skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in school, I was taught that the push for corn was to help the central states. We don't really grow that much sugar cane in the US and the belief that we should spend that money internally, I think, is not misguided. So as I read your comment, I can't help but remember that. Maybe it was American propaganda filtering its way into the school system to brainwash me. Or maybe it was true. either way, one has to admit that Americans love sugar. We are going to consume a lot of it regardless. Doesn't seem like a bad thing to find a sugar alternative that grows well in the continental US.
> all it takes to install Windows 11 without an account

Well, that does not really look very user-friendly, does it? Which probably only underlines the point of the parent.
>"our next head of sales must be a woman", stated openly on a recorded all hands video call.

I my country openly saying you want a specific gender for a job position would violate the law. Is that not the case in the US?

> the moment someone accepts the claim that there's a problem that must be solved, they lose the ability to push back on ever more extreme solutions

That doesn't seem to be the case for other problems. I don't see what makes this problem special so there can be no push back on extreme solutions.

> The only way out is to argue that there is in fact no problem to be solved and never was

What about using non-extreme steps to try to mitigate the issue.

> So in practice affirmative action is deeply unpopular and it's not due to people being idiots. It's because the "cost free" framing that proponents like to use is misleading. There is always a cost.

Idiots is a word that originated in ancient Greek and was used for the people who did not care about the matters of the Polis. Everybody is born an idiot until they participate in public matters. That costs (time and effort to familiarize yourself).
In that sense maybe the people you are talking about are idiots...
Put each painting in an artsy frame whose edges are each different, colorful pattern. When the user photographs the painting, they’ll include all (or even most) of the frame, and distinguishing the frames is easy.
Enshittification may be why the Internet feels like it's gone Bad
By your logic Washington state should consider becoming Icelandic. Relative levels of homelessness are not an indication of who wants to join whom or who gets to annex whom.

This entire line of reasoning is INSANE

>round up 20 homeless people in an hour at a single grocery store?

pretty sure I could manage that in +- any decent sized city globally. Hungry people like food. Completely irrelevant to this topic. A political player needing to stage photo ops with bribery does indicate that there isn't organic support for it though.
The stigmatization is imagined at best. Its similar to how words to describe individuals with learning disabilities also gain a negative connotation. Its not the word its the fact that the word refers to a subset of people that a comparison to is an insult. Hence, Mongoloid -> Retard -> Special -> <whatever the new one is>

In terms of racism, its different but the same mechanism. Being compared to a minority race is not an insult (to most people). Its the fact, that racist people will use the word with vitriol. Racists and those they argue with will use the term in their arguments and gradually the use of the term will gain the conotation of a racist person. Hence, Negro -> Colored -> Person of Color -> <the next thing when PoC becomes racist>
Yeah the Do you agree with me, don't reply if not seems a bit unsporting on a discussion forum! I mean it's kind of supposed to be about discussing things.

Taking the other side, on one hand I can see "AI that can transform a text into an image etc, but otherwise the benefits of so called AI are completely lost on me" but on the other hand AI overtaking biology is kind of an interesting thing.

And you can of course skip the articles.
This is an option but that makes it easier to conceal malicious code within node_modules as an internal threat actor or make super sure there's a culture of actually reviewing those changes.

In cases like that it helps to do npm install on the CI and make sure you end up with identical code. Decent trade-off.
You're just missing the fact that cane sugar has almost the same amount of fructose as HFCS

The coke taste difference could be due to HFCS vs table sugar, sure, but it also could be due to some other changes.
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Norway on track to be first to go all-electric
Paul Graham complaining about societal accountability sounds a lot like a tech investor blaming users when their startup crashes and burns. “The market was just too woke for my brilliant idea!” Maybe the next essay should be titled "What You Can’t Fund Without a Backup Plan." In the startup world, if things go tits up, it’s on you—the same way words and ideas have consequences in public discourse. Play the game, take the risks, and own the fallout big man.
We agree, but I suppose my next question would be why? What happened to turn these guys (or ham radio culture at large) into grouchy old gatekeepers? I'm generalizing, of course, but they were like that when I arrived. I can't imagine the hobby was always like that, especially seeing some of the old literature from the 50's and 60's in the US, which was very encouraging of mentoring and sharing info.

If it's still the same today as it was back when I tried it out, that's a shame, because ham radio is absolutely full of hardware hacking opportunities. Heck, you can make an antenna out of a retractable tape measure.
Health Care AI, Intended to Save Money, Turns Out to Require a Lot of Humans
The models are too large to fit on a desktop GPU's VRAM. Progress would either require smaller models (MoE might help here? not sure) or bigger VRAM. For example training a 70 billion parameter model would require at least 140GB of VRAM in each system, whereas a large desktop GPU (4090) has only 24GB.

You need enough memory to run the unquantized model for training, then stream the training data through - that part is what is done in parallel, farming out different bits of training data to each machine.
They actually do know it, and they’re mad that so many think they don’t. It’s why they think wokeness is a problem, it is (to them) mainly performative and insulting because progress has happened and continues to.

They just don’t think their daughter swimming against “boys” and then using the same locker room is progress.
Brendan Eich (of more recent Brave fame) is the creator of JavaScript.
When do you eat dinner?
For 20 dollars I can buy an aluminium and stainless steel laptop stand that adjusts from a thin wedge up to holding my screen a nearly eye height.

It will outlast me, and folds into a smaller size that fits nicely in my laptop bag.

Laptops will probably go away, but it could be handed down for generations, and when it no longer can be used, the majority of the energy and resources used to make it can be recouped through recycling it’s intrinsically valuable metals.

This 20 dollar piece of paper will last until the first month in a humid environment.

This should be a tutorial on how to reuse discarded material into an improvised, impromptu laptop stand.

If I saw someone pull this out of a box and put their laptop on it, they would lose a great deal of credibility in my estimation. If I saw someone make this out of some waste paper in a coffee shop, I would be intrigued and compelled to seek an opportunity to see if that person was open to making new acquaintances and sharing ideas.
Not to mention marking any mention of "cis" as hate speech. This is not a recognised slur, it is only treated as such on Musk's whim, because he personally dislikes it.
This is a propaganda comment with all kinds of fallacies. It's all hindutva chest-beating in the name of sikhism. Sikhism has nothing to do with hindutva, and would want no association with it.

For those not in the know, hindutva is a fascist group trying to masquerade as hindus.
They should bring back comfy seating in their stores. They changed to uncomfy seating to discourage lingering. The best thing about Starbucks at its peak was having a place to meet friends or professionals to chat without having to pay for a full meal. The vibe was intellectual and calm. Now the inside of a Starbucks feels like the inside of a McDonald's, which is to say, plastic seats adjacent to a smelly bathroom.
The vast majority of people aren’t affected by DEI just as they weren’t when it came to CRT. No one wakes up and worries how DEI will impact their day. DEI was used as a wedge issue on the campaign trail and amplified on social media (and right wing infotainment) for the purpose of having a boogeyman to attack.
BendSQL is a cli tool.

I suggest to use the drivers list here: https://docs.databend.com/guides/sql-clients/developers/
I might be misreading the cleanenergywire.org diagram but it shows that oil consumption went down, coal as well.

Or did you mean that this diagram _is_ the greenwashing? If so, why?
Neural Network Verification Is a Programming Language Challenge
I'm a manager, and I approve of this message.
The key thing any social media platform needs is users. I know very few people who have an RSS feed and none of them use it to repost content.
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I've needed this badly for so long... There are a few Show HN to stale repos/heroku apps... Chrome Extensions but those don't work for me (Safari on Mobile).

So in the spirit of building something people want, here is a very barbaric mirror via GHA and a scraping script.
Please stop repeating this, it is incorrect. ECC helps with any system, but it isn't necessary for ZFS checksums to work.
Keep it away from breads and other similar foods and you would see a big effect.
Investors can't tell the difference between hype and (future) results.
Just in case folks are curious, a circuit bending wiki does exist:

https://circuitbending.miraheze.org/wiki/Circuit_Bending
are you the Daniel Gackle mentioned at the bottom of the article or a different one?
> And the wiki article claims it "averages 10.5 to 13.5 hours", so there is a huge amount of variability in time to travel on that route.

Yeah, I think it depends on how many stops it calls it; there are a few different services on that line. While it's a high speed line they're mostly not classic express services and actually have quite a few stops. I'd expect a notional Chicago->California high speed line would have fewer. A journey with no stops at all at 300km/h (ie high standard high speed rail, but not absolute state of the art) would be 10 hours; any stops would add a bit.

> And you can't factor time spent getting to airport and not factor time to train station

As a general rule, airports are not hugely conveniently located. Normally intercity rail in big cities will depart from a central train station, which usually will really be quite central, and will be linked into all the other transport. You get there, and walk onto the train, and you're done.

The airport will _never_ be central, for obvious reasons, and if it has a rail line at all, it will likely be a single line, usually relatively infrequent, and, for some reason, with the airport end almost always extremely inconveniently located (this seems to be a law of nature). You'll want to get there at least an hour in advance, and the plan will likely be delayed at least somewhat on both ends. At least one queue will be involved. On the other end, you will then make your way slowly into the city.
Why? It's restricted to one display, but will insist on moving from one to another if you make some moves with your cursor.

You can't decouple multiple windows of the same app.

IIRC it insists on disappearing if you are in fullscreen on another display.

It also wastes more space than other taskbars to be usefull and look decent.

(disclaimer: I dislike MacOS globally)
Sure. But you don’t have to deliberately destroy all data and be mean about it as in GP‘s case to get an emotional reaction.
Found a second usage.

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-oil-plume-change...
FWIW, Newsbusters is run by MRC which is not exactly an unbiased or high quality source of information to say the least.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, and then further down questionnaires...
I hate this. People having been charges with a crime n the past shouldn't be ruining their lives. You're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but all these companies (and government) use mere charging as an indicator of guilt to deprive you of privileges and opportunities.
Google has engineers running an engineering company and that has turned every product for five years into a disaster.
This is one of the things that most fascinates me about the anti-woke.

You're advocating for people to be described in whatever term they prefer and not have a term imposed upon them from outside.

That alien visiting for mars would think "Oh, this is this wokeness I have heard of, respecting groups desires to be addressed in their preferred way".

But no, you're only bringing this up because you believe the people you think are "woke" are imposing a name on these groups from the outside.

Is it a principle or is it a pointless gotcha? I would argue this is aggressively performative anti-wokeness!
> Thanks Campfire team for doing this.

Now that's an interesting comment. This product is called Campsite not Campfire but I was confused by that myself.

I'd not heard of Campsite before but it sounds like it might have been in the same problem space as 37 Signal's old Campfire product.

Does anyone have any more background and if the two are related?
I don't see how it really helps?

We could pass laws requiring models to demonstrate their training sets irregardless of how the training is distributed; and conversely if this is a community-led project, those also have copyright issues to deal with (wikipedia for example).

I suspect there's also a problem in that, e.g. ten million student essays about different pages of Harry Potter can each in isolation be justified by the right to quote small fragments for critical purposes, but the collection together isn't because it quotes an entire book series.
Can someone provide details on this bit please? "Direct IO: Allows bypassing the ARC for reads/writes, improving performance in scenarios like NVMe devices where caching may hinder efficiency".

ARC is based in RAM, so how could it reduce performance when used with NVMe devices? They are fast, but they aren't RAM-fast ...
> They drop support for things over time but even their roughest transitions (x86, Apple Silicon) have come with extensive day 1 support for previous functionality.

Catalina literally just dumped half the software that ever ran on MacOS overnight to make the transition to Apple Silicon seem smoother than it actually was.
The OpenZFS code is based on the original OpenSolaris code, and the license used is the CDDL because that is what OpenSolaris used. Dual licensing that requires the current OpenSolaris copyright holder to agree. That is unlikely without writing a very big check. Further speculation is not a productive thing to do, but since I know a number of people assume that OpenSolaris copyright holder is the only one preventing this, let me preemptively say that it is not so simple. Different groups have different preferred licenses. Some groups cannot stand certain licenses. Other groups might detest the idea of dual licensing in general since it causes community fragmentation whenever contributors decide to publish changes only under 1 of the 2 licenses.

The CDDL was designed to ensure that if Sun Microsystems were acquired by a company hostile to OSS, people could still use Sun’s open source software. In particular, the CDDL has an explicit software patent grant. Some consider that to have been invaluable in preempting lawsuits from a certain company that would rather have ZFS be closed source software.
Unfortunately, if you use a two-monitor setup, you cannot have the dock on the left of the right-hand-side monitor, or vice versa.
seems only natural, I sympathize
Of course we aren't, but different perceptions of one's identity can be closer of farther from the percepted self. So, it makes sense to have a discussion on which mental model of self is less wrong or more useful.
Project management is "create, maintain and drive the ticking off of a to-do list being done by multiple people inside/outside company to achieve a goal" - e.g. "move from Dynamics CRM to Oracle CRM", and it cares a lot about setting exact timelines and ticking off when tasks are done. Most quality control or creative input is done elsewhere.

Product management is "understand a market and customers to create or improve a product, prioritising features to feed to teams to deliver based on some metric (e.g. "creates most new sales" or "slowly improves the lives of existing customers without breaking anything"), and is often highly involved in quality (and perceived quality matters such as UX) and is fairly creative, as it decides what features go into the product.
How about asking them to call you "anh" instead of "sir" then ?
Most uv commands will (unless otherwise instructed like e.g. with --frozen) by default update your lockfile to be in sync with your pyproject.toml.
Erasure coding is almost done; all that's missing is some of the device evacuate and reconstruct paths, and people have been testing it and giving positive feedback (especially w.r.t. performance).

It most definitely does have fsck and has since the beginning, and it's a much more robust and dependable fsck than btrfs's. Scrub isn't quite done - I actually was going to have it ready for this upcoming merge window except for a nasty bout of salmonella :)

Send/recv is a long ways off, there might be some low level database improvements needed before that lands.

Short term (next year or two) priorities are finishing off online fsck, more scalability work (upcoming version for this merge window will do 50PB, but now we need to up the limit on number of drives), and quashing bugs.
The Pinecil is great, but is definitely a terrible recommendation for anyone new to soldering. If you're trying to encourage people to learn to solder, they should be doing it with a proper station that can handle and maintain temp for extended periods. I have a Pinecil, but it's really only useful for quick on-the-fly jobs (which it excels at, in my experience) so it stays in my tool bag for work. It suffers from overheating and temperature changes for more lengthy jobs.

Otherwise, yeah, if you're already competent at soldering and need a pocket-sized iron that you can create a portable power supply for, invest in a Pinecil
I simply don't... :/
The only thing Oracle wants to "contribute positively to" is Larry's next yacht.
>That is the most subsidized land on the planet but people don't think of it that way.

That's because it generally isn't in terms of paying cash subsidies. What happens
is that when the city is laid out areas are blocked out for access. Doing that doesn't really cost you anything. In places that get pedestrianised the road space is still there, just used for people rather than cars.
Unstable Diffusion: Artificial Intelligence Meets Military Intelligence
New Glenn to make another launch attempt early Thursday
PostgreSQL is the Database Management System of the Year 2024
I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
I'd imagine the same one the article is talking about [0].

[0] https://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/Windo...
For me, a fountain pen has fulfilled this function, but in my teens I had a typewriter collection. I still wonder where they all went...
Did you really need to insert a contentious distraction in your original comment? The fact that you felt the need to clarify up front shows you knew it would be misunderstood, and discussion of it is totally unrelated to this topic. If you're not using the original meaning, where "beg" specifically is important as the verb, you could have said almost any variant instead, e.g., "raises the question", and not annoyed or confused anyone and not detracted from the actual point you were trying to make (assuming your main goal wasn't social media-style ragebait).

To quote from a sibling comment of yours:

> a phrase that will be misunderstood is worse than useless.

Exactly.
I'm paying $30/mo for 10 Gbps in Japan, paying $100/mo for 400 Mbps sounds crazy.

I get that the last mile infrastructure costs a lot to lay down especially in the U.S. with your crazy local politics, but once that pipe is there the bandwidth to fill it should be cheap.
With terms for learning disabilities (and some racist terms) factual inaccuracy is also a factor.

Mongoloid, Retard, Special, individuals with learning disabilities are not entirely interchangeable (except as insults).
Asking to share the training data is a bit too much, it's petabytes of data, probably has privacy implications.

You can study and reproduce with your own training data right?
Same story in Ireland, we've even changed the uniform rules for our police force in recent years to allow for the Sikh Turban in lieu of the traditional hat.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ive-had-guys-we-are-ar...

Sikhs and Gurkhas would be reasonably well known and have a pretty sterling reputation in Ireland/UK - but that cultural consciousness would sharply decline the further you get into Western Europe due to historical colonisation being African rather than Indian focused.
> There is none for the ubiquity and material impact of racism in 2025

What do you mean? Many ways in which people of color are being disadvantaged (net worth, income, representation in positions of power etc.) are very measurable, in 2025 as much as in 1990.
We can still get out of the climate Hellocene and into the clear Essays
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I am big fan of this comment:

"@mariaghiondea , do you have any updates on restoring the extension reviews? The PlatformIO IDE extension is important even for Microsoft itself. See Microsoft leverages PlatformIO for its course "IoT for Beginners"

We have many friends at Microsoft - should we attract them to solve your team's mistakes quickly?"
My understanding is that single-disk btrfs is good, but raid is decidedly dodgy; https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid5... states that:

> The RAID56 feature provides striping and parity over several devices, same as the traditional RAID5/6.

> There are some implementation and design deficiencies that make it unreliable for some corner cases and *the feature should not be used in production, only for evaluation or testing*.

> The power failure safety for metadata with RAID56 is not 100%.

I have personally been bitten once (about 10 years ago) by btrfs just failing horribly on a single desktop drive. I've used either mdadm + ext4 (for /) or zfs (for large /data mounts) ever since. Zfs is fantastic and I genuinely don't understand why it's not used more widely.
Because with a (ARC) cache you have to copy from the app to the cache and then dma to disk. With direct io you can dma directly from the app ram to the disk.
>But for anti-fascists, we have jpeg memes calling them fools.

Yes, because "fascist" is possibly one of the most abused words in our political landscape.

If a group showed up from the right promising to beat up "commies" I don't think people would be too keen on that either.