skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The US system is a mini-monarchy

Think what you like about the effectiveness of the US system, but it's not a monarchy in any way, shape, or form. A monarchy requires power (or at least a position that's supposed to have power, as most modern monarchies are really just figureheads) to be inherited. Sure, once in a while US presidents get to that position partly because of family connections (FDR, GWB), but that's nothing like the way an actual monarchy operates.
They actually changed the source of their water, for a few reasons, but the lead pipes behaved OK when used with water from the Detroit system, once they switched to drawing from the flint river (while a pipeline to Lake Huron was being constructed) the more corrosive water from the flint river sort of “unleashed the leaching” of lead from the pipes. So, it’s about a bit more than just lead pipes. Here’s a good article explaining

https://www.nrdc.org/stories/flint-water-crisis-everything-y...
> It’s not severely limited, that’s why it’s cheap

This is false.

Most western states associate water rights with land ownership. The marginal cost of a unit of water for a user with their own well is close to zero (wells do require electricity and maintanance, but these costs are generally very small).

However, the existence of those water rights (e.g. "this 5 acre parcel comes with 3 acre-feet of water") has nothing to do with whether the water is actually available, and increasingly in many parts of the southwest, it is not.

"Severely limited" in my book means that water usage could not increase by 50%. Fairly sure this condition applies to more or less the entire US southwest.
> signs telling people of those cameras to get them to slow down and stop running

This is why there’s a red light?
Sort of -- but basically no course is going to teach X and Y, if they're functionally equivalent ways to learn about Z, because almost no course is specifically about X or Y, it's about Z, and learning both X and Y isn't germane to learning Z, just learning one is enough.

As long as the companies behind X and Y both have a fair shot at sponsorship, this isn't really anti-competitive. It's literally a competition in which the companies compete for student and faculty attention.

Anti-competitive would be a company saying "you must teach X and not Y in your class about Z because you use Xco's mail services" or some other such abuse of one contractual relationship for an unrelated gain.
I was deeply touched by PKD describing night as the time outside of the hot baking heat of the Palm Tree Garden, masked from God's hot watchful eye. A time open to free & liquid consideration.

My inhibitions & perfectionism slip away, my barriers fall, and the intrepid explorer in me comes out. I can work without constant self review, try things that I would want to consider more deeply in the day. The night is glorious & great.
This _feels_ good to a single dev working on a project, where the rules are intuitive, no explanation is needed, and deadlines are fluid.

But I have to imagine this creates a lot of friction within a team, all trying to adhere to rules under the guise of efficiency, at great opportunity cost. And what's the ultimate impact to the customer? Do they care how elegant the codebase is?

It's worth noting what The Toyota Way is. It's a way to ensure high production quality. It is also slow. This is why Toyota effectively abandoned The Toyota Way in the mid 2000s, and why they were raked through the coals over recall issues in 2013. Growth.

If deadlines are involved, I struggle to see the argument for making view files beautifully atomic vs. say, making an improvement that adds customers / reduces churn.
Yeah, as I was reading the team page, I realized I have no idea how to judge these inevitable forks at the moment because while I’m a Nix user, I don’t know the individual community players well enough to understand their perspective and/or in involvement in the kerfuffle without digging deeper.

What I do know is that there were attitudes and behaviors on display in the community that I’d like to steer clear of going forward, and I’ll migrate to (or stay) wherever those attitudes are not. Time will tell, and I do hope there’s a strong fork that can improve on Nix and move beyond the past issues.
> The Limeys call them 'public schools'

It’s public in the sense that a public bar is public - you still have to pay.

It comes from an era when the options were private tutoring, or being sent to school “in public”.
Yes, never trust features like these for anything important, we're just not in that era of computing where losing user state is a cardinal sin.
Had the same issue.

Though you could use a shortcut to quit the editor instead of closing windows
Similarly checkpoint inhibitors can cause autoimmune conditions that look a lot like lupus, arthritis, inflammatory bowel, endocrine disorders, etc. and it's sometimes difficult to be able treat both as it can be antagonistic. E.g. one of the checkpoint inhibitors has the opposite effect of a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
I think wait but why really nailed the theory of baby naming - https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/12/how-to-name-baby.html
80% of all desktop traffic. Overall maybe 30-45% of all web traffic.
This is a great response. I tapped out something longer about not being as particularly impressed with the paper and the headline here on HN, but as an rheumatologist just wanted to say your last two paragraphs well said.
Sounds great; downloading it now to try.

To the Zed folks here, can you please add a little line to say that it is an editor, for people like me who are not in the loop. There's nothing clear on the landing page or on the docs page that indicates it is so. The video shows an editor, but plenty of software has built in editors.
Why Success Doesn't Lead to Satisfaction
You should ask the arraycast guys on how they did it. They got him to talk about ivy and apl/array style programming for an hour or so.
Anyone else want to quit their job & hack an open source space MMO?

Ideally in my view one that keeps a world open or spaces open to those who do want to bot, who want to code, & explore virtual space both from a beautiful game client and scripts where they build agency & capability?

Once upon a day, some hackers used to script EVE by getting access to the python interpreter & just using a python repl to script the game. That was glory, glorious harmony of mankind being empowered truly, genuinely, and to the limits of their imagination within the virtual.
Yeah, but failure sure as hell does not either, and I have a lot of that. I wonder why I cannot be more successful at life at other things too. I want to be successful at things that does not involve investing in tech stocks.
They mention at one point that Java doesn't have a way to pass a function as a parameter to another function. That was added in Java 8 with lambdas. That's just one off the top of my head.
Did you name her Adenine?
I've used this for debugging on pretty much every single SQLite project I've ever done. An excellent piece of software!
Some see a rich person donating money like that and wrongly assume some sort of ulterior motive.
Would be great to have a TUI interface for browsing like ncdu.
The Future of Trash [pdf] (2023)
I don’t believe there is any evidence that vitamin C reduces inflammation or helps with depression. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, not an anti-inflammatory agent.

There is evidence that things that reduce systemic inflammation help with depression. Fish oil, or more generally a balanced omega-3/omega-6 intake is one example. Curcumin is another. However the effects are modest, which is probably to be expected with a condition as diverse as depression.
Did you consider the fts[0] family of functions for traversal? I use that along with a work queue for filtered entries to get pretty good performance with dedup[1]. For my use case I could avoid any separate stat call altogether, the FTSENT already provided everything I needed.

0 - https://linux.die.net/man/3/fts_read

1 - https://github.com/ttkb-oss/dedup/blob/6a906db5a940df71deb4f...
Extremely weird to me when people compare themselves to computers. What is that philosophical stance called and do you have any references for long form writing which makes the case for why people are "just" computers?
I believe you are right as intelligent grows, but the very top end usually has people excelling in many things and personality as well. At least that’s what I noticed.
> Among the many ill effects: the Book Review tokenizes non-white writers in essentialist ways, reducing them to mere standard-bearers of their perceived cultures

There is a hilarious film right now about a black American writer being forced to do this by liberals. The terrible book he creates takes off and people think he is the caricature.
I think you're on the same page here. They might not have expressed it clearly but it's about pivoting and adapting to the market.

I'm also reminded of Mike Tyson's quote: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face".

Things rarely go as planned, so you should favor following leads and taking advantage of opportunities, instead of sticking rigorously to some plan you put together when you were less experienced.

Unless there's evidence the original plan is still viable, oftentimes, being attached to it and ignoring what's the market is telling you is just your ego speaking.
Not a fan of anywhere with that many mosquitos.
SMART-supporting HDDs can execute several kinds of self-tests, e.g. long test, short test or conveyance test.

On Linux these can executed with "smartctl", which can also be used to read the error logs after the tests finish. The long test can take almost a day on big HDDs, while the other tests take only a few minutes.

After I had some problems with a bad HDD, I have begun to always execute all the SMART tests whenever I buy a HDD. Of course, if any test fails, the HDD must be returned immediately and the vendor cannot refuse to replace it when the request is backed by the failed SMART acceptance tests.

This is a good habit, because even if such events are very rare, I have still encountered a few HDDs that have failed the tests, so I have returned them and I have received other good HDDs.
Considering the article confuses idempotence for reproducibility... Nix was probably beyond them.
I know you say chrome is fine but curious what CPU you have?
I absolutely hate programming during the day!

Working from home and working at night - for me this is the most quiet, energetic and productive time.
Anyone runs a zero inbox policy of email organization?
Ideas for a better format: do what xdiskusage does.
Most people I know with custom domains for email use gsuite anyway.

I went the Apple route but it’s very restrictive (easy though).
Think about this: when was the last time SV or the broader tech industry brought a revolutionary innovation to the consumer that improved their lives? The smartphone? Video streaming? I can't think of a single thing since. And those were both over a decade ago.

The tech industry is an environment composed almost entirely of companies running a loss to prove viability (and don't see that as ironic) to raise more funding from investors. AI is just the latest in a long series of empty hype to keep the gravy train running, last year it was VR, and it looks like at this point that the whole thing is teetering on a cliff. It's a bunch of MBAs scrambling for a sales pitch.

LLMs are useful. But "extremely lossy compression of documents with natural language lookup built in" doesn't sell endless subscriptions as well as "we created a mind." So they sell hype, which of course they cannot live up to because LLMs aren't minds.
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I was pretty moved by this. It wasn't what I expected. It's his personal experience working as a neurosurgeon for 9 years, his critiques of US healthcare, his recognizance of burnout, and his escape from it all. What comes across most, especially on youtube, is his sincerity and lack of presentation or preaching. It's so personal and ends up kind of inspiring.

He talks slowly and you can watch at 1.5x.

Edit: Why is this flagged?
Imo the best solution is a js web app or a C/C++ app.

For js this is what I have in mind. 1) You set and forget it, ie you work on it now or for a few years but eventually you’ll stop developing it and just let it live. 2) if the host provider dies (eg github pages goes away) you can easily deploy on the next provider. 3) you won’t ever rebuild it nor expect dependencies to be updated.

As a realistic example of this case, react is approaching 10y. I have small webapps I build with react in 2016, I certainly can’t rebuild them now, but the js produced in 2016 perfectly works. And if I want to improve them it’s faster to recreate them from scratch than going through the pain of upgrading (I actually did it for an app to learn svelte).

C/C++ for me it’s the case when you want to be able to recompile, that also means likely be able to compile on a platform that will be available in the future but is not available now. Cobol/Fortran are too old, go/rust are too new. Java I don’t know enough. But your main issue will be dependencies.

Rereading what I wrote, I think the main issue I see are external dependencies, if you really want to survive you should limit them to a minimum (or assume you won’t need access to them).
It’s really because Microsoft and Google control such a huge percentage of email now

No one has their own email server anymore because your mail won’t get through to those platforms and you can’t touch the uptime… it’s a different sort of monopoly… a free-opoly?
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926656
> Correct, it's a problem that exists, and it's a problem that is made worse by this legislation.

Sorry, how? You keep claiming this is a privacy concern, but so far, I see no evidence whatsoever that implementation of this anti-speeding regulation requires violations of privacy rights, or is planned to include violations of privacy rights.

It's beginning to sound like you just want to speed and are trying to justify that position by claiming that it's a violation of privacy when it simply isn't. If some form of enforcement violates people's rights to privacy, I'll oppose that, but I'm not going to oppose speeding regulation that saves lives on the basis that hypothetical enforcement options violate privacy rights. There are plenty of ways to implement anti-speeding enforcement that don't violate privacy rights.

Your argument right now is tantamount to claiming we can't have laws that might be enforced by violating people's privacy, but that logic applies to a whole lot of laws which you obviously don't support reversing. Should child pornography be legal? Should blowing up planes? Laws against those things have been implemented in ways that violate people's rights to privacy far more often than speeding. And I do agree that we should enforce those laws without violating people's privacy, but obviously we agree we can't just legalize those things because they might be enforced using methods that violate the right to privacy.
They say "hey if you want to teach a class using X, we'll sponsor it."

A competitor can complete for that sponsorship. So long as it's done on direct merit of the value, there's no problem.

Anti-competitive would be providing products or services and forcibly leveraging that into an unrelated contract.
> LLMs are best thought of as language generators (or "writers") not as repositories of knowledge and facts.

And the utility of a "language generator" without reliable knowledge or facts is extremely limited. The technical term for that kind of language is bullshit.

> People don't care about (or are willing to accept) the "wrong answers" because there are enough use cases for "writing" that don't require factual accuracy. (see for instance, the entire genre of fiction writing)

Fiction, or at least good fiction, requires factual accuracy, just not the kind of factual accuracy you recalling stuff from an encyclopedia. For instance: factual accuracy about what it was like to live in the world in a certain time or place, so you can create a believable setting; or about human psychology, so you can create believable characters.
"The first design used 8 transistors"
This gave me a chuckle. I remember long ago, I read the very first Iron Man comic somewhere.

I believe his repulsor blasts were powered by the newfangled and exotic "transistor" technology, with each gauntlet having something like 3 a piece.
My completely baseless theory is that there is an unbelievable amount of astroturfing happening in defense of this technology at a rate never seen before because of how badly people with capital want this to work and how "close" the tech is to achieving that.

If this is correct, then it's less of "people don't care" and more "the hype is louder than them."

That said: I, too, am completely perplexed by people within the tech community using LLMs heavily in making software while, unironically, saying that they have to keep an eye on it since it might produce incorrect work.
There's a monthly "seeking freelancer" thread, or at least there used to be. I also always mention my comfort working contract with people even when I'm interviewing for full time roles, in case that's helpful for them. "Any way that gets the money from your bank account to mine".

Edit: Also, I do recommend the "startup match" system they run, I've been having good success with that this year, found my current role and a number of solid roles that were candidates for acceptance. Be forewarned, that there are many well-intentioned but unserious people on there, so you definitely have to do a ton of legwork. Don't judge a book by it's cover, some of the best roles were people who frankly seemed somewhat unhinged but ended up being really interesting and compelling.
This is an excellent point and I wholeheartedly agree!
How do you notate that the v is aspirated? It's practically an f
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40926656
Damn, `ext4` is organized differently entirely. You can't get anything useful from:

sudo debugfs -R "icheck $RANDOM" /dev/nvme1
sudo debugfs -R "ncheck $res" /dev/nvme1

and recursing. That's a clever technique given btrfs structs.
Incredibly Realistic Hand Animation [video]
I got to half of it so far (will deffo watch it later).

One thing that struck me was the mention of what I call the "destructive" paradigm of medicine.

If we look at most current medical procedures, they are barbaric. Chopping stuff mainly.

How do you fix a fissure in the anus? LIS: Chop a bit of the sphincter and hope it heals back.

How do you fix GERD? Make a knot in the esophagus.

How do you fix Crohns? Chop the bowel and open a hole in the stomack .

Dont get me wrong, I applaud all the stuff current medicine helps with. And I'm far from a radical anti medicine .
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But those things make me think that in 500 years, people will turn back and see these sort of procedures the same way we see now how our ancestors treated bacterial infections: intentional bleeding, using leeches and other similar medieval procedures.

We as a society should start puahibg for more constructive or generative medicine. As the Guy in the video says, fixing the problem instead of alleviating the symptom.
Depends on the degree of speed change. It is unlikely that it would be an emergency stop.
The systems can also be deactivated, at least until the next time the vehicle is started.
A dentist can fix cavities. But what was the root cause? Lifestyle. What can a dentist do about it? Largely nothing. Of course there's going to be advice to brush your teeth and avoid sugary drinks, but such advice is given to children many times over before a dentist sees a cavity.

So is it myopic for a dentist to focus on fixing cavities? Is the dentist missing something big? The dental industry also experiences a problem that if everyone started brushing well then the industry would largely crash. Does that stop dentists from telling people to brush? No.
Instead of a quiz, you could do a puzzle / clue hunt.
In India ….
Yes. I was stationed there for work for 2 years by my employer, overall a good experience. Before going my overall view of Dubai was pretty negative, now I would say it’s slightly positive.

They are essentially on the right trajectory.
> To install Zed on most Linux distributions, run the shell script below.

> curl https://zed.dev/install.sh | sh

Please stop telling people to curl pipe scripts into their shell...
I use and recommend Seed https://seed.com
I like how code generation is typically done in Kotlin using KSP. Here you write your code generator as a plugin to the compiler, so you have the full expressivity of any JVM language you like. It also operates on the parsed and resolved AST, so you can analyze even derived types. It also allows code generators to run on code which has type errors or even fails to resolve some symbols which is very useful when you generate code from class annotations and then proceed to use the generated code later in the same file.

Another advantage of using KSP is that it also handles caching for you and will avoid running code generators again if the output already exists.
> There is a hilarious film right now about a black American writer being forced to do this by liberals. The terrible book he creates takes off and people think he is the caricature.

This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fiction_(film)
Also, humans can say "I don't know," a skill that seems impossible for LLMs
Lol, you don’t have choices currently
I've never liked any sort of "minimalist" computer or any product in the same vein as this. Never found any sort of use for it. If I want a computer (or any electronic device, really), I want the best one that I can buy at that price point with the most functionality. If I want to take a break from electronics, I can just use pen and paper. No point in shelling out hundreds of dollars for a tablet with less functionality. Perhaps if it was cheaper I could (maybe) considering using it.
I'd probably use lisp.

Choices... Have a goal and call it done one day. Refuse to do any legacy support upgrades, only bug fixes. No external dependencies.

I think what youre talking about is a huge problem, you can't build a technologically advanced civilization if your foundation is built on shifting sand. Unfortunately, we don't yet know how to do it because all this is so new, and because the incentives are the opposite of what you need to make it happen. You tell a guy that when he's done he's fired and he will find a way to never be done. Very few will be excited to move on to something new after bearing their creation.
Why? I’m going to run their software anyways. And this is a really easy way to run an installer.

This is basically the Linux equivalent of download and double click which is a user flow that is underrated for simplicity and usability.
Looks like a very useful project. Sadly, I cannot tell if the tool creates static images or interactive widgets. The website really misses some examples.