skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here, lots of leaks-- some family even has had a drawer full of unexpired Duracells leak. Myself, I've switched over completely to NiMh except when unsupported by the device to remove the change of leaks (Nest x Yale door lock in particular, which detected NiMh as low battery even when 90% of the cell capacity is remaining). AmazonBasics has been bad with leaks too.

Edit: I have a Powerex MH-C980 and that has significantly made using NiMh easier. Before with a bundled Panasonic charger I had to charge everything in pairs, 4 max. The Powerex I can charge 8 cells individually, turbo charge if I'm in a rush, and see how much energy actually was used if something seems to be eating through a lot of batteries.
Android was built by Google. What they bought was a prototype that lacked virtually all of the functionality they needed.
My brain seems to reflexively get "bored" when they've announced any new restrictions or measures. I'm not sure bored is even the right word, but it's the best way I can describe it.

It makes me laugh at myself because I wasn't going to do any of it either way.
Just adding at the end, I reacted immediately to the matter of principle that my company would never take a principled or fundamental view of excluding you from consideration from employment, and in trying to make it as clear as possible, everything else fell from my conscious consideration - for the simple reason that you have a very strong fit indeed with the requirements that we have for the future. Now I have re read your post, please let me try both to play down our commercial potential at the same time as bidding you by all means do drop me a line. I can't discuss openly what needs to happen in our position, but on the face of it, if all goes well then I would probably be disappointed if we never found out what the possibilities may be. Whatever happens, very best wishes from me.
>The real problem is even understanding who the enemy is, or how they will decide to abuse this information.

I'm quite sure that state-sponsored online warfare, both psychological and through system intrusion, is very active, and we are losing because we don't even know where or what is happening.
Entering into a contract with multiple people to form a corporation = fine

Entering into a contract with multiple people to collectively bargain with a corporation = deprivation of human rights (according to some posts in this thread)

At least the GP admitted that their problem really is just "that kind of contract".
Even that doesn't make any sense, because refusing to encode characters that require four bytes doesn't save any space; it just makes it impossible to encode those characters. Nothing about the other encoding lengths changes.

The only thing I can figure is that something somewhere is using a 16-bit quantity for decoded codepoints. Four-byte encodings are for codepoints above FFFF. (Which I guess is still someone's idea of "saving space.")

Edit: Apparently the max encoding length used to be six bytes, so there's literally no plausible explanation for this that doesn't end with "thank god I stopped having to deal with MySQL over a decade ago."
No. robots.txt is not something that is defined and enforced by the law. Just because someone came up with some 'recommendation' like robots.txt does not mean this is the law
JavaScript-WebAssembly interop library for C, Rust, Assemblyscript
I PCR’d my omicron-wave case daily under high-doses of an everyday food compound
contrary to pikchr documentation, troff is not obsolete
Google’s Complete List of Google IP Addresses
> I would still rather work with Postgres AND have to juggle a connection pooler

Is this comment relating to the overhead of idle connections, which has historically necessitated the use of a pooler in front of PG? If so, I believe this is resolved in postgres 14

https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-14-performance-monitorin...
Pro tip: never ever ever ever put your phone number in your resume or on a jobs site. If you have to put a number, get a google voice number and don't forward calls.

I have 753 voicemails from recruiters. And I'm not in demand. (I have 5x as many e-mails from recruiters, so I also recommend not putting your personal e-mail in your resume)
>None of these are 100%. Does not mean they’re 0% effective.

Life is about cost-benefits. I'm not going to bother with a 11% effective mask if I'm vaccinated.
I wonder if an N95 that's been tested to filter 99%+ is roughly equivalent to a FFP3? https://www.armbrustusa.com/pages/mask-testing?mask=-review
Yeah, I noticed the lack of quantitative data as well. The biggest qualitative red flag for me in the whole article is sending victims back to live with the abuser very soon after the abuser has been found guilty and served a penalty. Reasonable people can argue about whether the penalty is reasonable, but it's hard to imagine reasonable people arguing that kids should go back to live with a previously abusive parent. And that decision is a straight-line consequence of the Amish belief system as I understand it.
Given the nuances of browsewrap contract enforceability, perhaps not as many as you suggest. The tricky part with navigating this gray area is knowing the likely circumstances when a contract of adhesion may give rise to an actual legal claim. There are patterns.
After using Duracell for years for applications where I had to use alkaline, I recently had a set die with major leaks early, basically ruining a nice LED flashlight.
this really brightened my day.

hope it works out
I don't feel this is beside the point. Human nutrition is complicated and tax incentives based on simple rules may have unintended consequences downstream.
It made more sense at the time. Earlier days of the web, dynamic scripting languages used everywhere, etc. No emoji, barely any use of 4-byte characters at all. Large corps weren't using open source DBs, or sometimes open source anything. Simpler times!

And for sake of comparison -- if I understand correctly, prior to just 2 months ago, sqlite didn't even have the option for strict type enforcement [1]. Do you judge sqlite as harshly, or think its creator is out of touch with the database world?

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
Another example, only very slightly later, is this:

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=14910

It's somewhat rare to find such realistic depictions in ancient art and I find any such works extremely arresting.
The way I see it Facebook+ is a societal problem and so is a larger one than the usual tech monopoly problem which Google fall in (which is still a problem though, just not on the same level).
They couldn't. The storage size is different internally. The article covers this in the section in migrating from utf8 to utf8mb4.

Do you actually use MySQL or are you just complaining from a theoretical POV?
U.S. CBP reported that they conducted 40k electronic searches in 2019, or about 1-in-10000 travelers. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/speeches-and-statements/cbp-sta...
render lost or stolen guns useless

Has anyone put this to the real world test? i.e. Give one of these smart firearms to a few dozen gunsmiths, locksmiths or other curious tinkerers and hardware hackers? Bounty programs?

Anyone here on HN own one of these? How long does it take to disengage the lock if you are the authorized owner?
Of course, but it bears repeating that it’s a theory lacking evidence at this point.

The idea of COVID leaking from a Level 2 lab 2 blocks from the Wuhan wet market is solely circumstantial.
They promised to keep a read-only instance running for ever, so I hope it will come online. Nevertheless I think switching to mavenCentral is a better choice it wasn't already done by now.

Source: https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocen...
To your list I would add a nice virus that wipes clean all the hard drives in the commercial clouds.

Just that would decimate the West and would need decades to recover from.
Flochilla – Generative Art with CSS
Partnership contracts bind non-signers from receiving benefits of a partnership. And with good reason: you wouldn't want any ole schmoe laying claim to the fruits of your labor.

Contracts deprive non-signers of things all the time. That's kind of the point.

Do you have a problem with corporations signing "exclusive" deals with other corporations?
See bottom of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910494 and my reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910863
I love the presentation and purpose of the site. But the gravity of dropping the balls looks really weird on my end.

They seem to fall at speed, but then de accelerate before touching the ground, then they bounce again until coming to a standstill.

The ball on the title looks accurate when bouncing, so I'm not sure if this is on purpose or not.

Running firefox under MacOS.
How does this work? How can you compress air without raising the pressure? Are you sure you don't mean adiabatic?
Could it work backwards? Eg, to take a hero like Heracles and determine he's say 40% shared with Gilgamesh. Then we might see that even the originals aren't very unique.

Just a thought, I don't really know anything about ML.
I said "pseudo-anonymous", and by that I meant, there's no way to know which disparate online identities relate to which humans. As a consequence, I personally don't assume that anyone online particularly relates to a human.

I would go so far as to now say that, on the largest social scales, anonymous and pseudo-anonymous online communication is causing the biggest problems. This includes scenarios like Facebook friends who you think are people you know and website comment sections with plausible-looking people.
> The purpose wasn't to ask questions but to point out

That's exactly why I called out your comment. It was loaded with questions, when your goal was to make a point. It's a nice rhetorical device in theory, but blows up in practice. I've taken courses in communications and read several books, and virtually all of them say not to ask questions if your goal is to make a point - especially on contentious issues. Just go directly to making your point/argument.

> and to refute the OP comment that righteousness can only be a good thing.

The OP never made such a claim. His comment is decently nuanced. I'm also familiar with Haidt's work, and OP's comment is inline with his work. Haidt also doesn't claim that righteousness can only be a good thing. Indeed, the book points out problems with righteousness, and I would assume the OP is aware of them.
This seems to be solving the wrong problem.

As far as I can tell, the problem is not that we lack good mechanisms for making payments to open source developers and deciding how to allocate such funds. The problem is that cash donations are rare and small. A small handful of developers are supported very richly by being paid full-time tech employee salaries to work on open source; a handful of groups like the Python Software Foundation occasionally get together enough donations to fund a developer or small team part time; and aside from that there just isn't much money contributed.
> It turns out Lwt gained support for let* sytax only in April 2020.

I don't understand your point. Monadic let can be done with ppx_let (created in 2016), and even before that there was the older syntax where you write `lwt` instead of `let`.

https://github.com/ocsigen/lwt/commit/d28204984646042676570d...
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win: Schweizer, Peter
> good luck with that outside of R.

There's always RCall for R inside of Julia, the best of both worlds.
The real metaverse? You mean... a community?
That's probably a point that wasn't being made, since it wasn't mentioned. Neither was getting rid of unions ever mentioned.
> What it takes a Pixar legend to do is to take that idea and create Toy Story on time and on budget.

Rose-colored glasses. Production of Toy Story shut down production for three months, at Disney's insistence, because of major story and character problems. That means over budget. Even legends have problems and need help.
I have both those cards and your very wrong. The RX480 with 8gb still can’t match the RX6500 with 4gb. The RX480 was a great mid tier card, but it’s showing it’s age and the RX6500 is a good upgrade. It’s not drastically better, but enough to play most games 1080p and medium to high graphics. I was stuck at 1080p and low to medium with the Rx480.
You seem to be implying that Bellingcat/Navalny aren't proven hucksters and info-mercenaries who will say anything to keep their moneyed interests happy.

At least Brian is a plausibly independent (from powerful governments) blogger who occasionally publishes some high-signal, low-noise content. Although this sort of doxxing is out of hand even if Russians are "fair game" to his Western audience.
> The only downside to modern NiMH batteries today seems to be finding a good and easy to use charger which will properly discharge and/or cycle the batteries without requiring a human to fiddle with it or understand charge rates and when to discharge the cell prior to charging.

Only if you're really babying your NiMH cells is it worthwhile to do this.

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Frankly, my recommendation is to just throw away NiMH cells once they "go bad" (maybe a discharge/recharge cycle will save them, but they're really not that expensive).

For most consumers out there, the $10 trickle charge that takes 8+ hours is superior, because they'll never cycle the NiMH cells to death. How many dozens of charge/recharge cycles do you need before there's an issue, even with the most primitive of charging strategies?

When it takes months for a typical AA powered appliance to run out of NiMH charge, you realize that these "dozens" of charge/discharge cycles gives a life-span measured in _YEARS_ for these NiMH cells.

After 5 years, your NiMH cells might be on its last legs, needing a full discharge/recharge to get back to full power. Then and only then should you consider a $30 charger to perform this resurrection, except its probably more cost-efficient to just spend $2 and throw away the "old" cell.

You'll need to throw away $20 worth of cells (ie: 10 cells) before your $30 fancy charger with discharge/recharge cycles + coulomb counting is superior to the $10 crap trickle charger. Maybe an RC-car enthusiast will get there (or an electronic-hobbyist), but that's a _LOT_ of charge/recharge cycles before you reach this point. Even with the inferior $10 trickle charge design.

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EDIT: That being said, spending $30, $40, or $50 on a higher-end charger because you find it "cool" is probably worthwhile. Coolness is a factor and we're not really talking about a lot of money here. But the $10 charger + buy new cells as needed approach is probably the most cost-effective strategy.
It helps. I got my current job through LinkedIn. Also recently, I started to get contacted by recruiters from Meta, Microsoft through LinkedIn. Most of the offers you will get won't be interesting but overall I think it is worth it.
eBPF is being or already is extended to hook into kernel facilities other than networking. I could see it being used to implement some abstraction onto storage other than POSIX block device or mmap().
Or school reform.
I can effectively choose between two: Comcast and Verizon/their resellers. I said Comcast _downstream_ speeds are decent. Their _upstream_ speeds are atrocious.

Comcast only provides coax. Verizon and their resellers only support aging copper DSL lines.

No fiber is available unless I pay Comcast literally thousands of dollars just to bring the line to my house. Then they want to charge me $300 a month on top of that.

I did not suggest there was harm or collusion between Comcast and Verizon. I only pointed out that your experience of having a plethora of acceptable ISPs is unusual in most of the United States.
Awesome! I like the idea of the product, but the pricing structure is really really risky and makes it a hard sell. At least with AWS the price is fixed instead of “possibly cheap or possibly the most expensive thing you can ever imagine”.

It’s hard to know how you’d get rid of this problem: either you block terrible queries (bad for services) or have some price caps/forgiveness (bad for you).
That is no longer true, io_uring maintainer bought an Optane in 2021 and fine tuned io_uring to saturate said Optane
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-IO...
> They add a 2-3% tax on every transaction

That's incorrect. It is true that merchants generally pay 2.9% to process card transactions. But, the vast majority of that goes to entities outside of the card network.
Thanks for the comment. Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist:)

Yes, you're partially right...if we drop both balls on Moon, they'll fall at the same time. Because there's (almost) no air on the Moon. The ball with less mass has less force of gravity to fight with air resistance on the Earth. Therefore, it falls slower.

Maybe this video can help to visualize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esa0kKECZvM
Happened to me. Duracell was my goto and now they leak. I don’t know who to trust anymore. Thankfully I’m not a big battery consumer.
Rubber Material Holds Key to Long-Lasting, Safer EV Batteries
Not only does the page explain what you see, but it refers to the feather-bowling ball demonstration that was filmed on the Moon.
This is so exactly. People do not realize that when they use chrome to view website, chrome is their 'scraper'.

And the goal of webs craping is not to get illegal data, but to have efficiency and performance by not doing something manually but letting computer do the repetitive tasks. It's a productivity tool. You can't make something illegal just because it's an automation instead of 'manual' operation.
Yes and no. I do think that there are only two correct ways for a type system to do generic user-defined types: you either give us variance markers or you make all user-defined generic types invariant (Swift does this).

Personally, I hate the latter, but not as much as I hate unsoundness.

But, what I'm talking about is even more basic: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/MYGwhgzhAECCB2BLAt...

The code I wrote there is actually wrong for two reasons:

1. Type variance

2. Readonly doesn't do fuck-all in TypeScript for object types
Yes, I too have switched to Energizer - zero problems to date (switched from Duracell some years ago).
Interesting. I think the fact that it's legal to discriminate against young people but not against old people says a lot about the way our political process is structured.
Being able to walk outside, feel the sun, the air or the rain on your face, touching grass, trees or rocks - that would be a huge difference for me.
I think I understand your point of view better now. Thanks!

I still wish Apple would have pushed to develop an open standard as the path to improved user experience and messaging rather than making the progressive enhancement path go from an open network to a proprietary one. On the other hand, walled gardens have always been a productive pursuit for them, so why change?
> How much evidence are you going to demand before considering that perhaps they actually aren't treated fairly, by any reasonable definition of the word? You're largely refusing to engage with the actual topic at hand and instead squabbling over "shibboleths". Do you have an preferred way to discuss this, because I do think there's a legitimate concern here.

What are you talking about? The "actual topic at hand" is unionization, not the digression you're trying to pull it to. You also appear to be exhibiting a pretty polarized way of thinking, by assuming (falsely, I add) I take some "other side" position because I'm not hitting all your myside notes.

The point is that if you use polarized shibboleths [1] in your unionization drive, you're doing the union-busting consultants' work for them (specifically, enabling a divide and conquer strategy). If you want to succeed with unionization, broadly, you have to be very, very careful not to do that, since the playing field is already tilted against you.

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/shibboleth, if you're unaware of the meaning, which your scare-quotes lead me to suspect.
> A huge number of appliances seem to be designed for the 1.35V NiMH chemistry now.

Yes, this is my experience too. One of the problems with NiMH is that appliances have helpful low-battery indicators which might light up as soon as you put NiMH cells in them, even though the appliance might continue working for a long time yet. A prime example is the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, which was released in 2001. The thing is powered by switching regulators which work fine with the lower voltages of NiMH cells!

Newer appliances have solved these problems. For example, the Yamaha PSS-A50 (a fantastic, inexpensive portable keyboard) has an option to configure the low-battery indicator for alkaline or NiMH chemistry.
Three bytes are enough to fit nearly any of the chars in use in any language, including Chinese and Japanese

With only 3 bytes you'll completely miss plane 2, the "Supplementary Ideographic Plane" which includes tons of Chinese-Japanese-Korean Han characters.

I wish people would stop saying the supplementary characters are just for "emoji". Asian unification was very controversial and ultimately unsuccessful. Plane 1 and Plane 2 are important, especially if you're going to sell software or products in China or Japan where they are mandated.
I knew it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110790
Non-paywall link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210421205347/https://www.wired...
The question is why is it better for the country not who is more deserving. This is an export of US dollars. Is it better to keep the position local so member of society can be taxed/buy from other local businesses or export so foreign worker can buy tools from US firms or US business can get job done for cheaper.
I think the ratio of open-source contributing company ia going to be much lower around the MSFT ecosystem than on others. This does not mean less work or less skills are around, they are just less visible. Case in point: node and the whole JavaScript ecosystem seems to have a bad case of the look-at-me's...
I'm classified as a "violent criminal" by the state by way of having a violent felony. Not trying to be inflammatory, but this sounds like awful idea, mostly psychological and societal at large. In my experience, many, many people have this "us vs. them" attitude towards criminals, as in "I would never commit a crime so therefore they are not like us." The reality is, countless people are either innocent or one-time offenders (or others who likely do not "deserve" exile). Further division along further boundaries is probably not what we need, especially one which is nearly certain to be universally looked down upon.

So, IMO, resources would be much better spent improving what we have (a lot), making sure justice & sentencing is fair and consistent, and certainly doing a much better job of post-incarceration support, community, and monitoring. I would wager that many, many more people can be helped out of their circumstances than are currently, but prisoners are almost dropped entirely once they're released.