skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat surprised by how candid the responses are - to have multiple of your survey subjects say they are seriously considering quitting! I enjoy that there's an entire blocker for "Teams isn't working".

Personally my worst days are "I did a thing, rolled it out, found it was seriously broken, rolled it back, and now it's 6pm and that is what I did today". I couldn't see anything in their report that would cover that failure mode (it's worse than "couldn't get anything done", because I was demonstrably incompetent at what I did do).
Those who don’t know their history are cursed to repeat it. And unfortunately, if 51% of the population doesn’t know their history, everyone gets to repeat it :(
Nuclear plants on Earth are way more than 140 times the mass of the fuel, but that's mostly concrete for the radiation shielding. If you're only worrying about the core and cooling infrastructure it's not nearly as bad. But of course as everyone has mentioned cooling things in space is hard and you'll want to minimize the number of moving parts because maintenance is impossible and you can't use convection to move heat around which makes it even more difficult.

Remember that on Earth nuclear reactors create electricity by boiling water to turn turbines. Such a system will be far more difficult to design for space.
Yep, exactly. The disagreements here come down to a "spirit vs letter" debate. Yes, Chromium is open source by the letter of the law, as it's licensed under a FOSS license, but FOSS comes with certain expectations that you'll be able to use and modify the source code in certain ways.

The fact that Google has managed to make a codebase open, but extremely onerous to actually maintain a fork of, does actually go against the spirit of FOSS a bit, in my opinion.
Is the domain correct? seems to be NXDOMAIN across 3 resolvers
> Locks typically open clockwise [...]

Is that so? My intuition is that it should depend on the side of the door the lock is mounted on. Most locks I have seen open by turning them away from the side where the latch is on, to move the bolt in the direction it is being turned, and that feels pretty natural to me. Isn't that the norm?

My apartment key opens 7 different locks, 1 of which opens clockwise, 5 counterclockwise, and 1 I don't know right now because it isn't actually mounted on a door and doesn't move a bolt.
You are the one claiming that LLMs are conscious, so it falls to you to prove it.

I argued that LLMs do not have the capacity to have ideas or to know things, and you tried to prove me wrong by providing examples of papers that show, for example, that LLMs have internal states that can be used to predict the likelihood that what they will output will be facts. But that doesn’t disprove what I said, because that’s not what it means to have ideas or know things. By definition, only conscious beings can do those things.
> The current Supreme Court has been pretty clear that there is no such thing as settled case law anymore

It's always been the case. That's how Supreme Court works.
Before, I ate low sugar / carb and high on cheese, meat, whole milk, yogurt, and veggies (close to keto). Now I eat a lot of rice, beans, while grains, and veggies. I’m trying to figure out how to get enough protein though, that’s the trade off.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764825
I found an approach that I liked was a mechanical combination lock — all the advantages of digital combination locks (can set temp codes, change codes, no need for keys etc.), except for the remote activation, but I never have to worry about batteries or power.
I thought this was a good review of the cybertruck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK_EJ3DyiiA
But companies do maintain what are essentially forks of the kernel, both Redhat and Canonical carry their own patches and have ship different kernel variants. It's not politically a fork but it's the same sort of thing.
Ivrea is beautiful. I've been there multiple times for the annual orange-throwing festival. Incredibly fun and recommended.
> 3% of people is a lot of people to cut off if your JavaScript is essential

These are probably the 3% that won’t affect your business much. They’re more likely to be on older hardware and also have less discretionary income. Or browsing on really weird hardware that is also unlikely to lead to a sale.
I should note that this essay kicks off an entire series that eventually culminates in a detailed examination of the Amazon Weekly Business Review (which takes some time to get to because of a) an NDA, and b) it took some time to test it in practice). The Goodhart’s Law essay uses publicly available information about the WBR to explain how to defeat Goodhart’s Law (since the ideas it draws from are five decades old); the WBR itself is a two decades-old mechanism on how to actually accomplish these high-falutin’ goals.

https://commoncog.com/the-amazon-weekly-business-review/

Over the past year, Roger and I have been talking about the difficulty of spreading these ideas. The WBR works, but as the essay shows, it is an interlocking set of processes that solves for a bunch of socio-technical problems. It is not easy to get companies to adopt such large changes.

As a companion to the essay, here is a sequence of cases about companies putting these ideas to practice:

https://commoncog.com/c/concepts/data-driven/

The common thing in all these essays is that it doesn’t stop at high-falutin’ (or conceptual) recommendation, but actually dives into real world application and practice. Yes, it’s nice to say “let’s have a re-evaluation date.” But what does it actually look like to get folks to do that at scale?

Well, the WBR is one way that works in practice, at scale, and with some success in multiple companies. And we keep finding nuances in our own practice: https://x.com/ejames_c/status/1849648179337371816
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955307
I'll stick my static website on a $3.50 VPS then, and have no practical limits and a fixed price. Also soo much simpler.
Spending in Retirement: Determining the Consumption Gap (2016) [pdf]
I drive a Cybertruck as my daily driver and I don't even know about most of these.
Mine of choice would be the Lamborghini Countach, as long as I don't have to back it up. I'm too old for the Lambo Lean.
Or 49% (or even less) if you're in a winner-take-all country with a system more baroque than one person, one vote.
It's at a lower frequency, 148.5 to 283.5 kHz.
Doubtful- they commented on one of your earlier submissions and it's likely they have a functioning near term memory .. even in these days of AI.

Also, HN has various tools, eg: this to pull up prior site submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=meetpal.ai
My granddad worked in Olivetti's Buenos Aires factory in the 1960s (he had made foreman due to knowing enough Piedmontese to impress upper management). Workers there had access to:

- Worker's social club, complete with pool

- subsidized housing at cost, rent-to-own

- a wholesale "majorista" style shop where they'd buy in bulk and sell to workers' families at cost.

Say what you want about the fault of paternalism, at least they were thinking about employee welfare. Argentina's economy sucked at the time and they had to close. The factory now produces cigarettes under a phillip morris subsidiary (iirc).
Q&A with Alex Hidalgo on SLOs (2020)
I mean, Poe's Law [0] and all, but I was quite surprised your comment was interpreted as anything but saracasm.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
If only we had some astrophage.
The 'red' Alfine 8 speed hubs had extra weather sealing, that's why it was great in the tornado weather lol.

TBH if you leave it in the rain just do a repack before you ride it again, unless it's a stupidly fancy hub, a lifetime bucket of grease suitable for hub bearings is probably still under 20-30 USD per person, and if you've got the wrenches and a stand [0] a repack can be done in 20 mins or less.

Edit: to be clear, I'm talking about normal hubs, with the Alfine we did an inspection but the seals looked good and a peek done inward indicated everything was fine so... yeah those red bands were gr8.

[0] - IDK if they still make it, but the Minoura FT-1 is... pretty good balance of quirks for the lack of dollars spent, both for truing and other wheel checks...
> you have no expectation of freedom of speech or expression in either of those scenarios

One, this is obviously debated.

Two, expectations don’t define rights. I have no expectation of freedom of political expression in North Korea.

> it's not technically correct

It absolutely is. If you’re over at my house and I tell you to stop talking about something, that’s curtailing your free speech. Freedom of speech is a millennias-old concept. So is freedom of assembly. The latter restricts the former, fundamentally, as it implies a right not to listen.

What constitutes a freedom per se is separate from the “inalienable” right. That “natural” right, in turn, is different from the legal right.
Intellectually the leap to believing in ghosts at all is longer than the mere stutter step to believing then in ghosts' apparel, ghastly accoutrements, and ethereal monocles.

But surely an identity would need to projected onto a ghost to transform it from an unknown haunting in a sheet into a known phantasm recognized by its victim.

Like dimensional digital projectors from our soul or collective consciences onto the sheet to create a ghost seems to be the idea.
Hifitime
Personally when I see them in person I think they look dumb and ridiculous. But I have never driven it. I do like all other current Teslas but wouldn’t buy one because Elon

But I was driving with a non-tech, non-online friend and she blurted out “Wow what an ugly car”, I looked over and it was a cybertruck - so I felt validate in my views
There's a difference between being a British colony and allowing Britain to have a military base on your land, so nothing in disagreement with the original post there
The bigger water waste problem now isn't almonds but alfalfa grown for export to places like Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately this isn't just a regulatory issue; we can't fix it with improved regulations. At the core it's primarily a property rights issue. Many property owners are legally entitled to a certain quantity of water by titles that in some cases go back over a century. The government can't legally just take those away without paying compensation, which would be tremendously expensive.
> “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

-Thomas Edison, on failure and inventing the light bulb.
"...we had a misconfigured spin gas abort ... and we were one second away from that tripping and telling the rocket to abort and try to crash into the ground next to the tower"

I hope they find the right balance between pace and risk mitigation, and their engineers can go into the next launch with fewer reservations.
solar has a seasonal cost curve such that if we build enough to displace fossil fuels in the winter, then during the summertime we’ll have more energy than we know what to do with - in fact, we already have to “curtail” energy production in the summer. after we charge all our batteries, what are we going to do with the summer surplus? using it for desalination sounds good to me
the world runs on brownie points now, prepare accordingly
State Farm charges me marginally more for my CT than they do for my Model Y.
I was going the other way… if I licensed “WordPress” do I need a license for “Engine” and if not would WP Engine litigate over “WordPress Engine”?
For most people owning a home isn’t the goal, it’s to be able to adjust their living space how they see fit, have a stable place to raise children, remove the risk of landlords, etc
We used to do this at Amazon in the 00's for onsite hosts. At the time round robin DNS was the fastest way to load balance as even with dedicated load balancers of the time, the latency was a few milliseconds slower. A lot of the decisions didn't make sense to me and seemed to be grandfathered in from the 90's.

We had a dedicated DNS host and various other dedicated hosts for various services related to order fulfillment. A batch job would be downloaded in the morning to the order server (app) and split up amongst the symbol scanners which ran basic terminals. To keep latency as low as possible the scanners would dns round robin. I'm not sure how much that helped because the wifi was by far the biggest bottleneck simply for the fact of interference, reflection and so on.

With this setup an outage would have no effect the throughput of the warehouse since the batch job was all handled locally. As we moved toward same day shipping of course this was no longer a good solution and we moved to redundant, dedicated fiber and cellular data backup then almost completely remote servers for everything but app servers. So what we were left with was million dollars hvac to cool a quarter rack of hardware and a bunch of redundant onsite tech workers.
Thanks! But how was the bot running before the training data existed? I think that’s what I was missing. The baseline?
What’s somewhat complicated here is its apples and oranges. Cloudflare offers DNS and a proxy service. The OP is using both. The comparisons are merely DNS services. I wasn’t clear on X whether OP was getting confused that the IP we return via DNS (which points to our proxy) doesn’t change, or if they were concerned that behind the proxy we’re not routing correctly. I think after reading this the answer is the latter. Confident we always will route optimally as it’s in our interest and our customers’. But why we’re not failing over on failure is interesting. That looks like, as John said, a difference between free and paid plans that if it made sense at some point doesn’t obviously today. Will figure out what’s up and get fixed.
Long wave != AM: long wave implies AM, but not vice versa (AM can be - and usually is - used on medium/short frequencies)
The important part is that the algorithm doesn’t either.
I live in Oregon, another fire-prone state. While all human causes cause more fires than lightning, lightning causes more fires than any individual human cause.

https://www.oregon.gov/odf/fire/documents/odf-fires-by-gener...

I'll grant that having looked at the numbers, my earlier statement of "Far more fires, by count, are caused by lightning" is untrue. It's only slightly more.
We did both. I don’t know why the invite didn’t reach their email
Since dark money no longer has to be registered, no only would the "Yes on 3" team send out a "No on 3" flyer, it would have a wrong explanation of what 3 is, and give really bad reasons for voting no, so even if you did read it, you'd still vote yes (a no vote will raise taxes on seniors and veterans and give the money to corporations) and hope voters don't check outside sources.
I grew up in Florida. It was mostly a giant swamp. It has been turned into the world's largest concrete strip-mall. There's literally nothing natural left to see in Florida except a beach, and the small part of the Everglades they carved out as protected before it too got "developed".

This result came about from initially using African slaves to work plantations and build wealth. That wealth (and labor) was then turned into political capital to create the state itself. Then the state was used to develop a real estate market to create/centralize more wealth. WWII created even more development, bringing in the core of engineers to 'terraform' the land further.

At each stage of increased development, a different natural habitat was destroyed in order to create an artificial one to enable generating wealth for a select few. Native people were killed or driven off the land. Wetlands were destroyed, habitats and native species were razed and paved over, waterways were poisoned, and agricultural runoff created environmental disasters in the rivers, bays, and ocean. A vast number of invasive species were introduced which out-competed and eliminated many native species, and we are still battling to keep them under control. There are many superfund and other sites of long-term ecological damage. Drinking water is quickly becoming scarce due to the lowering of the water table. Mining pools are still infiltrating environments causing more damage. And of course, global climate change is exacerbating every single problem, plus adding erosion and elimination of land used for housing.

But hey, it's a virtuous cycle, right? We can manage without destruction, right? Just keep growing exponentially.

At some point we'll clean up all those superfund sites, and figure out how to stop the red tides, and giant heat-sinks of concrete and asphalt that create microclimates that eliminate native species, and figure out where to put trash once all the landfill sites are gone soon, and somehow rid the Everglades of all the boa constrictors and invasive plants, and somehow we'll catch all the green parrots out-competing native birds. And we will have to use this author's idea of desalination, since the fresh water table will be gone by then.

It'll all be fine. Once we figure out how to stop killing everything. Sometime in the future. Let's just not worry about that though. Onward and upward.
Legacy Land [video]
I can assure you that japanese people don't refer to umami as a flavor lol
I’m curious, what’s the rationale for this? Is it corporate espionage? Or do you live in China/have family there and engage in online activity that might cause problems?
> [...] and I'd wager (naively) that most NixOS users at some point need to use an escape hatch.

I don't think that is the case. In five years of using NixOS I never needed to reach for any of them, and I don't even know what would be available to me. Probably something about activation scripts? Again, I can't think of anything you might want to do with regard to system configuration that can't be done declaratively on NixOS.
It still was a timeline of events. A single joke, clearly mentioned as such, does nothing to change that.

Furthermore, the doxxing threat obviously wasn't made by lawyers. The style of writing has Matt Mullenweg written all over it.
According to the British government, it receives no revenue from the .io domain, which owned by a private equity company. So if that is the case, the .io domain does not fund ethnic cleansing.

As to Diego Garcia, my understanding is that Mauritius will be given back sovereignty of it, as well as the other islands, and that the UK and US governments will merely lease the island of Diego Garcia. This is not an unusual arrangement. The UK and US have military bases around the world on foreign territory, to the exclusion of the local population.

Not so sure if this qualifies as ethnic cleansing when nobody is being forcibly removed from anywhere, since they're not actually there.
for artists, content creators, their posts are literally their body of work. this is why people don't move away from twitter, for example - while the audience is important, having posts there is also just as important if not more, cause these posts are the thing that brought in the audience in the first place, and may continuously bring in the audience thru people browsing profiles and sharing/reposting.

besides whatever the content of posts might be, not treating it like 'a part of your identity' when it is literally a reflection of it, i don't know, seems a little dismissive of yourself, but if that's your prerogative, sure. it's super not the same for everybody. for some people, their stuff is either more important to them personally regardless of what it is, or it holds more value with the amount of work put into it, or both.

it's a little bit obtuse to look at platforms filled with posts, and then go and think that those posts are of no value, when it is literally the point and the core of those platforms, don't you think. like, you don't have to imagine. just look at those places that are filled with art and artists, content and creators.
Except root is that account. You're still crossing a user-boundary same as Windows. If you give your user CAP_SYS_ADMIN that's like putting them in the Administrators group.
You need vastly different design parameters for Earth orbit, interplanetary and interstellar craft and masses corresponding to each.

Starship is all about a lot of mass to Earth orbit. This is a little mass somewhere between interplanetary and interstellar design parameters. Yes, Starship could put it into Earth orbit, when expendable probably interplanetary, sure.

And it may well help launch it, but that’s where its relevance ends, it’s at the other end of the spectrum of what you would design for. For example, at this corner of the design space, chemical propellants aren’t a thing.
I added to the discussion, when viewed from a differing but valid perspective. after your long, unnecessary exposition and diatribe, I pointed out that the shared concept of “left” people were referring is simply their voting record, schooling and geography.

you are the only one hoping for a fight or debate. you got it from some comments, naively assuming everyone that isnt affirming your feelings is a far right extremist, and somehow you have grouped this comment thread in with that immature pursuit

you sought to define what the “not left” is, as if suddenly it will matter and the senate will pass the filibuster for your party of choice instead of being 50-50 for 10 years straight, and I sought to define what everyone else was talking about: the journalist’s voting records.

but sure, keep trying your approach, its working so well.
The real reason of course is that the political establishment wanted to protect themselves from competition. They can control printed media within the country, but had no control over broadcast television, which could be beamed from a satellite. Due to the restrictions on press freedom in Scandinavia, commercial TV stations used to be based in the UK. A parliament member in Sweden even suggested a ban on satellite dishes at the time, when the first non-government TV channels started broadcasting.

> But main reason mainly is that it would give those with enough money to afford these "expensive tv ads" a leg up.

This is not the case. Electoral authorities could oblige all broadcasters to give every candidate a certain number of minutes of broadcast time. That's how they do it in other countries. To hilarious effect sometimes.
I barely play games theses day, so no. I imagine I could have fun exploiting some non-AAA games for fun and learning, do so some rev engineering on ws protocols and such, but presently it’s not on my list at all.

About this particular story - I didn’t care too much back then, honestly. Neither the devs I assume, because they knew there was cheating going on. I think they kept our accounts because we were spending handsome money buying ingame upgrades, boosts etc.
Try the standard HN web page; it has a Search: box at the bottom, which will take you to something like https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
>it's saturday morning 1998 and you are in your coziest sleepwear, on the computer in the living room.

I WANT TO GO BAAACK!
It looks like any other decision record where you set a date to evaluate the impact of a policy or course of action and make sure it's working out the way that you had anticipated.
It's not public, and I am neither going to sign into Google nor request access to it.

Sibling comments make me concerned that this may be more of a Timecube situation.
> If the lecturer in fact violates the hatch act, that can be dealt with when it happens. Even if it is a pain in the ass. Who said this was supposed to be easy

That is a facile fucking thing for you to say. You have literally nothing on the line. You are saying "other people should risk going to jail for my beliefs". Fuck that, man.