skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just goes back to the battery to complete the circuit. Heat is created by resistance and if the energy going through the heater isn’t being resisted enough, there is no heat, just wasted energy. Most of these heaters regulate temperature by turning off/on/off and it’s the coming up to full resistance that is when the energy is “wasted” and doing it at human temperatures is a lot of off/on cycles. Also, it’s worth pointing out that not 100% of the energy is converted to heat, or you’d have a gigaton bomb instead of a heater.
A lot of consumer tech companies' entire business model is "growth and engagement" which is basically arbitrage between what the investors/advertisers will pay and what it costs them to produce this "engagement". Any useful output produced by the system is a mere side-effect and the bare minimum necessary for to get the victims to "engage".
What's your opinion about Mozilla XPCOM regarding the others?
The Generous Billionaire
It'd only be compliant if they would then also not allow US intelligence agencies to access the data at will. That would however break US law, specifically section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
If we go to court every time a couple of people are hurt and shocked by a tweet the court system is going to be a bit overloaded.
I agree that changing working hours is a good aproach.

For me it's Mondays - I never could get myself to work on Monday. I'd sit in front of my computer and procrastinate until it was time to go home. So I decided to no longer work on Mondays and start my work week on Tuesday. Much better.
Reset holes for paper clips? I can't remember any of my Macs having a reset hole like you describe. In any case, I never had to use one. There was a key combo for resetting the OS.
DoltLab: The Self-Hosted DoltHub
Plenty? Or a handful?
This assumption leads to the conclusion that only services that reside in the same jurisdiction (EU, USA, ...) can be used if legal protection from the state is desired.

If legal protection from the state is enforced (even for other states) this means there need to be wholly separate services in each jurisdiction.

This seems very undesirable, especially for the US with it's multinational web companies.
I wonder if they are the signal of smaller spinning black holes that have been whipped by larger ones to near the speed of light such that the Hawking radiation is magnetic in nature due to spin.
Already exists. I'm using ygg on OpenBSD 7.0 right now: https://openports.se/net/yggdrasil-go
Your point is very poignant. Perhaps people should drop the pretense of unbias and wear their bias on their sleeves? It’s not like that’s too far from the current meta. Everyone is biased to all hell while saying on the tin “fair”, “unbiased”, “balanced”, or other weasel words
> Watching movies or reading on them is a masochistic experience.

As I noted elsethread, I really enjoyed watching TV (and movies, too) and reading on my Nexus tablets. I found them really well-designed for that, much preferable for reading than the Kindle I had had previously. Granted, a big-screen TV would be better for flashy, Marvel, giant-blue-laser-pointed-at-the-sky-to-kill-mankind, but then a theatre is even better for that! And also I don't want too many of those movies. When I do … I head to my den.
also the worse the search results will get if someone put a bunch of ads in before the search results for people to click on instead of the search results.
Dude, you tried and wasn’t a fit. Just get on with it.
Targeting potential marks absolutely makes sense and avoids scrutiny from savvy people who might call it out as a scam and potentially blow up the entire operation. This is also why web advertising is so much more dangerous than print advertising - at least with the latter, everyone can see what's being advertised and blow the whistle if necessary.
Yes, I can see this. If I was ever home to drive my car, I would get used to it I guess. Just turns into a habit and a tool over time.
You might find the latest screwdriver tech at one of these ones, https://www.conexpoconagg.com/
This is a contentious point especially for software engineering jobs as the salary is supposed to be based on performance as there is no obvious benefit to being in the same geographic location.

This is happening now too, as many high paying jobs are coming on India and other parts of the world through remote work. Eventually I believe your cost of living will have no impact on the salary you get.
On the other hand what is the alternative? The current blockchain/dlt hype is built on top of technology that severely impacts its security promise (https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/).

The reason why gnunet appears to be "redo-everything" is because that is exactly what is necessary if you take the issues seriously and think them through.

The reason why it takes so long is also because we are a small team and the goal does not provide instant gratification while at the same time being very hard to achieve.

It is a lot of systems programming and engineering. It is a lot more fun to reinvent the wheel in the newest shiny technology.
For some reason, the term "craftsman" has come to mean "obsessed with quality" in programming circles. I'd just like to point out that most traditional crafts (ie tailors, carpenters, metalworkers, etc) both today and in the past are absolutely not obsessed with making heirloom quality stuff all of the time. As long as the customer is happy and they get a competitive price for their time, they will be happy to take your project on.

Also as any historian will tell you there was a LOT of shitty quality stuff produced back in the day as well. It's just that nobody bothers to keep a wooden cabinet or a woolen greatcoat for multiple centuries unless it is absolutely magnificent. You can still get great quality bespoke furniture/clothing/etc today btw, but don't expect IKEA prices.
True, but don't worry. Sooner or later we'll kill ourselves off and mother nature will spring back to life.
An Experiment with Smalltalk and WebAssembly
By and large, ML is statistical inference albeit in less-than-rigorous form.
Solana Pay Connects Merchants and Consumers via Stablecoin Payments
ISO C11, ISO C17, ISO C23,

GCC C, clang C, xlc, aC, TICC, MSVC C, ...
See for me, I can get into a great flow state in my home office, but slack as a work queuing system leads to too much interruption.
Just added it to my list - thanks!
The alternative is not bash scripts
What the hell are you doing is a question the author should ask himself as well when CTOs, his clients, don't see the value add.
Uber would've definitely be positive if it wasn't for COVID. Where I am, People use it massively to get to/from parties, that basically died for the entire 2021... The local Uber branch said there was less than 1/10 rides that year...

So in conclusion, I'd wait before saying what has/doesn't have financial sense.

> In Toronto were I'm located, we have a local taxi company (the largest one, Beck) who has an app that AFAICT has all the same features as Uber's core ride hailing app.

Well, and where's the big difference? Why your local app can work and Uber can't?

Your local app won't work in Italy, whereas Uber does, and works consistently and with the same credit card I use at home. IMHO it's cool.
'Flattening the curve' give the time to develop vaccines and vaccinate a large fraction of the Danish population.
> In the "democratic internet", the answer is you, via your vote - but only in principle. In reality, it's whoever holds the keys to the server you want to use. The ultimate authority over what goes on on Wikipedia is not its userbase, no matter how much of a voice they have: it's the people who physically control the hardware and software that Wikipedia is running on.

And in real-life democracy it's the same. Ultimately it's the army that has the tanks.

> the "democratic internet" puts your experience of democracy under the control of this authority. If the very fabric of how you participate in an online system is manipulateable by the people in charge of that system, you have little-to-no protection against a coup - what do you do when someone deletes the code that lets you vote, or comment, or anything else?

What do you mean by that? If wikipedia jumps the shark people can make a new wikipedia. If France turns into autocracy people can emigrate or revolt. It's pretty much the same.
I find it slightly misleading that this is named after TeX, when it actually doesn't do TeX, but only has support for equations.

But I've already complained about that [1] when you presented your last project.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28034124
What are the services they are switching to?
The complete European Sega Saturn 60Hz guide to PAL optimised games
All the professional visual artists are on ArtStation. That's where you will find gigs, not on DA.
Keeping documentation in sync with source code
There is a parallel in the history of workplace safety, e.g. i picked this one from google at random, all these histories tell the same thing:

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/history-of-workplace-safety-in-t...

The sharp rise in accident costs that resulted from compensation laws and
tighter employers’ liability initiated the modern concern with work safety
and initiated the long-term decline in work accidents and injuries.

There was a long history of companies not caring about accidents and death in industry machinery. Companies claimed it was unavoidable, blamed their workers for doing this wrong, etc... Then the law made them care. The unsolvable non-problem turned out to be a solved problem in a few years. We also got some red tape as a side dish, but that's a good deal, all in all

Software is the same: If organizational leadership felt immediate pain from sloppiness, that sloppiness would disappear quickly. But now, we have fallen in a point where software gives no warranty at all, users have accepted the low quality as a regrettable fact of life, and companies attribute their low productivity to vague nebulous unsolvable mysteries instead of sloppy software. So here we are.
The main challenges I have had with Flatpak is that for any apps that need to integrate with other components (e.g. I want my VS Code to use the same Node that I run from the Terminal) things get flaky. Its not so much that Flatpak does not support that kind of integration, but that many apps are not properly configured when packaged to take advantage of FP's integration features.... End result is still a poor user experience. Moral of the story: don't just shove your code in a Flatpak and call it a day! Take the time to do it right.
What an excellent article.

For me, it's also a timely discussion in that a short while ago (from my records on August 19 2019) I was looking at the Wikipedia article on aspartame when I realized that there was a significant error on the page. The skeletal formula was correct but the ball-and-stick model was incorrect in that it had an extra hydrogen tacked onto the aspartic acid group—the NH2 was misrepresented as NH3.

Being somewhat surprised at the error—as one would have thought that both representations would have been generated in the same software, Avogadro etc., thus the error should have occurred in both or not at all—so I dug a little deeper. I recalled that I had previously visited Wiki's Aspartame page some years back so I went looking to see if I had kept a copy of the page and sure enough I had saved it (it's not unusual for me to save Wiki pages).

Anyway, upon reexamination of the earlier page, I found that the ball-and-stick formula was also incorrect therein. Clearly, I'd not noticed the error back then.

The date of that earlier viewing was April 5, 2012, so the Wikipedia page has had that blatant error present for over 9 years—it could be much longer as I never checked when the page was originally posted! Given both its notoriety and controversy, how could such a large mistake exist in this Aspartame page for so long without anyone noticing it?

I then tried to correct the error. I attempted to edit the page only to be informed that my domain was unacceptable and so I could not do so. I then resorted to contacting Wiki by other means and informing them of the error and they corrected fault within hours.

If anyone has a reasonable explanation for why this error could exist so long on Wiki without being corrected then I'd love to know. Moreover, why would only the balls-and-stick be in error when it is normal for both representations to be generated on a common piece of software?

Second Matter:

"Searle patented this product, naming it Nutrisweet and Equal. Officially, aspartame has a half-life of about 300 days in solution at about pH 4, about the pH of soft drinks, but half life means that half if it as gone by that time. And if the cans are exposed to a hot storeroom or stored in a warm summer garage, they may deteriorate faster."

I'd rarely have the opportunity to drink 'old' artificially sweetened drinks of this sort. First I don't drink many of them, and second, I only buy them in the supermarket where there's a very fast turnover of stock.

That said, I find Diet Coca Cola unbearably sweet and almost undrinkable when its chilled and completely undrinkable when warm, the others, Zero etc., I find so sweet that they're undrinkable under any conditions.

Could it be that drink manufactures are actually increasing sweetness past the so-called 'bliss point' to allow for the deterioration/aging of aspartame? Perhaps they're aiming for some 'ideal' or average date past manufacture where the maximum number of punters would likely be consuming the stuff.

Does anyone know or have factual information about such matters?
Belgium is currently handling a huge pollution scandal with PFAS [1].
The media are using very different terminology, covering up the fact that they'll be along "forever".

[1]: https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/191829/flanders-to-lau...
Not if it's run through a European subsidiary surely
Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression
I just use bash. Does what it needs to. No reason to change to something else.
Membership to ACM (acm.org) comes with access to the o'reilly learning platform along with some other benefits and costs $99, so that's a pretty good deal. Have to admit I don't read enough to make it worth it though
That's not my point. Everyone is unbiased until pointed out where/how they are biased. Maybe that is every action of every person on the planet, but in my biased opinion some are clearly less biased than others, and it's not that hard to compare.
What were you hoping to experience with leaving the city and your social circle?
>800 euro a month to rent in the middle of a capital city

Yeah, those days are mostly gone. The real estate market is crazy now in most of the western/northern EU.

The market dipped slightly during the first lockdowns of 2020 but bounced right back up quickly and came back with a vengeance.
There is very clear distinction on something being illegal and something being not defined by law.
AirBnB case, at least from what I know on most of countries, the law did not forbid this type activity and yes leaving your house for a couple of days to someone you know for a small recompense was already in use. It didn't make sense to regulate it by law before because it was rare enough. When AirBnB made it usable for the mases then the regulations started to comeup because in that case it started to become a real business. This does not mean it was Illegal before. it was just undefined. The same for example with the data Privacy laws, GDPR etc. these are regulations that have come up as a response to undefined behavior not as a response to illegal behavior.
Unrelated: "The kilogram is the mass of a litre of cold water; a cubic centimetre or millilitre of water has a mass of one gram"

So satisfying...
Email federation is more than just the addressing system. Even with a consistent address, your host still needs to be able to send and receive SMTP messages to participate in the ecosystem.

Address lock-in is real but doesn't fully negate the benefits of federation. Even if you don't control your address's domain, you can switch providers without losing the ability to send and receive email. There is extra cost in pointing your bank account to your new address, but it is possible. If your bank communicated to you via a non-federated protocol like WhatsApp, switching would be impossible.
Fact checking has poisoned discourse because it has an underlying assumption that preferences of one sort or another can be proven true, when in fact they cannot because they are by definition preferences.

People would hope to just recognize that they have different preferences about how others should behave, some of those preferences get condensed into laws and some are argued about indefinitely.
First time I've heard this term as well.
Interestingly, radix sort can also lexicographically sort a collection of strings over a fixed alphabet in time O(sum of sizes of strings). It's not necessary to assume all the strings have the same length.
> Do they get the choice to?

Yes. At least somewhat. There's a reason lots of competing products become popular, e.g. Google Sheets taking some of the popularity of Excel. New features like live sync actually matter. And to the extent that users actually care about quality, software with better quality will evenutally also win.

I mean, I'm using an iPhone. I'm using a Mac. I'm paying a huge premium over someone on Android and Windows. I do it largely for the quality of the Apple ecosystem.

But yes, there are still problems. The world of products is hard. :)
> When I do this I am repetitively told that I’m negative and this is not a productive attitude but I disagree and see this as a defence of the improper norm. The first step of quality is acknowledging you have a problem which needs to be shouted in most companies faces until they can hear through the fingers in their ears.

I don't think you're negative at all, but the "fingers in their ears" is based on a misunderstanding. Companies have their ears wide open and their customers are telling them -- mostly indirectly by voting with their wallet -- that they want quick and dirty features over quality. Your suggestion to punish bad quality would actually help these companies by removing those perverse incentives.
Follow-up explainer to “Did I just lose half a million dollars?”
Why the Experts Are Losing
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/love-humor/remote-cabi... has a writer who had a similar experience.

You’ve started to discover a kind of truth. It’s just not the truth you wanted to find. Which is part of what makes truth—deep emotional truth—annoying, and part of why so many of us avoid it as much as we can.

Authors you might want to read here on coming to terms with toil and place and work absolutely include Wendell Berry, who has basically made this his life's work.
Culture of the product company.

That is, move fast and break things (cause it works for them) vs let's get this right (else we'll be targeted on HN).

In the case of Google, they don't really have an incentive to do better product. The products are simply a smokescreen for their search / advertising monopoly.

Furthermore, you and your One Drive, Cast, etc. are more of a source of data to be harvested than a means to bringing joy and satisfaction into your life.
Agreed. A 45-year-old HP 4650B with its cavity oscillator has fancier physics going on than you're likely to build at home unless you make building signal generators your hobby for the next decade or two.

Just looking into what would be involved in building a stepped attenuator comparable in insertion loss, accuracy, and isolation to the HP-335 series from 1958 should give one pause.

The Marconi looks nice.
I have not seen ads the past 15 years. I wonder what the web looks like today, as I read people bitching about it. I don't know why they don't just block things.
England is a strange combination of metric and imperial. Walking is measured in km but driving is miles. Weight of a person is stone and lbs, but of any other object is in kg and g. Height of a person is ft and inches, but of any object is in m, cm or mm. It's very odd
The miata or wild stuff like exoskeletons came immediately to mind for me too. I wish these were going to be mass produced.
I can't stand diet soda's they always taste off. I a lot these artificial sweeteners gross/disgusting.
The Basics of Emacs Configuration
I have a printed book on AspectJ. Pretty sure it's past its "useful lifespan".

As technologies age, so do anything that talks about them.
So Microsoft is moving a flagship product with hundreds of developers from one web browser javascript framework to another (node to react)... That seems to be part of the reason of the bloat.

MS could afford to do it right - hire a few dozen elite native developers who can code it up in native C# with 10x the speed and 0.1x the resource consumption like they did for every other MS Office application, rather than this half-baked layering of 3rd party frameworks on top of an interpreted language on top of a web browser...
People get the software they deserve. The market is rewarding that type of software.
Why are (almost) all these writing systems from Crete? Were people not writing things down on the mainland at that time, or have their writing systems all been deciphered?
Or is there some other explanation?
Regarding the distribution of users on Mastodon servers, the article seems a little biased. The author complains about how "an average of six hundred users per server" doesn't look like "every user knows the system admin where their data is stored". The median users per server would have been a fairer metric than the mean, specially because it later points out that three servers have over 50% of the users in the Mastodon ecosystem...
(European in the US here) The fact that 0F is not "water freezing" (but way worse...) is weirding me out to no end.
I signed up on a waiting list, I don't use the app.
Since you seem to have vastly the scope of your complaint down to "it doesn't generate all wrapper code automatically for all features", I'll take that as you conceding that the interface does not prevent these features from being implemented across it. Great.

And if that's the biggest remaining problem with it, it would be possible to address by augment the interface glue with some extra metadata in a C comment or something nice and simple to describes higher level constructs without the base being tied to or require some specific implementation of them. Just write up a spec and we're done.
Games where Dasein gets a seat
Complexity in the Service of Simplicity
Aspartame makes me dizzy, even a little bit like from gum containing it. I have to abstain.
So how does this apply to Gmail? If somebody sends an email to me, and I'm using Google Workspace, could they argue I'm sharing their personal information with Google then?
The world's tiny islands inspiring green action
Show HN: Thumblisher – Figma plugin to manage social media image resizing
Can we prove there is no teapot on an orbit around the sun between earth and mars, too small to be detected by telescopes?

The question isn't "Can we prove that we are not in a simulation", the question is "How likely is it that we are in a simulation".

And the answer is: We don't know.

Sure, there are hypotheses about how super evolved species (Matrioshka-Brain-Capable) would simulate multiple universes, so its likely that ours is not the real one, but this assumes that we know anything about what a species on that level of scientific capability would do...which we don't.
You’re right, but if you substitute the word “spoiled” for “off”, then jt would make sense since no one says “oh this food doesn’t taste spoiled”.
Octopus Deploy Acquires Dist
In my experience, home servers are delicate. Power outages and brownouts not only temporarily take the server offline, they can corrupt it and take it offline permanently. And you still have to pay for the hardware and the power.

It's much cheaper, easier, and more reliable to go with a cheap webhost like nearlyfreespeech.net to keep it online at almost no cost or maintenance.