skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thunderbolt actually includes a lot of other stuff that isn't just "pcie" in a cable - like USB and DisplayPort streams in addition (at the same time) to the PCIe links.

There is also U.2 for shorter links. There are relatively trivial risers (not sure if it needs a chip or not, but either way they're under $30) that let you turn regular PCIe x4 or M.2 x4 slots into U.2 cables. It's intended for the enterprise space but if you just want "pcie in a cable" that's what it does.

ExpressCard actually also was a PCIe 1.1x1 or 2.0x1 link as well, and people used risers to break out to external GPUs just as people do with thunderbolt. There are various eGPU setups "GDC Beast" is one I remember?) that are still available for ye olde thinkpad if you want more/better display connectors.

Also obviously miners use those shitty USB-based riser cables (they aren't USB, but use USB wiring?) with x1 connectivity.

I dunno whether any of those are "legal" according to the PCIe signalling requirements but in practice you can get short runs pretty reliably especially at lower speeds, and good PCIe riser cables can even do 3.0x16 or 4.0x16 capability.
Both of the popular stackoverflow answers seem to agree, at least to some degree. Which makes a lot of sense to me -- Maxwell's daemon lives right in the physics/information theory zone, and close enough to signal theory stuff that, while it isn't required reading, any number of engineering students might bump into it.
On Firefox, adding shapes (the far right-hand side: circle, square, triangle, rectangle) puts the shape in the middle of the map and there it stays--I haven't figured out yet how to move the shapes around or place them somewhere else.
Signal protocol is used between whatsapp server and endpoint, not from endpoint to endpoint. Once your message is on their server, it's decrypted, archived, inspected, and then passed to its intended recipient.
> People seem to think that if Twitter dies,

My guess is both Elon and Jack will start to promote Bluesky with BTC at it's core for registration and ID purposes and prevent spam bots while offering a better alternative,

I called the mining collaboration between Tesla and Block/CASH last year during the price drop when Elon pulled BTC payment at Tesla; this makes sense they've both been on the receiving end of hostile take overs of their own companies and are heavily invested in BTC and have a strong view on how social media platforms have been going--Jack way more than Elon, Tesla and SpaceX but still a large holdings and stand to gain a lot from it.

I've never done social media, assuming HN doesn't count, and to be honest I'd consider playing with something like Bluesky if they move forward with it as I anticipate it will: if nothing else to see how the mechanics work.
> I use my M1 with a Lenovo USB-C dock an theoretially it's capable of piping 4k at 60 Hz to my monitor, but in order for that to work I'd need to buy cables that cost half as much as the dock…

In case it's helpful, have you looked at Monoprice? They sell great USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 cables for $10 (0.5m).

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=27923
> and we have an idea what it is

I mean, it's on the phrase diagram. The answer will be the statistics of stable orbits at heat and pressure. Any gradient or annulus in a phase diagram is going to mean that there will be potential for rapid "phase" changes in all directions. Isn't this all just to say that you need instruments, instruments, instruments? You know where to look, what it is doing and why (you have guesses, you'll 'get it' when you see the final answer). Is this blog post not mystifying it instead of saying that's it's cool and we know where to look to make it better?
Almost no one cares about doing business with Russia anymore. Since they just take your business away, some stories are getting more out now.

It's just a criminal organization that should be ignored.

Read a longer "short story" about a hedge fund manager and how Russia operates and how he's now in the n°1 hit list of Russia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder

Note: A lot of Yandex ( English-speaking) employees fled abroad currently, including it's CEO. I'd be suprised if Yandex would hold >6 months ( employees, high-tech eg. semiconductors, sanctions, default looming, ... )

Fyi: Yandex also tried in Turkeye and it didn't work. I'm pretty sure Russia was happy to give Yandex a leg up in it's other divisions ( eg. Law for their self driving tests - considering in other countries they don't even report manual interventions unlike others, so i think it's mostly a fad though). And Google didn't have much will to win the market die to ( reasonable) uncertainty.
If you need to coordinate activity between multiple systems in such a way that you are calling remote shells, then the shell is the place to run the show.

I wrote an article on xargs parallel scripting some years ago that was popular here, and I can't imagine trying to do that in C.

POSIX shells have great flaws. It is not LR-parsed language that can be implemented by a simple yacc grammar, and this leads to ambiguity.

However, POSIX (as dash) is fast, portable, and small enough for embedded systems. Few of dash's peers are its equal if all of these are required.
But TurboTax does a great job. It’s a good product. Happy to pay for it. Not sure why all of the hate. The problem is the tax system itself, not the software.
I did the hard work once and now just cons the latest thread onto the head of the list.
And I'm so tired of people just voting straight down the party line. That's why nothing works.
The code isn't the law, consensus is. If the miners disagree with a transaction, they can collectively agree that it never happened. IMO that's the most in-the-spirit-of-cryptocurrency way to handle the problem, for better or worse.
This metaphor has always bugged me. If we noticed some ants somewhere that, over the last thousand years, got way better at building colonies I think we'd at least be interested, if not concerned.
No matter how long we leave them, ants will not figure out how to build their own JWST.

Human intelligence seems as though it is fundamentally different, in that we can preserve and build on previous knowledge. So I'm pretty sure that aliens, detecting intelligent life, wouldn't just be like "oh, just some ants." Or if they are, we better hope we don't find ourselves in their pantry.
Maybe not now but in 100k years? Who knows.
...and I've been programming games since 0x13h ModeX and contributed to core industry software. Which means absolutely nothing. It's quality times quantity. Not time and acquired credentials.
Please specify, what do you mean by "less advanced"? I doubt a randomly picked person has a more complex net of social interactions today than 50,000 years ago - probably the personal level is a lot simpler today, since we can outsource many needs to corporate and national structures, with whom you also have pretty straightforward relations.
This line of argument reminds me of the news stories encouraging retirees to come back to work during the "labour shortage". The problem isn't that bored people are helping out, it's that by doing so they negatively affect the people that are reliant on carrying out that labour to keep themselves fed and sheltered.

For perspective, try imagining that some well off retired ex-$your_job walks up to your boss and offers to replace you for free, working the same hours because they're bored.
I never know what that means. People seem to only use it about people they don't like. Seems like Russell conjugation - I have a vision, you have plans, they have an agenda.

What's your (actual) agenda?

p.s. Thinking more about it, it doesn't seem a question that ever has an answer. Seems like it means something like "I don't like that person, what they believe, what they say or what they do. They're so different from me I can't believe they're for real. So I'm going to insinuate they're guided by some concealed nefarious scheme. I heard a right-wing person use the phrase and I thought it was a pretty cool and effective debate tactic. Makes me sound like I've easily seen through their amateurish attempt at deception." Please correct me if I'm wrong, and it's actually a genuine question.
Could someone relate "muggy" to specific metric(s) that might support these claims?
sudo: "sue dough"

sysctl: "sys control"
I just learned about push-options last week.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push#Documentation/git-push.txt...

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/push_options.html
This is definitely a 1x rule. ;-)
I really question the size of the niche. We've got Recreations of all the classic machines going on right now, people buying arcade cabinets, and even casual gamers into Retro. Their organizations now into digital archaeology going back through trying to tell the stories communicate the impact on culture and a lot of other things.

A lot of people thought gaming is shallow, but it's really not. It has packed a major league punch on culture, tech itself given its age.

My take is we're going to have the early Roots stories oh, because things are open enough and simple enough but we can get them, and we're going to get them wall a lot of the people are still alive. But after that it's going to be a mess.
You have it backwards. When you develop interplanetary travel, you by default have a weapon. Making any significant mass move through space fast can take a nuclear weapons worth of energy (honestly far more), if you lithobrake in the far side, that's going to be a massive explosion.
Go 'n ride the lear jet, baby.
Go 'n ride the lear jet
>As evidenced by the proliferation of overlay ads in their smart TVs

Genuine question, is it even an option to pay $X more and get an otherwise identical TV with no overlay ads? It's admittedly been 7 or 8 years since I last purchased a TV, but I don't remember such an option being available at the time, and the only time I can ever remember seeing that sort of choice being available was with the kindle, where it's very explicit that the ad-free (but otherwise identical) version is like $20 more (or, was when I bought my kindle, which again was many years ago).

That being said, I'd be extremely curious to see sales numbers for ad-free vs ad-laden kindles, although I sort of doubt I'll ever have the chance to.
Your script parses the entire CSV and then dedupes in memory. This would require ~3TB+ RAM.
That's awesome, I didn't know about that.

Looks like the service is called podman-restart.service on my system.
Ask HN: What Happened to Lambda-the-Ultimate.org?
What happened to lambda-the-ultimate.org? Seems to be unreachable, and goggling about it hasn't turned up anything for me. It always had a limited group of active participants; but I enjoyed lurking and learning from the discussions of programming language theory.
BirdNET is ace, looking foward to building it into our app...Birda[0] (Strava for birdwatching). We are hiring too if any nature loving engineers want to work in conservation - dom@birda.org (need to be able to get to London once a fortnight)

https://birda.org/
It's just... curious that you rarely see this kind of grace extended to other sorts of radicals and subversives. Not that it doesn't happen ever, but there seem to be certain subjects where we appreciate this role and others where we don't.
I say day-mon because it's less alarming for non-technical people and less ambiguous for technical people.

Same. Even though it's probably technically incorrect in some pedantic sense, this pronunciation just makes more sense to me.
The comment I am responding to is not so much about American guilt as about arguing that China is somehow better. Note how not a single sentence in my comment rationalized or minimized Guantanamo.

> So is Russia. They are just fighting Nazis in Ukraine.

I know this is tangential, but that is not actually all that Putin is saying tho. His rationale is way more far reaching and involves a lot about where he see Ukrainien future as such.

As in,even going by Russia propaganda, this statement is not true.
But you just said there are no gas stations left on the peninsula. How are gas stations with a few chargers in other areas going to help when it takes hours to charge?
It is not primitive, it is intentionally complex and riddled with loop holes so it can be manipulate by those who know how to creating all kinds of new markets for law, filing, and enforcement.
Trying to Do More Results in Doing Less
I like this version the best regardless of what the originators thought
Intuit lobbies the government to keep the tax system complicated so they can charge people to use their software.

The majority of the civilized world spends almost 0 time doing personal taxes. Intuit steals our time and money.
I think it's the same root cause as many problems: the belief that there must be a "best" that is single and absolute.

You see the same thing everywhere. Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux, Android vs. iOS, PC gaming vs console gaming. Whenever there's a technical choice to be made, there will be people who argue that their choice is the "best" choice or the only right choice.

However I think these absolutists are actually the minority, you just tend to see them more often in forums like HN. I suspect the vast majority of people don't really care.

FWIW I'm a hydrogen fan but just bought a BEV, so I can assure you that people like me do exist.
It doesn't help that Spain has notoriously bad PR in anglo-saxon countries due to the black legend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Legend_(Spain)
Well not zero . . .
But it's your place to judge other regions that may want to separate?
If anything, what’s “new” would be any widespread-among-the-proletariat expectation that governments aren’t just a mixture of personalities assembled into ad hoc and historical factions feuding to control as much money and power as possible.

I would like to learn more about common views on this. Would my belief above actually be true going back as long as monarchies have existed, until maybe post WW2?

I’d see it as a magical period between WW2 and today where the belief was in fairness and universal rule of law.
You're accusing this guy of only reading one sentence, when you "guessed" that the ancestors of the guy you replied to settled in the Midwest.

He explicitly stated in his comment that they settled in the Midwest.

Might be everybody on all sides of this conversation needs to calm down a bit.
How Hard is it to Get a Scholarship
Thanks. And yes it does matter, which is why I invested disproportionately more time and energy than it took to write the original comment, but it is a game I can not win at any scale. Unfortunately some people that seen the original comment and never seen my rebuttal will walk away misinformed and potentially spread misinformation further, further damaging our brand, all completely unnecessary.
Seems like a naive approach will quickly run out of memory trying to detect duplicates. When possible, I would try to put the data into your favorite database system. A lot of optimization and knowledge on how to handle such things is in those systems.
They've been retiring the incandescent street lights around here and the new white LED bulbs they've been replacing them with are obnoxiously bright. I feel bad with the people on the 2nd stories because they're basically shining right into the windows. The orange LEDs sound great.
No one has figured this out-- not for programmers and not for any other profession. It's certainly possible for individuals to develop good or bad reputations, but to be able to accurately evaluate how anyone will do in a job in the absence of other data is very much hit-or-miss. The most elite orgs might LOOK LIKE they figured it out, but how much of that is really their process vs just being able to attract talent because of compensation or reputation? How much of it is more a matter of being able to churn through people and replace people that get hired but can't hack it once they're in? How much of it is skillful use of professional referrals?

> It would be very interesting with a clean "we asked n programmers to solve this"-type problem [...]

It's been done, right? There's all those whiteboard interviews that highly resourced orgs study endlessly. There's a whole industry around preparing for these things. What do we have to show for it as an industry? Not much. If the stories are to be believed, folks are still flunking "fizz-buzz" at alarming rates.
The upsells on TurboTax are getting a lot more shameless in recent years. I saw the exact same one pop up at least 2-3 times.

The one that really aggravated me though was the one at the end: after you FILE your taxes, they present this damned progress-bar looking thing as if you are somehow “not done” yet, as if this totally optional product sale is a required step!! No, no, no, that is just misleading garbage, and it is so annoying to have to constantly hunt around the page for the magic text to get around these things. I mean, I couldn’t even reach the page that lets me download my forms as PDF until I skipped this upsell.

What’s more, the product itself is getting more expensive but worse. On desktop, the whole thing is just a blown-up mobile UI (are that many people doing taxes on their phones!?) with all kinds of things unnecessarily hidden. On page after page, there is more than enough space to show everything but instead it’s giant white space everywhere; they HIDE things behind disclosure arrows, and with no logic whatsoever; e.g. on one page it shows the 2020 numbers by default but hides all the 2021 numbers behind arrows!?

Guess what isn’t an insultingly-small, truncated experience on desktop? The ads, the upsells. THOSE are full-page, taking full advantage of screen space and even scrolling off the edges.

Really shows their priorities.
The good news is that the sum total of your existence is the preservation of energy, and you cannot be “wiped out”. Time passes, things change, including your sense of self.
I can't imagine it, which is why I asked. You certainly seem skeptical. Your arguments aren't very convincing though.

>> Too many different start batteries

Okay... that's because there's no standard. But isn't that why standards are developed? Could you explain why developing a standard and a limited number of battery sizes is not feasible?

>> Risk of storing and handling them improperly

Could you explain why batteries are riskier than petrol?

And while we're discussing this China's decided to try it out [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside...
"Secure Contain Protect" -- https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ -- a community sourced wiki full of stories about a secret quasi -government facility that hosts cursed sci-fi and fantasy objects.

Kind of like a MOO but for the Warehouse 13/Friday the Thirteenth the TV Series universes, and hosted in a wiki. Spawned a series of spinoff media including a bunch of games. Very popular although I hadn't realized the fanbase was similar to me reading Goosebumps novels growing up -- huh.

My favorite small communities in the 90s was the 2 or 3 servers that hosted active games of the Quake 2 mod 'Gloom', which never took off and I think had maybe tens of players; and various MUDs which had maybe hundreds of thousands of players and are now down to maybe tens.
After reading similar articles in previous years I finally decided to switch. After 10 years with Turbotax, I switched to the Cash App tax app. It was a bit more work to enter the data, but it was actually free. Turbotax free tier barely covers anything and they will bug you every step of the process to upgrade.
A small correction:

> Any website following GDPR guidelines presents annoying preference options regarding which cookies the user wishes to accept.

That's not true. If a website wants to spy on you, it needs your consent. GDPR doesn't require websites to spy on you, that's 100% on the owners of the website.
> Not sure why all of the hate.

.. I take it you have managed to post this without reading nearly every other comment?
Ah, thanks for the info. Last I knew Intuit bought Credit Karma (who I did taxes with previously) and I didn't realize they were spun off again.
Vanadium redox flow batteries have energy densities of ~10–20 Wh/kg. But for grid storage I think even sodium-ion batteries would be a better candidate. Those have energy densities of ~150 Wh/kg. Vanadium is mostly produced as a byproduct of mining magnetite iron ore deposits. So, sodium-ion is less dependent on the output of handful of mines globally.

Having a hydrogen economy is overall pretty inefficient. I think it's largely a dead end. We do not need multi-year energy storage. Seasonal storage is needed at most. Lithium-ion batteries have self-discharge rates of around 2% per month. Even if the batteries lose ~10% over a few months that's an acceptable loss and is superior to the inefficiencies inherent in hydrogen production via electrolysis and the subsequent use of stored hydrogen via fuel-cells — which require platinum-group metals.
Humanity Verification: The First 3k Years
When my cat was six months old he was very sick with a persistent urinary blockage. I'll say right away that he did not really die, in case someone reads this and is then disappointed that this is not a _literal_ resurrection story. But it felt like that to me.

After a month in and out of hospitals, the vets said there was nothing more they could do and that I had to put him down. I didn't want him to die in the hospital, so they let me take him home under the strict condition that I had a home vet scheduled to put him to sleep no more than 24 hours later.

On the way back with him on the train, an older woman sat next to me and asked me what was wrong. I told her, and she asked if it was OK to touch him. She reached into the carrier and stroked his head for a while. We ended up getting off at the same stop. As we were going our separate ways, she said "It's up to him now. Just take that cone off when you get home."

He had a large plastic cone on his head from his last (seemingly failed) surgery. I took it off when we got to the apartment and spent the night just petting him, keeping him comfortable, watching to make sure he didn't rip out his stitches, and preparing for him to not be there anymore. I tried really hard to stay happy and not cry because I knew he'd sense it, but I'm pretty sure he sensed how distraught I was anyway. He was alive, but everything seemed so certain that to me it was more like he was closer to not here than here. I guess the whole month I just couldn't fathom _something_ not working to make him better, but that night it suddenly hit and all at once it was as if he was already gone.

The next morning, a couple of hours before the vet was due to come and put him to sleep, as a last ditch effort I put him into his litter box. And for the first time in an entire month, he peed on his own. I actually could not believe it until I scooped up the pee clumps and was staring at them. The vets said nothing worked, and that there was no way he'd live, but he just squatted and peed.

I was so scared and loopy at that point that I actually _kept_ the pee clumps as proof in case the vets would not believe me (you know, sometimes owners just can't let their pet go and vets get concerned that the pet is suffering at home). In fact, the vets _didn't_ believe me and had me take him to the nearest animal hospital to get an ultrasound so that they can get proof that his bladder was not full. I went in there with the cat and a bag of pee clumps as evidence.

That was not the end of the ordeal - it took months (if not over a year...the whole time period is a blur) of medication, vets, and pee training for his bladder to regain its function. But that night/morning to me has always felt like someone that was as good as gone came back to life.
It’s intentional.