skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about something creative that is at the same time relaxing?

Some time ago I started creating mods for the game stardew valley. It still involves some programming but mainly drawing, creating animations and composing music! It's an absolute blast and so relaxing (like the game itself).

I think by now I could even start working on my own game but I don't yet have a desire to.
It also provides a lot more than google workspace does, assuming you need those extra tools it ends up being very cheap for what you get.
You could open the dev console in the browser and copy the curl command off the network tab
Denoting, Bertrand Russell (1905) [pdf]
You can say none of the early backers are getting anything but are the developers is the game company what is the profit margin they're making what are their salaries what are they getting out of it?
I’m a die-hard ZFS fan and heavy user since the Solaris days (and counting) but I believe the WinBtrfs project is in better (more useable) shape than the OpenZFS for Windows project.
I used an AeroPress for nearly a decade but recently switched to a Hario #2 dripper. It takes roughly the same amount of time as the AeroPress and the coffee is tastes a bit cleaner or brighter. I primarily switched to avoid the plastic in an AeroPress, but was also interested to try something different after using AeroPress for so long. I also have a subscription to Trade coffee for fresh beans that I highly recommend.
I give them all my power, every day. And often shout at the living dead.
I agree. Intcode was fun, but completely destroyed the promise of skipping a day and still having fun with later puzzles. I didn't come to enjoy it until much later.
MSFT Magentic-One, a Generalist Multi-Agent System
Excellent set up, and in fact exactly what I’m using / how I’m set up. In addition for a few IOT type sensors and things like thermostats around my house, I have another vlan as well as a dedicated SSID tagged for that vlan, that only allows Internet access and everything else is dropped for that vlan. (Ie a firewall rule on the forward chain that drops anything in on that IOT vlan, that has a destination address of the private ip ranges: ie dst= 10.x or 192.168.x or 172….
anything locally that needs to access those sensors does so through the cloud/Internet, and for the one or two device devices that need to access them locally I have a fw rule allowing just that devices IP
I haven't used it personally, but https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzne... looks amazing as a way to setup and manage kubernetes on Hetzner. At the moment I'm on Oracle free tier, but I keep thinking about switching to it to get off... Well Oracle.
Yotta’s funds were backed by the US government. The trouble is that the link between Yotta’s funds and Yotta’s customers’ funds was somewhat more tenuous than they implied.
Intel's Inboard 386/PC – Computer Ads from the Past
The command line tool included with this python library does just what you want once you paste your session token into an environment variable:

https://github.com/wimglenn/advent-of-code-data
Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
I do agree that for everything that's described there is an underserved market for this kind of game but what will be actual result be? For all the money if all the time what is being actually accounted for and who is profiting off of it especially in the absence of a finished product, and the absence of an actual definitive release date. From the outside here it looks like this is crowd funding gone wrong. It seems due to its popularity and the fanatical zealotry of those who bought into it no one wants to really challenge what's going on with it.
> Some filesystems have a richer interface to the underlying storage device, allowing them to invoke commands such as ATA TRIM or SCSI UNMAP

No, that's not a guarantee of data erasure. Not just because it's just a request that the device can disregard, but also because filesystems play tricks (like storing small bits of data inline, or logging data in various places, etc.) and they don't clear all those blocks just because you wanted to clear a couple bytes.
Exploring the cognitive underpinnings of early hominin stone tool use with EEGs
NTFS has per-folder case sensitivity flag. You could set it online at anytime prior to Windows 11, but as of 11 you can now only change it on an empty folder (probably due to latent bugs they didn’t want to fix).

NTFS had mediocre compression support from the very start that could be enabled on a volume or directory basis, but gained modern LZ-based compression (that could be extended to whatever algorithm you wanted) in Windows 10, but it’s unfortunately a per-file process that must be done post-write.
This post is apropos to a recent topic "PR process killing morale and productivity" [1].

The Google code readability program is talked about very little outside of Google, and as far as I know, is replicated nowhere outside.

Within Google, it is a cult. There is never any discussion or action taken to walk any part of it back. The bar simply gets ever higher, year after year. The C++ style guide itself is massive and authoritarian. Are you working on an embedded system? Too bad, you must follow best practices meant for high volume production services to the T.

When I got C++ readability 4 years ago, it felt like a hazing. It was an utterly opaque system, accountable to no one, where a random readability reviewer had a 10% chance on each review of insisting that you make some major refactor of code you didn't write.

Even your level of progress was inscrutable, being measured in little "+"'s next to multiple dimensions. Occasionally, you'd get another "+" and wonder when you'd finally be done. And then one day, after many months, thousands of lines of C++, hundreds of review comments, the readability program hive mind opaquely decided that your hazing was done, and you are now free to write whatever code you want, whether it adheres to the style guide or not.

Some languages at Google have more than a year of backlog to even enter the program to start getting readability reviews and make progress towards readability. The answer is always to "add more readability approvers", yet the bar for that is even higher, and the time demands of being such an approver are incompatible with most teams at Google.

In any case, I don't intend to litigate Google's readability program in a public forum. But I provide it as an example of how "style guides" can and will go too far and consume far more resources than necessary. And how there is naturally no review process or escape hatch to roll back excess in this area.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42274003
I loved the article. Insightful, and packed with real world applications. What a gem.

I have a side-question pertaining to cost-cutting with Kubernetes. I've been musing over the idea of setting up Kubernetes clusters similar to these ones but mixing on-premises nodes with nodes from the cloud provider. The setup would be something like:

- vCPUs for bursty workloads,

- bare metal nodes for the performance-oriented workloads required as base-loads,

- on-premises nodes for spiky performance-oriented workloads, and dirt-cheap on-demand scaling.

What I believe will be the primary unknown is egress costs.

Has anyone ever toyed around with the idea?
Blogs and small sites still show up when you look for obscure contents like "RS232 DTR line". So far when I had a very specific question related to hardware or software I could find it via Google.

I find that blogs and small sites do not have a chance when looking for a commercial products or when trying to find a review for a product. There is too much SEO spam and fighting for the top positions.

But if you are doing something that cannot be commercialised easily or is very niche your blog will have easy time on Google (programming is not a niche anymore).
I have allergic and eozinophil asthma, mixed.
Mepolizumab is a game changer, for me.
Thanks! Here is the link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_lithography
Why is it a shame exactly?
It's ridiculous how expensive the wrong hire can be https://www.wired.com/story/google-brain-ai-researcher-fired...
There's a Surprisingly Easy Way to Remove Microplastics from Drinking Water
Well a bigger context is important for understanding the global codebase and knowing the next code or decision.

Pretty good job
@CamperBob2

> The problem I have is that anything deterministic can be described as Markovian.

Markov processes aren't even necessarily deterministic. See Hidden Markov models (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model) and POMDPs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_observable_Markov_de...).
If opting out of security updates for your dishwasher is bad, then your dishwasher is shit.
If you live in a country that has consumer protection laws maybe you can get a refund. There is a whole sub-reddit about recovering the money ( https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/ ).

Do this soon before they run out of money.

(It is just a scam, not a pyramid scheme. E.g. it is perhaps the same as the Tesla full self-driving)
Yeah, as mentioned by him here:

https://youtu.be/Ak4on5uTaTg?t=186

"...I don't usually cover topics like that on this channel.

As regular viewers know, my videos are mostly about rap and rapping, with my goal being to become the number one crypto-nerd gangster rap channel on YouTube. However, sometimes I do get distracted by other topics.

Anyhow, Bloomberg reported this week that Saudi Arabia is scaling back its medium-term ambitions."
It doesn't really matter what it's an example of nor what the real motivation was. Your emphasis that it's deliberate only supports my point that it's not a naive vision of future HCI from the 90s.
Yes to all that, but the blame -- as always -- belongs to the money people. They are the ones chasing shiny new sh_t instead of fixing what their existing systems are f_cking up royally. It bears remembering that those money folks are the ones choosing the CTOs, which is less likely to do with their technical solidity, but more likely to be because they will fall in line. But that's just my educated guess, by understanding money-centric folks and how they almost always operate. The love of money has corrupted and is corrupting so many branches of modern life.
I make a pot of drip coffee from a $15 machine every weekday and drink it black. I've tried other methods, mostly cold brew, but they were all more expensive and less satisfying

I typically order beans from either Coffee AM (I usually go for their Jamaican Blue Mountain Estate or Hawaiian Kona Reserve) or Moka Joe whose based in in Anacortes, WA (usually getting their PNW Wanderer or Mt. Baker Blend from their Coyote Coffee sub-brand. I mix in about a tablespoon of their White Coffee for some extra brightness and a stronger kick)
When I worked in web hosting (more than 10 years ago), we would constantly be blackholeing Hetzner IPs due to bad behavior. Same with every other budget/cheap vm provider. For us, it had nothing to do with geo databases, just behavior.

You get what you pay for, and all that.
> As the -mab indicates, both are the same class of meds (antibodies that disable specific parts of your immune system).

Might be more clear to say -mab indicates _monoclonal_ antibodies, _engineered_ for specific purposes, in this case such as interfering with an over-amplified immune response.
What would the QR code consist of? I'm not following why the phone would need to load a URL.
Hardware and software needs a hard separation honestly.

I think that firmware shouldn't ever be bound by license, meanwhile software should be bound by it but mandated to be updatable/replacable by user - even with custom one.

Then let manufacturers pick where they set the boundary - do they add extra complexity of updating and replacing software to the component? or do they go for licenseless firmware?
Linking to content is aggregation. Hacker News is an aggregator in that way.
I think the accidental part would be in the scope. I'm not an expert on these things, but they could have intended to create a self signed cert only valid within the scope of their IT, but accidentally created one from their CA.
"We" only grew varieties that were less finicky, or only grew them in climates to which they were adapted. We also had less consolidation so failures were less systemic.
Sybase SQLAnywhere as well, and not unlikely MSSQL too given its shared ancestry.

Delete with WHERE is sufficiently slow in MSSQL we have to do batched deletes, but I can't recall offhand if that holds for whole table deletion as well.
True.

I do hate it less these days. Perhaps I am headed your way on this.
IIRC yota used evolve bank which is fdic insured. The problem it appears is that yota co-mingled funds so evolve doesn’t know who is owed the money. I read that a new reg has been put in place because of this issue.
So you are saying that most people got 70% of their money but the school teacher that deposited 280k and was left with $500 is a unique case for some reason? This is what I don’t grasp, how do you signup for 0.2% interest and then 99.8% of her funds are missing? This seems like a Ponzi scheme not a bank failure with terrible interest rates.
I like the idea of a todo list that comes with a built in auto-delete.

You either do your to dos, or it auto-deletes them for you. No worry about it getting full, but also some pressure to actually get them done or they'll be wiped.

And if you're happy they're wiped, then you probably didn't need to do it at all.

I wonder if there's something like that already.
Hide Photos on Floppies with a Flux Imager
This isn't necessarily a new technique, as black and white art has been put on floppies before: https://github.com/bzotto/picturedsk

But the new wrinkle here is support for grayscale, meaning photos or other grayscale artwork can now be put on a disk.

We can even put the art inside of valid sectors to keep the disk appearing completely normal to casual observation from a host computer.
If you know what you're doing, you do something like this: https://gist.github.com/jfeilbach/f06bb8408626383a083f68276f... and make Linux fast again (c).

If you don't know what kernel parameters are and what do they affect, it's likely safer to go with all the mitigations enabled by default :-|
Do you know any good museums in Myanmar worth visiting?
Aristotles obsession with logos is a problem that we’re all still dealing with ngl
Two independent concurrent writers will constantly conflict on sequence numbers. This will force both to call LastRecord() for practically every append.
I'm not sure how this distinguishes the process from a table of all possible input context windows(and rng state if you want temperature) with their desired output.

This has been argued as a theoretical(but larger than the universe) model in philosophy for long enough that I wouldn't be surprised if it predates the notion of creating a machine intelligence.

Without any mechanism for generalisation, it can be argued that it is simply a record of an intelligence with the actual mind being whatever created the table

I guess you can think of Markov chains as a form of that table shrunk down to a hash table of the input storing only a set of the most probable outputs for any collisions.

With the right semantic hashing you could consider it analogous to a LLM, but I feel there's a lot leaning on the term 'semantic hashing', because that's where the magic is in the LLM.
Why dont you come out and say what you actually mean? It seems like you have a strong position you are not stating as well.

Im not afraid to read between the lines. They are saying the gun violence risk to the average person is low, and the risk is focused on certain groups. Namely the suicidal and gang members.

Suicide makes up 55% of gun deaths, and the US is literally the only country in the world that counts these as gun violence. The remainder is primarily gang violence. Shooting of non-gang affiliated people is extremely rare, and noteworthy because of this rarity.

Most discussion and statistics about gun violence intentionally obfuscates these facts. We could speculate about the motivations why, but it is largely irrelevant.

Which part of this do you think encourages hate?

Now, I happen to think that gang violence is a real problem. It does massive harm to those involved, causes massive damage to the local community, and is an economic deadweight on society.
“Rare” is being used in the same sense as “rare earth elements,” not in the typical, common usage of rare. The “rare” part comes from:

1. They rarely form concentrated ore deposits, instead being widely dispersed throughout rock formations

2. The elements are very chemically similar to each other, making them difficult and expensive to separate and purify for industrial use
For folks reading who don't have experience in this space: this kind of thing is usually a bad idea. On the surface it looks like a neat thing, and the people who write these components clearly think they're a good thing. But not so much.
I largely agree, although I think there's some part of a slippery slope specifically when it comes to government, since you could argue that a government monitoring its citizens is also not malicious since (in a democratic society) the government derives its mandate from the people.

This isn't too different from the argument that (I believe reasonably) applies for how a company has the right to monitor employees, but I think many people are opposed to even democratic governments monitoring people and would consider such use malicious.

So a government monitoring its employees is one step closer even than a company, since it's the same organization in this case (though again, I think it's largely reasonable for a government to monitor their employees).
We'll talk about everything and anything but the elephant in the room, the one thing that makes this society mean: Capitalism. The language of capitalism is the language of competition, of winning and losing, of climbing ladders, of hierarchy, of beating others. Your neighbor, your coworkers, are all competitors. It sets entire groups against each other, the better to divide and rule us. It's hard to see any other outcome but meanness. It's no wonder we are in the midst of a mental-health crisis. How ironic then that the name of the system that is so dominant and yet so devoid of morality does not appear once in the article; whereas "morality" shows up at least a dozen times.
I knew they were called monoclonal antibodies but I didn't realize mab is the short for that until your post, haha.
On a small plot especially you want lots of diversity. Plant many different species and varieties of fruit so you have something to harvest all year long. (Trying to preserve excess harvest can be fun at first but quickly becomes a time consuming chore). Different shapes and sizes of trees also allow you to partition the sunlight and soil resource more efficiently.
Hahaha. They irony in the gamble the puritans took to come to the US to start.
Yeh hope to see many more in 2024
I have found AoC fun, but on some of the later days time constraints make it a little stressful (full time job + kids constrain my time).

I've done it (and completed it) the last five years. I used it to try out a few languages (Haskell, Idris, Lean) and did it in python one year I was feeling lazy. I've got a project going now, and I probably should do that instead.

However, that project is a programming language, so this is a way to test practicality. But solving problems and fixing shortcomings in the underlying language at the same time may be a bit too much. (It's a dependent typed language, so there is a lot of subtlety to deal with.)
I would consider all of surnames, patronyms, and matronyms, to be "family names" in the broad sense. They're based on who your family is, after all.
Seems like that telco should get fined for misuse of 911...
Religion tends to lead to maaany other problems as history and current Islamic republics amply prove. If one wants compassion and selflessness, one can choose those for their own sake. Otherwise you'll end up using excuses like wisdom of imaginary beings to make people believe stuff and behave according to your exegesis.

That said, if non-cognitivism is true (and I believe it is), one can never deduce a canonical ethics, including one having properties like compassion, either. Biopsychosocial self-regulation is IMO the more interesting angle for looking at human behavior and practiced ethics...

Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism
For one, the honeycrisp is only three decades old.
This is what programming languages looked like to me before I learned programming
These things were a consequence of accounting rules of the era... 8-year deprecation period for computers meant that an IBM PC bought in 1983 had to wait till 1991 before it could be written off - becoming useless long before, creating a market for those upgrade cards that kept it somewhat alive.

When deprecation period was changed for 5-year with possibility for 40% deprecation in the first year, this whole thing evaporated somewhere in 1990s.
The risk of a bird flu pandemic is rising
Depends on my mood. Usually either:

- Espresso from a ROK (I bought one along with their grinder)
- Filter coffe in a Chemex clone
- A small dose from a 1 cup Bialetti
This is a good practice.
I'm in CET too, and 6:00 is not an hour where I’m awake, and if I were, my brain functions would definitely not be at a level where I would be capable of coding.

Midnight would be much more acceptable.
> and the site is intentionally vague as to what is free

It's not? It says the CMS is free and open-source and they have prices listed for the paid services they provide.

> and paint themselves as saviors and good people for being open source while overcharging for a product to the degree that the site misrepresents itself, and I believe that they both are true.

Simply saying that something is open-source is you painting yourself as a "savior"?

> And if IA did provide an easy way to do that, the site linked would be an even worse deal.

Obviously, if they did provide it then there would be no reason at all to pay.

> Furthermore, you can download an entire site using your web browser ‘Save page as’ -> ‘web page, complete’ dialog in conjunction with the undocumented trick:

No, not an entire site, just the current HTML document and the accompanying files for it (e.g. scripts, images, etc.) If you want to sit for hours manually doing that for thousands of pages then feel free.
Insofar as that's true, it isn't a fact about Aristotle, it's a fact about the mindset of scholars who came after him.
Ray Kurzweil is indeed full of crap (I have a specific bone to pick with his intentional mis-use of life expectancy among other things), but what makes you think in this case the use of log is arbitrary? Did you look at the data with a linear axis? I just tried it, and the vertical space is dominated by 4 or 5 outliers, and on top of that you can’t see the trend as well when it’s linear and all the data is smooshed at the bottom. Log plots are great when your values span many orders of magnitude. That’s true in this case, and the log plot both uses less vertical space, which is nice, and it more clearly shows the trend and wastes less empty space on the small minority of outliers.
The bit about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin also becomes more interesting after one realises the question was not one of determining some finite number, but finite or infinite — do angels* have volume?

(I don't think theologians distinguished countable infinities from other infinities; that's much more recent, right?)

* this is probably also a lesson that, before spending a thousand years arguing over whether class C has property P or not, it might be wise to demonstrate, first, that C is indeed inhabited?