skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're ignoring our active participation in it. It's not about the state's role in it per se, so much as, like I've said previously, the fact that we are choosing to directly end someone's life.

And innocent people don't die in car accidents, unfortunate people do. People who get executed are deliberately executed.

It's as 0 cost as you can get. It's not a hugely expensive process, courts can just not sentence people to death. It's not like we're sticking these people on a huge conveyor belt that's impossible to remove them from.

> Not to mention the fact that these people who are sentenced to death incorrectly aren't being set free, they're likely still spending decades in prison.

And? Because we've wronged them somewhat, it's ok that we wrong them further? What sort of logic is that?
Cannot stop thinking the web was sold as a better and cheaper business model due to false understanding of digitalization as the amount of caveats is getting ridiculous. We keep having to walk on eggs for everything and get regular bad surprises.
100% in agreement with this comment. All the tidal energy projects that I've seen to date except the very first ones were simply subsidy grabs or even outright scams.

Highly annoying to see ideas that were - solidly - discredited decades ago come back in a slightly different guise for a re-run.

Based on past performance I predict that this setup will right up until the first major breakage, after which it will be uneconomical to even salvage it.

The temptation of the tides is easy to understand: the power is immense, it is essentially the power inherent in the gravitational attraction of the moon orbiting the earth conveniently transferred onto a moving fluid. So on paper it is trivial. But that's where it stops being simple. The forces being immense is also a force that tries to destroy your gear. Corrosive salt water is the nastiest working fluid you could pick outside of acids. The wind & the waves combined can really stretch the limits of engineering (I've seen a minor bit of water hammer effortlessly flip an 8 cubig meter concrete cube right across a dam, like a 2x2 lego brick only slightly larger and heavier).

The 'head' compared to most hydro installations is limited (though in some locations it can be of usable height), the flows are hard to trap without interfering with the rest of the environment and so on.

As a 'mere matter of engineering' it is probably one of the hardest jobs you could tackle including going to space, the ocean is an extremely dynamic environment and near the ocean shore that is even more true.

And finally, to be economical such an installation has to work for a very long time after initial deployment because it is very hard to work on once deployed.
Just to nuance the nuance...

We do not have an alternative to petrol based plastic for our current economy. Yes, we can make plastic from non-fossil biomass, but it's energetically feasible to replace petrol based plastics. We don't have the landmass, fertilizer, ... to switch completely. (Especially, if you consider the big picture: Biofuel, carbon sinks, food security, ...)

In a way petrol chemistry bought the planet some time before being destroyed by us. It saved the whales and prevented ecological exploitation in the colonies.

Since plastics are used amass not just for stupid junk, but also critical for e.g. medical single use items, sanitation and so on, we shouldn't just think about pollution. Although the thought of eating up to 7g of plastics a day doesn't sit right with me. (Little known side fact: It's not just obvious "plastics", silicone and paint does contribute to microplastic accumulation too.)

Our survival very much also depends on preserving oil reserves for essential use cases of petrol chemistry. Carbon neutral alternatives for many things usually come with an increase in another factor (energy, land use, non renewable resources) which makes them in concert unable to replace fossil energy/chemistry.

Resist.

REDUCE.

Reuse.

Recycle.

Rebury.
I would tilt at windmills, tilting at tidal power is a waste as the projects always sink.
The article is missing several operators that are useful. Like inurl:, intitle:, allintitle:, etc.

The "AROUND" proximity search is neat as well, especially for words with dual meaning. like:

bootstrap AROUND(6) cpu

Finds "bootstrap" within 6 words of "cpu", which culls out most (not all) of the unwanted results about the bootstrap js library.

This article seems to cover most of the ones I'm aware of: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/

Edit: Changed around(6) to AROUND(6). Apparently the lowercase version doesn't work, as it's highlighting the word "around" in the results.
Framed? That is a completely stupid thing to believe, and I have never heard it suggested by anybody except you. The problem here is not those boogeymen that don’t exist. It’s you. And now me because I’ve dragged myself down to your level.
Googling is important, and I hear it everywhere, but in my opinion "deep work", learning the basics, and focus is just as important.

You can't google yourself out of every situation. You must be willing to dive deep into a topic, read a lot, think and understand things well.

What googling often means is that you just open on the top 10 hits, scroll through, read two paragraphs, and if the solution is not immediately clear, you go to the next page...
Wave has obvious problems with mechanical wave action and corrosion quickly destroying any machine you leave in the waves, access and maintenance. It's unsurprising this is very difficult to scale and it does seem a dead end.

Tidal energy does seem like in principle it should work without many moving parts at all save the turbines, which don't have to be metal. Is it the turbines themselves which are very difficult to maintain in salt water?

This one is a floating design, which isn't ideal for maintenance, but I imagine at a large enough scale a dam between two bits of land with turbines in it would work - something we already do with hydro power and fresh water, and a concrete dam with access tunnels would solve a lot of problems with access and maintenance.
This definitely feels like an engineer's approach to marketing.
This and the John Deere bug posted earlier make me a bit concerned over the accumulating evidence of unreliable software ruining people's lives...

What can be done? Mandatory audits, pen testing?

If this is an organizational problem, more vacation? limiting overtime? rethinking employee incentives?
The decision that people think about most is when to upgrade (by definition it stretches over a longer time period than the single point purchasing decision).

That's why we have iPhone 7/8/9...13 and similarly for Samsung etc.

If your i3/i5/i7 designation gives no clues then that's not helpful.
I prefer the touchpad on my Surface Book 2 to the one on my Macbook Pro (2019). The one on my Macbook is comically huge, and I also am not in love with the feel/click noise compared to the Surface Book. YMMV.
Owning music is made much more difficult now that the ability to use it has been greatly diminished. Many new cars don't even come with CD players. Sure, there are work arounds, but I think that moves us beyond a measure of "convenience".
Consumer auto has different problems it needs to solve. A vision based system would be a waste of an investment when you have a field with basically no obstacles, and certainly no people and cars and traffic signs. It's closer to an aircraft autopilot in that respect.
Sued for making things with Lego!! That would be ironic.
> "Ambulance chasers" (a terrible slur that looks down on weak victims pursuing justice), offer their services in a competitive market.

I wonder how other countries get by without "ambulance chasers". The only country I know that has them is the US, and their existence is the sign that something is fundamentally wrong.
Yeah I get that it has logic (though by being pedantic, anything we can write a parser for has logic, but I’m sure we could create some stupid languages), but as you yourself note, not very intuitive. And as far as I know, it doesn’t ease the work of parser-writers.
Let us search about the Gutenbergian cartel for time limited ink prints.
I think it's harder to become better backwards compatibly, and that for that reason it is unlikely java will ever catch up to some of the most compelling good (in my opinion) decisions Kotlin made. But your point is a good one and you may have convinced me that my guess is wrong about Kotlin for this reason.
Well Norwegians are probably over represented than their share of the world population would suggest:

1. Northern Europeans tend to speak excellent English. Flawless English is the norm, anyway much better than people from my native countries.

2. Northern Europeans tend to have excellent technical skills compared to the world average.

While both points help y’alls participation in HN, I think point 1 is the most important of the two. I rarely encounter comments from native Japanese or Koreans, even though their populations are much larger than Norway’s. Typically the commenters have since moved to the US. I do, however, encounter non-IT ppl on HN that are very curious (and typically have interesting backstories). I especially enjoy the occasional comments from diesel mechanics.

But you also have a strong observational bias. While the probability of seeing a Ferrari isnt too low the P of seeing two Ferrari’s next to each other is very low... unless you happen to be driving one of the two Ferraris. Add to that that a car lover (ie Norwegian) is much more likely to notice the Ferrari (other Norwegians).
Back in 2017 I supported a Kickstarter for Foldscope - The Origami-inspired Paper Microscope. I got a classroom package and they are still in use for all I know.

Foldscope is analog and priced to fit low income countries STEM needs but this Lego hack is nice too.

[1] https://www.foldscope.com/
I'd suggest to change the editorialized submission title, as it predisposes people to share opinions that can easily be unrelated to the article's contents in question.
I have seen designs where moving tidal water compresses and pushes air inside a concrete structure to move air turbines. Any idea about those projects?
I looked into the eGPU for the same reason, to have a single machine to do it all. In the end I got a separate machine as it was cheaper to do so (!!) and saw people having lots of issues with eGPU support. I couldn't believe the price on those eGPU enclosures.

How was your experience? I bet it was nice just plugging in and getting all that extra power.
Form factor and build quality are not something AMD can control by making a better CPU architecture.
I want to clarify, that i argue against Bitcoin and not against cryptocurrency. I can imagine a world with a Crypto-Euro which doesn't has any gold equivilent anymore and works on some blockchain technology but is controlled / signed through central banks (like every central bank of every european country) which would also solve the energy issue.

Your transparency argument, while flaws have been shown from the other person commenting on it, is too much transparency. No one wants to have all transactions publicly available. It could make sense to use it for public funds.

I argue against Bitcoin itself as an independent tool and the power consumption of bitcoin and i don't think we need to spend that much Energy on Bitcoin right now to do further research on blockchain and crypto currencies.

I have never thought about how to write my arguments shorter as no-one every brought it up. But online also makes it quite hard to have a common ground. I will try to be more aware of this.
> "Apple contends that '[n]o reasonable consumer would believe' that purchased content would remain on the iTunes platform indefinitely,"

Weasel-worded legal arguments like this is why I don't use Apple Music, Spotify, Youtube Premium or anything where the final product is not a DRM-free file sitting on my hard drive.

As much as Blockbuster is considered a dinosaur, you could buy and sell used games and movies there. If you bought something, it was yours. There was no retroactive disappearance because Blockbuster no longer had the rights for that movie or TV show.
> I don't think we take software reliability seriously enough, most of our focus is on speed of release, ever quicker cycles and it being OK to break things. This culture ruined these peoples lives. Things must change. This isn't a unique issue to Fujitsu it is something most of the software industry is doing, this story could be about just about any piece of software.

Damn straight. I'm really big on software Quality. It's kind of my driving passion.

It has been my experience, that an attitude of Quality is actively discouraged in today's "rush to a crappy, lashed-together-with-baling-wire-and-bandaids MVP" SV culture.

We glorify and make heroes of those that deliberately publish garbage, but make money doing so.

When we look to an industry to police itself; it never does. But the rules and regulations applied from non-domain-expert politicians are often ineffective, burdensome, and really only apply to a bygone era (See ISO 9001/CMMI).
Although the GDPR is an EU Regulation it is incorporated into UK law and that hasn't changed since Brexit.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/dp-at-the-end-of-the-tr...
I wonder if it would hold any weight in the dispute if he claimed the brick was not actually a Lego brick, but one of the numerous perfectly legal stud-compatible knock-offs.
I typed a big long response and deleted it because I think that people just do not care.
It's weird to realize that there's a huge difference in how people who read HN understood "digital buying" and how the rest of the world did.

I have bought many movies and TV shows from the iTunes store. I did so knowing that it was not a true purchase in the sense of buying a DVD, or a videotape, or a book, or even in the sense of buying music from the iTunes store (which has been DRM-free since 2009). But I did it anyway, because the transaction still offered a net positive value for me:

- Very long term (but clearly not perpetual) rights to watch the thing;
- Very high convenience (easily available on my Apple devices without dealing with files or sync);
- Very much easier/simpler than resorting to, shall we say, nontraditional means of media procurement.

But, again, we knew what was happening. Apple could turn heel and invalidate these purchases on their whim, or the whim of the rightsholder. I still made the deal, and still feel fine about it, because I knew that going in. Normal humans tend not to understand this.

(We also have a very minimal cable package. We did the math and realized that it was cheaper to, say, buy season passes of the mid-tier cable shows we wanted to see than it was to pay for the channels in question. If you watch a LOT of those shows, this math doesn't work, but for us and things like Mad Men, it definitely did. Our cable bill is $50 a month lower than it would be if we had those channels, so we could absolutely justify "buying" the show on iTunes -- even if we had no plans to watch it more than once.)
If I understand your underlying question, then maybe the topic you are looking for is complexity vs entropy. Where complexity, such as life, would seem to violate the law of entropy.

It may be worth searching "complexity vs entropy", I think I have seen lectures by both Neil deGrasse Tyson and Brian Greene on the topic. I didn't put to much time looking for the lectures, but here is a quick Q/A from Neil's podcast which touches on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTkpG79cbEE
That is if you don't consider the public blockchain and its nodes as a "third party". Can you make a cryptocurrency exchange without a third party ever knowing that it took place or leaving any trace of it? You can with cash.
For comparison: A regular buck (the animal) may have something around the 160000 kcal.
This article is about Kate Crawford‘s new book Atlas of AI. So far, an excellent read that has shifted my viewpoint a bit. She writes about how AI is physically embodied in the world.
I would actually choose an example that seems to be not complex and slowly drill in to show the opposite.

As a software tester I would suggest just that- build together kind of a test plan, slowly add layers to it and while doing it demonstrate bugs that were find in different places.

Even the simplest web site can result in huge number of tests if you go low level enough, networking, servers, disks, backups etc.
This was the first thing I ever felt compelled to write to the government about. I'm sure Chris Christie, then Governor of New Jersey, recalls my strongly worded letter objecting to Amazon saying you were "buying" Kindle books.
Yeah, and it's very distracting if you want to copy a part from the url.
What's more likely, hundreds of Postmasters where thieves or the system had a few bugs. How did this even happen?
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This is a disturbingly frequent thing occurrence here.
Seeing the old time is useful though because it lets you eyeball how long a command took to run even if you forgot to do `time`.
Case in point: Terminator 2 Extreme, purchased in 2003. I figured that having the physical media meant I could play this forever long as I owned the discs.

I haven't been able to play those discs since 2008, when the license servers went offline.
Just found out that it has an actively maintained GitHub repository, with 35 or more commits this April alone.
https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bgc/commits/main
You've linked a Daily Mail story with a baseless assertion and LEGO themselves said it was because of the logo of the store. The story has the owner of the store holding up a t-shirt of the logo such that it's somewhat obscured and the remaining focus is on the store itself.
Except you go to the store and there's laptops with 3 generations of cpus in there and the 10nm/14nm split for tenth gen so it's entirely possible to run into a laptop with an i7 worse than the i5 in the laptop next to it on the shelf/store webpage.
Maxwell was - to put it mildly - a pretty bright guy.
We used to be in this field too (https://kloudtrader.com/narwhal). It is a very crowded market and monetisation is tricky.
My feeling is that as everything is on chip, things are physically closer - less lanes on the motherboard - so latency from tasks is lessened. I would not have guessed it would be such a difference though.
Agreed - the article is tips and tricks to use google effectively, not an editorial about the value of googling
> Why exactly would you do any of this

Because it's your first adventure in the land of crypto and you have no idea how to do things, which parts you need to learn about and which are not required. It seems trivial for me now, but there was a time I would end up on a similar journey.

I don't know of a source which would do a quick walk through all of these levels. And if there is one, I don't know how you'd find it without knowing the right keywords.

(Now I'm tempted to write up some "crypto and certificates and public keys and other things explained quickly and without depth so you can ask better questions next" post)
> It's something of an open secret that administrators turn a blind eye to suspicious admission results, as enrolment and tuition money are a strong incentive.

Money talks. TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) scores tend to be treated as gospel, even when it's clear from emails that the student has nowhere near the level of proficiency indicated by the test results.
> it doesn't really support nested data like JSON would

This is just plain wrong. It supports exactly the same kind of nesting as JSON.
>>the ability to use it has been greatly diminished

Really? I have tons of music ripped from CDs on my iPhone and I can trivially play that in my car. I have CD players in my car (which I never use) and attached to my stereo (which I rarely use). It's not that the ability to play CDs (or rip them and play them) has been diminished but a lot of people prefer to just use a streaming service.

I'll grant that many people don't have a CD player even on their computer any longer but you can buy one for not much money online and have it in a couple days if you want one.
Twitter has always, to my knowledge, called them DMs. I’ve always hated FB messaging, despite using it out of necessity occasionally, so I can’t speak to if/when the naming scheme changed there. That said, a bunch of smaller messaging sites made that shift, so your core point is valid, I just think you overshot with your examples potentially.
You could take a homogeneous gas, use the demon to separate it in hot and cold (using no energy), then use the temperature difference to perform useful work (with any number of engines, such as Sterling's), then use the demon again, and hey presto, you got yourself a perpetual motion machine.

(BTW, one can buy Sterling engines, some of which work with body temperature, ie holding it will create enough temperature difference to turn the engine:

https://thestirlingengine.com

https://www.stirlingengine.co.uk/default.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
)
If a ship were straight-up captured by pirates and the crew held for ransom, I would still expect the company that sent the crew out to do everything in its power to bring them home. If said company simply shrugged and said "we tried to come up with the ransom money, but couldn't", I would consider that behavior unethical.

The same applies here: yes, Egypt is corrupt. Yes, this is a massive violation of human rights. But the company took on a moral responsibility when it sent out that crew. We can't excuse someone from their ethical duty simply because other people neglect theirs. Ethics is meaningless if it stops applying as soon as there's corruption outside.
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Readable, maybe? I mean as long as the YAML is correctly quoted, sure, it looks fine. But that's a big if. But writeable, hell no. I have been writing YAML for years and still have no idea how the quoting works, and not for lacking of looking it up in the past.
Simone Weil gets good coverage on HN. Last year I bought a biography of her after reading a thread on HN. She was an interesting character.
As there's no physical degradation of a storage medium associated with a hosted service, I'd expect a service to be able to remain longer that a physical copy I purchase.

If that doesn't happen that's down to the business interests of the seller and those are not something consumers typically have to account for when buying media.
Depending on which cryptocurrency you use, you can (e.g. Monero).
the way it should work imho is contributors to be asked for consent (up-front, retroactively), that stealthy experiments would happen at some point. Given the vital role of the linux kernel, maybe they'll understand. And if they turn out to be under-resourced to be wasted on such things, then it would highlight the need for funding additional head count, factoring in that kind of experiments/attacks.
Yes. That was my point: House owners' assets "appreciate" by inflating non-owners' prices.
> We got scammed.

This is what happens when a technology enters the mainstream.

Average people don't care about the same things that tech-people care about.

See eternal September as another example.

Eventually the market always serves the "average" client best, and the more demanding people (which are usually the early adopters of a technology) aren't served so well.
It's less turnkey, but Postgres does support Pub/Sub. If you're willing to follow your updates with a pub message, you can then manually refresh your data elsewhere in response. I use this feature to horizontally scale websocket updates across multiple servers.
Not entirely for sure, but form factor is limited by thermal requirements (well, mostly, Apple and other OEMs have gotten into trouble by ignoring this in the past, like the first i9 macs), and that is influenced by cpu architecture.