skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My claim was about most college sports programs and that the universities don’t profit from sports programs. Div II and Div III programs are relevant to my claim. When there is profit it gets dumped back into the athletic department. The university as a whole does not benefit in most cases. Given the mandatory fees that students pay to athletic departments, the stadiums built by taxpayer funds the argument that college sports generates lots of money for the university as a whole is wrong.

Consider this. Take away the most profitable college sports program. Will that college be forced to increase tuition to cover the loss of money for non-athletic related expenses? The answer is no.
exactly, that's why I specified.
My blind guess is, 0x10000 is there for jit to kick in. It likely exploits edge cases in code generation (flow control optimization specifically).
What are your thoughts about this article[0], my reading or article is that; author fails in similar way (to some extent) as researchers and there's IRB in regards to ethics of such research.

[0] https://dave-dittrich.medium.com/security-research-ethics-re...
In that specific situation I find it very uncool. It's targeted only by C++, a language that is far too complex to have any business being used as a scripting language to make needles move on a virtual altimeter. You get all of the drawbacks with none of the benefits of a C++.
White People Keep Posing as People of Color for Clout
Right, but that's not relevant for 1:1 NAT (well, at least it doesn't have to be). Since the NAT would happen in software, you're no longer constrained by subnets being physically under routers. 11.2.3.0/24 could contain 10.0.1.0/24 and 10.128.128.0/24 without any issues, assuming they don't use in total more than 256 address.
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I’ve known a few people that had all of their photos backed up on USB flash drives. Once their main drives eventually died they quickly leaned that flash drives have a limited unpowered shelf life. I’ve seen family members cry. I tell everyone to use a real cloud backup services, rather than a home grown backups that everyone forgets to refresh.
Using it causes the heat. It is in an insulated container so the heat stays around for about 4 hrs I think he said.

So applying first charge must heat it to melting temperature but then it's working.

Then when you discharge it, electron flow cause heating again.
So if it is constant use it just works.
> the apology feels more like a justification

Which I'm guessing is why they made it an open letter. This isn't about acknowledging their misdeeds and trying to fix their relationship with the OS community, this is them trying to sneak in spin and justifications to a public announcement to cover their collective asses, to put forth a false narrative that shows their actions in a better light than they acted in.
The overwhelming majority of the HN comments seem critical of a party who... wrote and shipped code intended specifically to exploit the trust/naivete of others, to the others' detriment, for the offending party's career gain.

And which party then -- to add insult to injury -- didn't seem to appreciate the offense, when called on it.

IMHO, to examine this incident very seriously is appropriate and beneficial. If we ease up on the casting stones, and look at the problem a bit more generally, some of the lessons learned might hit close to home.
This interpretation looks flawed. You discredit the entire message based on a single word--a very general word whose meaning you pinned to a definition which results in the most negative interpretation--and you also ignore the fact that they explicitly state the damage it caused in the same paragraph.

To clarify: I'm not arguing this is a good or bad apology; just that the justification provided here looks flawed. Human speech isn't a programming language; it's not well defined and it's more than the sum of its parts. One can't derive conclusions about a text by analyzing a tiny subset out of context.
The claims were being made that net metering currently has a set of issues that makes the referenced policy a generous policy. The link provides seems plenty to refute that claim to me. You seem to be moving the goals posts here.

If you combine net metering with time based pricing, it seems like there is plenty of incentive for smart people like you to build energy storage and make money off of arbitrage.
Really nice! I noticed however that the verification email that gets sent to you after you register has the name/address of 'webmaster@local' rather than <username>@projectlovelace.net.

Speaking of registration, it would be nice if we could log in using our Google accounts (ie. Sign in with <service>), rather than make another account with your site.

Also it would be nice if the site picked up your preferred language of choice after you've done at least one of the problems. I like coding in javascript, but I have to select it from the dropdown list each time I go into a problem to solve, and sometimes I forget to do so (defaulting to Python instead)
Even so, when the whole watch is $24, it might be ok to lower your "ifixit score" expectations.
In WebKit, <details> was one of the first test-bed for (then non-exist) Web Components infrastructure. Before that, it directly manipulated the internal rendering tree, which is often error prone. Using higher-level primitive (Web Components) felt like a no-brainer but turned out to be a very tricky, took much longer to fresh it out. Because, after all, there was no such thing like Web Components!

Apparently this element is still implemented in Shadow-DOMy way [1]. So the effort was worth something after all, I guess.

[1] https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/ht...
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I don't think most people put enough emphasis on learning how to sell their talents. I always pick Albert Einstein as my example. Yes, he was brilliant and yes, he was a hard worker but the reason most people know of him is that he made sure that the media and the world knew it too. Most people know of him and know he was a genius but they don't really know why. He was so successful that generations after he died people still equate him with genius. He was a brilliant marketer in addition to his other accomplishments.

I truly believe that selling your talents is super important to get to the top and staying there.
Kind, generous, warm, infectiously enthusiastic, and always curious. I have long held kindness and curiosity as the highest of virtues and that's what comes to mind when I think of Dan, together with a crushing sadness at what we have lost.

This is a lovely moment I captured of Dan having a good time. I like 0:29 in particular, and wanted to share it with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4jRaetW7k0
> 0x10000 is there for jit to kick in

Correct. Only functions that are called often will get optimized.
This is how it should've been done. Like a war game (at least,as depicted in movies like Periscope Down), the organizers of the study and the project maintainers need to agree on (and be aware of!) bounds of the study, without necessarily knowing all of the details.
> lab tests conducted by Oxitec prior to the experiment suggested that around 3 to 4 percent of F1 offspring would survive into adulthood, but it was presumed these lingering mosquitoes would be too weak to reproduce, rendering them infertile

I'm not an expert in this type of thing, but that seems like a remarkably cavalier attitude towards the sterility of your transgenic mosquitoes.
They should be expelled. Their department chair should be sending the apology.
Blah, might as well mark this (1997). not even the original article from bigthink.com.

He's shared many more follow up comments about those predictions and how things are shaping up differently since
That's fine until the first time you have to rotate a password, at which point it devolves to, at best, a mnemonic device.
> What about on-site battery?

Typical systems don’t have a battery, nor do they need one.

The grid is used as the battery.

An off-grid solar installation is significantly more expensive.
> Scooters being dumped in the middle of a useful space is a function of there being literally nowhere to park a scooter. Sure, people are lazy and selfish, but they aren't so lazy that they'll continue to take the inconsiderate option if you give them a place to put the scooter.

I’ve seen devoted scooter parking in a few places including Stockholm and I’ve never seen any effect on the users’ habits of throwing them down wherever.
William Gibson says today’s internet is nothing like what he envisioned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22861129
> you can't just ramp up the supply of it.

nothing stopping demand from collapsing in a panic
> I agree with the grandparent. Externalities should be born by the company making the profits.

You ignored what I wrote. Wiping out investors is making externalities born by the company.

My statement has nothing to do with externalities. It’s about investors being on the hook a good thing.

The grandparent implied that poor investors lose their money on one hand and complain about externalities going to public on the other, which makes no sense. Holding companies, and subsequently shareholders, accountable for all of the company liabilities is the capitalist way.
Show HN: Jrnl-sync - Sync your jrnl.sh entries from iOS
To be clear, nostalgebraist has been doing ML professionally for years, so he's working with these APIs all day, every day. If he has a complaint about them, I expect it to be well-grounded in months-to-years of full-time experience, not just idle speculation that doesn't pan out in practice
It's true we only recently have been able to built equipment sensitive enough to measure them.

However, they were predicted in 1916 as part of Einstein's Relativity work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
> just letting it disappear is something that needs to be prefaced by an actual public discussion to do so.

Not really. Budgeted government programs can’t continue to exist without money. They are default dying without top-ups.
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This turned out to be one of few Web articles that talks about ZSL (Zero Shutter Lag). That part at least is worth a read even if you aren't interested in the image quality things.
I would bet it's less than 10,000 in the entire world.
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There literally are bingo cards, yes!

https://www.google.com/search?q=non+apology+bingo
Flutter is a UI framework on top of a low level programming framework, Dart. Sort of like UIKit and Cocoa.
The musttail attribute performs several checks to ensure that a tail call can be guaranteed, and rejects the program if these rules are violated. The documentation has the details: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/3b8ec86fd576b9808d...

These rules guarantee that the tail call is possible to perform on every platform. They end up being more strict than is necessary on some platforms and calling conventions.
It shouldn't be too hard to understand...

The more trackers you place, the more location data you have on that person. You could literally put thousands around a city at many different stores, gas stations, parks, etc.
Unless you live in the sunbelt, it will take more than a few years to recoup. Factor in replacing the inventor every 7 years, it becomes questionable, it also depends on your storage solution or local buy back program. Add an electric car to the mix and it becomes feasible.
But I think it still needs to become cheaper.
Mars and Earth send surface rocks to each other via meteor impacts that would almost certainly contain live bacteria spores. Life could have started out on Earth or Mars or both, but finding life on Mars won't answer your question on its own.

There are even theories that life on Earth was seeding from life from other solar systems, but that is much more unlikely and an in solar system transfer.

Check out scholar.google.com and search for "exchange of bacteria between mars and earth" or other similar phrases.
Right now, nuclear power plants generate approximately the same amount of power as all renewables combined (in the US). Don’t see why we wouldn’t invest in all proven and environmentally-viable energy solutions. Not to mention the reasons in the article.
Sure, it's indisputable. Tell the truth on the internet in China in some way that might interfere with the CCP, and you will be muted. It's terrible, but it's a done deal, a lost cause.

What bothers me much more is that westerners look past or even celebrate similar activities in the US when it suits them. For example, if a conservative speaks against the left in a way that might actually cause inconvenience, Twitter will fabricate a reason to suspend or ban them.

Recent examples? The NY Post's account was locked for a while when they were covering the Hunter Biden laptop story during the election. Twitter's reason? Violation of their "hacked materials" rule. The problem with that is simple: no one ever seriously thought that the materials were hacked, and indeed they weren't. More recently, James O'Keefe was banned after his exposes of CNN's biases. The alleged reason? Using multiple Twitter accounts (sockpuppets) for promotion. Nobody actually thinks it's true; coming up with a charge is just for appearances.

Twitter also silently degrades the follow-networks of conservatives. It also seems to artificially lower engagement with accounts they don't like; to hide replies of accounts they don't like; to automatically mark the media of accounts they don't like as "potentially sensitive" and thus hide them by default; to make arbitrary edits to the trending topics; to automatically annotate tweets with "officially correct" views and prevent liking, replying, or retweeting information deemed by Twitter to be wrong.

I often imagine HN as a cafe where hackers gather. In my mind, someone would be telling the other patrons about a new kind of Lisp, or the latest version of Bootstrap, or somebody's unconventional use of PHP, or some new thing Chrome is doing with cookies or whatever. And they might have to raise their voices and speak loudly because of the sound of clomping boots outside. But everyone knows that the gauchest thing you can do at the HN cafe is to acknowledge the sound of those boots, or to speak plainly about who's wearing them.

It's ironic that this comes from the NYT, because they're incontrovertibly part of the US version of the CCP that seems to be forming.
It's a misleading comparison. They are comparing the cost of an on-chain Bitcoin transaction to the immediate energy cost of a Visa transaction. On average, one on-chain Bitcoin transaction corresponds to 1000s of total transactions, since most transactions occur through L2s like exchanges, the lightning network, or PayPal. This L2 activity is written to chain batchwise, and only when necessary. And the article doesn't calculate the true total cost of running the Visa network, which also involves 10s of thousands of Visa employees and facilities, not to mention the energy consumed by the Federal Reserve in minting and recycling physical money, and preventing fraud and counterfeiting.
If someone, or in this case a set of affiliated someones, have proven to do malicious or ethically questionable things, trust has to be earned. The risk of letting things stay without extensive verification is not worth it and I definitely don't consider this a kneejerk reaction given the potential perception risks.
Why do drum sets have descending toms?
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They didn't have to write it if they wanted the whole university to stay banned.
Is a party line like an early version of Clubhouse?
This pattern may have changed or be different in different states, but I did participate in a project (about 15 years ago) where we essentially agreed to offline a very significant facility including a datacenter at short notice in exchange for a rebate and capital funds.

In our case I definitely recall most of those outages happening midday as it screwed up lunch. There were other factors as well (I think transmission efficiency diminishes as you approach capacity, so localized issues are a thing)
Wouldn't it be ludicrously short-sided and unfounded to say it's impossible? This seems like a non-story.
Any source for inverter life span only 7 years ?
I used to do this. It fell apart fast. Some websites require special characters and numbers and upper and lower case letters. Others actually prohibit certain special characters (weak SQL injection "prevention"). Some limit the length to 8 or 16 characters, others don't.

Then a random breach happens, and the website will force you to choose a new password.

I couldn't remember which variant of my rule I used at a particular website. This is aside from how easy my rule was to reverse engineer (which was made really clear to me once when I saw a couple of my PWs on haveibeenpwned
This hypocrisy from the folks arguing to reinstate this deduction is staggering.
As sorry as I am that he died, he was no celebrity or anybody of special status, just another statistic. My condolences but I wish I did not see the ugly black border on top.
Does the difficulty of knowing others not put something like this in the court of opinion?

I would expect it to be there and would minimize attempts to marginalize my apology with direct, precise, and inclusive language.

For every word created or omitted to those ends, the number of negative comments will be reduced.

Fact is people take it how they take it and feel what they feel.

There really is no "can't" in any of that.

...which is why the consistent feedback to those ends is here in the discussion.

How else is this to be done and be meaningful, not easily gamed?

Serious question.
Right but it's conceivable the default behaviour might change, the explicit one is quite unlikely to.
I usually find that debuggers are more useful in dynamic languages. As an example in python many bugs are due to an incorrect structure being passed into a method due to the method or input being underspecified/abused.

In such a case it's difficult to decide what to print or more particularly how to print it if it's type/shape is unknown.
> What stops the feds from brute-force querying the whole database?

What if the encryption was such that it took a computer ~ five minutes to decrypt the name?

That’s still a speed up over the current system, but makes brute forcing impractical as decrypting 100 million records would take about a thousand years of compute. It would also enable auditing of who is doing the decrypting and who is being decrypted.
>a small number of people

FWIW, it takes a vote score of -4 to kill your comment.
These are important, but for larger projects "speed" is often not a feature of print debugging when you need multiple iterations of refining your logging statements.

"Simplicity", sure ... it's difficult to beat the simplicity of not using tools.
The developers likely see a systemic problem, not just this group. That very significantly expands their scope of action.
Not OP but in NorCal (BayArea) is about $3/what. My 9.4kw system is generating about 55kwh a day right now. Because of the mild weather we've had, the last day we used more net power from the grid (than we produced) was March 18.
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Your belief is the basic reddit tier intelligent belief: Bogglehead, Vanguard, blahblah. I used to believe what you believed too.

Please reread your comment and realize that it also disproves the ability to make money in business (ie non financial markets) consistently other than thru luck and that the efficient market theory is a hypothetical never-reached endstate.
Rather than investigating this story (Which I did read up to a point and then skim) I checked out the website. It strikes me as being somewhere between X-Files, The History Channel, and Popular Science. None of those are complimentary, in my book.
Except it mentions C# as a loved language, which far up there in terms of legacy/enterprise-y.
Not really.

Well constructed apologies are hard to seethe over.

This one could be better.

Many, myself included, believe it should have been.
If this was a transcript of a spoken apology I might be of your train of thought, but this was a composed letter looked over by (ostensibly) multiple folks. The wording was a choice.
>>Everything from banks through insurance companies through delivery companies to media groups is owned by people formerly involved with state security.

Carry over from the massive corruption created from handing control over the entire population to the state bureaucracy, in the name of creating a non-exploitive communist economy.
Hugely. A few of the main factors that will determine your payoff time:

- Subsidies.
- Cost of labour. How much do you need to pay to install the panels?
- Your energy usage patterns. If you use a lot of energy when the sun is shining, your panels will pay themselves off faster.
- Cost of transmission of energy. How much does it cost to get the energy from the generator to you.
- Cost of energy. How much it costs to generate energy where you are.
- Location. Proximity to the equator, annual sunshine hours, shading, panel angle.
It's amusing that in the US, the people who are most upset about this are largely the same people who argue most strenuously for Twitter to do more censorship.
That loss is accountability in action.

Agency returns as trust does.
This would be more palatable than "We're going to install these panels after you buy then and provide x warranty". I've had 3 solar companies come give us prices on our house. If the company folds/disappears then the warranty doesn't mean squat and if there is any breakage after that happens, we're likely to end up in the red.
Yes, this is really the crucial thing about solar. It scales, in all directions, from small to large.

Production capacity is scaling too, though just barely at the edge of what we need. I really wish that governments would commit hard to decarbonization of the hydrogen market (including ammonia for fertilizer), through solar/wind + elctrolyzers. The only thing stopping further scaling of production capacity is the demand side of things. Having an extra 50-100 GW of solar production to decarbonize industry would really speed the climate transition. But until there's the guaranteed market for it, the market is going to develop very slowly until green hydrogen is cheaper than natural gas as an input.

Germany pushed solar along when it wasn't cheap, greatly accelerating the fall off solar prices. All governments should push industrial chemical process decarbonization together.
Everyone knows that happens. The issue is that these are presumably university funded researchers who intentionally tried to introduce vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel without working with the maintainers. It is fine to perform experiments like this, with permission. I think people are upset because there is a moral, ethical and social obligation expected from academia to not intentionally do shit like this.

They then published a paper and thought that this was acceptable behavior from a research/ethical standpoint.
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Seeing that 6502 reminds me that ARM also provides a free (restricted license) version of the Cortex-M0 and M3 cores in Verilog format...
Yes indeed!

I need to make a vector display. I have CRTs and just need to find the time. They are my favorite.

But, I do really like this project. It is pretty great art.
I don't think any serious free market advocate thinks the government doesn't have a place in restricting and producing negative and positive externalities, respectively.

A free market generally means one where one's control over their person and private property is not restricted as long as that control is not being exercised to violate other's equal right to their person and private property, and to the commons.

But other than definitions, I agree with you.
English football clubs to switch off social media accounts for four days