skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not going to have frequent blackouts. At least here in Germany, it is already the case that you have to get permission from the electricity company to install a wallbox for charging, I can imagine it's the same in most places.

What's going to happen is that at some point having a car gets slightly more expensive. Some people will put off buying a car for a little while. And they'll vote for candidates who promise to build more power infrastructure, or public transport. When people are moving the next time, they'll take the infrastructure into account in their decision, and move preferentially to cities with more capacity.

It's not like we are going to put 100 million EVs out there tomorrow. Some places will become marginally shittier, some will become better, and there will be plenty of time for everything to equilibrate.
Check out sailfishOS. Not a fork of android but you can get andorid app support on it. You can even get microg on it and use the banking apps (worked for me). The problem is that, officially, they support only a small number of sony models.
I was thinking you talking about Instagram :) i knows guy who has similar problems with them.
I also have 2015 paperwhite, and 3 days ago I charged it from 0 (where it was for few months, which isnt healthy for battery at all) to 46%, and today I finished a book with 34% left. I only used backlight for about two hours, the rest was with backlight off. First half of book was with wifi on, before I realized that (I tend to keep it in airplane mode whenever possible for battery savings, dictionaries work offline too)
For sure, am not saying people shouldn’t reuse their clothing for x, y, z. I prefer to make patches for holes in clothes with other old clothes and just think the message should be more about reduce reuse recycle in general rather than “make rags”.

Edit for clarity
What in the world do you need 5GHz wifi for on an e-reader?
Over the past few years I've been raising a child, and we bought literally nothing for the first two-three years.

When he was born the government gave us a box of clothes, and accessories, and later neighbours gave us their children's old clothes too.

But I find it fascinating that you talk about teaching children about style. Our child, like almost all the others I've seen, would just wear what they were given. When they reach three/four years old suddenly they have preferences, and I'd love to know where they came from.

Our childs preferences aren't so fixed, a favorite t-shirt today might become ignored next week, but there are some consistent comments and behaviours. He told us a few months ago "I don't want to wear that jacket, it is yellow".

Peer pressure, and conformity, probably play a part to some extent. But the rest? Where does that come from, and does it alway start that early?

(e.g. He wanted to wear nail varnish from ~3 years old. And was sad "The children at daycare said boys can't wear nail-varnish" so I told him we both could, and we painted each others nails for a few weeks until he lost interest.)
> Most developed countries are have welfare. Our poor live better and longer than kings from a century ago.

This is always a dubious comparison to me. Why are you poor people worried about the continued lack of atonomy you experience due to a lack of ownership in modern society? The state will give you penecilin. The duke of dorkingshire might have looked like he was doing well but he did have gout to contend with.
Damn, I hate seeing enthusiast stuff like this go away.
We already have mercantilism.

That's what 'export led growth' is. It just works by hoarding money as 'foreign reserves', rather than using protectionism.

The entire world can't be using 'export led growth'. There has to be net importers to balance it out. Which currently are the US and the UK - the current and previous imperial nations.
Not the most outlandish thing I've seen on ESPN. I remember during the early days of the pandemic tuning in and seeing the US cherry pit spitting championship.
On Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZF1nelgPNs
I agree with this, but we don't really know if the universe is God using this infinite regress definition.

The cool part about this definition of God, is that it necessitates the existence by definition, and gives a falsifiable hypothesis.

Continuing with this definition, current cosmological theories would then imply that the Big Bang is God. Though this explanation of the beginning of everything leaves me unsatisfied. It just feels like something else kicked everything off.

We really need a way to peer behind the Event Horizon of the Big Bang, which we obviously can't do empirically, so we are stuck using logical deductions.

I personally think studying pure math and some of the more untested physics theories like String Theory, and Stephen Wolfram's physics project give a lot of food for thought.

Enumerating every possible pattern, while computationally infeasible, still paints an interesting landscape, even granting how little of it we can describe.
> We know 2+2=4

Which is why we really like telling stories about it.

My point is, we tell stories about literally everything, so i don't know what point you are trying to make.

If your criticism applies equally to basic facts, it is a bad criticism.
That process has been being done with AZW3 for a long, long time already. It's not related.
I'm a technologist in the media sector, I worked for a big ISP in one of the innovation teams and we were struggling to think of future applications that would actually occupy 1Gbps for consumers.

You might say "low compression, high quality video", true, uncompressed 1080p50 can be 3Gbps, but there's no consumer device available or planned that can handle raw video delivered in this way. You can easily compress HD video to 45Mbps and it's indistinguishable from the source to the average consumer. 4K at 150Mbps is easily done and again, most TVs and STBs cannot handle that kind of input. You'd literally need new silicon to be designed for most consumer devices to be able to do this and no one is starting that process.

There is an argument that low packet latency is important, but in reality more than 95% of people access their broadband over WiFi which negates most packet timing arguments.

There's arguments about VR, but all evidence is that VR is still not getting market traction, despite what Meta wants.

Sure, I can't predict 20 years from now, but there's nothing on the horizon (for consumers) that will stretch the current ultra-fast broadband for the average consumer. Power users are an exception and should not be the basis of business decisions unless they are paying the premium. We're fortunate that gigabit exists because of the competitive nature of the environment, it's not really about meeting consumer needs.
I love this, but one challenge I've found is podman kube play had issues with named volumes and `keep-id`. Hopefully those are fixed in this release. I guess I'll find out shortly.
IMO the overwhelmingly biggest fuckup of the UI was / is the multiple overloaded meanings of "checkout", and the introduction a couple (three?) years back of "switch" and "restore" largely fixed that. Sure, there's still a lot of crap about it, but it's got a lot better.

[Edit: tpyo.]
'best' is a tricky adjective to satisfy.

I have a Pocketbook HD3 Touch, and really like it. It's a 6" monochrome model, with white-to-red-tint backlight. Previously I owned their 360 model - with a clip-on cover and at 5" size, it was perfect to slip into a jacket pocket for bag-less outings. Sadly ebooks in that size are rare now.

Pocketbook are known for supporting lots of formats of ebooks, and being 'pretty open', but your expectations will vary there, I'm sure. They did bring out a similarly sized colour eink model about 2 years ago which looked tempting, though I personally don't have much material in that size that'd benefit from colour, and moving around text book, let alone A4 sized material on a 6" screen would be awful.
Interesting, not as good looking, but good to know.
I think it depends what kind of sustainability.. The sustainability of a state of being is probably a worthwhile goal..

The ecological kind, misery path for sure.. Until entropy can be reversed at least.
Yes, I'm reenigne from the demo. Feel free to contact me at andrew@reenigne.org.

I'm not sure what you're doing with the colour mixing on that page but I'm wondering if you're just applying a gamma curve to the mixed result. This is what I meant:

sRGB interpolation:

r_final = r_1*x + r_2*(1-x)
g_final = g_1*x + g_2*(1-x)
b_final = b_1*x + b_2*(1-x)

linear RGB interpolation:

r_final = 255*((((r_1/255)^2.2)*x + ((r_2/255)^2.2)*(1-x))^(1/2.2))
g_final = 255*((((g_1/255)^2.2)*x + ((g_2/255)^2.2)*(1-x))^(1/2.2))
b_final = 255*((((b_1/255)^2.2)*x + ((b_2/255)^2.2)*(1-x))^(1/2.2))

The real gamma correction formula is actually slightly more complicated than that because it's linear up until the sRGB value is about 10 then then follows a ^2.4 curve but the difference is too small to notice.
Cisco Talos shares insights related to recent cyber attack on Cisco
I found a bunch of facebook groups for the local area that would often post "box of clothes, free" for various ages.

But also hanging out in children's playparks in the local neighbourhood would introduce children to each other, and other parents to us. That helped find a group of kids the same age, or slightly older, who we would sometimes offload clothes between.

I guess it depends where you are, if those kind of things happen.
I would rather have a runway of X + Y years to deal with these problems than X years, while more thoroughly mixing world culture in hopes of having a more cooperative society by then.
I also have always the problem, that "in app browsers" don't recognize the native Apps I have installed and so links to youtube or Instagram e.g. do not open the native app but the browser version instead. Copy pasting links is my everyday browsing experience on twitter and linkedIn e.g.
AT&T took $500M back when to extend fiber to rural areas, back when that seemed like a lot of money. They ran fiber to 1/10 mi from my house. Then, never lit it, because the grant they took didn't require that. FCC staying on top of telecomm companies' follow-through is a welcome change.
In app browsers are a real problem for online stores and e-commerce, the issue being they (mostly) don’t maintain session cookies when a user clicks the “open in Safari/browser” button. This is disastrous for shopping carts.

Say your are an advertiser with an ad click or have a visitor come organically from social. They like your products and place them in their cart and go to checkout, at checkout they want to use Apple Pay or their saved card details. These aren’t available in most IABs, so they click the “open in browser” button, but now they have lost their cookie and have an empty cart! This causes a massive drop out rate at checkout.

I run a store that sells personalised items, it takes time for a customer to prepare their item before going to checkout. We experienced something like a 30% drop out rate from Facebook ads due to this.

The “work around” was to detect users in an IAB and display a message on first navigation attempt to prompt them to click the “open in browser” button early.

The fact that Facebook let this happen shows that have very little interest I’m making the advertising experience better for advertisers. They just want to keep users in Facebook.
It supports exactly the format it needs to so that you can purchase DRM encumbered ebooks off Amazon. I hope that clears it up.
He may sound arrogant, but he’s not wrong.

I imagine the difference in standard deviations is a good metric for cognitive distance.
Mentally retarded people (-2) to ordinary people (0) are like normal people to gifted people (+2). And if hackerlight is more intelligent than that (3+), _smart_ people are dumb to him. Some studies show that mutual communication suffers on specific topics after about a standard deviation of difference.

There are people too dumb for addition; why shouldn’t there be a lot of people too dumb to understand hackerlight’s point about computer science?
Why? They will and already are leading the charge on automation. Most people's jobs can be automated.

In this way, the US is like the Antebellum South, preferring servants driving their economy instead of adopting advances in tech, like the "North" in this metaphor (Japan) forced the necessity of creating.
Why People Play Games?
Well, seems fair to ask. It could already have been certified, as far as they know.

The maintainer could respond with an offer to underake certification and bill for his time, or invite them to try get it certified on their own on account of the project being open source.
Does anyone have experience “migrating” from docker to podman on a somewhat large scale? I am starting a new job soon in a DevOps role where the devs use both podman and docker and although the resulting images are the same, using two tools where one would suffice does not seem optimal.

For context, it is a medium-sized (~40 devs) commodities trading company running some hundred applications in azure k8s but considering moving to on-prem k8s.
I got to have my own version of this while I was in university about ... 15 years ago? My family had a small computer configured as a media center, running MythTV and connected to the living room television. It was built of the cheapest parts available on Newegg, and sometimes got cranky enough to need a reboot.

One day my dad was trying to reboot it and it wasn't cooperating. He'd flip the power switch to off, wait a bit, then back to on, and the fans would spin up but nothing else would happen. After seeing this repeat a few times, I gave it a shot -- power switch off, wait a bit, power switch on. It booted up happily.

The trick was that the power supply took a while to fully shut down after losing mains power. If it regained power too early, it wouldn't start back up again. The only people in the house who could reliably reboot that machine had ears young enough to hear the high-pitched whine of the capacitors, to judge whether the reboot had finished and power could be restored.
> There could be another universe where circles are impossible due to whatever laws of physics exist, thus no pi.

Circles (perfect ones) are impossible in our universe, too. Circles are abstractions. If we have successfully deduced a conclusion from a set of axioms, wouldn't that deduction hold true in all possible universes?

The mathematical realist position is that these abstract math objects exist independent of an observer.
Could someone explain who their robot isn't violating conservation of angular momentum? That seems key to understanding it.
“A manager came to me asking if we should rewrite the checkout of our E-Commerce platform using React because they had read a blog post about another company doing it. I entertained the question in good faith. However, in order to make an informed decision, I needed to understand a few things:

Is our checkout page not performing well?
Will a new checkout solve our problem?
Why do they think a technology change is a solution?
Do they understand the implications of such a switch?
In this particular situation, the discussion never got past the first question. I needed to understand why our checkout had to be improved; I explained that technology choices made no difference to the user. However, the manager interpreted my words as outright rejecting their idea.”

I have this problem which is that I don’t really understand what autism is supposed to be. Because the example of autism described above just seems like sound decision making. The person who wants to rewrite some software because they read a blog post about some programming language is just a person who doesn’t have a good understanding of what engineering and software development are.
The original was posted to USENET by Ed Nather (utastro!nather) on May 21, 1983.
I was torn by whether or not to comment on any wordplay
Costs 5x more to deliver, few people would be able to consume it and 95% of consumers wouldn't notice the difference. You might be in the 5%, but most people you know aren't, or at least don't care enough.

Multiple studies by companies whose business it is to care, have shown that consumer engagement in viewing caps out at 1080p60+HDR, beyond that most people don't care. Sure, marketing creates hype and demand around bigger numbers, but when people are actually watching, they don't actually get more involved in the content above 1080p+HDR.
Dishys only need to focus on the right satellite.
Those preferences are greatly shaped by inequality and status consumption. Change the institutional backdrop (which degrowth policy aims to do) and the preferences change. Robert Frank's work is great on much luxury consumption is contagious despite wildly inefficient because it is a relative status game. This Q & A is an intro
https://behavioralscientist.org/putting-peer-pressure-to-wor...
Friends of mine were wondering about the history after that seminal text: how we got from this (opinionated, but sensible approach) to agile coaches (they apparently never had a good experience of any; I worked with one a long time ago, the guy was like a fish on a tree at that particular company).

I realized I don't know all the parts: I've met a couple of influential people in that world but there are still a lot of trends that confuse me. Is there a history of modern software practices?
Kobo's default OS has Dropbox and Pocket support. You can just drop a book in your Dropboox and it'll appear on your Kobo through wireless sync.
Boy that's a first-world problem if I've ever heard of one.

Even so, I live in a 1st world nation and both the wife and I buy sturdy functional clothing and, guess what?, it lasts for many years. We use it till it's fit for rags. Then we use the rags.

If/when we outgrow it but it's still serviceable it goes to rummage sale or goodwill. Plenty of folks will definitely buy good shoes, jeans, etc. at goodwill - if serviceable these are not going to pollute 3rd world countries and it really helps people. Hell, we shop for good jeans at goodwill, etc. too.

If you are having the ethical dilemma about where to donate your worn-once, too cheap, dry-clean-only but super-chic outfits when your closet is overflowing, you are definitely doing it wrong in at least 6 ways. Spoiler alert: the problem is not the goodwill company, the media, or the fashion industry.
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> Dark matter models are fine-tuned to reproduce certain observations

That's the definition of physics. Models are fine-tuned to match the observation and be predictive.
Well, that's a good thing, as conceptually everyone wins with open academic literature. It is suggested that the papers are of similar quality to American works, so I presume the reproducibility crisis is also a consideration.
Certain models do try to account for spatial localization and relativity too (iCAM), although they are also simple as those effects remain largely unexplored. Honestly, ML seems to be better suited to this task than complex analytical solutions, as long as you have the data to train on.
Big fan of Podman.

Technically every time I have tried to push it into my production workflow I've hit some snags, mostly around networking and some volume stuff but those snags are getting chipped away each release. The last time I did a strong test flight was around 3.X, so probably about time to try again, 4.0 was a big release.

I like the integration with systemd and bringing "pods" out of k8. I like the "they're just processes" philosophical perspective and more "linux tech" focus of the team - i.e. cgroups v2 exists, lets use it. I would like to see some minor UI stuff such as compressing buildah stage output like docker buildx does but it's understandable why that isn't there (yet?).

I think my only remaining quibble is getting true remote addresses when using rootless networking.
The former will tend towards a defensive attachment to an idea which leads to, as Planck put it, "Science [advancing] one funeral at a time." The openness of the latter leads to less certainty, but greater ability for progress.

Consider the heliocentric/geocentric argument some centuries passed. Contrary to pop-science portrayals this wasn't an issue of Man against Church. The heliocentric view initially had numerous flaws and invalid assumptions. But because scientists of the time genuinely believed in the geocentric universe, they obsessed on these flaws and trying to use those to discredit the view, instead of impartially considering the idea and seeing if it could be patched and whether it would ultimately make more sense.

The "right" answer, with negligible refinement, can often look much worse than the wrong answer which has had decades, if not centuries of mass refinement. And that can drive those with a "belief" to the contrary, to want to attack it. The analogs outside of science are as endless as those within it.
That just sounds even more curious to me. How can a company make an app that doesn't read a format it invented? AZW3 has been around for years. There's got to be enough time for them to implement it.
There's still tons of folks on 56k phoneline modems, <512k ADSL, unreliable&expensive cellular or expensive, slow and high latency VSAT connections in rural areas.
In those places Starlink will dominate.

And the real global growth will start when the satellite-to-satellite links finally allow coverage away from SpaceX's teleports.
So coverage in the middle of the seas and in the middle of Africa or South-America.
I have a similar situation with my hobby project, I have calculated that all my wants needs ~1000hours, and only 15% is finished. Of course I have a work and sometimes I get ill, thanks god I have no money issues because I have bought everything I need beforehand. I think the best way is to stop silly activities like gaming and use all possible time for achieving my dream. For example if I have only 1 hour today than I take the hardest tasks and if I have a whole day then I try not to get exhausted early. Also important notice is to prefer doing the project at mornings because it is the only way to make something time-demanding. What about vision, I have some clear and precise goals with a deadline for one parts of project and more relaxed view about other parts. I know that when deadline arrives I need to lower my requirements about anything not done, that's why I start from the most important sub-goals. But also I have some other hobbies with a completely different approach because I do not want to lower my wants about kind of responsible peace of work. But without deadlines it is doing too slow for being finished anywhere soon. I do not know how my experience can help you but I wish you a great luck.
Can someone explain what impact this has on "perceptual" color spaces like Oklab? Is this just something they live with?
I don't think i have ever heard anyone claim we know for sure. I have heard lots of physicists claim that its the best theory they are aware of given evidence they have seen, which is a really different claim.

> Biologists understand this. It is very easy to get a biologist to say "nobody knows"

Depends on what you ask them about.
> In the middle ages, there wasn't a theory that explained headaches, so dismissing the idea that we should cut hole in people's skulls to let out the evil spirits is "stupid"?

> Dismissing the idea that lighting is caused by Zeus being angry is "stupid" because there is no other theory yet?

I think you could have picked far better examples.
Any beginning would probably leave you unsatisfied, as it would probably still make you wonder what started that beginning...