skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, let's say I'm a consumer in Texas, and the power company says, "Here's the power plan - there's no flat plan because we don't have to offer you one. But there's plan A which will charge you exorbitant prices when we want to, and there's an even more expensive plan B, but plan B comes with its own alarm system so you will know when the price is skyrocketing. The alarm will activate maybe once in next ten years, and you will just have to trust us that it will work when it needs to."

Then, being a good free-market consumer, I should of course choose plan B... wait, there's no regulation, so there's no reason for me to believe plan B actually works as advertised. So of course I should pay $$$ to hire an auditor who goes through the company's infrastructure and certify that what they're saying is actually correct. Actually, the auditor had better keep an eye on the company from now on, because even if plan B is will-maintained now there's no guarantee that it will continue to be.

But of course I can't afford such an auditor by myself - it would be really convenient if there's an organization that I can join, with a bit of membership fee, and then it certifies these plans, and maybe they need to have some actual teeth, because otherwise how would we know the company isn't lying its ways through.

Hmm, this free market is getting really complicated, it might be nice if there's some kind of blueprint, let's say, a prototypical organization that takes membership fees and holds these companies responsible for their words ...
Wait, wait, let's not give the wrong impression. Yes, you can recycle PLA to an extent but you can't mix it in with your recylables. Few cities can recyle PS, much less PLA or at least they aren't set up to handle it.

If you are curious about the tech, sure, it's recyclable. For practical purposes you may as well throw it in the trash ahead of time and avoid contaminating the recycling. Plus if you try to put it in most commercial composting it will not degrade enough to be usable and has to get removed to avoid damaging the compost. So if you happen to not have the right kind of composting facility you can't handle it.

Yeah, it's on paper no worse than other plastics, but you have to have a plan to handle it -- it's not just a thing you can toss in the recycling bin.
That's a lesson many CS or maybe even all STEM grads have to learn at some point. Especially politics is more complicated than any code you can design.

There is quite a bit of elitism when programmers talk about real-life events but admittedly less here on HN than in many other forums.
> Evidently they thought she should have accepted death from the incorrect spacecraft orientation rather than embarrass any managers on the ground.

For those Marxists on HN.
Overall, yeah. And it may be changes in the settings too.

More and better content driving chroma harder = lower setting.

On a reasonable VCR, and a good display, noise tends to come up more than color loss accumulates.

Also, people would back off on the color some anyway. The resolution was not all that great. Driving it hard, like we are used to now may well wash away some detail.

This all improves on a CRT with good analog circuits.
I wonder what the next movement will be that recreates the same emotions and feelings that earlier mailing groups, kernel hackers, and slow internet created. Some sense of discovery and pushing the envelope.
Is there a free capitalism nation on earth today? Is such a concept even sustainable in practice?
I'm seriously disappointed in HN when the only responses to consumers getting $16K power bills are them getting blamed or instructed on how to live without electricity.
If this assertion was universal true there would be no need for regulations ever
Thanks. On reflection, I have something that identifies as "9.5" but it might be 9.5B. I've found C32_B.ZIP and I suppose I can try to compare it against the install. I'm quite confident I don't have 9.5A!

I've been watching eBay for years and only ever see boring SQL products and the same tshirt.
Every website has the ground changing under it whenever browsers update to a new version.

This usually doesn’t break much because browser vendors are pretty conservative about changing features that are in wide use. I guess that’s one way of restricting changes to foundational components, but maybe not what you meant?
No other state operates its own grid, this is a unique "feature" of Texas trying to avoid federal energy regulation in the 70s.

The US (minus Texas) is split in to an Eastern and Western grid, so that a single doomsday event can't knock the entire country offline.
There's no proof they can't handle Global Warming, which supposedly was the biggest risk.

Wind power (the lack of it, rather) did enough damage. If it was up to these fanatics from the NYT it would have been worse (and more expensive).
Energy is the baseline fundamental for everything. Wars have been fought for this precious resource.

Currently we get it from fossil fuels, which is running out, heavily pollutes, and destroys the natural ecosystem. Nuclear was discovered, but it’s super complicated to handle and radioactive. Renewables are hit and miss, and must require a massive energy storage system in battery or water storage potential energy. Solar doesn’t always shine. Wind doesn’t always blow.

But in space, energy is infinite. For as far as we can see.

The problem is getting up there, and bringing it back down to earth.

But, what if we can harness it? In the form of solar collectors, and beam it back down to earth as microwaves or lasers. We can have vast fields of microwave collectors that can convert this energy back into electricity. Or laser receptors that can convert the laser back into electricity. No more pollution. No more environmental degradation. What you get is pure, clean, energy. All year round, day or night, rain or snow.

The challenges are great. The impossibilities are high. But the consequences of not achieving this is far worse.
I also would suspect this sort of minor incident is much more common than most people realize.

When you have no passenger injuries these things don't usually make the news.
How is this legal? Most countries in the world disallow holding more than 2 citizenships. Do these countries know your kids are holding four? If they do not, they need to be informed.
This is very well written. Technical writing is difficult. I wish I could clone the author.
Programming paradigms that every Java developer should know
What do you need this wealth for?

Bear in mind that wealth is relative. The differences in cost of living are dramatic between countries so a much smaller wealth in one country can be much larger in another.
The error is explicitly awaiting for the result; "sending tasks" to the future is the correct way, and corresponds to "then" in Promise.
She continues to be regime supporter. A disgusting character.
Happy to see a controller here. Thanks for all the clearances. :)
“ - it’s a battle between two rival monopolies“

While I was reading this article I was reminded of the phenomenal book by Tim Wu, The Master Switch. Facebook is a “new”technology-monopoly that appears to be working to supplant an “old” technology - the news industry, but the news industry won’t die.
So.. invent faster than light travel, go to a distant planet rotating around a distant star, to find a bunch of friendly advanced aliens, that will bequeath us some advanced teleportation technology?
Show HN: Extension to tag/group people you follow on social media
Arara: the cool TeX automation tool
It actually follows in line with one of his beliefs that ‘money is just a number in a computer’:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/mu...

People think Tesla is overvalued and obsess over the price. Well, you know, what is a price really? Is it anything? If you believe that you can toy with the idea and pump crypto or wsb.
You hate ERCOT for disincentivizing oversupply?
I would schedule a solar panel and PowerWall install ASAP. That way I could survive "on my own", at least for a while.
Have you seen what lithium mining does to the earth? If you haven’t, I suggest you check it out. EV cars are not the answer.
This looks really good - will be using this today!
After their ridiculous article on Scott Alexander, it's become hard to trust anything they write.
I was thinking bigger.

Suppose you wanted to settle in a different continent. Country outside of the US or the EU.

Suppose some issue happened in your country or region that you did not agree with?

Suppose you wanted to give up EU or US citizenship.

Multiple passports give you damn options.

A French passport is hardly the “right one”.

The whole world is not the euro or anglo countries. There is plenty out there to enjoy or explore or move to.

You should check out the Nomad Capitalist channel on YouTube for an even wider view on all of this.

Open your horizons.
Modern cultures have substantially reduced their use of tobacco and alcohol, have reduced their birthrate below replacement, cut 95% of trans fats out of their diets, and use practically no tetraethyl lead and no DDT at all.

We don't have to continue using endocrine disrupting plastics either. It can't be a blanket ban, we use them in too many places. But they can be phased out.
Learn to use a real debugger, not just print() statements

Breakpoints, value peeking, step into, step over are incredibly value especially on larger blocks of code
Great! Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any question or roadblock.
I would be happy to give a link to your implementation in the readme of the C++ reference implementation.
Leeroy Jenkins-ing for my righteous and grayed-out brother steve76:

Green energy kills. They killed the coal industry, along with a lot of sick and elderly folks. China and India get to build a new coal plant a day. Americans pay them billions. And Americans die because zero sum lawyering fools have no soul are a happy to take money from marxists, dictators, jihadis and other crooks, grinding up their own people and selling what comes out.

Knowledge exists in things that are built. When you tear it down because you are using the law to become a movie star, you loose all that knowledge. People long ago knew about windmills and natural gas. There's a reason why they used something else. Natural gas is dry, very difficult to seal. What's the carbon footprint of fixing all those mistakes? You would have been better to just leave it alone, but then no one would want anything to do with you.

And you talk about regulations. How about we dive deep into that. Who do you think writes those? The apex predators of the markets you are regulating. The regulations will shore up pensions that go to organized criminals, and foreign aid for gender studies in Pakistan. They'll find some fool to slap the green energy fraud label on it, and rolling brownouts nationwide.

Our leaders are owned by people who hate America. They are outright hostile to Americans and now are openingly killing them at home for money. Won't be long until the push the button on the entire nation, and crude adolescent Maoists use what's yours as their summer home.
OK, I get it :)
The subtle nature of this topic drives this rule of thumb for me: Carefully consider each dependency you use, and if you need it. In Python, JS, and to a lesser extent Rust, it's common for articles to recommend dependencies to do things that can be done in a similar fashion without. This seems harmless at first, but leads to the problems described in the article, especially as the number of dependencies increases.

Another guideline: Avoid dependencies that have many dependencies of their own.
I mean, I think it should be more probable that most people would prefer living longer over not, considering the fact that, at any given moment, most people do prefer to continue living.

That in our society wanting immortality is somehow the "fringe" view (not to mention often depicted as evil) is pretty crazy IMO.
> I don’t know what it is about Europeans on American websites

What American websites?
> Our acquiescence of death is the greatest tragedy ever and collectively we ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

Death is a tragedy for relatives of the deceased but for society it is the most rejuvenating thing one could imagine. Change is so much easier when old ideas just die out.

Immortality/longevity might be great on an individual level but it is stagnation and death on a societal one.
I never thought it but to be fair some of the documentary content is pretty solid on Youtube. A silent video of a street food vendor preparing a meal is more than enough to keep me occupied for hours on end.

I unfortunately fell for one of those 'exclusive' docu streaming services and within minutes wanted to get a refund.
The thread shows how supply chain attacks are difficult with Debian: random people cannot really contribute to something like Apache 2 because they need to be sponsored by a Debian developer and they are being asked to do "boring" stuff before that, like triaging bugs and fixing them.

The RFH is mostly here to get more people involved, by the maintenance of Apache2 in Debian is going well and the latest version is currently packaged: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apache2.
I actually rarely read the actual article and only read comments, lol.
> We are talking about moderately intelligent people who will never contribute anything meaningful to humanity.

I have to disagree here. The bulk of humanity consists of minor contributions made by people few will ever remember.
These figures are influenced by real estate prices, equity market prices, exchange rates, liabilities, debts, adult percentage of the population, human resources, *natural resources* and capital and technological advancements, which may create new assets or render others worthless in the future.

Sorry dude, but my country’s vast stores of natural resources don’t exactly help me afford my mortgage payment next month.

That list certainly doesn’t reflect the average person’s disposable wealth. I’ve lived in two of the countries that rank “higher” than the US and in no way is the average person more wealthy. Not even close. In fact I’d say the average person in one of those countries has about half the disposable wealth of the average American.
>like even nvidia do now.

Nvidia does so kicking and screaming, because 1) they have no choice but to abide by the GPL for things that use kernel internals, and 2) Since they make money from linux, at least in the HPC/ML space, they want users to at least be able to see the screen light up so that they can install the proprietary stack.

The lawnmover analogy is apt for most companies.
Really interesting story. This guy is a true hero, attacking corruption in a sad but powerful way.

> “I hope this will make a change in this world. I hope you can keep simple and stay honest in this society. I will bless you in another world.”
This achievement, solely made possible by the OpenBSD team, does not contradict that statement about Apple, in any way.
News Corp should be broken up. Their propaganda brought us Brexit, and installed a US president and Australian prime minister.

The US should reinstate media ownership rules (as Australia recently attempted until News Corp blocked it).
How the lack of comments on Tumblr impacted fandom
dtrace/strace
"There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle."
"They can't ignore you" met a similar, if ironic, fate.
I have a large collection of commercial tapes from the 1980s and have not noticed any degradation. I have picked up degraded tapes from the thrift store, though. I suspect it depends on storage conditions.

Another thing to mention is that the VHS tapes generally give a much nicer image than DVD. Tapes have better tonal range and lack other compression artifacts.
> In this case, something obviously went awry and it's both engineering, planning, and a miracle no one died or was crushed from debris from above. [...]

Yes, though even something going wrong doesn't necessarily mean that we'd need to change any procedures.

Sensible procedures bring risks down to acceptable levels at an acceptable price. That level of risk is generally still more than 0%.
How do you fix a broken hardware sensor in Software?

Wasn’t that the initial problem?
But Americans already pay absurdly low prices for energy compared to us Europeans who are not exactly wealthier. The problem with Americans wanting to "copy" us is that they don't want to understand you have to pay noo, Bill Gates only paying exactly cut it.
Blu-Ray is unforgivable. It is a straight-up anti-consumer technology. The Stranger Things season 1 Blu-Ray contains an unskippable, 5 minute long trailer for season 2 which contains spoilers for season 1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/crqx8r/the_s...
Thought experiment - one day aliens come to earth. It turns out they have incredibly long lifespans (practically immortal by our standards). They also have very very few children. This kind of setup has been imagined in plenty of SF novels.

This kind of scenario seems to contradict your post. Here are options that I see, which do you think is correct (or am I missing something):

1. This kind of scenario, while fun to imagine, is actually impossible. They can't actually be happy without children or with such long lives.

2. This kind of scenario is certainly possible for aliens, but impossible for humans specifically.

3. You would actually recommend to the aliens to die after 100 years instead, as that would make their lives more meaningful.

4. Something else...?

Also, to answer one specific point you raise:

> People imagine that life extension would mean that people would have time to see the world, to read every book, etc. But that’s not what makes most people happy.

I mean, sure, I imagine what would make me happy if I lived forever. But I'm perfectly happy if most people did more of what made them happy, and I'm perfectly aware that doesn't mean most people would read Shakespeare. Who cares? Let them read / watch / do whatever they want, just like they do in life right now. Most of what I enjoy wouldn't make most people happy, and it's not reading Shakespeare either.
Why is glass recycling bad for the environment?
Yes, and keeping up with these changes is a treadmill, for developers.

They also statically link binaries, though, and an old binary could be in production for a while if the product isn’t being worked on.

The popularity of Docker files shows another way of freezing dependencies.

The general principle here is that changes get tested during the release process. You’re not creating new combinations of dependencies and running them in production without testing.

(Well, within the same binary, at least. Servers talking to each other over the network may be unexpected combinations.)
Ask HN: Linux:How to protect mp4 file from copying but being able opened to play
I have a problem. For some reason a good mathematician wrote the solution to it in Python. Works great. Now I want to use that solution, which is very complex, tens on thousands of lines in Python, in another language because I also need speed and Python is solving that solution in too much time.

What choices do I have? One would be to rewrite the solution myself using provided Python code as base. Second would be to get the Python code compiled in a .dll(Win)/.so(Lin) and use it.

Can above poisons do that for me? Answer: NO. I tried all 3 already, they do. not. work.

Otherwise I can definitely call Powerpoint2Exe an interpreted language too since it can generate a standalone executable.
I enjoyed reading your comment, contemplating over our similarities and differences. I also got some experience as an EMT, and a military medic before that.

My latest foray before the current re-attempt, I was only able to secure part-time EMT positions, (volunteer with pay), but to get to a position with a regular schedule that would fit my other obligations would require going to more school than I could do at the time.

Whenever one talks about medicine / patient care with fellow practitioners, it is also fascinating to note how different we all are and that the field can accommodate many, of those willing to pay the price.

EMT to the general populace was not something for me, I found dealing with families in distress more emotionally draining than any unconscious patient, regardless of their state. So what would work for me, it appears, is either work removed from patient family interaction, or medical systems work, whatever it may be (innovation, tech collaboration with surgeons, etc. They are starting to use 3d modeling side-by-side during surgery now, etc)

Yes, the family is probably in the worst stress of their life, and, if you have the luxury, one aims to include them in your care protocol, attempting to at least assess their level of distress so they don't suicide or collapse in the next 24 hours, but you also have a huge ticking clock for the primary patient...
Their problem really was a lack of situational awareness / crew resource management.

As they did shut down their perfectly well working engine instead of the broken one. Obviously that’s not improving your situation in any way.
> In practice, people on salary often work more hours, not fewer hours. (When I had a corporate job, one manager once joked to me "I make less than minimum wage for the hours I put in.")

How I wish that stuff like this, instead of being worn like a badge of honor, was seen as a dunce cap.

Why _the hell_ would you work more than agreed to?
> I get your point, but no. This is the type of thinking that led to the stagnation of the auto industry.

I'm sorry, I don't follow. In what way?

> Why not roll out EVs that easily? The most profitable case company is doing it.... why would anyone go anything else?

I'm all in favor of rolling out EVs. I'm in favor of new technical innovations. I'm in favor of better regulations. In short, I'm in favor of doing many things at once to combat one of our biggest emergencies.
Unicorn BigBasket bullies startup dailybasket.com with cease and desist letter
> Most countries in the world disallow holding more than 2 citizenships.

Do you happen to have a reference to back this up?
This is really shocking and heart breaking. Really angry that University of Florida did nothing and the professor is still in the position and giving speech.
How will FRS users cause harmful interference on the ham bands? I think FRS is pretty amazing for what it is. It builds confidence if practiced in its simplicity and there are FRS neighborhood nets run by ham radio operators as well.

I was surprised to find that during an emergency, FM broadcast reception alone can be an awesome solution for many, if not most. Some friends wandered over to my ham shack to ask if that was where the action was, but most of my information came from the local public/NPR station's hourly reports. (The ham repeaters were useful for hyper-local fire spotting, and generator/gear questions.)
And often pretty silly and stupid human errors.

(That's a feature, not a bug! The pervasive checklists and general professionalism mean that most 'normal' human errors are recovered from without enough consequences to make it into the news.

So only the really unlucky and incompetent are what we usually hear about.)
I have been using an iPhone for two years, and I have seen my share of "your iPhone is infected, click here to scan" ads, which pointed to a dubious app in the app store. An app that I had no way to report as fraudulent, by the way. I'm not sure your grandfather wouldn't have installed that app. Or other similar apps, for the matter.
This is super predictable behavior in storm areas like Texas. Hurricanes come, everyone goes for gas, places start to run out of gas, nobody can raise rates, they run out of gas. Even a double normal price could easily pay off a much larger tank.