skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - that is amazing! As a Kindle Oasis owner, which I love in terms of screen size (7 inches) and auto adjusting light, is there any non-Amazon e-reader device alternative that anyone would care recommending?
One has to distinguish between early revolutionaries - who had many weird ideas to overhaul everything, from the calendar to the family structure to the language to the alphabet to how the art is done (in that latter they actually produced some interesting results that didn't end up in blood, tears and mass murder, too bad it happened in many other areas). They definitely weren't conservative by any measure. But, once Bolsheviks took power and consolidated, their regime was as conservative as the Tsar's - including promoting the same conservative values the early revolutionaries raged against. People in power have much different interests than people trying to overthrow the power, you know - even if those happen to be the same people at different times. The time it happened has been somewhere contemporaneous with the power transition from Lenin (largely disabled and unable to control anything for the last year of his life, but being severely ill even before) to Stalin.
Well first of all energy storage, is not production, but as you asked:

1) Reduced need for energy storage. Right to repair for everything, write code that is efficient and lower power, distributed systems which don't require complex centralized systems to run. Taxes on unused compute cycles to help create incentives for this, perhaps.

2) For actual energy storage, something like the sand heat system recently put into use in Scandinavia, or the mechanical earth dams (store energy in potential energy mass, less dangerous than an actual water dam, a lot easier to build). For immediate electric storage at scale you can do e.g. saline water storage tanks which hold mild electric charge, who knows maybe there is some inert chemistry which could be devised for a safer transportable version of a lithium ion battery...

3) For energy production, I am a long time advocate of geothermal. There's no real downside, besides digging holes and I guess maybe a well collapse, but you're limited to loss of whatever is in the whole/immediate surrounding in the case of a cave in, there are no engineering problems to solve except pumping water around, which is a well known task. Solar/wind for ships, airplanes, space vehicles, electric/hydrogen for storage/consumption scenarios where the grid is not accessible (remote locations e.g. the poles, alaska, siberia, African/Asian planes)
We use Flutter in our apps. We work in b2c messaging and I would say that the performance claims are quite exaggerated.

From the pluses: we cover all the 5 platforms(https://txt.me/download) with a single developer(he's very good though).
From the minuses: on some platforms we are lacking some features, like proper webview in desktop and action buttons in the push notificatons.
To me that seems like an incomplete explanation that ignores the hard part of the problem it’s trying to satisfy.

It’s easy to explain the suffering that can happen during one’s life as part of a wider experience which ultimately ends up being good, when the examples are adults with a range of experience and agency over their situation.

It’s less easy to explain why a good god has created an existence where a young child who doesn’t yet have agency over their existence contracts and dies of smallpox. Or is brutally raped and murdered. Or…

What’s the point of that exactly?
>> I will tender my resignation

whats with this attitude?
Brighten your garden with yellow flowers
Seems like the author is also the submitter. Shouldn’t it then be prefixed with “Show HN”?
The same culture exists in Poland. Drove on a normal road and an unsecured bar of metal fell on your car from a construction site? Should have watched where you were going. The default stance is always that if something happens to you it's your own fault, should have been more careful. I'd lean towards this being a common thing either in Slavic culture or at least in ex-communist countries for some reason.
Three or four parties could easily happen in the USA of they'd change their electoral system. FPTP system and lack of culturally divergent regions (like Scotland in the UK) is the reason there are no third / fourth powers. If, say, half of Congress were elected by party lists, there'd be a lot of political diversity fast.
I've experimented with the "Mandelbar" (sometimes called the "tricorn") fractal over the split-complex numbers: https://imgur.com/PkzY7B6

The result isn't completely trivial, but isn't particularly impressive either.

Anybody want to try Burning Ship over the split-complex numbers? It looks like you only need to replace the complex "i" with the split-complex "j".
I'm pretty sure they're always called "complex numbers" when you start using them.

"Imaginary numbers" is something from a highschool curriculum.
On a technical implementation of the robot I agree completely. On the policy level I concede I am not very familiar with policies of the USSR, but it is a policy decision of the Russian government organizer to allow the placement of the robot, a robot that many organizers would deem not safe for interaction with children. Recent policy in Russia indicates they still have a lot of legacies left from the USSR.
How do you prepare the Aeropress coffee?

Do you use a metal mesh or paper filter?

Do you get enough pressure from your Aeropress? I've had several over the years and sometimes the plunger heads (the rubbery part going towards coffee) could be too loose as they can become weak over time.

Or your coffee is ground too coarse perhaps?

The point is you need proper pressure and a slow push. The plunger and ground size impact the pressure most IMO.

Of course, without the filter you won't get pressure at all :) And if you use the inverted method and forget the filter (like me, several times), once you flip over the Aeropress, your kitchen ends up smelling awesome.

The water temperature should not be boiling or you'll burn the coffee, possibly making it taste bad. I tend to use 94-95 degrees Celsius unless advised otherwise.

An Aeropress won't create a flavor smash like espresso, there's not enough pressure for that. But for my admittedly crude and uncultured taste buds it can basically beat a coffee machine.
I think that's a reasonable stance, but only for some values of "soon". In a hundred years, we may well have AGI. At that time, we better have developed a robust science for how to control them. This is a somewhat unrelated problem to the current problem of machine/AI safety and both require more focus than they currently get.
Thanks for those examples. Great reading!
That has to be sarcasm. Or trying to be funny, but not very well.
A musician is selling his music via his own webshop as CDs. Amazon is also selling MP3s for download. Only, those are illegally sold. He said he took several listings down already, but eventually just gave up as Amazon keeps relisting them.
7z was popular in the Windows world when I still used that more than 10 years ago because Windows contained nothing reasonable.

I have never really seen it in the Linux world. There are several alternatives installed in most distros, all except zstd discussed in the article.
Is it mainly because cars are idle/off most of the time, unlike laptops and smartphones, or is there something else at play here?
We have do estimate on projects with Jira. plan how long we think it'll take then log the time as we go at end of the day. But honestly I'm terrible at it, I always go way over and just make up the log whatever because after a hard day of debugging its the last thing I care about.

Management complains but not much they can do besides deduct money or fire me. And when pay doesn't keep up with inflation then I really couldn't care less.
> Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling).

Do you count in all the subsidies the renewables get from governments, including the production of the solar panels/wind mills, land ownership, utilities and all kinds of tax cuts and preferential treatment? In my country billionaires own massive solar farms and make tons of money at the expense of everyone else.
The NY Times had a great investigation into the practices that was linked from here yesterday.
I make extensive use of spacers. A generic flex container, a fixed-width spacer, and a take-what-you-can spacer cover most needs with three simple elements.
https://archive.ph/0ByrY
I only killed 10 people, officer, not 100; therefore, I'm not a criminal.
> What is the "culture of power", can you give some examples?

I thought I did, in my comments uptopic. If you expect me to write a doctoral thesis on modern Russian culture, sorry, I am neither qualified nor it is the right place. While I have plenties of anecdotal data, and would be glad to share my experience to the extent I can, systematic treatment of a culture is not something one could do in a random comment on HN. I can name it, at best - Russian Imperial culture, and describe some of its qualities, but anything beyond that will have to wait for somebody who either has a PhD or wants to get one researching Russian culture.

> And what are your pronouns?

None of your business/None of your business.
You should visit, it's weirdly close to that, with pretty brutal anti-drug laws and horrible Internet to boot... but super high minimum wages? Not to mention how they treated their people native to the land... somehow rivals what the English/Americans did to the Native Americans, if you can believe it.

It's bizarro land. It's pleasant enough, but it's not hard to see how Americans and Australians are related.
The cost effectiveness of fusion is completely up in the air. People speak about fusion as if it somehow is just going to produce infinite power at no cost.
You miss the point.

Most people don’t buy new cars. Most people buy second hand vehicles. They now risk degraded batteries and a huge incidental cost.

My car cost me £5000 second hand. The cheapest EV battery replacement here is £12,500. I could write that car off twice for the price of a battery and still have enough money to go on holiday.

When you buy the bottom end of the second hand EV market which is realistically what most people will have to spend on, you’re looking at the 160 mile range leaf. With an 80% battery that’s 128 miles of range. Which is near useless for the average user. I couldn’t even drive to see my mother in it without charging twice on the way.

I will not own an EV as the incidental risk trade off is too high and the up front cost of a new EV is too high.
Would it not be significantly easier if we're using 4 or 5 independent modules instead of a giant monolith? Aren't cars routinely lifted into the air when being serviced?

I understand that the structure of the car's body may be suboptimal and require extra reinforcement but if we're really serious about EV adoption and reducing battery cost then perhaps a trade-off worth making?
Amazon has long since been run by crooks and staffed by desperate workers, both blue and white collar. Even as they do stuff like this, no one else can compete and authors eventually give up and go there. Worse, almost every public company eventually ends up here, short term paperclip maximizing and screwing everyone.

Feels like our current market/economic system has failed badly.
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It feels like we are trading one poison for another from a climate change perspective. Just passing down the buck.
I'd visit it. Do they accept donations?
Depending on your firmware version (a fairly recent build was found to be exploitable), it might be worth looking into jailbreaking your kindle and installing Koreader to it, instead of buying a new device?
The type of spam I see in my inbox is anything but smart. But I agree that this has always been a cat and mouse game.
Just repeating the baseline myth does not make it true. Nuclear does not compete with gas it competes with coal and renewables. It is often technically difficult but more importantly economically prohibitive to run nuclear as on demand sources. So for both renewables and nuclear you need some sort of storage or peakers.

Moreover nuclear is not the beacon of reliability, Frances nuclear plants were running to only 60% capacity due to maintanance and weather (when it gets hot nuclear plants have to shut down or reduce output significantly). Guess who was picking up the shortfall... German renewables and gas.

Finally, cost is absolutely the main measure: if the cost of nuclear is 3x wind/solar (and the cost of solar is falling exponentially) and you want to replace fossil fuels as quickly as possible the obvious way is to build renewables, you can overbuild 300% at the same cost. At that point you're close to being able to run your grid if you are sufficiently geographically distributed (even without batteries). Moreover in 10 years when your nuclear plant is finished building the price differential is like >5x due to the cost decreases.
Is this just the abstract? The original pdf url isn’t loading either.
This is a variation on an old joke.

Q: What is the hardest task for a Marxist historian?

A: To forecast the past.
zstd still doesn't have a seekable format as part of the official standard (I wish it did): https://github.com/facebook/zstd/issues/395#issuecomment-535...
Especially in the research space, I really recommend Twitter. In Software Engineering many really interesting researchers and practitioners tend to share their experiences there. In my experience it's a great way to virtually meet others who you would probably otherwise never encounter.

Heard of "Scrum"? Follow Jeff Sutherland (https://twitter.com/jeffsutherland). Like Conway's Law? Follow Melvin Conway (https://twitter.com/conways_law).
Thanks I’ll check it out!
https://archive.ph/IY3t1
And the guaranteed invoicing. I own a company and a lot online sellers are unprofessional about invoices, delivery times, credit card confidentiality, shipping company (“Don’t worry that glass is strong, there was no need to move it away from those angular machines that we shipped in the same truck”), basic security, let alone they ship a broken extinguisher to you.
I was talking about individuals but thanks for pointing about one of the biggest scams regarding climate change.

It had to be said that I am not at all opposed to the idea of accepting one's responsibility. It's just that how would we implement something like that in a non-dystopian way?
Nice dissection. I never thought to use grid in this way. Whether I will ever do the same remains to be seen, but it is worth investigating.
There are application menu plugins, but I'm almost certain you are aware of them. I wish they'd fix performance degradation issues, but I think the issue might require a holistic effort across a deep stack of components. That, and make the Wayland compositor restartable.
Misrepresenting - sure. Accurately representing - well, I guess it still can be propaganda, but propagating the truth bears no shame.

It is interesting though how the defender of Russian culture chooses to wield a Western weapon of "hate speech" accusation. In Russia, "hate speech" would be something that the government does not approve of. Including telling the literal truth - such as calling the war the war - or even saying that patriotism is not kissing the ass of the President (a person got arrested for that, though I don't think they decided to prosecute - that'd be interesting to see them attempt to prove that patriotism actually is just that!)
Not opposed to the idea. Implementation, on the other hand, would be tricky.
Have you seen the video of the bike battery swap.

https://youtu.be/yGwmPcClWrE

I wonder if a good solution is a smaller fixed battery for lower cost then "range extenders" like this for the bike you can swap in for longer journeys or a topup on a busy day type thing.
Wasn’t a bad dating experience. We’re still friends. She moved out of Russia because no one would investigate why her brother disappeared on a government job. It was her problem. It was his fault.

She calls her own people culturally defective.
If a company could charge you more for something then they are already doing it.
Companies don’t ask themselves “what’s a fair price for x”, instead they wonder “how can we get more money out of our existing customers”.
What accident do you foresee that makes components of a fusion reactor sufficiently radio active?

Containment field failure should leave the components just as radio active as a controlled shutdown as the plasma distinguishes immediately or am i missing something?
Not letting people (and much less children) around industrial robots is not virtue signalling, it's basic safety and common sense. Where's everyone's protective headgear anyways? What if it starts spinning around because of an error in the Gcode? This thing could kill everyone around it with one swing. Where's the emergency stop button?
Not only that, but the weight of EVs is a huge toll on the infrastructure, esp. in more historic centers
I used lzop in the past when speed was more of a concern than compressed size (big disk images etc.)

For a couple of years now I have switched to zstd. It is both fast and well compressed by default in that use case, no need to remember any options.

No, I have NOT done any deeper analysis except a couple of comparisons which I haven't even documented. But they ended up in slight favor of zstd, so I switched. But nothing dramatic making me say forget lzop.

Edit: NOT
Most things on Amazon AU are from 3rd party sellers.

Eg I bought this on Amazon AU. It's from a 3rd party seller: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/B0972JM9NZ?psc=1&ref=ppx_p...

(And it's fine - not all 3rd party sellers are bad)
Saudi Arabia requests YouTube platform to remove offensive ads
the panama papers were published in 2016. Zelensky was elected to office in 2019. i.e. while ukrainians might care that he was trying to avoid their taxman, anythign documented in them wasn't him looting the countrg or being an autocrat as he had never been involved with the government until that time.

There's a fundamental difference. I personally believe only one trying to obfuscate the issue would bring it up.
Do you ever code something for yourself, or are there always customers involved?
You can use calibre software or just Windows Explorer to transfer open ebooks with USB. No need for another device.
It's almost as if EV is just an excuse to get the consumer to spend waaay more than is needed, wasting all the energy in production in producing cars that cannot be upgraded, than about about minimising the environmental impact. And that's because it is.

Corporations do not care about the environment, but they do know a good story when they see it. If they can get you to buy the same car multiple times, this is great business for them. If they can lobby governments to encourage the scrapping of old but serviceable cars, eg by fining non-EVs for their emissions, that means you will be forced to buy sooner.

It's all business. Neither corporations nor the governments that service corporations care about either the people or the environment. I wish people would recognise this fact, but corporate-government schooling/science/culture has everyone believing that government is here to help!
Right. Maybe if we had a down-to-the-atom perfect simulation of a duck, you could argue that it's a duck in another state of being. With the AI this deranged engineer decided to call sentient, we have the equivalent of a quacking simulator, not a full duck simulator or even a partial one. It is not thinking. It has nothing like a brain nor the essential components of thought.
Interesting quote from the end of this article:

> “Even when you look at proprietary software, a recent study showed it’s actually 70% or more open source.”
I wonder whether this project is based on the work in our M68k backend:

> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/llvm/lib/Targ...
I never said anything about Russia. I am talking about the people in charge of this event specifically.

> the robot must be given time to react. But the boy was in a hurry and the robot grabbed him

A soft blame, but a blame nonetheless. It's an attempt to divert responsibility, no matter how you look at it. They were ultimately in charge of the situation, it's never a good sign when the leaders immediately try to assign blame elsewhere.
Yes I noticed it too that more than once, pc news channels would only compare intel vs amd while the elephant in the room was that theses companies were both trying to catch up with apple cpus.

On the other hand you also have apple users that only care about comparing macbooks with other macbook. So it kinda goes both ways.

I would rather think that people who are OS agnostic and just care about their programs working to the best are a minority.
So they learned on their first iteration how to do it better. Honestly, it's like everyone is desperately searching for that dark cloud of desapair...

Point is, it reduced automobile use by a significant amount because people do prefer to use the train when the price is right.

Which means that with appropriate subsidies you can seriously improve the existing transport infrastructure. 10B a year is a pittance compared to the good it would do - Especially with the looming energy crunch.
The trade-off is that it takes a long time to extract a single file from a solid archive. The 7z format supports a "solid block size" parameter for this reason (for all supported compression algorithms AFAICT) which can be set to anything from "compress all files individually" to "size of whole archive"
... this kind of machinery is usually used for industrial automation and should absolutely never have been employed for playing chess matches with children... completely irresponsible, wow.
You are thinking in the wrong direction, I tried to explain but maybe I can be clearer:

If you can't read the data in question though, you cannot do the repairs, it doesn't matter if you do Reed-Solomon coding or not. You are thinking about coding for the underlying hardware, which is what the data corruption you are talking about is designed to fix - it does not solve the problem for writes coming from above.

To do that, you actually have to decode the data in question and perform a reed-solomon encoding on the actual file inside of the archive, and this only gets worse e.g. if you have nested archives.

If the data is self-referentially repairable, however, it doens't matter if the file gets overwritten with e.g. a cat gif, the format will work around that. The filesystem on the other hand will have written the cat gif to the file and updated the Reed Solomon encoding for your file, assuming (incorrectly) the file writes were valid.

I suppose you could mandate that for any file to be written to your filesystem it must first be completely decompressed, and then store some encoding information alongside the archive, but this would be inefficient to the extreme, since merely copying a file onto the system would mean you have to decompress the file and then checksum it.

At any rate, even if you did decompress the file in question, you have failed to separate the layers like you want to, since now you have mandated the XZ and LZMA algorithms also be baked directly into the filesystem itself.

Better not to needlessly couple the filesystem to some compression algorithm, let the compression system handle its own error correction.
Big batteries have much more sophisticated battery management systems that are designed to be as kind as possible to the cells. Also they reserve a capacity of 10% on either side, leaving 80% usable capacity available to the user. Li-Ion batteries don't like being fully charged or fully discharged.

Also due to their capacity most EVs are charged at about 0.1C whereas phones (especially with rapid chargers) are charged anywhere between 1C and 3C.