skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have like... a problem or something ? That's a lot of question with smilies.
I believe the plural form of person is people.
Is something like that really that necessary though, sure it has a lot of features but for a simple router it takes 15mins to follow a guide on openbsd.org to set up a simple router which works really well and is really secure.
I still back Snowden for his original motives in 2013. I will not bother listening to anything he has to say these days though, because I have no idea who is pulling the strings. I have no idea who he's working for, or what his motives are. It's a problem for me that he's holing up in Russia, and has probably already given up enough info to them in exchange for his asylum. I simply can't trust the man at this time. Am I being unreasonable?
The conservatives stopped the shutdown in 2010, and reinstated it in 2011. And they continued with the plan the whole following decade when they were in power. True, the original plan was from the progressives, but the conservatives had the power and executed it. They, too, decided on this, and they had the power to change it for a whole decade, and did nothing.

And the BS about a "disaster" never happened. There were no blackouts, and even the prices went down. All the problems of the money driven fearmongers never manifested, yet they continue to spread lies about the greens doing harm and the all so great (money wasting) atomic plants...
Proving ROI for LLM Products
Cucumbers also seem to last surprisingly long time just in the room temperature on the kitchen counter. I always buy about half a week's worth of cucumber (we eat a lot of cucumber so this is usually 3-4 large ones) in one go and just leave them on the kitchen counter. After cutting one open, the open end dries a bit in a few hours, but then you can just cut a small slice off before using it again.
Depends on what exactly you want to do.

I prefer Maschine which is functionally very close, but aside from the Maschine + requires a computer.

My basic workflow is to find my samples, Maschine locates them on my PC automatically more or less. Then I do my arrangement, and upload to SoundCloud or YouTube.

Having a separate device means I need to copy the samples over, and then copy the finished track back to my PC.

I actually had an MPC Touch, which is basically a controller that acts as an MPC Live when connected to a computer. I didn't really like the workflow.

I respect the MPC for what it did for music, but we have plenty of options now. Figure out what works best for you.

This video is really neat though. Very cool to see the original creator still at home with the latest model.
My grandmother put them in the fridge in hot weather, because she and I live in a place that routinely reaches over 40C in summer, easily hits human body temperature inside the house, and turns any watery vegetable into a Petri dish.
Perhaps just a turn of phrase, as they are very close to minimum wage and some of the lowest paid jobs you can get.

The point is that you can hire real live humans for not that much money.
I ignored solid advice from lawyers, again
Cucumbers are refrigerated in stores around here.
I was just yesterday wondering about the following scenario:

I would have entries that have an expiration date and need to regularly purge all required rows (think access tokens, WebAuthn challenges, etc). The service creating those rows is deployed serverless, so only invoked on incoming requests. Now the only viable options I know are a) having a lottery and run the delete query as part of the normal request handling with p=0.01, b) have a secondary scheduler system that performs housekeeping tasks, or c) using pg_cron to do so in the database.

Are there any other solutions to this? Scheduling jobs on the database system works, but I’m always wondering how others solve this.
> Most people don't buy homes, cars, mattresses, with any regularity so whatever badwill you generate will be irrelevant 10-20 years down the line and likely born by a different seller.

One scummy trick in that area is owning multiple brands. My understanding is the appliance market is very consolidated (basically 2 main players own almost all the brands). They've carefully maintained the separate identities of the brands they acquired, even as they consolidated design/production, so any "badwell" they create will have a good chance of just causing the customer to switch to another one of their products.

There probably should be some kind of "reverse-trademark" law that requires companies to maintain only one brand in a product area. Trademark is about allowing them to protect their reputation from bad actors, and my "reverse-trademark" would protect consumers from using multiple trademarks to avoid the consequences of a bad reputation.
> Users already switched from local/ISP DNS to Cloudflare / Google because of the previous law so that is not a big hurdle (ignoring the obvious security problem - many users won't care they just want to watch the game).

In many cases it was browsers changing the used resolver behind the users back contrary to OS-wide settings.
I bet they get tired of overheight vehicles smashing them. The few detracting from the many as usual?
The best lesson I took from SICP (which I read years after Iw as a competent programmer) is that the very moment you write your first function you are in effect creating a DSL for solving you domain problem.

It truly levelled me up as a programmer when I was hit with that insight.
Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)
You can put them in a paper towel and put that in a ziplock bag. Place that in the fridge, and they'll stay crisp much much longer than had they stayed on the counter.
Here it is breaking the record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZVIj5TUSKE
EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc's land and sea by end of decade
There was an "Eid Mubarak" post also last year:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

As much as I'd love to wish everyone Merry Christmas, I just don't think this is the right place for that.. might as well allow anything and everything then?
In 2012.
> https://buffettfaq.com/#what-are-the-risks-in-the-financial-...

> CM: what if we had no manufacturing and our only businesses were hedge funds?]

Buffet is very aware of that thinking. Even if CM is Charles Munger (VP of Hathaway).
I have a synology WRX560 router (yes, synology does routers). They have a decent security track record and provide long software support with official EOL/EOS statements. IPv6 works very well.

The two other options I can think of is ubiquity and mikrotik.
I did not know this, but I knew that tomatoes taste superior when left out of the fridge. The strange thing is when the packaging on tomatoes says to store in the fridge.
> AMD was (is) tinkering with a translation layer for CUDA

From what I understand, they dropped the contract with the engineer who was working on it.

Fortunately, as part of the contract, said engineer stipulated that the project would become open source, so now it is, and is still being maintained by that engineer.
This article is actually about implicit warranty rather than right to repair, which the EU also has (my memory is at least 2 years, but I don't know if it's higher for different categories of things like in NSW).

It's also a great consumer friendly regulation!
Or have it evicted to swap. The kernel is pretty good at managing it automatically.
I really disagree on potato. It goes soft fairly quickly in the room temperature but keeps for ages in the refrigerator. I eat a lot of potatoes and haven't noticed anything wrong with them after long periods of refrigerator storage.
thank you HarHar (author here)
Google Chrome Will Track You for the Next 200 Days–Then It May Get Worse
I tend to think this type of failure is from utter lack of caring. They know it's there, they know it's a security hole, but are just too lazy to deal with it until it comes back to bite them.
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. And it gets called differently when a list comprehension calls it each step of the loop or when the list function loops completely through and then the list comprehension calls the instances.
Nothing to see here.
I really don't see this as a debunking of the idea that the cartel was set up primarily to increase profits among its members. The engineering tradeoffs make sense, but it doesn't follow that because of these tradeoffs, the companies manufacturing lightbulbs were compelled to set up an organization that fined its members for making bulbs that lasted too long. The tradeoffs explanation seems like a post-hoc justification for something that was clearly done with anti-competitive intent.

Ultimately which scenario makes the most sense: that these businesses went through the time and effort to set up this testing organization out of a desire to ensure they all made better products for consumers, or out of a realization that they could all stabilize their revenues if they all sold products that would need to be replaced on a regular basis?

This also strikes me as an area where consumer choice can be particularly effective: most of the attributes of a lightbulb aside from energy consumption are pretty tangible to the end user, and since they are fairly inexpensive and replaceable, the buyer is more able to evaluate them side by side than many other things. It makes total sense to me that the manufacturers would see this as a problem, and choose to limit consumer choice instead of competing to make better products.
How would hn community feel about government intervention into this obvious market failure?

For instance: mandate all firmware on home routers be open source. (Either by selling hardware only and give guidance on installing openwrt or disclosing the source to their existing proprietary crap)

Is that a good idea? Is it realistic?
really appreciate that amunozo (author here)
Such engineer probably made sure to note it was for testing purposes, like what was stated the last 47392 times this exact same problem was found in mass-produced network hardware. Now, the question is whether the subsequent failure to remove it was willing or not... That will be hard to ascertain, probably enough to keep them from firing the involved code monkey.
I suspect that is for farmers or grocers that want to store a harvest for extended periods of time, even into the spring after fall harvest. I guess some amount of mealiness is hard to avoid in that case but it would be mitigated in a controlled humidity and gas environment as recommended. If you do all of those things you can bring them to room temp and expect them to last a few days on your customer's counter.
11 minutes in, he mentions SICP as a book that he ended up working through exercises "in the past year" (so 2012 timeframe, well after the original Doom but before the reboot).
I am more suprised that the BMW outlasted the remote starter!
And back into fiction, Snowpiercer is a movie about a linear city on a train.
Yet eg. Chinese cultural output is largely insipid and lacking that je ne sais quoi that's appreciated in many other countries' outputs.
I'm a remote software dev, and I prefer it. I won't go back to that silly commute garbage so that I can carry my laptop from my house to my cold, lifeless, work setup. If I could work on hardware, spend all day soldering, and building things with my hands, I would gladly go into the biz. If I could go back to having hardware at the office I could build, install stuff on, and control again... Oh how I wish I could do something like that instead. I'm so tired of the code. Simply dragging me to an office, so I can talk to other people that aren't in the office via email, chat, video etc. is friggin' dumb.
Tuesday rhymes with blue. Not to mention "Blue Tuesday" is a phrase used quite often.

You might be associating orange with Friday because it makes you think of the sun and going outdoors?

It's all very interesting. Even more so because I don't think of days/colours. My mind gives the days size and mass. ie. starting with Sunday (I'm American) the day is small. And as the week progresses the days get larger, heavier and denser. Until Saturday, which is a big fat puffy ball of "day". You can do what you want with it and it will just be there and be your friend. I love Saturdays.
How hard is it to game the system on Upwork and either buy reviews or have a group of friends hire one another.

Never thought of it before. And before anyone sticks up their nose at me, it’s basically what ever VC does with their portfolio companies.
I like GL.inet -- although, the fact that they're a Chinese company could be a bit of a concern. They lean heavily on Open WRT for software, but apparently some of the drivers used are "mostly opensource" ... whatever that means.

https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/gl-inet-can-we-trust-them-becaus...

Curious to see HN folks take on them.
Feels like there should be an xkcd about this. I asked Claude to write one, but it wasn't very funny. Actually, Claude agrees with you that the energy used for training AIs is mere pocket change compared to climate simulations. (Can I trust Claude? Seems far from disinterested.)
There is a reason: human nature. We could have both in principle, but time and time again we just expand until we are unable to continue. (and then until a technological breakthrough takes things further) It feels a lot like the obesity problem; the solution in principle is fairly simple, (people just need to eat less) but in practice this isn't something that's very easy for people to do. The bulk of people are unsuccessful here.
+1 for tuesday being blue. Is Wednesday green?
Yeah, I didn’t mean to say it’s actually impossible, but if you are at 200k+ and more likely towards 300k/year given the information, you are already at the top of the market for most positions (that I’m aware of).

If you still expect 200k raises in such a position you are likely in for a bad time (nothing is guaranteed though, you might get lucky).
Grocery stores that smell like pot?!?! Good heavens, these people should be in prison!
Optimizing Python Development: Virtualenv Kernels with Nix and Jupyter
More likely the opposite. A site which is legal in the US or elsewhere but not in the EU would then have fewer options for finding a convenient host, even though it's perfectly legal in the country where it actually operates, because the EU would be exerting extrajurisdictional pressure on hosts by blocking all of their other customers. Those customers would then prefer a host large enough to resist that pressure, which is Cloudflare, because a country that tried to block them would break the internet in their country. And then Cloudflare would improve their reputation among customers by resisting an attempt to DoS a site which is legal where it operates.

Meanwhile it would do nothing to put the site offline regardless because there are more hosting companies than there are atoms in the universe and many of them serve primarily local clientele and wouldn't really care if they got blocked in a country where their customers aren't. They'd have to be blocking the majority of the total IPv4 address space before the site ran out of somewhere to move.
Maybe if you're getting your citrus fresh near UC Davis it makes sense to keep them on the counter. For those of us who have to buy shipped from out of state, they're going to go skunky much faster. Most citrus will keep for a long time in the fridge, granted you may have some acid degradation.
Privacy app maker Proton transitions to non-profit foundation structure
Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms with fake content
Because those are not under the French government's jurisdiction unlike responses served to French users. Many of the used TLDs are even explicitly under other countries' governance.
I agree with this in general. I think the Arduino ecosystem makes a lot of sense and as mentioned upthread does a good job lowering the barrier to entry.

It's the hardware I don't get, which sits in a weird spot in the matrix of ease and power.
And did you know that if you put your entire program in the main function you can use labels and goto to have something like exceptions and coroutines.
Run Chrome? Open this page: chrome://serviceworker-internals and have fun.
Seem to remember xterm also did tektronix. Haven’t looked at the source for 35 years / x11r5 but should be doable.
ChatGPT is bullshit, but is it soft bullshit or hard bullshit? [pdf]
All US presidents are directly related to each other: https://curiousmindmagazine.com/all-us-presidents-including-...

The world's a stage. :)
I’m a huge fan of Eero for set and forget no nonsense home routers. I bought a three pack and they cover our entire home easily with about 10-15 minutes of initial setup.
Purely functional language is pretty universally taken to mean that the language enforces function purity for all functions [perhaps with some minor escape hatches like Haskell's unsafePerformIO].
Those objections are differences to the cities we live in, but not impossible.

China builds cities without regard for 1 and 3, and partially 2.

Also, you don't have to consider changing the city part of the simulation. It may just be switching from one test model to another.
View page source is, as was mentioned in the article, magical. The fact that by publishing something online you make it available for everyone else to learn from is astonishing.

It used to be knowledge was locked up in books and putting them in libraries for free access was revolutionary, but libraries don't compare to the knowledge transfer benefits of view source in terms of cost and ease. (Obv libraries have a wider base of knowledge to distribute.)

Even today, with all the obfuscation and minification, devtools offers a lot of the same benefits as "view source" did.
Faraday cage will become a standard installation in schools pretty soon.

Of course it’s even easier for the parents to just not give your kid a phone
If there were any kind of ether it would perhaps allow a universal positioning system, basically 3D GPS without supporting infrastructure that worked no matter where you went as long as the system could track you and periodically recalibrate itself vs some landmark. The more sensitive and precise the less recalibration it would ever need.
Ask HN: My manager is bad. Should I care?
I am a lead in a department where the manager is considered incompetent but nice. I am recognized as high performing and a good team builder (clear communication, involving people as needed, etc.). The manager, however, fails to include me or the team, and this is reflected in declining team satisfaction ratings. The director is supportive but typically sides with the manager and communicates only through them, despite many sharing concerns with him. Should I be upset about this situation, or am I overthinking it and should just go with the flow?

On one hand, I’m upset the director can’t appropriately lead and allows the entire department to be corrupted by a single non-performer. On the other hand, maybe I’m too involved and should just worry about myself. I’d get less professional development potentially (verses leaving) but I could kick back more.
I'm a web dev so naturally, I'd pick something I know well to implement UIs.
Second, distribution is a big one. With native mobile, you have to go through lot of hoops to get your code onto the device easily, usually it means dealing with certificate, licenses etc.
How do they actually catch people and enforce it?I’ve always wondered.

Unless they are asking to go off Upwork right in the Upwork chat tool (which is horrible)
I made it through most of my school career without the internet or a phone (only in uni). I’m sure others can do the same.
What I was getting at with both points:

- Gun control in almost any country is WAY stricter than in the US, and people in the EU are absolutely fine with the government interfering heavy-handedly in that subject. There would be riots in the street here if schools would need to have "active shooter policies" for example, we'd rather have a blanket ban on private firearm possession and have the police enforce that. In that sense, even Saunders seems quite fine to have a relatively hands-off gun policy and that lack of government regulation is typically more associated with the right than with the left.

- For healthcare policy, I only briefly skimmed his site but I don't think I actually saw a plan to have the government nationalize the hospitals and take them out of private hands? AFAIK in most EU countries most doctors/nurses are government employees with only a small minority working in privately owned clinics.
I don't know too much about the industry either, but I do recall recently that large corporate landlords have been revealed to be engaging in nationwide rent fixing: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-fbi-rai...
For some of them, yes. See the cheatsheet: https://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk12711/fi...
Hanlons razor is used by the malicious to fool the stupid
> so your utility company is probably going to make four times as much energy per dollar invested in solar panels as you are, unless you're in the usa, so they can sell it to you much cheaper than you can make it yourself

I agree they can make it cheaper than me, but I don't think your second conclusion follows.

What they will do (and ARE doing) is simply increase their profit.

My utility company has already approved rate increases for the next 5 years (7-12% per year), and it has increased every year for the previous 10+.

So for me, the cheapest way to get electricity is to make it myself from my own roof. I made 933kWh in May for a bill of -$56.
Yes in some limited cases, it depends a lot of where you live, and where those itens were sourced from. Anything traveling more than a couple hundred miles in a hot climate would justify this additional expense.

But an important point is that the temperature on those reefer units will be more similar to the one in a data center, than the one in a fridge. Lower temperatures will make harder to keep the optimal humidity level and the veggies will start dehydrating.

The idea of freshness in vegetables is basically keeping those thing's cells alive for as much as possible. Too hot, metabolism increases, too cold and they will dehydrate.
on Windows, i have got a security warnig.
I don't spin plates; I manage hot tubs (2023)
I can prove that I am conscious, at least to my satisfaction, because I can think the thought "I am conscious". Outward behavior of other humans also proves to my satisfaction that they're conscious. And when interacting with animals, I see many of the same qualities that lead me to believe other people are conscious, with the difference largely being a matter of degree.
Well, this is because a hex nut has a purpose and it is for you to hex your lost 10mm wrench.

I would have thought that little black designer dress was correct. Designer little black dress feels incorrect. The L and BL in Little and black and then the Ds in designer and dress also lend an alliterative flow to “little black designer dress” that is not there for “designer little black dress”
These examples all consist of a trochee followed by an iamb--another word for this specific metrical foot is choriamb [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choriamb