skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had a restaurant and Guy de Maupassant ate there every morning, I would be very worried.

"I have breakfast here to save one innocent from tasting Salazar's foul cuisine".
I was vocally at Pivotal->VMware for a total of 7 years, so a reasonable enough association to form. I've been at Shopify for a little over a year now.
I agree with the premise of the article, but commuting by bike and looking in to people’s cars the #1 distraction for drivers moving and stationary remains the mobile phone.

If for example, police would prosecute based on submitted footage and paid out a small amount of the fine say 10% as bounty in the short term I’d be making more money on my commute than at my day job.
> "You'll never get your speakers back, even if we found them we wouldn't call you, they'd probably be in a lot of all kinds of other stolen stuff and it's impossible to sort through and return stolen items."

Wait what? So police simply keeps stolen goods with no option for the original owners to get them back? Because civil asset forfeiture isn't enough I guess?
Clipping shouldn't be done at the design level.

This is an application logic concern.

If the application did not impose a character limit, or imposed a large one, the design must accommodate this freedom.
> I suspect one of the larger reasons this failed is due folks above age 40 not given it a shot because of how complex it all is to use for them.

The government sponsored bitcoin wallet is easier to use than the banking apps.

For a normal Salvadoran most of the day to day transactions are micro transactions.

$0.25 loaf of read, $0.21 bus ticket, $1.00 groceries. For those amounts, handing a coin is faster than scanning a QR code.
thank you to everyone in this thread who realize it was never meant to be perfect and appreciating it for what it does do!
Right, I never got this. Every time the X11 vs. Wayland thing comes up, I see so many people talking about tear-free rendering as if it were on the same footing as curing cancer.

(Regardless, I haven't seen screen tearing on X11 in... close to a decade? More? I don't care if that's the case only because it's "possible", and not because it's "inevitable". Who cares? It works fine.)
Pass for me.

I want either a 15" MacBook Air or a 12".
> If you're a woman seeking an abortion in a state where it's illegal or severely restricted, you could be the target of malware from your local or state government or law enforcement.

Let's not get in above our heads, here: if the US government wants to know what's on your iPhone, they still have the faculties to retrieve that information. Setting your iPhone in a lockdown mode isn't going to let you escape the purview of government surveillance, and if it did then Apple wouldn't be announcing it today. We're all targets of government malware, and the way they ensure we all keep it installed is simple: they just make Apple and Google write it for them. This pervasive idea that Apple is somehow escaping the jurisdiction of PRISM is pretty hysterical, and it makes me excited for the first Senators to get caught paying for prostitution services with Apple Pay inside Lockdown Mode. The only enemy of "good" in a threat model is the unknown, and Apple makes sure there's plenty of unknown factors in your iPhone.

Edit: For all HN loves to rant about the Halloween Documents, you lot seem awfully unfamiliar with the Snowden leaks...
Except you often can't .. if you say the TV can't be returned without reason, your customer will pour a jug of water into it and claim it never worked...
Care to link the course please?
Doesn't seem to be a big issue for Arabic, where verbs are gendered (so in the sentence "I am going to the store", the verb "to go" will be either masculine or feminine, reflecting the speaker's gender).
> I’m not a target (I think, and hopefully don’t get to be one), but nevertheless I’d feel safer with this turned on (I very rarely use FaceTime, so not accepting it is not a big deal).

Good. We need people with nothing to hide to turn Lockdown Mode on, so that Lockdown Mode isn't a telltale signal that you have something to hide.
But then you’ll want lockdown mode (or something like it) on whatever device you use to browse the web.
I disagree because the same isn't happening with their competitors and the verdict against them has been consistent.
Why on earth would you compare it to SATA SSDs?

Common ~$100-150 1 TB M.2 SSDs read 7000 MB/s and write 5000 MB/s.
After looking at gtk4 recently, I also learned it's pretty crippled in some areas as compared to gtk3. I understand their rationale for this (removing things like GtkPlug/GtkSocket, and making it impossible to implement yourself), but I can't say I agree with it. I've started a couple new gtk3-based projects recently, and I don't think I'd ever migrate them to gtk4.
Bounty is $2 million, grant is $10 million.

You could easily get more for selling a zero-day likely this than reporting it to Apple. If you combined the risk this is being turned on is reported back to Apple or remotely detectable, combined with a zero day, it would be a goldmine; cover this and other issues in my comments on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32006436
Because “compiler explorer” is a wordy, generic and boring name. “Godbolt” is short, specific and memorable. I think my chance of being understood is much higher by calling it godbolt.
You're not wrong. But why do shareholders love buzz words? It's realistically not in their interest at all?

The older I get, the more I'm inclined to join the dark side. To just play the game and not fight it. As such, I'm actually able to produce such fluffy language myself. In the rare case that I'm in trouble, I can use it to bullshit myself out of it.
Lora has very low data rates no?
I've experienced the same. Here's a larger collection of obvious spam failing to get flagged by Gmail's spam filters that we gathered: https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/are-the-spammers-winning-failure...

For example, a spammy email that is strangely uncaught:

Subject: ///Y0urFREEFlashlight(NeedYourAddress)///1851

Sender: UBzjwbFb-lyZSC3-noReply@gwhsi.lairpro.com
You think the justice system is stacked against Tesla? The US justice system?
Link to the website https://collanon.com/
They are using waste heat that otherwise would just disappear.
50% efficient is still better than 100% not used.
>Wayland enables the flicker-free, nicely-animated

Did you start using Linux last month? Because I have flicker-free, nicely-animated experience on X for years. Granted it's not experience that everyone has, but it's not fault of X, it's bad drivers or low power hardware. Wayland only brought forced vsync.

GTK4 is actually trash that ruined font rendering because GNOME developers felt so.
If stores have a lot of unsold inventory, their prices are too high.

Could this be the start of inflation going down?
Ive doesn't even work at Apple anymore.
> The world is not moving on, IRC is very much here to stay

I don't doubt that IRC is here to stay, but I've noticed more and more people moving from IRC to Matrix. Nix, the wgpu-rs guys, I believe the blender devs, and I believe the GHC devs are all on Matrix now.

(No affiliation, I just like the service)
What machine does not have /bin/bash
I'm sorry in what world does that not look almost identical to the grenades you see in movies, tv, and museums? Because I am looking at the picture in that article, and what I see there looks like a grenade - it even appears to have a pin.

What world do you live in which if you did not already know that exact piece of hardware, not reporting it would be the correct course of action?

If I saw that object anywhere outside a mechanics garage - a place where random equipment and car parts I can't identify often exist - I would also report that to police as "hey, I just came across this object that looks more or less exactly like a grenade".

In addition to all this, the messaging to people is literally "if you see something, say something". They saw something that not only did they not recognize, they also saw that it looked like a grenade. They called the police, the police saw an object - I'm guessing at a distance - that again, looked like a grenade, then no one came forward to say "oh hey, that grenade looking thing is a safe device that belongs to me". So they evacuated it so explosives professionals with the gear to handle it actually being a bomb could look at the - again, grenade looking object - was a grenade or something inert.

Also for whoever designed that, a good rule of thumb is to ensure that things that are not grenades or explosive devices, do not look almost identical to a grenade or an tv bomb.
Oh, I love the iPads, personally :) Not having to wait around for servers while still being able to sit is fantastic.
Hey all, I work on this project. Full list of languages can be found here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/flores/tree/main/flores2...

As well as in the research paper: https://research.facebook.com/publications/no-language-left-...
Many American universities use district heating for the whole campus.

Also, as made famous by the many steam vents in NYC movie shots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#United_States
Yet, none of the other electric car makers face this. Ford employs a lot of black and white people in michigan but you don't see this there.
Marriott hacked again? Yes. Here’s what we know
The elevators at my office were upgraded a few years ago and one of the elevator techs happened to mention it to me. I tried it out while alone, for obvious reasons.
During its ascendency as a global capital, Montreal was a decidedly multicultural and multicultural metropolis. One that native Montrealers (read: those with deep roots here) try to cultivate.

But today's Montreal is the result of heavy-handed, paternalistic social engineering driven by an external government over the past 40 years... And is a shell of its former self. One that is going to be further hollowed unless these laws are reversed.
I've often gotten the impression that Google interviews more for general applicability to working at Google than for the specific role advertised. Your comment here being no exception -- is that your experience, is that what you mean to convey?
An IRC bouncer will fit nicely in the "Free tier" EC2 or GCE instances, with gobs of room to spare (even the 1GB bandwidth tier is plenty for a month of IRC bouncer use). I ran one in there for a long while until I moved back to my own server.
Why do you consider it unpleasant? I’m a mac user and I really like Consolas. I like to use it in VSCode or when building websites that display code blocks.
John Carmack on Inlined Code

http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
Yeah breaking compatibility kills a language. He did the right thing.
There is no reason why Wayland would cause Samba authentication errors, now come on.

Blame SMPlayer being buggy, I play videos from smb shares in Wayland and nothing breaks because it's a bloody desktop compositor, not your network stack.

The misinformation surrounding Wayland is just astounding.
Enlightening comparison, though revenue isn't income.

If you went with net income, it would be 0.0105% of Apple's 2021 net income.

Or $31.80 of $300k instead of $8.
Someone better let those NGOs hacked by china know right away!
Yep - I also failed their interview process at one of the later stages in 2020 and they seem to have forgotten, because I still get at least one recruiting email a week.
In the movie airplane the jet makes the sound of a propeller plane. :)
I believe this can be taken as an axiom: there's nothing a human eye can see that a machine cannot.
As a German living in a city with mandatory district heating... the end result is to be that people seem pay more for heating than they would with a decentralised system.

I think that's mostly due to the high upkeep costs of the system, though, the transmission loss is quite manageable, I think.
Of course there are arguments to be made that when accounting for the cost of installing a heating system, and the space it takes, the premium paid for district heating is not that high.

But still... if district heating is so smart, why ain't it cheaper?

What's nice about it, and maybe hard to quantify, is how this limits air pollution in the city. However, people are still allowed wood burning ovens... which they are now all turning to since the district heat is getting really, really expensive..
> remote calls looked the same as local calls

To some degree this is actually nice! I mean, one major reason local API calls (in the same programming language) are nicer than network calls – besides avoiding latency – is that network APIs rarely come with strong type safety guarantees (or at least you have to bolt them on on top, think OpenAPI/Swagger). So I actually wish we were in a world where network calls were more similar to local API calls in that regard.

But of course, in the concrete situation you're describing, the fact that

> all local functions calls had parameters serialized to XML

sounds like a very bad idea.
I have a strong feeling that the author never in their career transitioned from monolith to microservices. Even to the point "we are getting somewhere", not to mention "we are successful at this". Text reads like self- complacency.
Theres an mit offshoot using microwAve beams to vaporize rock in a pretty neat process that leaves a glassy and structural tunnel wall not unlike the nuclear subterrene concept from 70s. Pretty cool stuff.
I've started Wayland up just for fun, to see what it was about, but I've never actually used it. Xfce will probably never port to it (since it'd involve a ground-up rewrite of most components), and I have no desire to switch to a different desktop environment. So as long as X11/Xorg exists and people still continue writing and supporting software for it, I don't think I'd ever switch to Wayland.

But that will be the problem, someday: if Wayland ever becomes the primary windowing system to target on Linux, I would expect some things might disappear. Like maybe Steam for X11 stops being a thing. Maybe Mozilla stops releasing an X11 version of Firefox. That would suck. But I do expect I still have at least another decade before that becomes a concern.
> The idea that you can insulate well enough to efficiently move heat across a city is amazing to me.

It only works well when heating is 'free' - such as when you're using waste heat from a nuclear power plant, or from overproducing solar/wind plants.
Why sand?

- water has 5x the specific heat capacity of sand

- water can be pumped around easily

- water can be used directly for district heating
I have a hot water recirculator installed and love it. It's even faster than on demand.

Faster hot water incentivizes hand washing. Just think about how many more people would wash their hands at the airport if they didn't have to wait 2 minutes (or forever) to get hot water.
Aside from the JIT change, those all sound like pluses to me!
Treating blind people that way will 100% lead you towards a lawsuit. So have fun with that I guess.
Yeah except putting malware on someone's phone is actually illegal, so seems like a pretty bad tradeoff since, ya know, you'd have to mention how you got the data when you sue someone in court.
Since I leveled up on React over the past couple years I've mulled adding some FE projects on the side but backend consultancy seems to dominate the demand on my time/skills. Backend just doesn't give me the tangible feeling of FE work.
> I would guess that it has more to do with technological literacy.

Which is why I added the "familiarity" qualifier. Pretty much anyone can barter with cash, and I've watched 7-year-olds buy ice cream with a Visa card. Initiating a Bitcoin transaction though? That requires some setup, even moreso if you have a 'proper' self-custody wallet that you manage yourself.

> using a crypto wallet in a place where most people don't have a history of smartphone use isn't really the same thing.

I agree, I'm afraid you may have misread my sentiment. It's not that there's no motivation to use Bitcoin, the government subsidies are a pretty clear and obvious shot at luring less-fortunate citizens into the world of crypto. My larger point is that the low adoption among their population makes perfect sense to me. Even in a country with maximum digital literacy, I doubt most people would feel motivated to use crypto either.
These periodic articles hand-wringing over the loss of old internet quirkiness are basically just re-posing a question isomorphic to "Why aren't people more fun and weird?" or "Why isn't society/culture/reality more fun and weird?", which are not actually interesting questions in my opinion. I mean, I get it, the internet used to be a different before it was the primary infrastructure for most human productivity, but is it not basically self-evident why things get less fun and weird when the user base goes from futurist nerds to everyone else?
Depending on your configuration. You would need to be using overlayfs with Podman.
Every time I see a TV ad where the car "stops for pedestrians for you!" I cringe... I get it's a safety feature, and maybe it's just the way they set it up in the ad, but it always feels like it's forgiving distracted driving. And I don't blame the drivers, because cars are coming with fewer and fewer physical knobs and buttons, so drivers are forced to decipher whatever horrible hieroglyphic LCD touchscreen-based UI has been installed in the vehicle.
Cool, they should start now.

As a python dev, pythons multiprocess/multithreading story is one the largest pain points in the language.

Single threaded performance is not that useful while processors have been growing sideways for 10 years.

I often look at elixir with jealousy.
One experiment I've wanted to try, and would if I were more confident in my Spanish, is to just call 20 random businesses in El Salvador and ask them if I could pay in bitcoin. I've wondered how much of this is a publicity stunt versus real "Bitcoin is their currency" thing.

"Although the law requires all firms to accept bitcoin, in reality only 20 percent do so. Roughly 5 percent of all sales have been paid in bitcoin through Chivo Wallet, and just as most households using Chivo prefer to keep their money in cash rather than in bitcoin, 88 percent of firms convert their bitcoin into dollars."

20 percent of firms actually accepting bitcoin and 5 percent of all sales is actually much higher than I expected. If these numbers continue to grow that would be the first bit of evidence I've seen that makes me feel positive about crypto's future.

I'd also be curious to know where the bitcoin transactions are concentrated. I assume it's not a random 20% of firms and 5% of transactions. Is it crypto-tourists and resorts? Poor people who would see the most relative-incentive to adopt because of the 30 dollar bonus? Families with members working in other countries?
Possibly the situation is better today and it might be even better once GTK5 will make it to end users.

But if Wayland folks think that having two external displays and screen sharing is an esoteric workflow, I know that my decision was correct.
For those who seem to be missing the point, this article is about how energy is reported and discussed within the context of national and global energy utilisation. It is not about units of energy measurement. Such articles exist, but their goal differs from the one here.

For those who report on energy utilisation, and those trying to understand those reports, the distinctions made here are highly useful and informative. The article should be assessed on that basis.

Primary energy addresses the total available stocks, flows, and withdrawals from the environment. Those are values determined and dictated by nature. These are submect to aquisition costs --- drilling, mining, fracking, dam-construction (and environment disruption & risk), deployment of solar collectors and wind turbines.

Secondary energy is largely what is actually transacted through wholesale commerce: generation and fuel deliveries. If you're interested in commercial-level transactions and international trade, these are the values of principle interest. In the case of electrical generation, conversion losses are largely dictated again by physics (e.g., Carnot's law), and while incremental improvements may be possible they're often quite difficult, and ultimately limited.

Final and useful energy are the retail-level delivery to end-uses, and the actual intended delivered benefit of that energy. Here again physics enters into the discussion --- light bulbs, computers, combustion engines, air conditioners, and electric motors have their limits to conversion of electricity or fuel to light, computations, movement, and thermal management. They're also governed by other factors (insulation, daylighting, focused- rather than generalised-delivery, land use).

Discussions are why we'll see discussion in units of MWt vs. MWe --- megawatts of thermal vs. electrical energy. Which might satisfy some of the units-fans out there.

Otherwise, as the piece says, if you want to understand the energy picture as a whole, you need to understand the parts, their relations to one another, and their own specific behaviours, characteristics, and limitations.
True. In my case I didn't need a laptop for 2015/2016, but I'm typically an "every 2 years" kind of person. When 2016 rolled out I knew I was going to be taking care of that 2013 laptop for a long while.
Not really, no.

It prevents you from taking advantage of multiple cores. Doesn't really impact straight-line execution speed.

A data structures course is primarily not going to be concerned with multithreading.
> C++ is enormous. Rust is headed in the direction of similar enormity

I don't think this is a fair characterization of rust really. For the most part the things on the horizon still for rust seek to reduce complexity by filing down sharp edges that force you to write complicated code. Stuff like GATs seem complicated until you repeatedly slam your head into the lack of them trying to do things that "seem" natural.

C++ on the other hand (after 2011) just never saw an idiom it didn't like enough to throw on the pile and there's little coherence to the way the language has grown in the last decade.
What are examples of successful Delphi/VB UIs?
There are lots of websites online that explain it more like:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61996520
You would have to be running this specific kernel version and one of your containers has to memory-map a file (not from a volume?), from what I understand.
Honestly what you're saying is not fundamentally different from what a marketing person is thinking in your technical meeting. Basically its just stuff that you can decide to not care about. It has relatively small impact on your day to day work. To be clear that's not a judgement on whether its meaningful or not.

Can you figure it out? Of course! If you were really interested, then after the meeting you would go and find out the answers to your questions. It will help you understand the business better and that can turn into better understanding the the reason for some of the software requirements.
American here.

Most household water pipes really aren't insulated, or aren't insulated well enough. Plus, moving water under the frostline means that the ground it's moving through might be upwards of 55 degrees F.

My house came with an outdoor wood boiler (it's more a rural cabin than a house, really). It moves 180*F water from the boiler 50 feet underground into the house, where it runs through an air exchanger in the central air system and pipes it back out to be reheated.

Newer models of these things can get upwards of 98-99% burn efficiency, and ~85% heat transfer efficiency- as good as or better than you can get with standard efficiency furnaces.
Apple has a lot of other stuff to spend money on. Pocket change adds up.
MacOS does OCR on this just fine. Screenshot, open in Preview, and select, copy, paste:

Name: Satoshi Nakamoto
DOB: 1982-06-05
SSN: 958-20-3141
Cell Phone: 514-867-5309