skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see something like this work! At the same time, I used a tag-based system to track services before, it worked at some level for resource tracking, and identifying machines running that nobody knew what they are for. I am also interested in the exact use-case you would like to solve and what size of infrastructure / company you are aiming for.

A couple of questions:

- Tag-based diagram creation: what information would you put into a tag and how are tags managed (manually? automatically assigned in some way?)

- Resource tracking: what is a resource? are they machines / nodes? or do you plan to track database/cache/queues/etc? How do you define waste? We used the simple definition that a machine with no tag, though that is relatively simple and useful at the beginning when you are mapping out the infra you do not know, but might not be great on an ongoing basis.

- High-level overview: how do you know if serviceA is interacting with serviceB? Many cases it would also be great to know if services are interacting with 3rd parties and that is also a big part of the infrastructure. Knowing that serviceA and serviceB is interacting is only the first step, though knowing why they are interacting (is it a critical part of serviceA? what is the business value of that connection? how is the customer affected if it gets broken?) and why was it implemented in a given way? (sync/async, retries and timeouts, what matters to the customer). Communicating this type of context of the architecture seems hard and auto-generated diagrams usually fail to do.

- Infrastructure management: I am not that averse about giving some delete rights for the infrastructure, maybe you can get partial rights, though I assume a lot of companies are already using something for upscale/downscale and might have strict processes for deleting things. What if a delete needs an approval or code review like step?
Is an unfunny joke worth making? Aren't downvotes people telling you they don't find the joke funny?
I could never stand the ear-straps.
Thank you for your insights. It’s making me question if term limits is the solution I always thought it would be.
>I was surprised to learn that lying about employment history to hide that you are a salter was protected. I get that salting might be protected, but did not expect that lying on an application would be.

Making it so the employer can fire you for lying about the application would practically remove protection for salting. Nobody would hire you for a non-union job if they see you being employed by a union as an organizer in your last job.
This headline makes as much sense as "the Kia Niro is no match for the Volvo FH" -- it really all depends on what you want to do with it?

RPi5 is a great platform for prototyping, and many hobbyist applications, even if you move to ESP32 or similar afterwards, or if you decide that PC-ish platforms work better for you after all.

"One size fits all" has never worked in computing history and most likely never will...
Thinking of cats/dogs - euthanasia seems to also be a good fit for "kind, but not nice"
I don't see anything wrong with posting about a book, a course, etc., especially if it's a newly released product. It's good to know what's being done.
So much for code migrations! Although most examples are about summarization or needle in a haystack search, applications whose output should be the size of input are probably more important although less advertised.

Curious if that is a business decision or a technical decision aka if optimizations for cheap and fast 128k gpt4o work only for small outputs
> Decades ago when I was a bartender, it was common practice for your "reference" to be a buddy who would pretend to be the manager at your last restaurant.

There’s a great clip of an Aussie radio show doing a prank like this. They call a random guy up and pretend that they have his number as a reference, and that he’s gonna get a call from some potential employer (who are considering g higher if the prankster). The random guy immediately agrees to say only great things about him and then the actual “reference call” is actually well done.

https://twistedsifter.com/videos/hamish-and-andy-random-job-...
Google docs actually makes Word look good. Or at least Google docs means Word is no longer in last place.
Work Snapshots: Take screenshots every few mins and browse your "work sessions"
Hi! The focus is SimCity, but once the book gets into Maxis I get into SimEarth, SimAnt, SimLife, and The Sims. They aren't treated in as much detail, but they are here because they are crucial for understanding the overall arc of Maxis, SimCity's consequences, and Will Wright's career.

You can't understand Maxis without understanding the relationship they had with the world beyond videogames. Consider SimEarth. Stewart Brand (should need no intro; Kevin Kelly introduced them—he and Wright bonded over their love of social insects) introduced Wright to James Lovelock (co-inventor of Gaia hypothesis), who happily collaborated, and Maxis donated money to Lovelock's nonprofit. And Brand's GBN consultancy was interested in using SimEarth for their work. There's more context to all this I get into, but that's the super short version.

I'm still stunned by how much Brand thinks I got all this right (and how much he loves the book): "Of course I checked the few moments where I intersected with the events in the story. They are tone-perfect, detail-perfect, and context-perfect. More so than I've ever seen before." See his review on X:

https://x.com/stewartbrand/status/1800941614287946003
This is it. If someone is curious, look into the "SUV loophole" that automakers are using to skirt emissions regulations.
So while we're here: anyone know if Sonia Brownell ever worked with PWE before working with IRD? (or have suggestions as to where to look for this sort of thing?)
Those brick heaters are smart because they use electricity at off-peak times to heat the house for the whole day. What about it strikes you as less efficient than any other direct electric heating?
Ironic that GP commenter said "I do not care about the whining" about regional IP blocks and the first reply is just someone whining about it.
Not a Rust dev so maybe a dumb question, but is this more involved than just running diffs? If so, what needs to be done?
Building SimCity only talks about pre-EA SimCity. So there's SimCity, SimCity 2000, and SimCity for SNES, but not much else—aside from how SimCity 3000 was a train wreck that helped destroy Maxis.
It's not that hard to manually make it a router by setting some sysctls and iptables rules.
Paper is environmentally expensive to produce and recycle. If it's worse than plastic is surely debatable but it's definitely not significantly better.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc...
Well, station wagons and minivans still exist—-we now just call them “crossover” SUVs.

And I’ve looked at those options: the storage, seating and safety is just not the same as a large SUV.

If you are using the word “safety” to mean safety for peds and bicyclists, I would likely agree with you that smaller cars are better for that. There are many blind spots on larger SUVs.
Nice job, I'm always impressed with HS robotics projects. Clever design and nice form factor.

I bought a stack of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Tenda-Gigabit-Unmanaged-Wall-Mount-Pr...

for some projects that need ethernet. They are mid-level quality. Not sure I'd put them on something that would break my heart to get back.
I think the point of comparison should be news anchors and other "talking head" media, not real life humans emoting. Maybe it's just me, but people looking directly into and speaking in front of a TV camera about boring things also look lobotomized and uncanny. Check out your local newscasters some time and tell me they're really more realistic than these results.
I agree. Next question: Can they consent to gender reassignment surgery?
SUVs proliferated because of environmental laws.

Sedans/minivans are held to more stringent fuel efficiency standards, particularly after the Obama-era EPA regulations. [1] This has promoted the sale of larger vehicles/trucks.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/180044/epa-small-cars-sedan-...
> Power supply dies? I can order a new one in literally seconds.

For the RPi 5, for fully reliable operation, you need an oddball 5V/5A power supply, which is not actually a standard device. IMO Raspberry Pi messed this one up. At the price point, either use a barrel jack or support USB-PD for real. (The latter would be great for many use cases, because the same conversion circuitry would enable driving from a wide voltage range. A tiny cheap ESP board can do this — why not a rather pricey Raspberry Pi?)
Thanks, Don! Please scan that!

She recently found a shrink wrapped copy of a teacher guide she coauthored with Michael Bremer and opened it (!) because we disagreed about what was in there, LOL. It's destined now for her UCLA archive. Apparently she also wrote guides for many other Maxis titles but not all saw the light of day. Or maybe they did but need to be recovered.
Daft Punk already kinda did it.
I think you mean "it's sad that cars proliferated". Whether people have SUVs or Sedans doesn't move the doomsday clock by much.
> I think a lot of people don't realize that there was a decent size, but small market for SBCs for low-volume embedded work (including hobbyists) before Raspberry Pi. You could get a lot of different kinds of boards with good Linux support and a not terrible price. Often, a processor vendor would explicitly provide support for these things because it was a good vector for selling chips.

Before RPi became really popular and the 4 came out, I used BeagleBoard, PandaBoard, Aria G25, Gumstix, Cubieboard, i.MX devkits, and spun custom boards using Marvell, TI, Freescale (now NXP), and Qualcomm CPUs - I don't remember any of them having as good a BSP or being as easy to develop with as the RPi was five years ago. Maybe my memory is (very) faulty but the experience was leagues worse. PTSD-inducing level of worse. I wasted weeks or months on every major project shaving silicon yaks that should have been handled by the vendor (and is now handled by the RPi community).

The modern i.MX toolchain may now be comparable many years later but I've long since given up on everything else since CM4 came out in 2020.

My understanding is that they lost the sweetheart deal after they pivoted to supporting commercial, right in time for the pandemic supply crunch.
Pair Programming: The Ubuntu Way
Yes. There's a whole chapter on this with tons of diagrams, not code.
I have noticed the same effect from studying different methods of information organization (such as ontologies or mind maps).

Experience with a structured mental path is a fundamental part of learning. I've seen many educational games that explicitly teach skills, but don't necessarily offer an experience path for the application of those skills. Factorio is more along the lines of what an educational game should be.
Linux already installed from a Chinese vendor.

I guess it’s subsidized by the malwares that come preinstalled.
People don't consider adversarial inputs when building scripts, which is one of the main reasons why I started a company to build an incident response platform in 2018.

I was handling security incidents on a large scale with tools that attackers would purposely circumvent with special filenames/inputs. Instead of fighting against the grain, I decided to build a platform with a heavy focus on correctness. Any deviation from the data specification would stick out as a sore thumb and immediately detect anti-forensics and other tricks.

Today, I have a vast compendium of anti-forensics tricks, such as commands not getting written to history, files that cannot be deleted or copied, and much more.

Suffice to say that if you are parsing the output of any tool, you are vulnerable to a whole slew of adversarial techniques.
A really lame article about an actually very interesting system.
32 mpg isn't great compared to e.g. a boring Toyota hybrid.
If I’m not mistaken, the embedded swift mode aims to make ICU (the 27mb file for Unicode support) optional (and thus easily removed where it isn’t needed)
More precisely, Edinburgh just joined multiple other cities in banning the advertisement of an assortment of companies and products related to high consumption of fossil fuels. This does include SUVs.

From the proposed amendment that this WaPo story cites (https://democracy.edinburgh.gov.uk/documents/s70730/9.1%20Po...), this is what kind of ads are banned, along with the comments regarding these things:

Airlines and airports:

all advertising by airports and airlines which might
reasonably be deemed to promote
more flying

There are no low carbon options
for commercial air travel available
currently or for the foreseeable
future, so air travel per se should
be treated as high carbon.

Fossil fuel companies:

all firms and
associated sub brands or lobbying
organisations that extract, refine,
produce, supply, distribute, or sell any
fossil fuels

This includes, regardless of the
companies’ potential sustainability commitments advertising or
sponsorship:

• showing fossil fuel products,
energy from coal or hydrogen

• showing petrol stations, and any
ads promoting the price of
petrol/diesel

Cars:

exclude all advertising and
promotions for petrol, diesel and hybrid
vehicles and Plug-In Hybrid Electric
Vehicles (PHEV)

Advertising for Battery Electric
Vehicles (BEV) and hydrogen
fuelled vehicles are still permitted
if these are not Sport Utility
Vehicles (SUVs). PHEVs have
been shown not to yield
meaningful emissions savings
over conventional vehicles.

Cruise holidays:

Cruise ships emit more carbon per
passenger kilometre than flying.
They also generate black carbon
and produce a lot of waste which
is often discharged into the sea.
Their engines run 24/7, often even
at port which has damaging
impacts on air quality.
AMDs investment in OpenCL and RoCM before the FOMO of the last years was only for the checkbox they never showed real intend. Especially on consumer hardware...
My home router runs on a dual core Intel Celeron. Software wise it’s OPNSense in KVM and a few docker containers on the host. Measured power draw is 4-5W. That’s with an SSD and 16GB RAM. It’s also way faster than any Raspberry Pi. The notion that Intel draws a lot of power is wildly outdated.
One of the decent parts about open weights models is that you can't have this happen to you. You get to keep access to any model you want. This is essential for continuity of products.
I sold a book (https://howtoopensource.dev/) and did a *very* soft launch which performed so poorly I spent the next 6-9months building out full blown launch strategy.

FOMO is used a lot as the term du-jour but it goes deeper than that: a sense of urgency. We relate FOMO to urgency because a lot of FOMO happens around events (missing a concert or conference, for example) but to me the key isn’t the fear, it’s the urgency.

For my eventual launch I read a book aptly titled “Launch” which talks at length about building a sense of urgency, turning the sale into an event, and generating excitement. I offered a limited time, exclusive incentive with a hard deadline and it worked very well. That hits the fear and the urgency.

From Kent:

> How can I communicate what the company is missing out on

While framed as FOMO, to me it’s good old value-proposition marketing. The book I linked above recommends focusing on a customer “transformation” story. Try to get potential customers to imagine what life would be like if ONLY they had your product. From this lens the FOMO is fear of missing out on being your best/better self.

This part of my launch was really difficult. I wanted to talk about what the book teaches, how it stacks up against other books, why my petagogy is useful. It didn’t seem like my book would “turn a coder into a contributor” (by itself). But that’s exactly the outcome I wanted, and it’s the outcome my customers wanted. So, that’s how I sold it.
This is so true. Back when I used to use reddit, I had to leave the raspberry pi subreddit for this reason. 95% of the projects only needed a small C program and microcontroller but instead used a full blown OS and Python. It drove me nuts.
A minivan checks all those boxes, and is cheaper to buy and operate.

(You need an SUV for poorly maintained roads, or towing trailers.)
What kind of bolted-down expansion does a cheap n3350 box have? How fast can I swap the main storage for something completely different? Can I power it with my USB battery bank? Does it support two digital monitors or does it instead have one HDMI and one VGA (like this is 1987)? Can I use it like an appliance and just plug in easy-to-download images like LibreELEC or EmulationStation, or do I need to understand how to make computers work before I can have a good experience with Kodi or console emulation?
RCS Comes to iPhone
That's very unfortunate that he allows Netanyahu of all people in the world to allow whether 2 million people should be able to access Internet
I am having trouble understanding what the complaint is here.

The docs still mention bigger models with 128k tokens and smaller models with 8k tokens. It seems reasonable to optimize for big and small use cases differently? I don't see how we are being "robbed".
>However, in the “modest scheme of things”, that bacteria may help you digest food your native bacteria can’t… That effect will only continue as long as you continue to consume the cultures.

This is actually where I am today. I have run out of the probiotics that I bought so I am in the stage where I will find out whether, in my case, there is any long-term change to my digestion that could be tied to the probiotic. I expect that if I see a return to the previous condition over the next few weeks then I can confirm that the effect lasts only as long as the probiotic is taken and wears off with time. I would like to see a permanent correction to the problem from this one period of probiotic treatment but that is unlikely to be the case.

Time will tell.

I had been considering making a visit to a gastroenterologist to see whether I could get on a list to do a transplant with a pooh pill. I am not a person who rushes off to a doctor every time something changes so I have to work hard to get myself into a mindset where it is acceptable. Basically, if I can manage something myself I will take that path and any long-term consequences that result are on me. That is acceptable.

The success of this probiotic supplement in changing the whole process for me to one that is a normal process leaves me with one option - self-management - that I can definitely handle. I just need to know the boundaries as far as how long to do it, the durability of the treatment, etc. It is cheap enough and easy enough that I can accept taking a simple supplement daily forever if I can demonstrate that it eliminates the really undesirable situation that I had to manage with antacids previously. When I started this treatment I had noticed that the condition was deteriorating so that on some nights I needed two Tums to handle the reflux. Like I said, I have not needed a single antacid since beginning this and that is a huge QoL improvement by itself since I can now enjoy all the spicy things that I ate anyway with no consequences, managed only by taking a daily probiotic. It isn't just the reflux. Top to bottom there were issues that have all disappeared now. I see real improvements in every part of the digestive process.

Sample size of one. No long-term data. It works for me, so far. Your mileage may vary. With that said, the whole thing was a recommendation from a family member who has been in nursing for multiple decades. I trust them.
There’s something of a contradiction here, and maybe it’s worth exploring. Or maybe not; I leave the decision to you.

Sim City isn’t a simulation. It’s a game. The reason it was commercially successful is because it was fun.

This is explicitly a different goal from creating a simulator. A simulator can be fun to certain groups of people, but it’s not designed to be fun to large groups of people. Games are.

So here’s the rub. When people draw a correlation between sim city and reality, are they saying that the way to make a simulation of reality is to make a fun game? Because sim city was designed to be a fun game first and foremost, not a simulator.

Can’t it be both? Well, sure. Lots of things are. But when you’re saying that you’re putting the world in a machine, it becomes a different discussion. Is the best way to put the world in a machine to make it fun? That doesn’t seem too plausible, even if the result is fun for some people. So both the title and the descriptions of world building (as in, the world we live in, not a fantasy world) seem off the mark.

I genuinely don’t know if it’s worth pointing this out. But then I read the description, and again, they’re saying very clearly that this book is comparing simulation of reality to a commercially successful game that was designed with a different goal in mind. Is this just coincidence?
Several commenters here mention math formulas (and I'm guessing other math constructs) as a reason to use (La)TeX. I'm not a mathematician, so that reason doesn't work for me. But there's another reason for me, which is analogous. I'm a linguist, and linguists often use an aligned interlinear style in which each word in some sentence of a foreign language is glossed underneath with its meaning (and often morphological breakdown into stem and affixes); the foreign words and their glosses are supposed to line up vertically (so there may be extra spacing between words, typically but not always in the foreign language line). If the paired words+glosses of a sentence don't fit on a pair of lines, the lines hold as many as possible, and the pairs are continued below.

This is extremely painful--nearly impossible--to do in Word. There are LaTeX macro packages that do it quite well.

(When the foreign language is broken down into morphemes in its script and there is a gloss line, you end up with a triple of aligned lines, instead of just a pair. And when the foreign language is written right-to-left, other issues come up. But they can be addressed in the LaTeX macro packages.)
You misunderstand cause and effect. They have become financial instruments because there is insufficient supply for the demand.

Unfortunately others with that level of economic ignorance tend to advocate for policies that fail to fix this and either 1) pick a few lucky winners and fuck everyone else over like rent control or 2) make things even more expensive by subsidizing house purchases or creating risk like the 2008 mortgages.
If it goes like this the Supreme Court might declare water to be wet, much to the horror of corporate America. Of course it’s unfair to limit one’s employment options without just compensation for it.
The main limit is that you can have 128k tokens of input, but only 4k tokens of output per run. gpt4-32k lets you have up to 32k tokens of output per run. Some applications need that much output. Especially for token dense things like code and JSON.
Maybe relying on video "evidence" to prove something, is actually the bug/vulnerability, and this technology will finally "fix" the bug by calling into question all video evidence. I'd rather the tech be widely publicized and out there, so people know it's a thing and can be convinced to disregard video "evidence", than it be kept secret and the public just unknowingly trusting video. Just like people know photoshop is a thing and (hopefully) don't by default believe images they see on the Internet.
> Volvo and the London-based tech startup Circulor have designed a “battery passport”

What exactly is there to "design", and that on top requires a partnership with a startup? Shouldn't this basically be an audit of the parts in the battery and their sources? A report from the company ERP, mostly.
The key thing is interpretation of the diff. Is there a difference since they ran some code generator ins the crate contains generated code, not present in the repo or did they add a backdoor?