skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I invite you to drive three or four hours north of Toronto and see for yourself. Or just Google image search "Canadian shield", I think it will become clear to you. It's beautiful country, BTW. But not farm country. (I personally would welcome the challenge, but my wife and kids would probably not appreciate it)

It's a thin layer of top soil overtop of granite, often exposed. a) it's variable terrain and mostly not level and full of exposed rocks, so not suitable for mechanized agri. Just getting a house built there with a well or basement often involves dynamite b) Trees roots can penetrate nooks and crannies most agri crops can't. c) the soil pH is wrong, it's quite acidic in spots.

It goes on like that for probably more than 1/2 of the Canadian land mass BTW.
Fret not! It’s not all forgotten. We know how to make structures with fine masonry techniques; it’s just not economical to build modern structures with these labor-intensive and high-skill methods. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_architecture and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashlar
It's not that they're "wrong" so much as that they're incoherent and largely non-sense.

Sorry if that seems harsh, just.. this looks like someone's having some sort of crisis. It's worrisome.
Yeah, there's a ton of barely noticeable nuance to Wordle's design that makes it so popular. The way sharing was set up was brilliant, and the "everyone gets the same word" design feels super limiting and strange, but you can instantly see the tie back to his earlier projects where that makes it more of an experience/event than a simple word game. Things like Place and The Button having hard set interaction limits changes what they are and how people play them.

The usability experience is absolutely top notch as well, I can't speak to any input or interaction method that feels natural that Wordle doesn't seem to handle effortlessly.

It's a simple game, but it's a game tuned to the absolute perfection of it's craft.
Sure, but it would be cool to compare the resolution.
> there is a strong preference in a large percentage of the population for suburban and rural style homes and light business areas. We build a ton of that and often very quickly.

Because that's the only thing you can build. The zoning regulations don't let anything else happen easily. You can't reason from this that this is what people actually prefer.
I think POSIX compliance of interactive shells is completely irrelevant. POSIX shells are relevant when you're writing scripts that will be distributed, but there's no reason that needs to be done with the same shell you use interactively. I use fish presently and zsh before that for nearly 15 years, but my shell scripts have always started with #!/bin/sh

It's not like fish installs to /bin/sh, nor are /bin/sh scripts executed using fish just because your interactive shell is fish. I guess these are the two misconceptions the common worries are based on?
>That's racist.

You clearly don't know what the word means. French isn't a race, at most it's a nationality or ethnicity. And in any case I'm 1/4th French, ethnically.

>And a deny of history about the anti-french sentiment in the USA consequently of the opposition of French to to participate in a war that later you want you never make.

I never said there wasn't anti-French sentiment in the US though? Do you have issues with reading comprehension?
I'm disappointed there aren't more technical details. Small scale gas-to-electric conversion isn't something you really find off the shelf. Diesel generators can be converted to use natural gas, but the conversion isnt something really available off the shelf. The smallest commercial gas turbines are 30kw, which seems a bit too high for what I assume to be the Bitcoin mining equipment in the utility box on the pole in the picture. Some solid oxide fuel cells can convert methane, but the ones you can find commercially can't handle the dirty sulfur-rich natural gas that you'd find in an oil well. So there is something novel happening here to convert the gas to electricity, but it is completely overshadowed by the bitcoin story.
It’s not as easy to move money to an overseas account as it is to buy Bitcoin.

Your money on that account is still being trusted to some authority and your guarantees on it are limited.

The real fiat equivalent would be moving all your wealth into cash first (literally physical bills in your house), which is obviously worse and harder to move.

Your bitcoins cannot also be demonetized any differently than fiat. It’s similar to sanctions on rubles. Both types of value are vulnerable to government bans affecting the price. The difference is with crypto and self-custody you can transact privately despite that (similarly to if you held cash, but holding lots of cash is again harder and more vulnerable to a single government’s stupidity).

If your dollars in a bank are frozen you can’t transact at all. Your self-custody BTC can’t be frozen on the blockchain, you retain a lot more ability to transact globally.
Dual-gated single-molecule field-effect transistors beyond Moore’s Law
Have read at least one articale warning about not to use mobile phones near bases. Sad that this happened. However what have taken place could be used as a tactic to confuse the russian army and make them waste their rockets by turning on a lot of phones near abandoned places.
My company has default shell as zsh so every tool assumes that. How can I switch to fish in such an environment?
For 60% boards, the HHKB (Happy Hacker’s Keyboard) which is built with Topre switches mentioned in my other comments has this layout. There’s also boards with MX style switches that mimic the HHKB, such as the Tokyo60.

For 65%, things get more spotty. Off the top of my head I’m not aware of any prebuilt 65% boards that use this layout.

For both 60% and 65%, there’s a huge number of build-it-yourself kits as well as separate PCBs, cases, etc that support this layout. It’s a bit of a rabbit hole (as alluded to with this post’s title), but if you have the patience by far building your own board gives you the greatest degree of control.
Trump and His Crew Boost Putin’s Disinformation
Is this last point still true? I would imagine most poor area land is still owned by rich people?
"Misleading and factually incorrect": the foundation of all public policy in CA.
They are manipulative, but not effective.
The Commodore 64 is the one computer that I have kept with me over the years and multiple moves across the country. It has been turned on in 20 years and would likely fail in countless ways if I tried, but it has some truly nostalgic vibes.
There are several feature comparison tables for numerous shells here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_command_shells
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Vscode is also built on electron though, is it not?
Is there any evidence that running under Rosetta impacts GPU performance measurably? Shaders are compiled on the fly for a given GPU so draw calls coming in from native vs emulated shouldn't have a big impact unless the CPU is the bottleneck.

GPUs are usually the performance bottleneck at 4k so Rosetta may not even have a measurable impact on framerate for some of the tests. Beyond that, what games are out there that have otherwise identical implementations that run on Windows/x86 and MacOS/Arm?

Why compare games at all? It is a really common use of GPUs so Apple claiming just "faster" rather than "faster in X use case" or "more FP computations per second" opens them up to gaming comparisons.
K, I would like to pose the following Q

--

What ~~would be the balance btwn the effort for climate change, vs,~~

What the heck are we doing?

We keep talk of CO2 offsets, and Sequestering...

WE FUCKING NEVER SPEAK OF PROCESS OPTIMIAZATION WHICH REDUCE CO2 T BEGIN WITH??? !!!

Band-aid much bitch. WTF?!
It is. Just tried it. Works
There's a reason why GPU supercomputers exists and it's not to play videogames.
How Life Imitates Chess
Book by Garry Kasparov

This book explained me concepts of
- material
- time
- and quality

in chess and business life.
Incredible story. Bravery like this is always special and deserves to be publicized. I'm happy she was actually rewarded in some small way.
Of course the check sum would need to be distributed on a different path. A different site or just via Twitter.
I would add to that, if yes does the company allow and test for passwordless sudo? Reason being that passwordless sudo + ssh multiplexing makes bypassing 2FA/MFA via phishing a breeze.

One can test this in scripts with

sudo -n
They use nice NAND. Stayed with SLC the longest of all memory cards
Is Fish difficult to customize? Just curious since I do tend to customize everything to some degree to fit my personal prefs.
This would be actually helpful practice for first responders. FDs/EMS in my area are expected to memorize all of the streets in their region, and I imagine it’s the same for PDs too. Another layer on top of it would be to quiz you on how to get from a fixed point (the station) to a random intersection. For the US, you could also provide a random block on a street rather than an intersection.
> He got burned early in the SpaceX years, when he wanted to buy some ICBMs, and they fucked with him.

Couldn't he just buy from another country ? I'm sure there are a lot of countries selling ICBMs.
> "do you have them" and "have you got them" are completely different questions. so no, that answer is wrong (and not obvious)

If you've got something, you have it. Sure, you could, logically, have got rid of it in the meantime -- but that's ridiculous pedantry; in the GP's context, it's the same question. All that was, though, a side note.

> so no, that answer is wrong (and not obvious)

The actual question, OTOH, was which of the (implied) original questions "Did you get them?" or "Do you have them?" the reply "I do" was in answer to. And as an unambiguous matter of grammar, "I do" is correct in reply to the latter and nonsensical in rey to the former; there, the reply would have been "I did".

So my answer was correct. And that should have been obvious to anyone who knows even the rudiments of English (wich may not include you).

Here, BTW, have some capitals and a full stop: D, S, .
Highways do not serve low income areas, public transit does.

Portland is entirely justified in not building expensive and low density transit solutions (highways) to service communities. A BRT or Light Rail line will justify the cost significantly better and lead to denser, transit oriented development along the path: All of which better serves the poor.
Among young white people, this perception has shifted dramatically over the last 15 years.

I was born and raised in a city, never before have so many young white people wanted to move here.
No but you can't compare it.

Tomb Raider loads a pre-rendered scene that is the same every single time you start the benchmark thus you can compare it across systems. That's the point of it and hence became a staple alongside with other games (some games are even notorious about it because that's their only use case [0])

WoW doesn't have anything like that. And everything can affect the frame rate from the mobs in the zone, the weather, the unique players with unique transmog, the raids are different every single time etc.

It's not just loading the game and there you have X framerate and that's the score, that's not a benchmark.

0, https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/01/the-game-thats-more-known-...
It used to be that if you used a paid service, then that service wouldn't throw you to the wolves of internet marketing/tracking companies. That alone made logins 1000 times less hostile.

But that is changing. Internet marketing companies are now teaming up with websites so the websites to their dirty work for them and you end up getting tracked anyway -- but with much higher certainty as to who you are. That means that now, yes, logins are more hostile.

The web continues to get smaller and smaller.
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Yeah, the arguments sounds good until you go and look at the actual chart from Apple.

The 3090 can apparently draw around 380 Watts. [1] Apple shows its performance leveling off at 320W, whereas the M1 Ultra is performing better at 100W, and not leveling off. But assume for a second that the M1 Ultra suddenly flatlines right there. Fair enough, they don't want to show that. But in what world does that 3090 curve ever end up substantially out-performing the M1 Ultra with just 60 more Watts?

The graph is clearly wrong.

Unless you change the argument to saying that they are measuring something silly that doesn't matter in the real world.

[1]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMpNdP3h0Hs

Edit: And I'm an Apple fan, writing on my M1 Air, which I love.
$150 cost and free cad files? for the needed? What a joke.
It reminds me of the Americans spending thousands to develop a pen for Nasa in space.
Some people took a pencil to space.
Here is a project from 2015 already invented without the need of cad files and uses only local materials: https://www.warkawater.org/
Yes, there's an "UEFI environment only" option that only installs m1n1+u-boot (not Linux), OpenBSD/arm64 uses the EFI implementation provided by u-boot.

Mark Kettenis' from the OpenBSD project is responsible for upstreaming Apple M1 support for u-boot, and has been collaborating with the Asahi Linux team.
Remember the slingshot company?

THAT is a viable reason for them
> Their competitor’s products come with caveats that go way beyond “it’s got a few bugs we haven’t ironed out yet”.

The unspoken truth. Yes, you may get more debug output in other ecosystems but there are going to be mountains of bugs and a kludge of workarounds to get “seamless” integration.

Can this particular problem be solved better now? Yes. Can every other cross device integration be solved as well? No way!

The pain stretches across software and hardware.
You can execute zsh scripts from a fish command line, or any other. Where is the problem?
Fzf for command line history fuzzy matching.
When I taught LaTeX classes, I would often see students highlighting whole pages of the class notes I passed out. I often said that I should just print them on yellow paper to save them the trouble.
Same. I've been using fish forever. Scripts that use sh or bash still work fine.

The fish scripting language is much easier to read and write than bash (for someone that doesn't write many scripts). So for local scripts I use it but for anything shared it's still bash scripts.
They're saying that as a receiver of GPS signals, it doesn't matter if your clock is out of sync with everyone else's clocks, as long as it measures the length of a nanosecond accurately.
Yeah, it's clever to be able to control an iPad from a Mac. But it's real utility is controlling multiple Macs. I have a personal and a company laptop, and I use both all the time. This just made things much easier (and yes, I know about Synergy, but just never bothered to try it).

But it does not "just work" by any stretch. I ran into the same typical crap that I see with Handoff and Airdrop. It "just works" until it inexplicably stops working, for no apparent reason, and nothing but a reboot fixes it. Even getting my two Macs to see each other was a PITA (a 16" M1 Max, and a 14" M1 Pro). I thought at first it was because one was hardwired (but also on the local wifi), but no. Disabling ethernet made no difference. Multiple reboots, no dice. Later on, 10 minutes after deciding to give up, it just decided to start working, a fact which I only discovered because I lost control of my mouse on one machine, not realizing I had moved it to the other.

Now that they "know" one another, we'll see if it works more consistently now.
That's it!

I could've sworn I made sure not to include it when submitting. It does redirect to that if there's no location found so maybe HN updated the link to the redirect destination?

I'm pushing a change now to ignore this specific lat-lng combination and fallback to geolocation
I have to admit, you're hitting all the points I'd love to learn about. Any idea of the release date, price, and if there will be a print copy?
Because a higher standard of living requires more people to come up with the said standard of living (see: history, the shifting of innovation centers to population centers)

The degrowth movements garden variety neo-pastoralist misanthropy makes it blind to the fact that more humans (given a good system of governance and rules) is actually an amazing thing.
Semiconductors are not regulated except in terms of large scale externalities - e.g. water quality, air emissions, etc. Otherwise they pretty much use any methods, processes or means that they want. They do have economic incentives based on the constraints of physics - you can't boost defect densities of wafers by screaming at Mother Nature so to assure a market for your products, there are constraints on quality and process that all things equal you'd skip since they are "cost centers".
Seems to have lots of problems on Mac OS. :-(
Looks like Apple’s claim is that the M1 is more efficient, not faster.

I’m no GPU expert. What does this mean long term?
Would Russia Use a Tactical Nuclear Weapon in Ukraine?
One needs to consider, however, why people prefer this kind of homes in the US, compared to most countries. It is probably because life is so hard and expensive on most American cities. And I say this as somebody from another country, where cities are livable and provide lots of advantages -- something that we associate in the US only to New York City and its high associated costs.
I don’t think blaming the supply chain is fair. Big transportation projects, big city’s housing problems all existed way before our current supply chain problems.

Clearly considering the environment is important. But the costs of over worrying about the environment is becoming clear too. Negative externalities like the homeless crisis in the West coast are affecting everyone.
I can't decline to eat. Food still costs money.
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Hmmm...I wonder if that's something you would have to deliberately do. In Witcher 3, the world was so huge and engrossing that, just by exploring and participating in it, I outleveled quests, and had a very hard time catching my quests and world progression up to my power even when I tried to. Enabling enemies to scale to my level wasn't the best solution, since it just meant that instead of everything being easy, everything became equally hard.
How the war in Ukraine has affected automotive supply chains
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Introduced me to the beauty of logic and its limits. Also gave me solid mathematical thinking foundations.

Pro tip: Try listening to Bach while you read about Bach.
Writing is terrifying, but not for the reasons you think
Zillow eliminates the notion of showings as an event. They plug in a smart lock and (at least to my understanding) you can tour the minute the listing goes up. There's no rushing to showings, your can tour any house that's in their portfolio on the market.
The chart shows the 3090 being beaten at 320w.
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Why aren’t gas prices dropping if oil is getting cheaper?
I find myself customizing fish way more than I ever did with Bash. Writing custom completions is easy and I find the scripting syntax a lot nicer. Combining the two is really powerful. Granted, fish ships with a ton of completions out of the box so you may not need to write your own.
> I don't think this is a great comparison. Open source has a particular, commonly understood meaning, just like chocolate does.

I’m using that example because there is disagreement about the definition of chocolate. Here in the US there are some things called chocolate which are not called chocolate in other parts of the world. How much cacao is required? How much milk solids are required? You will get different answers from different organizations. All of which, claim to be an authority.

The FOSS landscape is no less opinionated.
Read the book "Physics from symmetry" by Jacob Schwichtenburg
That's because you have not looked around very much and did not understand what would have been done with this gas had it not been used in a generator to power that $hitcoin-mine. As to not looking around I'd say the malversations around all those (soon-to-be) warring nations far eclipse whatever can be achieved by a single funny-money-mine in the backwoods of the Republic of Texas. As to not understanding what would have happened had they not hooked up that generator to the gas line there it should be enough to have a look around an oil extraction area at night where the darkness is often shattered by bursts of reddish light coming from flares. Flares which burn natural gas (and whatever else happens to come up in gas form). Reddish light due to the incomplete combustion inherent in the technology and the gas mixture. Here that gas is burned in a generator which both provides for a more complete combustion as well as produces power to run that mining rig. The net result is less air pollution due to better combustion of spill gas, less light pollution due to the absence of flares plus whatever money that mining operation brings in. There's plenty of flares to go around for mining operations, including those at refineries - have at it. Any $shitcoin mined this way is not mined using power which would otherwise have gone to more useful applications.
Try again please, it should work. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734844 for why
Detention of Russian Spy Boss Shows Tension Over Stalled Ukraine Invasion
There is absolutely nothing wrong with a product not catering to everybody. Even moreso when we are talking about a work of art.
I disagree that it's a good thing. It's still being burned, so the environment damage is still there. Except now it's being whitewashed. Instead of the obvious, visible waste and damage of a flare, the companies get to sweep it under the rug and pretend things have improved. Once again a fossil energy company is externalizing their pollution damage. If they were able to pump electricity into the grid it would be slightly better, but not much. Using it for crypto is turning one bad thing into another bad thing, and sweeping the true cost under the rug.
They did it also because with the old syntax it was unintuitive how to put commands inside quotes. It borrowed the new syntax from bash but it wasn't ONLY to be more bash compatible. It solved a real fish shell problem also.
Try https://backofyourhand.com/ again please, it should work. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30734844 for why
"There's zero evidence to believe that this will be the case"
Well I guess it depends on the regulatory framework, imo it's the constructor lobbies pushing such a narrative... in more developed societies where cheap labour isn't so available rental has become the norm...of course one could also argue that high real estate prices mean the rich and unscrupulous can hide and flip huge amounts of ill earnt gains... but it doesn't have to be so...
Are there housing cooperatives in the US?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative
It did have this:

> as of v11 this module uses the peacenotwar module.

Over on its NPM site: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-ipc

And as far as i can tell they bumped up the major version by a digit. Whether or not that counts as a "Bright red warning" i don't know but personally i believe that a warning notice + a major version bump should be enough. Those who don't care about that would most likely not care about a bright red warning on the repo page either.

It's clearly a questionable thing to do, but is it illegal?
Why aren’t there more dogs at the doctor’s office?