skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure the two dishwashers thing has occurred to plenty of people. But dishwashers cost more money than a cabinet and they require a dedicated water line. This means you can't simply install a second dishwasher in a pre-existing house without first tearing up the walls to add new pipes from your water main to wherever you're going to put the dishwasher, and if you wanted to do this in a brand new house, you'd be asking whoever you're trying to sell it to to pay for an extra dishwasher.

And what is with this layperson misunderstanding of placebo effect? Why is this so common? Nobody is trying to subtract it or not induce placebo in real patients. It's the same principle you're applying when evaluating predictive models. You can't simply look at raw accuracy. You need to compare it to some naive predictor to see if it does any better. "Always predict no" is extremely accurate for rare conditions, like "does this patient have ebola" or "is this person a terrorist?" That doesn't make it a good predictive model. Same thing with a treatment. If it does no better than placebo, that isn't to say that placebo is useless. It's to say that we don't need the more complicated, expensive treatment and can simply use placebo. If giving some person a sugar pill has the same effectiveness as giving them a patented synthetic drug with harsh side effect, then just give them the sugar pill. Nobody is trying to avoid placebo. We're trying to avoid unnecessary extra steps.
If you're using it to develop bare metal os then writing keyboard driver is the issue
They didn't "overturn" this "corruption law." This was a prosecution under 18 USC 666, which is titled "theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds." In this case, the question was framed to the Supreme Court whether 18 USC 666 applies to so-called "gratuity" payments. That framing was because the prosecution in the case below could not prove that the defendant had anticipated a payment in the future when he undertook the official act. (The defendant himself maintained that the payment was for subsequent consulting.) Federal law makes a distinction between those two things.

You can still bring an 18 USC 666 case for bribery, you just need to prove that the payment had some ability to influence the official act.
> I'd assume sunnier places it approaches close to 100%

Weirdly, no. I live in an extraordinarily sunny area and solar panels are still slow to roll out in 2024. I've never convinced my parents to get panels on their house, and almost nobody in their neighborhood has them. (I live in an apartment and I don't think I know of a single apartment building in my city that has panels.)

Something is definitely wrong, but I'm not sure what. I'm pretty sure my city even has big rebates for solar installation.
US technology firms have to adhere to local jurisdictions or else withdraw service. I wonder actually who would win the stand off if MS threatened to do this - EU would surely cave first?
> And then I tried to grok all the knowledge conveyed in https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html

Have you watched the LISA 2013 presentation video?

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZfNehCzGdw

* https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/technical-sessions/...

Some follow-on presentations from him, I found the first one useful:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D53T1Ejig1Q&t=12m50s

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMpTU15rIZY&t=8m9s
Sounds like a you problem, the analogy is fine. Just because the gas emerges unchanged does not mean the body through which it passed was.
Not being completely "comfortable" (I'd say satisfied) is a given for any software choice. Nothing is perfect and everything is a tradeoff.

Linux presents no shortage of compromises itself. You could just as well say that if you're not satisfied with native Linux software, then you're not satisfied, or "comfortable", with Linux. This example is especially humorous since you might very well end up bringing another OS into the fold (to virtualize or, heaven forbid, emulate). That's about as strong a signal of dissatisfaction as they come.
The ketogenic diet improves healthspan and memory in aging mice
> It's idiotic. Just phone it in directly and go pick it up.

I don't have a car at the moment — am I just never supposed to eat outside of home-made food anymore? I've done that math many times, Ubering both ways to a restaurant is even dramatically more expensive than a delivery service.

If you don't live in an extremely walk-able place, sometimes it's the only option.
I estimate that the number of flaggers needed is somewhere between 3 and 5 (inclusive).

I have no problem with HN auto-flagging spam posts. It's a service to the community.

By the way, if you see something flagged that shouldn't be, you can "vouch" for it.
I've seen a lot of research around nutrition, where the abstract/summary for the paper itself makes claims not reasonably backed in the paper itself. Then again, I think pharma, food and agriculture in particular have bent to financial forces over everything else.
"The Shapes of CSS" was 6 years ago: https://css-tricks.com/the-shapes-of-css/

I remember various triangles using "border" and 0 width/height being pretty common even in the decade before that.
AuthZed has secured $12M of Series A fundraising
I'm imagining software developers using this as their primary work device. Like authors that use typewriters. Distraction free.

If they need to develop for the web, they can just prop their phone above the display, and develop in mobile-first style.
I would not do this without appropriate compensation and a written agreement, if at all.

What's the incentive for you?
Been using an install from 2012. Cloned every time I moved laptops or internal storage drives. Two surviving clones, one main laptop and older laptop as home server and backup.

Haven't had to do much, really. Just regular package updates (including AUR ones) and cleanup of stale packages. The main laptop gets updates applied frequently, but the backup only once every six months / a year, except security updates (e.g., ssh, OpenSSL, the recent xz backdoor was a no-op because I hadn't ever updated the backup to a vulnerable version). Then there was the KDE 6 release recently.

Every once in a while I go through the list of every package installed and see if I should remove any. This is a no-op for most packages, since they are usually mandatory dependencies of another package, but there's always some packages I'd installed for some limited purpose that no longer applies.

I've cleaned up dead config files a few times. Especially around KDE major version updates. Not that it took up too much space or broke anything; just that I didn't want those files around.

I've kept around a bootable USB key for emergencies, but now that I think about it, I'm surprised I've never had to use it for a system rescue. There was that one time I changed my password and promptly forgot the new one. But it's been such a long time since I've used it.
> the creditors

Thanks, that word helps clarify my major problem with handling this as a bankruptcy case. I don't see the destroyed lives as an issue of creditors, I see them as victims. Calling off the corporations coming after an individual for unpaid debt is a whole different issue than barring individuals from going after a corporation for actual injuries.
To an extent that's the fundamental issue driving these changes. It becomes increasingly difficult to monetize old material for lack of demand. Should lack of attention from society be enough reason to throw old media into the trash permanently? I don't believe so. We owe it to future generations to preserve what we can.
Behavioural Science is contradiction in terms much like Military Intelligence.
>Do you think those tariffs makes Tesla prices go up or down?

It would certainly make the price of a Tesla go up.

>Why do retailers offer coupons?

The decrease in price results in an increase in demand for the product. This is very beneficial for manufacturers who need to keep the rate of production consistent all year long while demand for their product may fluctuate.

> How do they set their prices when coupons are "always available"?

The increase in demand from the decrease in price due to the coupon or subsidy balances out, so the price without the coupon/subsidy remains the same. The effect of the coupon/subsidy is strictly to increase the demand, it doesn't allow the manufacturer to charge a higher sticker price.

>and prices on all EVs - the cars that qualify for the benefit and those that do not - have risen

Except there's a way to test for this and it isn't consistent with your expectation. Tesla along with pretty much all car manufacturers charge the same amount for an EV in places that offer an incentive such as California versus places that don't, such as Texas. Based on your logic a Tesla should be more expensive in California, which offers a $7500 credit compared to Texas. But that's not the case.
A couple of questions:

1) can you print on oxide, nitride, or carbide ceramics?

2) can you print on shaped materials? Like for example, printing a pcb directly onto the inner side of a rigid shell for an aerofoil/wing?

3) what sort of material restrictions come with electrochemical printing? Can you do aluminum? Titanium?

4) what is the minimum feature size? Could this, for example, print a controlled porous/wick structure with pore sizes around 50um?

5) for those of us without the capital to buy a printer, will you also offer printing services?
> because really it comes down to the frequency of data parsing into and out of the protobuf format.

Protobuf is intentionally designed to NOT require any parsing at all. Data is serialized over the wire (or stored on disk) in the same format/byte order that it is stored in memory

(Yes, that also means that it's not validated at runtime)

Or are you referencing the code we all invariably write before/after protobuf to translate into a more useful format?
That's why I said "it's hard to compare them". One of them is a true problem, and the other is a debt that fully informed, smart people elected to take on and plan for.
As I recall, there's a russian word for it too.
Grass doesn't grow on hills, or soil with lots of stone/rocks that would be prohibitively expensive to turn into cropland? Not to mention that cropland using regenerative farming, or anything actually sustainable, should include grazing animal rotation.
we're still an industry where many companies can't reliably ship basic crud apps. getting from there to solid security in the absence of extraordinary investment... not sure how that happens.

Rachel of rachelbythebay related a story from a faang where some genius replaced code that created a directory with a shell call to `mkdir -p` in a core lib. Because it was convenient to get a mkdir call that would create parents. This got through code review! "Surprise, we're dumping the args you hand us straight to sh/bash/zsh/whatever. Hope every caller has a deep understanding of shell escaping rules and can correctly clean these args! tada!"

You hear things like that and I'm not sure what hope most of us have...

edit: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/12/24/mkdir/
I do know that some companies lease them, which is a bad financial decision for a homeowner - not only do you not own them, which is bad, but the contract stays with the house, which may make it harder to sell. After all, why would I buy a house that's somehow weirdly indebted to some fly-by-might solar installation company I've never heard of ?
As someone who has been new car shopping for the first time recently, its absurd how much some of these cars are. A new prius at the top trim costs ~43k, whereas a lexus actually costs less than 42k for a higher level trim

The Prius gets ~60mpg whereas the Lexus gets ~42mpg, so it seems like it would pay for itself a bit more over time if you drove it into the ground, but at that price, it makes no sense to stick with the lower build quality cars.
I think XY actually has better resolution depending on your perspective. I agree that the minimum extrusion is approximately a line width circle. But that circle can move less than the line width for features on larger surfaces. For example, if you emboss something on the side of an object with 0.3mm depth using a 0.4mm nozzle / line-width, it will work fine.
ZettelVim. Transforming Vim into a Zettelkasten Machine
ZettelVim

ZettelVim is a note-taking environment for studies in Neovim, using Lua and Treesitter. Inspired by Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten method, it aims to create an interconnected knowledge ecosystem, where each note can be easily accessed, created, and linked, forming a robust information network.
Features

Quick Note Creation and Access: With simple commands, create and access notes directly in Neovim.
Bidirectional Links: Implementation of hyperlinking in the Zettelkasten way, allowing rich connections between notes.
Thematic Index Notes: If desired, organize notes into specific themes, increasing the connection between notes of the same theme.
Flexibility and Extensibility: Developed with Lua and leveraging the power of Treesitter for syntactic analysis, providing a base for future expansions and customization.

![Alt text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gabriel-Goes/ZettelVim/mai...)

Quick Start

To start using ZettelVim, follow these steps:

Ensure you have Neovim installed on your machine.
Clone this repository to your local machine.
Follow the setup instructions in the 'INSTALL.md' file to configure ZettelVim in Neovim.

Basic Commands

To create a new note, use <leader>qff with the cursor over the desired word.
In visual mode, the qff command allows access to terms composed of more than one selected word.
Automatically created notes are added to the glossary, and their links are managed automatically.

Project Structure

ZettelVim organizes knowledge into individual notes within a directory called Brainstorming. Each note can contain links to other notes, forming an interconnected knowledge network.
Contributions

Contributions to ZettelVim are welcome! If you have ideas for improvements, bug fixes, or new features, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is distributed under the GPL-3.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more details.
Acknowledgments

Niklas Luhmann, for developing the Zettelkasten method.
The Neovim community, for developing a powerful and extensible editor.
The problem is the university never considers the other side. What is the cost of banning unsupervised swimming? Has Phelps really never swam/trained unsupervised?

The issue is the visibility is very one-sided. Everyone reads about the rare case where a kid drowns while unsupervised swimming. No one reads about the hundreds of thousands of kids that do it with no issues.

Let people take risk if they understand it and accept the risk. The university should not be held liable but the kid should not be prevented. Risk is often the price of freedom.
Lately I have been running with showdead and occasionally vouching.
No, the town was in poverty because the business owners had leverage to squeeze most of the workers. Conveyor belt guy had the skillset and gumption to actually get paid for his labor, because there was no alternative.

Blame the corporation that squeezes its employees for every dime, not a front line worker who actually manages to get paid appropriate compensation.
Differential Analysis: A Summary
What really stuck out to me was how soft the opinions were. Especially the dissent. Rather than dry legal reasoning, it was argued much like a politician would. Maybe this happens fairly often, but usually when I read the actual decision from SCOTUS is is very specific and sober, even if I disagree with the conclusion.
Indeed so.

For a while now, I've been struggling with the realization that I may need to just leave this industry entirely as a dev.

The tickle in my brain that tells me that as an industry we have ceased to be a force for (on the whole) good and have instead become a force for profit extraction above all else is getting too loud for me to ignore.

It seems to me that the tech that I've been helping to build for decades has been repurposed and weaponized against people instead of helping people and improving everyone's situation.
After using the cheapest e-Reader for over a decade (Kindle 2 until support ended, Kindle 3 until the same) I finally upgraded to the top Oasis and love it. Things that are absolutely essential IMO are

- physical page turn buttons. the touch screens are finicky, inconvenient for one-hand use, and impossible if i want to keep my hand up a blanket or something

- back/front light, with adjustable color temp, and an actual dim setting that doesn't blow your retinas out

everything i don't care about. but these are must haves.
Basically googling "tokio read line" didn't lead me to uncle's solution.
The links on the 404 page bought me to some very nostalgic feeling pages. Very late-90s aesthetic. An MP3 directory index. A webcam with a frame that hasn't refreshed since 2009. I miss the old internet.
Is this the best / only continuation of the phabricator project? I hope it's done away with the silly names for everything.
This has been a struggle for me as I've gotten older - and I'm not even that old (36) but I've noticed such a big culture shift with the younger generations.

I've been accused of holding "far right" views, or at best an overly paranoid nut, for some of my opinions on software and internet freedom, for promoting E2E encryption, and lamenting the loss of public forums to private, hidden from search, discord/Facebook groups, etc.

To be honest, it's difficult to sit by and watch the enshittification of everything tech while seeing the younger crowd be totally OK with it, and in a lot of cases even defend it.
Why perplexity.ai is so popular?
You aren't excited when next year:

You child is taught by an AI that follows them through their development, instead of different teachers each year that expose them do different points of view. And with an AI always with them, no need to actually go to a physical school.

Your exercise classes are replaced by an AI instructor (custom tailored to you, aka considers like 3 factors) removing that pesky need to leave your house or have any human interaction.

Drones deliver your groceries/restaurant prepared meals removing the need to leave your house.

When you do leave, you use a driverless Uber to get where you are going so need for any human contact.

Man, good thing we aren't already suffering from a loneliness crisis. But hey, we'll have the AI consensus algorithms blathering the same bland most predictable responses at us using the mindset of the pre-2022 internet (forever), so if you like Wonder bread in verbal form you are going to be friggin stoked!
2 dishwashers idea works more in a single person or 2 people household depending on habits. The dishes in the 2 dishwashers are the ones you use frequently, and for occasional times, you get the extras in the cupboards. It's also a decision you make during construction. The difference in cost between a dishwasher and a full bottom row of drawers is not much different, especially if they are beside each other and you already wired up one dishwasher.
ActivityWatch: opensource, cross-platform, privacy-focused automatic timelogging
Really? I struggled with calc in school because lectures were dry proofs (without ever formally teaching how proofs work!!) and then they just told us to read the textbook. Then I found mit ocw and ripped through the material because it was much more engaging. Never would have passed calc I-III, linear algebra, and diff eq without those lecture recordings.
MySQL Performance Monitoring: Best Practices
I'm glad he got a settlement, as the local government and police were 100% in the wrong. I'm hoping governments take note. But also just consider: you should be nice to people, and while it's certainly your right to use your freedoms as you wish, maybe consider less abrasive uses of your freedom when possible.

The root of the problem is thus: by turning the police in tax collectors, we've created an environment ripe for abuse by government. The most peaceful and non-violent exit is to reduce the collection of taxes, giving us an offramp, and freeing them to actual investigate and prevent violent crimes and thefts.
> All concurrency is parallelism, but not all parallelism is concurrency

As sibling notes, you have it exactly backwards. It should read "All parallelism is concurrency, but not all concurrency is parallelism." I thought maybe this was a typo, but then you said:

> If you just think of concurrency as an instance of parallelism, you start to realize there are many ways to achieve concurrency, and thread-safe queues are one of the better ways to do it.

This is demonstrating parallelism as an instance of concurrency, not the other way around. A thread-safe queue can be processed by multiple tasks running interleaved in a single thread in which case it is executing concurrently, but not in parallel.

> Individual CPU cores are parallel because they are executing multiple instructions simultaneously

This is an implementation detail of the CPU. Not all CPUs execute instructions in parallel.
Looks awesome.

We've been using Celery at ListenNotes.com since 2017. I agree that observability of Celery tasks is not great.
I have run into similar problems, and I haven't found a perfect solution yet. I am curious about what people here are doing.

First, specifically about this "RSS to kindle" thing: it's definitely nice, but it means I need to push all articles to kindle, including those I'm not interested in by reading the headline. When I use feedly, I probably scroll past more than half of the articles in my feed. I wish there was a native RSS reader on kindle.

And I have similar needs to articles that I find on Hacker News or elsewhere. Most of the time I push them to Pocket and deal with them later. I haven't tried all pocket integrations (or other similar "push to kindle services), but p2k isn't great as it compresses images to the degree that they are not legible any more. And there are always some articles that either don't render at all, or things break (e.g. table not showing). Finally, it's painful to clean up my kindle library, and I wish I don't need to do any organization work.

I considered boox but they are really bad at keeping Android updated. Customer service is also bad -- I have seen horror stories.

Scribe's browser is actually much better than in previous generations, but nowhere near what I find usable.

Perhaps the best solution is to have an iPad mini. The device is very responsive, the screen size is perfect, there are lots of apps for almost everything I want to read, and the article mode in Safari works well. But I really don't want to spend $400 to have another tablet just for reading, and I really want things to just work on my two kindles. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a great way to do that.
Sorry… I didn’t mean to imply that PlantUML or Mermaid had any accessibikity support out of the box. I’ve not tested it and wouldn’t expect it to do that.

My point was more that the raw Marmaid “code” is more likely to communicate the content of a flow chart to some users with certain access needs than a diagram made of divs. In the same way that raw HTML, or HTML rendered with no stylesheet is (should be) more accessible than a document with accordions and carousels.

I accept there probably isn’t tooling to turn Mermaid into a more accessible diagram yet. But there could be. If instead you transmit the diagram as HTML with CSS hacks, you’re losing all the semantic data through the informality of the solution.

I left my contrarian comment because fancy demos have a habit of turning into justification for further “clever” but flawed work. A naive user might see the flow chart example as “good” andnpropose they use the hack in their own project. The solution prevents certain groups of people from accessing the data.

Saying it another way: hacks shouldn’t be used to endorse a new technology.
I'm sure that, with an annotated dataset, a model could learn to pick up on the right cues.