skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"this article falls into the fact based reporting category" is unsupported.

The article makes a general claim of behavior that is not supported by any single incident, yet only presents a single incident.
I did this for a long time with timer switches that could be programmed similarly, and switching to HA wasn’t some huge change, it was just nicer. I had to periodically make sure the clock was correct on them, as they would drift a few minutes, and the interface itself was via small LCD screen and buttons.

HA is just a nicer experience, but I wouldn’t say it (or any home automation) is a “need”. It’s better seen as something for tech people to tinker with once they’ve settled a bit in life and are looking for something to do.
Public Security Section 9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Security_Section_9
Dependent Origination and Emptiness
It's literally fine. I know tons of people who smoke and none of them have issues. Obviously some percentage of the population will react poorly to drugs. That doesn't mean weed is gonna start making everyone go psychotic. This is anti weed propaganda at its best.
You're grossly underestimating the cost. With some amount of redundancy and growth that would be 24TB of drive capacity at least. You're looking at $250k in drives alone. You also need almost 100 servers to host that many drives, so another $250k. Then they'd have to pay maybe $500k/yr for three sysadmins (including benefits). Then some amount for tape backups, connectivity, electricity, maintenance.

Perhaps still peanuts for UC Berkeley and worth it, I don't know, but it's not just writing a 100k check.
That won't stop you from being fined $9k USD!
Kasey, did you read Kelton too, or is DC the only person with an opinion so informed?
I am split on this. Maybe I am idealistic and naive, but I will always wish people can just stop fighting, and work together. Fragmenting the community and starting a project out of grudge, is always the last resort, IMO.

OTOH, I also recognize sometimes it is really that bad and going your own way is the best thing to do. But I think Linux isn't at that position yet.
When they say per interpreter GIL in PEP 684, is that per thread? I wasn't aware of multiple interpreters in one process.
> if you are in a miles country no one is converting it to km or vice versa

My relatives & friends visiting from Europe often appreciate knowing such values in km/C. There are various other reasons to want to do the conversions too, and sometimes speed > accuracy. It's a bit ridiculous to think that _no one_ is doing these conversions and that shortcuts/approximations like this are not useful.
On the plus side, we don’t need to worry about spending our lives in an iron lung, smallpox is a non-issue, and in most of the west there isn’t much of a concern about a mother dying giving birth.

Hot water can be taken for granted, as can indoor toilets. And central heating.

With modern electronics and circuitry you can’t even kill yourself with a toaster in the bathtub since it will trip the central breaker.

Every generation goes through the same shit in one version or another.
That is a great talk by Steve Yegge. And now I know why he's angry all the time. Not only did he work on GeoWorks, he also tried using Ruby at Google! Absolute legend.

Here's the video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-Bb-D6teE
what piqued my interest: nerves boots with only barebones linux and the otp/beam vm, effectively turning elixir into the embedded os [0]

[0] https://wiki.alopex.li/NervesNotes
History entries are kept indefinitely.
What actually is a Story Point?
They've been doing that for a while though e.g. a specific (say) 31s segment of a video will come in the search results rather than just a link to a popular video
These Apocalypse Preppers always seem so thick headed. After a real armageddon, where there is no more society, no money and no rule of law present, your "bunker" is going to be pointless. You think the roving warlords and their gangs are going to walk up to your property line, see a fence, and say, "Well, no raping and plundering here, it says 'Private Property'. Let's move along..." Ridiculous. Thick concrete walls will only stop them until they've finished off the easier targets.

Oh, you're going to hire armed security to protect you? What are you going to pay them with? Your stocks and bonds? The minute they're armed (to protect you) they might as well just take your bunker from you.

I think some of these guys are reading too much fiction and believe a lawless post-apocalyptic hellscape would actually be a red-tape-free, libertarian paradise where they can finally live out a tax-free life of luxury.
The World Map of the Internet in 2021
I mean a month shutdown isn't much of a punishment. They'll go back online, run their staff over capacity, and neglect cleaning and maintenance all over again.
with respect to linux kernel rust projects: is there anything new that is complete and ready to use or anything that existed in c that has been rewritten that is stable and has reached feature parity with the existing implementations yet?
I think its interesting the number of folks these stories pull out who have gone vegan or vegetarian as a rejection of our food production system (something I understand) but have been.. tricked? into a simplistic kind of thinking that meat==bad.

I can say on a farm, processing poultry is probably the worst. Its a fair intuition that murdering a living creature cause its tasty is overall gonna be a nasty endeavor. But a farmer has to live on a land, often for generations and that death comes at the end of a whole lotta care and nurturing. Theres a balance.

But these companies aren't farms, and the disconnect of humanity from the work is the issue. That exploitation happens at all levels, to workers, to animals, to customers of the product. Thats the thing that has to be fought and it ain't as simple as just product type $X is bad as you shop at the same grocery chain owned by the same people supplied by the same suppliers.
I actually pushed myself into a Sales position 10 years ago. I worked as a stock broker for a few years, just for the challenge. Eventually I realized that I really hated this kind of job, so I quit the job without earning anything substantial.

I wish you good luck!
"How do you know someone is vegan? They'll tell you."
Step back, go to some exotic places for few weeks, mingle with locals and stay the hell away from any form of luxury. There is immense beauty in this world, if you care to look for it.

But for sure if you focus yourself on all the negative since its so juicy it will easily drag you down the pit of despair. At any point of time in mankind's history there was plenty of bad stuff happening, often cataclysmic compared to our times.
I think both things can be true. The worst of the LKML are crybabies. The worst of Rustaceans are zealots. The worst of any community are usually a vocal minority. Rust for Linux can continue on their mission, and that’s noble. But conflict is to be expected between the babies and zealots, naturally. RFL is not mutually exclusive with a Rust Linux clone. Drew’s proposal seems like a perfectly reasonable parallel project to the RFL project.
Terminator Zero
Indeed, there was a recent e coli outbreak on salad in the UK and one person died[1]

1 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1xl518w8do
I remember it from a HN thread two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869

I'm spending too much time here.
India's IT Rules are currently being litigated in the Supreme Court for free speech implications and appeals court (called high court) contradictions, but X complies to any and all FIRs filed by cybercrime branches in India, and hasn't litigated these regulations unlike in Brazil.

India has similar principles to the Marco Civil da Internet that conflict the the IT Rules (hence the Supreme Court case), yet X has never dared to poke that bear.

Edit: the Indian law was stayed (ie. paused) by the Courts [0] yet X still complies

India is just as messed up as Brazil, but Musk clearly doesn't mess around with the Indian judiciary compared to the Brazilian judiciary.

[0] - https://www.scobserver.in/cases/challenge-to-the-it-rules-20...
Could the spike protein push bad things through the blood-brain barrier absent an infection?

"Damage to the brain vessels mediated by the coronavirus spike protein (S-protein) and overactive immune responses have been identified as leading causes of this condition" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36810757/
The Bastard Operator From Hell

https://bofh.bjash.com/
I'll add that if a lot of people actually did start using it for this purpose, they could probably just productionize the thing they actually use for this, which is essentially their own version of etcd, but with Paxos instead of Raft.
Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
No I don't think so. But it would be very interesting to take a look if possible.
> It's pretty clear the failure was with management.

It’s more than that though, why were the issues identified not acted on?

Management kept the plant running despite the issues, which probably kept their board happy. That might not be bad management from their perspective.

Is corruption part of this? Many regulatory bodies have a slightly-too-cosy relationship with those they regulate, with a revolving door relationship for staff.
> No matter the situation, no good can come from hatred.

Appreciate this POV, probably ascribe to it. Suppose my "hate" for Drew is mostly re: his public persona. I "hate" Drew like I hate teams that play in the same division as my team, which is to say it that hate is lightly held.

So, yes, "hate" is probably too strong a term.

> Instead of having beef with a stranger online and comparing them to an alt-right figure (which is very much not okay)

I would disagree with this notion. In many ways, Drew is a demagogue and a populist and a (tech) conservative.

I am (tech) conservative in some/many ways too. But this disagreement isn't about our politics.

> I think having a good faith reply to a good faith personal opinion will at worst do nothing and maybe result in something at best

Agreed. But the problem I have with Drew don't extend to his good faith opinions. What bothers me is the incurious way in which he chooses to express himself, not what he believes.

Which I suppose it would be fine if he had a smaller audience, but he seems to want a broader relevance. I really do believe that 100 more and then 100 more people who express themselves in a similar way would be bad for any community.
I'm not sure about these slightly down stream, but for actual meat packers they cannot legally operate without UDSA on site moment to moment. USDA should have been responsible for fining and corrective actions long before they started killing people. The stupid thing is that the regulations do have teeth. They can shut you down quite easily.
Challenging the Myths of Generative AI
Taking a computer out of the loop is the best way to guarantee speed and reliability.

Any safety response is going to rely on speed of detection and speed of response. Almost no sensor system will be faster than laser TOF and IMS. They are both very fast and very low power, you can afford to sense at high frequencies and this costs almost no power. Some models may include programmable interrupt lines to further reduce aggregate power utilization by avoiding the need for polling.

In terms of speed of response, anything within 1-2 seconds should be safe. Perhaps having an emergency actuation function in which the array is inverted to prevent convergence (and attract attention as a side effect!) may be safest. You could also cheaply and easily add a siren or audio announcement.

Bon travail et bonne chance!
Yeah, it took a few months but it gradually faded.
I think we should all just accept that these platforms are not suitable for the purposes of being a global bulletin board/library of human activity as long as they are owned and operated by private corporations who only care about your inviolable rights to speak freely when it suits them. There are other ways besides twitter to see what Zelensky says.
Afaik, you could have multiple CPython interpreters per process before, but the GIL was global to the address space, not a per interpreter instance. I believe the GIL work also put interpreter state behind a single struct instead of a handful of global variables.

This could be totes wrong, all from memory, too tired to fact check.
This bums me because we really enjoyed Boar's Head meats. And they were always so expensive too! This furthers my distrust of anything corporate and the never ending greed. We're done with BH and will stick to locally sourced deli meat as an occasional treat. Mostly we'll just avoid deli meats altogether because it's healthier to.
My Breitling watch has a built-in circular slide rule. When in a foreign country, I set it (once) to the local currency exchange rate, and can quickly convert how much anything costs into dollars. I could do the same with the calculator on my phone, but I would have to key in the exchange rate every time - if I can even remember what it is.
Biden admin weighs price support for US critical minerals amid Chinese pressure
There's an attempt at heading off the driver commentary with a note at the bottom. The note makes some hand-wavy thing which is essentially "assuming you have an army of people with specifications, this won't be a problem", but that assumption is crazy. Fuchsia is a real OS effort funded by Google (at varying levels of funding through it's lifecycle, which is still ongoing AIUI) - I worked on Fuchsia for a number of years, from approximately the time the kernel had become usable, through to launching on nest hubs where it replaced the existing OS from bootloader to GUI. Drivers remain a huge problem for Fuchsia despite funding. SOC vendors don't provide docs or assistance, even for serious efforts, they demand money first - they're literally holding the software world hostage with this activity.

After leaving Fuchsia and reflecting on the whole thing, I really believe that despite the many problems Linux may have over the long term, the only viable strategies for a broadly and practically usable safer OSS system are either: someone donates at least $2bn to get it done in a PBC well managed and focused over a decade, or you slowly mutate Linux into that thing. Anything drastically different is, for now, dependent on the world being a different shape / people & companies having different attitudes than they do. I'd love to see something like Redox prove me wrong, but real world experience suggests that's extremely unlikely. RISCv is the one thing in flight that might "change the shape of the world" enough to alter this, but RISCv comes with it's own stack of long challenges to overcome to meet the originally stated goal of broadly and practically usable.

Writing a core kernel and usable userspace isn't something to be trivialized, but by cost and work volume, getting a broad set of drivers is far far more effort by an astronomical margin. The OSDev community has thousands of OSes to explore, and barely any drivers that do things a user actually cares about.
Danke will be stacking images to keep this extreme detail at all depths. Impressive.
My z-wave sensors of various brands tend to recognize my cat. Most of them have a "pet" setting which is supposed to ignore them, but then I would lose my entire security system.
A key/value store is easy to build in Postgres, just define a table with a key column and a value column, that's it. Given that both key and value can be of datatype JsonB or BLOB, there's no restriction in generality, just, you know, aptness for the purpose. Now if you do that, you can—in Postgres—define additional structure or choose a different model entirely if your KV store turns out to be less ideal for whatever you want to do. MongoDB does not give you that choice.
How’s the power consumption compare? If you don’t need more powerful it might not be the bargain it looks like.
Have you tried any plugins using ripgrep? Searching for expressions in Neovim is pretty much instant using fzf-lua or any-jump, the latter is based on the emacs package https://github.com/jacktasia/dumb-jump
A SpamAssassin Surprise
I suspect a good amount of the hype around NoSQL was driven by frontend developers transitioning into backend work via Node, and Mongo being relatively simple to get started on compared to relational databases. And that culture seems to have stuck. To this day, many popular backend js frameworks either completely ignore relational data storage or slap some bare bones interface over it.
The problem is that what you’re comparing are not functions, but representations of functions.
I was a customer, regularly buying several different products including lunch meats and I think I actually did get sick from the lunch meat back around when the recalls were announced.

Never again.
He said migrating mongo to postgres because someone else make the stupid decision of using mongo.
I also disagree with his take that the Kernel could be replicated in Rust by 6 motivated volunteers in 4 or 5 years. That could be said of many projects, you could probably reproduce AAA entertainment software with such a team in such a span of time, but the trick is getting these people to stay on track, fed, and satisfied for that time. Who's going to pay for their rent/mortgages? Are they just not going to work for the duration?

It's naive grandstanding in the best of cases, and malicious proselytizing in the worst.
“We dont play silly cheap web traffic games” [proceeds to pointlessly split every article across 10 pages]
It is clear when someone is spreading FUD such as in your comment. As for blockchain, it is demonstrably used millions if not billions of times daily to do all the things I noted. Your limited mind can hardly comprehend the rule-based contracts that execute on Ethereum.

If left to you, civilization would never have progressed out of the stone age, and I mean the stone-throwing age, not the stone-tooling age.
I guess you'll miss out on the enjoyable syntax then.
I'm guessing you have to do a bit more in maintenance for your Home Assistant instance than set the clock every once and a while?
The author mentions Jason Shiga's Meanwhile as one of the only other books using this flowchart+tabs "gameplay" system. Meanwhile is one of the best experiences I've ever had reading a book, including it's hidden/unreachable pages, it's circular and looping options, fourth wall breaking, etc. I highly recommend it - I also recommend all of Shiga's other works, such as Demon[1] and Fleep[2]. It seems he's also got another book in this style[3], which I'd missed the news of and have immediately ordered.

[1] http://www.shigabooks.com/
[2] http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/fleep/
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Adventuregame-Comics-Leviathan-Jason-...
Fails I own are the fails I try to tackle. If its outside force, then the only action can be altering that force (good luck changing nation's mindsets and values) or cutting off from it.

I chose the owning approach, it works very nicely for my entire life so far, since its work between me and me so whatever is happening outside has no impact. Doesn't make it an easier life, in contrary, but much much better overall. A plus is building stronger 'character' in challenges for lack of better words.
>You probably think identity theft is a customer's problem, not the bank too.

Huh? I'm relaying what the law considers civil asset forfeiture to be. It's not my opinion and it is not a "narrative". In fact, here's some commentary addressing the issue I raised.

"Technically, civil asset forfeiture involves a government lawsuit against the personal property itself or, in legal terms, `in rem`. As strange as it may seem, the inanimate property, whether a yacht or a bag of cash, is the defendant in such a proceeding." --- (https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-rights/what-is-civ...)

If you don't believe that, maybe you'd believe the Justice Department on issue:

"Civil Judicial Forfeiture: In rem (against the property) court proceeding brought against property that was derived from or used to commit an offense, rather than against a person who committed an offense." --- (https://www.justice.gov/afp/types-federal-forfeiture)

What you ignored is the only opinion I expressed and the context of that expression: "Still, I would argue that the property owner's rights are often violated is such actions." How does this square with anything about identify theft responsibility?

> It's silly for a nation-state to sue cash, it should never have been considered reasonable.

Actually, the historical origin of civil asset forfeiture has some rational basis, though, as with most sensible legal moves, gets corrupted by those willing to exploit the letter of the law in spite of its spirit.

Nonetheless, unless there's something I'm missing I don't find your retort particularly coherent. I urge you to reread the original comment to which I replied and my reply and try again.
>12 watts is not a lot of heat to be dumping.

Just as a reference point, straight up "electric heat" is basically 250 watts A Foot.
Postgres is 100% relational AND supports JSON.
The gpu driver for apple m1 silicon is written is Rust.
Your reasoning is that if we look at the history of North Korea we will see that it has been a dictatorship since its inception, and similarly if we look at the history of Brazil we will plainly that it has not in fact ever been a republic and this is evidenced by the fact that Twitter is blocked?

I do not understand the impulse to evoke a completely unrelated thing to try to make a conceptual argument against a fact that you do not even attempt to directly refute. Brazil does not have a monarch. If you believe that Brazil is a monarchy, I encourage you to expand on what you think a monarch is both in terms of power and historical context.
Not to take away from Kranz, who was an incredible man, but Armstrong was on another plane.

On Apollo 11, he was 100,000 miles from Earth, with bad navigation and the (fly by wire) computer blaring errors into his ear, and had to manually fly to a better area and land with seconds of fuel left.

He wouldn't have been put in that position though if he hadn't come through in a lot of other tricky situations though too. In particular Gemini 8 where the thrusters malfunctioned, and he had to troubleshoot the problem while being spun at 50 rpm.
Re-reading it I can see how it could be perceived by some people as such, thanks for pointing it out. There's probably better phrasing or adding more context could make it more amicable:

The goal was to explicitly tell people not to bother "just reading it" as one (and by one I mean myself and most people I know, surely there are exceptions) is naturally inclined to do unless something is particularly piquing our interest.

Without engaging in active, conscious effort, syntax that is different than what we're used to (specially something as established as SQL) where the changes aren't groundbreaking at first glance can easily make us dismissive without realizing the benefits. And after seeing it too many times with all kinds of technologies that stray away from the familiar, I just want to prepare the reader so that their judgment can be formed with full use of their faculties rather than a reflex response.
In the 2010s when the MongoDB craze was in full swing I took several deeper looks at MongoDB but all that I was left with was befuddlement—why? why would I choose Mongo over a real database? It never made any sense.
> The most frequent complaint from users was that they could turn off alarms too easily by removing the app.

This feels like something someone would make up for marketing purposes to justify intentionally poor design. Dissatisfaction with your current app is not assent from your users to make disrespectful decisions.