skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The case for DC is named microgrids: keeping the frequency on a microgrid is hard, inverters react too slowly for most loads (that does not ramp up/does down power slowly) while DC devices can be far quicker. The case for AC is large grid and safety.
If they thought the laptop was school property, then comparisons to wilful intrusion into someone’s house is hyperbolic, and no it wasn’t malicious. It would be more like if the cops had a valid warrant to track a suspects car, but installed the tracker in the wrong car by mistake.

Best to establish the facts first.
So, this is really random, but if you can open up the case and figure out what is whining, folding up tinfoil neatly in half about a dozen times will make a really effective shield and cut like 95% of the whine. I found out about this trick from an open-source synth (PreenFM 2, incredible little frequency modulation synth) that had some whine due to the display. Sticking the thick piece of tinfoil between the display and the PCB boosted the SNR an almost unbelievable amount. Give it a shot, it only costs time and tinfoil! Be sure to stick some electrical tape around anything it might contact though, so you don't short anything out.
> “it’s a large company” doesn’t translate to “they have large teams working on this” but “they have many other problems prioritised over this”.

I don't think anyone needs to be reminded of that. "Company X with way more resources is failing at basic tasks" doesn't signal a misunderstanding of what those resources are used for, it is criticism of that company's priorities.

The fact is that a company whose profits grow by billions every year is not fixing a very obvious problem on one of their biggest platforms. They have more than enough the resources to fix it.
Tencent-Backed UK Startup First Light Achieves Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
The first one reliably working on a mac book pro with a display res > 4k usb-c and TB4 was, after trying many, the RAZER Mercury: https://www.razer.com/gaming/pc/accessories/razer-thunderbol.... Not cheap but saves so much time because it simply works.
The same basic conclusion can be reached just by browsing Amazon and looking at specs and case design similarities.
> Nuclear weaponry has been successful in preventing further destructive wars on the scale of WW2.

This will unfortunately remain true only until a nuclear war does break out. After such a moment, the few that survive may say "if only nuclear weapons weren't invented, we could have had another WW2 instead of this disaster".

The other arguments about nuclear physics that you make are much more convincing as an unmitigated good.
I thought laptops with Darwin kernel.
Yes, those displaylink docks are fine for office productivity work, but not that suitable for gaming or media consumption because of the cpu load. On the other hand, I plugged my m1 air into one at work and the cpu load was reasonable even while videoconferencing, so I suppose eventually the overhead of displaylink gets small enough not to be a problem.
Aside from other complexities and negative consequences of your hypothetically proposed wealth cap, you forget that the world isn't a pie from which wealth is taken by some at the expense of others, at least not in many of the ways that create wealth on the market.

These billioniares and many more millioniares worth more than 10 million dollars by and large create their fortunes through certain lucky or careful investments and in the case of many of them, their wealth is locked up directly in stock that the public values highly enough for them to be worth that much. As many here have pointed out better than I will now, creating confiscatory policies on this would lead to the wealth itself mostly evaporating as if it never were. What you propose is in this sense a tired, economically irrational and self-defeating idea that tries to be the real world equivalent of the proverbial farmer and his golden goose.

Also worth mentioning that the total wealth of all the world's billioniares today amounts to 13.1 trillion dollars, give or take. The U.S. government alone spend 8 trillion just on its wars in the middle east and Asia between 2001 and and now.

This is only one example out of many of government funds being spent rampantly, in amounts that dwarf the wealth or annual income of the world's billionaires but with little or sometimes even negative productive results. And you'd like to confiscate these very often useful private sources of productive wealth to government bureaucrats that already receive trillions in tax revenues annually but somehow can't seem to make them definitively improve the world?
Also, Don't have a romance at office
I'm Australian and I would never recommend it. It's average, like most fiction that comes from Australia.
I remember when Google had two, context relevant ads on the top of their searches. They were clearly marked as such and I could ignore them or use them if they looked intriguing. This has never been the case since. That industry is just out there trying to scam publishers, advertisers and users. It's horrific.

If Netflix had ads on top of the monthly service charge I'd cancel immediately. I stopped using YouTube on any device other than my Linux box where I can adblock everything.
If I was a junior dev who got such a ticket, I can see myself implementing it all the while laughing at the utter ridiculous pointlessness of it.

I can also see the ticket being written with examples of “disallow a dictionary of forbidden words”, with a sample dictionary of [“motherfucker”, “slut”, <list of racial epithets>] and then the dictionary function being used later to include “union” etc.

If I got a ticket to block the dictionary containing MF and racial epithets, I’d also think it was pointless, would point out it was easily able to be evaded, but would implement it and implementing it would not be obviously evil or showing a lack of solidarity.
Netflix shows are already filled with ads.
I don't understand all these people who think they have an ad free experience watching on netflix.
Two questions :

1/ How much CO2 was emitted to train this ? How much to query it ?

2/ Does Google use that in its search engine ? I'd be very happy to have that kind of AI helping me to find the information I need !
This is a very natural phenomenon, and there's an obvious reason. When you're a growth stage company you're valued as a growth stage company, your Price:Earnings ratio will be high, because investors are already pricing in the future earnings. As your growth slows your P/E ratio drops because investors no longer expect your earnings to go up. This is fine, it's the natural process when you're saturating your market. But it causes all sorts of problems - all your engineers are paid in stock for example, and now they're underpaid versus the industry. That's fine, you don't need the same quality of engineers when you've dominated a market. You've built the thing. It's done. Let them go and build the next thing.

But the engineers aren't the only ones who are paid in stock - so are all the executives. And they want money! So you must keep the growth up. So at this point you do what Netflix is doing - start exploring other markets that you can use your existing skills to dominate. Now most likely that will fail, because by nature, you're taking the money from the home run you hit and betting on hitting another even bigger home run. For every 1 Netflix there were 10 failed competitors. But Netflix now has to try and be another Netflix, but will most likely spend their money creating 1 of those 10 failed competitors.
Yeah, your perspective is skewed. To be fair, mine is as well just in the opposite direction. I live in a town of ~15k people in the South.

For context - I’m taking my daughters to their homeschool coop tomorrow morning. It’s an 82-mile round trip if we go straight there and back; more typically I’ll run some errands and grab lunch to make a total of ~120 miles travelled. Wednesday one of them has a dentist’s appointment. That’s 140 miles round trip.

My family of four has two vehicles: my wife’s 2015 Kia Sorento and my 2000 Jeep Wrangler. They average 24 and 14 MPG respectively. We average around 35k miles per year between them.

We live “in town”, and the nearest grocery store is still ~5 miles away. The nearest convenience store is ~1 mile away. I suppose it would be feasible to walk or bike there… if I wanted to do so on a 55 MPH highway with no sidewalk or shoulder. There is no public transit.

The majority of people in the US live in “urban areas” - but it looks like the US Census Bureau considers a population density of 1k people per square mile to be “urban”. My town qualifies at 1,165.
> what are you supposed to do with a moral system that requires you to
adhere to rules regardless of outcome?

Study it. Explore its edges. Knock it down. Rebuild it. See how it
works where your other "models" don't. Incorporate it. Synthesise it.

Philosophy does not give answers for the confused, and it doesn't
provide comfort for the anxious. For those go to mathematics and
religion.

I can feel you are a keen student of philosophy, and would do nothing
to discourage that. On the contrary, the spirit is admirable. But you
are not a Jedi yet. :)

It is a common error for engineers approaching philosophy to pick up
pieces and treat them as tools, like physics models, and to look for
the "right" one for a "job". I urge you to play with them as toys a
little more.

I am glad to see we've sparked a cool discussion.
The park was designed by Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
I love this! I'm exactly like the author except a little less organized.

Some of my insights just to add to this:
1) I started curating existing collections to delete/cut down size. So I have a tv shows folder and I made a _cut folder and moved every show that I wasn't sure if I liked or if it was something I wanted to keep. This left the main folder with only my _absolute favorite_ shows.

2) I use sqlite for movie/tv/music/game/bookmarks databases and i try to combine data from different sources so like I combine imdb and boxofficemojo data in one sqlite db so that I know how many theaters every movie opened in and the rest of the info like actors/director/etc.

3) I make websites with lists and/or "collections" of the movies/things I like the most, and my personal stuff like code. That way I have to select and curate all of the items so that they are organized and accessible. Making a website is like publishing so can't publish drafts or half-finished stuff. Making a website for something really helps finishing the organization and collating all the disparate info.

4) Scraping info for all new movies/games/tv shows into the sqlite db's. Website for searching/browsing based on genre/whatever, and having the info locally (no third party).

5) Only publishing working code without any cruft to github. Makes it so I know every single commit in the commit history works and there is no need to organize everything since it was already organized and "fixed" when commiting. Also is essentially ALL code that I care to keep (I have a lot more "work in progress" code locally but that doesn't matter, only the published finished code matters), and of course local clone of all the repos.

6) I have a text file with all my command line one liners, tweaks and tricks for linux and/or website things but this is the one area where I am less organized. I don't externalize all the things I "know" as much, but I want to. I use my own memory for most things like that but would be nice to have a knowledge graph of some kind - looking into Obsidian.

Anyway great post.
Yeah, I kept running into docking problems trying to keep the lid closed as well. It seemed like it worked less than half the time. Worst-case I'd have to restart. Sometimes it'd wake up with no mouse or kbd working, other times my dual 4K60 monitors would be switched left/right, many times just...nothing...

Pretty lame that one of the "best" laptop mfgs in the world can't make docks work right with one of the biggest CPU / IP mfgs in the world. Laptop sleep states were a problem back in the early 90s on Linux...some things really never change.
For months the top bar with "Home", "My Network" etc in LinkedIn had been blank white in Firefox. In Chrome worked fine. Regarding Outlook - many corporations literally lock their web apps to work only with Win10/11 + Edge for "security reasons" and Microsoft is happy to deliver it.
I think a lot of people get into game development to go back in time to their early experiences of computing. Before all the enterprise projects, before all the tools and frameworks, before all the tiring interactions with people and teams and managers and customers. Just an empty BASIC prompt, just a blank C file. It’s a search for a blank slate, open to infinite creative possibilities, before the world put everything in boxes within boxes within boxes and drained much of the joy from these magical machines. Finishing a game is coming back up for air, who’d want that?
What do you suggest they do in search of revenue? Are you donating to FF?
You are in luck. My company is launching a free solution to exactly this problem. You will be able to normalize tables of data (from csv, txt, xlsx and more) that have the same subject matter but different formats. Variations in names, scalings, enumerations, derivations and more are automatically handled. You won’t need to hand over your data and you can choose to share the process you’ve created with anyone else in the world (or keep it private). Email me at info@liquidaty.com, we would love to help you with this as part of our private beta and I’m certain it will save you a ton of pain (and anyone who comes after you who you'd like to enable to solve this same problem in the future)
Stop buying crapware.
Is there a chance you could do full install of a new OS?
"something sold from a German company is at least an indication that I might get some helpful support if something goes wrong"

Germany is notorious for horrible customer service (e.g. the customer is usually wrong). Does the author assumes that all German companies have the same level of service of a BMW or Mercedes dealership? Hint: those dealerships are in the United States, not Germany.
The address the api server is listening on is different from what the proxy is pointing at?

[::] -> [::1]
Greed is just the byproduct of uncapped capitalism. Disincentivise the pursuit of constant growth, and the world would be a lot less evil.
I asked my wife to cancel Hulu live recently because it was $85 USD/month with ads. Insane. She has one or two shows she likes to watch live so I suggested Sling Blue instead. Sling is OK for live stuff but anything on-demand is completely obnoxious with ads. We tried to watch an episode of Atlanta the other day and Sling injected more ads than the length of the show, eg it was longer than 30 minutes of ads to get through the 30 minute show. The inevitable that everyone said was going to happen is finally a reality - streaming platforms are back to where cable was 20 years ago.
An ad subsidized pricing level would be OK, but if you think I'm paying $21/mo and watching ads, you won't see me for dust.

The lack of ads is the #2 USP after good content
> However, over the course of time, it has been pretty much regulated to the realm of printer port.

Mostly because of its significant form factor: the “mini” and “micro” USB plugs people think of are pretty much all Bs (so the smaller version of this one), because before USB-C USB is a very directional protocol: there’s a host and there’s a device, and this relationship is literally hard-wired (through A and B plugs) because the host side provides the power.

That aside, “regular” Type B plugs still exist for things like displays (and probably non-C hubs with detachable host-side cable though that seems rare): in the relationship between computer and display the display is the device, and thus is on the B side, and space is not as a premium so the solidity of the plug is more valuable than the gains in size.

I have 2 of those (in the USB-3 variant with the weird bump for the extra pins) at the bottom of my display, as it has KVM features and can thus connect to 2 “upstream” computers (well 3 because it also has a USB-C input).
It was priced at 30x sales! Now it's back to 10x sales... which is a slightly higher multiple than before the pandemic.

For context, here's the p/s of the S&P 500 https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-price-to-sales

DocuSign's management chose to lose money in pursuit of growth. Then the growth stopped and they were just losing money.
Yes, reflection is still part of the norm. Luckily... :)

Normal is what reflects the norm. That natural, observational norm (type, mode) and deontic, optimal norm ("as it should be") so typically ("normally") diverge, so the latter is found in the standard deviation, comes from the very point that was raised initially: growth («To experience, voluntarily, then grow, is the norm»), or the point where you are in it, proceeding towards the right extreme.

There is no escape from the norm (and its negative), you see: if good, then optimal norm, peripheral in the curve; if lacky, then observational norm in the centre. And between the two there is a sort of a continuity, thresholds aside...

That the "world" looks so abnormal, the bad way (hence you can call 'abnormal' the normal), is justified in such framework - especially when you look at it as a playground. And we just say, ok, if it were possible just to reduce the collateral damage...
I think there is a certain difference between the show pausing for 5 minutes to show me an ad of a brand new Jeep, that has absolutely nothing to do with the show I was watching, and the character in the show using a brand new Jeep with the logo prominently visible. The first one gets in the way of me enjoying the show, the second one does not.
Since it's deleted we won't know, will we?

I bet this was about Bucha massacres since that's what previous video was talking about and russian troll army got that video nuked.

P.S. I see in the comments that you're russia appologist and denying Bucha massacre so no wonder to see you here again
you may want stop finding excuses for russian crimes as you do so abundantly.
I'm hesitant to declare anything "the best", but The Castle is certainly guaranteed a spot in the top 10 Aussie films ever made. Unfortunately I live overseas these days and can't find it to stream anywhere. Might have to get someone to send me a DVD with some Tim Tams.
In the right hands some fiction is perhaps the best evidence for some history. As Engels (who was mentioned elsewhere in this thread) says:

> I have learned more [from novelist Honoré de Balzac] than from all the professed historians, economists, and statisticians of the period together.

Speaking more generally, in the right hands all fiction provides fantastic evidence for some history. As Lenin says about Tolstoy:

> The contradictions in Tolstoy's views are not contradictions inherent in his personal views alone, but are a reflection of the extremely complex, contradictory conditions, social influences and historical traditions which determined the psychology of various classes and various sections of Russian society in the post-Reform, but pre-revolutionary era.

> That is why a correct appraisal [!] of Tolstoy can be made only from the viewpoint of the class which has proved, by its political role and its struggle during the first denouement of these contradictions, at a time of revolution, that it is destined to be the leader in the struggle for the people's liberty and for the emancipation of the masses from exploitation—the class which has proved its selfless devotion to the cause of democracy and its ability to fight against the limitations and inconsistency of bourgeois (including peasant) democracy; such an appraisal is possible only from the viewpoint of the Social-Democratic proletariat.

How this applies to Downton Abbey or Bridgerton is an interesting dilemma. I seriously doubt most people who watch these shows are equipped to make the "correct appraisal."
My friends laugh when i buy *anything, as the first thing i do is black-marker (i generally only buy black stuff) over any logos.
For me, those little flashes of logo are just distracting.
maybe netflix should package internet fiber optic to ensure quality and exclusivity
Yeah we tried to go the zephyr route! I reckon we’ll revisit it in about six to twelve months when we move to ARM instead of ESP32
it loads the sheet on every page load while only 1 in a million visitors use it. Then when they use it their preference is discarded when they navigate.
Channel 4 privatisation to go ahead
> Call into the school's board meeting during public comment, and make it loud and clear that the school is installing spyware on students' Chromebooks. Share your technical credentials and the method by which you found this.

I remember not so long ago when people were using this advice on health care issues;

Call into the school's board meeting during public comment, and make it loud and clear that the school is injecting your children with 5G mind control vaccines. Share your technical credentials and the method by which you found this.
The kernel code shouldn't do any session management. It just takes over once the handshake is done; the rest happens in userspace.

Also, you're thinking of CPU-accelerated crypto, but you're missing two other use cases: here, coupled with sendfile(2), you can reduce the number of back-and-forth between kernel and userspace when you already know what will be written on the socket. The other use case is the (few, for now) network cards that do TLS in hardware, meaning going at line-rate, whatever your CPU speed is (not sure you can do single-thread 200Gbit/s crypto on x86_64).
If netflix puts ads on my subscription, I would shut it down and go back to bittorrent
> [D]on't make the mistake C, C++, and Rust did, using a prefix dereference operator.

This is only a mistake when the deference is frequently followed by postfix operators, in most cases field and method accesses. Unlike C or C++, Rust does auto-dereference that essentially eliminates such situations and thus a prefix operator doesn't do much harm.
A First Note on Travel and Mimetic Desire
I’m pretty sure the author is German.
Emulating the Lambda Calculus in TypeScript's Type System (2021)
No, no matter how many piecewise linear functions you compose, the result is still piecewise linear.
Are there any examples of reusable "computers" like this? I've seen some demonstrations but they are not generic to the problem and reusable, they seem to have the data encoded in the makeup of the "computer" itself.

I write computers in quotation marks because even if they solve computational problems they are so different from what we are calling computers today, eg: mold growing in a maze and similar.