skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can give multiple different kinds of answers if instructed to approach an issue differently. Yet, all modern AI services run into very clear, artificial guardrails if you ask them to do certain things (you have to work harder to get them to describe white people positively, while they happily write eg. poems praising nonwhite people, and claim saying positive things about whites is potentially insensitive and promotes stereotypes). Often even if you point out to them that they are being unfair and applying disparate standards to people based on skin color and that this is prima facie racist, they have a really hard time overriding their Californian coercions. They'll acknowledge their mistake one sentence and revert to a moralistic screed the next.
MSFS is a flight simulator, not an aircraft operations simulator. Similar, but different.
I would bet such intervention results in it no longer being allowed to use GPL-style open source code that lets you rebuild/customize firmware, and no longer being allowed/able to use firmware not signed by the manufacturer.
Discord is the new slack ;)
That’s why I said 70%. The other 30% are lost anyway, so there’s no point in trying to save them.

We shouldn’t waste a massive amount of effort on people that don’t want help.
How We Implemented ScyllaDB's "Tablets" Data Distribution
First Partially Stacked Sensor: Nikon Z6 III
I have a Rainforest Automation Eagle 200 radio box that pairs with a PG&E meter to enable real time data egress. The onboard software is brittle and the device fails to boot up completely, though it is responsive to local network requests.

Rainforest Automation is uninterested in debugging it and is offering only a discount on replacement hardware. But this is likely a software problem (I suspect failed certificate rotation to connect to their backend) and I don't want to give them more money.

I live in California and the right to repair goes live next month. Anybody know how I can use that right to actually get a repair?
My theory is that someone came up with the bright idea of allowing more open source in the stack and that that would allow them to get it all done via crowd sourcing and on the cheap. But if true it was a quite naive view of how it might work.

If instead they said let's take the money we should invested in internal development and build an open developer community that will leverage our hardware to build a world class software stack it might have been a little better.
This is also fine for any long-running processes and servers where the "vector" in question is not expected to shrink its allocation, which I would guess is the main use of vectors. Shrinking a vector's allocation is a niche use, with some finicky APIs, that most programmers never needed or touched.
Well, HN is something like 70% US people. So "this is for Ireland" is worth pointing out in a way that "this is for US" isn't, because US is kind of the implicit default option here.

(It's not US-only, by any means, and info about Ireland is not something we ignore because "nobody cares about that". But it's reasonable to point out that this is not data from the conditions that most people here assume by default.)
I found them all to be really down to Earth for such accomplished people.
Size Is the Enemy (2007)
I don't remember why I got the older one, but the USB-C one was mostly just curiosity - I'd heard that wireless charging was inefficient compared to wired charging and wanted to see how much.
Is America living in the past?

Here in the UK I always use the McDonalds app and either order for pickup or delivery to my car or table inside the restaurant.
> SimCity 3000 was a train wreck that helped destroy Maxis.

Wikipedia makes SimCity 3000 sound fairly well received [1] - I thought it was the 2013 online-only SimCity that was the train wreck that destroyed Maxis?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_3000#Reception
PLEASE start saying "D-Link firmware", since you can avoid this sort of silliness by just installing OpenWRT.

How about another conversation: "Vendors are never trustworthy, so what to do?"
Not an edge case at all; to add another source of such file names, academics often copy-paste or manually type pdf titles into file names resulting in files with newlines. Sometimes their machines use ancient encodings which, together with non-ASCII author names and "helpful" encoding converters result in garbage file names.

I've mentioned these situations before in this forum; the last time I did, I got the absurd reply "I don't care what your academic colleagues do" from someone who supposedly had sysadmin experience. So yeah, all you can do is write correct code and accept the fact that many others will refuse to.
> And the average age of U.S. automobiles is 13 years.

OK, but what's the median age of U.S. automobiles? I think that's a more relevant merasure.
Ah yes, how our cozy internet of sharing was infiltrated and ultimately ruined by people looking to simply earn a living. Bigger players took down smaller ones (ruining things further) until we eventually stopped making websites for them. Earning money was replaced by fiat-like pyramid schemes. The remaining scrap was quickly "copied" into LLM's and soon I'm sure there will be all knowing humanoid robots walking around. What comes after that?
Definitely not especially recent:

https://gosling.psy.utexas.edu/scales-weve-developed/short-t...
Jorge Luis Borges on Language and Reality [video]
It can be slightly more complicated with things like CARB which has an explicit waiver in the Clean Air Act to enact its own standards and given how big it is it basically ends up setting de facto standards for the state (it’s one of the big complaints from Republican states).

A similar issue comes up around education although things are a bit more even there with Texas and Florida also using the size of their markets to set their version of education standards.
Author here, I hope I made it clear pg_cron is available everywhere. Thank you for pg_cron though!
When 6 teenaged boys got marooned on an island in 1965
And commensurately more expensive
YouTube testing another way to combat ad blockers
Is that native support?
https://www.amazon.com/Xunlight-XRD36-Flexible-Rollable-amor...

This is 300W, works out to be 0.75 cents/Watt, which seems decent? Also, they show videos of heavy equipment driving on it. Which means they can be laid flat on the ground, with very little support structure. They can be laid out on parking lots. There must be reasons why this isn't widespread yet. I wonder what those are.

(edit)
This post says panels are 15 - 20c/Watt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40703758
I recently sat through a demonstration from Arduino, they're trying to get into that space with a "Pro" line of SBCs and enclosures.

https://store-usa.arduino.cc/collections/pro-family
In my childhood, me and my brother had access to computers (and simcity) only once a month. Because we still wanted to play, we actually made paper version of it, drawing maps ourselves and doing all the financial calculations on a separate sheet. I wanted to write my own simcity.
Later on, I spent considerable amount of time designing the code, again on paper as I still didn't have access to computers.
I think that had the most significant impact on my skills, and, eventually, my career.
Thanks for that
> offer no warranty or support in many European countries in which they sell them

Do you mean that you can buy it from the manufacturer website and have it shipped directly to a country where it's not released officially? Or are you taking about third party retailers selling grey market units?
Then they have nothing of value to sell when customers notice that can get the same for free and demand lower prices.

Not saying that it would be a bad thing.
Not really, certain problems are just inherently harder to express in a purely functional way than they are in an imperative way (and the reverse is just as true). For example, computing a histogram is much simpler in imperative terms (keep an array of histogram values, go through the original list, add 1 to the array element corresponding to the current element in this list) than in a purely functional style, especially if you need a somewhat efficient implementation.

My favorite example of this is implementing quicksort. It's significantly easier in C than it is in Haskell.
Confirmation that if you're going to use an inexpensive router, buy one that can run open software and run that instead. I understand this doesn't solve the broadest use case, but you can at least protect yourself.
You can't use that without signing in to their 'cloud' services at least once.
Someone putting in a backdoor would have known it's a backdoor, and I feel like they would have done it better. For example, making sure the hardcoded password can't be recovered from the firmware.
McDonald's has screwed up my order less than any other restaurant, provided better, warmer food than any other restaurant, is cheaper for the quality than any other restaurant, and their Ronald McDonald House charity rescued my family during our darkest hour.

Sorry your AI partnership with them failed, guy.
AH, I miss the times when lives were simpler.
I expect the cost of the cast, cleaned up and painted metal parts is a small fraction vs stuff like assembly and overhead. The raw materials aren't that expensive and they have enough sales to use high volume processes.
Also throwing in my data point: Very consistent for me as of late. I've had issues in the past, but most of those were nearing a decade ago. Amazon is probably the best delivery service I use on a day to day basis, with FedEx being the worst in the last few years for me, anecdotally.
I read the whole piece. It's interesting that you view this as supporting the point about irony.

I guess if you're completely convinced that the caps lack merit, these paragraphs offer some weak support to the usual Reason anti-government bent.

Personally I am not convinced one way or the other.

Either way, the fact is that taking action against over-prescribing (especially if it's in the millions of pills) IS a response to the shortage. And I say this as someone who has been personally affected by it.
It depends a lot of how much expensive is the court on your jurisdiction. If you live in a place with some kind of small claims court, where you don't need to hire a lawyer, yes. If not, your only hope is by pooling with other victims in a class action, in the jurisdiction where this exists.

Those companies hire a lot of lawyers, have extensive data on customer behavior, court costs and generally know that most people don't have the time and/or the money to sue, and will find that it is more economical for them to just forget the matter and buy a brand new item.
The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct
> whatever systemd cooked up need not apply

systemd uses nss like everything else.

> since the fundamental problem is fairly easy

Very insightful. The problem is actually pretty complicated and requires runtime initialization, unless you forego all of the services NSS provides.
(author here)... I honestly was scared of it first, as I thought if I edited the code, I'd accidentally change/update the other persons website...
laughs in openwrt
I don’t agree with the assertion made in the article but if they did use a font without securing permission I somehow doubt Shor would want to admit that, so sometimes you do need something other than a first party source.
I was taught never to confuse these three things. Then I started working as a developer, and realized it's a bit like correcting people's grammar. Don't do it.
I mean, it’s good to be open minded, it’s good to be introspective, it’s critical to take feedback.

It’s not wrong to have a take. You can sit down and say “no this is the way I’m going and I don’t think the other way is correct.”

There’s plenty of shit in this world that is destructive and dangerous. It’s more than fine to not engage with people who are beyond reason, but having confidence in your convictions isn’t a sin. You need courage to make a change in the world.
Oh wow. I'd read that post before but didn't make the connection to this one. Well worth a read as well:

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
Does anyone think to ask the replicator how it feels about repeatedly materializing thé, earl gris, chaud?

They do not. :(
… and you ain’t on it.
While shrinking vectors may not be that common, creating and deleting vectors for short lived operations in a long lived program is certainly not.
How would they sell a back door then? We keep talking like this was some kind of negligence and/or oversight. Who’s to say this isn’t all according to plan?
And then they'd patch the telnet backdoor into their custom image.

Nothing won, but a lot lost for OpenWRT.
Why People Are Angry over Go 1.23 Iterators
That's an opinion, not an argument.
They make decent hardware which comes with with modified end-of-life versions of OpenWRT.
And their customizations are quite questionable and smell fishy.
And no, can't install newer versions of OpenWRT.

At least that's my experience with GL.iNet MT2500A (Brume 2).
I happily use their older travel routers though.
Unlocking the Magic of Pandas: A Developer's Love Story
> nor have I ever seen a program that I use, written in it

The only mass market Haskell software that I know of is Pandoc. Others like Shellcheck and Postgrest are popular in their niche.

I am not sure that Haskell is faring worse that other programming languages in its level of popularity, like Julia, Clojure or Erlang.
It is so noisy and crowded that I wonder if it is worth spending time and energy looking for opportunities.
Terminal color schemes for cereal lovers
Not my site, but I stumbled onto it from another submission earlier and thought it was neat and deserved some attention. Noticed it from this submission: https://hamvocke.com/blog/lets-create-a-terminal-color-schem...
I’m pretty sure you missed a step where “he gets up gets coffee”
A primer on why microbiome research is hard
Oh, they definitely thought of that.

They were no doubt just told by their boss, and their boss's boss, to 'prove that McDonald's is using AI.'
> Wether we like it or not these are the pillars of the western world

Not sure I understand you correctly, but I strongly disagree that colonialism was a necessary foundation for todays wealthy western democracies.

I would consider it more another symptom-- once the perpetrators realized how outmatched the rest of the world was in military/logistics (especially compared to their direct neighbors).

Older cultures acted exactly the same way, compare e.g. Romans, Huns, Egyptians, Persians (European colonialism just had the naval logistics to make this work on a bigger scale).
> Also that you should store things at home like they are in the store, and apples are never refrigerated at the store.

They are, it's just long before they're put out on display. That's how they manage to have fresh New York state apples in February.

They also pull out the oxygen: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/26/668256349/th...

> The perfect combination of temperature and gases, which differs for each variety, allows apples to stay fresh for longer after harvest than if they were simply refrigerated. Commercially refrigerating apples only preserves the fruit for a few months before it gets soft and dehydrated. And just keeping them in your home refrigerator? They'll likely only stay fresh for a few weeks.
Exploring Python Task Queue Libraries with Load Test
Most of the stuff in the article happened between ~2003-2010 at first glance, which is what he means probably (even though it was published in 2024.)
I think this is a good change for Proton. I hope it leads them to change some of their misleading privacy marketing.
HN is almost certainly more than 70% white men, but I'm sure they don't assume either of those demographics for things like this.

Or perhaps they do!
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But that's a different point to what GP was making. It wasn't that children answer differently to adults, it's that they get it 'right' more often than adults. Which is still more about ignorance allowing them to make the same assumptions as the questioner than thought processes. A child might not even be aware that people in other countries might drive on the other side of the road, and so be sure of their 'correct' answer, but most adults know that without knowing the location of this image, the question can't be answered.

EDIT: And if the question weren't ambiguous, you'd basically be telling people the answer, since as soon as you say "assume it's in the US", you give a massive clue that bilateral asymmetry is relevant.
DeepSeek-Coder-V2: Breaking the Barrier of Closed-Source Models in Code
The old and trusted face-to-face human interaction.
Investors dont care about those nerdy details

The talk is about perf and energy usage, where diff between x86 and arm is not even close to what they believe
Pattern: Software Hooks
I went around and around in circles with the Electrolux call centre worker. "So you think an oven should only last for two years?"

To what end? Annoy the people who are responsible for your predicament. Don't take it out on call center workers.
Wish Swift provided a way to use custom allocators. Then it would be really terrific. A fair number of middle-ware projects work well with strategies like arena allocation which significantly improve performance and also structural ergonomics. ARC adds a fair bit of performance burden - you can see dozens of examples of people refactoring continuously to reduce ARC time in the swift forums.
Is there any proof the males and females look as much alike as they think?
I have to wonder, in the US at least (I don't know if this trend is outside the US) most ISP's are selling devices that are both the modem and the router. Which I despise since it also means the ISP can change settings on my Router way too easily.

Then customer support will often tell you how they can't support you using your own router (I use my own, I refuse to use theirs and it is currently in bridge mode).

How are the Linksys, d-links, and others actually doing? I would have thought that that market to completely plummet. Which would lead to shortcuts and a lack of proper care.
I recently got a UDM and don't recall having to sign in and I was able to set it up and everything functions including automatic updates. Where did you have to sign in and for what product?
I had so much trouble getting opnsense to work with Frontier fiber. Apparently Frontier does a non standard thing with their DHCP packets by tagging them as VLAN 0 and opnsense DHCP client was just silently dropping those. OpenWRT and Frontier’s router were fine. After three days I figured it out and now just have to compile my own version when I upgrade. I did submit a PR but not sure if it made it into a release.
Think how long it would have taken to click the link!
I don't know about other Unixes, but Linux allows the sysadmin to decide if overcommit is allowed or not. I believe Windows does as well, but the default is to not overcommit.
> No. The code is completely consistent: the closures are different instances of a function that returns the value of 'number' at the moment it gets called. Not the value of 'number' when it gets created.

Isn't that exactly what GP said? And gave an example how to create that effect explicitly in functional languages, using refs?
appreciate that, leetrout (Peter here)
In my opinion, if you are after the mystical experience of understanding functional programming, you're better off learning Prolog. I think it has more to offer in terms of insight, because wrapping your head around the language only takes a couple days, but wrapping your head around its consequences is a gift which keeps on giving for quite some time.

Immutable functional programming is basically what 80% of your Prolog code will look like. The benefit is that you'll be able to understand how everything works from end-to-end.
Were there other sites between AppalachianTrail.com and DudeRanch.com? Seems like a big jump from $3k to $17k, for something that, in my opinion, doesn't seem like a sure winner worth 5x the first one.
I hope using their trademark name in the domain (gumroad.site) isn't attracting trouble. I learned wordpress companies use 'wp-' in domains because wordpress.com is enforcing their trademark.
Run open source software on your router, don't buy one that doesn't support it. Every single company abandons support for the router in a few years at which point your destined to become part of a botnet or worse. Instead get an open source firmware and keep it up to date and not only will you have more features but it will also get security patches. Open source firmware routers have better features and support.
I prefer TP-Link Omada. Local hardware controller makes it non cloud based but with that kind of experience and hardware is rock solid.
For those unfamiliar,

>> There are over 380 Ronald McDonald Houses in 64 countries. These accommodate families with hospitalized children under 21 years of age (or 18 or 26, depending on the House), who are being treated at nearby hospitals and medical facilities. [...] Ronald McDonald Houses allow families to stay free of charge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald_House_Charit... https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/362934689

As far as targeted charities go, they're near the top in terms of delivering something everyone agrees is good.
Musk who? Smells bad to me.
Is the manager chaotic bad or evil bad? I mean do you see indication they're bad on purpose?
The vast majority of people grew up in a society with regulations.

You telling me you’d be happy to let people drive a car without a drivers license? How about a plane? Should we just trust people to not drive if they’re not capable?

I certainly don’t want to live in that world.
I call this the "Prager-U law":

For every issue created by cartels or monopolies, there will be at least one "Akschually..." competitive explanation from libertarians that will either give a completely benign explanation of why this is actually good for your or blame the government/regulations for the issue.

Those explanations will become memes and every single time the subject is discussed they will be brandished by the faithful as axiomatic truths in ad nauseam fashion.