skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual paper (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07840-z
I'm surprised they had less rain. Here in Minnesota, it's been constant heavy rain. My pond floods almost every week. I have to pump it out into a nearby lake and that's a pain.
In the post-ZIRP era, I think separating newly-printed money from the hands of irrational market participants is a good thing.
Yes, I made the mistake of failing to winterize and now I've got a tune up job on my hands. Got any good advice there?
Have as few or as many as you want. If you want to keep 0 copies and then lose access to the one working device, that's on you. It's no different from any other password.

The one-time-use emergency codes are stupid. The seed value is all you need, and it's just another secret like the password. You can copy it in any form you want, and use it on a new device or on 13 differnet current devices, whatever.

The danger from losing the seed value is no different from the danger from losing your password. The difficulty of keeping and re-using the seed value is also no more than for any other secret or password.

The totp apps and sites that use them create a problem where there isn't any by simply not telling you to save the seed value. It's perverse, becauyse they do give you the seed value. They have to. They show it directly to you because it has to go through you to get from a web site into a totp app.

That might be automated by a qr code, but they had to display the qr code to you, and you can just as easily copy and read that qr code as the totp app can.
It's effortless to save it along the way. But they just don't tell you what it is and don't tell you to keep it.

THAT is the only reason you end up screwed later.You were essentially not told what you were holding briefly, and told to discard it, but it's actually the keys to your kingdom and you can just, not throw it away.

Or do throw it away and then try to make silly arguments about how you're locked out.
At first "propaganda" referred indiscriminately to both the political and the economic variants; after WWI (née "The Great War") left a bad taste for the term, it was quickly rebranded, with the political version turning into "psychological warfare" and the economic "public relations".
Was machst Du denn hier? — Ich wohne hier. — Aber doch nicht jetzt, um diese Zeit!

(Husband home early)
What are you doing here? — I live here. — But not now, at this time of day!
Rivalrous advertising spending between two megacorps everyone already knows is zero-sum. You’re spending money just because the other guy increased spending, and market share stays the same. But you can’t not spend or you might lose market share. Now you’re both spending more to achieve the same result.

[edit] zero sum in terms of the market-share game—the size of the pie stays the same, you’re just adjusting who gets how much. Negative sum for the overall game in the case that total spending increases.
In my experience this is exactly the kind of mistake an AI would not make.
While both MJ and Turnstyle are Turing-complete, Turnstyle shares more similarities with Piet (mentioned by the author), Wireworld, and, of course, Conway's Game of Life.
dy programmers, ever designed the shortest path algorithm after a relaxing coffee break in Amsterdam? I bet not! Dijkstra wins the game.
A steady income at a co-op style company?
I'm not OP but John Oliver had a pretty good episode about hospitals, organ donation organisations and even non-profits, all benefit from a opaque system intentionally designed to hide where bodies go when "disposed" -- Here's a youtube link to the episode (may be blocked in certain regions due to copyright) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7egDQ9lPg
Well I bought cells a few years ago and use them with the necessary components, and those don't multiply the system price by ten.

BTW because I'm lazy to expand my system I just ordered 14 kWh of fully packaged LFP battery (box, BMS, cells, breaker) for $1800, $130/kWh, $0.026/kWh cycled.
Find your statement fascinating as well, but could also provide another haha-but-serious explanation that I personally like... which is that there are universes with an infinite permutation/computation/value of state variables, and our one could only be "simulated" within the one universe where these sort of limits exist.
I didn't join many clubs when I was in university (in Germany). But for my first job I lived in Cambridge, and just attended clubs at the local university over there, and they mostly just let me in.

I have particularly fond memories of the Diplomacy club: https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/organisation/7831/
Agreed. Gambling legalization (like drug legalization) should be viewed primarily as a tactic to cut off the money supply to organized crime, with a legal environment established such that it is just marginally more convenient than seeking out black market alternatives. Boring, minimally advertised, with plenty of clear and non-judgemental offramps for addiction counseling and treatment.
Probably inspired from a vignette on the french comics Valerian, depicting a sort of galactic samurai robot, and improved later.
> less some modest operating expenses

Therein lies the rub.
Your understanding is mostly wrong then. Modern combined-cycle turbines are more efficient but I would not call them cheap to stop and start. You are still looking at a 20-30min startup time and a similar cool-down period. So yes designed to be able to shutdown I think the general range is an on-time of 30-70% but I believe with those ranges you get different efficiency curves. You get increased wear, higher fuel cost and also need to predict that demand will not spike. When prices dip below zero it may be more cost effective to keep the plants online.
A complete guide on being a great manager, written by an engineer
I have created new Instagram tool designed to manage multiple accounts
It is an open-source project so you can contribute to that if you want. All-in-one Instagram tool designed to manage multiple accounts seamlessly. With a user-friendly GUI, InstaNinja allows you to automate common Instagram actions such as sending messages, viewing and liking stories, following and unfollowing users, commenting on posts, and scraping followers' data.
Can you find a non-American that doesn't find it cringe to use "BM" for "poo"?
I honestly think that the new found emphasis on betting in sports/sport reporting, is symptomatic of the "financialization" of literally everything. How can X company extract profit out of Y, where Y is the total set of all habits.

All companies now no longer exist to create a better product, but to prop up revenue/profit quarterly. To sustain this house of cards, companies must see all avenues of revenue. This includes the sports leagues and entertainment companies. Recurrent revenue is best, which is why there is a draw to subscriptions, and addiction is the peak subscription.

Low end customers/society be damned because, as the old saying goes, "price/spend dictates quality of customer". The firm's responsibility is to the shareholder, not society.

I haven't even gone into how I think it affects the quality of the actual sport play (hint, it hurts it).

Ba humbug.
Getting paid to removing fun from life
Problem is it actually decimate the engineers in Nebraska, South Carolina, and Texas as well.

Oh! And don't forget the youtubers and content creators in Montana, Indiana, and Kansas.

And on and on and on.

It's not as straightforward as people think, and it reaches a whole lot further than people realize. I'm a privacy activist and have studied the issue, but I still fall on the "more privacy needed" side of the fence. Likely because I'm very much in the "burn it all down" faction of privacy advocates. However, I do understand what I'm up against. There are a lot of people who are either on the other side presently, or will be on the other side as soon as they realize their pay checks will go away as the effects of closing privacy loopholes ripple through the economy.

We have to be clear eyed here, and prepared for enormous opposition to these ideas when these issues become better understood. Which is why I say we should act now. It's like Andor said, "There will never be fewer guards than there are today." As more people gain understanding of the financial impacts, the number of people on the other side will grow.
GitHub Copilot Patterns and Exercises
LibreOffice 24.8, for the privacy-conscious office suite user
Proposed strategies for working with a collaborative zettelkasten
I'm torn. I bought a used pressure washer that had been drained before storage. The carb bowl gasket and foot valve packing were all dried up and the carb was full of schmutz from the remaining gas and corrosion from water that had made its way in.

I'm recently leaning towards fuel stabilizer and leaving the tank full to ensure as little air space as possible for water to get in. At least for seasonal storage. Not sure about long-term storage since even stabilized fuel is supposedly only good for two years.
This is my stance as well.

Let the vice be legal because people will do it anyways and I don't feel like additional punishment really makes sense to spend time/money on.

Treat it like the vice it is and don't try to pitch it to my family/kids on TV constantly.

Honestly, I'm basically "anti-advertising" entirely at this point, but the gambling ads soaking into every aspect of sports are genuinely disgusting.

You want to gamble? Fine - bad choice but it's yours to make. You want to entice people to make that bad choice for profit? I'm fully in favor of fining you out of existence or throwing you in jail.
I haven't tried it yet, but if it cuts a step in my development process then yes please!
This is just some guy writing about a podcast he listened to to fill his article quota.

The idea that everyone not constantly reading about whatever political story I am obsessed with is distracted by propaganda and that’s the only reason social change doesn’t occur is frankly horseshit.
See also: objcopy.

https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/binutils/objcopy.html
Let me have an interview with you (small team marketers)
You would have to be able to store a significant portion of your daily usage to make it worthwhile and that's before you even consider the price of the batteries.
Take what's in the article, reduce it by 5%, and that's probably what it would be. Sports bet rakes aren't huge (unlike horse racing).
> People don’t want to “learn programming”, they want to “make a thing”.

Hahaha, I wish that were true, but it’s not. Lots of people want to learn programming for learning and programming’s sake, or because programming is more lucrative than sausage making. I think I’ve worked with more programmers that care more about programming than the end result, than making something. It’s constantly frustrating and a huge source of over-engineering mistakes that have proliferated through engineering.

> why learn about how the sausage is made when all you want is to eat it?

Then why do sausages get made? It’s because not everyone only wants to eat them. There’s a variety of reasons people make sausages and also like eating them, from making money, to making high quality or interesting variety sausages, to being self-sufficient and not paying others for it, to learning about how it’s done. It’s been my experience that the more someone cares about eating sausages, the more likely they are to dabble in making their own.
I tend to disagree with her on superdeterminism. See eg https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6215
It made getting papers difficult enough that people often wouldn't read things they wanted to read... hard to say what the real impact of that is.

> While the practice is standard of authors handing out free copies, in most cases I think this is either a copyright or license violation with the publisher?

Journals usually allow the author to share a specific number of free copies, and even give the author a system or link to facilitate it.
Here's a few random limitations I can think of other than those already mentioned:

* Float64 math is typically around 30x slower than Float32 math on "consumer-grade" GPUs due to an arbitrary limitation to stop people from using consumer grade chips for "workstation" purposes. This turns out to not be a big deal for things like machine learning, but lots of computational processes actually are rather sensitive to rounding errors and benefit a lot from using 64 bit numbers, which is very slow on GPUs.

* Writing GPU specific functions can be quite labour intensive compared to writing CPU code. Julia's CUDA.jl and KernelAbstractions.jl packages does make a lot of things quite a bit nicer than in most languages, but it's still a lot of work to write good GPU code.

* Profiling and understanding the performance of GPU programs is typically a lot more complicated than CPU programs (even if there are some great tools for it!) because the performance model is just fundamentally more complex with more stuff going on and more random pitfalls and gotchas.
I got smart window blinds and set them to go down at 10:30pm and go up at 6:30am to let natural light in.

So far I'm consistently waking up around 6:45am as the summer sun washes over me. I don't actually get out of bed until my alarm goes off hours later though because I'm still tired...
Something went wrong frowning smiley. Our engineers are probably working hard on fixing it right now.
It’s depressing that anything moderately successful may be doomed to being taken over this way, by people looking to abuse the institution for their own political activism. I wasn’t aware that Wikipedia also had the same issue. Not using donations for the core thing donors think they’re supporting is so deceptive.
Back when people would regularly die of pellagra? Diets have absolutely improved since then.
1. If there's expenses, there's a take.

2. Gambling will always be subject to one dynamic - if you're up, you're still in. If you're cleaned out, you're out. That asymmetry gives the house advantage even in roughly 50-50 stakes, and the downside of it ruins lives.

3. Gambling addiction is real and not fully subject to rational control. Gamblers with a cushion of savings or income will always be less susceptible to ones that don't have that cushion.
For superdeterminism, see eg https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6215
MFA gets hacked and strategies to prevent it
> If people want to gamble that's their decision.

Is it? Is an alcoholic's decision to drink, or a heroin addict's decision to shoot up? Is it a person with attention issues' decision to spend unreasonable amounts of money on micro-transaction-powered games? Is it anyone who suffers from a neurodivergency that fucks with dopamine's choice to engage in these activities because their brains are just plain more vulnerable to it?

I don't have a moral objection to any of these things in the slightest, like I think most here, I would land at a position of "do what you want, as long as you don't hurt anyone." But that gets tricky if you consider how many people are harmed via addictive products peddled by (often extremely) profitable enterprises, including in this case, the actual government in many places.

Like, I have my vices, and they are all controlled. I don't feel I have any addiction at present. But I have friends and family who have struggled with these things, and this hand-wavey "make better choices" stuff just doesn't cut it for me. Some of these people I'm thinking of right now are blindingly intelligent, absolutely brilliant people, but no matter how smart you are, sometimes all it takes is the right kind of bullshit to turn your brains to mashed potatoes and suddenly you're giving away your life savings for more of it.

Like, genuinely, good for you if you, like me, can just control your vices and not succumb to them like many can. Genuinely, I'm happy for you (and me!) but like... what about everyone else? Is having the wrong kind of brain just damn you to spend your entire life being robbed blind because "freedom"?
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it's highly appropriate to tell them they are incompetent

It's not on HN because it's a personal swipe and the HN guidelines ask you not to do those. It might work on your cooking forum but we know, empirically, that it doesn't work well here.
It only makes sense until you realize that flow of time is literally the first thing any simulation does simulate.
Because most users are afraid of gory details. And the people who know enough to fix it are expected to somehow know how to turn on logging. It's the modern equivalent of "please contact your administrator"
Forgive my ignorance but doesn't connecting to other grid allow them to buy energy when prices are low and still allow them to generate their own when the national grid prices are high? It would also allow them to sell excess no?
Yeah, tough one. When I was around twenty, a friend called the state lottery a tax on stupidity. At that time his comment seemed kind of amusing due its abrasiveness but I couldn't think of a serious retort that wouldn't come across as "we should protect people from themselves".

I'm not sure I still have an answer for that. And I now view the subject to include other forms of gambling (where you statistically stand to lose), helmet laws.... Why require seat belts?

I think you can defend laws, like speed limits, that serve to protect others from the would-be transgressor. Maybe you could make a case for the former if there are family involved that depend on the income of the person who might be fritting it away on Lotto tickets.

I have a friend who "gambled" on the stock market with his disposable income (and that there is an obvious distinction between the former cases, FWIW) because, he explained, he was never going to cross that next threshold and become "rich" just from stashing his gains away.

So, I don't know. I'm 40 years older now and still on the fence as to whether we should allow someone to wreck their life.
Ask HN: Is closed-source software inherently evil?
So, I have been around for a while, and seen most of the OSS revolution from the moment that the ASF was born. I have seen things take-off from Hibernate “being adopted” by JPA, and .Net generics being brought into Java… and then bought by Oracle, and Oracle suing a bunch of companies… Let alone all the mess with AWS vs Elastic vs MongoDB and so on and so forth.

So without giving me a lecture on the history of OSS and how it helped move the industry forward (which I know it did!)... the flat, straight-on questions are (and let’s let alone pricing, assume its “free” comparatively to the business you are applying it to):

Are closed-source solutions inherently evil and risk-carrying? Why is that?
Why would you NOT choose a 10x solution for your use case only because it’s not open-source?

I’m very interested in your personal experience and from which angle did you look at it in such a situation (for example: developers unable to run things locally in a light-weight manner -vs- enterprise architects struggling with lock-in concerns).

Your opinion is very important, but real-life examples would mean a world for me to better understand it :)
My advice is, if your aim is to study, to give FreeBSD a try. It's a complete operating system - the kernel and the userspace are developed by the same team. FreeBSD has fewer moving pieces and is very stable.
Is being a "prototypal language" not an "OO inheritance model"?
you cunninghammed me: nalgenes are polycarbonate, which is a lot less inert

all the polyethylenes are relatively inert, because polyethylenes are in some sense just heavy paraffins. paraffin is germanized latin for 'relatively inert'
Unfortunately, I think it's ultimately unethical to support the normalization of closed-source text-editing software, because it sets a bad precedent for the level of trust a user should have in their computing environment. For this reason, I much prefer Logseq. https://logseq.com/
The green dots is rendered on top of the red as well
When making small Nim programs for the CLI, https://github.com/c-blake/cligen makes for a pretty simple API (just 1 line of code) that gets you nice CLI syntax, color auto-generated help messages, etc.
I don't even sort of follow what you mean here. All I'm doing is telling you what this set of words that nobody actually uses sound like they would mean to me.

The term that does exist, Chinaman, already has its own pejorative sense. It doesn't need that from me.

All I'm saying is that these other words (again, words that I didn't "make up," but also that nobody actually uses) would sound negative too, and are the actual parallels to the term in the parent's example.
Didn't they sell a dual socket PPC BeBox?
That’s another foundation of conspiracy theory: one specific example can serve as evidence for universal truth. Sure, the specific claims of theory A might collapse, but it might as well be true because it could be true because of past example B that is along the same lines.

I don’t doubt there is secret government surveillance we’d all be upset about. I’m not willing to use that general belief to assert the truth of specific unsupported claims.
I have a little insight into this (specifically through one of the media that you mentioned). It's easy to attribute this to conspiracy or planned news-creation, but this is, like so many things, an outcome of people's laziness and an environment that doesn't incentivize creativity from journalists and producers. They need to pitch articles or "news" segments, they need to pitch many, they need to pitch something that has some "social proof" (so it won't flop in the fake metrics), and they need to do this once or twice a week. What do they do? Look at their own phones and their own apps, and say, "This has been trending on a lower-tiered medium; we should cover it on our medium". The news and entertainment industries are atrophying and devolving quickly, with lower revenues, lower salaries (compared to market rates), lower head counts, and no incentive to improve because all publications are failing simultaneously.
Entropy declares this is a fool's errand.
AI Uncensored: a fine tune of Llama 405B – no more PC nonsense
https://github.com/ferid333/InstaNinja
Symmetric 7-Venn Diagrams as a Musical Interface
Show HN: Terminal Color Lookup Tool
Hi, while building BetterTerminal I had a hard time finding good tools for converting HEX colors to terminal (tput) colors.

Maybe I was just looking in the wrong places, but I decided to build a solution for fellow developers.

Hope you like it!
"All sayings are made up." - Unattributed
Very Beastie of them - like in Johnny Ryall where they rap on how the titular character is "better off drinkin’ than smokin’ the rocks".
Lol, you forgot "let's move to Arizona because I have allergies, and then plant all of the plants that caused my allergies in the yards and parks, and plant lawns, with all of these things not being native to the climate/drought resistant".

I too like nice weather, but it's getting to the point that the summers over large parts of the US are as harsh as the midwestern winters everyone wants to avoid.
TIL The asterism was originally used as a type of dinkus in typography... The symbol has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work.

Source: Wikipedia
The Snowden leaks weren't one specific example, they were dozens, involving every single big US tech company of any significance, and involving tons of different methods of surveillance.
Gather is still terrible, the only core that handles it well is the Intel's P core. AMD issues 40+ micro ops in AVX2(80 in AVX512), and the Intel E core is much worse.

When using SIMD you must either use SoA or AoSoA for optimal performance. You can sometimes use AoS if you have a special hand coded swizzle loader for the format.