skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally every company in the entire world. How you talk about your own company is something you have to be mindful of because you are an agent of that company; the words you use and the way you react to things can tip investors off on how things are going internally. Do you think anyone wouldn't be mad at you if your company released a brand new product and you hopped onto Twitter to say it is complete garbage or something?
This article is already taken care of that hasn't it? 80% of it is spent smearing anyone who knew from the beginning that logically this was overwhelmingly likely to be a lab leak.
Well, it's technically incorrect in that same way that

system("echo "Hello, World!"");

is incorrect - it mixes syntax in a ambiguous/incompatible way. It's a bit more amenable to silent autocorrect though, so YMMV.
Any info on how you setup your Cuba trip?
I was responding to this assertion: "One of the biggest factors behind Apple's success is that they've positioned themselves as a status symbol. They're the Prada of the tech world."

This was referring to brand perceptions, not the Android or iOS software platforms.
Ethereum regularly undergoes hard forks to change its parameters. There's no schelling point over protocol specifics with Ethereum like there is with, say, Bitcoin.
Poor in Tech
> They are not economic parasites. They are the physical manifestation of the Invisible Hand.

Why do you (apparently) imagine these things are mutually exclusive?

> maybe NVidia should start pricing their products correctly so that they capture the value

I do happen to agree with this in principle, up to a point, and I've said as much in the past. It's easier said than done, though, especially when the scarcity is expected to be temporary and there are OEMs and retailers between you and the buyer.

Ultimately, Nvidia may feel that it makes more sense to (attempt to) cater to the steady, predictable consumer market for their products, rather than alienating those buyers in favor of crypto miners during a period when they aren't able to satisfy both. On the face of it, not having intimate insider knowledge of their business, I can't say I think it's a bad judgment call.

> This is a wildly short-sighted take.

You obviously think you're very smart and everyone around you is not nearly as smart, but you're just going to have to live with the fact that I and many others disagree with you here. And you've shown with everything after this line that continuing to discuss this tricky (and very interesting) moral question with you would be a total waste of time, so I'm not going to bother.

(But I guess there isn't much point in you trying, either, because ... well, you know.)
This is a really good idea. I would love something in the same vein that I could discuss an idea to and it would use the sum of all knowledge it can find on the Web to poke holes into it; essentially trying to sink the idea as hard as it can with whatever it can find. I really think this would make anyone a better creator.
https://www.landisgyr.com/ezine-article/making-way-two-way-p...

> In the old days, when power companies were the only generators in town, control devices like regulators, capacitors or relays were designed to assume that power flowed in only one direction. “If they saw power flowing in the other direction, they typically tripped or misbehaved, causing customer outages or power quality issues,” Kuloor says. This tendency has prompted many utilities to update such equipment with reverse-power-flow logic or, in the case of mechanical devices that have no software, replace devices altogether.

Not all local grids are prepared for that.

Additionally, there's the signaling of power supply that generators do between each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Frequency_an...

https://solarbuildermag.com/policy/grid-saturation-lessons-f...

The different parts of the grid will use fluctuations in the frequency of the grid to indicate if they've got too much power, or can't supply enough.

This can get more complicated with single house putting power back in that they're matching the frequency, but not controlling it as such. If there is too much supply from single house sources, it can cause the frequency of the grid to vary too much and potentially damage the power plant generators.

When this becomes exaggerated - all the houses start producing more power because the sun came out (or the opposite that it clouds over), this can increase the costs for power.

You've also got the Hawaii problem. The Hawaii grid doesn't have the luxury of shipping its power to the next state over.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/02/05/how-to-solve-hawaiis-...

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-hot-mess-of-hawai...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Hawaii

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/3-reasons-ha...

There are times when the rooftop solar in Hawaii exceeded the total demand for power. This meant there was too much power in the wires and that generators needed to shut down (or get into problems with pollution and inefficient combustion).

> The grid can only accept as much power as the island is consuming. Juario must mix and match different sized generators to balance what solar rooftops are producing while ensuring that the generators have enough “spinning reserve”—room to throttle up and down to handle those grid surprises. The Maui Electric chief operator must also keep the generators running hot to prevent inefficient combustion from sending dirtier exhaust up the stacks and violating the air quality rules that protect residents’ health.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/can-smarter-sola... has a neat map. There were sections of Hawaii where solar was supplying 250% of the demand in that area.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/11/30/178686... is another useful bit to read. "electrical grid oversupply" is the term to search.
"If a global hydrogen economy replaced the current fossil fuel-based energy system and exhibited a leakage rate of 1%, then it would produce a climate impact of 0.6% of the current fossil fuel based system. "

That doesn't sound so ... bad?
<--- this is what I was going to say.

...Except that I would have added that it's already easy enough to catch the stupid criminals without breaking everybody's encryption...because they're stupid. Good old regular police work of the type that has been around for over a century will catch these people just as effectively.

So you see: The whole "backdooring encryption" thing is useless for its stated purpose.
The Boeing 787 Needs a reboot every 51 days?
Ask HN: Is “lowtech” and “up to date” mutually exclusive?
I'm getting older. I like wood fires, boats, a slow ride on an old motorbike, growing my vegetables and reading.

I have said before, this is as close to social media as I am willing to step. I really do like RSS feeds but reading them is a battle of brevity and inundated with images/video/advertising/tracking.

I have no problems with seeing an advert. I do not want them tailored to me personally. I am also very aware that some sites depend on the money from ad clicks to keep afloat (how do I avoid them?).

I have switched to a stripped down, locked down, image/js/tracking/google/facevook/social media blocking Frankenstein of a firefox setup. I am amazed how much more is required to show less online at present.

I regularly use elinks but still rely on the broken mess of jibberish I am sometimes presented through my firefox browser.

Does such an option/service exist to identify text only sites within a search or strip all the mess away before I have to get it?

An addon or business/app/subscription who can filter my search/selection and just send the text body to me would be great, would this damage the content providers to the point I become the evil information thief?

Am I actually able to stay up to date with my low tech preferences?
I have a very different experience with Instagram in particular. I have a very tightly controlled machinist and woodworker account that has taught me innumerable little things, connected me with people who have helped on all kinds of problems and only given me positive reinforcement. There are other communities I've dipped a toe in that are far more toxic, but I have made the choice to stop engaging in those communities as a result.

On the other end of the spectrum, Facebook used to be a cesspool for me, since I didn't like the amount of politics and high school classmates I didn't like in high school in my feed. Then, I unfollowed everyone that posted any politics of any kind, unfriended people I intended to never see again, and now my feed is only a handful of groups that are incredibly friendly and helpful communities around overly obsessive coffee culture. Otherwise, I now use Marketplace pretty heavily since it seems to have largely replaced Craigslist in my area with better targeting that actually regularly gets my interests right. Now that I have made the choices to use the tool well, it's really really helpful. You have to take some responsibility for the bad experience you have on these platforms -- they only push you content you engage with, so you can choose to stop seeing that crap if you want to.
The two things that stayed with me after reading this and feeling excited for a very brief period were:

1. Google shutting it down after sometime out of the blue. Just like that.

2. Google needing nothing less than a Gmail account always logged-in and no choice about it.
Facebook is a shit hole.
Yes, some of them can be used without the energy waste. As far as value goes, Dogecoin likes to say on it’s website, 1 Dogecoin = 1 Dogecoin. It’s done a pretty good job at holding that value, lol
I think that when it was originated, it was close to being in the same condition the Schroedinger equation was when it was originated. He basically pulled it out of his ... thin air as well. It got attention because of its heuristic value - and 'felt right' (not a factor to be overlooked).

To this day, as WP notes, 'It is typically not possible to solve the Schrödinger equation exactly for situations of physical interest.' Yet he got a Nobel prize for it. Frank used his equation to get us thinking about SETI, and SETI is now decades old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation
Uhhh, Adobe has almost unprecedented backwards compatibility.

I also dropped Adobe for Affinity because of price, but frankly, your reaction is not warranted for this news... good luck opening 35 year old Photoshop file with anything else than Photoshop.
Chrome store says 10 million+ users (I expect it's vastly higher than that) 24,000 reviews. Firefox says 5 million users and 12,000 reviews.

Ignore it at your peril. If you want to make sales, you need to test the ways your prospective customers want to buy.
I don't know with certainty, but I believe NVidia has raised prices. I base this on the prices that appear on the sites of custom system vendors. Until recently you could get a complete machine from many builders with a GPU at something close to MSRP. Now you can't. These builders (the larger ones anyhow) don't buy from scalpers, so that means the device manufactures have raise their prices.

Anyhow, that's my theory. Anyone have actual recent price lists for NVidia GPUs? Otherwise we're all just guessing.
MLB Sharp: An Unofficial C# Wrapper for the MLB Stats API
Wait – I also don't have stereoscopic vision, do you have any details or sources for those magical glasses with prisms?
Stable money does not make much sense.

First, what does stable money mean. Most people would agree what they mean is that if $5 today gets you a loaf of bread, that $5 will buy you a loaf of bread a year or so from now as well.

Let’s say you have a closed economic system which only produces bread, has 10 producers, and $100 in total. Those 10 producers create 20 loaves of bread, so a loaf of bread is $5. But what happens if they are hit by a meteor and 5 of the producers die. Now you still have $100 but only 10 loaves can be produced. So what would it mean to keep the price of money stable? If you still force a loaf of bread to be $5, after the first 10 loaves are bought, you’re out of loaves ans the remaining $50 have effectively inflated away to be worthless. Instability of currencies, therefore, is a natural consequence of imbalances between the supply of money and the production of goods and services.

The US has actually done a tremendous job keeping the USD fairly stable, by printing more money to account for growing economic output (due to a variety of reasons, technology being one of them).

That being said, there is always a bias towards low inflation as opposed to low deflation, because deflation can be an economy killer. If the value of cash increases with time (in other words, if $5 today buys you 1 loaf of bread, it will get you 2 loaves of bread a year from now), then the risk adjusted returns from any investment needs to be that much greater for an investor to invest.

Even a small percent or 2 of deflation can have an oversized effect that would lead to a significantly smaller economy.
would be nice to share the site
This still has an audience of the "normies" who's work machines are locked down and block random Python scripts.

Agreed, a simple micro-controller emulating as a mouse would've much more elegant.
My experience and $0.02:

If you use Instagram the way "normal" people do, it's a path to sadness. Selfies, one-upmanship, parties, perfect cakes, perfect gardens, exotic vacations, etc. All the badness. It's just human nature and it's what the platform has become. Bleh.

If, however, you go into Instagram and aggressively curate your feed to be hyper-specific to a (visual) niche you're interested in, it can be really, really great.

I have 3 Instagram accounts - my "main" one (in which I follow friends), and that's become a hellscape of all of the above. I just don't use it anymore.

My other 2 are hyper-specific: One follows pets (parrots, specifically), the other is all about coin collecting (@numismattack ahem shameless plug). Absolutely zero variation from those themes. And you know what? It's a really fun way to immerse yourself in those respective worlds! All interesting niche content, all the time. I suggest you (and others) give that a try.

Ps - no matter what your main feed is, stay far far away from the "Explore" tab. That is brain poison. It's like pure algorithmic dopamine generation and it's the root of all evil on that platform.
I don't care how many months of 2% (or 10%) interest I get if it's followed by a 100% loss. You're getting that high interest rate because you're taking on a great deal of risk. 8 months of a bull market hardly proves otherwise.
FWIW, with music gear it is more common that you buy the product from local stores carrying it. Only a few production runs in is a bit early to have good international coverage for that (especially if most of the batch is sold out in preorder anyway, which is what I'd guess at), but from the website that's clearly in the works.
Borrow lots of money at low interest rates?
If this is the vision, please let us write actions directly with typescript or some legitimate programming language (not YAML). It is currently impossible to debug and reuse action code.

I am working on an entire company migration off GitHub actions because it cannot scale. Full programmatic control and local debugging that allows me to reuse and test code in a single repository would have justified staying with GH.
That’s exactly the thought I have. I have a feeling it would be truly bizarre to sit down and talk to my mum or dad through this.
I tried notion several times and gave up. It is not as good as excel or google sheet. I want the data table view to be as powerful and efficient as google sheet or excel plus other notion views. Right now, it is very difficult to even style the the cells with different colors. I think it will be much better for existing google sheet to add other notion functions. Don't know why google stops innovating.
The other obvious reason is that Google is already doing quantum research there, this is just them moving into bigger digs.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191023133358.h...
Busted Justin Trudeau Caught Using a Fake Apple MacBook
Very confusing to me as a man why we don't just tell the thing what it should be called and have it use that name wherever it appears on the device (e.g. "Hey David" instead of "Hey Siri.") I think Google Assistant is the only good assistant name, but saying "Hey, Google" feels weird when it's technically supposed to be some kind of pseudo-intelligence instead of the whole company.
Miners undervolt and often underclock though: heat is their enemy, so they’re more particular about this than gamers are these days.
Of course. But if we have reason to expect _many_, then betting that we're the first is a terrible bet.

If we conclude for some reason that we are the first, with enough evidence, sure, like you say someone has to be first.

But with so little data, the priors for "are we first or are we just missing the others" just have to be tilted heavily away from "we're first".
So what’s the even moneyline on Google projects like this? 9 months?
I think this is what confuses many people when they do their own tests, they don't know what to listen for and expect a more general sound quality difference over all parts of the recordings. The differences are actually in particular kinds of sounds, like high hats or piano, and only at specific moments, and only in specific music. For music that is all distortion all the time likely no one can tell the difference. Some people are irked at the slight changes in sound at specific moments compared to listening to CD's or vinyl, some don't even notice it because it is brief or those instruments/moments are not present in a particular recording.
Even LaTeX isn’t perfect here - older files will complain that something.sty is deprecated. But it still works years later.

Pure TeX of course, never changes.
So if you have more ETH, you will get more ETH?
Infinity, in my opinion. Because the UI and UX is not something fixed. It changes by time and by people's evolution.
Typestates and reliance on `embedded-hal` traits are a particular pain. I think we're in a weird spot, where the language itself, and some of the build tools (Like those by the Knurling team) are outstanding, but the most popular libraries have made questionable design decisions, and have flaws that show almost immediately.

I'm curious how many teams are developing new projects using Rust, but staying away from the open source ecosystem.
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Wow, you have a good memory! (Not being sarcastic.)

That was my product, and I got in a lot of trouble for it.

ATM allowed you to use Adobe's scalable fonts in Windows 3.0. Windows 3.0 did not have scalable fonts at all, only bitmap fonts that turned blocky if you asked for a font size that wasn't present. Windows 3.1 added scalable TrueType fonts, but it still didn't support Adobe Type 1 fonts.

The way I made it work was to patch into the API calls for font rendering, check that it was an Adobe font, and then call Adobe's font renderer instead of the one in Windows.

Some lawyer at Microsoft found out that I'd patched into these calls, and sent a letter to Adobe co-founder John Warnock that said the only way I could have accomplished it was by stealing the Windows source code.

Actually it was something that any reasonably talented Windows programmer of the day could figure out - anyone who knew about LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress could do it.

But why let facts get in the way when Adobe and Microsoft were feuding about other things and there was a chance to get an innocent programmer caught in the middle of that fight?

It all got sorted out in the end when we proved that it didn't take Windows source code to figure this out.

The one thing that stung was that Microsoft never did have the decency to apologize for falsely maligning my reputation.
Apart from some freak events that happen every 50 years -50C doesn't _really_ happen anywhere settled in Canada. Even a place like Inuvik, the coldest temp ever recorded was -56.7C but only for a few minutes... in 1968. Edmonton gets a few nights where it can get below -40C every once in a while, but it's not common and again, it's not all night.

Frankly it just sounds like he's confusing actual temperature with wind chill "temperature". Which unfortunately seems like something more and more Canadians do, probably on account of crappy weather reporting.

I grew up in Edmonton area. People were already in the habit of plugging their (ICE) vehicles overnight on those kinds of evenings so they could start in the morning without hassle. I see no reason why an EV wouldn't be treated the same.

(FWIW I live in southern Ontario now, it doesn't really get colder than -28C. But my Chevy Volt has no problem with it.)
Speaking of the incel movement like they are Al Qaeda is dumb. There is absolutely zero reason to be legitimately afraid of them. Sure, a couple virgins have actually killed people in real life out of sexual frustration, but that's 100% inevitable given that there are billions of people on the planet.

Don't let the threat of incels keep you up at night
can somebody explain?
Never.

The only way to win is to yank the entire UX system out of their hands and make apps that actually work for the average user.

Ironically, the historic kings of bad UIs, Microsoft, is making great headway with Project Reunion (the parent project of .NET 6's non-Windows support, WinUI3, and MAUI), and producing a pretty reasonable system that looks modern, acts modern, and doesn't jam some half-baked system down your throat...

... and it works on Android. And iOS. And OSX. And, of course, Windows. Even if you're a classic C/C++ guy, even if you want C# everywhere, even if you're using Javascript (Blazor Desktop is shaping up to be a pretty decent Electron killer), your existing paradigms should be able to take advantage of one good UX system that will look and act modern for a decade.
The Monopolist Worm in Apple
From the top link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18992556

>The mov-only DOOM renders approximately one frame every 7 hours, so playing this version requires somewhat increased patience.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/tree/master/vali...

I have to say, reading through the github for the movfuscator was pretty damn amusing. I honestly burst out laughing at the control flow graphs. But I'm curious, is this actually practical for anything?

Running Doom at 1 Frame per 7 hours is, pretty unreasonable. Would text based software even be usable with this?

Either way, I do enjoy cleverly, overly engineered, possibly useless things created just because someone thought it would be funny.
Yes but in that case you did enjoy 20k of capital gains and so it makes sense* to pay tax on the 20k gain. There is no issue.
I have a question, why is it that when opening two sockets on Windows and connecting them through TCP, there is about a 40% difference in transfer rate when sending from socket A to B, compared to sending from B to A?
Cancel Envy
Here is a place in Texas where you can rent a tank, drive it, and shoot it: https://www.drivetanks.com/

Here are the prices for the Sherman tank:

SHERMAN TANK

$1,850.00 – Drive the tank

$950.00 – Ride the tank, driven by a Cadre

$2,800.00 – Drive & Shoot the tanks 76mm main gun (1 round)

Here is a guy who rented a tank and shot it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqC2kJNdJjE
20 years ago isn't a very long time.
Sometimes it is just probing the market. And sometimes the recruiter is an interesting person. I had such a case once where I went on an interview just because the recruiter was smart and professional guy and I enjoy talking to interesting people.
FTL?
I use old.reddit.com
The simplest universe is a repeating binary sequence. Night and day. The simplest intelligence learns to predict this pattern and switches on/off to maximize its energy input and minimize its energy output. So, a sleeping brain is probably the simplest brain there is.