skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such qualities can sometimes be unearthed when you ask candidates to deal with a problem they can't know the answer to. In the end the ability to go deep has a lot to do with them being confident in their ability to be able to understand things that are new to them.

Most people can go into a deep dive if you force them to do it, but how they conduct themselves while doing it can show you if this is a thing they would do on their own.
Looks very nice, saved it for later. Last week, I worked on implementing always-on speech-to-text functionality for automating tasks. I've made significant progress, achieving decent accuracy, but I imposed some self-imposed constraints to implement certain parts from scratch to deliver a single binary deployable solution, which means I still have work to do (audio processing is new territory for me). However, I'm optimistic about its potential.

That being said, I think the more straightforward approach would be to utilize an existing library like https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive/ within a Docker container. This way, you can call it via WebSocket and integrate it with my LLM, which could also serve as a nice feature in your product.
There is also a free little tool for cofounder alignment called https://aligna.team
That's what it was! As a kid I had the TRS-80 Coco, related to the Sinclair, and I remember one of those graphing programs you typed in from Rainbow magazine, and I think it was able to plot the equation you had in a REM statement, that also had to be on a particular line number. There was a statement at the top of the program, like what you have here (maybe a POKE?), and I always knew it did something magical to be able execute from a REM statement, but I could never put it together.

The Star Trader game was also really ahead of its time.

There was no Google, and I've forgotten about it until just now. But, that makes sense. Thanks.
Could or should there just be a `IConfigurationService` instead of a separate IConfigurationFileService? Yes, probably.

"Interface all the things" is a bit lazy, but it's easy, especially if you have Moq as a way to auto-mock interfaces and a DI framework to setup factory methods.

But spinning into rage just because you see an interface or abstract factory isn't healthy.
I live in about a 200 year old New England farmhouse that’s a mixture of post and beam and stick. I definitely observe that for one or two hot days, especially with passably temperate nights, inside will definitely be cooler than out. But once the house heats up, it takes days to get it cool even if temperatures have gone down outside.
It's a shame Firefox sold it's homepage to promote a shitty race-dividing movie, claim social activism, and has forever lost its reputation.

We don't trust google, but it never lied. Firefox lied.
Why do you need the interface? You can extend/mock the class itself. Refactoring code is easy and cheap. There is no reason for complex abstractions that protect implantation outside of libraries and frameworks.
FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills
Surely you can just say something like apostolic Christians or something but I find it odd that for individuals whose core belief is a figure called Christ that they wouldn't use the original term "Christian" to refer to themselves and instead keep breaking away from each and using new words for their group every time they don't agree with each other
That's an Apple thing. They developed this habit (if not addiction) after bringing features to their devices very late, sometimes a decade later than their competitors. They thought it was better to call those basic features with fancy multi word names with ™ symbols at the end and that resonates with their fan base in perfect harmony. So I think the habit stuck.
I worked at RedBox in 2010. C# with embedded Lua for the screens. The intent was to build a flexible architecture for CoinStar to use on many kiosk businesses.

The PII is likely log files that should have been erased nightly, but I don’t remember.

I know the guy that designed the architecture. He’s a friend that I’ve argued with about over-engineering things. He never cared if people understood his work, which is a common theme with old school engineering.
Same here. Actually, it's not the only one keeping me on macOS but so far every time I thought about switching, the lack of a good terminal with control mode has had veto power.
kinda like python and ruby
I'm 6 years into this "career" (more like a job than a career but anyway) and now I'm coding probably 4 hours per day. It wasn't that different in the beginning though.
Claude beats ChatGPT but it lacks many features like audio. Kind of a deal breaker.
There is already a lot of research on the 3D reconstruction and camera movement part, for example this SIGGRAPH 2023 paper: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nxp/lp3d/

In order for this to work for gaze correction, you'd probably need to take into consideration the location of the camera relative to the location of the eyes of the person on the screen, and then correct for how the other person is holding the phone, and it would probably only work for one-on-one calls. Probably need to know the geometry of the phone (camera parameters, screen size, position of camera relative to phone)

Would be amazing, not sure how realistic it is.
The good practice of last year is the bad pattern of today.
But we observe this everywhere, even in the Andromeda galaxy, so, universe age is not a factor for the rotation curve of galaxies.
Side note that I learned the hard way; once you buy a Flipper Zero and get bored with it, they are very, very hard to sell. Both eBay and Facebook Marketplace seem to not allow them to be sold, and simply asking around doesn't do much.

I got mine awhile ago, played with it, did what I wanted to do and lost interest as I moved on to other things. So now I have a costly device knocking around in a drawer.
Have they even tried getting funding via national digital sovereignty efforts?

The justification seems easy - "fund us so your citizens don't need to depend on foreign ad companies and US-based tracking to access local and national services."

Make sure any parts which are dependent on Mozilla infrastructure can be re-hosted by other providers.

Have releases which are fully free software, with reproducible builds, which can be audited to ensure privacy protections.

And commit to legal agreements to preserve those protections.

The countries in turn can require that services in those countries must support Firefox, or perhaps specifically ESR versions of Firefox.
I've been thinking this comment was just unnecessary snark, but... :P

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/director.html
Isn't that the difference between a co-founder and an employee? I'm assuming that half of the company will belong to the new co-founder, of course.
There was a recent article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-c...

Seems like the models have quite a few holes. It made me wonder if anyone has considered making a complete list of assumptions that are baked into these models, so they can be looked at in detail.
Which country being the world power is more likely to lead to more countries being democratic -- The United States or China?

For whatever flaws the US has and the atrocities it has committed China isn't going to suddenly start spreading democracy around the world.
Ah, not firing it when it would be 12 is what I was missing
Did you consider Linux instead?
There's finally a way to safely add two signed numbers, without tricky overflow checks that may trigger UB themselves!
Some ideas:

- can capture output and be updated & displayed in the markdown doc.

- persistent kernels
Don’t shame the man with the
extra digit projecting from his thenar eminence.
> There's something to be said for space.

I see this argument a lot. Yes, the density is very high for nuclear power plants, but you need to build them in the middle of nowhere, for political and safety reasons. So, are we really saving space compared to solar? Plus, there is much less political resistance to solar farms, and almost zero safety issues (for PV).

This comment:

> unless they're willing to bulldoze their entire land to cover it in solar panels

Your sentiment is interesting. No one says that when we talk about building new farms. Really, that is what people have done for the past 2000 years to alter our landscape. Can you imagine what Brazil looked like in 1800 vs today? Dramatic landscape changes due to farming. Same for US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. California has plenty of desert or very unproductive land that can be covered with solar panels.
It's been a skill issue for 40 years. How long are we going to continue searching for those programmers who don't make mistakes?
World Energy Outlook 2024
Why do you "unfortunately"?
These b*stards owe my company $90,000 for the July/August payment. A class action lawsuit seems to be the only viable option. While $90,000 might not be a large sum for a lawyer to take on individually, if it's multiplied by 100 or 1000 cases, it becomes much more significant. I've conducted a thorough search but haven't yet identified a law firm we should all reach out to. Since we're not based in the US, our current law firm isn't a strong enough option. According to this article...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/digital_river_runs_dr...
DR's lawyers are: https://mintzandgold.com/
It depends on how you use it. The more you leverage its strengths (by splitting out AppVMs), the larger the overhead in memory and CPU.

I've run through a few QubesOS installations over the years and would say for me it's ~2x memory and a couple of cores overhead.
Just means that post wasn't unnoticed and 37 users found it interesting enough to upvote.
Even if there is no practical impact, there is a maintenance impact. Think of yourself a few years on or a new team member. Some innocent refactoring occurs, and the service is deployed as public-facing.

Every time your code is scanned, someone has to consciously ignore it. That can lead to alert fatigue. What if it gets squelched? Now the code has dangerous debt.

Mentally, there is toil: this place in the code is fine, but what about others? A conscientious dev will start looking for similar issues. That takes up more time.

Suppose someone searches the codebase for SQL examples and finds this one. They think it's an acceptable pattern, even though the search also turns up parameterized queries. Now the bad precedent repeats in the shiny new service, and debt proliferates.
Almost. Pulmonary hypertension, high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. Pretty close to the heart.
I don't follow .Net closely, but it seems like there should be a better alternative. Java has a library called "Mockito" that can mock classes directly without requiring an interface. I assume something similar exists for .Net, as they have similar capabilities. Making an interface for one class, just so another class can be tested seems like we allow the tool (tests) to determine the architecture of what it is testing. Adding complexity in the name of TDD is a close second on my list of triggers

There's nothing that triggers* me more than seeing an interface that only has one implementation. That's a huge code smell and often a result of pre-mature architecture design in my opinion. It also often leads to complexity where if you have an interface, you create a factory class/method to instantiate a "default" implementation. Fortunately it seems that it is not used as often as before. Our code has no factories and only a few interfaces, that actually have a practical use. The same applied to my previous workplace

* The trigger applies to 2024 Java code written as if it was 2004. I may have a form of PTSD after many years of interfaces and FactoryFactory, but fortunately times have changed. I don't see much of that today except in legacy systems/organizations.
This is completely wrong. The DOM is an implementation detail. All the native toolkits are moving to the same kind of declarative APIs that were pioneered on the web because it's just a lot easier to think of UI as a function of state than it is to get 100 imperative updates in a row right.
That is true and that is why it is known that in the regions where the natural water has a high content in fluoride it affects negatively the bones of the humans who live there.

The reasons why adding fluoride to drinking water is extremely stupid are that there exists no evidence whatsoever that the ingested fluoride can have any beneficial effect on teeth, there exists no known mechanism through which ingested fluoride can have any beneficial effect (the enamel of the teeth does not have blood vessels), but there is ample evidence that too much ingested fluoride is harmful.

All the evidence about beneficial effects of fluoride is about the external contact between teeth and fluoride, when the fluoride ions substitute the hydroxide ions in enamel. This is a simple chemical reaction, it is not a biological reaction mediated by an enzyme.

This beneficial effect is achieved best by the use of toothpaste or mouth washes with fluoride, which can provide much more fluoride than it would be safe to ingest. It is impossible to optimize the concentration of fluoride in drinking water for a maximum effect on teeth while not being harmful after ingestion, because the amount of water that is drunk daily is variable and unpredictable.

Moreover, the fluoridated drinking water would have a much greater beneficial effect if one would keep the water in the mouth for some time before swallowing it, which nobody does, so most of the fluoride in the drinking water has no opportunity to provide any beneficial effect.
That depends on the frontend, you can supply a system prompt if you want to... whether it follows it to the letter is another problem...
What? Who mentioned the government paying for them? Who said that the fabric needs replacing often?
Why a new language ? Honest question ? Couldn't it be done on top of say, Julia ? The typography thing is really cool, but having to code in yet another MatLab-clone is a bit annoying (or maybe I'm missing the point)
I am using an old laptop with a GTX 1060 6 GB VRAM to run a home server with Ubuntu and Ollama. Because of quantization Ollama can run 7B/8B models on an 8 year old laptop GPU with 6 GB VRAM.
The Databricks AutoLoader for Delta Live Tables with Checkpointing and Watermarking comes to your rescue.
In the Netherlands? If its bolted on, it won't even last a year. The North Sea has a lot of storms ;)
I have had phones and tablets with IPS displays with way thinner bezels so that argument is void.
> All the self-hosted [...] text-to-image models come with some restrictions trained into them

https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/issues/3422
Swiching from chrome to firefox at work, this was the final straw. Internet/youtube etc is almost unusable without uBlock origin. Glad I already use FF privately.
I keep an 8b running with ollama/openwebui to ask it to format things, summarization, and to generate SQL/simple bash commands and what not.
MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
There's no need to call what he says bullshit or esoteric. Maybe he's wrong, most of the time he's not precise enough to be wrong. I read his words as a sort of existential poetry.
No. The drivers in Linux are kernel modules, most often in-tree - meaning that the source for the drivers is built along the rest of the kernel source code. Most hardware drivers depend on various common kernel structures that change often - when they do, the source for drivers is fixed practically in the same git branch. There is no driver ABI to speak of.
My deck gets direct sunlight with no easy way to block it when the sun is high in the sky. As a result I don’t actually use the deck much until later in the day.
Looks like this is eSIM only - which is a show stopper. I'll have to research if they release a SIM mobile option somewhere on earth, if not, I'll probably stick with my current Mini 5 a bit longer (or pick up a discounted Mini 6 for the wait)
As reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) in writing continues to grow, questions about the authenticity of content generated by these tools become increasingly relevant. One prominent tool in this space, Grammarly, is renowned for its grammar and style correction features, but with the introduction of AI-assisted writing capabilities, a pressing question arises: can Grammarly's AI-generated content be detected as AI?
> But the big uncertainty that determines whether 2100 is a happy place or a less happy place is our decisions on what we do with emissions. And they dwarf the uncertainties that we’re talking about here. We’re talking 0.1, 0.2 degrees. Well, the difference emissions make is 1 degree, 2 degrees, 3 degrees. So it’s an order of magnitude larger. And given the non-linearity of impacts, that’s a much, much larger amount of impact that we would see.

What’s staggering to me is that the climb towards 1.5 C is of course not evenly distributed across the globe. But what it does result in is some places going up as much as 15 F+ above average since 1970.
in general the ABI is kernel<->user space while the ABI (and potentially even API) on the inside (i.e. for drivers) can change with every kernel version (part of why it's so important to maintain drivers in-tree)
"io_uring had a maximum throughput of 5.0 Gbit/s "

Wut? More than 10 years ago, a cheap beige box could saturated a 1Gbps link with a kernel as it came from e.g. Debian w/o special tuning. A somewhat more expensive box could get a good share of a 10Gbps link (using Jumbo frames), so these new results are, er, somewhat underwhelming.
You know that's the argument used against people switching channels during advertising breaks, right?

And against the mute button?

And against the VCR?

And against DVRs?

When I buy the newspaper I don't read every ad in the paper. I might even skip an entire section of the paper. If you have the money you could even pay someone to clip out the articles and get no advertising at all.

History therefore 1) provides strong evidence that the unwritten social contract you are thinking has a clause that people are free to do what they can to avoid advertisements, and 2) shows that pro-advertising people will try to guilt trip them over exercising that clause.

Just like you are doing.
I'm happy with a Radeon VII, unless the model is bigger than 16gb...
Redot Game Engine
It can take a long time for corporate culture to rot. It took Google about 15-20 years to fully reach their villain arc.

Currently they have Tim Cook at the helm whi is good at continuing Job's vision as the two worked very close for a long time, so the big question is what happens after Cook leaves.
I know someone who worked at a recycler who was paid to physically destroy and certify media as destroyed. It took time and money to destroy media so it just sat in a warehouse for months and the paperwork was lies. Eventually they went bankrupt and another company bought the stock and sold it on eBay by the palette load as is.

The only companies that do a proper job are the ones that turn up to your office and shred the hardware in front of you. Paperwork is worth shit otherwise.
Possibly three. Four pluses is naturally C#.
The thing that makes me wonder is one thing about how it works: it changes how teeth grow, so there are less ridges, that seems like quite a big effect, and makes me wonder about effects on the rest of the body.
I skimmed through the user manual and find the design is really cool. It is well thought for the field use and obviously the optimized result of many iterations. Although I'm no naturalist, I find inspiration in your design. Kudos to the good work!
I have this, how to kill it? I can't go to doctor, because they are all so difficult in my country when it comes to things like this.
Does ivermectin help?
The combination of an Iphone Mini and an Ipad Mini really works well - alas apple decided that they no longer will make reasonably sized phones...
DeskPad was discussed there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41800602
And for Windows there is RegionToShare https://github.com/tom-englert/RegionToShare
Children have less fluoride in toothpaste, they also tend to just eat or swallow the toothpaste.
Capitalism is now trying to avoid doing the absolute minimum that we would need to do if the climate catastrophe shall be avoided. In fact I am convinced that if you had to invent a system that that optimized a societies reaction to climate annihilation in such a way that it does the bare minimum as predicted to be needed by climate models it would probably look a lot like what we have today.

The inly issue with that kind of optimization is, just like with all optimization, that by cutting out too much slack from the system you — well —don't have any slack in the system. Slack that would save the day if models are wrong or unpredicted things happen.
Yeah, https for local network appliances has been basically a nonstarter for ages, with the browsers basically shouting down any proposal to enable it with "it's not secure enough", while the trivially-sniffable status quo trundles on just fine (and administering your own root CA is a non-trivial amount of work for those who are capable of it, as well as opens you up to further issues given most browsers ignore the scope of root certificates, so anything you trust on your machines you are trusting for all sites).
Western Digital launches 32TB hard drive
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Do you mean "a full model so that you can analyze it with fluid dynamics, differential equations, and thermodynamics", or do you mean "a pre made Gish Gallop that you can rattle off without having to actually think about any of them"?
Let's hope countries like China and India will put the same pressure on their industry. Otherwise we're just offloading work to them even further.
Ask HN: Native CSS timeline is here, are you switching?
With the new animation-timeline, scroll-timeline and other new CSS properties it's possible now to build amazing animations without stutter.

We have never been able to achieve great performance with JS simply because JS thread always gets blocked in the worst possible moment.

Obviously these properties are too new and not supported across enough browsers to use them without fallbacks, but who is building a something that allows to use them and then fall back for unsupported browsers?

Here are some examples for inspiration:

https://x.com/paul_uiux/status/1841437472711938322

https://x.com/jh3yy/status/1831428806151958876

https://x.com/jh3yy/status/1833663719466836224

https://x.com/jh3yy/status/1836380999644504486
Do you pay more attention to those and ignore the actual success stories?

The opioids thing is hardly comparable. Everybody clearly knew the risks (for the past 100+ years) and chose to ignore them. This is an almost entirely new type of drugs.
That doesn't surprise me. Yes, would be interesting to see those assumptions, but I guess the issue (as in most modelling of complex systems) is that as you relax the assumptions, the models become intractable.
You postulated that there are periods existing where there would be no/very low combined and solar for over a month, yet you only posted links to periods of very low wind generation for less than a day.

Even better, if you look at energy flow in the EU grid for e.g. the period from 2023-02-12 to 2023-02-15, you'll see that we actually exported energy to nuclear-powered France, and imported from renewables-powered Denmark.

That's actually a proof that renewables saved the day there, because lack of wind is always only a regional phenomenon.
Yes, you're one of the only countries that does this.