skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it a bit rich that a random commenter tells Cory Doctorow that his writing style "hurts more than it helps"

A Microsoft employee, under an article that states unpleasant facts in the first few paragraphs about their employer.

It is natural for the author of the article to be accusatory, when there is a documented trail of illegal actions and repeated cases of customer exploitation from all these companies.
> But is that 'official death count' any more reliable than the total count of 350,000?

No. Because the Afghan security forces would be lying to try to improve their morale.

If anything, the official death count is almost certainly an underestimate. No army likes to admit that their death rates are in the 25%+ level, when you admit such a thing, you won't be able to find recruits.

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Besides, we paid the Afghans on number of soldiers on payroll. Not on number of deaths. So the number they were corrupt on was #-of-soldiers.
Git's graph is of complete versions, but much of your text talks about it like it's a graph of changes. git rebase analyses an arm of the graph, turns it into a set of changes, tries to work out what those changes would look like if they were attached elsewhere, and then produces that.

It doesn't sound as simple that way, but it's important to keep in mind that git does not track changes and instead rederives them continually.
Check out the course 6.042J from MIT (Mathematics for Computer Science).

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
> “This isn’t a TJ’s thing,” said Tara Miller, a Trader Joe’s spokesperson. “It’s being implemented by the landlord. We are a tenant in the building and are bound by the same parking validation system as other tenants.”

So why does the headline imply the exact opposite? Because it gets clicks of course, but this is why people hate and distrust the media any more. Stop lying.
Your heart might be in the right place, but trying to enforce morality in a software license like this is a terrible idea. And there are extremely serious problems with this license in particular, such as mandating anti-Semitism. Nobody should ever use anything released under this license.
So many reasons why this is bad, but the most obvious reason right now is the supply chain crisis. It’s one thing if you can’t get a new car. It’s another if you can’t get new food.
How can someone on HN be unable to "disable" a TV's WiFi network ? Can't you just ban its MAC address from the router or something ?
Amazon Go allows you to insert a debit/credit card linked with amazon account to enter as well.
Saw this while in Trader Joe’s. Not the specific one mentioned however.
> Any additional expectations about team building or water cooler talk only extend the amount of time I'm ignoring my family and shackled to the screen

No, these are not supposed to be additional work hours on top of the normal work.

> My employer or coworkers are not who I look to for improvements with mental health as I feel it is a very personal topic

...and yet we spend 40+ hours a week in contact with this people. Not to mention the emotional attachment to the meaning and outputs of the work itself.

Mental health is not something that we can offload to our spare time. Just like workplace safety.

> I wish there was more respecting boundaries

Respecting boundaries is not incompatible with talking about mental health - actually it's the opposite.
I’m a big fan of LFP don’t get me wrong, but it still requires mining and refining lithium, which indeed does fuck over the environment quite badly
Bringing Kubernetes to Object Storage with MinIO
They are stuck in an echo chamber and don't seem to realize that crypto has a serious branding issue with devs. Also that there is no indication that Blockchain can be valuable outside of finance. I certainly don't want to be working in FinTech, there are more interesting and meaningful things to work on.
Yes I know. That's part of the problem. I don't want to be in that eco system. Even just to apply for a job at Facebook they expect you to already have a Facebook account. The arrogance of the whole thing is just problematic.
One of the failsafes is the conservative amounts of insulin the software is allowed to dose on its own. In my case, it is set to never deliver more than 1.2 units of insulin per hour. If it wants to deliver that amount, it will instruct the pump to raise the continous supply of insulin for half an hour. In contrast, I will routinely instruct the pump to deliver 8 units at once for a meal.

So if say the blood glucose sensor delivers faulty measurements (that happens frequently in my case) it may gradually try to kill me, but it takes hours to get me into a dangerous zone. This is a lot of time for me to notice and correct. I mainly like the system for correcting while I sleep. I wake up less to a low sugar thanks to the software suspending insulin delivery, and high sugar at night is often corrected by the time I wake up.

I don't know about failsafes on the lower levels. I kind of trust it after a year on OpenAps :-)
>Nukes can operate as peaker plants.

Not in an economical fashion, though. Because the fixed costs dominate the variable costs, the less often the plant operates, the more it needs to charge for electricity when it is running. Gas peaker plants work the opposite way: low capital cost, significant variable cost (price of gas). That's more suited to the role.

>how are we going to make the ammonia?

From surplus renewables at other times of the year. Part of the solution is going to be overbuilding renewables by some factor, maybe 1.5x, compared to the total annual electrical energy demand. Ammonia is basically a way to store that surplus on a seasonal timescale for backup generation, in a more cost-effective way than batteries. Plus, we also need ammonia for fertilizer, and maybe it will be used for transportation (shipping especially).
What about a simple "I don't have a mobile?" A lot of folks forget there are still people who don't have one - and many who don't want one.
If the store won't transact with someone simply because they don't feel like handing out that bit of information (or simply because they don't have the information to provide), they're not really a store worth transacting with.
It is a joke to say that it is not a real OS.

But if you want to argue: You could say that a 'real OS' must be 'mostly POSIX-compliant' [1]. That way most other OS (Linux, MacOS, iOS) but not Windows would be included in your definition of a 'real OS' ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Mostly_POSIX-compliant
There is one good aspect of safari. Because of fear of loosing ios customer many website still works and doesn't shouts at you "This website only works on chrome".

And Microsoft is worst company than apple in browser till today. Their product Skype doesn't even work on Firefox. And in macos you can easily switch firefox but in win11 good luck.
Interview with Ben Shapiro and Eric Schmidt
Just so people don't get confused from your link - all the insignia TVs without 'smart' features are 1080p. Every insignia panel I see at bestbuy with 4k resolution is a 'fire tv edition'. You can't get a modern dumb tv with a good panel from them.
It's sort of backwards when you're talking about municipalities competing for property tax revenue. Boulder city wants property tax revenue, so they allow development in specific places where they reap that. Therefore the city owns land that isn't land within the city so they can maximize property tax revenue, but still have a undeveloped belt. The surrounding counties aren't a big fan of this relationship, but can't do much about it.
Google claims to be net-zero since 2007. Their 2030 goal is they will not even buy power from local grids that have fossil fuel inputs.
Its _own_ wifi network, likely a Chromecast network like “Vizio $MODEL.c”
Care has to be taken that the trunk branch actually is the first parent in each merge commit. Maybe it's unlikely to go wrong in practice, but it's certainly possible to have a merge where the parents are the "wrong way around" thus messing up your first parent strategy.

Also, "git praise"? Is that really a thing now? Talk about not understanding programmer humour.
I visited a friend a while ago and she was reading this amazing book on her tablet, "The AgloDaily Book: Core Essentials"

https://algodaily.gumroad.com/l/yYEqr

I really loved its illustrations; it looks so easy to follow.
same.. my first reflex is to dig for a pencil and a piece of paper.. i tried other ways but my brain is stuck on this.
Trader Joe's no doubt has a multi-year lease at this location that they can't just break. But beyond that I seriously doubt the Trader Joe's legal team inspects the terms of service for the parking apps of all parking garages attached to buildings where they lease space. We'd also have no way of knowing if they objected to these terms in private even if they had.

They probably will have their legal team take a look at the agreement for this location now that it's made the news, but can we cut them a little slack before fetching the pitch forks?
Which is accounted for by the energy payback time, which is generally less than 5 years since the nineties: https://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/pdf/PE_Magazine_Fthenakis_2_10_...

Current estimates are around 1 year for southern Europe and 1.2 years for northern Europe: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...
Maybe he means it came with a sim card.
Ask HN: In your opinion what happens once FOMO on crypto runs out?
It's my understanding that the amount of money circling in crypto space has no correlation to utility crypto provides. I don't see people buying groceries with crypto, I don't see blockchain replacing SQL databases. But there is one space that's thriving... people who are making tools to sell, buy, create, store and teach crypto products. Investors are jumping in to fund these tools just for the sake of being involved somehow, FOMO, banks are jumping in to gamble on assets / speculate.... Everyone is jumping with hopes of making money in it and almost no one understands why they are doing what they are doing. There is lot of activity and innovations, but fundamental problem still remains... nobody uses blockchain or coin successfully, it literally has no feature that is better than traditional infrastructure and therefore it's not used in any respectable business (there are lots of businesses x but on blockchain but they are just products, as they have no customers). I have never seen such collective FOMO over something that is so fundamentally flawed.
Putting them in landfill implies is it harder to turn old PV into new PV than to build new PV literally out of rock. This does not seem plausible in long-term (short term, sometime has to actually build a factory to do it), and if it was true then we would’ve just substituted one polluting non-renewable (fossils) for another.
Using energy still generates heat, as per the laws of thermodynamics.
Well reaching net zero effective emissions would be a good start at least, we're not even close to that yet right now.
> whole “boomer” management style

Can we please not point the finger at whole categories of people simply based on their age?
Hay meadows aren't a more natural environment than paving them over, building a large high-density apartment block, and placing houseplants in those apartments?

Do they not host more ecological diversity? Are they not more environmentally productive?

Do hay farms introduce parking lots, traffic, roads, hundreds of housing units, and on average, ~1.5 cars for every unit?
Better to stop doing business, or they’ll never learn.
From zero to hero: contributing to open source (2017)
Either move to a cheaper country with lower taxes like Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Poland etc. Or move to USA and get that fat salary+equity. Or combine them both and do it remotely (very hard to get $200K+ remotely).
I fully expect more cities to prohibit retail establishments from refusing cash within their jurisdictions. There's precedent for it already, on grounds of discriminating against the poor.
Late GoT seasons lacked books to be based on. Heck, Winds of Winter hasn't been released, yet.

"They say" GRRM is rewriting it because we disliked HBO's GoT story. I say he had no idea what to write and now he knows what not to write.
To me it’s an issue if Apple refuses to stop if a particular business asks them to. That seems like an easy measuring stick.
agree with you, maybe they tried to protect Bin Laden.

But there are multiple questions which should be answered:

1. are we 110% sure that Bin Laden ordered the attack? I am not trying to defend him, but you know there are many organizations who can do that attack, including multiple organizations funded by CIA (don't forget Bin Laden was initially funded by CIA), maybe government could prevent attack but didn't prevent, because they were also interested in natural resources of Afghanistan?

2. Are we 120% sure we can capture and execute Bin Laden without civilian fatalities? if civilian fatalities can't be avoided, did we have numbers in mind, how many people will get killed?

3. Why western media didn't give enough voice to Taliban at that time? If enough people listened to them, maybe US could make public negotiation and if negotiation fails publicly, then everyone would definitely know Taliban is to blame for this war. In reality, US just said, we are super power, we can do whatever we want.

4. Are we sure war wasn't lobbied? You know, US sells lots of weapons, they sometimes need to test, are we sure that war wasn't lobbied? where did 2T$ go? Do you think all were eaten by corrupt Afghan government? even 10% of it would be 200B which would create 100 billionaires.

I am not defending Taliban or Bin Laden, just showing how decisions made was wrong and I still doubt US can make right decision. Now Afghanistan has lots of uneducated people, who lost their families, children. Do you think they would just forgive? Who can guarantee that they won't come over to US and start killing people?
In my (post-Soviet) country it's still quite common to see Kamaz construction equipment (actual construction, e.g. light-weight cranes) from the 80s and 90s being used.

It's not that new equipment is not affordable (if something needs a 100t Liebherr crane, it'll come), but all the emissions equipment on new vehicles is a lot more expensive to maintain, so it's simpler and cheaper to keep old vehicles running.
Imo, name and shame.
Having to install a special app just to park is not even convenient, it's a pain in the ass.
I wouldn’t get why POSIX is the only way to design an OS.
> If it is not economically feasible to run a coal plant if they do not externalize the pollution cost, how is that my problem?

Well it's your problem because they currently do externalize the pollution cost, and the status quo is difficult to overcome.

> Why do we allow coal operators to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else?

Great question, but the rough answer is that a lot of people don't believe (or don't want to believe) that the cost to everyone else is meaningful.
To be fair to the cashier, they were probably given no choice in the matter. One of those "I'm sorry, the system won't let me proceed without this info."

"Required form fields" are one of those great power/great responsibility things.
If your bankroll isn't sufficient to withstand significant volatility, yes, you shouldn't start counting cards in the first place.
That's why banning is a bad solution. Tax it. Then when it's really needed, paying the tax is worth it.
There is a third option, often called "Market Gardener", where a tractor is not used because it is a waste of space and resources. Tractors require a lot of extra turn around space, and area for the wheels to travel that can be utilized for planting. Instead rows are built at 3 ft wide and perhaps 60 ft long to utilize human scale planting and weeding techniques. In this case the soil is not tilled, but instead allowed to build up. Covers are used to suppress weeds when the row is not in use. Rows are more easily rotated with cover crops or nitrogen fixating plants to improve the soil nutrients. These are of course smaller family farms 1-10 acres.
It’s pretty clear that the GP was including themselves in the casual assessment, so I’m curious why that deserves such vitriol.

If you were interested in not being patronizing yourself, you could discuss how to measure sentiment vs behavior, or discuss results if it has been done before. You could possibly suggest an alternative explanation or approach that shows the flaws in what you deem psychobabble.

Is your goal to have insightful and rewarding discussion?
> Taliban refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden for his central role in 9/11 terrorism

If we put in mind what we know post hoc about the torture and inhumane interrogation techniques used in both Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, wouldn't you agree that it's reasonable to assume that there was a high risk of torture?
and isn't torture a well-accepted reason to block extradition.

In fact, let's take it even a step further in light of the fabrication of evidence seen in Iraq. The general atmosphere of hate at the time. not to mention that we now know that bin Laden not only was not tried but was thrown in a bag with the fish. How can we be so sure that he would have had received a fair trial? How would you even find an unbiased jury[1]?

Do we deem it ok to extradite someone to a place with a high risk of torture and unfair trial?

[1] - this is a rhetorical question but I'm actually curious how would one find such a jury that hasn't already made its mind?
Don’t feel like you need to lie. Just say, “no”.
It has its own wifi network it broadcasts - an internal wifi router that makes its own network. There's no option to disable it. You can stop it from connecting to your devices, but you can't stop it from broadcasting. You don't know what information it's collecting as your devices constantly query what wifi networks are around them. Even if the tv has no internet connection it still broadcasts a wifi network.

I imagine the same way google improved their location services by driving around and literally collecting wifi network information, vizio can see where any TV not connected to the internet physically is if they send someone to drive around and look for their own TVs wifi networks.
Well big ag was supposedly able to solve it right? Vertical integration helps coordinate I suppose, but I don't see how it should be impossible without.
in case you want to code along, Ive been through some of the books mentioned here and solved the algorithms. You can check it out at https://github.com/realpacific/algorithms
https://archive.md/Az5Ho
This reminds me so much of how Radio Shack used to operate. I'd go there to buy some capacitors or solder, and the cashier would demand my full name, address, phone number every single time. I just said, nope, here's the cash, give me the receipt.
Well you can get an Apple TV. They make a profit on the hardware, on the TV App Store, and on their services, so they have less incentive to spy when you're not using their TV app.
AHCI is the driver protocol used for communication between the CPU/OS and the SATA host bus adapter. It stops there, and nothing traveling over the SATA cable can be correctly called AHCI.

You can have fully standard SATA communication happening between a SATA drive and a SATA-compatible SAS HBA that uses a proprietary non-AHCI driver interface, and from the drive's end of the SATA cable this situation is completely indistinguishable from using a normal SATA HBA.

Likewise, you can have AHCI communication to a PCIe SSD and the OS will think it's talking to a single-port SATA HBA, with the peculiarity that sustained transfers in excess of 6Gbps are possible.
You: Teddy, have you seen the movie AI?

Teddy: Yes, I love that movie

You: What happens to Teddy in the movie?

Teddy: Teddy dies in the end

You: You like the ending?

Teddy: Yes
It’s a Trader Joe’s. Why do you need to drive to it in the first place?
I've also seen the "append the 2fa code at the end of your password" trick work for other older products that only have one input box. An example is the discontinued Amazon Kindle Windows UWP app.
This is such a ridiculous position. Internal combustion engines inherently emit carbon. And even if we did have viable hydrogen infrastructure, hydrogen is almost universally made from fossil fuels (which emits carbon), not from cracking water.
This kind of market is why I am amused when people are concerned about the government spying on them. The government does not need spies. It just buys the data on the open market.
There have been some consumer humanoid toys in the past, but I wouldn't call them robots. The social consumer robots market has historically been dominated by quadrupeds, which don't have the same level of versatility as a humanoid robot, so we wanted to fill that gap.
Is it just me or is not letting the rightful owners of the land use it for the most productive (and not damaging/harmful/polluting) thing possible seem insane?

Why does Boulder get to decide whether these farmers are allowed to install solar on their own land?

The fact that they had to fight a battle and take time out of their life to obtain permission to do this (on unprofitable farmland) seems tremendously unjust.

My mind reels.
Yeah, more than once I've coded suicide counters into indeterminate loops to catch corrupted graphs. And recently I had a fairly simple user-created graph that I forgot to put a suicide counter on. Of course I found out the omission the hard way.

What did you expect it to do when you said A waits on B, B waits on C, C waits on D and D waits on A??? (Actually, the main part worked so it didn't immediately smack him in the face. However, there was a routine to find the completion time, if an item didn't exist use the completion time of it's parent(s).)
On a related? note, local area code + 867-5309 seems to work for most store discount cards.
This is totally true, awesome, and under appreciated. Check out project vesta. Basically there's an infinite amount of magnesium silicate minerals, and they weather to absorb co2 and release magnesium. You get some iron for free, but no heavies or toxics.. You can put it in the soil too, which is great because fe and esp mg are being depleted in soils. You can dump it in the ocean and raise PH while also mobilizing calcium. It's a win win win win win win.
WIP sewing pattern maker – verlet physics constraint vector editing
> Every person that generates their own electricity stops paying their fair share of maintaining the grid

This isn't true, at least not in Colorado. I pay a number of fees for maintaining the grid and these aren't going away when I have my net meter installed later this week. (hopefully)
What happens in two or three years when they decide to stop updating the app and it no longer works on your phone?

They couldn’t bother since there was no recurring revenue stream so you just have to buy a new dishwasher?
I was searching for your question. I agree I don't know why this is in the first page... Maybe some people [1] are right when they say most of HN's audience is interested in business and technology, but not technical themselves.

[1] http://n-gate.com/
It makes me wonder, when I draw a line in the sand with a clerk, how often they just enter junk data into the system so they can get on with their shift.
> The state epidemiologist, Dr. Tengele, sorry, Dr. Tegnell

Do you honestly expect anyone to take you seriously when you compare someone to a Nazi war criminal?
That's a policy problem, not a technological problem. It becomes a political decision: convert grid maintenance to a progressive tax, subsidize local power generation for poor families or rental properties, etc.