skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true. I think the upfront work required is the biggest resistance we get, along with "nah, I'm just gonna let some AI understand this for me" (can't help there, they'll have to find out for themselves :-)).

We alleviate this by allowing users to add details as needed - the underlying model does not require full description of the entire system, only the parts on which the current feature depends. This reduces the upfront work required and allows adding details later, on an "as-needed" basis. But sure, some upfront work has to be done.

Another resistance I sometimes get is that "people just don't think this way" or "I don't have anyone in the team that can understand the product AND the QA side". Did you get these too?
Sounds like a good application for a neural model to sieve out the stuff you’re interested in.

(And that stuff actually existed for a long time, CRM-114 is an example but not the first, I was playing with this in the early 00s with stuff that could categorize emails with Bayesian filtering etc, not just spam vs not.)
Having an employment contract is more common over here, but that's not the same as what we'd call being a contractor.

As a full-time employee of the company you're working for (i.e. not simply contracted in), you still have an employment contract (it's a right/required) which'll lay out the employment expectations (salary, hours per week, whether you can be required to work additional hours etc).

We do also have contractors - i.e. those who work for an external company who are brought in for a specific project (or to provide easy-to-get-rid-of headcount).

In my experience, working as a contractor isn't all that much more common than in the US. But people having some form of contract is, because basically all employees have one.
The UK really needs to ditch the high street. It's just such terrible town planning, that the intended "social hub of the community" is a main road filled with through traffic and parking spaces.

That's just not an environment where anyone wants to spend their time, and the decline is so painful to see. So many now are just betting shops, letting agents and kebab takeaways - but if these were pedestrian zones these could be so much more. See large European cafes with people eating and drinking outside on the street until late.
Highly superior autobiographical memory: Meet the woman who cannot forget
Really? I wouldn't. I'd consider it a generous gift from beyond the grave, and use it to help my own family.
I love piku. I wrote a webapp tutorial for piku which got turned into a repo as part of the official GitHub piku org. You can find that here:

https://github.com/piku/webapp-tutorial?tab=readme-ov-file#b...

It explains how piku works under the hood, as well as showing a minimalistic Python web app example from a user standpoint.
I think something changed culturally as well. When my parents grew up any moderately educated person was expected to speak different several different languages.

Very few in my generation speak three languages, even in my rather international field. Yet my older colleagues speak french, German and Spanish like it is nothing. And my international colleagues often speak 4+ languages.

I am fine with English being a de facto Lingua Franca, but I can't help feeling something has been lost.
Bird Aren't Real: What one man learned when he made up a conspiracy theory
Show HN: Text ChatGPT in the UK
I have setup a service where you can text chatgpt from the UK if you want to use it and live in an area with no or poor internet service. Email me at info@gpt-it.co.uk with any suggestions or feedback
One doesn't neccesarily contradict the other at all.

Some might argue that high consumption patterns along with high emissions and high resource demands all add up to a high debt which is exceeding planetary recovery boundaries.

Some in fact do make that argument.
https://archive.today/oMttj

https://archive.ph/oMttj
> Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory which posits that birds are actually drones operated by the United States government to spy on American citizens.[2][3][4][5] In 2018, journalist Rachel Roberts described Birds Aren't Real as "a joke that thousands of people are in on."[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real
HTTrack is another option: https://www.httrack.com/
> Newsblur allows you to have precisely those type of keyword filters.

Indeed, many RSS readers do.

See also Hacker News RSS: https://hnrss.github.io
The difference is one required an annual update whereas the retirement fund didn’t require an update at all so easy to over look.
Another weird effect was that my ejaculation and orgasm were seconds apart. Don’t remember which came first (pun). Hated that drug.
The model is interesting. The generated video is like Sora. Waiting for the public version.
Not the same error. It seems like the arm64 dmg is indeed broken/corrupted. The amd64 build works (with Rosetta) - after bypassing the security warning.
Not sure if it's fair to call binary multiplication "multiplication free", you can express any multiplication as a sequence of additions/subtractions.
Sure. And people 50 years ago were seeing history through the looking glass of their values 50 years ago. And whoever contemporary is writing about those events is biased by his own social class, economic interests, emotionality, gender, age and what not. Just like people today actually have quite diverse opinions, even if they live within one society.

The root of the "presentism" complaint is just weak attempt to prevent actual engagement with history whereas you try to look at situation from more then one point of view.
China drives on the right ;)
You don't have to go further than Norway to be allowed to park on both sides of the street (unless indicated otherwise by signs) as well as park in both directions.

I believe many Norwegians have received parking tickets when visiting Sweden because if this difference. I wasn't aware of this myself until recently.
This would make a great "fidget" app
The first time I took sildenafil I had a bad headache and nausea, the next couple of times I didn't suffer from nausea and the headache wasn't as severe. I don't suffer from any side effects now other than my nose getting a bit stuffy every now and then, so in that sense I developed a tolerance to the medication's side effects. The boner effects still work just as reliably as day one, no tolerance development for me there.
The "standard of living" is not related in any way to the "carrying capacity of the planet".

The former is a metric of how comfortable your life is; the latter is a complex metric of energy production and surplus, food per acre and inputs, etc. and how sustainable it is (which, at the moment, it isn't).

But we're running at about 200 species extinctions per day. Every animal on the earth has detectable levels of PFAS. You have microplastics in your body and DDT in your adipose tissue. We all do. We're cooking the atmosphere and boiling the seas.

But yeah, enjoy your standard of living.
It also depends on your political beliefs about inheritance and merit.

I don’t think anyone "deserve" to inherit. It’s just money you never worked to get and that you get because your parents had extra money.

So, morally, why would the brothers deserve more the money than the ex girlfriend ? Maybe they were still in good terms. Maybe she brought more joy in his life than his brothers. Maybe not but enough for her to get her share. Or just maybe he didn’t care enough about this and should be considered ok with the outcome.

You don’t deserve 1 more million on your bank account because you happened the brother of someone. Yes it may happen eventually but that’s just luck.

And I’m not taking side for anyone here. I can totally understand why the brothers would be upset and I would probably be if I were in their shoes. But at the same time, as someone who doesn’t count on his brother’s death to become rich, I’ll have a hard time being empathetic.

They should at least be upset about the carelessness of your brother rather than the ex girlfriend.

tl:dr; You are allowed to think that doing the right thing is not to give the money back because it was never meant to be theirs.
There are many high streets in London that show removing cars, or expanding pavements, improves the high street. I would rather see more effort made to divert cars another way rather than close the high street. Too often that means making a privately owned public space as the prime spot.
> In respect for the dead person, we absolutely have to carry out their will.

We trust judges when they decide to send people to prison for decades, so I don't see why we shouldn't trust them if they decide that this will is probably a mistake.
The reason why cars get thrown away in Europe is not because some mechanical problems, but because problems related to old age of whole device such as

* Rust. It will eat your car. Especially if you are salting roads. At some point you won't pass mandatory technical inspection and it is over for the car. Sell it scrap yard.

* PVC degradation. Insulation on cables is slowly degrading (if on source of UV light, then the process is very fast) and eventually naked cores of cables will show up, which will cause intermittent short circuits which can manifest in weird behavior of the car in specific conditions to outright fire.

So no, it can't last forever unless you want to invest in it huge amount of money every now and then.
Synthetic Testing: The Art of Faux Testing
Consider a case where every non trivial refactor ends up in several rabbit holes, requiring lengthy meetings with lots of people to discuss, and many disagreements about direction. And in light of that the trivial refactors start to feel like you’re taking a bucketful out of a tsunami.

What ends up happening is it’s much more impactful for the team to just focus on shipping what they can, partly because they don’t have the tools/procedures/experience (anymore) for dealing with tech debt in this context
The problem with Vulkan and the similar APIs is that the authors of the specification attempted to make an industry standard that would be easier to implement by the GPU manufacturers, but at the same time it would still be quite high level and abstract so that the end users could use it without care of how the devices work in too much detail.

The issue here is that if the users chose Vulkan, they probably do care about these details, but the API makes it totally obscure for them if they don't have prior experience with the GPU architectures.

At the same time the API is too low level for other users who want to just start drawing polygons on the screen here and now like they did with OpenGL.
First, let's be fair, Germany really is an awful example if you're going to then try to apply it to the rest of Europe.

> It’s impossible to fire an employee for performance reason after the probation period in Germany.

This is untrue.

It's true that Kündigungsschutzgesetz does set a really high bar.

You can get rid of them if they aren't delivering on assigned tasks, but you need to show that they are able (and are therefore simply unwilling). There's also the possibility of doing it if there are personal reasons (i.e. something in their life has impacted their suitability for the role) but that's more complex.

That's why you see people get assigned easier tasks - they're being given tasks that are so noddy that anyone could do them (a failure to do so showing that they're not really trying).

But it's hard. The level they have to achieve is really low - something like 65% of a "normal" employee.

But Germany is just one country in Europe. Have a look at France, Italy, Belgium or even the UK - it's *nothing* like the level of stringency that Germany applies.
XSreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy
It may not be a solved problem entirely, but there is so much battery storage in interconnection queues right now across the US that here, at least, the bottleneck is regulatory and interconnection cost, not the cost of battery storage itself.

See, e.g.: https://emp.lbl.gov/queues
Half the time it amounts of defending past equivalents if Heydrich Himmler, arguing they were big leaders who achieved great territorial expansion and well matching ideological opinions of his peers. While radically rejecting anything a Jew, socialist, French, Czech, German who did not voted nazi, homosexual thought at the time.
Or just added redundancy for radiation resistance. There was less oxygen and subsequently less ozone when ferns first evolved, so there would be far more UV light to protect against.
> Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of output power

These are before the "lead free" introduction.
I wonder what is the useful life of a today's built solar module.
Show HN: HandyDash. A Simple Tree View Monitoring Tool
Author here, happy to answer questions about the tool. I've shared my motivations for writing the tool on the ReadMe page in GitHub, and I'll elaborate on this with a blog article in the coming week or two. Some background on the tool:

HandyDash is a cross-platform HTTP, TCP, and IP monitoring tool, intended for desktop use. It is agent free, requires no installation, and saves all configuration to a single portable file. Simply unzip the package and run the executable, and within a few minutes you can view and edit nodes within the browser based UI.

Thanks.
Certainly.

But the lower the stakes, the easier it is to show integrity. Doing the right thing at no cost is easy.

Integrity isn’t just about doing the right thing when no-one is looking.

It’s doing right thing, even when no-one is looking, no matter what it costs you.
> I’ll ask again, since you must have missed this question: is a deaf person, all else equal, more likely or less likely to survive and procreate relative to a hearing person?

You know the answer: it can be both ways depending on circumstances.

* In the prehistoric world I think he was less likely to survive. The difference doesn't seem to be dramatic though since these genes were not eradicated from the population.

* In the modern world the difference is close to zero with an unknown sign. Given that in developed countries probability to procreate seem to be limited by a desire to procreate, I can't rule out that e.g. deaf people for some reason have 0.1% more desire to have kids, or any other side-effect. So answer to your question is unknown, requires a study to figure this out.

* In the future hearing can be an advantage or a disadvantage depending on how the circumstances evolve. We see that species gain and loose senses depending on the environment.

EDIT: I would also like to clarify this part:

> Hereditary autoimmune diseases are not a sense, and are irrelevant to this discussion about whether hearing is an objective advantage or not.

It's a human trait which was "obviously good" in the past and is "obviously bad" now. Hence I don't trust statements that other human traits like deafness are obviously good or bad. It's interesting to discuss but it's not granted.
Norway. It might be more common than I anticipate, just weird that we've been parking in Sweden for decades not knowing this and never having received a ticket. I guess it has helped that it until a few years ago was quite hard to enforce tickets on foreign cars, so maybe they just skipped us and thus we never learned our lesson.
It seems like you are addicted to social media. Using RSS will cure you from it. Trust me.
Mozilla does all sorts of problematic things all the time, but none of them have been as ethically terrible as this. I hope this is a temporary misunderstanding.
Three questions immediately come to mind:

1. Is this more cost-effective than just writing-off the lost inventory? At least in TJ Maxx's case, is it really that high?

2. What good is the footage? I doubt police are going to investigate petty theft.

3. Doesn't this make the staff a target of violence?
Yup, exactly. The TOS is weasel-worded to pretty much allow any/all machine learning access, they just give an example (functions or buttons in Photoshop, I believe) to seemingly misdirect and say exactly what you've said.
Would you care to articulate what's bothering you? I'm afraid I have been unable to discern anything that would be specific to science, even when taking into account the article on the difference between necessity and sufficiency that you linked to.
Public trustee. That’s how it works with other assets, like apartment buildings with people living in them. Often public trustees will outsource the management & disposal of these assets. Hopefully for the people depending on the assets, “disposal” means “sale to a new owner.”
One big plus of RSS: sometimes posts are removed silently and the act of removing is telling a lot about the publisher just by reading the subject. I still see at least the subject.

On HN which I primarily consume by RSS I sometimes read posts which are flagged. In my years on HN I once vouched for a flagged post because I found that the post has a lot of merit.

If I had read by the front page I never would have seen these posts.
Spanish government to raise minimum age for social media accounts from 14 to 16
The main high street in my town is fully pedestrianised (although fully concrete too) and attracts a lot of foot traffic.
The second in line is pretty much buses / taxis only and is also quite popular.

The key point is removing car traffic.
grab-site or HTTrack are a better option for the modern documentation websites most will probably try to download.

The wget suggestions advanced here or in the blog will only work for the most basic of the static sites, and will quickly fail for sites like for example Juniper, Cisco, AWS or Azure documentation.
I wish coffee shops would start letting wi-fi users have ipv6 addresses. What is holding up the captive portal vendors from allowing ipv6?
We save in stability: p.v. and co vary it's output far quicker than classic big power plant, this means that on grid we have more and more frequency stability issues. To compensate we need a smart grid witch is an IT nightmare and in any case it's not there.

At home, in self consumption, we are in a small smart-grid. So we can do our best to shift loads on p.v. using the grid let's say "for the base load", as a result individually we spend less and have (in case of batteries) backups, at grid scale peak demand is less intense and happen less.

That's the "issue" with p.v.: utilities do not want semi-autonomous homes, they do want to own, leaving others with nothing but subscriptions, paid services, this is incompatible with current state of tech while the current state of tech is perfectly compatible with small scale self-consumption.

Now try to imaging a hypothetical society where people living in reasonably sunny part of earth have p.v. and batteries. On scale it's probably not doable today, but we can definitively start. We still need a grid or some other backup, but we do not need an UPGRADED grid in capacity terms because most of the loads, the biggest one at least, happen locally. Surely without seasonal storage being autonomous it's a myth, but technically we can pass most day-to-day needs in largest slice of the Earth who happen to be the most inhabited as well. This means we can converge to electricity as main energy without consuming much more than today from the grid.
Go caching library with advanced concurrency features
I wish I had more than one upvote to give you for this post.

> I’ve asked myself this question recently.

I suspect both are true. There are real complexities that have grown around you and working in the same way on the same stuff for so long has caused you to habituate to a few inefficiencies. I suggest shaking up your world view a little and seeing what falls out. There are probably a few big gains you could make.

Good luck!
For now, I hope you get your access back soon, and everything comes back online.

For the future, here is something I learned, and I would suggest trying to decouple the services as much as possible. This is a much simpler version for a few-member teams, no round-robin, no nada -- just plain compartmentalization.

- Have a separate Domain registrar. Whichever you are comfortable and happy with.

- Then, host the DNS elsewhere. Again, whichever you choose - Cloudflare is pretty rock solid these days.

- For other critical infrastructure, such as emails, which your business depends on, host it elsewhere. Google Workspace is still one of the best unless you really hate Google. Of course, alternatives exists but Google works when others gets involved (team, customers, etc).

- Hosting your actual website (the marketing/landing pages) - foobar.com - host it with another reputable host. If this goes, make way to move within hours, if not minutes, if you need to.

- Your app, I'd also suggest decoupling it from the main marketing/landing website - app.foobar.com. Host this with another reputable host with a backup plan.
Research shows hardcore music helps plants grow
This. IMHO, Mac for personal computers and Linux for anything server-related gives the best of two worlds.
Debt Ate Chicago
Interview with Ton Roosendaal, the man behind Blender (2018) [video]
I have experience with both, this is not the case.
Currently it will only kill running processes after it finishes deploying the new git push. Socket and session handling will vary depending on your code and whether you use uwsgi or run your own HTTP daemon.

One thing it already does (optionally) is to kill off unused instances and idle, lazily starting them when a new connection comes in.
I don't understand this stretch logic. It absolutely depends on the type of problem where they are inaccurate, how well trained they are in it, there is no way you can extrapolate like this.

You can ask them to do math equation which takes steps and if they are trained in that for certain problems they are accurate near 100 percent of the time.

Like ask gpt-4o to solve different variations of

"""What is the answer to 2x + 7 = 31?"""

If the numbers are of similar magnitude and simplicity, it will follow the same steps and be right 99%+ times, and I'm only not saying 100%, because I haven't tried it enough, but I don't see it being wrong.

For example """What is the answer to 2x + 4 = -6?"""

Just run a test yourself. Do random integers within 0 - 20, it will definitely not be incorrect 5% - 10% time. It will be correct 99%+ time.

Where is this number 5% - 10% even coming from? You could also keep asking it "What is the capital of France?" and it's going to be right 99%+ of the time.
I recommend the pharmaceutical industry.

When the study for which you're producing software is only going to conclude in the next 18 months or so, you get to allocate some time for fixes.

The downside is that it attracts people who want to take advantage of this to slack off or just aren't that good at software engineering in general.

I'm currently in the process of clearing tech debt that ultimately lead to hard to resolve bugs and, ahem, staff rotation.

I can spend days on this so long as I report progress on a daily basis.
RenderPasses can give some perf gain on mobile tiler hardware, but they don't really help on desktop hardware.

A lot of content is ported from other APIs, and retrofitting render passes to an existing engine is not easy.

I'm hoping that accessing tile memory from compute shaders (like Metal's tile shaders) comes to Vulkan soon. That, together with the new pipeline barriers, will give all the benefits of render passes on mobile, but gets rid of the verbose up front setup of RenderPass.