skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know. The chart is wrong. The entire conclusion of the article is based on bad math in the chart.

Losses due to friction, drag, and heat are NOT magically made up for with regenerative braking.
A sufficient number of humans for repopulation can survive for a very long time in underground caves powered by breeder reactors.
And Arch itself also comes with two packages of wiki dumps for offline reading:

HTML:

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/arch-wiki-docs/

raw (but colored) text readable on framebuffer:

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/arch-wiki-lite/
Crazy amount of misinformation in this one post:

> If you don't want your transactions to be public, don't use a public ledger.

That's exactly what people were attempting to do, with Tornado.

> You don't get to launder your money

There is no money laundering available with Tornado, it doesn't turn an illigitimate source of funds into a legitimate one. And it also has a compliance tool to allow proof of transfer between accounts.

> Tornado Cash wasn't free, there was a fee which as I understand it was sent back to various developers.

This wasn't sent to developers. It was a fee you would pay relayers to propagate transactions on the network and was optional. You could choose to fund withdrawals with a relayer or to use funds in your own wallet.

> Money laundering

This isn't money laundering.
I’ve always found that starting a new project works best when I build the baseline alone, after some design discussion. If it’s too complex a problem to build that way, the fewer and more focused the team, better the baseline is. Once you start adding more and more people to a system, things start going down hill in proportion to the number of parallel work streams. Of course, this depends on how “big” a problem you’re working on and how the problem can be broken down. (i.e divided areas of responsibility in the code base with clear contracts between them). It’s way too easy to lose focus on design philosophy and structure as more people are involved in the actual development/coding.
I have a feeling that rooftop solar is being measured as the hole in generation, but not to its production side: we don't directly know the kWh burned onsite and not sold back to the generators and I suspect we may not adequately measure power used in the local network being backed, also except by centrally managed demand reduction.

Not that modelling isn't good. More that I think uncertainty in demand is quite large. It may be for central planning the only thing which matters is planning how much to make centrally, but it's a bit like economics: if people never bank it, and don't declare it, how big the grey or black economy is, can be a bit unclear.
Western banks will likely never fail in the way banks can fail in a place like Lebanon. In a situation where all US banks are falling flat, the fed will just happily print money to fulfill the FDIC insurance and you'll be left with some great toilet paper.
> what is the fundamentally new capability?

There hasn't been any fundamentally new capability since (pick your favourite):

1. the Turing Machine

2. the Lambda Calculus

3. the stored program computer

4. the NAND gate

No high level language has ever added any fundamentally new capability, everything it can do can be done in machine language. See also: compilers and interpreters.

High level languages are purely for human convenience, they exist in order to allow us to express what we want to accomplish in a straightforward manner. When the two don't match, we have an impedance mismatch, one of the most famous ones was using goto for control structures (https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...), solved by the introduction of structured programming.

Today we also have such an impedance mismatch, because most of what we do is no longer procedural in nature, but our means for expressing this are essentially procedural.

My last long-form attempt at explaining this was here:

https://2020.programming-conference.org/details/salon-2020-p...

For the domain of GUIs (one area where the mismatch is particularly painful and obvious), Stéphane Chatty did a much better job of explaining the problem than I did:

https://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/ehci/ehci2007/Chatty07.pdf

So the "new capability" in Objective-S is having linguistic support for architectural abstractions, so you can directly express components and connectors and their connections. Rather than just implementing them with procedures.

And GUI bindings are a good example (which I also talk about in my "Tyranny" paper): we can implement in current programming languages, but we generally cannot express them in the language.
Kim Stanley Robertson? Get some editors, Vice.
> With self-checkout, you don't need an account which is crucial for travelers.

At non-Amazon branded JWO locations you insert a credit card in the machine when you walk in, no account needed. I recently encountered one like this at an airport.
I love Octoprint. The only downside I've run into is that suddenly I've lost all of the smarts the printer had. It didn't seem like that was much of a downside, but for instance the Prusa MK3s could recover from a power loss automatically and resume right where it left off, but once Octoprint was added, that was gone.

But on the other hand, suddenly I've got remote access, permissions, cameras, all sorts of plugins for timelapses and bed level monitoring and all sorts of things. It's generally a great trade-off.

I do wish it had better support for mobile devices. It's weirdly hard to get a Raspberry Pi at the moment, but a bunch of folks have an Android or iPhone a few generations back with a cracked screen or whatever that would do a great job. There are some options, like Octo4a, but they've got some rough edges.
It's fairly common for me to download some project that already uses some build automation tool I've never used before and find that it only works on the original developers' machines from a linker error message :)
I don't know where in the middle east you lived or if you miscalculated how hot 120F is (it's almost 50c). I'm sure it gets that hot in the middle of the desert but most people in the middle east don't live in the middle of the desert.

I grew up in Israel and 40c (104F) was an unusually hot summer day (you'd get a few days like that per summer, maybe more now due to climate change). More common summer highs were around 30-35c.

EDIT: I underestimated how much hotter the Arabian Peninsula is compared to the Levant - a quick look via google maps puts Doha at 39c right now (at 9am!), while Jerusalem, Damascus & Cairo are at 22c, 24c and 27c respectively!
"I still can't get over how you guys think this is in any way sanitary."

Why would you think it's not sanitary?

"Not to mention that if any soap touches it you have to re-do the oil burning thing to remake the nonstick layer thing"

No you don't. This simply isn't true. I use soap from time to time. It's fine.

"not sure what kind of shape you're in that you manage to flip pancakes in one hah."

I'm in pretty great shape, but I use a spatula to flip my pancakes.

I do toss my carbon steel pans. They're quite light.

"It's definitely harder than chucking the thing into the dishwasher for it to be washed with zero effort"

It's not, but you should know that dishwashers break down the teflon bonds and will degrade your nonstick pans. Nonstick isn't dishwasher safe either.
There’s not much room for privacy when you can only shop there by scanning a barcode linked to your account and having cameras pointed at you that are likely reading your emotions/seeing if you pick up an item then put it back (as the OP pointed out).
Top Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics [pdf]
The XL will have official Klipper support (from Prusa) anyway.
Starship is pathetically inadequate to colonize Mars with, even if it were a good idea to try. There will be no colony on Mars. It is just possible a can could be placed there for a few people to squat in for a few months at a time. But there would be no reason to put them there. Mars is a dump, with nothing of interest to offer.

Starship is probably adequate to support a smallish Moon base, along McMurdo lines. The moon offers much of interest, particularly its billion-year-old lava tubes.
Which runout sensor were you using?

If your operation expands and you want to chat about wrangling networked printer management software, shoot me an email leigh@printnanny.ai. I want to make it dead-simple to manage 10+ printers running a menagerie of software (OctoPrint, Moonraker/Mainsail) and firmwares (Marlin/Klipper). Happy to trade notes!
I like Fluidd a little better, but honestly they’re about the same.
About fifty years ago I stayed in an old hotel called the Compleat Angler [0] on the desert island of Bimini, where the indoor plumbing was fed by collected rainwater. The Bahamas was still a British Crown colony at the time.

I'll never forget washing my hair in the water closet, and with a rainwater rinse, having a better hair day than I ever had on the mainland.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compleat_Angler_Hotel
I am reading their website and I am a bit confused. It says, it's firmware. If I use Mainsail + Klipper, do I need to flash my 3D Printer's firmware to make it work?
> But "commonplace" would means it happened all the time, everywhere.

Definition of commonplace (Entry 1 of 2)
commonly found or seen : ORDINARY, UNREMARKABLE

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commonplace

Compared to modern times it happened a lot. And no, violence and harm doesn't only mean murders.
Looks promising. What I find confusing is the difference between .NET Core, Mono, Xamarin and now MAUI.
There was a similar piece[1] by Cal Newport recently

But what is next? Long tail social networks?

1: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/08/01/tiktoks-poison-pi...
The article is nonsense. It magically claims that regenerative braking makes up for losses from friction and heat. There's no way 87-91% efficiency can be achieved when 10% is lost just charging the car.
I read Egan but to me Severance is pure PKD, from general dystopian feel to Paycheck plot engine similarity in particular.
What am I missing about Dan Carlin? I'm 12 episodes [0] in and it's OK but not seeing why it's so revered.

[0] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-12-steppe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Sea But as sibling comments said, this will likely have devastating effects on other ecosystems.
Why do you assume that hemp is safe?
> However unfortunately they didn't do as good a job with advancing the technology.

Mostly due to anti-France lobbying from other nations (Germany and the US mostly).
> We're all experts in something; or at least we all have a unique viewpoint to share with the world.

No, we really all are not, and not everyone does. I don't write because I have nothing to say that hasn't been said more eloquently. It's also a hell of a lot of work and unlikely to break even in strictly financial investment, valuing my time at $0.
Direct sunlight being the key part of what I said; I've never had any other display that was so legible while sitting at the end of a dock with a blazing sun blasting straight down upon the screen.

Otherwise, for sure, in general conditions it was mediocre.

And yes, the whole project was sketchy as hell, in retrospect.
Multiverse of Madness has to be one of my favourite marvel films of late, I get that the author doesn't like it but saying that it's not a "cohesive whole" is just not true.
Because the courts are run by the same kind of people as the banks.
This is a “solved problem” now with technologies like this: https://youtu.be/bErPsq5kPzE

The backgrounds are “real” and can be captured in-camera, so there is no need for special effects to blend hair. Similarly, reflective surfaces aren’t a problem either.

This was used to good effect for the Mandalorian series where the protagonist wears shiny metal armour.
While I agree, it's just as easy for a nihilist to argue that it doesn't matter at all. It purely comes from your perspective on the value of life, which in the case of Canada, the government leaves to the holder of that life.
>What is Achilles' tragic flaw? That he was jealous of his honor, a completely admirable and noble thing for a bronze age warrior?

Wrath?

Sing, o Muse, of the rage of Achilles.
Why would you say that? Have you ever had to deal with either a not-well-known or not-often-believed-in disease? There are millions of people in the US who have to deal with this type of shit at every visit, and they are largely women and particularly women of color. There are journal articles describing some of it. It’s not at all uncommon. Having watched this type of thing happen to my wife, I highly doubt the story has been reported inaccurately. I now have to attend all of my wife’s doctor’s visits (even with female doctors) to ensure that doctors don’t dismiss her or her condition. And oddly enough, it happens significantly less frequently when I’m there. (Though it does still happen.)
The article refers to a statement by Justice Roberts in his end of year address, but Justice Roberts doesn’t use the phrase “police.” I don’t think there’s any dispute that judges are subject to literal “policing.” If they engage in misconduct they can be investigated and prosecuted just like anybody else. And they can be impeached.

If by “policing” mean supervising judges the way an employer might supervise an employee—then obviously the judiciary needs to do that itself. Enabling other branches to investigate non-criminal, non-impeachable behavior would be an egregious violation of the separation of powers. The judiciary is a co-equal branch of government. They’re not a department of America Inc. where the President. To use Ken’s example of a judge being an alcoholic, thats obviously not the business of anyone but the judiciary, and Congress if they choose to impeach. It’s the same as a Congressman being an alcoholic.
When this was piloted years ago at Sam’s Club (subsidiary of Walmart Inc) it was possible, but only because their door team was able to scan it before you walked out.
Losing that power panic thing was a big deal to me! Very unfortunate.

On the other hand, Octolapse is a lot of fun. But I went back to just using an SD card for important prints just because I value the recovery option.
My mother died young of cancer. I do not find any movies centered around a character dying of cancer to be remotely entertaining. Yuk.
Are you implying that the Napoleonic wars, all of the resulting politics, etc. are the natural result of revolution? That the revolutionary ideal requires military defeat in order to reach a positive end state?

You're not being serious if you end there.
Colonizing the sea floor (continental shelf, really) has the overwhelming advantage over Mars that it should be possible, in principle.
Do you get re vaccinated for everything twice a year too or do you just accept the loss of immunity?
Yeah just because they say “you just shoot it and you’re done” doesn’t mean that’s what actually happens.
Read the comment from the VFX artists that worked on it. The whole article is well researched.
What? I'm saying we now know it's super harmful and should work with that knowledge to regulate against it, without waiting for all experts to agree and all studies to show.
That pagination issue isn't one I realised. That's very valuable, thanks.
I don't like the idea of a doctor prescribing such quackery, but I think doctors sometimes tell patients what they want to hear when they don't think there's any real problem and the patient won't accept "suck it up and wait" as an answer.
Probably, but why wouldn't it count as democratic nazism?
Sounds like “hollywood” is finally fully corporate, devoid of any soul it once had. I just finished the ILM docu-series and wow what an amazing and incredible story. It’s sad that, for the industry, it’s all culminated in abusive studios, disconnected directors and fuck it someone else will fix my mess mentality. And the disrespect for VFX workers, my god, they should come join an ops team they’d get more respect. I guess it’s kinda to be expected when you’re just perpetually milking cash cow IP to death (hardly the innovation it once was). And since when do lasers arc in space?? I don’t watch super hero movies on principle at this point. It’s the least I can do.
Even more confusing, the time printed by our computers may appear to be UTC, but is probably POSIX (or Unix) time. It is very close to UTC but ignores leap seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

During a positive leap second, the POSIX second repeats itself (an alternative mental model could be that the given POSIX-second lasts 2 UTC-seconds). During a negative leap second, the given POSIX-second disappears (or alternatively, the given POSIX-second lasts 0 UTC-seconds).

On my Ubuntu box, the `date +%s` command prints the number of POSIX seconds since 1970-01-01, not the number of UTC seconds since 1970-01-01. To get the number of UTC seconds, we must add the number of intervening leap seconds since 1970-01-01.

I get a headache every time I have to think about this.
I run octoprint on an Intel NUC. I found my prints to be faster through octoprint than when I start them via sd card on my Ender 3.
Jumpscares don't affect me anymore.

Cartoonish gore doesn't bother me, either. But realistic gore does, and I'll often block the image with my thumb.
Real-life satire of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FUMdHU29c&t=332s
I've never had a comment on Hacker News that went up and down as much as this one. Up to 9 points at one point, then back to 1, then back up to 7, right now at 3 points. Interesting that this one apparently brings out very strong for and against responses.
I’ve been there, talked to people there, got invited to some people’s homes and explored some abandoned buildings around the area

It was just like a bunch of people trying to live or were fascinated with the idea of such a place

Honestly it’s just like another place with certain character. If you’re into art made from what’s available, stuff like graffiti and underground communities, and the kind of people who aren’t trying to fit in, it’s a really cool place. But otherwise it’s what it is
The question is if these ideas, already in place would have come to fruition without the suffering of people up front. We just can't know. I remember a similar discussion with my history professor and us students when talking about the French Revolution and about the Enlightenment. We basically have only one history and are not able to state that the French Revolution was the cause for these good ideas to follow. We couldn't even state it as a catalyst with certainty.

Edit: Typo
We can get a sense of how bad that extinction event was by noting that all bony fish in the ocean are descended from freshwater species.
It’s very common in major French cities. The workaround is to stick a traffic light on the input lane that gets too busy
We wrote about this and our support: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-the-wintercg/
"The Establishment" must be behind everything by some tailored definition of it.

No matter what the movement is, if it's large, then there will be some large corporations, governments, etc. behind it.

That doesn't mean it's fake or it's not grassroots or it's not real. It just means that it's big enough that the constituents of The Establishment (CEOs, elected officials, corporate workers, etc.) are joining it as well.
“Our” lives? I assume you mean rich Westerners? If you’re getting bombed, it’s gonna affect your life quite a bit.
Even in traditional engineering how can you guarantee ever eventuality that another creative mind comes up with after you designed and built the thing. I design and build an air duct to facilitate air circulation into my buildings. If someone decides fly a drone into my air duct vents and breach the building when everyone leaves for the day then who's liable? Should I have know that years later someone would use the air vents to breach the building?
How are companies operating in a competitive market able to get away with this blatantly anti-consumer behavior.

It's not like there are high barriers to entry in this market, nor there is any exclusive licensing or access hurdles -- like telecom spectrum, or fiber lines for ISPs. Nor are there any compatibility exclusions (proprietary connectors, protocols or walled gardens).
It makes a big difference to be working for yourself, rather than someone else. It shows that people are motivated by more than money. We have an intrinsic desire to create things.
The most efficient solution for 80% of trips is 10lbs of batteries and a wire for 19%

But sodium batteries are very nearly in mass production so while we're continuing to insist that petrol is 100% of the problem cars cause rather than 50% I guess that will do.
Maybe it saves them from having to build a c++ compiler to build ninja.
I have high hopes that the raccoons could do better. We would have to get out of their way to give them the opportunity.
Kind of / maybe. At my last job, we wanted to host our own anycast nameservers. You get the best results from having four nameservers in DNS, and you want them independent, so there's four /24s out there doing not much other than DNS (I think there may be some other stuff now). On the other hand, some other changes meant our thousands of servers no longer had their own ipv4 addresses, so there's several /24s returned to the hosting provider to be used by others.

There's a lot of value in owning your user-facing IPs and being able to move them around as needed, but a lot of services don't really have that many user facing IPs, so utilization is low if they get a /24 per location.
They were right. The speculators from 2010-2020 were right that cryptocurrencies are going to be a reality from now on. Like it or not, it is clear that there is a market here that is measured in billions of dollars and it is going to stay with us.
Would like to know where you get those numbers. I just changed the clutch in my 2010 Toyota Yaris at 260,000 miles and it’s the first repair I’ve ever done on the car.
I run OctoPrint on a RockPi, but I also rolled my own embedded Linux distro (PrintNanny OS) to package this setup.

There are a lot of small papercuts, like OctoPrint using `vcgencmd` to measure CPU throttling. `vcgencmd` is part of Raspberry Pi's userland. Not a big deal (aliased to another util). I've also added WebRTC-based streaming to my build.

The recommended way to use OctoPrint is the OctoPi image, which is based on Raspbian / Raspberry Pi OS. The OctoPi image includes extras like haproxy and mjpg streamer for HTTP-based JPEG frame stream. If you end up baking a RockPi image, here's the OctoPi root file system for reference: https://github.com/guysoft/OctoPi/tree/devel/src/modules/oct...
Yep. The ones with the weapons.
Renault has found, to it's surprise, I guess, that 10 year old Zoes are keeping minimum 85% battery capacity.

The BMS babies the batteries. Forget what you think you know about LiPo from laptops and cellphones. For example: you can't get a Zoe without A/C. Why not? Because the battery is air cooled, by the A/C. If there is capacity left over AFTER ensuring the battery is comfortable, it is shared with the human occupants. :)
Overflowing integers is not a bug. It's literally how an adder circuit operates on fixed precision. Ignoring them by default is worth criticizing but there are plenty of times where silent overflow is correct and desirable behavior.
thank god we have all that set up then.
I get what you mean. Maybe this is the best we could ever hope for? Because one thing is clear to me: If Hollywood and the VFX artists working for it had been Republican-leaning over the decades, we'd still be at the "Steam train moving towards the camera" stage.
> I was taking this article seriously until I arrived at the Terrence McKenna bit.

Is possible to think some parts are good and other parts not so good?