% owners

Did the 2 people create 90% of the value of the company?

Only in capitalist math does that hold and in fact the only math capitalists do is the following:

“Well they were free to sign or not sign the contract”

Ignoring the reality of the world based on a worldview of greed that dominated the world to such an extent that it was considered “normal”

Luckily we’re starting to see the tide change
Gio isn't made by Google
It's true, the flexibility can be both a boon and a curse. There should be a little more "best practices" info out there that's not too prescriptive. It doesn't help that a lot of pre-made roles on Ansible Galaxy vary widely in style and quality. Certainly no one wants to inherit Ansible code that's nothing but shell and command modules, but sometimes those are crucial gap fillers when an idempotent module isn't available for the task or is missing needed functionality. And even then, specialized (as opposed to general use) modules are only idempotent within themselves and you still sometimes need to check and pass the state of things between tasks and stick that in a registered variable combined with conditionals if the multiple tasks are dependent on each other or require a specific ordering.

I think a good generalized "best practice" is to keep those inter-task dependencies and conditionals to a minimum though. Small chunks or no chunks at all. It's always better to find a way to just run tasks independently with no knowledge of each other. The block module with "rescue" is useful for failing out a host gracefully if there's a bundle of finicky inter-dependent tasks that just have to run together though.
Climate is the premier example of a non-linear chaotic system, as evoked with the butterfly effect and unreliability of weather forecasts more than a week out. Making predictions of the far future state of chaotic systems is obviously going to have wide error bars. In just the past couple thousand years there has been significant climate change with little ice ages and warm periods. Notably, the colder climates have generally been far more destructive to civilization than the warm periods.

A sober approach would weigh the pros and cons of climate change and cost benefit analyses of the various mitigation strategies. Climate alarmists advocate degrowth in the extreme, or spending many trillions on intermittent energy sources and impractical energy storage systems. This would obviously reduce human well-being as energy consumption per capita is tightly correlated with standards of living. The costs of climate change are still unknown, and it could very well be the case that higher CO2 levels do not increase global temperatures to catastrophic levels, as evident with life thriving during the Carboniferous Era. Increasing CO2 levels would also be beneficial due to the CO2 fertilization effect, effectively greening the Earth, while also increasing agricultural yields as observed in greenhouses. And if temperatures rise too much then stratospheric aerosol injection is always an option. Calcium carbonate could be a good alternative to sulfur dioxide since it doesn't react with ozone, and cooling the Earth is estimated to cost only a few billion a year.

Obviously energy independence and ecological preservation should still be pursued for their own sake. Yet we should be careful of succumbing to hysteria and malinvestment.
Pretty sure you're still supposed to be testing - it's not 100% effective.
Video game reviewer Tim Rogers has some unpleasant memory condition where he remembers dates, numbers, etc. perfectly but also compulsively recalls old memories all day.

It's not quite like this, he said it's not a photographic memory, but it seems interesting. I read a story where he said he knew exactly how many cinnamon buns he'd ever eaten. I thought it was perhaps fiction, but there was a photo at the end implying it was real.

I think he explains it in his review of the PS1 game "Boku no natsuyasumi"
To be fair, who else could have gone toe-to-toe with the telecom incumbents? Jobs almost didn't succeed at that.
I was meaning that tongue-in-cheek (like, I assume, the GP too) and you're right of course.

In fact there were a series of short but unusually intense cold snaps in recent years in both the EU and US, which I think can also be traced back to climate change relatively easily: Global warming changes the way the polar jetstreams (aka polar vortices(?)) move, so the one in the northern hemisphere will more often stay to the south of populated areas and expose them to polar air and unusually cold weather.

Then there is the other effect that warmer air captures more moisture and so warming can paradoxically lead to more draughts and more rainstorms.
>You didn’t have any of that 30 years ago.

Java ?
> That being said, I am now finally at the stage where I can go on a day trip to Amsterdam and the locals don't speak English back to me when I speak Dutch. :)

That's seriously impressive. Dutch is my mother tongue and they still respond to me in English! (Although I speak a slightly different dialect, Flemish, from Belgium.)
Did he say that? It’s not in the original interview: https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-diffe...
Thank you, that's kind of you to say. It's been a journey! :)
It seems very off to me that they don't give you the NDA before you sign the employment contract, and instead give it to you at the time of termination when you can simply refuse to sign it.

It seems that standard practice would dictate that you sign an NDA before even signing the employment contract.
Interesting, could you share some? I just read the New Yorker article in detail, and it did seem like a lot of circumstantial evidence and nothing direct. It reads eerily like a misunderstanding of statistics and an old guy (the main pediatrics expert) making up conjectures and presenting them as evidence.

But then I don't know much about the case so I can't be sure. Would be great to hear the counterpoints.
The startup world values transgression of the rules.
You can export the flutter build as HTML, but the point with flutter is not to be a ”website”, it’s supposed to be seen as a ”web-app”.

If you are going to create simple static homepage or interactive website, I don’t think Flutter is the right tool. Full fledged cross-platform applications is what Flutter is meant for.
Absolutely agree with you.

> they know you can do nothing about it

And if you try, you become an enemy of the state. A terrorist.
Nice!
That happens to match the range on my very ordinary F150 pickup truck with an extended 'contractor' gas tank (40 gallons).
Banks and trading houses are kind of the exception in that regard. I pay my bank monthly for my mortgage, and thus I live in a house that the bank could repossess if they so choose.
However Linux has a non-negligible share among platforms that developers use (as a daily driver). To me, as a Go developer, this library is dead on arrival. It would take extraordinary circumstances to consider it for an app (even in business setting).
Does warm climate not have a pretty significant impact on battery life (as in: total lifespan) also?

I’d definitely call 38-39 “inclement”!
It was very usable with custom lists up until recently. Their help pages still reference the ability to browse updates from custom friend lists (at least when I checked a couple of weeks ago) but the actual feature has been dead for a while now. Guess they didn't like that people were able minimize pointless engagement and doomscrolling.
Well, that's one definition but I think most people are thinking of general intelligence like humans have rather than godlike. That is more doable.
I've actually been watching this project develop over on /r/selfhosted over the last year at least. The author has put a lot of work into it, and it's definitely worth giving a shot for a homelab/self-hosted project.
>Man who’s the second richest, led companies that made electric cars and reusable rockets

>> Random HN commentator : utterly incompetent

I want what you’re smoking
Ideas are easy. You don't need to think of a new idea (in fact, I highly suggest not doing that). Instead, pick an idea that has been done to death and do it again.

Make a cronjob monitoring service. Make a "privacy focused analytics" platform. Make a session replay service. Make a "javascript error collection" service. Make a user feedback widget as a service.

It doesn't matter what you make. Pick something that has been done before and do it on your own.

If you are hell bent on live streaming-- live streaming that would be far more interesting than watching someone rebuild react.
Here are the numbers:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/09/what-the-...

9 in 10 democrats want this addressed, yet when the democrats have control, very little happens.

Depending on the question, a majority of republicans do too.

Over 66% of the US population wants more action, and 75% say we should be more involved in international initiatives to combat climate change.
Also, does anyone have anything I missed? I know some people were suggesting not letting google index everything by updating your robot.txt file.
> half of what you've mentioned would be local data

Not by volume. Posts and comments make up the vast majority of the storage requirements, and none of that can be purely client-side.

> There is no central concept of "content that have favourited" or "users they are following"

I'm aware, I used Usenet quite a bit in the 90s, as well as dial-up BBSs.

Usenet is a distributed forum / discussion board, which is related but not equivalent to the core functionality of social media applications being discussed here.

With Usenet's model, there's no concept of a profile aggregating content from a single user. This means you simply cannot replicate the primary experience of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, DeviantArt, MySpace, Friendster, or any other social media site/app with Usenet's approach. Nor can it reproduce the experience of even modern forums like HN or Reddit.

Usenet also didn't actually scale massively. Every estimate I've seen of the peak Usenet userbase puts it at a tiny fraction of modern social media.

In any case, Usenet essentially failed. We already have empirical evidence about how these ideas play out! Why are we even seriously discussing this?
It is helpful as a starting point when I’m switching to a different language I don’t use much. Saves me a lot of googling of how do I do x and y in python. I like a “editing” workflow when I’m not super comfortable with the stack yet - I get that blank page syndrome where I don’t know where to statt. But so far they are not up to snuff for understanding my day to day work or the style of our codebase so I don’t use it for that
How is it serious if money is the motor of freedom of speech? The suing culture in the US ensures freedom of speech up until you bother someone with money.
Incorrect sir. I am way more concerned about my wife and kids as end users than i am about any employees
That's probably because the company closed after hiring them
Tech execs are lobbying to dissolve NLRB now btw

They have a lot of supporters here (workers supporting their rulers interests)
> and most distros have poor ZFS support.

This is the complete opposite of my experience. For most "server" style distros (IE not arch/arch derivatives) you just install the zfs modules and forget about it. Ubuntu even has them pre baked on their kernel.

Arch gets complicated because it's a rolling release so the zfs module supported kernel versions gets out of sync with the latest kernel version which can prevent system updates due to irresolvable requirements which can go on for days/weeks as they play catch-up with eachother but you can just install the lts kernel and mostly avoid that issue.

For (mostly) every other distro they are a lot more coordinated in their releases so the zfs module will work with the newer kernel without any issues.

Other than that I can't think of what poor support even means, once it's installed it works. You can even have zfs on root for most distros.
It sounded to me like an interpreter that emulates the GameCube / Wii GPU inside a shader, but I didn't read it closely