skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They wouldn't have advertised it as "CH4", that's not how people know it. It'd be methane or natural gas, more likely natural gas. Though the examples I'm coming up with are more recent than I was thinking (last decade) so unless GP is very young wouldn't have been around in their childhood. Continuing my search, but I have recollections of a 2000s push for natural gas that was heavily predicated on its "cleanness". Lots of city and school buses, for instance, were switching to CNG from diesel in that time period (and in comparison, CNG is almost certainly cleaner than diesel).

EDIT:

Ok, found some things. Google Image search for (no quotes) "clean natural gas" and set the range to 2000-2010. You'll find a variety of images both for and against this claim. Including things like "This Bus Is Running On Clean Natural Gas" (2009) [0] or "Clean. Affordable. Abundant. American. Natural gas is the answer. Tell Congress to put it to work." (apparently from 2010) [1]

[0] https://images.app.goo.gl/yfrQn8fYrB7zLqqh9

[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/4Aj7ybMt3wVWq49BA

Here's [2] an example from the 1980s calling it cleaner, source for me was [3].

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ympy04dETxXWfqkCn0zm9NmE1z1...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/the-forg...
if you’re really worried, don’t leave anything in your car and don’t lock it
Use a proper C string library like SDS.

Or move up from the 1970's Bell Labs, adopt C++ with the respective compiler switches to have bounds checking enabled for operator[]().

Better yet, use something else instead of one of those two, pick whatver is your fancy.
If there's ambiguity, the Supreme Court should defer to the executive and let Congress pass a new law if they disagree. It doesn't make sense for the tie to go to inaction. We elect Presidents exactly so they can steer the executive in the direction we like! Requiring all three branches to agree (Congress passes the law, Executive actually does it, Court says it's okay) is a recipe for national paralysis.
So just blockchains? Shocking
> People are shocked by laws which abrogate and abuse their human rights...

You'll want to avoid signing any NDAs then. They virtually all have a clause like the following which says that parties may divulge information in response to a court order.

> The Receiving Party may make disclosures required by law or court order provided the Receiving Party uses diligent reasonable efforts to limit disclosure and to obtain confidential treatment or a protective order and has allowed the Disclosing Party to participate in the proceeding.

I just picked this out of the latest NDA sitting in my email queue. This one is better than most in that it actually attempts to stand up for the rights of the party divulging secrets. Every single NDA I've ever signed had similar language.
I live in a very high tick area in upstate NY, and I've never seen this. I certainly don't do it and have had no problems. Now, if I wander just off the lawn into the woods, I better be wearing my permethrin clothes.
Ben ken toé, un drain français n'a rien à voir avec les français.
Sierra Nevada?
What’s the relationship between Selenium, Puppeteer and Webdriver BiDi? I’m a happy user of Playwright. Is there any reason why I should consider Selenium or Puppeteer?
i fail to see much difference with:

>>develop their tools / libraries according to whatever they feel it is the cool kids currently do?<<

versus:

>>adhere to the letter of the spec maliciously instead of understanding current practice.<<
Have I got the video for you. This will explain the connection between Nebula and CS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X18vKVSPao
Flag it if you think it's off-topic, nothing is stopping you from doing that unless your karma is still too low (yours isn't). It'll get off the front page quick with just a few flags, though this one is also likely to trigger the flame war detector and get pushed down the rankings soon.
You must really hate REPLs. You cling to your ADTs, I cling to my REPLs.
I think often when people talk about cartilage "healing" they are talking very specifically about re-growing lost joint cartilage. I don't think there is any evidence that adults can do that specific thing. I do think it is possible to "heal" cartilage in the sense of taking a tissue that is not functioning well and returning it to a more functional state. There's good evidence that exercise and losing excess weight can improve joint function, for example.
Probably bescuse OOP was a great fit for desktop GUI’s. This drove OOP into the mainstream. ML-style languages never had a similar killer application.
I'm honestly guessing here because I'm not an insider and I don't naturally understand what's going on with this made up word, but I think it's:

1. Name is "coq" which is pronounced like "cock". Tee hee hee I'm so funny I made you say a bad word. (Opinions can differ, but this word being bad isn't a terribly rare opinion IMO.)

2. Obviously, that means Q (at the end of a word!? *) is pronounced like a hard K.

3. Enough people don't like being "forced" to say that word, pick a new name, new name is "rocq". I was confused like you for a while until I figured out the above. If q->k, then this is pronounced "rock".

4. New name learner: Why in the world would you pronounce a Q (at the end of a word) as a K? (and/or) How am I supposed to pronounce that name? I've never seen a word like that before.

5. Oh, tee hee, because of an immature joke from the old name. (Have to explain the old name and make the innuendo, to make the new name make any sense. And the new name makes so little sense, it would be very natural to ask how it came about.)

* https://scrabblewordfinder.org/words-ending-in/q Which never happens -- have you heard of any of these words before? I haven't. (Besides I guess "tranq" which is really an abbreviation.)
You wouldn’t care that every dollar you had was taken from some else via fraud?
Check out the book “Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own” for the millennia-old tradition that is “finding a way to interpret a holy text according to your politics”
When it comes to data archival, I always wondered if we can get paper to reach a nice density. Wikipedia says around 3MB per 8x10 page, but I wonder is JAB code can reach a higher density.

https://github.com/jabcode/jabcode/issues/62

People talk about dataglyphs, but the density doesn't appear very high.
> But unfortunately, you cannot force a dev to get implied in the business aspect if they don't want to.

Why not? In such situations it is always possible to show them the door. If they need a translator, they are 0,5x engineers and cost too much.
I'm with you on this.

At this point the only thing I think that could happen to change the status quo is a full blown war against a country that's going to use hacked data against the United States in such a disruptive way that the legislators would have to react due to national security concerns.
Saltstack is still around!
Why TPC is not enough: an Analysis of the Amazon Redshift Fleet [pdf]
Stripe considers using a real card to test a zero-tolerance fireable offence.

I, as the name on record for an organization with Stripe, made an actual, legitimate payment to said organization (and did not refund it). Stripe's automated system caught the payment and terminated my account automatically by the time I woke up the next morning; fortunately I was able to reach a real human and explain that in addition to working for the non-profit, I was also donating to it, and they begrudgingly restored the account.
>> I mean, the 1970 act did spell out certain places where the EPA has authority in regulating greenhouse gases, including specifically CO2.

The text of the 1970 Clean Air Act is at https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/91/hr17255/text, in which places does the text specifically call out the authority of the EPA to regulate CO2?

I do not see the words "CO2" or "carbon dioxide" in the text. I see references to "carbon monoxide" and "hydrocarbons" neither of which refer to CO2.
Hopefully we can see Ocean Cleanup projects like their Guatamala interceptor take off. It's be so lovely to land spaceship Earth some wins.
https://theoceancleanup.com/updates/the-ocean-cleanup-makes-...
It's really quite unfortunate how much of Apple software is designed around "privacy is when you trust Apple" :/
Imagine the delight we had over the fantastically named Nonce Finance.
Is this possibly the end for the Starliner project? I can't imagine Boeing saving face after that.
I've noticed that while a bunch of developers have played with LLM's for toy projects, few seem to have any actual experience taking it to prod in front of real users. I’ve personally had to do so for a few startups, and it's like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree. Every random thing you change, from prompts to models, yields massively different/unpredictable results.

I think because of this, a bunch of companies/tools have tried to hop in this space and promised the world, but often times people are best served by just hitting OpenAI/GPT directly, and jiggling the results until they get what they want. If you're not comfortable doing that, there are even companies that do that for you, so you can just focus on the prompt itself.

So that being said, help me understand why I should be adding this whole system/process to my workflow, versus just hitting OpenAI/Anthropic/Google directly?
This guy has the right attitude.
Open core is a tried and true business model. It’s essentially just freemium, which businesses have done forever. If a healthy proprietary product can be built on the open source base, that’s a win-win. The company gets revenue and a sustainable business; the community gets free open source software with a highly motivated steward. There’s no reason to relicense if it works.

Things can go wrong in various ways of course, and drawing the line in the right place is a challenge, but that doesn’t mean that every VC-backed open core product is doomed to relicense. There are many examples of it working out well for both the company and community.
FSL is strict on two years. We certainly would not promote a version that’s variable. You could make one, but it’s our job as a community to say “no!”
Unintended Impacts of LLM Alignment on Global Representation
Thanks. Does that depend on macOS version? Better to block both I guess.
Chemistry lecture on fabric detergents, conditioners
A recorded chemistry lecture about what detergents and conditioners are and how they function, including how conditioner achieves the smoothness effect and the chemistry of hard water.
The more people drive, the worse the traffic. And if public transport has to be stuck in traffic, then driving is always faster.

Now this setting sounds familiar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
Entropy can decrease, it's just statistically unlikely. It's a "law" due to the law of large numbers, not because the transitions are forbidden.

Another way to phrase this is that there's no law of nature the says your pool balls can't end up neatly racked after the break, but you'd still never expect to see that happen.
OpenShift Lightspeed, Red Hat's AI Tool for Kubernetes Admins
> It isn't clear what restrictions will be allowed and still qualify as a "Fair Source" license

We called that out on the website though:

Fair Source Software (FSS):

* is publicly available to read;

* allows use, modification, and redistribution with minimal restrictions to protect the producer’s business model; and

* undergoes delayed Open Source publication (DOSP).

The delayed open source publication part is explicit.
Boeing's basically a defunct company at this point, no?

(Yes, there are still outstanding contracts, carriers don't like mixed fleets, etc, but... in terms of quality I can't see anybody saying "Yeah, Boeing, we're going there, that's the best you can buy")
It’s always been nonce. Source: have used it since the eighties.
Java has been fine for infrastructure projects. There is so much out there that relies on things like elasticsearch, Kafka, or any aws service. Heck even the columnar dbs like pinot and Druid are most likely more used than clickhouse.

C# is also fine for this, just way less popular. Recently ms put out https://github.com/microsoft/Garnet when the redis debacle happened.

The Apache project has helped put out quite a few large infra projects, most of them in Java (I don’t know why this is but assume they have lots of resources to help with that, and also that people don’t like debugging memory crashes).

Ms has just been not the greatest collaborators with their open source community. A lot of the time it seems like they want to do the initial foundation, then leave “drawing the rest of the owl” to the community, which ends with lots of partially functional things. GUI frameworks, f# tooling, drivers for commonly used critical infra. At the same time, people get upset when ms tries to build a better version of an existing open source project, so there’s no winning. They’ve just put themselves in such a poor spot.
I am sure those people also think their options are limited, or they think if they don’t do it, someone else will anyway, or a million other justifications people tell themselves just like you told yourself when you were doing it.
Imagine going to space for what you think is 8 days and Boeing messes up so bad you get stuck there for like 8 months instead. Maybe really cool, but maybe a nightmare?
One big reason we don't use AGPL at Sentry is that we want companies to be able to self-host individually (just not start a competing SaaS), and many have a blanket ban on AGPL.
Genuine question, are there any examples of agents in production?
The compensation they offer doesn’t seem to interfere with their ability to get the candidates they want. Why spend more?
Ironically, given the past history that lead to .NET existence,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java

https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/java

Because it turns out, making Java running on Azure, on those 60% Linux workloads, is lot of money.

Also plenty of Azure, anything CNCF related, is mostly Go and Rust.

Which is kind of sad, I would expect Azure to be a good contributor for having a .NET presence in the CNCF project landscape.
Already did,
just makes me sad :(

I love tech and software and fiddling with things and the beauty and elegance of code and the joy of discovering how things work, and the creativity ppl can have. And then there's posts like this and its like 'wow, these people suck, what am I doing'

Shame too, cuz the article itself is fine
The term appears to be a new one. There's a definition here:

https://blog.sentry.io/sentry-is-now-fair-source/
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!

I'm not asking for care or free help, but when one publishes a statement claiming to have helpful info but no details or links, it will usually lead to interested people asking for more. This should not be a cause for surprise or resentment; I'm sorry to have prompted such feelings.

I hope you soon get well and succeed in monetizing your skills.

(edit: missing "when")
Wow, nice work.

Our attempt was providing tools making vrchat-like worlds in Godot Engine. We have many of the mesh construction tooling but we never made to the product.
The article is paywalled ... Does it say why such a long delay?
I wonder if the astronauts are upset at being stuck or excited by the extra time in space they otherwise may have never got.
Looking at the watch photographies, how is this "super-black"?
HFGW: Theoretical means of transmitting data directly through Earth, sans radio
High-frequency gravitational waves offer a theoretical alternative to the electromagnetic spectrum for remote communication, with the added benefit of not interacting or being absorbed by normal matter.
> who already had an unprecedented reputation for lying, racism, sharp business practices, infidelities, bankruptcies, bullyig lawsuits and dubious associations

And other politicians are much better? It shows a double standard. Let's be hypercritical about every detail in this celebrity's entire life, even though politicians have abused power and have done much worse.

> Of course the opposition research on him was going to be a field day.

They had to lie over and over, and then years later admit they were lies. It's just nonsensical that Trump is somehow the greatest evil ever and somehow his political opponents knew this even before he got elected. How convenient.

> Because he's a shady, narcissistic bully with an unprecedented record of dodgy dealings.

Believing any of it is "unprecedented" is a clear sign of bias here, or at least ignorance of what other politicians have done, from sexual affairs to warmongers that don't value human life.
There are several types of weed removal equipment one can plug on a tractor at the different stages of the life-cycle of the crops.
Made, past tense, been a year or two since you could get one of those.

The Duet 7i came with a bluetooth keyboard that sort of attached (don't believe they folded either and just had a case which held both tablet and keyboard but don't remember) and had terrible battery life unless you kept the screen brightness and CPU usage very low. Those were also 13" and $700 more than the Duet 3, that series was a failure for many reasons. There was a Celeron version of the current Snapdragon Duets but also had rather poor battery life and I don't think they ever got the ram upgrade that the Snapdragons got. HP had one as well but is also no more.

There is a reason the Snapdragon models have succeeded and stayed in production while the Intel ones have failed, they don't try and be both a full laptop and a full tablet, they just do both well enough in a very convenient package; it is small enough that it is never an issue take it with you, the keyboard is the cover and not much thicker than the standard folio tablet cover so always with you, cheap enough that you don't worry about accidents or theft, and has the battery life so you don't need to worry about charge. In a few years when it no longer gets updates it will still safely do 95% of what I use it for and I can always have someone with the skills and tools install linux on it, or use the linux dev environment. But I probably will just disconnect it from my accounts and be perfectly happy with it only doing 95% of what I currently use it for, assuming nothing happens to it before then.
The perks of using React Server Components
Also methane has a higher proportion of hydrogen than other fuels and so releases less CO2 and more water when burned.
https://opensource.org/delayed-open-source-publication
via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41184476
It may not be possible for me to articulate how fucking insane of an accomplishment this is.

Xbox 360...._softmod_.... via the park name on a Tony Hawk game.

24 segment ROP chain :')

His rightful lamentation for the hypervisor, concise functional write up,
and immediate thoughts of an x360 botnet make this the greatest xbox 360 nostalgia gut-punch of all time.

kudos++
Since we've apparently moved from calling everything a Copilot to calling everything an Agent, this seems much closer to OAI's GPT Store than anything that is truly agentic.
Actually, you'll need to input your credit card or other payment details for the one year, and after the first year they'll automatically remove money from it. Cancellation is not posible.
> and many have a blanket ban on AGPL

Sounds like their own self-created problem.
Here is the full article - sorry about that, should have used this link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-...
Honestly I can imagine the preference being axed when OSCP is the macOS antivirus and I'm pretty sure I know what the first thing any malicious software is gonna do if it's able to be turned off.

macOS preferences aren't magically locked away from
the rest of system, regular users can change their own user preferences, and root can change system preferences. An antivirus has to still work against an attacker who has root. It's why you can't block certain apps/domains from the firewall as well.

You could put the preference in recovery mode along with disabling SIP and I think that would accomplish everyone's goals.
>Agents help you create custom behaviour and workflows with a simple set of instructions and examples.
So, it's just custom instructions baked in? I hope at least it's harder for them to get overwritten by the user?

>We’re working on connecting Agents to tools and data sources...
So tools and RAG for data sources aren't available yet.

Way behind GPTs/assistants. What's the point of this yet?
Can anyone recommend similarly themed videos but with less snarky narration and jump cuts? I really like the topic but don't need the comedy.

To provide my own example - M. Bjoernstroem's channel is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/@M.BJOERNSTROEM/videos
But they're totally not "stuck" right, Boeing PR?
Some store chains still have their own credit cards that aren't just co-branded. Far less common these days but I've still occasionally signed up for discounts on large purchases.
If Boeing wants out after this debacle, maybe Blue Origin would be interested in buying the program/IP?

Starliner is launching on ULA rockets (Atlas today, Vulcan likely in the future) anyway, and BE is rumored to be purchasing them too.
but worse! there's no tools or RAG/data yet...
>I simply made an appreciation and then explained how I got to it. It was never meant to be convincing, it was just meant to be out there… WHY am I wrong in approaching the subject in this manner?

You’re asking me to justify to you why one shouldn’t flap their mouth about things they don’t know anything about and then stand by their willful ignorance when confronted by domain experts? You want me to convince you that it’s not ok to just spout bullshit and insist that it’s a valid position to hold irrespective of knowledge, methods, accuracy, reasoning, logic, research, justification, experience, etc etc? Lmfao. You’re delusional.
This is basically Mistral's attempt at custom GPTs?
I had a pawn shop try to take my social to buy a air paint sprayer. They said it was a city ordinance.

I left empty handed, even though I think SSN shouldn't be used as a password.
Your average astronaut can easily walk into a $300k/year management job in some aerospace or technology related industry a short time after "retiring", on the other hand. Higher profile ones even more so.
I believe that it was my mistake to not to define the scope & assumptions of the problem of backing up rigorously because this has confused many commenters.

I believe that any ransomware either (1) exists inside a backup and is thus removable (2) would be accounted bh IDF-TOH.

Actually, your comment also confuses me. By definition of a non-cloud backup, it follows that everything is not always online or accessable by a CPU. Whatever may the case be, your approach would be "practical" and not "theoretical" in that it does not seem to make any fruitful contribution to the problem I proposed.

Theoretical approach would be to create a general semi-formal model of the (1) problem; EG scope, variables, failures of previous solutions (2) foundation, IE more or less what I call IDF-TOH as the first iteration of a solution (3) separate discussion for preparing for the future practical implementations of the "final" technical solution, EG integrations with what exists out there, possibly gathering ideas for how to make the interface human-friendly.

Would you think an IRC, mailing list etc. would be good place – kn change of tactics – to stimulate discussion & research on this?
Because Copilot implies a human working in tandem with AI. An agent is an autonomous process. The goal of agents is to remove any human agency from the process. Need software done? It won't be a human's job. It will be the agent's in an iterative loop.
I imagine it could be exciting, extra time in orbit a place so few humans have been.

But it's likely overshadowed by the concerns and fears building from the possible return trip.