skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a low flow/high pressure shower head is a just a bunch of little needle jets that neither feel good nor adequately cover you in a deluge of water

This is the mark of a mediocre shower head.

There’s something about Speakman shower heads that spread the individual streams in a much more satisfying way. They’re adjustable in a flexible/continuous manner, which may have something to do with it.

As for the “deluge” - you’d be surprised how well ~2gpm can rinse with the right application of pressure/spread. Maybe I’m just not as sensitive to having a few square inches of my body not covered in sheets of water? I don’t need to be luxuriated with a veritable waterfall every day.
I am saying it's not possible for the foreseeable future, yes. The same way backends becoming an abstraction most developers don't need to worry about is also not going to happen in the foreseeable future.
I worked both as a reporter and in public relations (not at the same time) and stuff like this happens for various reasons:

- an institution can publish a report as part of a regular schedule (e.g. unemployment by the BLS) or as one shot thing (e.g. a study on clowns distribution in arid areas). This leads many reporters to publish articles about basically the same subject, but in an uncoordinated manner;

- PR agencies often coordinate with media outlets from various backgrounds and markets to publish about some particular topic (company, product, campaign, ...) either at the same time, or in coordinated waves;

- trends and public discourse can make it so that many sources cover almost the same thing at the same time (e.g.: bitch resting face, rat boy summer, ...);

- luck is, always, a factor.
> This doesn't mean they have different expenses.

They are still general living expenses. Those don’t go away based on employment or not, at home or not. They could decrease/increase some, but you can’t assume the whole amount is tied to employment only. Besides, if you don’t like your living expenses…quit or move.

> If you're e.g. a tech company…

What if you are not? what if you are a bank, a hospital, a factory, an insurance company, a processing center? You cannot make the assumption that every organization can just close “some” offices and leave others open. What about the HR and morale impact when 75% of your employees cannot work remote, but your SWEs can? Is it worth the office/desk footprint savings for leadership to create an elite group with a special benefits that pisses for every other person at the org? Probably not…

> That two hours a day your employees were wasting in traffic? They're salaried employees, that's 10 hours a week they're not working.

Now you are back to dealing with an individual impact here. If they are a salaried employee, the amount of work required for completion in a given week doesn’t change whether a commute is 10 hours or 10 minutes. That’s time the employee is investing by choosing to live where they live and work for the employer they work for. I have been on a salary for nearly 40 years…my employers have never expected me to work 168 hours a week. The expectation was an average of 40.
You can check Exo out:

https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

It's a project designed to run a large model in a distributed manner. My need for GPU is to run my own machine learning research pet project (mostly evolutionary neuron network models for now), and it's a bit different from inferencing needs. Training is yet another different story.

But yeah, I agreed. I think machine learning should be distributed more in the future.
China has just developed to the extent that top STEM professionals can have a good quality of life at home. Chinese immigrants were pouring when the US was far less welcoming. The US used to also get hordes of migrants from Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea before they developed.
Show HN: Postthebills.com – Look at Posters
Hello HN!

I made this site that allows you to contribute and see posters (bills) around San Francisco. I tried building it in a way where contribution can be done without me needing the host a web server, and just host this on a free static site service (cloudflare pages).

Why I made it? I think it's pretty cool to preserve things online, and since it's on github it can be easily cloned and rehosted and rebuilt for other cities in the world too.

So to contribute to this specific site, you can just visit https://postthebills.com/contribute.html, and use a github personal access token for this repository: https://github.com/4shub/postthebills.com, you can save the token with localstorage on your phone, then when walking around the city, take pics with the HTML image picker, and it'll automatically make a pull request for you for that repository. When it's approved, it kicks off a build job that adds a new static file photo.

I personally take photos of interesting/unique posters when I go on walks around the city.

Cheers!
The 20MB era drives tended to have stepper motor actuators, not voice coil (in general). Probably not vulnerable to this particular failure mode.
The very tricky part then is to ask if the consciousness/phenomenological experience that you postulate still happens if, say, we were to compute the outputs of an LLM by hand… while difficult, if every single person on earth did one operation per second, plus some very complicated coordination and results gathering, we could probably predict a couple of tokens for an LLM at some moderate frequency… say, a couple of tokens a month? a week? A year? A decade? Regardless… would that consciousness still have an experience? Or is there some threshold of speed and coherence, or coloration that would be missing and result in failure for it to emerge?

Impossible to answer.

Btw I mostly think it’s reasonable to think that there might be consciousness, phenomenology etc are possible in silicon, but it’s tricky and unverifiable ofc.
I built a toy maker – and it's all thanks to a lift from my boss
Supercritical geothermal is similar to talking about the economics of fusion. There is a DOE enhanced geothermal test site near the Newberry Volcano in central Oregon which has temperatures close to this range at reachable depths. That is more of a demonstration site for drilling technology.
> My counter recommendation is to grab a pair of needle nose pliers, take apart your shower head, find the blue plastic flow limiter, and yank it out.

I actually was going to do this when I bought my new shower head! I assumed that’s what the hotels do. But nope, I was satisfied without this. It might also just be that the flow in my apartment is lower regardless of fixture, which is why I opted for a shower head designed for low flow in the first place.
Psilocybin:

Form constants, lattices. Colors are indeed vivid, but few hallucinations

Some things almost take on a new form, for example stars tend to dance and moss on a tree can swirl its texture like a moving river, and appear mesmerizing.

I’ve noticed mushroom trips for me are less visual, more introspective.

DMT:

I’ve never taken enough to truly break through, but in lower or medium quantities, things tend to move around and form clear patterns and sometimes a new appearance altogether!

Some objects can even take on a new form as an entity; I recall a very dynamic tree that put on a show for me my first trip.

The last time I used it, I closed my eyes for the duration. The visuals appeared much stronger, and I was even pulled me out of my own head and into a brief “slideshow” I felt the gods put on for me. I recall some beautiful, ancient looking visuals which reminded me of old Egypt or Sumer. Very surreal, and minutes later I was back in true reality like nothing happened.
Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Not at the moment. The unstable lint is implemented in rustc directly, not in clippy, though I guess it could move to clippy in the future.
So do devotees of computability.

Remember - there is no such thing as an objective consciousness meter.

Emulating the behaviours we associate with consciousness - something that still hasn't been achieved - solves the problem of emulation, not the problem of identity.

The idea that an emulation is literally identical to the thing it emulates in this instance only is a very strange belief.

Nowhere else in science is a mathematical model of something considered physically identical and interchangeable with the entity being modelled.
> any kind of theorem or idea communicated to another mathematician needs to be serialized into language which would make it computable

Are you aware of how little of modern mathematics has been formalised? As in, properly formalised on a computer. Not just written up into a paper that other mathematics can read and nod along to.

Mathematics might seem very formal and serialised (and it is, compared to most other human endeavours) but that’s actually quite far from the truth. Really, it all exists in the mind of the mathematician and a lot of it is hard, if not currently impossible, to pin down precisely enough to enter into a formal system.

I think you probably do understand some things ‘transcendently’! Almost by definition they’re the things you’re least aware of understanding.
Some additional color:

CORS today is just an annoying artifact of a poorly conceived idea about domain names somehow being a meaningful security boundary. It never amounted to anything more than a server asking the client not to do something with no mechanism to force the client to comply and no direct way for the server to tell if the client is complying. It has never offered any security value, workarounds were developed before it even became a settled standard. It's so much more likely to prevent legitimate use than protect against illegitimate use that browsers typically include a way to turn it off.

With CSRF the idea is that the server wants to be able verify that a request from a client is one it invited (most commonly that a POST comes from a form that it served in an earlier GET). It's entirely up to the server to design the mechanism for that, the client typically has no idea its happening (it's just feeding back to the server on a later request something it got from the server on a previous request). Also notable is despite the "cross-site" part of the name it doesn't really have any direct relationship to "sites" or domains, servers can and do use the exact same mechanisms to detect or prevent issues like accidentally submitting the same form twice.
The goal is to destabilize and crater the economy then have the rich scoop it up for cheap right? With the goal of moving closer and closer to a pure rentier economy?
You're thinking of "Orion" not "Omni" (GPT 4o stands for "Omni" since it's natively multimodal with image and audio input/output tokens)
The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was
> You'd need the resources to keep fighting against the constant changes and ever diverging codebase

Assuming that Google is making Chromium better, sure. If they are making it worse then not keeping up with the changes is an advantage of the fork.

If Google starts making changes that reduce the value of the codebase, then a hard fork immediately becomes viable. If they are good custodians even a totally separate codebase isn't enough, it'll end up in the same position as Firefox - marginalised.
The Paris Climate Agreement is not a treaty, hence it is also called the "Paris Accord".

We announced our withdrawal from the agreement in 2017, there is a 3 year waiting period built in so we didn't actually leave until 2020.

Joe Biden rejoined on his first day. I am not sure what Trump will do as different administrations have different goals.

We didn't break any part of that Accord, you can actually leave it with proper notice, which we did.
I’m not sure it’s possible to have the full reasoning in your head without authoring the code yourself - or, spending a comparable amount of effort to mentally rewrite it.
The best advice I ever got (after my Kindergarten teacher telling me, "Now young man, you should _never_ pass up the chance to go to the bathroom.") was my shop teacher advising:

>Before hitting the switch on a power tool, slowly count to 10 under your breath to yourself on your fingers, visualizing all the forces involved and planning out the entirety of your movement and how you will be moving the stock/tool, and considering what might go wrong and the results thereof and what will protect you (all guards should be in place and all suitable PPE worn) or where you should be positioned so as to avoid any potential projectile, reminding yourself that you want to be able to repeat that count in the same way when the tool is switched off.

Sawstop wouldn't have a business model if all tablesaw accidents were tried by a jury of shop teachers.
Teach jj (jujutsu) instead.

The idiocy that is "staging" is the primary problem with Git. 99% of people do not need "staging" and yet Git inflicts it on everybody.

"Staging" (and "stash") makes Git modal, and that's a pain in the ass.

Having taught people both Mercurial and Git, I can tell you that teaching Git is simply a losing battle. Fortunately, jj operates just like Mercurial but can coexist in the Github ecosystem.
False headline
Finally, us millenials get to hand the torch of "ruining everything" to the next generation. Good luck, and godspeed!
> It seems like the problem is at the level of login information somehow crossing domain boundaries?

The login information isn't so much crossing boundaries -- evil.com can't read your session cookie on bank.com -- but cookies that don't set a SameSite attribute allow anyone to send that information on your behalf, and effectively act as you in that request. Textbook example of a "confused deputy" attack.

> What stops a script on evil.com from going to bank.com to get a CSRF token and then including that in their evil request?

The token is either stored on the page that bank.com sends (for a html form) or was sent in a header and stored in local storage (for API clients). In neither case can evil.com read that information, due to cross-origin restrictions, and it changes with every form.
I’m seriously concerned that the market is going you crater in the next year, do what is the rational investment strategy?

Trust Buffett and buy BRKB?

Try to weather the storm with VOO?

Buy treasury bonds?
It’s actually Sacha Baron Cohen in a new mask.
I want to thank you for Matt's Script Archive. I never actually used it, and I often had to help novice Perl programmers who'd gotten bad ideas from it and were writing terrible code, but in my book that's far better than if they had found the world of programming too forbidding to approach. You're responsible for opening the world of programming to many people, and I appreciate that.
Increasingly I see apologists for LLMs sounding like people justifying fortune tellers and astrologists. The confidence games are in force, where the trick involves surreptitiously eliciting all the information the con artist needs from the mark, then playing it back to them as if it involves some deep and subtle insights.
Wouldn't drawing energy from the crust cool it down, and wouldn't a cooler crust in turn 'draw' more heat from the lower layers? I guess the earth already radiates out a lot of energy, the process of extracting geothermal energy will presumably lead it to radiate more energy. I don't know by how much though, or if it will make any real difference, or if that's how it even works.
Pretty sure it was patio11. :D
People stacking jobs have next to no interest in anything about the jobs except getting paid, and are really easy to spot in high performance environments because they tend to make a lot of excuses and miss a lot of deadlines.

What you are saying is this: how an employee spends their time is 100% the responsibility of their manager. That's extremely infantilizing - strong teams I have worked on expect employees to self-manage their time productively and deliver about "full time" bandwidth (minus time off, maintenance work, etc) on a consistent basis so we can effectively plan and execute.

I'm speaking from experience: I had to deal with a new hire whom I was assigned to mentor who tried to juggle just one other job and it was super obvious they weren't working when they said they were. It took a long time to work through the PIP process, and effectively that person stole not only the company's time and money, but wasted a good deal my own time and patience. Fuck them and their entitled mentality. If they had gotten their shit done on time and without sketchy meeting aversion, they might have continued enjoying the second paycheck. Frankly if they had done good work and in a timely fashion it might not have mattered if they had another job - but if you're employed (not contracted) ethically speaking that employer and those coworkers are correct to expect that job to be your first priority during the work week.
This is why Sloyd woodworking is taught in northern European countries:

>Students may never pick up a tool again, but they will forever have the knowledge of how to make and evaluate things with your hand and your eye and appreciate the labor of others.

https://rainfordrestorations.com/category/woodworking-techni...
Here are the pictures it has taken so far:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/albums/7217772031...

There's also a cool lunar flyover video taken during final deorbit.
> Hallucinated methods are such a tiny roadblock that when people complain about them I assume they’ve spent minimal time learning how to effectively use these systems—they dropped them at the first hurdle.

If I have to spend lots of time learning how to use something, fix its errors, review its output, etc., it may just be faster and easier to just write it myself from scratch.

The burden of proof is not on me to justify why I choose not to use something. It's on the vendor to explain why I should turn the software development process into perpetually reviewing a junior engineer's hit-or-miss code.

It is nice that the author uses the word "assume" -- there is mixed data on actual productivity outcomes of LLMs. That is all you are doing -- making assumptions without conclusive data.

This is not nearly as strong an argument as the author thinks it is.

> As a Python and JavaScript programmer my favorite models right now are Claude 3.7 Sonnet with thinking turned on, OpenAI’s o3-mini-high and GPT-4o with Code Interpreter (for Python).

This is similar to Neovim users who talk about "productivity" while ignoring all the time spent tweaking dofiles that could be spent doing your actual job. Every second I spend toying with models is me doing something that does not directly accomplish my goals.

> Those people are loudly declaring that they have under-invested in the crucial skills of reading, understanding and reviewing code written by other people. I suggest getting some more practice in. Reviewing code written for you by LLMs is a great way to do that.

You have no idea how much code I read, so how can you make such claims? Anyone who reads plenty of code knows that it often feels like reading other people's code is often harder than just writing it yourself.

The level of hostility towards just sitting down and thinking through something without having an LLM insert text into your editor is unwarranted and unreasonable. A better policy is: if you like using coding assistants, great. If you don't and you still get plenty of work done, great.
This is it. This is all I’ve wanted in CSS for the last decade. In fact, I just wanted basic mixins without function-like behavior, but this gets me there.

The comments here indicate that the article doesn’t do much to explain what this does or why you’d want it, but basically this gives you a way to reuse blocks of styles without needing to resort to e.g. utility classes or other hacks that get around specificity issues. The syntax doesn’t help explain that.

Shame about the syntax, but I’m used to it at this point.
> Social scientists researching climate chanage

This misunderstanding lead you astray: this is social scientists studying social impacts. Look at the list of the most recent awards - all of these sound like good social science and useful things for the DoD to fund since, for example, climate change-caused economic woes and migration were key to events they do directly care about like the Syrian civil war and rise of ISIS.

Conflict Resilience Across Scales: Theory and Data to Evaluate Societal Resilience to Water and Climate Shock

Anticipating Coastal Population Mobility: Path to Maladaptation or Sociopolitical Stability

Modeling Climate-Induced Societal Adaptation and Population Displacement
I named a specific company, pointed out a specific example of the dynamic featuring GCC and Debian is just one iceberg in the OSS ocean demonstrating that there are more than 30,000 packages built on the principle that free software is better than closed source.

I'm not sure how much more specific and concrete you want the argument to get, but that seems fine to me. The market is big, people care about this part of it. There will be a sponsor for the work if Google isn't up to the challenge.

The only reason everyone uses Chrome is it is really good at what it does and to date Google has been a high quality steward.
I'm just a humble index-fund-liker who tries to avoid checking things more than once a month, but I'd like to add an observation: Employed people should consider their own job-sector as something to diversify against.

In other words, don't be like those poor Enron employees who had all of their company 401k tied up in Enron stock.

If your nest-egg craters but you have a job, you can sustain yourself and wait for market recovery. If your job vanishes, strong investments won't get hurt too much if you sell to cover the gap. However, if both happen simultaneously...
You are lacking in imagination.

(Alas, Dall-E also lacks, so I couldn't generate a picture of deadly slide rule kung fu. At least none that wasn't unintentionally hilarious.)
Just make sure your grant says your research is designed to help white males and you’re golden.

No seriously the whole reason you need diversity in HSR is to correct inherent biases in the data due to under-representation of certain demographics, not to mention the fact that there are actual physical differences between demographic groups (sex, age, race, etc) which must be accounted for if you want the science to be generally applicable. Diversity in science is _not_ about giving a leg up to underprivileged persons (though that’s a good thing).
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Yeah! That's exactly the thing. It's passable for novices and bad for experts. But I don't need expert level CDK I need an instance to start up. Hate it or love it that's all I need.
CNC is cool, and you can do some pretty amazing things e.g. with a 4 or 5 axis machine, but ultimately the value is in repeatably churning out the same part over and over again. The industrial utility is obvious, but there's not a lot of pedagogical utility and to a hobbyist or prototyper it's generally just not worth the overhead.