skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cigarette will not allow anyone to smoke it if the vendor locked down sales and can't sell it to you, so you don't have it.
This is a much more serious restriction of consumer freedoms than if anyone can buy and use, but can't smoke when drunk and in bed (fire safety) due to some other lockdown mechanism built into the cigarette itself. More people are affected, and the effect of full exclusion is stronger even though the "lock" mechanism is built differently

So here is your mistake when you only accept something almost literally identical to computer lockdown (same with your fridge example), but brushing off more serious usage "lockdowns" that don't exist with computers

> The equivalent would be if you could only use specific brands of replacement chains, blades, tires, or bullets that are approved by the manufacturer, for which the manufacturer gets a cut of the sales of those replacements."

Yes, this exists and is common in complex mechanical things, e.g., you lose warranty if you use unapproved parts, or for some parts there is actually not even an alternative, so manufacture is the only one getting a cut

So again, there is nothing unique or "most dangerous" about computers in either reality or people's prescriptions

Although since your argument isn't about real restrictions, but about what commenters support, you'd need to ask them which of these existing restrictions they support vs computers
Godwin's got an itch he can't scratch and doesn't know why....

"Encompassing the entire country" would be anti-zionist, not antisemitic.

There is a huge difference, and that does not change because the majority of people in that country are a particular religion, just like it's not "Anti-Protestant" if someone attacks Great Britain policies, or "Anti-Hindu" if someone criticizes India.

There is a difference, to the extent that there are plenty of jews who are anti-zionist.

Would you like to accuse them of being antisemitic because "nearly every Israeli citizen is Jewish"?

Also, it's your construct that criticizing the policies and actions of a country's military and government is "anti" that county...
Come especially handy to work around the increasingly user hostile captchas, ironically. I expect this arm race to spiral down quickly into some form of mandatory biometric check, the dream come true of our security obsessed insecure rulers.
Abolish free parking, and raise prices on the parking meter until the parking spots are only ~80% occupied (if they're less than 80% occupied, lower the price).

If there's not enough parking, let the market fix that problem - if private parking lots are profitable use of land, then people will build them. But people will never be satisfied with private parking lots if they could have used free public parking instead (if they'd just looked harder for a parking spot).

In other words, giving out free shit discourages people from buying that shit. Which really shouldn't surprise anyone.
If we're going to recommend comics I'm gonna pitch The Red Knight. I have some of the old monochrome prints and they're an absolute blast.
Interesting.

Was that always the case? I remember it being quite a hassle to set up (following tutorials online), but that was about 15 to 20 years ago or so.
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Other countries just use more space-efficient vehicles.
You know what those roads originally had on them? Small carriages (see etymology) and foot traffic, not modern cars. It blows my mind that people think cars are necessary for modern cities when the best ones to live have very few or no cars
Statistically insignificant means you didn't prove anything by usual standards. I do agree that it's not a waste, as knowing that you have a 70% chance that you're going in the right direction is better than nothing. The 2 sigma crowd can be both too pessimistic and not pessimistic enough.
Why? We use github and its CI/CD system, but locally I still only need to add the git remote to work with it.
>I don’t feel pride in being Canadian because pride, to me, is reserved for accomplishments

>I had no part in being born in Canada, nor shaping this lovely country ... a country filled with opportunity and beauty, where hard work is rewarded, and life is governed fairly and predictably

>I am proud of my ancestors ... who crossed oceans, who spoke no English, and settled in the rugged, frozen prairies of Saskatchewan.

Does he think the modern Western democratic country we now know as "Canada" was always there and his fortunate ancestors stumbled upon it? Does he not consider carving this beautiful and just land of opportunity from a frozen wasteland an accomplishment of his ancestors?

How can you not feel pride in that? Does he not consider himself - a strong, healthy, intelligent, thoughtful man - an accomplishment of his ancestors; the result of millions of years of toil and struggle and selection?

Does he think it's random chance that he was not born in a hut in Tanzania?

How can one express pride in his ancestors and their achievements in the most abstract sense, while being very sure to completely reject any pride in himself and what they built? Indeed, what else is there? If you asked them, I'm sure they would say that their family and home are their greatest accomplishments - things that he explicitly excludes from eligibility for any sense of pride whatsoever.
That’s a good instinct. I might try that.
Bloated/unnecessary bureaucracy is essential to the bribe collection process.
Looks like British museum is not only place to get stolen items
In Ancient Rome, private vehicles were banned during the first ten hours of the day. Doing the same for nearly all commercial deliveries would make a lot of sense today too. A huge number of delivery trucks are massively oversized and inappropriate for their task. Charging for oversized vehicles might wake some business owners up to more carefully evaluating their costs and making more rational choices. Heavy equipment is easy to permit.

Look at any car-free area and there are very reasonable exceptions to make them function. The important thing is to remove cars as the mandatory way to access locations, and to cease prioritizing cars over more efficient methods of transit. Forcing cars into our cities took a massive amount of changes to our legal and planning system, and huge huge subsidies. Just going back to thinking of cars as one of many ways to get around, rather than as the primary and prioritized method of getting around, would allow for much more efficient systems.

New York City has more than adequate public transportation, except for the private vehicles slowing it down.

SF has adequate public transit, but without all the cars in the way and with higher ridership it would be amazing.
That’s just pure nonsense. Have you been to, like, any major non-American city? People just take public transit, or walk, or, live in downtown
> So the thinking here was probably "there is no way they can refuse to sign right now and destroy their business in the process, so we might as well take the cake and also force them to stay after so they don't leave in 11 months and 29 days".

Maybe. However, Broadcom has been bending people over the barrel for VMWare for a while now. Anyone who doesn't have a migration plan in the works at this point is an utter fool.

Turning the screws 12 months ago? Sure, probably gonna work. Now? Not so much.
Don't forget The Metaverse.
You can always short SONO. It'll probably muddle along for 5+ more years until someone buys it up for the brand name. There just isn't the market for their speakers that there used to be.
The tiktok ban was Trump's idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%E2%80%93TikTok_co...

If it's happens, Trump will take credit for it, while Biden did all the work.

Trump: 1, Biden: 0.

Trump seems to have very little to lose in a maximum policy towards China. Time for Trump to go full retard.
Three Vac Minis purchased between 2022 and 2024 and all three have developed longitudinal micro fractures on the threading between the grip and the body, and the threading around the pump-cap and the body-end. On two of them this eventually led to an ink leak.

The pens travel with me during ~3h of weekly bicycle commuting between my home and my work, store in a pen case in my backpack. They’re not being babied, but I’m hardly kicking them down a mountain either.

My Vac700R, ECO, and Diamond580 are all doing fine but they definitely are deskbound and haven’t seen nearly as much much field use.
A few weeks ago, Anthropic published what seemed to me to be a level-headed discussion of agents:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents

Simon Willison had some valuable comments about that article:

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-age...
China considers selling TikTok U.S. operations to Musk, Bloomberg reports
Good lord I cannot stand the tech-bro echo chamber.

They're just as self righteous as the "woke" just much less self aware.
There is a happy medium between "cars must come first" and "no trucks ever, even emergency vehicles." There's even the easy happy medium of "no private vehicles during peak times."
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Except AI is kinda already in everything from iphones to windows to google? Don't think that point holds well
Yeah, but why should one have to pay more to use roads they have no options but to use?
Effects of two firefighting chemical formulations (2022)
# for each lever,
# calculate the expectation of reward.
# This is the number of trials of the lever divided by the total reward
# given by that lever.
# choose the lever with the greatest expectation of reward.

If I'm not mistaken, this pseudocode has a bug that will result in choosing the expected worst option rather than the expected best option. I believe it should read "total reward given by the lever divided by the number of trials of that lever".
First time hearing about these 9 rules, but I learning most of them by experience with many years resolving or trying to resolved bugs.

Only thing that I dont agree is the book cost US$ 4.291,04 on Amazon
Of course it's the state of affairs. Redistricting and changing the natural flow of a city isn't super reasonable in less than a couple generations at best. You're going to convince everyone they need to rebuild their city and way of life? This really pisses people off.
People have cheated on taxes from the beginning. The wealthier you are, the better equipped you are with “estate planning.”

The wealthy would often donate the bulk of their wealth to the foundation which they had sole control over. This foundation would give “jobs” to their children and also provide loans for the owners. Another perk of the foundation is that interested people could also “donate” to the foundation.

https://jacobin.com/2022/07/private-charity-wealth-inequalit...

allows them to dip into the foundation’s “charitable” funds to take out loans or be compensated to the tune of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars

TLDR If you implement a wealth tax, you will find rich people donating all their money to their private foundation.
Discussion (15 points, 2 hours ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692007
For a lot of systems, what you want to "cherry pick" and focus on are those 90th-percentile outliers, because they cause the most pain.
Yeah, thinking about this a bit more, shouldn't stomach proteases break the protein sources into dipeptides? I found a few comments online arguing that hydrolyzing doesn't matter and may cost more. If that's true, then we should only care about the protein types of whey, especially the alpha-lactalbumin content (higher tryptophan). I think bromelain would only help people with reduced protease production, and it likely won't break apart hydrolyzed protein any further. Of course, theory requires a test, but I won't add bromelain to my hydrolyzed whey test.
That pit is amazingly self-selecting. Like, it's literally a pit, how hard can it be to just dig it up. Supposedly water rushes in from an underground tunnel, but we build bridge supports in actual rivers all the time.

Those who have sufficient resources and expertise to find it know that there's obviously not going to be anything there, which means the only people who try digging for it are those incapable of actually finding it, perpetuating the myth.
I am a great deal more risk of being killed by a driver when I walk than I am being murdered on a train.

Especially as Waymo program their death machines to blow through pedestrians at crossings 70% of the time.
I’ll check it out, and thanks for the correct spelling, I was too lazy to look it up.
People are good, maybe a little too good, at assessing the risks of acute instances like an injury from some equipment. We seem to be awful at assessing systemic risks like growing up without knowing to make things for yourself, and what that does to a society.
https://youtu.be/qNVU23knqZw?t=29
> Also, it's your construct that criticizing the policies and actions of a country's military and government is "anti" that county...

No, it's not—we're in a subthread where the OP said "Just a reminder that Snyk was founded by ex-IDF Unit 8200 soldiers. I would not trust them given what we've seen Israel do to supply chains."

They took the country's current policy and made it personal against specific IDF vets. That's what I'm standing against.

For the rest, I specifically said that it may not be antisemitic given that it's country-specific, so I'm not sure what you were getting at. I'm still not okay with blanket blaming an entire country's citizenry for its government actions. I wasn't okay with that when it came to Russia and Ukraine, I don't know why I should treat this differently now.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -- Jefferson
Normally we probably would have changed the title in that way, and I feel like we failed kens, who is one of the best article-writers ever to have contributed content to Hacker News. He probably had no idea how his carefully researched and super-interesting work would snap to the grid of culturewar deathbattle. I'm certain that was not what he intended.

It's our job, not the job of a kens, to mitigate ragey internet side effects. The job of a kens is to turn his attention wherever he pleases and summarize his fascinating findings for the rest of us. I just wasn't online enough yesterday to do my job. Sorry Ken.
> but if the amount of seemingly inexperienced colleagues I have to deal with goes up, and it's because a growing fraction of them are cheating, it is natural to feel frustrated.

It's also natural to ask why you think the growing fraction is because they cheated.

Look, I don't know how old you are, but the quality of the average developer has been dropping for decades. Prior to GPT, I routinely had to deal with developers who refused to learn anything (e.g. version control) and needed hand holding.[1] They didn't want to read man pages, etc. It's silly to suddenly get upset because LLMs are yet another reason for this phenomenon.

If there's a problem, it's hiring practices. Not LLMs.

> Especially because you can't know which fraction tried their best and deserve patience and mentoring, and which fraction are lying and wasting your time.

Given your comments, it's trivial to see why they would lie to you. They wouldn't to me, because I'm not going to discourage LLM usage.

> I work for a university.

Even before I read your comment, I was about to point out how your stance is valid in the domain of education, and not the workplace. And you just validated it :-)

The concept of cheating when it comes to education is vastly different compared to the work place. The goal of teaching is to learn, and even more relevant, for teachers to evaluate how well someone is learning. If they're using LLMs (or calculators, for that matter), then it becomes harder to evaluate. The goal is not to get something done, but to learn. That's why the environment in school is very constrained, and very different.

The worst jobs I've had are when people failed to realize that they're now in a different environment and they continue to apply those principles where they don't make sense. The main goal at work is to get something done, regardless of the tools.[2]

If someone tries to put good code in, stop caring if it comes from an LLM.

If someone tries to put bad code in, stop caring if it comes from an LLM.

[1] And yes, today's LLMs do a better job than many crappy developers I've had to put up with. Had LLMs existed back than and they used them, I'd be a happier man.

[2] As long as you're not violating laws, copyright, licenses, patents, etc.
Both are true. The world is complicated.

You can go to the old Bitcointalk forum. Some people stocked up, for instance, because they thought the American dollar and civilization would collapse in 2012 due to the supposed Mayan apocalypse.

Some bought feverishly in 2016 predicting a communist takeover by Hilary Clinton...

There's many dumb reasons people bought and held.

Think back about what investments you could have done to maximize your income - you'll invariably come up with things like "I should have put my life savings into Tesla before they delivered they're first car instead of $100. Then I should have held on regardless"

or "I should have trusted that Steve Jobs returning to Apple after failing at Next was going to be a legendary turnaround by combining his failed NextStation into a new operating system. Then he'll come out with Apple Newton 2.0 and it will make them one of the most powerful companies in the world"

If I had told you in say, 2004, to take all the high end CRTs being tossed out en masse, put them in a huge barn in the desert and then sell them for thousands each in 20 years, you'd call me nuts.

These are all absurd things that happened.

You can be a stupid fool and still hit it right sometimes.
It straddles the Nevada/Arizona border and sits behind Hoover Dam.
> Engineers are in a better position to understand what the customer wants and needs.

This is why programmer-driven open source projects are a paragon of usability and have taken over 90% of the mobile phone, desktop, and app market.
Beautiful work!

I noticed that when I zoom in on the Earth, the orbit line floats about one Earth radius away from the surface. The Moon is also off of its orbit line by about a Moon diameter. (This happens for me in Chrome on both desktop and mobile.)

Is it a calculation precision error? Or perhaps some spatial offset?
Interesting. I have seen that in official HR training.
HEB also has Slovacek's sausage which is not exactly the same but I still like the flavor. Some people I know are really into Chappell Hill and it's fine for me (just not exactly the same if nostalgia is leading me to go for that specific Prasek's flavor).
People seem to like the WiiM streamers, but I have not tried one yet.
give me some places where it is not and we’ll look at zillow or whatever public data there is for a given region. unless we are talking like rural-no-is-around-for-miles perhaps but otherwise properties over the last 10-15 years have appreciated
>Rule 1: Understand the system: Read the manual, read everything in depth (...)

Yeah, ain't nobody got time for that. If e.g. debugging a compile issue meant we read the compiler manual, we'd get nothing done...
I'll just reiterate: you had to find the setting at least once (because these features are opt-IN) for the need to disable it to ever occur.

Sure. Lots of people are too tech-unsavvy to figure that out. But those same people won't be googling how to do it. They'll just give up and ask their kid to do it for them or something.
I'm curious how old the writer is?
Definitely depends on where you are. Where I live (Washington west of Seattle) Comcast has always been 10-15% above the claimed speed for me.
It's not, plenty of old hardware exists, but if you personally don't care about waste, what do you expect, a convincing argument that you should?
I've been working with Lisp for a quarter century now. Always with Vim.

My TXR Lisp comes with Vim support: a pair of syntax files and also a tags generator.
I'm in an AI focused education research group, and most "smart/personalized tutors" on the market have similar processes and outcomes as paper flashcards.
Thanks for your thoughtful feedback and encouragement!

- Dark mode is on my to-do list!

- I agree regarding less is more and will keep it in mind regarding the ui elements.

- Feedback page is a great suggestion. I'll add that.
It feels like that already, most of the accounts that try to interact with me are bots. Dead internet, etc.
The url implies that it's psyllium.
this should be on a wall somewhere
AFAIK Starlink does not plan to put satellites in 1200 km orbits. All Starlink satellites are in orbits of 600 km or less, where any debris naturally decays in less than 5 years:

https://www.starlink.com/updates#update10

> Starlink satellites operate in a low Earth orbit below 600 km altitude. Atmospheric drag at these altitudes will deorbit a satellite naturally in 5 years or less, depending on the altitude and satellite design, should one fail on orbit. SpaceX proactively deorbits satellites that are identified to be at an elevated risk of becoming non-maneuverable. This proactive approach minimizes the number of non-maneuverable satellites in space.
Looks like NPM is generating jobs for those in the security field. It’s an unfixable mess, I really hope some competition like JSR will put enough pressure on the organization.
Tokyo barely makes it into the top hundred by population density.

Also yes, for most large cities you can find news articles about people dying in fires or because of an ambulance getting delayed.
So far it is confined to the Internet. You just wait til they train robots. It will be gradual and then all at once. Especially coordination and swarming behavior between drones etc. We are cooked as they say.
Github is owned by Microsoft so I'm assuming, maybe incorrectly, that they're well funded.

Internal audits are always subject to gaps, but if the stated issue is correct "a load balancer config change gone pear shaped" an audit wouldn't have caught that necessarily.

Unless the audit wants to test their change control, deployment methods, and redundancy.

Are they changing all of their load balancers all at once? Seems non optimal.
Maybe change only one at a time, or a small batch.

Are they propagating load balancer changes from a canary to production without vetting it's good?

Or did they vet it and they were wrong - some difference in their canary or analysis had a short coming?

And even if all of that was A-OK why did a mistake (and we all make mistakes) not get reverted quickly?

Were there insufficient internal controls to revert small mistakes and keep them from becoming site wide outages? And so on.

I suspect these kinds of discussions are happening. Or, maybe not. Who knows?

It's a 3rd party, and even if your whole organization's life depends on it you only know what they tell you.

Welcome to "the cloud".