skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But objecting to schools teaching things in the event that parents don't is unreasonable because it punishes the child for their parents not living up to expectations. And on the particular topic of this thread, it punishes all of us because it's generally detrimental to society for people to take on massive un-serviceable debt due to a lack of financial education.
If anyone wants to ROTFL, then this is a good place to start.

I've been following Simon Travaglia since the 1980s.

I don't know if he still has his old site up, but he also had a bunch of amusing views on Kiwi culture.
Now imagine how much time could have been saved globally if one person spent half an hour writing a short description of why each point is false instead of making hundreds (or thousands) of people spend hours thinking about and researching every one of them. You're probably left with more knowledge in the end if you're not spoon-fed by the author, but how many of us need really deep knowledge of the TCP inner workings?
How much nuclear waste would be generated, across 100 years of American levels of energy use, per person?

I'll save you the effort, it's about one chicken egg, maybe as large as a tea cup.

For your whole life, all the energy you'll use across all sectors. Over 100 years you don't think we capable of finding a space to safely fritter away a chicken egg? Or even 300 million chicken eggs?

And even more amazingly, that "waste"? It's still fuel, we could reprocess it.

Coal, you'd need 50-60,000 kilograms to create the same energy. The waste disposal for 60k kg of coal's ash is non trivial (and much harder to prevent from spreading). To say nothing of the 150-180,000 kg of CO2 emitted.

Solar panels would need to be replaced 2-5 times in that timeframe. They are a whole lot less wasteful than coal, but that'd still be a significant volume of difficult to reprocess material.

So, before wringing your hands about waste from nuclear, make sure you understand just how small the amount of waste is and think about the waste of alternatives. There's not a free lunch here, but waste just isn't a material concern compared against other power sources.
Google is deleting 2y dormant Gmail accounts
Americans can get a used Nissan Leaf for $10-$20k and it would accommodate virtually any daily commute plus side trips without ever spending a dollar on gas. I continue to be baffled year after year as to why more Americans don't go that route. At least those with detached homes or otherwise easy access to charging.

If nothing else, the fact that most Americans don't by a cheap EV as a second car (assuming they have need of one) is particularly baffling.
I wonder. Are people who aren't well off able to afford cars if nearly all cars sold are EV?
Would just going back to a standard mechanical keyboard get you most of the same benefits?
> In 2019, Deep Genomics announced it had discovered a treatment for a rare condition called Wilson disease, which is fatal if not addressed. For the afflicted, copper accumulates in their bodies, particularly in the liver, brain and cornea, where the metal can appear as a brownish ring. The Toronto-based company said in a news release that its molecule was the “first ever AI-discovered therapeutic candidate.” It wasn’t the only one Deep Genomics would divine through artificial intelligence.

> Founded in 2015, the company’s AI models would go on to test more than 200 million molecules for their ability to treat disease. By 2021, Deep Genomics had zeroed in on 10 drug candidates for preclinical study and aimed to have four undergoing human trials within a couple of years.

> Today, Deep Genomics has zero drugs in clinical trials and many of its plans have blown up. The company halted its Wilson disease program, ditched dozens of its machine learning models, appointed a new chief executive and is pursuing a different approach to using AI. It’s also open to a sale.

> “AI has really let us all down in the last decade when it comes to drug discovery,” said Deep Genomics founder Brendan Frey. “We’ve just seen failure after failure.”

> Dion Madsen, co-founder of Montreal-based Amplitude Ventures, was an early believer in the power of AI to improve drug discovery, and the early stage life sciences financing firm first invested in Deep Genomics in 2020. “We haven’t made as much progress as we had planned,” he acknowledged.

> The company didn’t have experienced drug developers on staff to validate predictions in the lab and provide feedback on the problems the AI models should be directed toward, and how to improve them. “Our hiccups really came not from the technology, ##but from not having the right quality of people on the validating side##,” Mr. Madsen said, adding that the situation is now improved.

There has been tremendous hype about AI in biopharma, even vendors that have nothing to do with drug development are giving us AI pitches.
My Mac battery is considerably more amazing than its default amazing state when I don't have any browser open or any Electron crud running.

I blame the modern web. The browser is just the universe it runs in.
Warewoolf: A minimalist novel-writing system/rich text editor
It's also minuscule. A US person would generate roughly a chicken egg worth of waste across their entire lifetime.
NovelWriter
My personal experience is, the second one I tried gave me a miss.
Oh interesting, thanks! I much prefer that formulation.
Erase Your Darlings (2020)
If Kindle isn't an ebook dealbreaker, it's available.
"I haven't had any unsolvable problems."

That sentence can have a lot of meanings, when one thinks that everything is possible with enough effort ..
While I agree with you generally, the price I was given was $50k for geothermal heat pump all in. Considering my house has risen in value by 200k over the past 3 years and I intend on it being a permanent family home, it's really not out of the question, especially considering the potential increase in extreme heat events and the impacts on energy.

I understand people see this as an underperforming investment but I instead see it as de-risking.
Can’t Gemini work with a million+ input tokens?
Most people think playing chess makes you 'smarter' but the evidence isn't clear
What differs between STEMcore and classic Hard SF?
Lol nope. When I'm trying to get it do make something big/complicated I start by telling it it's a software project manager and have me build a spec sheet on the design. Then I hand that off to an architect to flesh out the languages, libraries, files needed etc. Then from that list you can have it work on individual files and functions.
> More recently, I read the argument that it’s so bad that Chrome running it’s Chromium engine ought not be allowed to exist on iPhones and iPads.

The subtext is John Gruber's post 6 days ago, defending Apple's iOS lockdown: "Imagine — and this takes a lot of imagination — if Google actually shipped a version of Chrome for iOS, only for the EU, that used its own battery-eating rendering engine instead of using the energy-efficient system version of WebKit." https://daringfireball.net/2024/09/ios_continental_drift_fun...
I want a compact version I can point out a car window at the glass of another car and turn it into a voice speaker.
Bugs that go years without being addressed are UX issues.
Apart from a few things already mentioned, I don't believe developers are really trying to engage with the LLM development. Some are just completely opposed to it ethically, some think it's not good enough and don't try, some don't care, some were not satisfied before. There's quite a few people using copilot, but that's the most basic and simple approach.

I don't personally know anyone trying to use more fancy tools like agents or ide-integrated helpers. They're not perfect by any means and you actually need to learn how to use them well, but the difference is massive. I've definitely saved some hours when developing smaller scope tools. It's not a time save that would drastically change my total productivity, but... it exists and it's going to increase in the future. And it requires upfront investment into the tooling and learning that few people seem to be interested in.

But even given current issues, how can you tell there hasn't been an improvement? How would you be able to tell across all the open source in the world?
This article isn't about streaming activity in general, it's about the Nielsen ratings, which as far as I can tell wouldn't include views on creators like MrBeast, just proper 'television'.
A larger oligopolist lowering prices is mostly out of common experience.

No massive merger, in my experience, has led to either (A) better service, or (B) cheaper goods or services. Every time there's a merger, services I use get discarded, degraded, or become more expensive. Same with material goods. This experience is in-line with standard free-market economics as well. Without competitive pressures, prices go up. Pretty standard micro-economics.
> Norway has a slew of incentives in place that encourage residents to buy electric vehicles instead of gas cars.

They have been slowly taken out.
If you want to handle the assert cases, you should not use the asserts in the first place.
Yes, the problem is using Excel, not Excel by itself.
In my experience, humans are at least as bad at it as GPT-4, if not far worse. In terms, specifically, of being "factually accurate" and grounded in absolute reality. Humans operate entirely in the probabilistic realm of what seems right to us based on how we were educated, the values we were raised with, our religious beliefs, etc. -- Human beings are all over the map with this.
> U.S. persons and entities – meaning anyone on American soil or any U.S. citizens abroad – are barred from transacting with the addresses or people added to the sanctions list.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/09/14/us-treasury-black...
Nah, o1 is fucking impressive. It's really fucking good. I'm guessing you haven't used it yet.
I set up Fedora for family but I still use Arch myself, because there is no good alternative to AUR on Fedora and there are more packages that I need for software development.

Sometimes Arch saves so much time, that even the infrequent necessary manual maintenance after updates makes it worth it.

And even when trying to run stuff on distros other than Arch, I frequently look up instruction on Arch Wiki and in AUR PKGBUILDs.
I just angrily chew my nails off and get back to what I was doing.
Fortunately, we don't have the social skills to make that happen.
I think what we need is not an HTML6, but rather HTML4-ish and something separate. I want web pages and web apps to be distinguishable, and not have every newspaper article and blog post hosted inside of a heavyweight application framework that either breaks or re-implements all kinds of basic user agent functionality. Simple pages should be implemented in a simple, constrained technology stack and heavyweight web apps should be something the end user opts-in to using.
Social signaling is important. Whether you like the game or not.

To not: In Europe, social signaling works in favor of biking… but only among a certain type of people (let’s say vegetarians). But it’s a circle of friends really hard to maintain because they also veto you if you take any non-ecologic decision.

So, long story short, social status signaling cannot be cancelled by ecologist status signaling. Seems like we’d have to appease tensions on both sides…
To forget is an ethical act
Not with shadcn/ui but I get what you mean. For me Gemini is frustrating, ChatGPT is outdated and Claude is actually useful.
I think the original "names" and subsequent "addresses" were useful in that a conclusion(that programmers should embrace defeatism and refrain from parsing or evaluating or even trying to separate them into fields) can be drawn, and the lessons learned were slightly more specific than often realized...
There are indeed productivity gains, but those are more scattered to quantify.

Here are some significant productivity gains I get from Mistral/Phind/ChatGPT/office-internal-llm daily.

- throw a messy shell script and ask it to refactor it(works 80% of the time)

- put a sample xml/json/yaml and ask it to generate the class/struct (code generation)

- ask questions and it gives immediate response with example more well suited to my need (previously took time to go into SO/Reddit/SE etc and scroll through several posts, docs or even waste time reading blogspams )

- ask questions about specific topic and get immediate response and citations(this is inhouse trained model) instead of fighting with broken search or ocean of messy documents in Confluence/Notion/Gitlab Pages and what not

- rubber duck when brainstorming a problem(it can sometimes lead to interesting outcomes)

- prepare a bash script to do something and then I simply modify/correct/refine it to fit my needs

- questions about trivial stuff

- generate boiler plates

- generate a throw away project to try something fast

- convert from one language to another(need to work with different teams using different languages such as TS/Java/C++/Scala/Python/Shell/Rust/Erlang etc)

- write a polite email(or response to) which I can copy paste and send when I am too occupied with something else

- documentation of specific feature of something which would take a lot of digging in the original docs

- generate a pure self-contained html/css prototype to send to our UI/UX team to give them an idea of particular concept

- summarize large block of text into bullet forms(useful for presentations)

- get summaries of popular books(because chatgpt has indeed trained on a lot of them somehow!)

- translate a text to another language(works well when it does but still needs some corrections)

Most of these activities save me a lot of time which would previously need some big time investments.
> Since more than 82% of EV users in Norway charge their vehicles at home, housing associations can apply for grants that subsidize up to 50 percent of the cost of buying and installing communal chargers.

I'm familiar with parking in your own garage and charging, or parking on the street with no infrastructure, but I don't understand how far away these chargers would be and whether they're usable overnight.
Checked exceptions were vilified long before Java gained lambdas.
this "test" sounds pretty useless, and to immediately try to extrapolate the small sample to an eight hour battery life, lol
Unless your drives are in a perfectly controlled temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure environment, those will all impact the internal pressure. Temperature being the primary concern because drives do get rather warm internally while operating.
Not 20 years. Payment doesn’t start until graduation.

Also, why not take as long as possible to pay it off at 1.5%?
> I left my philosophy PhD program (without a PhD), I still have massive student loan debt

In humanities fields, if the department thinks you belong in the program, they pay you to attend. They'll give you fellowships, TAships, and RAships. If they don't give you those, they're telling you not to attend. This is a harsh truth.
I didn't realize John Gruber had reached "cult leader" levels of apologism.
The author seems to think that the poor are at fault for being poor. When you're trying to survive on the edge, you need quick and easy solutions. You don't have the luxury to plan ahead, stock up, etc. So if there's a grocery store 15 minutes away, but a fast food place is around the corner, and you're tired and harassed and the kids are squalling, you're not gonna be calculating the nutritional content, you need a quick hot meal.

So this means that if you want to motivate poor people to eat well, you not only need to provide nearby sources of healthy food (not a bus ride away), but also work on alleviating the many other problems that come along with poverty. More supermarkets is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of that solution.
This is a very long post to say "Go's Error Handling would be better if it was like Rust's, but the language designers made a mistake early-on and now we don't want to fix it"
> You rhetorically declared hallucinations to be part of the normal functioning (i.e., the word "Normal" is already a value judgement).

No they aren't: When you flip a coin, it landing to display heads or tails is "normal". That's no value judgement, it's just a way to characterize what is common in the mechanics.

If it landed perfectly on its edge or was snatched out of the air by a hawk, that would not be "normal", but--to introduce a value judgement--it'd be pretty dang cool.
Yes, the term in question for me is only "engineer".

> (a) uses the title “professional engineer” or “ingénieur” or an abbreviation or variation thereof as an occupational or business designation;

So (a) tells us rather clearly that we can't present ourselves as John Doe, Professional Engineer, or call our business a Professional Engineering firm, or whatever.

> (a.1) uses the title “engineer” or an abbreviation of that title in a manner that will lead to the belief that the person may engage in the practice of professional engineering;

Here, (a.1) seems to add, specifically as a sub-paragraph to (a), that it's also prohibited to call yourself an "engineer", or "eng.", etc., if it will make people think you're a professional engineer.

According to Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts (1), one of the canons of interpretation is that "Material within an indented subpart relates only to that subpart".

While (a.1) is not indented with whitespace (2), I believe the paragraph numbering is functionally equivalent.

Further, the Fundamental Principle #4, "Presumption Against Ineffectiveness" is of some interest: "A textually permissible interpretation that furthers rather than obstructs the document’s purpose should be favored". Of course, it would not obstruct the purpose of the statute to interpret it as prohibiting whatsoever the use of the title "engineer". I bring up this principle because it implies that purpose is relevant to interpretation. That's why I think it's significant that the overall purpose of this statute is apparently to prevent people from being mistaken about who is and isn't a licensed professional engineer.

So, if we take for example the matter of people calling themselves "software engineers": The phrase "professional engineer" or equivalent wasn't used, which would have been prohibited outright per (a). Now, for (a.1), is this use of the word "engineer" going to make a reasonable person believe that the SWE is a professional engineer who can sign off on plans of the sort that require licensure because people die if the plans are wrong? I don't think so, and as far as I can see, it is only in those circumstances that "engineer" by itself is a protected title. I suspect what happened is that people/companies largely opted to avoid trouble by avoiding the word entirely, leading to a common assumption that "engineer" per se is entirely off-limits unless you're a PE.

1. https://jm919846758.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09...

2. https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p28#BK43
If you can get at-least-once delivery, why can you not build exactly-once on top of that?

[UPDATE] Apparently I need to be more explicit about this. My question is: if I can get at-least-once delivery, why can I not build an abstraction layer on the receiving node that provides the illusion of exactly-once delivery? It seems like it should be a simple matter of keeping a log of received messages, and discarding duplicates.
I might expect that for a specialized task, specialized database technology would outperform general relational databases. But what specific technologies have significant impacts on time series db efficiency?
> The university is not accredited but received approval from the state of Texas to grant degrees

What does a degree from an unaccredited school get you?
It isn't a problem, it is a feature the AMA wants to have.
I think you're correct. The positives from LLMs are an illusion but the drawbacks are real but insidious.
Often it's not about "just" adding the feature, but evaluating if it makes sense, how it _should_ be implemented and if it should be part of some different feature. Just hacking something in is usually not the complicated part.
You’re far better off having two raids, one as a daily backup of progressive snapshots that only turns on occasionally to backup and is off the rest of the time.
> Cards on the table, I’m an Arc guy on the desktop

I have used Arc on my M1 MBP a couple of times but don't have enough usage to say anything about its performance. What are its advantages over Safari or Chrome?
> it should actually quantify the industrial ingredients or preparations

As I pointed out it does.

> Ben & Jerry's vanilla ice cream

They make more than vanilla ice cream I presume.

> canned soups are on the list an ultra-processed food

Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup Ingredients:

"Chicken Stock, Enriched Egg Noodles (Wheat Flour, Eggs, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Chicken Meat, Contains Less Than 2% Of: Salt, Chicken Fat, Water, Monosodium Glutamate, Cornstarch, Modified Cornstarch, Natural Flavoring, Dried Chicken Broth, Sugar, Beta Carotene For Color, Onion Powder, Soy Protein Isolate, Sodium Phosphate, Yeast Extract, Dried Chicken, Garlic Extract."

This does not seem 'ultra-processed' to you? It even has MSG in it.

> It's all nonsense.

It's a guideline. You need to do the work and read the labels yourself. I cannot hand you a list of anything other than "whole foods" an expect it to be useful or accurate. I can give you a guide which may highlight some previously unexpected categories of food which you should now know to inspect carefully before assuming they aren't ultra processed.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
He's been that way for at least 10 years, from what I can tell.
This is how "cultural revolutions" begin
At this point, all students should on principals alone default and bankrupt. The system is rigged and is actively hurting people.
> In Europe, they have a simpler system

Europe does NOT have an education system!

The ~50 different European countries all have their own systems, with huge differences between them.
This has to be a lie made on purpose since it is so easily proven wrong.

Here is the keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/JdBYVNuky1M?si=46vw7FG3SjWWBezn

9.25 is when they talk about unwanted tracking.
OK, but this is a lawsuit not by FTC and FTC is not a judge
I think the "50x" is a little bit of a random number.

If you are already writing good code it might be hard to get any great improvement. If you are a beginner without much training /experience it might not be hard to see orders of magnitude improvement.

It might take some time though. When I have spoken to non coding people they seem to look at me like I am talking about flying to the moon. If computers are ever considered general tools and the general public every moves more towards more DIY and small business there might be more of an uptake.
Nit picking a bit but I prefer btrfs even if it's slower. Easier to work with.

What bootloader is this using? Or is it just straight EFI booting?

I helped write a guide a few years back that still is what I do using systemd-boot. https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/docs/blog/...

How is Wayland support these days? I love i3 but I know Sway promises to be close enough.
They could just require it on buildings above a certain height.

Create a new "I'm Here" protocol that just sends an ID, GPS, and whatever telemetry fields people might want, like weather data.

Make them solar powered with LTO batteries that won't need maintenance for 30 years, and just mass produce one tiny transmitter unit.

They could serve as something like Meshtastic nodes in an emergency.
now we call them devops
Why Microsoft Word must Die (2013)
Relatedly… a friend is looking for a power inverter for an otherwise-fine 2015 Leaf. Anyone here know where to source one?
The first animal with infinite lifespan could happen at any moment.