skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not even Delhi record

Previous high in Delhi was recorded at 48.4°C at the Palam station on May 26, 1998 (11 days later).

Palam station highest temperature in last 24 hours = 46.4C

https://city.imd.gov.in/citywx/city_weather.php?id=42181

this 49C is questionable record with never used automated stations with no previous data
> if the config file switched rudder and elevators

This is for the navigation database, not the actual firmware.
There's a decent change I'll drop it when they actually block me from account sharing. Until that point, I don't mind the higher prices. When that point does come, I'll certainly re-evaluate if Netflix is worth it for me.
I disagree. That isn't realistic for the communication channels of today. Also liberals and conservatives randomly switch opinion on this matter depending on the content.

Social networks were successful because they allowed it to be a soapbox for everyone. Overall that is certainly an improvement over traditional media channels.

Recent events, I guess you are referring to someone going on a shooting spree again, cannot justify censorship as the homicide rate in the US is still vastly lower than 1985.
I dual-boot in my computers, because for some things live video games (and some software) I prefer Windows, while for coding or using a remote console I prefer Ubuntu. So I always try to split the hard disk in half and install Ubuntu in raw hardware.

My (relatively new) HP Spectre x360 only got sound working until Ubuntu 22.04 was launched. This is one year after the hardware was launched. I spent some months using Ubuntu without having sound, unless I plugged my USB headphones.

My previous laptop, Dell Inspiron 7375 with an AMD Ryzen 5 2500U CPU, did not even properly boot into Linux until Ubuntu 22.04 was launched. The best I could manage was make it boot it with some MMU kernel parameter, and it worked for half an hour until it froze. And it always froze with Ubuntu 18.04. It is a computer from 2018, so it was four years without me being able to natively run Linux in it. I had to use a virtual machine during these years =(

So, there's a lot of work either by the community or by the vendor to make Linux work in some hardware.
> entire financial system was reinvented on top of bitcoin

You can build shit on top of anything. But you can't build anything worthwhile on top of shit. Bitcoin at least has a solid, extractable, base.
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion
No, the FreeDOS HP option has always been used by the customers who did not want to pay a Windows license, because they wanted to install a different operating system, usually some Linux variant (the option to install a pirated Windows variant was also popular in some parts of the world).

Dell has the Ubuntu option for many computers, but for those who do not want to use Ubuntu, like myself, there is no difference between the Dell Ubuntu option and the HP FreeDOS option, because such customers will always install their own preferred OS, immediately after the purchase of a new computer.
This would be great, though in todays interconnected world, it's hardly enough (for me anyway).

I've been through dozens of "todo apps", and most are either too simple or too complex, or doesn't support a sync i can use, or not available on "all" platforms, so ultimately i've settled on Org-mode backed by cloud storage for "sync".

It (for me) provides a simple enough interface that i can quickly add simple tasks, but also allows me to create more complex ones. It also has clients on just about every platform i use, including mobile.
Over the years, how the McDonalds stock moves has been a good indicator of how both the Food/Beverage market and the Commercial real estate market move.

My only qualm would be the menu choice. I would suggest the French Fries. They are more indicative of both demand and Mickey D's cost of production.

People buying more "meals" or "combos" at Mickey D's has been positively correlated to average household income and blah blah economic indicators over the years.
I'd agree about accuracy but it is also worth mentioning the time reach. Plus or minus half a century from now (or J2000.0 epoch) is fine but if you wanted to explore historical eclipses then you will need to look at higher precision series. This whole thing is about truncating trigonometric series with amplitudes and angles that change over time.

For sunrise/set and moonrise/set calculations you also need to allow for refraction in the Earth's atmosphere (around half a degree or so). Also for moonrise/set you need to allow for the parallax of the Moon's position because you are standing on the surface of the Earth not the centre (up to 1 degree difference in position). This all assumes a spherical Earth and an Ocean horizon. And the rise/set time can changes a little bit with your altitude above the horizon.

For latitudes near the Arctic/Antarctic circles any method based on iteration (as in Duffett-Smith's lovely book) is going to have convergence issues because there might not actually be a rise/set event near that day so if you really want an algorithm that will work anywhere on Earth you'll need to use a method based on fitting a quadratic curve to (say) 24 positions calculated for the day. Have a look at [1] in a library. The code is in Pascal, but it is the search method using a quadratic fit to sets of 3 consecutive positions you want.

Just for low-precision lunar positions, an interesting alternative that also summarises the various methods was produced by NASA [2] for space craft use.

[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-03436-7

[2] https://caps.gsfc.nasa.gov/simpson/pubs/slunar.pdf
This is why I love HN. I am the OP, and your comment made me realize what the article was missing.
> I'm not sure how that would assuage the risk [averse] accountant

If the accountant's salary depends on being assuaged, this should hardly be a problem: the accountant will then just tell you that he does not believe this to be a good idea, and give reasons for his judgement.
> If the laptop is running FreeDOS on "bare metal", what
> happens when you close the lid and put it in your backpack?

That use case isn't even supported in Windows on some Dell models.

Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639952
Depends on the adaptor too. Cheap ones only have Rx and TX pins . The rest of the pins are not connected. If your device only used Rx and Tx it would work fine . If it uses functionality of other pins make sure you get the right adaptor
Previous discussion (4 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29929446
Fallacies of System 1 and System 2 Thinking
The parent is correct, in theory .eu requires residency or citizenship in order to register a domain[1].
After Brexit holders of .eu domains that did not meet the criteria lost their domains[2].

And the .eu is not the most restrictive ! I am a French citizen but live outside the EU, so I can't get a .fr domain (at least, again, in theory - haven't tried in practice) but I could get a .eu one.

[1]: https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/rules-for-eu-domain...

[2]: https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
Gov.uk has removed its dependency on jQuery
They sell this laptop with Linux too already. And the equivalent of a FreeDOS setup doesn't even need anything complicated - I doubt FreeDOS ships with sound or graphics drivers after all.
What does gradual typing provide that good type inference and ability to use placeholder types doesn't?
Polygonjs [1] uses WebGL (via threejs [2]) pretty heavily. It allows you to create interactive WebGL experiences, without coding, only by connecting nodes. So you can set up geometry processing, particle systems, custom shaders or object behaviors.

[1] https://polygonjs.com

[2] https://threejs.org/
We are building Construct, an entire game development IDE in the browser: https://editor.construct.net
It's still based on the assumption that Bitcoin is not a growth asset, and that those investors believe it is. If the investors believe it is a growth asset there is no problem - they knew exactly what they were buying into. In fact, it is probably a proxy for a Bitcoin ETF or outright ownership of coins; in that case it is doubly true they understand the risk.

The argument falls apart without Bitcoin stagnating into obscurity, so the same point is (less) obviously implied.
Agreed, needs a big disclaimer at the top imo
I stopped worrying and in most cases just write configs for my tools in python. Then you can just import/exec it and you're done.
I can use all the operations/primitives I already know in Python: string interpolation & operations, loops, Pathlib, imports etc.
I can use mypy and all the other existing linting tools to make sure my configuration is correct without having to write a custom linter (and basically reimplement 10% of mypy).

Shameless plug if you wanna read a longer analysis: https://beepb00p.xyz/configs-suck.html

A great example is pyinfra https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra#readme Think Ansible but instead of YAML you write Python. It provides a set of primitives/DSL and some rules you need to adhere to, but otherwise you just write regular python code.
I know a few people whose main hobby for many years has been fiddling with their Linux distribution, so I can see it lasting a long time for people like that
This is spendid. I've used other tools to spot the ISS previously, but this one makes it so intuitive. Great job.
The Playwright caught up with Cypress in the number of GitHub stars
Agreed. This is obvious both empirically and analytically.

As BTC price goes up, the network starts to yield larger mining profits in total (in fiat terms) and this creates an incentive for people to launch new miners to absorb the surplus profits... The increased competition then causes an increase in mining difficulty which reduces the profit margins back to what they were before the increase but now there are more miners in the network with more total hash power which are consuming more electricity in total. The equilibrium point is the point where most miners are teetering on the edge of unprofitability.

One interesting thing to note, however, is that while increases in the price create an incentive for more miners to join the network, the Bitcoin network itself does not require so many miners to exist to support itself at those higher price levels. If you assume a hypothetical scenario were all governments around the world required a license to mine Bitcoin and limited the number of machines allowed in total, then price could keep going up without an increase in the total number of miners. This would be very convenient for existing miners as they would be able to earn more profits without having to buy more machines as the price increases.

The fact that this obviously negative-sum game has been profitable for miners in the long run is proof that our current monetary system is broken. If our monetary system was efficient and becoming more so, it would be unprofitable to run so many miners. Bitcoin profits from the inefficiency of monetary system whilst revealing to us the fiat system's negative-sum nature. As dumb and unethical as this all seems, it is the smartest investment to make in the context of our current system.

I suspect that Bitcoin saves more electricity than it wastes by turning the world economy into a giant squidgame... It attracts capital towards it instead of towards other economic activities which would end up consuming more electricity... Those other activities would certainly have made better use of the electricity (since, unlike BTC mining, they would have provided tangible value to people in return) but Bitcoin doesn't care about people's well being. It profits from the destruction of opportunities and the concentration of wealth. Poor people consume less electricity. Bitcoin saves electricity by ensuring that poor people stay poor by soaking up all the excess capital so that it doesn't get invested in real economic activities which would bring people out of poverty.
Your registrar isn't doing the necessary due diligence then - mine made me send them a scan of either passport/ID or residency permit.

https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/
Why not! I'm not particularly familiar with Macbooks personally, but If it can run what you need it to run, then it's an absolutely fine use for one! I'd consider removing the battery and running without it for safety reasons, but I'm not certain if you can do that with Macbooks - and besides, a laptop with a battery installed could be considered a home server with a UPS :P

The only more specific advice I have is to stick to stuff 7th Generation or newer on the Intel side if you plan on a media center use case, since 7th Gen intel stuff is when they introduced x265 hardware accelerated decoding/encoding into the GPU found on those CPUs, which is a great help. I love repurposing EOL hardware for this kind of use case, since it's imo a better solution than buying yet more electronics, and it also saves something from the e-waste trash heap.
Are you talking about taskwiki[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/tools-life/taskwiki
So, breaking changes in .2? Sound like non-semver compliant and hard to spot since files are not named dot-yaml2, indeed.
Red Terror (Spain)
But if you use DOS still for industrial stuff you usually do it because you need some old-fashioned interface (i.e. real serial or parallel ports are the usual example). Which is going to work great from inside a VM, not.
Free speech absolutionists only stick with their opinion because they don't actually realize what absolute free speech / lack of moderation will look like.

In practice, they want to be offensive and racist on the internet without consequence, for a big audience. "Free speech for me but not for thee".
I'm curious about the tech stack behind it, have you considered making a blog post about it? And if you already have, where can I find it?
This is a wordy advertisement for RedHat hybrid cloud offering and doesn't seem to have much to do with remote work at all. I was hoping for an announcement how RedHat will now support remote work for all their engineers, yet I could hardly find any engineering jobs listed for remote locations on their jobs page (I've tried 5-6 countries and the first that had any was Spain).

While I believe hybrid cloud approach is the way to go for larger projects, this article does not seem to have any substance to support that and really tie that in with remote work.
Atomic swap from Bitcoin is the easiest and most effective choice. If not that or a local, in person swap, the worst they know about you is that you owned Monero at some point. This is assuming you take the required Op-sec for your level or paranoia.
Lol. Good Pun.

On a serious note, that TerraZIMC already exists. It is the Brahman. The value of everything (other cows, cars, wives, houses, insurance policies etc) can be measured in Brahman cows. It is inflation proof as well as it is effectively barter.

People love talking about hyperinflation in Zimbabwe and stuff, most people just defaulted to their normal trade. How many Brahman cows is your stuff worth? Oh the price is too small to measure in cows? No problem. A Brahman cow is about 200 chickens on average. So for smaller transactions, how many chickens is your stuff worth?

The people who struggled the most during Zimbabwe's hyperinflation were the city people who did not own any animals. For the people in the rural areas, not much changed, besides city people coming and talking crazy numbers.

The majority of people live outside the cities and trade as they always do. That chicken can also be divided into heads of corn if need be. The dollar only becomes a concern when you trade with the city kids who have no assets to their name and can only use money.
Do you think that the only way to improve on the US's current position is to test every single product?
Didn't the US have a domain format like this, I seem to remember it being cited as a reason that .com became the default for US businesses.
There is a BIP process in place and there were many upgrades already done to the software that runs BTC nodes. But I don't really care for Bitcoin either way. It can never be a currency.

>> That's like saying "in the future the linux kernel could be insecure, because the devs could add a keylogger"

This is just informal fallacy.
Is increasing hard cap immediate threat to btc ? I don't think it is.

Bitcoin has so many other unsurmountable obstacles, that it's "monetary policy" is irrelevant.
The migrations were not just intra-EU, they were from outside of EU too, eg balkan states, the turks in germany, etc.
> try cleaning the heads with IPA

I've had mixed results with cleaning heads with IPA. My head often seems very sluggish the next morning, and other people with whom I spend such evenings have reported similar results with their heads.
If there's ever a need to change the British flag I hope the government takes the opportunity to incorporate the Welsh flag. It's easily the best flag in the UK if not Europe as a whole!
I mentioned the same for me during the kagi search engine pricing discussions. Slight overpaying is fine, but paying per search would instantly create an illogical chilling effect for me.
I do think trees are more evolve than us. Simply by existing, trees constantly create opportunity for life to grow.

They shelter quantity of animals, feed billions of more or less microscopic living creatures (insects, mushrooms, bacteria), induce rain, create an environment with ideal climatic conditions, prevent landslides, provide us incredible useful resources (wood, fruits, substances for medication)... Not even talking about the air you're breathing. And when they die, it's another cycle of benefits that begins.

Meanwhile we may have invented iPads, but as for now, we are at the exact opposite of trees and only know to live the destructive way.
Hi there, Helen here from the fruits Team - I am always keen to improve the user experience and to provide smart content, super grateful for your input! We're already working on a step by step guide + video - coming soon :-) !
49C is hot, even if India has seen hotter temperatures. Heat must also be seen in combination with humidity, i.e. Wet Bulb Temperature[0]. Note that the human limit for WBT is extremely low when compared to dry heat (Wikipedia gives the theoretical limit as 35°C/95°F, equivalent to a heat index of 70°C/160°F) because this is the point where the human body is incapable of self-regulating body temperature because perspiration ceases to have any effect. If it really was 60°C inside, something like 15% relative humidity could have been enough to kill you without ventilation/isolation/cooling if you had been exposed to it long enough.

The other problem that you seem to be missing is that the article states that this heatwave arrived very early, which means nobody was prepared for it and as the article also states, this could cause problems in agriculture which would compound on the existing shortages from Ukraine. This is as usual unlikely to cause direct problems for people living in most of Europe or North America but bad news for countries relying on Ukraine or India for food imports.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Ahh, fond memories. When the communism was giving its last breath in Poland in 1989, inflation got pretty high - around 40 percent a year. I had a private English language lessons with a student and we were adjusting lesson price to the price of eggs.

This guy had friends in London so he spent a lot of time there working (those were happy times when Policeman was not allowed to ask you if you have a work permit and having a government issues ID was considered as a disgrace to human dignity), so he was a very fluent speaker plus he was bringing to Poland luxuries like Melody Maker magazine that I was laboriously reading, fascinated (I was and I am big music fun).
The pension fund is not from the company. The company merely contributes on your behalf. In Zimbabwe, it is called NSSA, a government managed entity.
That also explains the "design by committee" thing and the ugly/desperate UX some corporate apps have.
Hot Profiling for Python
Yup, even for Google related service. Look at people who scream bloody murder:
* When Youtube charges for a premium service to remove ads
* At the of having to pay for gmail
* Paying for any other of Google's free services (translate, lens, etc).

Even just for lens, imagine telling someone in the 90s that we'd get a free app that lets you take a picture, whooshes it off to some server and uses AI to tell you "what that thing is" along with providing instant access to Google's knowledge related to that "thing". For free!

People are so self-entitled. Yes, companies sometimes make bad decisions around free products, but for many of Google's offerings (and other free service from other companies) _they're the only ones offering it, it wouldn't exist otherwise_
Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
My problem with that is that I kinda have to be forced to go to the office or I will more likely than not WFH. I hate myself for it, but find it VERY hard to change my habit. I am definitely not strong mentally.
The eye-tracking heat map GIF in this article supports this too. Before everyone saw the logo, after they didn't. My first thought when I saw the new one was that it looks like an own-brand product, that heatmap probably explains why.
I'd say with layouts like this (and, say, the Dvorak keyboard layout),
the more significant benefit is comfort rather than speed.
I think the lack of an orange with a straw coming out probably *was* a huge part of the issue. Both boxes have Tropicana written really big on the carton, although one is slightly smaller and sideways.

A box with an orange with a straw looks like a Tropicana box, even if you can't read, and it's a visually engaging image.

The redesign looks like supermarket generic juice packaging, the orange with a straw is as distinctive as the Coca-Cola or Pepsi logo.
Yeah this is what I was trying to enact. They had sort of done that but the autoformatter had been broken for years and they wouldn't let me fix it and reformat everything.
I think a lot of times a redesign is simply used as a tool for a manager/exec to have an impact, any impact really. It does not matter so much if the net result is positive or negative. It looks good on their resume. "Joined company X and spearheading redesign project of X". Designer companies love it, they can let their imagination run wild and the managers will gobble up whatever they come up with.

This happens on all levels really. If it is a huge company like Pepsi or Tropicana or for example my high school which "rebranded" and all the students including me had to stamp thousands and thousands of exam paper with the new logo.
This was my inspiration. I even call my project Composer of Babel :)
That's just it, a lot of things are optimized for maintainability or "what if", but in practice, a lot of code or config is written once and only occasionally tweaked; sometimes the whole codebase is just rewritten for something else. In the past ten years or so, I'd guess that the average lifetime of a customer facing website or -app is about five to ten years before it's rewritten by a new generation, a new IT director, or a new batch of overpriced consultants.

I've had one project - consumer investing web application - that has had a number of iterations. a Flash / Flex app, then when the ipad came by and Flash died, a BackboneJS + Bootstrap app, then rewritten to AngularJS, then some ex googler came by and decided it should all be rewritten again in Polymer for some reason. Last I heard is there was "rebellion" and they were building things in React.

I mean I kinda knew it was all futile anyway, but that experience, where years of my own labor was just discarded in favor of an experimental and unfinished technology, made me real jaded about things.
Cracking consciousness: how do our minds work?