skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trick (unfortunately) is to slow down. If you don't have a tight schedule, and can sort of wander, you can start somewhere well known and end up somewhere off the beaten path pretty organically.

You'll also meet a network of longer-term travelers who exchange info about where to go (and not go). You don't have to go somewhere that literally no one has been to see something a bit unique, magical, and mostly devoid of casual tourists.
Starlink operates in a bent pipe manner. Transmissions from user stations are relayed to a ground station in the region. Inter-satellite links have not been setup.

Even services like Iridium that don't need any in country infrastructure have to comply with national laws. A government can block equipment at customs, criminalize use, and jam the frequencies.
I've always wanted to play around with ESPHome. However, it seems like many of the projects assume you have a 3D printer, or end with a breadboard and leave finishing it off as "an exercise to the reader". As much as I would have fun building a PIR motion sensor from scratch, if it's going to be in the house it has to look like a finished project, so I end up buying something off of AliExpress.

Anyone know any good tutorials or resources that work from "you've got everything connected, flashed, and working, here's how to polish it"?
Yup. That is precisely how global warming works.
The sick bastard who did this would be smiling with glee if he knew the kind of shit he stirred up.

The problem is that for the amount of suffering and woe that was wrought, there's not a satisfactory justice to be had. The enemy is a sick child - it's not like we can blame the Taliban and go unleash some holy fury. So our rage is collectively turned against each other - the news exploded with "he said she said" type stories about people politically grandstanding over this latest attack. It's exactly the opposite of what a healthy community should do.
For pure math you certainly need a knack for math, not so for Science in general though with notable cases like Faraday.
I have been using catch-all for years! I have literally just worked on a mini project to automate it for all my family members with forwardemail.net using Terraform: https://github.com/politician/barissat-infra

Catch-all are working but still WIP for the primary domain part due to a bug with the Google workspace provider. https://github.com/politician/barissat-infra/issues/2
Explore gut feelings and thoughts back in the head. Learn when to rely on hope/belief and when to change certain facts/assumptions and reevaluate situation. Try approaching situation top to bottom, starting from basic facts about the situation. Think from all sides, build a model of what's going on and see if models fit with reality. Imagine explaining current situation to someone and see if it sounds obviously flawed when spoken out.
Yes because the government would never do something like pass laws to punish a corporation because they spoke out against a policy - see Florida vs Disney.

The last thing I want is to give the government more power.
AWS DNS Issues?
Anyone seeing name resolution issues in AWS? Some internal monitors started failing about an hour ago with name resolution issues. Quad9 is returning SERVFAIL for status.aws.amazon.com
We don't have to let them steal a word from the English language, that belongs to all of us. We don't have to let them cause confusion. Just don't call it the name they want you to call it.
It gets worse. A very long time ago a was working for a startup that was doing real-time speech compression, for telephony applications, using a DSP, with the compression/decompression implemented in assembly language. The code had two processes, an analysis process and a synthesis process. My colleague named the entry point to the synthesis process synth_entry, and he named the entry point to the analysis process anal_entry. Either he honestly didn't realize, as he claimed, or he was better at keeping a straight face than anyone I ever met.
Is there anything noteworthy about this, other than the quirk of history that micro$oft made it?
Hence why every business owner boasts about being a job creator. This despite these jobs being an unwanted side effect of the actual goals of the business. Cost centres.

'Look at all these employees I resent having to spend money on and actively try to make redundant and underpay. Aren't I just great?'
Jim’s view of ARM being a CISC architecture is rather unconventional. The Wikipedia page literally describes it otherwise in the very first sentence [1]:

> ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family
Nix is different, but I wouldn't say its _weird_. Nix the language is weird, but the packaging system is pretty straightforward. Imagine that every single thing you install is done in a chroot, so you need to declare exactly what it depends on to have it work. Thats it.

My point is that if you are comfortable with the effort needed for Arch, NixOS is _probably_ a better option because I think it does the same thing but better.
Not sure. Assumed it was “poop” though.
The author is exactly right. Indeed I work for government and we're buying into databricks and the people responsible for that don't even know what Spark is. The pitch which sold them the product is the one the author basically identified, infinitely scalable storage that is queryable, even though there are plenty of other products that offer that.

While government is an extreme example, I'm sure there's a lot of non-tech companies in a similar position. The people doing the procurement don't know anything about tech, but they do know that there's random databases all over the place that are a constant headache and they want to centralise everything in a single platform. Secondly they steadfastly refuse to hire competent tech people, if databricks ends up being a very expensive replacement for an OPs team then that's a big winner for any organisation that is unable to, or refuses to, hire an OPs team but has lots of money to burn.
Wait until you hear what happened in the 1910s and the 1940s
So we’ve gotten to the Gibson “high tech low life” stage officially.

“Case picked up the powertrain control module from the table and nodded at the fence across the table…”
upvotes for the poor plz
Right?

Modern computers, GUIs, and even the TUI, provide flexibility for a device. They're good at manipulating many different types of information.

If you have something that is meant to do something very well and it is critical then it makes sense to have a machine with purpose built physical controls. Controls which enable you to manipulate that one critical type of information accurately and easily.

The dedicated machine with physical controls will have to be correct, complete, and durable. But it will always work better because the controls are designed for real human bodily movement. They become truly enmeshed in muscle memory. You know where a control is relative to the others. It's just different.
>Paris has "grand correspondences" which means the lines link on the map, but in reality are a long way apart

So they're not marked with a different color or something? It just looks like two dots are equally distant, but one set is farther apart than the other?

Also is there a french word for "grand correspondences"?

I have an interest in urban planning, but I don't speak anything other than English fluently but I'm getting good at reading small bits of text like news articles or signs and translating what I won't know with software, but it's a slow and laborious process -- sorry for the barrage of questions :-)
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots a “Doorway” on Mars
It would be nice if there was an option to type in text with one character per grid square.
Comments from banned accounts get killed by default. If you see a good comment that's dead, please don't copy it. Instead, vouch for it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch). That's the entire reason for the vouching feature.

Other users vouched for that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31521548), so now we have two copies of it in the thread—the original, plus yours—and a split discussion, which makes merging the threads a pain. I'll move the replies to the proper place, but please don't do this again. (edit: especially since you've done it before - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178929)
For me, my first time experiencing his work was GTA Vice City. He always Tommy in my mind. It was wild to me seeing Goodfellas for the first time as an adult a few years ago. Now, I need to see the rest of his performances.
"Devolving" implies some point in the past was better, but can you actually name a major historical period that was objectively better? Many people, especially historians, say the past was much worse:

- https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...

- https://mashable.com/article/best-time-in-history

I think it's a matter of perspective. If you just focus on the negatives, things will appear to be getting worse. Unfortunately, bad news sells better than good news. I think this is an evolutionary artifact: the world was much more dangerous, and it was important to avoid things that could get you killed.

Since historians are the first people to say the past was not better, maybe a deep dive into history and truly understanding the past (vs. just vicarious nostalgia[1]) would help balance your perspective.

[1] Interestingly, even gamers recall old versions of games as being better, when they were objectively worse. They just remember the good experience without remembering the bad details: https://youtu.be/1pXJqs2bgi4
Reading? Arithmetic? Prose composition? Everything in a high school curriculum? Not to belabor the point, but 200 years ago was the early 1800s.
They're very functional as welll, have you been to Canada in winter? Lotta precipitation.

(I took a short walk through because in summer they also had AC)
I find it hard to believe they should be worth more than Twilio. They get a cut of revenue but they are still developer focused, which limits ultimate upside. It is about making developers lives easier not about building a network that scales
AWS services explained in one line each (2020)
Are you recommending people use a non-approved medical treatment?
I wholeheartedly agree that there are times that call for defending your in-group against an out-group. It could be fighting for scarce resources or when your lives are on the line. But do you also agree that there are times where it is out of place? The unabomber perhaps? I mean he was a bit of a one-off (a group by himself). But what about the early eugenicists, for example, was it called for or out of place?
Best I can think of is that parent commenter was referring to the fact that many fire and EMS vehicles use a Freightliner chassis/engine?

Our fire department needs a new ambulance. There is a two year waiting list for one.

The ineptitude of the automotive industry in dragging its heels relying on outdated semiconductor manufacturing is just mind-boggling, but so is the lack of action by the administration to order prioritizing parts and vehicles for public safety, followed by cargo and mass passenger transportation.
Ancient kids struggled less with algebra by not being expected to learn it at all...
The US just went through 4 years during which it should have been quite clear to everyone that the stability and norms of our government and civilization are very fragile things. Imagine for a moment Jan 6 actually was a successful coup, especially given the supposed coziness of the various police forces to said coup initiators. There are quite a few groups of people who might have benefited from having a strong civilian ownership and knowledge of firearms in that event.

Likewise, there's an entire country currently undergoing an invasion being fought not only by their regular army but by civilian volunteers too. And sure, such an event happening in the US is unlikely given our particular neighbors, but then again even up to the day of the invasion various analysts were sure it would never happen so predicting the future can be a bit difficult.

We don't live in a post conflict world, and our country isn't immune to bad actors.
Are there charge/discharge curves?

In general, it seems absurd how little energy we store, going from 3.9V up to 4.2V. And it's bad for cycle count. Yet we keep doing it.

Kind of weird setup in this paper- it's not really comparing to LiFePO4 is it? Lifepo4 top out at like 3.6V no? Lipolymer goes to 4.2V but have markedly less cycle count. The promise of LiNiMnCo (LiMNC) with more capacity though is compelling, for sure.
If I recall, Exchange Server back in the day was built on an X.400 stack and SMTP was a extra connector yiu could buy. That all got turned around when Exchange 5.5 hit and it was clear that even the US Government, who were a massive motive force behind X400/500, were moving on.
PATH is huge, with over 30 km of tunnels and more than 50 buildings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(Toronto)
Yes, but in some domains (for example bioinformatics) py2 is still a requirement for many packages. It really hasn't gone away. Ruby was far more elegant in its upgrades and nearly everyone upgraded their packages because the needed changes were far more minor. I have code from ruby 1.8.7 that still works with ruby 3.x.
a day may come when the courage of men fail, but it is not this day, this day , we upvote.
We live in a time when the media makes more if it causes more dread. My advice is to ignore the news.

Listen to optimists.

https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_is_the_world_getting...
Strongly disagree. They allow you to declaratively say what data is allowed. No system where devs write code is going to be infallible, no matter how much people want it to be true. Show me a database without FKs and I'll show you a database with orphaned rows and insistent data.

That being said, depending on the data you're working with, you may be fine with that trade-off.
I'm actually trying to learn more about liquified natural gas right now.

(Eg: if you can gather it sustainably, small batches, can that be used to supplement things other than solar like wood, wind, and hydro? If so shipping that around might make sense.)

I don't know if you'll get many detailed numbers, I got the sense that's the real "business intelligence", not meta level ideas like the one I just expressed, when I was having a series of informal conversations about green energy.
On the other hand, any electric car can be charged from solar panels on your roof.

Then there's Aptera, which can charge itself from the sun if you're in a reasonably sunny area, and which has a strong commitment to right-to-repair: https://aptera.us/right-to-repair-commitment-feat-rich-rebui...

They also make their own battery packs, despite not exactly
being a large operation. https://aptera.us/battery-update/
what does ether-rot refer to?
As it happens, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29558596 answers both of those questions.
The grave insult of being sent the proper tools to perform a complicated task
Socialism is democratic, generally. People vote under any type of socialism I've heard of, maybe too much.
started from the bottom no we here.
Not too long ago I was constantly facing this kernel bug [0] that would kill audio whenever system memory would be under moderately high load.
It's fixed now but it's kind of insane that the kernel would mess around with components as critical as sound for desktop users.
[0]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/22...
We evaluated databricks a few years ago. Didn’t get how we start and do the simplest thing. For our company that didn’t know how to take the first step it was daunting. Then snowflake came along and it was so easy and it just worked and we understood it and could see how it could be extended. Maybe databricks is more powerful, I have no idea, it was going to be way too much effort to find out. It was a nonstarter for us.
It uses cluster-api to provision clusters. It's very cool and isn't a VMware thing. It's open source, and you can easily run it on regular k8s clusters.

https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/
Yeah we're noticing issues too. Able to only intermittently load the status page and AWS console.
Why try to fix the world. That's not possible. Be the best you can be. If everyone did that the world automatically gets better. As you do it you get more influence to change the world.
Thanks for the link! Frankly, it sounds too good to be true. But I'm not qualified to judge this.
> If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense.

I think you meant "in the source code sense" not "in the true sense."

It could very well be a comment in installware.
FWIW this might be new to you because written correctly it's a 'lamer' usually and not only used for computing related things. I had never read it as 'lammer' either and even though there is one entry with that spelling in the urban dictionary, from the looks of it and what Google says otherwise, that's just someone mis-spelling it. Happy to be corrected on this with proper evidence but otherwise I think this just points towards the real 'lammers' ;)
Toxicity depends on the people involved.

It’s kind of like medicine. There can be high stakes and you want someone who has “done it” before. Someone who knows the statutory law, the case law, the precedents, who keeps up on that area of expertise.

It was tempting to buy a piece of software that could draw up the papers I needed to create my family trust, but if I really need that in 10 years and something is outdated or the laws have changed, then I’m just passing down a problem of unknown potential to my next of kin.

I had recent need of an estate attorney when my mom passed unexpectedly, and the time, hassle, and general insanity the attorney saved my family and I was well worth the expense of a few grand coming out of the estate. He was very conservative in his billings and gave us four trips, in person, to government agencies on the house.
the article does not do a good job of explaining the "hiccup". let me break it down.

> Recently, high-profile hiccups have also deflated investors. In late April, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs, auctioned off millions in tokens offering land in a metaverse project they started. Its popularity caused the digital ledger it was being transacted on to nearly shut down. Trading volume also caused transaction fees to rise higher than the actual NFT price in some cases, news reports indicate.

imagine your country club is selling rolex watches for $7000, existing members only, 1 per member, while supplies last. meanwhile, there's a crowd standing outside offering to buy them for $24000. you would expect uber rides to reprice towards $17000. with this context, it is unsurprising that the uber ride would cost more than the watch.

if you wanted to take an uber to your friend's house, you might decide to reschedule, because $17000 is too much. but we wouldn't describe the uber network as "shut down". instead, it is congested.
How is it standard?
If I was to gamble I would say that Analog TV can store more data, compression algorithms usually work at say 1:200 compression ratio, they're extremely destructive, a raw 1080p60 in yuv420p is about 187MB/s, on the other hand a decent equivalent video on YouTube is about 1MB/s
Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This doesn't appear to work for me. When I enter a city name it just places a red sphere on the globe. Nothing about dinosaurs.
> biofuel-based vehicles can, in theory, be manufactured locally with machine tools

The excellent thing about electricity is that it's fungible. Electricity from a wind farm in the North Sea, a nuclear plant in the South of France or a Texan solar panel is identical as far as the electric vehicle is concerned. In contrast with bio-fuels if you can't make the right chemical soup for this specific model of engine well too bad, buy a new engine or undertake expensive conversion.

There are immediate practical advantages (many EV owners never spend any time putting "fuel" into their vehicle, unlike with ICE, since just charging it whenever it's sat around doing nothing is easy with electricity) but there are also large strategic advantages in terms of energy independence.

To get even the poor efficiency of modern internal combustion engines took a lot of careful engineering which would be undone by your "local machine tools" approach, so that makes the bargain even worse. In contrast it's easy to build high efficiency electric motors, and we've been doing that in many applications for years.

To the extent the answer isn't EVs that's because the answer is less car culture.
Are you DCA'ing back in the market?
I can see it. Salesforce kicks NRA off their platform. Google employees force NRA content off YouTube, from using Google Apps. Netflix employees to request to remove all content that glorifies gun violence.
This may be ridiculous advice but go find lots of media that shows experts being wrong. Go find videos of cops beating up innocent people. Go look through the news from 10 20 or 30 years and find people saying things they were sure about that they were wrong about or that they said would be good but ended up causing a lot of problems.

Keep doing this until you have ingrained in yourself

1) People that sound smart often don't know what they are talking about

2) Authority figures often don't have your best interests at heart

3) and learn the specific smells of what these kind of statements tend to look and sound like

And I guess eventually you could build up an intuition for when people are full of shit.

You can also do the opposite and try to build up intuition for when people were right about things that sounded like bullshit to you.

And if you want to get meta about it, listen to this philosopher talk about bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RO93OS0Sk&t=1s
I’ve given this quite a bit of thought recently because, well…

The common usage of “a few bad apples” has changed to mean the group isn’t responsible, as a whole, for the actions of a few instead of the old warning about removing the bad ones before they corrupt the bunch.

Like during the “peaceful” protests a couple years ago. It was the “bad apples” who were burning police cars and looting stores, the group has no responsibility for their actions.

Not so for the Capital Insurrection though. They don’t get to claim “a few bad apples” and the people who were there to peacefully protest and merely held up a sign on the lawn were equally as guilty as the ones who entered the capital to forcefully stop the election results.

Double standard really.
you can build a museum around counterfeit artworks. why would anyone bother though?
I don't find it hard to believe that "Twilio, but for money", could make more money than Twilio
Yeah we need to use a good mocking nickname for that company.
shameless plug ging down this route: OpenAI Jukebox creating my singer/songwriter project... https://soundcloud.com/songshtr/sets/machinecroon
I've learned over the years that most people overlook the bottom part of the iceberg.

Stripe nailed everything else about the business. They made everything that sucked about old credit card processors good. It wasn't just the transaction. It was everything that led up to it (simple integration, debugging, good dev documentation, sane APIs, etc) and everything after. Eventually, they even made the transactions better with alternative methods, fraud, and recurring payment pass-through.
Yeah, something that really emphasizes how much of a boomer tech company they are. Something like that website all the boomers use: Facebook.