MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by selivanovp | 2025-06-17 15:29:59+00:00
You're missing/mixing the concepts.

Conscripts army exists in Russia for decades, it's a mandatory service unless you are not fit due to some illness or due to higher education exceptions. Russia conscripts from every region proportionally to a population about 160k people every half a year (1 year mandatory service). These people do not participate in Ukrainian war directly unless they're part of the border guard and Ukraine tries to breach it.

And there's a professional army, with contracts. That's who is fighting in Ukraine. Conscripts after their mandatory service is finished may sign or not sign a professional contract. MoD hires soldiers in every region, pays good salaries, but this salary is very lucrative for periphery regions, but not as attractive compared to some jobs in cities like Moscow or St.Petersburg. Yet, they increased bonuses for two capitals compared to other cities. So, overall, most soldiers are not from Msk or SPb, but every region has enough volunteers so far to not mobilize.
by scblock | 2025-06-17 15:30:53+00:00
Renewables can absolutely provide and consume reactive power through the use of power electronics equipment incorporated into the inverters. All modern utility-scale wind and solar power plants use this type of equipment, and most interconnection requirements in the US require significant reactive power capability as part of the interconnection process. This may require additional reactive power capabilities such as capacitor banks, DVAR units, or reactors at the project substation.

This means if grid voltage drops they will provide VARs to increase voltage, and vice versa. They can similarly react to shifts in grid frequency. Only after they reach certain power factor, voltage, or frequency limits will they disconnect from the grid, similar to other generators.

If in spain renewable energy projects were somehow exempted from needing to provide a wide range of power factor capability then yes this would be a rules problem.

They charge more for inductive loads because of low power factors and significant VAR consumption yes, though you can also do power factor correction on induction motors. And though most wind turbines use induction generators, they are designed to be able to supply power at unity power factor and through a large power factor range.

Also, islanding means operating as a standalone grid, which does not happen when the generators shut down, and systems are designed to shut down after a certain number of cycles without grid. This does not sound like islanding at all.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-17 15:31:26+00:00
I see no reason why they wouldn't. Nobody wants an unstable grid and if it's renewables that ultimately killed the grid they'll want to know exactly why and how to prevent it in the future.

There are known problems with renewables, but there's also solutions that can be retrofit onto renewables to avoid those problems. Renewable power suppliers won't like those costs because it will cost money.
by beagle3 | 2025-06-17 15:32:38+00:00
The spectrum only had one mode: 256x192 1-but pixels, 32x24 palette (each 8x8 box had two colors, “paper” for a 0 pixel and “ink” for a 1 pixel).

Other computers of the time (C64, Apple II, BBC / Acorn) had distinct text vs graphics modes, although some had a user-defined font which kind of makes the distinction less firm.

But the spectrum only had a graphics mode.
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-17 15:32:48+00:00
And the whole lot bypasses your actual telco, so when you’re on your nation’s do-not-call register, you can’t even file a proper complaint, there isn’t even a number to report.

There is a solution even without changing app: disable RCS. Everything real is fine with SMS, so ads are the only casualty. I wonder if this stupidity helps kill the already-struggling RCS.
by MallocVoidstar | 2025-06-17 15:33:27+00:00
JPEG: No active patents, universal support, good enough.

HEIC: Have fun licensing this.

WebP: Slightly better than JPEG maybe, but only supports 1/4 chroma resolution in lossy mode so some JPEGs will always look better than the equivalent WebP.

AVIF: Better than JPEG probably, but encoders for AV1 are currently heavily biased towards blurring, even at very high bitrates. Non-Chrome browser support took a while.
by MyOutfitIsVague | 2025-06-17 15:33:46+00:00
I didn't say anything about "dangerous information". You may have misinterpreted the point I was making. It's not about dangerous information, it's about a personality that is very persuasive, can be wildly charismatic, and can convince people to do dangerous things they wouldn't otherwise do.

People don't join cults because of "dangerous information".
by sfn42 | 2025-06-17 15:33:59+00:00
I'm terrified of letting loose with alcohol because alcohol is a terrible drug. I've tried lots of different drugs and alcohol is in my opinion one of the worst. Culture pushes me to drink more (people buying drinks for me etc), and the more I drink the less concerned I am about moderation.

When I wake up the next day after taking it too far I'm riddled with anxiety and usually feeling sick, the whole day and maybe even the next day is ruined. And yes of course it's my responsibility to moderate my intake, it's just hard for me. The solution I've come up with is I try to never have more than 4-6 drinks in an evening.

I have experienced both myself and others saying and doing things while drunk that we never would have done or said sober. I have experienced myself and others being seriously injured solely due to alcohol.

There are other drugs that scare me the same way, particularly pills like benzos and such but I have never had a bad time with MDMA or LSD. It's much more of a "I love you man", "Everything is awesome" vibe. At least at the doses I use I'm completely lucid and in control, I'm just also having an amazing time.

Alcohol just makes me forget stuff, LSD and MDMA have given me some of the best memories of my life. I can't remember the last time I drank alcohol and woke up the next day thinking "last night was awesome". I've definitely had some good times with alcohol but the amount of bad times completely dwarfs them.

And again maybe this is all on me, maybe I just can't handle alcohol. But I'm definitely not alone.

If it wasn't for the social stigma and the fact that I generally don't want to associate with the people who supply drugs, I'd never drink alcohol again. I'd smoke weed and for special nights like festivals etc I'd use MDMA and maybe LSD.

The main thing to keep in mind if you want to try LSD is it lasts a long time. 8-12 hours, there is no off switch. Start with low doses, do half a tab or even a quarter tab. You don't need much, it's really powerful. A small dose will completely change your state of mind. If you like it, do more next time. Personally I don't really experience hallucinations, I'm completely aware, present and in control. Maybe patterns like wallpaper and leaves will seem to move and stuff like that, but aside from the dilated pupils you can't really tell I'm high. To me it's like seeing the world with new eyes, mundane things you pass by every day are suddenly interesting. Look at that beautiful tree. Look at your friends and loved ones, they're amazing. It makes me think differently, see things from a different perspective and be thankful for the things I take for granted in my daily life. It's awesome, I've done it maybe 20 times and I hope I get to experience it many more times. Just wish I could get it without buying from criminals.
by criddell | 2025-06-17 15:34:13+00:00
What is your ethical concern in this particular case. The remote work privileges seem to be setting him up for success after he leaves. The company he's working for doesn't seem to be unfairly exploiting his labor. This seems like a great success story for the Maine department of corrections. Who is being harmed here?

To me, it looks like a net benefit for the public, the department of corrections, and the inmate.

If you are worried about the inmate being allowed to build up savings that they can use when they are released, then that's on the judge. If the inmate has met their restitution obligations, then I don't have a problem with them being allowed to leave prison with savings that will enable them to get back on their feet again.
by amiga386 | 2025-06-17 15:34:51+00:00
1. For the most part[*], publishers on Steam use DRM, from kernel-level DRM which can crash and pwn your computer, to Valve's relatively lukewarm Steamworks., whereas GOG primarily (exclusively?) sells DRM-free games.

There are lots of ideological and practical concerns with DRM, I won't list them here other than to say game players want to be in control of their machines and their experience, not let game publishers control their machines.

2. Steam policy is that you can only run the very latest release of a game (it will update when you go online, and you can't remain offline forever). It takes away your choice to reject publishers bad updates - for example, when 2K forcibly added their marketplace/launcher malware to Bioshock games, breaking them on Linux, Steam was their henchman/goon forcing it on everyone.

[*] Not everbody! https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_g...
by cogman10 | 2025-06-17 15:34:53+00:00
Good comment and I do not disagree. I wasn't aware that the US had significant reactive power requirements (I'm guessing for utility scale solar).

> And though most wind turbines use induction generators, they are designed to be able to supply power at unity power factor and through a large power factor range.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that wind turbines did an AC->DC->AC dance to ultimately get the right power factors and frequencies.
by snozolli | 2025-06-17 15:35:23+00:00
AFAIK, MCGA has nothing to do with Mode-X. Mode-X was 320x240, and was achieved by manipulating VGA settings. MCGA supported Mode 13h, but I see no evidence that it could be manipulated to output 320x240 or that it supported planar memory, which is generally considered synonymous with Mode-X. In fact, from what I can tell, MCGA didn't have enough memory to support planar mode.
by pmahoney | 2025-06-17 15:35:47+00:00
Could be xscavenger?

> Scavenger is a cool arcade/thinking game very much like Lode Runner. You've got to run around and collect objects while avoiding enemies. Some objects are buried and you've got to dig down to get at them. It's an addictive game and some of the levels are devilishly (cruelly) complicated to solve.

https://linuxmotors.com/linux/scavenger/index.html
by vdupras | 2025-06-17 15:35:47+00:00
The human world runs on a gargantuan web of promises. What makes the bus driver sit there and drive is the tip of the promises iceberg. Layers upon layers of promises, leveraging each other.

The future has already been promised many times over and anyone trying to resolve those promises can only come to the conclusion of broken promises on a massive scale. This means a shrinking pie. A shrinking pie means conflict. A big enough conflict means collapse.
by ripe | 2025-06-17 15:36:19+00:00
Ha!

Your point reminded me of the NASA Mars rover deployed in 2021 with the little Ingenuity helicopter on board.

The helicopter had a bug that required a software update, which NASA had to upload over three network legs: the Deep Space Network to Mars, a UHF leg from Mars-orbiting robotic vehicles to the rover, and a ZigBee connection from the rover to the Ingenuity helicopter. A single message could take between 5 and 20 minutes to arrive...

Edit: I described this in an article back then:

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2021-04-18-install.html
by hshshshshsh | 2025-06-17 15:36:34+00:00
No. I don't feel suicidal. Actually completely opposite. I have never been more freer. To try new things and experiences.

I was not talking about meaning. I think it's a false assumption that you need meaning to have a fulfilling life. Meaning just creates a feeling. So you are really focused on the feeling and not the act itself or implications.

Like you don't want to do an act which is logically meaningful and feel depressed after doing it. You want to feel good after doing meaningful act. So it's all about feeling. And not meaning.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-17 15:36:41+00:00
Beyond the compression (which is amazing), JPEG is also extremely fast when implemented well. I'm not aware of any other image format that can encode at 60fps+ @ 1080p on a single CPU core. Only mild SIMD usage is required to achieve this. With dedicated hardware, the encode/decode cost quickly goes to zero.

I struggle to understand the justification for other lossy image formats as our networks continue to get faster. From a computation standpoint, it is really hard to beat JPEG. I don't know if extra steps like intra-block spatial prediction are really worth it when we are now getting 100mbps to our smartphones on a typical day.
by cwillu | 2025-06-17 15:36:47+00:00
> Strangely, they don't let you zoom out enough to grab a screenshot of the whole country so I'm going to look at the west. That'll get both urban and rural coverage, as well as several famously internet-y locations (San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle.)

Huh, worked fine for me: https://i.imgur.com/Y7lTOac.png
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-17 15:36:53+00:00
> The problem, put simply, is that renewables don't want to be reactive power sources. It requires additional equipment to properly determine what the frequency of the grid should be (some rely on flywheels, for example) and getting it wrong can be disastrous for the grid and equipment.

I sort of agree with you, but the motive I'm not sure I agree with. "renewables don't want to be reactive" doesn't feel right.

The challenge here is technical/control. There probably is no heuristic you can make at your home to know how to nudge the power phase/reactivity, or to supply less.

I think renewables probably could be enormously helpful and probably wouldn't mind, wouldn't be very hard for them to help shape the power!! They are vastly more flexible at inverting power than any other power source, are very readily programmable.

But most renewables don't have the whole grid view, would be guessing wildly based on local conditions that don't provide adequate information to show what's really happening to the power network.

I hope over time the idea of the Virtual Power Plant related infrastructure starts building good protocols, starts being able to ask for what it wants from who it wants, providing some of the coordination necessary to take advantage of the enormous flexibility that renewable power, with its digitally dictated power delivery, bring. I think renewables would be amazing and happy to help here, if there were better information flow.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-17 15:37:01+00:00
The argument is futile as the goal posts move constantly. In one moment the assertion is it’s just megacopy paste, then the next when evidence is shown that it’s able to one shot construct seemingly novel and correct answers from an api spec or grammar never seen before, the goal posts move to “it’s unable to produce results on things it’s never been trained on or in its context” - as if making up a fake language and asking it write code in it and its inability to do so without a grammar is an indication of literally anything.

To anyone who has used these tools in anger it’s remarkable given they’re only trained on large corpuses of language and feedback they’re able to produce what they do. I don’t claim they exist outside their weights, that’s absurd. But the entire point of non linear function activations with many layers and parameters is to learn highly complex non linear relationships. The fact they can be trained as much as they are with as much data as they have without overfitting or gradient explosions means the very nature of language contains immense information in its encoding and structure, and the network by definition of how it works and is trained does -not- just return what it was trained on. It’s able to curve fit complex functions that inter relate semantic concepts that are clearly not understood as we understand them, but in some ways it represents an “understanding” that’s sometimes perhaps more complex and nuanced than even we can.

Anyway the stochastic parrot euphemism misses the point that parrots are incredibly intelligent animals - which is apt since those who use that phrase are missing the point.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-17 15:37:13+00:00
> Who decides who has a legitimate claim to pronouns?

The normal people, of course. :eyeroll:

I just can't fathom giving enough of a shit that people different from me exist and are doing things I don't want to do, in places I am not, with people I am not.

Genuinely, get a life y'all. This is so sad at this point.
by Saris | 2025-06-17 15:38:05+00:00
Month view is the most useful for me since I can easily see what's coming up, and on what day by where it lies on the calendar grid.

Agenga view is not as useful for me because it doesn't allow quickly scanning events and knowing what is 1 week out, 2 weeks out, etc without stopping and thinking about the dates. Week based views don't show far enough ahead.

I find it amusing and strange that you dislike the view so much you think it should be removed from calendar apps, instead of just switching to a view you like in settings.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-17 15:38:59+00:00
Sometimes a format is simply just good enough. The gains that WebP may or may not have definitely do not get it over the hump of being so tied to a browser. AVIF is still very new, but other than the anim stuff, is it enough of an improvement to get people to switch. And that brings me to the entire corpus of existing files. A JPEG decoder will always be necessary based on the amount of preexisting files requiring it. If you have to support JPEG for some, might as well continue making new in the same format as well.
by no_wizard | 2025-06-17 15:39:42+00:00
EDIT: I was wrong, and had PNG and JPEG formats backward. As others correctly pointed out PNG is lossless where as JPEG is lossy. PNG is better for marketing / UI / artistic imagery and JPEG for photographs due to the tolerance for JPEGs lossy encoding with photographs, seems to be the generally accepted opinion now.

Regardless, since the picture tag[0] was introduced I’ve used that for most image media by default with relevant fallbacks, with WebP as default. Also allows loading relevant sized images based on media query which is a nice bonus

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
by emushack | 2025-06-17 15:40:23+00:00
My personal experience with suffering from water scarcity: Taking a loss on a crop of corn because the farm at the front of the ditch took more water than they were supposed to take. That same year, a ditch rider was threatened at gunpoint.

When your own personal livelihood depends on another business playing fair with water, these kinds of stories hit different.

It absolutely is a resource issue. It is also very much also a political issue.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-17 15:40:58+00:00
> I mean... They also can read actual documentation.

This 100%. I use o3 as my primary search engine now. It is brilliant at finding relevant sources, summarising what is relevant from them, and then also providing the links to those sources so I can go read them myself. The release of o3 was a turning point for me where it felt like these models could finally go and fetch information for themselves. 4o with web search always felt inadequate, but o3 does a very good job.

> In theory, all stackoverflow answers are just regurgitated documentation, no?

This is unfair to StackOverflow. There is a lot of debugging and problem solving that has happened on that platform of undocumented bugs or behaviour.
by BUILDERMARCUS | 2025-06-17 15:41:13+00:00
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by knowitnone | 2025-06-17 15:41:38+00:00
Your comment is snide and unnecessary. Do Chinese walk around thinking they want to be more American? No they don't. Americans certainly dont believe everyone is trying very hard to be like them - typically go about their own business. Chinese may be influenced by western shows and movies but everybody is influenced by the shows that they watch. Why do Americans need to think about the rest of the world? Do Chinese think about the rest of the world? Your hatred really shows in your comment.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-06-17 15:42:03+00:00
It's clearly both. But if I have a 1/100000 outcome, I can get maybe 500 conversions in France or the UK, but 3000 in the US. That makes a really large difference in terms of how many times your ad is shown to likely users.

But yeah, ML models do in fact work better in Indonesia and Bangladesh, but as you noted they have less money to spend.
by stewardyunn | 2025-06-17 15:42:08+00:00
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by bastawhiz | 2025-06-17 15:42:08+00:00
I bought a Tesla from Carvana in 2021. It was still linked to the previous owner, along with their card details. I could have pulled up to a supercharger and plugged in and charged on their dime.

This is frankly just bad customer service. Companies don't take it seriously as a problem because nobody is upset about it and it doesn't affect their bottom line.