skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Italy built the Leonardo HPC cluster, it's one of the largest in EU and was created by a consortium of universities. After just over a year it's already at full capacity and expansion plans have been anticipated because of this.
"I don't want to" is enough as long as I'm not legally obliged.

It doesn't matter for my purposes whether you agree with this as a principle.
Some people do. Linguists on the whole don't, and it will be a long while before they do. Literature is still completely shared, and we can read each other's newspapers with zero problems.

It's good to distinguish between Flemish as the group of dialects spoken in roughly the provinces of East- and West-Flanders, and Flemish as the broad name for everything that's not quite the standard language in the larger region of Flanders, which is the Dutch-speaking half of Belgium and includes three more provinces. I'm not sure which of those two those people refer to.
> And, it absolutely should not require creating two identical function definitions to get around the function coloring problem - that's completely indefensible.

Where do you see insanity like this?
I think the situation highlights the need for better regulation
They meant to say "meteoric rise".

It is a common phrase.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/meteoric
I am using AWS Textract + LLM (OpenAI/Claude) to read grocery receipts for <https://www.5outapp.com>

So far, I have collected over 500 receipts from around 10 countries with 30 different supermarkets in 5 different languages.

What has worked for me so far is having control over OCR and processing (for formatting/structuring) separately. I don't have the figures to provide a cost structure, but I'm looking for other solutions to improve both speed and accuracy. Also, I need to figure out a way to put a metric around accuracy. I will definitely give this a shot. Thanks a lot.
But of course that there are e-cycling races. E-Giro took place basically alongside the original race. It's mostly populated by amateurs, but it's still there.
What a wonderful site and page! Explains it very well.

Also stay away from hard drugs like this.
> facilitating inclusion, equity, and diversity within their community;

Would you prefer it if it excluded some people, and the ones that it includes are a homogeneous group?
I've never had DKA in 12 years. How does it happen? I've been on CGM (Libre/Dexcom) and it's impossible to get high enough values unnoticed to end up with ketoacidosis for me. Even before with sticks, I just measured often enough.

Would be really curious to know more how DKA happens to you!
When a tea spoon is used as a fork be sure something is wrong with the tea spoon or the fork.
You’d need square sensors, not an internal moving gimbal, so manufacturers would be left with a choice: should the square fit the circle or the circle fit the square? The first would lower quality and the second would increase costs and add wasted pixels (vignette).
> Remarkable how rules accounting rules like this can derail a project.

it's only remarkable in the sense that British politicians allow government to be like this. the PM can tell the Treasury and Chancellor to fuck off and account for things in a more useful way, but they simply don't.
> Do you really think that everyone is going to opt out?

You sure as shit don't need everyone to opt-out. You just need enough folks standing around in a queue for the supervisor to get uncomfortable with how long the line is getting for them to dispense with the theater and start waving everyone through only metal detectors.
The downside here in Germany, the trains are very fast but then slow down to go to the city center (Munich, Leipzig, Hamburg + also too many stops in general for political reasons) - so it still takes a working day to travel around.

As Amdahl's law applies here, newer high speed trains in Germany are no longer as fast, because if you have these slow passages / many stops, there is no difference between 250 and 300 (there are some prestige 300km/h lines).
The complexity and variability of geothermal features
if statements in the code.

do you need a “platform” for feature flags? if you have so many feature flags that you need complex management i think that indicates you need configuration/settings management.
> acts of force (wrongs) can not be made right.

Absolute freedom doesn't exist either.

A government is a legitimate monopoly of violence and I'm all for it. Because I know that the alternatives are much worse (warlords and such).

> That's fine. I'll say that these 2 ideas are flawed that a/ you know something to be true because you've been told it is, even though you do not have not personally verified whatever-it-is, leaves you very open to manipulation by whoever has the megaphone you listen to and b/ the idea that the apparent consensus opinion is right and should force it's version of reality on non-believers is immoral.

At the end of the day, I cannot verify everything, everywhere, all the time. That's why smart people use the same "web of trust" principle that computer security does, where you trust people close to you and then other less and less.

I'm at a point of life where:

a) I know I don't know everything

b) I know that I'm frequently wrong

However I also know that I read 10-100x more than the average person, I interact with people that do the same, I challenge my assumptions periodically (which average people don't do) and whenever possible, I verify things to make sure I'm aligned with reality (which average people do).

Most people just don't bother/give up/were never educated to nurture their intellectual side. It's fair to admit this, even though we might be idealists that hope that everyone will wisen up and do this. Some people will always remain dumb (due to lack of privilege or otherwise... at some point it doesn't matter, the end result is the same).

So, knowing the little I do know and the lot that I don't know, I'm fairly confident that the best model for our current reality regarding climate is accepting that humans are changing it, probably for the worse.

And I'm mature enough to understand we can't persuade 100% of the people, especially in the age of internet and nutjobs being able to congregate and convince themselves that up is down and the sky is red and gravity doesn't exist and the Earth is flat and...

So I'm fine with dragging some people along for the ride against their will. Societal progress always works this way, especially since some of those opposed are malicious actors.

> I'll say that these 2 ideas are flawed that a/ you know something to be true because you've been told it is, even though you do not have not personally verified whatever-it-is, leaves you very open to manipulation by whoever has the megaphone you listen to and b/ the idea that the apparent consensus opinion is right and should force it's version of reality on non-believers is immoral

Guess what, those Big Oil mega corps are forcing their reality on non-believer me every day. I want fewer of their cars, I want more greenery, I want more bikes, I want more ebikes, I want more and better side walks, I want my kids to breathe a clean air.

> I don't expect to be able to force my opinions on others.

Then nothing will get done. Even the freest of direct democracies never has 100% consensus. Some people buckle up and get taken along for the ride, gritting their teeth.
As long as you measure often and inject control amounts liberally eating pretty much everything is fine. I think the diet restrictions were very much necessary before frequent testing and fast acting insulins were available.
HS2 is by far the most important transportation project, it massively impacts the whole rail system. HS2 connects North and South like never before. And it massively improves what you can do with regional and local trains on the rest of the network.

And its pretty much ready to go. Work is lined up and planed. All it needs is political support and funding.

Other projects should be done, but they should be planned in the understanding of how the whole network is reworked with HS2.
You don’t have the money nor the armies of civil servants, nor access to all the details when you’re not in government.

Probably the best that they can do for anything this complex is headline policies and high level plans.

Now they are in power it’s probably only 10–20% about having the right policy and 80–90% about execution being competent, consistent, and quick.

They need to be given time to do the right thing, but not too much time.
All of the assumptions (and the metaphor) contained in that response of yours seems to contradict the statement itself.

By using “just” you’ve already asserted that there is nothing more of relative importance to figure out—it’s done, figured out.
The importance of respecting and understanding the natural forces at work in geothermal areas
I run past the building works at Old Oak Common quite frequently, it’s been quite incredible seeing such a large infrastructure project happening that’ll have such a limited impact.
I think the antitrust argument is more about preventing Big tech from getting even bigger rather than directly related to Wiz.
The LibreLink app allows me to use different alarm tones for lows and highs, and I'm _still_ getting alert fatigue. To the point that my wife needs to ask "is that your phone telling you you have a hyper?" for me to actually start doing something about it, sometimes.
AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women
Any gamer would know this by heart ;)
yes, sadly, hiding functions and ignoring search operators has been a trend for Google.
Show HN: All of human history, in AI podcasts
This is a great way to really improve things while also maintaining backwards compatibility. I do hope we see something along these lines making it into the next (post 2024) edition
What's Coming in Ruby on Rails 7.2: Database Features in Active Record
Our school's headmaster advised me not to take computer science classes as they are "too difficult." It ended up being the class in which I got my best marks, I was the top student and made my living out of programming ever since.
I think what doors do is rendezvous synchronization: the caller is atomically blocked as the callee is unblocked (and vice versa on return). I don't think there is an efficient way to do that with just plain POSIX primitives or even with Linux specific syscalls (Binder and io_uring possibly might).
I tried to figure out what this is about. Lead-acid battery perhaps, only needs some water sometimes. Those batteries suck, because 1)lead and 2)acid.

Also there was a generation of cheap Chinese lead-acid E-bikes already and they did catch fire, mostly because of dodgy wiring.
Ham Radio: WSJT-X SuperFox Verification is flawed
There are solutions in monolithic kernels for writing safe kernel space code now too. eBPF has been a thing for a while now (https://ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf/) and while it might not be as safe as microkernel it's available now and it works on both Windows and Linux.

I think a big question is why are things like CrowdStrike still written in raw C++ Kernel code? Is it the limitations of eBPF? Is it stagnations of the tech stack at these companies?
Men are discriminated against in the form of affirmative action and other programs now that explicitly take resources from them and give them to others. Many men now expect the government to take care of women in the form of food stamps, Medicare, social security, welfare type programs and thus do not contribute or participate. This leads to more children being raised without fathers, which has been proven time and again in studies to harm them greatly.

It's time for us to trust the science again and do what we can to keep families together so that children gain all the advantages of having an involved father.
Aren't all sensors square already (well 4:3, or 3:2) , and fitting the circle ?
We're building nuclear spaceships again–this time for real
Not many, but would be ok to let non-tech handle their wanted features
It isn’t illegal, that’s the point. For political reasons an initiative was created to “hunt Chinese Innovation theft” and that initiative needed to go after “someone” so they looked through what hints they could find and went after people who were doing nothing wrong, but looked like they could at least be pressured into taking some plea deal, so the politically motivated xenophobic which hunt committee could present a result of “this many people were ‘caught’” and get a nice big bonus for creating a Fox News sound bite.

This was started under Trump, and canned under Biden. It’s a travesty and complete circus of an injustice and a racially motivated assault on the scientific community.
It's not about performance, it's about viability. If the result is so slow that it's unusable, it doesn't matter how portable it ends up being.
> There are no “naked” images.

Untrue. For years there absolutely were.

<https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tsa-full-body-scans-privat...>

> Unless you consider x-rays and other similar imaging systems to create “naked” images.

These are used in medical scenarios with your fully-informed consent. TSA was absolutely not forthcoming about the capabilities of their checkpoint scanners, and they earned the moniker "pornoscanner" for a very good reason.

Additionally, even ignoring the fact that most medical x-rays are used to look inside of you rather than at your skin (why would one use a fancy machine for a surface inspection when the Mk. 1 eyeball is Right There?), the context is completely different in a way that's very, very important.
Your experience underscores the importance of user-centered design in medical devices
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I would say every company of a certain size or criticality should have a proper IT team. It does not even need to be large, but they need to have the expertise and authority to veto certain decisions. I often see vendor deals being made solely for the discount and other marketing crap, like getting another piece of service free as a bonus. IT then gets silenced because number goes up. I have seen situations where leaderhsip keeps asking IT/Engineering the same question "But why can't we just do this?" in different ways and dissecting the answers, asking for reports, and proof, and what not, so that IT is forced to make a bulletproof case against it. It then appears that IT has a personal thing against the vendor. So IT gives up. System is up. Often, part of the problem is the vendor buying lunch to key decision makers and being pals.
Good question. There's some evidence that not all affected systems has seen this 'all zeroes' file, the first account stories varies. But something was definitely broken in the deployed data. But, once again, CrowdStrike does not paint a clear picture and it raises new questions and only partially answers old ones.

Why is it so hard for manufacturers to just go ahead and explain what really went wrong, without a lot of corporate b..t? Probably, if they do really say what happened in so many words they might open themselves for negligence lawsuits. Hopefully somebody files one anyway. The industry needs to learn to be better, and the only thing that talks loudly enough is probably money. Lost revenue, liability damages, and share holder value loss.
Another tip, if you're running away from rocks falling out of the sky (or extremely big hailstones) then at least put an arm over your head.

It might just save your life.
Doctors burning-out is probably the worse red-flag you could have for a health system. It's frightening to think the person diagnosing my parents and children might not be in full possession of their capacity or make rash decisions.

I'm seeing the same pattern for many crucial functions having been pushed over the line during the last two decades or so. Whether it's a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a childminder, the police, etc. All the jobs that are essential for a developed society have crumbled down to the point I'd discourage any young person to pursue a career in that sector.
Well, Docker did a few things differently then these older approaches. First, the one-process-per-container mantra, second the layered file system and build process and third, the "wireing together" of multiple containers via exposed ports.
Zones and Jails were more like LXC and were mostly used as a "lightweight virtual machine".
Under psilocybin, certain smells can make me suddenly lose consciousness. Due to this, while trying some out at the start of this year, I fainted while exiting the bathroom and woke up with a head injury that required staples in order to close.

Sure, it wasn't the drug itself's fault; all it did was make me sensitive to smell, and then the smell made me faint. I had been fine for something like 8 hours since having taken it. But stuff like this is a risk with psychedelics. If I had fallen slightly differently I probably could've died.

I took the other half of the psilocybin about a week later in order to process the trauma; I figured out the reason for the fainting when I walked past the bathroom again and felt like it was about to happen again. Pretty crazy if you ask me.

I guess the moral of the story is that you really can't expect anything to be perfectly safe even if it won't kill you on its own.
If it were publicly traded, it would have a P/E of 600.

I'll help you out since you don't read, a normal P/E is 20-30. To say it is not a great financial investment is unequivocal. It is effectively a write-off for the foreseeable future.

But that is not to say you shouldn't invest in difficult problems and try to solve them, even if they don't make money. This is one of them. I hope people do the same for other challenging problems.
Using GPT for natural language querying
Ha, the good old days of Go frameworks... Remember Martini drama? Iris drama?

I actually wished the web dev community would have stuck to these petty fights instead of fighting over partisan politics. But things are what they are.

And don't get me started on Go ORM drama...
Kotlin solved this pointless debate long time ago the moment they’ve released coroutines.

Best of both worlds: you no longer have two functions with ReturnType and Promise<ReturnType>. You just mark potentially blocking function with suspend and you’re done.
A sensible decision indeed
They were. Corbyn announced a nationalisation plan in 2015. But Labour is not a monolith, and Starmer has decided to distance himself from anything that smells vaguely Corbynish.
Yes, we have sadly learned this the hard way... Also we can't actually migrate users automatically from dev to prod. T_T

Signups are re-enabled, and I'm writing a script now to re-associate everyone's old chat history. Sorry for the launch day struggles!
> it was an inherent personality that came out because of precisely the opposite, they simply didn't give a shit what anyone else thought.

A possible missing step here. While maybe true for some, many of (the few) eccentric types I know grew up bullied or ostracized in some small ways and after repeated failings to "fit in" or please others expectations said f-this and embraced themselves. It still came about from others, but in a not so pleasant way
No, it didn’t. Not for economic reasons — after the fall of USSR, many families started to make “homemade pizzas” of various quality.

The reason was that nobody actually knew what is a pizza. USSR was a totalitarian state. All information flows from abroad were tightly controlled. There was no internet, and only a limited set of curated Western movies and books, none of which even mentioned pizza.
The mental and physical benefits of improved glucose management cannot be overstated
The moment you say "Please stop with FUD" I instantly assume that the reason you're actually worried about FUD is because it's directly linked to the value of your tokens.
I can't load the article, so this is likely off topic, but the memory came rushing back when I read this headline.

I attended a wedding that got hit by a major flash flood that required a rescue operation by boat and helicopter. Thankfully no one was seriously injured. A half dozen people were swept away and rescued from trees. The rest of us got to higher floors of the building and they were concerned about us waiting out the flood because cars from the parking lot floated and rammed the first floor of the building. It was featured on an episode of I Do, Redo.

They brought in busses to transport the 61 people rescued to the local high school where they had activated the Red Cross and provided us dry cloths and food. I can't say enough nice things about the Red Cross volunteers and the staff at the high school, and same with the fire department and EMS.

However, when we were loaded into the busses, the police held the busses until they had a drug dog come into the busses to walk up and down the aisles, and only after that let the busses take us to the high school. While no one was seriously injured physically, people were traumatized from the flooding event and many attendees suffered from PTSD for years.

It was so cruel for the police department to do what they did with everyone in the mental state that we were in.

For reasons I do not understand, we were not free to leave the high school, and even the people that did not lose their cars to the flood were required to go to the high school on the busses. I can't recall how long they detained us at the high school, I'd guess 3 to 5 hours, and then they let us leave. The friend that came to pick me up (I did lose my vehicle to the flood) got to the high school not long after I did and had to wait in the parking lot for hours.

We wanted to feel safe once we got to dry land after the ordeal we went through. I did not feel safe until I got home.
> I actually wished the web dev community would have stuck to these petty fights instead of fighting over partisan politics.

I often kinda missed the days where computers weren't cool.
web stuff n even web services is where golang got a lot to catch up to with jvm ecosystem i.e java / kotlin etc in terms of productivity and industrial off-the-shelf stuff.
Same as Deepnote?
I’m all ears how IDE will determine that function is blocking 20 layers deep into third party library I don’t even have source code of.
I get your frustration of a scorched internet. But I don't think it's all that gloomy. Whether we like it or not, LLMs and some kind of a "down-to-earth AI" is here to stay, once the dust settles. Right now, it feels like everything is burning because we're in the thick of an evolving situation; and the Silicon Valley tech-bros are in a hurry to ride the wave and make a quick buck with their ChatGPT wrapper. (I can't speak of social networks, I don't have any accounts for 10+ years, except for HN.)

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On "collective losing of minds", you might appreciate this quote from 1841 (!) by Charles MacKay. I quoted it in the past[1] here, but is worth re-posting:

"In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first [...]

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."

— from MacKay's book, 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds'

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25767454