skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Require registering the private well with the state EPA (similar to septic systems). Failure to do so incurs punitive penalties. Provide compensation to folks who report wells not reported within a grace period (similar to what NYC does with idle vehicles). Track un permitted construction using planet.com or other commercial satellite imagery providers that cover your jurisdiction boundaries.

Frankly, it’s good practice to know where humans are getting their potable water from considering potential pesticide, PFAS, and heavy metal contamination. Cheaper than health issues (cancer, primarily) and premature death that could’ve been avoided with well surveillance processes, as well a children consuming contaminated water potentially handicapping them for life. This very piece describes this in detail, and how without regulation, this harm at scale continues (because it’s easier to ignore than to protect).

The tools exist to solve for this. As always, it’s will (or lack thereof). Do we care about these people or not?
Sorry, it was vegan gas, not organic. They stopped labelling it that way, obviously, after being thoroughly ridiculed. It’s difficult to find references to it now, but some articles from that time (2020-2022 I think) remain, e.g. https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/decouple/greenpeace-sel...

There might be some traces of it in the Internet archive.

[edit] there are traces here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210209184343/http://www.greenp...

It was prominently on their home page at some point, but I could not find it. I should have saved it.
I like this author, but here is the rub. The entire article is predicated on a "koin" flipping program where one can manipulate the rules that govern probability. This clearly does not make flip-(n) independent from flip-(n-1) and since the flips are no longer independent, one might reasonably expect that the traditional gambler's fallacy in not a fallacy.
* Half of all Big Tech.
I am 1/3 of the way through this, and it doesn't I am afraid seem like a very good breakdown.

For example.

- Portability. Who cares, even in the 1990s, NetBSD is a thing. We've known learned that portability across conventional-ish hardware doesn't actually affect OS design in vary

Overall, the author is taking jargon / marketing terms too much at face value. In many cases, Windows and Unix will use different terms to describe the same things, or we have terms like "object-oriented kernel" that, by default, I assume don't actually mean anything: "object oriented" was too popular and adjective in the 1990s to be trusted.

- "NT doesn’t have signals in the traditional Unix sense. What it does have, however, are alerts, and these can be kernel mode and user mode."

Topic sentence should not start with the names of things. It is extraneous.

My prior understanding is that NT is actually better in many ways, but I don't feel like I am any closer to learning why.
No, you're not. Are you genuinely trying to suggest that LLMs, which can:

- Construct arbitrary text that isn't just grammatically but semantically coherent

- Derive intent, subtle intent, from user queries and responses

- Emulate endless different personalities and their reactions to endless stimuli

- Describe in detail the statics and dynamics of the world, including sight, smell, touch and sound

do not have a model of the external world? What do you think a "corpus" means in this context? How is the "corpus" of sensory and evolutionary data that makes you up in any way different?

LLMs are excellent common sense reasoners, and they generalize just fine. Why exactly do you think they get things _subtly_ wrong? Make up API syntax that looks sensible but isn't actually implemented? In order to make these guesses they need to have generalized, they need an understanding of the structure underlying naming, such that they can produce _sensible_ output even if they lack the hard facts.
Two thought experiments I like to consider are:

- if a company, say, AMD, found a way to produce GPUs at a fraction (say, x=10%) of the price of NVDA, would that increase aggregate demand, or keep it about the same (substitution for nVidia)? Would the price difference be enough to incentivize creation of a CUDA- alternative ecosystem? If not, what does the fraction x need to be?

- Very reductively, GPUs seem to be universally needed because they are better at manipulating matrices than alternatives (eg, inverting a matrix, finding dot product, cosine similarity, etc). Are there alternative approaches that could come to market in the next 2-3 years that could be better, or better-per-$, than the current approach of just building bigger GPUs?
Government jobs have a fixed pay grade that isn't changing. It doesn't afford an upper-middle-class life in an expensive city. You may find yourself wanting both, but you can't have them. If you already get that, you're not missing anything!

If you have a deeper question about why the US government chooses this outcome, here is the answer: It is ideologically closer to Mondrian than to other US corporations. This ideology makes it hard to hire for certain higher-wage skills; they have to find workers who will accept a pay cut. (Mondrian's maximum wage ratio -- the wage of the CEO divided by the lowest-paid worker -- is six. Private sector CEOs might get 10x more than Mondrian's CEO; Mondrian's CEO makes ideologically-motivated sacrifices. Something similar is happening for high-skill devs at Mondrian and the USG.) To some degree this ideology is thrust upon the largest entities whose workforces tend to unionize and lobby for similar outcomes; to some degree it is an emergent outcome of principled and political choices by legislators and executives.

Go USG! Such an inspiring organization. I can understand why people are cynical -- it's too much to understand; anything big has lots of ugliness; much of the Rep party has been ideologically opposed to Mondrian; etc -- but I just think it's so beautiful.
Completely agree, it’s destined to be niche forever… because it involves strapping something to your face. Niche is FINE! Beat Saber is one of my favorite games of all time, VR did that!
Trieve Launches New JavaScript SDK for RAG and Search
While there is no staging area, the powerful "--interactive" option is used to select specific files or lines you want committed.

Besides that, there are powerful "split" feature to split a commit into smaller commits or move changes between commits.
Tabular numerals are very useful in certain cases, but I find even more useful the old-style numerals.

By default, I always use old-style numerals, because they are much easier to read, especially for big numbers, for the same reason why the lowercase letters are easier to read, by having ascenders and descenders that break the uniformity of the characters.

I use lining numerals only in the same places where I would use uppercase letters, e.g. in titles or when a sentence begins with a number.
There's a lot of stuff like this that should be very illegal and include excessive fines and jail time to stop it from happening. Buying something and then having the manufacturer take features away is a major bait and switch in the best case. It's fraud. Turning off cloud servers and abandoning hardware leaving it useless when it could be made useful if source code was released should be just as illegal. They need to start cracking down on these horrid business practices.
I'm surprised that only 10 pages were treated. Given the level of interest to this book I was sure that all the possible scans (UV, x-ray MRI etc) were performed long ago.
Beyond the privacy invasion this represents, isn’t there some limit to how obvious a concept is? People have been recording conversations surreptitiously since the first audio recorder was invented, how can you patent something so obvious? I mean I taped my parents having an argument in the back seat with my humongous cassette recorder deck when I was young while sitting in the back seat? Was some kind of child genius? Can I claim prior art?
Ukraine never had control of those nukes. The USSR centralized control of all nuclear weapons and everything related to them (launch sequences, codes, etc). And that centralization remained within Russia. They could have tried to override the lockouts and somehow manage to get them working but it probably would have been met with global sanctions on top of an invasion from multiple countries. Their other choice is go the route they went - exchange the nukes for a bunch of money and some mostly meaningless pledges of good will.

The reality of life is that in many situations you don't have a good option and a bad one, but rather a bad one and a terrible one. So demonstrating one choice is bad does not make the other inherently better. And when you're a small power stuck between two giants, this is the name of the game. See: Switzerland managing to remain neutral throughout both WW1 and WW2. A tiny little power pissing off both the Allied and Axis powers, leaving them standing completely alone? Clearly a bad decision, but also clearly the best decision. Same here.
>rather than just stating that that's only primarily relevant to US consumers.

Why does that need to be stated?
Backing up is the way, disks should be cheap! That’s the whole point of them
> the simplest tasks

The tasks seem simple from 30,000 feet up in the air. Once you get down into the dirt you realize there's absolutely nothing simple about what you're proposing.

A filesystem is a giant shared data structure with several contractual requirements and zero guarantees. That people think a programming language could "solve" this is what is boggling to me.
Both could be fixed if we had a working democracy.
Hardcore gamers don’t want to stick this on their head because it’s a gimmick. They want to play games, not have ads up to their eyeballs.

Games aren’t the VR killer app that people mistakenly think it is. Nothing is. VR as glasses is a gimmick. Sensory depravation of vision far outranks whatever thing you want to do on a computer. It’s too much effort for no gain and so far it’s been too much marketing and too much tech hyping things up. It’s cringe to see it unfold like it isn’t obvious. Wearing ski goggles indoors to use a computer makes you look like a tool.
S3 does fail safe. The default is to deny access, but the problem is that every so often someone “solves” a problem by granting access broadly rather than learning how the tool works or reading the prominent warnings. This isn’t like C++, it’s more an example of how people don’t consistently respect the ancillary tools they use enough to learn how they work. I’ve seen the same pattern in many other contexts and it always came down to “I need to get my real work done, I don’t have time for this sysadmin stuff!”
> Are such huge monorepos a good idea

Yes.

Internal dependencies, automation, buildkite (i.e. let's run other projects CI against our changes), etc are all basically a scam that only makes "sense" in certain open source projects.
I have a very cheap TV package that includes something like a dozen, maybe two dozen sports channels. That's where I mostly watch soccer, but very rarely these days. I watch no other sport, and I pay for all of those channels because they come together in a bundle

I occasionally go on r/soccer purely for goal highlights

I used to use sofascore to keep track of games, but I don't anymore since I rarely sit down to watch matches. When I do want to find out when a particular match is, I will search on google

I do play premier league fantasy with a few buddies. We have our own league

Also, I don't think hn is the place to do research about people and their sports-watching habits, since most people here won't watch any sports regularly. A better place would be to go to some communities related to a certain sport and interact with the people there to find out how they do things; but also, if you're not into sports yourself and know a particular sport in and out and the culture associated with it, it's probably not the best idea to do a startup about this
The contingency feared by Western planners is Russia invading while the US is unable or unwilling to come to Poland's aid. The two most obvious scenarios are Trump getting elected and withdrawing the US from NATO (either officially, or by using his authority as commander in chief to refuse to deploy US forces in support of Article V), or US forces being tied up in a war with China. European nations would probably help, but European militaries don't have the same expeditionary capabilities as the US so they'd probably be limited in how much they could practically do.
I mean, AAA games for VR get a lot more hype because ... well, because that's a part of the spend, on marketing, etc.

But the vast majority of games (on Oculus at least) are very much casual games in the vein of Beat Saber, but they all suck and our Oculus has been gathering dust once the novelty of Beat Saber wore thin.

I don't think the article makes a compelling case for a "why". I'll take a shot at it -- it's a technological dead end. Maybe there are applications for AR once the technology matures, but VR is never going to be a holodeck. The movement-based mechanics of the Wii and the Kinect and whatever the Playstation crap was had a moment in the sun and then we all moved on because there was no killer app, just a bit of novelty.
Big tech companies can absorb these penalties without a major dent in their finances, and as you pointed out, sometimes the market value can rebound quickly, negating the effect of the fine.
Because not all typefaces are OpenType, and not all OpenType typefaces have features set.
Well yeah. The prime way they avoid the law is compliance. You would also be pretty pissed off if you couldn't avoid a law fining you for something you couldn't avoid.
My guess is he's referring to things that are out there on the web, but not in the top results and not easy to find.
Unless it's something with a relatively fixed demand
JSONC. https://onury.io/jsonc/

It can be hard to find an implementation of this if you're working in a not-so-popular language (looking at you Swift) but JSONC has had the best developer experience of anything I've tried so far.

It's basically JSON with single and multi line comments and trailing commas.
You have to backdate starting a project so it happens before things stop being good enough. And take into account bad estimates and the five other deadlines between then and now.

Often it’s better to clean as you go. If you have the time and the inclination, shore up one of the least good enough things.

It’s not unheard of to open up new feature sets via refactoring. Something that previously would have taken an “impossible” amount of time now becomes profitable, not just possible.
It's not even comfort for me, it's the hygiene of it. Touching greasy skin and then sharing... ick. You really need a personal device for everyone which is pricy.
Yes, my axiomatic belief in the goodness of man.
Apple is a lot worse than merely 'isn't blameless'. They knew perfectly well what they were getting into and I'm confident that the current judgment would have been a scenario that their lawyers would have explored.

I'm sure that if Apple thinks that they have been hard done by that they could sue the Irish government for damages in the Irish courts.
Pack-a-day smokers do not give a damn about the black box (death label) warning on cigarettes.

Minors by definition do not have any responsibility, nor do they have any perspective to consequences, they are immortal in their own minds

The only answer is to make parents and guardians responsible, start with fines, end up with prison if there is something so dire to what you are trying to stop and it is destroying lives.
While there is lots of tax fraud, I feel it’s probably a drop in the bucket. Countries will have to either cut back on spending or borrow until they collapse under the weight of their own inept budgeting.
Research on theory of programming languages λ, compilers, interpreters, functional programming, formal methods, logic etc.
It's not just physical comfort though that's definitely a part of it. It's also how fiddly it can be to find the sweetspot where image is not so blurry. There's either screen door or mura effects depending on screen technology. There's the clunkiness of the controls on most games. There's high potential for motion sickness. Most games require quite a lot of space which a lot of people won't have. It isolates the player from the surrounding environment which is not always an adequate position to be in. On games with more movement (boxing, beat saber and other rhythm games, etc) there's the heat that accumulates in the headset, which is not only uncomfortable but can make the lenses blur and the headset to start slipping. So many issues. Some smaller, some subjective, some dependent on player, but any given player will have a stack of issues to deal with any time they hop into the virtual world.
It's simple, EU law says Apple had to pay taxes at that time. Apple's ignorance of EU law is not an excuse, this doesn't work for individuals, why should it work for big multinational companies? Ireland doesn't have the power alone to overturn these kinds of laws, unless, of course, they decide to leave EU.

Apple's decision to put their trust completely in Ireland officials and sidestep the EU is their own mistake. Reminds me of when Trump tried to arrange a trade deal with Germany without EU, which was impossible.
git can cope a lot better than some seem to realize. Obviously it chugs on a truly huge repo but this is genuinely enormous.

Sapling if I'm not mistaken uses the same file structure as git.
It's still a maintenance light for many things. If you check over the list of diagnostic codes for any given model, they vary widely from a "should check this out next time it's convenient, something looks off" all the way to "PULL OVER RIGHT NOW."

I'm old enough that I remember when it was commonplace to figure out what on earth your car was even mad about that you had to take it to a mechanic and pay for the privilege. That's one aspect I will absolutely give has improved both to new cars' infotainment systems that can give much more detailed information about what's wrong, and to the wide-spread adoption of DTC decoding devices/apps.
We'll have to see how it holds up for general books. The books they highlighted are all very old and very famous, so the training set of whatever LLM they use definitely has a huge amount of human-written content about them, and the papers are all relatively short.
Ask your lawyer. Licenses matter to the degree the parties have good will and/or legal wherewithal. Nobody is going to enforce the terms of a license except the parties to the license. If it matters, you can litigate if you have the resources.

To me, a license people have questions about is probably a bad license. The exception being a license that is negotiated between lawyers for each party. Good luck.
Given it's such a hot part of their code, I'm genuinely surprised they didn't go down the state machine route for as optimal a solution, or even further and made use of vector instructions. Maybe Rust can autovectorise the code though.
Privacy isn't about concealing wrongdoing, but about maintaining autonomy and personal freedom in a world where norms and laws can change.
Sure, I'm not saying this is going to be a likely fraud, but there's much more subtly illegal ways to offer stuff that may be worth the risk for a company and then the government then lobbies via backchannels for the EU to find it illegal.
Is it true though?
Yeah sure so you need to pay people to generate (or in extreme cases not generate) that electricity. You are allowed to negotiate how much you pay them. Free market.

There are some issues, like for some reason the UK national grid doesn't pay different amounts for different locations, even though our grid capacity is too low to transport all the electricity we need from Scotland to England. They could fix that if they wanted.

You might say it's not an "open market", in that it has to be tightly controlled by the grid operators to ensure that it doesn't dephase. But it's still a free market. If you build a power station and undercut everyone else they will have to lower their prices, just like every other market.
But with the time to update game, it’s often plug-wait-and-play.

In this sense streaming games services are more plug and play, given what you say that you live in an area with good connectivity.
> We all agree the web is _also_ not reliable

You need to expand your circle a bit more :-)
Beat Saber and Walkabout Mini Golf are hardly "hyper-realistic and violent immersive games" and there are no shortage of other extremely popular (within the market) titles along those lines.

VR gaming faces a low ceiling because (a) VR headsets present a challenge to how our eyes, neck, and proprioceptive systems are accustomed to working and induce a associated fatigue, and (b) VR gaming is more isolating than any other kind of gaming. You disconnect entirely from your surroundings, which is fun as a novelty, but is an "all-in" activity that you can't semi-attentively engage in like you might a portable/mobile game, TV game, a PC game.
It is no surprise culturally that they do. When innocence/technical compliance with the law is no defense against the law why bother?
I always think of Tom Hall's quote from early id days.

"No one wants to strap shit to their face."

Yeah.
An interest free loan for years for 13 billion isn’t too bad!
Neat!
This is (a+b)(a-b) + b² = a²-b² + b² = a² and in your eg, a=23 and b=3

In addition to using this trick for getting to multiples of 10, I used it to compute the product of two numbers by leveraging their proximity to a number in between whose square I knew. For eg if I need to multiply 23 by 27, I instead see it as (25-2)(25+2), which is 25²-2² = 621.

(using that same trick from the article to calculate squares of numbers that end in 5)
Backdoors for Decentralized Governance: Are They Good or Wrong?
> unrelated: another big cause of tinnitus is Viagra. it drives too much blood to the sensitive ear arteries

Could pre-workout have these same effects? They usually contain vasodilators, although at much lower strengths than Viagra.
I hate to sound like the classic Arch user, but if you're unable to build packages from source I'd highly suggest a different distro. Being a rolling release things will break. I've been a daily Linux driver for over a decade and do live Arch, but it's not for noobs unless you're willing to dive into the deep end (in which case it's great, but because breaking becomes a feature instead of a bug lol)

If you have not already done do, I highly suggest installing timeshift[0] and the associated pacman hook[1]. Make sure to appropriately configure them and setup good timers. This will save you a lot of headaches, especially if you have an Nvidia GPU (Jensen please...)

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Timeshift

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/timeshift-autosnap
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I'm a bit surprised as I thought this was common knowledge for web designers and developers.

Though to check the features or variable ranges of an OpenType file, you can use something like fontdrop.info.
But are you the right person? :-)
Plenty of mistakes in textbooks and research articles, it's possible the probability is already even lower.
I'm sure it'll work as well as it does for Tobacco and Alcohol.
While rational thinking is vital, gut feelings can offer valuable guidance, especially in uncertain or ambiguous scenarios.
I got these little fabric covers ("VR cover") for my HMD so the cleanliness aspect is a bit better managed. A couple people can use the first one and then I can swap it to a new, clean one, etc.