skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, as I mentioned, I've always been able to find someone I get along with in most jobs that I've had, and so I've managed to find friends, and I've also never had much of a problem being alone for long periods of time. I'm also married so I have a friend that's pretty much always in close proximity. NYC kicked my ass in a lot of ways when I first moved here, but not in the "lack of friends" category. My wife is similar to me in that regard; she's usually able to find one person who she gets along with, and she's also generally ok being alone.

Part of the reason we convinced her to move here was because we thought that she'd have a higher likelihood of going to college if she went to a bigger city (and the CUNY system is excellent and inexpensive). She did go to CUNY for a semester, but for reasons I won't pretend I fully understand, she decided to do online college after that, which she's still doing. I'm not sure how to talk her into some kind of extra IRL classes.

Her only friend here, as far as I can tell, is her boyfriend. Honestly I think most people can get by with just one friend, but he said he's not going to come back to our house ever again because I'm a dick. I don't really blame him for that, and they didn't break up or anything, but I think it's made her feel a lot more isolated I think.
When something improves by an order of magnitude, prior descriptors may be misleading. (wealthy people take advantage of this oversight all the time in my experience).
I did something similar with Home Assistant and LIRC with a raspberry pi

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/controlling-a-fujitsu-he...
Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUT)
>"Virtually Western democracies support death penalty besides the US and Japan"

You do not make any sense. It is all backwards.

>"(Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia)"
Russia has a moratorium since the end of 80s / beginning of 90s and does not execute people.
I keep waiting for a commerical version of motion-tracking perspective-changing 3d on TV, but nobody seems interested in this space...

Wii Sensor Bar VR For A 3D Window Like Display
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC_KKxAuLQw
Node Red.

This will do it (though it'll require some learning and trial & error, like any worthwhile automation platform, be it HA, HomeSeer, etc).

https://nodered.org

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/home-assistant-communi...

I stupidly programmed my entire garage door auto-closer in Node Red over the course of half a day, before realizing they all come with this functionality (to be fair, my fancy automation takes the motion sensor into account so it won't close while someone is actively in the space).

Node Red is great because you can fall back to writing Javascript functions once you learn how to setup and debug event workflows.
this is a really sad comment on many levels... is it bait?

we can't say "When you don't have money, the only thing you can do is follow the trail of breadcrumbs left by the system. You don't have energy for anything except survival." a lot of people have no money and exist beyond "survival." honestly your comment makes me extremely angry.

what if we consider the revolutionary (LOL) idea of constructing our existences outside the system as to not rely on money for survival, but rather helping each other in the ways we need help as a form of exchange of resources... or perhaps people who have no money and instead define themselves in other ways...
Jury also has an option to say fuck the law and proceed with nullification.
I agree with this; that's why I was careful not to use the examples you mentioned. Quoting incorrect training knowledge would be an unavoidable issue if your probe can only say "it's quoting something", and as far as I know it can't do better than that.

But I have seen issues with prompts where a creative-writing prompt and just asking a question look similar, and in that case it could help to know which one it thinks it's doing.

Gemini itself has a funny verification button where it more or less Googles every sentence the model writes and tells you if it seems like it made it up or not.
LLMs don't understand numbers but neither do people.
On a plain search, click on more, click on web, and then look at the URL you end up on, it's right there. (So, in the most limited sense of the word, "reverse engineered" but in a way that is less work than finding documentation would be if there were any :-)
Historic Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Netscape/Firefox/Thunderbird Theme Archive
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What was the moment, if you don’t mind sharing?
A quick Google gives reputable looking studies on the topic, e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02112-8
Moroccan tiles! It’s like a tiling terminal multiplexer.
I'm aware of fast RNGs, but even compared to HW floating point operations, I believe they're still more expensive than Khan summation. HW circuits maybe could do well. I see that most of the interest is around LLMs and doing quantized sums (gathering from the fact that Intel has shipped this in their accelerator), but this came up in the WiFi positioning code I was working on 10 years ago (we were using "classical" f64).
> The fact is that I think that there is not much written word, to actually train a sensible model on. A lot of books don't have OCRed scans, or a digital version.

https://books.google.com/
Here's how I archived all the theme files after grabbing the HTML pages with my usual wget-mirror alias:

[lammy@popola#moz_addons] pwd
/spinthedisc/Backups/WWW/Computers/Mozilla/Appearance/projectit.com/moz_addons

[lammy@popola#moz_addons] grep moz_addons ../*.html | \
sed -E "s/.*moz_addons\/([^\"'\\]*).*/https:\/\/projectit\.com\/moz_addons\/\1/g" | \
uniq | xargs wget
This is extremely fascinating. The sort of thoughts and sensations without consciousness she describes experiencing before language gave her consciousness - maybe this is the spark that LLMs do not have and humans do. It would be astounding if it turned out LLMs do have consciousness (as in, awareness of themselves) as it's a byproduct of language, but they don't have those embodied thoughts and feelings that Helen describes having before she had language. An entity like that has never existed before. We have conscious humans with language, and humans like Helen Keller pre-language who felt impulses, sensations, aping but not consciousness, but I don't think there has ever been a human with consciousness but without any impulse.

I wonder what we could do to marry that language ability to think about the self and others and abstract concepts and the big social web, with the sort of embodied spark & impulses that Helen describes. Would it be as simple as building a model physically embodied in a robot? Training a model on robotic sensory data from a body that it inhabits, then overwriting that training with language? I think a lot of this is navel-gazing in that it's obviously unrelated to any productive capabilities, but I do think it's worth thinking about. What if we can?
I used to spend a lot of time looking at logs from a complex state machine. I would pull up a half day of logs in less (maybe a few GB), and search for something I was interested in like an id from an error message. This could be slow (tricks were disabling line numbers and searching backwards from the end) and then answer questions of the form ‘how long from this line until the next line matching x?’ or ‘what events of type y happened after the first event of type x after this log line’ or ‘what events of type x containing y happened between these log lines’ and suchlike. This is annoying to do with less; useful tricks were learning the shortcuts, taking advantages of regexes to highlight things or advance long wrapped lines with /^ and copying interesting messages into an editor and writing notes.

ELK/grafana don’t give great solutions here. Elastic/kibana already struggles with the first part because it doesn’t make it ergonomic to separate the part of your query that is ‘finding the log file’ and the part that is ‘searching within the file’. For the rest the UI tends to be more clunky and less information-dense than less, though if your data is sufficiently structured the kibana tables help. In particular, you’re still copying notes somewhere but next before/after queries aren’t easy/quick/ergonomic to express (I think), and changing the query and waiting is pretty slow. The typical search described above would be fast because the result wouldn’t be far away, and pressing n or N brings the next result exactly where you expect it on the screen, so you don’t need to try to find it on a page.

I think sql-like queries aren’t great here either because they are verbose to write and require either very complicated self-joins/ctes trying to write queries that find rows to search between/after or copying a bunch of timestamps back and forth.

Something people sometimes talk about is ltl (linear temporal logic) for log analysis. I think it can be useful for certain kinds of analysis but is less useful for interactive exploratory log querying. I don’t know of how to do ltl queries against data in Loki or Elasticsearch.

To be clear, most of the reasons that elk/grafana don’t work for the use case I described vaguely above are problems with the frontend ui rather than fundamental issues with the backend. It may just be the kind of logs too – if your logs all look similar to logs of incoming http requests, the existing ui may work great.
That may be true but we don't know that it is true.

When I started my selling software, I priced with something.99 too. I did this because everyone else did. I was unfamiliar with these sorts of things so I followed on.

I am sure that in some business at some point, there was a big positive in switching to that sort of pricing.

When I switched my software to whole numbers, I did not notice a drop in sales. Things continued to grow. Of course, my business is one data point and a small one.

How much of why we tend to do this is because, historically or normally, that is how we've seen it done?
Don't miss the ending!
Huge fan of Zellij. I really like the discoverability it offers. Felt really intuitive to learn, and now it’s hitting a point where navigation between Zellij and Nvim is getting on par with tmux. Can’t recommend trying it enough!
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22736334 - March 2020 (45 comments)
Yeah it sucks so much that Etsy continuously buys and shuts down competitors that create new ones...
China Stages Mock Strikes on Taiwan in Day 2 of "Punishment" Exercise
Not docker specific, but there are still lots and lots of servers out there running multiple services. Especially in my home-lab! Each service runs under a service-specific user, sometimes with extra hardening applied by systemd. It's a tried-and-true method for gaining some semblance of security boundaries on a shared server without the additional administration overhead of kubernetes or similar.

A more relevant use case to industry might be a CI machine that you want to get better utilization out of. Easy, just start of multiple CI runners under different users. "Just use Kubernetes" I hear someone screaming? Well, sometimes you need CI on macOS.
This is what happens when senior leadership no longer even attempt to hide their contempt for the rank-and-file.
> You're either one of the few winners and get to live a comfortable life with a professional job, or you're off to WalMart or an Amazon warehouse, or Prison. The "kind of comfortable middle class life" is shrinking quickly. So it's not enough to just get straight A's. You need extra credit, get a 5.0 GPA, take all the "right" AP classes, have the "right" extracurriculars, and the "right" community service and so on. Otherwise you risk landing on the bad side of the career bimodal distribution.

This seems a little hyperbolic. The requirements you describe are probably true enough for top 20 universities, but they aren't true for top 100, and there still seem to be plenty of random white collar office jobs that hire people from merely medium-ranked universities.
Carter's installation was actually then the latest in a long line of interested advocates who pushed for American adoption of not a particular device or system, but solar technology as a whole; his panels were better than what came before and worse than what came after, and might have prompted enhanced development, if not for the course history took.

Reagan, on the other hand, was one in a long line of what I like to call "Powerful White Men Whose Irrational Beliefs and/or Reckless Actions Ruined Millions of Lives", alongside the likes of Hoyt Hottel, an MIT chemical engineering professor who co-founded the Combustion Institute and who was somehow allowed to head (and thwart) MIT's solar engineering research efforts. (CEO Jack Welch, welfare reformer Larry Townsend, chemist Thomas Midgley, Jr, and urban planner Robert Moses are also on that list.)

I just think your scope is unnecessarily limited, I suppose.
Switched to Zellij from tmux and never looked back! Awesome job!
Using ultrasound as a carrier isn’t going to solve any of the problems in the “historical challenges” intro:

Companies closely guarded proprietary standards, forcing complex reverse engineering or exclusive partnership deals. Integrating new peripherals like printers and scanners required low-level software development. The process of binding devices into cooperative workflows was cumbersome and fragile, usually involving ducttape.

So, you’d like everyone to use your new standard for encoding data? Also, there’s no way ultrasound is going to be reliable as RF pretty much any distance, to say nothing of environmental noise.

Like, is there a value add or is this just some marketing jargon salad?

UPDATE: reading further, this gem appears:

Ultrasound communication can have lower latency over short distances due to the speed of sound in air. For close-proximity devices, this could result in faster real-time communication compared to RF, which might experience more latency due to network congestion and signal processing delays.

Bull crap. This is so ludicrous that it makes me give credence to the folks here wondering if this is AI slop.

Oh, so, your ultrasound system will have lower latency because it won’t have network congestion like RF? Yeah right. 5 GHz WiFi already yields a lot of the same benefits (or drawbacks?) of being blocked by walls, so it works fine in high-density deployments. And, like, speed of light >>> speed of sound. This is just hilarious.
The solution is probably early exercise.

Japanese and south Koreans are canaries in the coal mine for end stage urbanization.

There really isn't free roaming and a lot of greatly reduced activity compared to rural areas.

Exercise counteracts depression, imposes a routine of physical mental social interaction with the real world under controlled circumstances.

But end stage capitalism doesn't value replacement level population growth, so associated programs for child development in urban settings are even less valued.

Being an environmentalist I always dislike capitalism economics and it's inability to value preservation even if the future of the human race, but it seems that the end state of consumerism and urbanization is demographic collapse.
I don’t know if this is true or not, but it’s clever and interesting regardless.
xterm, the term used in error to refer to the definition of a particular terminal, is used by several different implimentations going back decades and spanning many platforms.

Those implimentations not only all assert the exact same "TERM=xterm" by default, many of them even name the executable the same "xterm", yet do not all adhere to any single common standard. The SCO OSR5 xterm is different from old versions of Xfree86 xterm is differrent from the current xorg xterm etc. There is some overlap, but not nearly enough. The differences are not merely small superset/subset feature differences like 256 color support etc. They include, as I did say, totally differrent F-keys and arrows for example.

That is what "xterm is not a standard" means.

It's a word that refers to a range of different definitions that depend on context, not a single specific definition that always means the same thing in any context, and so is not a meaningful definition, or standard.
There used to be a Google page that showed you the route of an email and went as far as detailing different Google data centers and even showing the physical security guards, and I think how they would shred hard drives no longer in use, and all sorts of detail.
No, it doesn't. Regardless, without hardware support, adding together intermediate f128s would basically be the same as Kahan summation, except performing even more work to convert the representations around.
I don't really have a workflow but a nice tool is the OneTab browser extension (https://www.one-tab.com/) which will store all the tabs from the browser windows, they can be restored later, links can be moved between groups etc.

I had a go at getting chatgpt to classify them by pasting in the link/title pairs from the onetab export tool and asking it to group them into similar topics. It was promising but didn't really scale due to the limit on message size. I'm sure a tweaked/retrained AI would do a pretty good job, not sure if there's tools out there already to do this.
I don't get it. What does that mean? A state of the art processor now is just the same bucket of transistors invented in 1954. But they are incomparable in complexity and functionality.
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Old analog tv over coax used to work with the cable poorly seated. You could even disconnect the cable entirely and just point the conductor at the plug and still get a(n admittedly quite noisy) picture as long as the cable end was near enough.
> The basic EPA testing protocol gets it wrong for all EVs.

> It doesn't factor in temperature changes or driving above 60 miles per hour

Well, there's the problem, drag increases with the square of speed and temperature affects battery capacity. Maybe they tested with the AC turned off too.
Yeah I'm sure I am exactly who they had in mind.
Perhaps it feels that turning down the thermostat or skipping the dryer helps, but the vast majority of your energy use is baked in by the manufacturing and transport of everything you use and eat.

If you live far from the temperate zones, just keeping yourself alive costs a ton of energy.

The best thing you can do is making nuclear and solar an issue with your local politics and then voting for it.
Well not demonstrably as that would require you to prove a negative.

The term cult has now a negative connotation but the way I meant it was as little religion, like a carrot an a baby carrot?.

I agree on the atheist rebuttal although I honestly do not think the world is ruled by atheism regimes oppressing the poor religious minority. I have no idea what spawned the whole MAD ideology regarding nuclear weapons, it never made sense to me. It must have stemmed from an unshakeable belief that it was ther right thing to do. This blind faith in something is the problem.

All I know is when the button that dooms us all is pressed, that person will have no doubts that he is making the right choice. Whether he calls himself a christian or an atheist makes no difference.
The “fundamental purpose of invention in our society” has been for military advantage more often than not.
I am curious why. When I see the .99 style pricing I immediately round it to the closest number that makes sense to me. Also unless I am buying large quantity I do not really care whether it is $9 or $10
Gosh, this is exactly where I went when thinking about this problem too.
Sure. It was at the end of the semester, filling in surveys for the class. I volunteered to submit the names to the office. All of the sheets were in the envelope, the total number submitted written on the sheet ready to send to the office. Then one student came back in a gave their sheet in.
My two classmates left over asked me to scratch the old number and add one to it. I refused for no good reason, in the wrong from a process perspective. I didn’t change it and didn’t want to. After my classmates pushed, I still refused stating that it really didn’t matter.

I went ahead and submitted the envelope containing 23 sheets with the number 22 still written on it. I felt liberated. Like I said, unimportant, but a flip switched. It was like I learned that it was ok to make mistakes while making decisions, so I let this one by.
I used them for when I was traveling in Tokyo. I bought 2 cotton shirts, washed them then use those bathroom dryers. my 2 shirts shrink… maybe the hear was too high on them? idk… learnt my lesson
Zellij is brilliant, especially with the plugin ecosystem being wasm based, which helps a lot with managing and cataloguing plugins
Okay, but that's not really relevant. The whole issue is about the way copyrighted works are used.
ESPHome has built-in support for IR control of many aircons, and exposes itself as a "climate" entity in Home Assistant (which can in turn expose a web UI, or HomeKit, or anything else you'd want).
Insomuch as this is a problem, I also don’t think it will change materially any time soon.

A robust financial system has to be reasonably accessible to such a wide range of people and institutions with varying capabilities that even building something that caters exclusively to the technically inclined is all but impossible.

I wrote on here before about how Vanguard used to offer a FIDO2-only MFA option. You could disable SMS MFA. That eventually got removed because the mobile app never supported it, so now they’ve enforced SMS as a mandatory MFA factor. And FIDO2 has been fairly easy to implement on mobile for years before Passkeys specifically were pushed.
Isn’t that what Reddit is or digg was ? Link aggregators ?

Gaming that is solved problem , you can use human bot farms to brigade and astroturf and you can even motivate people to do it for free .

If cost of spamming is cheaper than cost of moderation, spam will win
One Page E-Shop
Too cold to hang washing out? Below freezing wet laundry starts to sublimate which when you hang it out.
I’m going to disagree unless you are in a specific area of aviation, because it severely reduces your emergency landing options.
You have to follow the links for a couple of hops.

The key article reference is "Sevigny, E. L. (January 01, 2013). “Is today’s marijuana more potent simply because it’s fresher?”. Drug Testing and Analysis, 5, 1, 62-7."
Drugs scare me even more than people; there's a history of addiction in my family so I don't really want to open that can of worms.

I'm not really miserable or anything; my wife keeps me company and she's fun to be around.
I didn't see it mentioned, but there's sometimes another factor:

When a store is selling things for .00 vs. ".99" (or any other fractional amount), I assume it's a premium-priced store. They sure aren't rounding down to those numbers.

(Or, many times when I see .00 numbers, it's slightly upscale clothing stores, who're maybe using .00 to seem more upscale, but who also have near-constant significant "sales". So if I see a .00 without a large "sale" discount, then maybe I'm there the wrong day, or someone hasn't yet been around with the price sticker gun yet that day.)

But when they're using fractional numbers, that says they're more likely targeting more pricing-sensitive buyers, and I'm also not paying for the upscale pretense.
Hmm. Isn't the temperature adjustment a feature of any dryer? Concerns about damaging clothes could be easily rectified by choosing lower temp.
This is an interesting antithesis to Descartes' cogito ergo sum: instead of the "I" reassuring itself on the thought of a thinking being, thought arises from the assurance of the "I".