skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, nothing stops Librem 5 users from just throwing away all that nonsense code they wrote to load the firmware from a dedicated flash, and just flash standard U-Boot (which already includes a mechanism to embed the blob, which is the normal way to do it), at which point you can of course modify it or replace it.

Basically, it's a whole bunch of wasted engineering effort, but it in no way accomplishes actually turning the blob into "hardware" or making it immutable. It's just rules-lawyering. Which makes it even more pointless and nonsensical. The sticking point seems to have actually been not having the main CPU touch the physical bits of the blob (not execute; touch); avoiding that magically made it RYF-certifiable. This is why they moved the loading process to a secondary core (that still runs open source code, which then loads the blob into a third core that runs it).
All I’m saying is I switched my default search on my phone and browser to ddg (just to try it out) and the results have been good enough to not make me switch back to google.
Actually I was the one leading to build their initial PostgreSQL offering. But I left the team later.

Technically, there's nothing prevent them doing that. It's probably just priority conflicts. A bit sigh though since it's a worthwhile feature IMO.
It's not just the self-reporting that skews levels.fyi. It's mostly the fact that they focus on the biggest companies that pay the most. Definitely not a sample that's representative of the whole market but at least it shows what's possible.
I'm both, but with different kind of tasks. When I'm doing creative writing then cafe is the best, office just doesn't work for me, I need to see the flow of the world around me.

OTOH, if I'm coding then sitting in cafe will distract me with all the things happening in mu peripheral vision.
The fact that we know some people don't naturally A-decouple is exactly why in public, political debates we have to be careful about D-decoupling or allowing others to do it without challenging them.

There are an infinity of things we could assume for the sake of argument and the act of choosing and assuming a particular one of those options is often not a purely academic one, especially when done in public.
Reading still costs energy, although the amount varies from person to person and time to time.
I don't like Google, but Chrome is a better browser - especially if you're frontend dev. I'd love for Firefox to be better but it's way slower and its developer console is no match for Chrome's.
DevToys: A Swiss Army knife for developers
If you're outside of the US, it feels like you don't get a lot of the upside but you're still susceptible to downturns if/when they happen. It's not great.
>Eliminating the front brake is a non starter from a safety POV for a powered bike used for transport.

It's also illegal in some(most?) EU countries, at least in Germany and the UK, AFAIK.
Without the support of human civilization they are probably a bit boned anyhow. :)
>That works because the apartment windows are not at eye level, they are a storey up

But in an enclosed courtyard, there would be apartments across the way at eye level. Though that's solved by scale. With a large enough complex, the courtyard distance isn't much different than apartments across the street.
I'm going to try this one night when I'm on my last 2 beers. Might just time out perfect!
I'm sorry, but the point you're trying to make here is just bad. If some is running around with a knife stabbing everyone and the police just watched because 'they don't want to have to kill anyone's do you think that'd be ok?

That is the kind of thing the police force was designed to handle. Sometimes killing someone is the right thing to do when your job is dealing with situations like that.
unfortunately we need lots and lots of band aids.

the problem is that EVs are a tiny solution to a small problem. the rest of the problems don’t go away by using EVs.

food production, mining, chemical engineering, shipping, aviation and many other high CO2 industries still have no solutions. so we’ll need band aids. some industries might never be possible to have zero CO2. for those we’ll need permanent band aids.

and the best band aid is CCS. we could get rid of all CO2 right now if we use CCS everywhere. but no one wants to spend trillions on this. so we’re left arguing…
Don't forget you have a complete market of C++ consultants and their companies that will do nothing but explain to you how partial template specialization works. Only for $$$$ per seat ;) Meyers, Alexandrescu, Sutter et al. built their careers by writing books and explaining arcane C++ details.
Not at all.

It was a workaround (unreliable at that, IIRC) for compilers getting more aggressive in ignoring the intentions of C, including the early standards.

"The Committee kept as a major goal to preserve the traditional spirit of C. There are many facets of the spirit of C, but the essence is a community sentiment of the underlying principles upon which the C language is based. Some of the facets of the spirit of C can be summarized in phrases like

- Trust the programmer.

- Don't prevent the programmer from doing what needs to be done.
..."

TRUST THE PROGRAMMER.

http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c89/rationale/a.html#1-5
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Here you are: http://t3x.org/lfn/

(Scroll down a bit for links to the code)
Would you be able to waste your own time googling the obvious instead?
If you don't know it already, you might be interested in 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' by Douglas Adams and/or the funnier second part 'The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul'.
It's illegal cause it will kill you.

Independently of whether this is legal or illegal wherever you live, you should care about _why_ it is illegal in some places.
Sorely disappointed you didn't sneak in a UFO.
It usually says “undo move file” or something like that, which may be the file you accidentally moved just now or a source file you moved intentionally two hours ago.
Along the same lines as realising that you'll eventually want to get rid of things is realising—at the time of purchase—that there'll be a cost (time, money, emotional) to getting rid of it is a healthier way of thinking.

The idea that getting rid of stuff is _just_ getting rid of stuff is missing the "third" cost, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042285
This mill is the only thing that keeps this many humans alive though. To have humanity abandon it is to subject 90% of the population to starvation. A steep price to pay to become people living off the land without industrialization.

The only reason you are able to wait for trees to grow in peace is also because you live in the protection of modern society. You are only allowed to “go back to the land” because of the massive industrial military protecting you.
I'd argue restrictions on stocks make it less liquid also (though this is as designed).

If you have $3000 in stocks and you want need $100 you can sell the stock and then buy it back on your next paycheck. But unless your account is over a certain size, you can only do this so many times in a specified period.

Since this restriction doesn't exist with crypto, you can sell and buy back the same crypto 1000 times in a day if you want to (and many bot operators do this)
> Also, the fact that it's not rewritable means that...

> 1. Security bugs[2] will never be fixed[3], rendering the hardware unsafe to use over time.

But on the other hand: security bugs will never be introduced post-manufacturing. Additional DRM cannot be forced onto you, after you bought the product. Or: DRM bugs that allow you to fully use your hardware cannot later be patched by the vendor.
Ooooh.

Is there a way to turn unquoted column and table names case insensitive too? Thats like the second biggest annoyance.
The history of Facebook Marketplace
WebGPT: Browser-assisted question-answering with human feedback
Seems like a fragile approach when you can't even be sure about which bits are code and which are data... You might end up patching a svc syscall only to find out that it's actually some constant used in the logic of the game.
Utilitarianism will not lead to counterintuitive answers if the broader consequences of each action is taken into account. For me, this is the true defence of utilitarianism. Each of the examples are completely stripped of societal consequences, which is wholly unrealistic. A utilitarian doctor will not kill their healthy patients in a real hospital, in a real society, where their actions will have major consequences on countless more than the 6 people presented in the text, and far into the future.

They are comparable to to the question "But if you want to live a happy life, why not inject yourself with heroin and feel super happy for a few hours? It would be the best way to live a happy life today."

Upholding personal rights, predictability and principles will maximise human happiness in the long term, while optimising for short-term happiness will often cause suffering in the long term.

Some examples:

> Say you’re a surgeon. You have 5 patients who need organ transplants, plus 1 healthy patient who is compatible with the other 5. Should you murder the healthy patient so you can distribute his organs, thus saving 5 lives?

A society where people are deathly afraid of sending loved ones to the hospital, for fear they might be killed and used for organ harvesting, will lead to the collapse of healthcare and cause far more suffering than temporarily increasing the supply of organs will prevent.

> You’re the sheriff in a town where people are upset about a recent crime. If no one is punished, there will be riots. You can’t find the real criminal. Should you frame an innocent person, causing him to be unjustly punished, thus preventing the greater harm that would be caused by the riots?

If this framing of the innocent is discovered, which is not unlikely, it will lead to complete distrust in law enforcement, and over time the corruption of law enforcement will cause far more suffering than stopping this specific riot will prevent. And the unjust punishment might cause riots for a different reason, anyway.

This might even match 1-to-1 with your intuition, if your intuition is "This seems logical on paper, but I don't want to live in a society where this happens, so I'm against it."

TL;DR: We live in a society.
> proprietary firmware that is inaccessible to the user like in the Purism example. I hate that

Personally I'd hate that too - thankfully, that's not what happens on the Librem 5 (see my other comments in this thread for details).
You think software companies get rich from the proprietary software in medical equipment sold in low quantities that cost a million dollar and is made from super strong magnets creating insane magnetic forces?

Answering your question: probably zero. Medical equipment is expensive due to the very high-tech technology it requires (the aforementioned magnets, but for ultrasound imaging one has to simultaneously output and receive sound waves in multiple dimensions) as well as the safety level being so high (you don’t want the given radiation amount overflow due to a bug).

Find blame in for-profit insurances instead.
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you don't run your fpm processes as superuser.
In general it is run in a jailed environment.
I am not sure if I am weird or not, but I study for these rote learning (Where you learn and just remember, no research allowed, no referring official documentation, nothing, just learn and answer) certifications a little differently than for the practical ones.

-- I find reputed practice exams, for AWS TutorialsDojo is reputed on, similarly there would be something for Azure, I am sure.

-- Try 1-2 practice exams after my initial study, and see where I stand. Go through all the answers and their explanations and understand if my understanding of the concept is right or not. If not, take quick-short-to-the-point-notes about that one particular thing and move on.

-- Study notes, and fill the gaps, and give tests again. Repeat

After a certain iterations of this, you'll see pattern emerging in at least practice tests. These certifications rely on you knowing "A VERY PARTICULAR THING ABOUT X TECH, WHICH THEY MADE". So study the exams in this fashion, and once you are prepared with all the key-notes, sit for a final test exam and see where you stand.

At least this works for me, I am not sure how you actually learn you content, but a suggestion.
> Instead we need to progressively ramp up taxes on fossil fuels to drive down demand over time.

this is incredibly simplistic.

our whole way of living produces huge amounts of CO2. chemical engineering, mining, aviation, shipping, food production and a lot more. you can start taxing CO2 and realise that some industries cannot function without producing it. thus another solution is needed. CCS is that solution. with enough money we could have the best of both worlds: keeping our way of life and capturing all the CO2 we produce.
The most dystopian version of this I've seen if my friend's old apartment outside San Diego. It was just a strip of land between two freeways with an exit, a McDonald's, Starbucks, and Food 4 Less. And the apartment complex. And you had to cross the single light on the strip of street between offramp and onramp to get to the latter two.
I used to love Netflix until they decided that my home IP address was a "datacenter IP".

After fruitless argument with them I simply stopped sending them my money and kept watching all the same stuff, on bittorrent.

Their footgun is pretty impressive.
https://archive.is/YYn0L
I'm not in the US... in many (most?) countries, beef is mostly an import.
> I don’t want it to exist

Too bad eevee, you don’t get to say if something exists or not. If it exists in the minds of the participants, and the memory of our computer systems it exists as much in real world as any other shared delusion.
Trying to suppress technology you don’t not like is authoritarian.

The best part is that everything in blockchain land is voluntary. It doesn’t require anyone believe it exists, it just does exist. Some people think it has value.
The problem seems to scale with the weight carried.

I have no intuitive feel for how heavy 250 tonnes is, but even if current crane tech can move that weight with centimeter precision, they're explicitly marketing this for tasks where the current tech has issues with access, which implies they don't think it competes directly with traditional cranes on their own territory, but does work well enough in specific circumstances to be an option.

Maybe its a bad idea overall, or unrelated business model issues render it a dead-end, but beating the current product in every concievable metric in every concievable use case is not necesssry for a product to be a success.
Sure, but that doesn't really help to justify killing them. Can I walk around and kill random people? I mean sooner or later they will all die for one reason or another, I am not really changing the outcome for anyone...
The slowest bit of emulating old machines is executing everything in lockstep -- people would count CPU cycles, to know exactly how far through drawing the screen the console was. It was common to do things like "after drawing line 51 of the frame, quickly reconfigure the graphics hardware to change sprites/colours/etc.

In some cases games would even rely on facts what happened after each cycle of a 3 cycle CPU instruction.

Fortunately for emulator writers, that's not possible on modern hardware. They operate much more like a series of independent boxes, and you can't do such exact cycle counting. That means you can do things like rewrite ARM into x86 and just run the CPU, and only need an approximate count of how many cycles it has done.
Since you mentioned LWB Recumbents, here's one that that has replaced a mechanical drivetrain by an electric one, and features regenerative breaking:

https://www.recumbent.news/2021/05/23/the-ultimate-tilting-s...
No problem, Zenst. It's a common error.
This is bike shedding. The nuances of which principles to use to convert notebooks to standalone apps are complex with unexpected trade-off, so instead you prefer to focus on the borderline inconsequential point of the format.
Go is about to get faster
"with sufficient storage"

Sure, it's easy to say. There's currently no tech available that could be deployed for grid scale storage. Batteries are needed elsewhere, pumped up hydro requires specific geography, hydrogen is too inefficient. And all of those would cost a lot to be able to deal with a multi-day energy generation slump ( e.g. a big storm).
Fully agree that the language is very taxing on the braincells and I think this is the main reason why Senior C++ Wizards tend to hate Rust. Imagine spending 10 years learning the little details about lifetimes, thread safety, million different UB cases etc. and then seeing a kid fresh out of college fearlessly writing performant code by leveraging the amazing Rust compiler. I bet it must be an infuriating feeling which is why I'm glad that I bailed out on C++ early in my carreer.
Ah, international spying. Say no more. A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?
Note that this soft is not Open Source (as in OSI's open source). The source is available though. They offer a free tier, a commercial license and will propose an academic license: http://rpg-paper-maker.com/index.php/downloads
Have you considered therapy? It sounds like you might benefit from it.

If that's a bit too much, maybe try pomodoro or similar techniques. Basically create small achievable goals for yourself; "I'm going to read 10 minutes without distraction", "I'll practice one question" etc. After you could reward yourself with a 5-10min distraction break.

Also maybe try mindfulness.
To be honest, the whole book is confusing even if you read it as written. It's probably me reading it over months, but forgetting names and relations does not help. So, probably skipping some chapters wouldn't matter to me that much. In general, I love the book. I definitely need to finish it!

There was a time I wanted to learn Russian to read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.
You need independent motors to run all those things after you removed the belts. You don't save any mechanical complication that way. Those components are now just electrically-driven from their own motors rather than mechanically driven from belts.
Remember Tulip-mania? All of a sudden tulip-bulbs became hugely valuable. You could trade them and park you money in them.

Why did they become so valuable? Because people believed in the bigger-fool theory, somebody would be paying even more for the tulip-bulbs you just bought. Or if not more, at least the same price. So you could keep your wealth in a very liquid inflation-protected financial instrument called tulip-bulbs.

Isn't that much what has happened with Bitcoin?
Only some ants are blind, sensing pheromones is how they get around, and get stuck. Scout and worker ants are not blind and won't get stuck like this.
This is probably going to be peak HN comment, but - somehow I find rocket engines to be way simpler than a car or plane engine.

And then there's biological systems that are way more complex.
Great to see this on here! Since I've started listening to it, I go around recommending the book to basically everyone. The truths in there are so simple in theory, but it's still eye opening to be confronted with them.
Agree - the e-bike is one of the minor revolutions that was enabled/driven by the accompanying revolution in battery technology.
Your question is completely wrong. Instead you should ask:

How to stop my mind from being a monkey jumping from one distraction to another?

The answer is simple - meditation
They are cheaper but conceptually aren’t any different.
Ask HN: Best way to migrate from Wordpress to something simpler/more elegant?
I've been running my personal blog [0] on a selfhosted linux box (Hetzner server) for about six years. A lot less experienced back then, I opted for WP. But it is a hassle. I've tried making my site as lightweight as possible, but there's a lot of functionality I just don't need. I'm the sole author/user of my low traffic site.

On the technical side - a large attack surface, constant security issues, themes randomly screwing up site access, lots of custom nginx rules to mitigate potential issues and make PHP play along nicely.

Content wise - the online editor is a HUGE pain. Probably the biggest reason preventing me from posting more. Also, I tried disabling the inclusion of external resources in the past, but a few days ago I noticed ublock blocking fonts.googleapis.com through my site. I don't want any of this.

In short, I'd like to move my content to a new site, preferably something minimalistic, maybe static, with a small footprint and entirely self-contained. No more wonky WYSIWYG editing, constant security worries, MySQL/PHP dependencies.

Some thoughts regarding migrating:

* Should I keep a list of deeplinks to my posts to integrate as nginx redirects so search engine hits still work?

* Are comments overrated? I've had just a few over the years, with mostly mixed relevance.

* Depending on the technology used, does it make sense to leverage CI/CD? I'm already running a private gitlab instance for various tasks.

I've seen really beautiful personal pages linked on HN in the past. Are there recommendations or positive experiences with selfhosted sites?

[0] https://jschumacher.info/
For an article supposedly about protecting your privacy, it's very weird to see the author's opposition to DoH. The only evidence given are the "Criticism" section of the wiki article on DoH (which no longer exists, apparently), some blog post and a Reddit comment with few convincing arguments (no, pointing fingers at SNI and the like isn't gonna cut it).

DoH has issues but is overall a net positive and step in the right direction, and you have the freedom to set the DoH server to whichever you think is less evil, but to go as far as to block it is just strange.
Why the downvotes? The website doesn't explain any of my questions.
That would be really usefull! And when the parser does not understand a language construct (e.g. a new swl fwature) let it fall back to some dumb parsing for that part.

If it does not under „LIMIT 5 WITH TIES“ let it parse „LIMIT 5“ in it‘s usefull abstraction and just provide two suffix keywords „WITH“ and „TIES“.
To survive climate change, Venice needs to rethink its outdated flood defenses
Cost of living doesn't account for quality of living. Most of Europe live in small flats - a large detached house equals millionaire (heck everyone with property nowadays is a millionaire) level wealth.
"You can't control how you feel. But you can control how you react to your feelings."
If it comes to idealised organ harvesting: I honestly don't know morally which side of the trolley problem (which this one is an instance of) is the one to be picked, so it's unclear to me what side is the right one. Remember that you're a few times more likely to receive an organ than to donate all organs in this case.

When it comes to "real" case: it causes distress to the whole population and transplanted organs have consequences (e.g. immunosupressants) that lower their value.
> People are being mislead by the empty promises of privacy. Brave not only also "phones home" but as soon as you fire up the browser it starts contacting Amazon.

And suddenly forgot about the proofs.