skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The ratio of absolute nonsense and garbage books to decent literature is probably 99:1, if not higher. It's got to be the same for TV shows, and movies.

The ratio of consumption the one that matters here, and in that context social media is the clear winner in the ratio of consumption of garbage content, just the other day I learned there are a few kids making millions of dollars from opening toys in gift packages, "unboxing" they call it, it's like crack cocaine for children watching, and there are thousands of other families/channels (with children) trying to do the same and reach the same audience; you try to compare things and say that all this has happened before but the similarities are next to none, specially when the entry barrier to become a content creator it's so low.

Videogames turning you violent is dumb because it involves turning a fantasy behavior into a real one, this has nothing to do with that because the problem TikTok and others pose is wasting time in proportions never seen before, a lot of factors play a role, including the ubiquity of smartphones, most people spend 100% of their time next to theirs, another one is the incentives to make you waste as much time as possible to show you as many ads as possible.

It's weird, the article has a lot more paragraphs when accessed from a different referrer, anyway, I found another source that quotes one of the studies that says that IQ is lowering, and it's clearly states that is due environmental factors, and yes, that includes media: https://www.google.com/amp/s/learningenglish.voanews.com/amp...
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from his twitter, he mentioned

a special thanks to @whatyouhide for leading
the release process while my arms are not 100%

so I don't think so!
I don’t think there is any detached house in the US that wouldn’t somehow qualify for solar panels somewhere.
Uncouth way of putting it, but I think you hit the nail on the head. A massive increase in the available energy supply would allow us to do things we can barely dream of these days. To me, it almost feels like energy availability corresponds to how advanced the society is, and from that perspective it's weird to me that there's such a push for actually reducing our energy usage and output.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? Comments like you posted in this thread are not what HN is for, and destroy what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Ask HN: What are some tricks to develop for Safari for iOS
Do you have some tricks to make things work properly?
I'm so tired of the viewport not working correctly.
I can tell that analog-only motherboard audio is very common even if it doesn't make sense. This was the biggest filter when I was selecting my motherboard, limited the available options just to a handful (within reasonably priced boards, expensive top end of course has all bells and whistles).
OBS Studio updated with native Apple Silicon support
> The goal of this tool is to help improve GNOME, by providing data that can inform
design decisions, [...]

I suppose that collecting data about Gnome configurations will provide data just marginally useful to inform design decisions.

Anecdotal point: last month I installed Debian+Gnome on my father's new laptop. He's a retiree, and not a all a techie. He wasn't thrilled with the textless icons on the left but thought that even if he could not get used to tell them apart, he could always rely on their hover info. But he really wanted a direct access to the handful of documents he regularly opens (mostly texts). Of course, he needed links/bookmarks that showed the name of the files. I couldn't find a way to do this with the default Gnome. I tried for an hour to make it work with an extension supposed to enable desktop icons, but failed (extension broken with Gnome4?). I installed Mate instead of Gnome, and that's it. My conclusion: Gnome is too simple, it lacks features even for old noobs, and even more for power users.
> Spend a couple of weeks attempting (unsuccessfully) to improve on Floyd's algorithm, a day programming Floyd's algorithm, and then return to Mary Jones with some questions on the size and format of her file.

I like to think this is hinting that you should have asked first and maybe her answer is that she has a small number of records and if you took that option B you just wasted a few weeks.

Right?
AFAIK no privately available UAV system can match the range and flexibility for GA aircraft. For example photographing things that are dozens of miles from any road or airport. If I’m wrong I’d be interested to learn more.
I am not from the US but I have a somewhat intelligent charger. It can communicate with the power company and be set to only charge my EV when the load is not high (it still guarantee the amount I want charged, so I wont risk not having my car charged).

If thats turned on they give me an approx 12% rebate.
Presumably if you install an 11kW (50A circuit) 240V EVSE, you're adding a new breaker to a service panel of at least 150A and going directly to the EVSE with a new cable. The risk of electrical fire would be minimal.
It is back, yes
Funnily enough from RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceabilty) British liquid cooled engines beat American radial engines so hard it wasn't funny.

Mostly it was due to end to end design of entire engine pod which made all operations better. Meanwhile USA had, well, a lot of radials and radial making manufacturing lines and people who had experience with radials but little idea about much more complex liquid cooled engines.
I agree with the thrust of your argument but for your harder example this is exactly the sort of thing Rust does encode in the type system?

If I read that I'd assume the block cares not that atomicVariable is true but only that it was, at least briefly, true.
Want a ton of cheap hydrogen for all your clean non-battery vehicles/rockets? You got it.
Looks quite nice, trending on artstation.
Brilliant, thank you. That’s a new daily puzzle in my bookmarks.
In a world where almost all software companies keep pushing telemetry behind our backs, trying to grab as much information about us as they can. It's nice to see a project like Gnome doing the right thing making telemetry fully voluntary and anonymising the data completely.

We understand that software projects need telemetry to improve, but that's no excuse to sneakily steal information about us.

Well done Gnome!
Why isn't there catch-all service for hosting lambda-like functionality for regular, like there are a billion offerings for cloud storage?

For example, I'm 99% sure Azure blobs are the underpinnings of Onedrive, and I'm pretty sure using just blobs, you could implement most of the functionality with just blobs, including stuff like push notifications.

They could offer a service where people could connect their smart devices to their Onedrive accounts, and it would set up a few service endpoints for their devices, and all hosting for these online features would be taken care of by the cloud provider. The load per user would be so low, it would generously fit into any 'free tier' these providers offer.

The infra is there, people are already used to paying for cloud storage, why isn't this a thing already
People using notepad to subtitle screen-captured tutorials on Youtube.
Religious flamewar (or any flamewar, but especially religious) is not welcome here, so please don't post like this to HN.

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Nova is one of the reasons I picked Lavarel for my next product. Laravel as a framework is pretty good but the ability to add commercially supported things like payments and dashboards with almost no effort was the tie breaker for me!
I signed up for such "brief" interruptions with our local power company when it first rolled out. A few weeks later they cut off AC the entire day during one of the worst heat waves in the area. Customer service completely unresponsive.
House temperature rose to the upper 90s on the lower level. I had it deactivated after that, and never reactivated it.
The insider risk stuff always was really cool to me and, IMO, represents ways that the big tech companies do way more than everybody else in this space. BCID can be a huge pain in the ass but being able to say "hey, it actually would be pretty tricky for a single disgruntled employee to execute code to steal user data" is quite powerful.
Generally engineers don't make dumb decisions, there are exceptions, they make plenty of hard ones.

The difference between the Thompson M1928 and the M1A1 isn't that the M1A1 is superior, and yet they cranked the handle on the latter as hard as they could during the war.

So "If something were better than something else, why did they make more something else during WWII?" doesn't persuade me. Nor does it eliminate other arguments which would make sense.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That just makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is there a way to record the output audio? Audacity on windows has the WASAPI option, which my wife has to use a lot.
It could be a very poor vacuum by most standards and still have 90% of the force of a perfect vacuum. You get an impressive sealing force very quickly as soon as you can create any pressure difference.
Reading ad-hoc is fine if you just want to observe the value at some point in time.

That is why there is room for both a “peek” function, maybe should be called “unsafeRead”, and a “withValue” method that takes a function with the actual value as argument and locks the atomic variable while executing the closure. This prevents the user from ever forgetting to write the lock.
No need for a tool, it is quite easy.

Stop using JavaScript all over the place, use compiled languages.

Don't outsource basic features to extensions, or third party tools.

Bring basic stuff like thumbnails and desktop folders back.
The UK smart charging regulations require all new domestic electric car chargers to be "smart." I.e. connect to a platform that tells them when they may or may not charge. They must have default schedules that avoid peak usage times if they are not connected. They must randomise start times somewhat so that there is no sudden surge of demand when the off-peak period starts, and so on. Many of the chargers on the market were doing these sorts of things already, anyway.
Something I don't really understand. In my country, it is not even legal to sell/provide a piece of equipement/a service which enable people to communicate ... which cannot be spied on.

As far as I know, it is the law.
Nitpick:

I think 'doomscrolling' is a slightly more precise term than just aimless consumption of infinitely scrolling content.

My understanding is, 'doomscrolling' is more about content which outrages (albeit, also consumed in an aimless manner, or to "not miss out").
So you don't research the company you are applying to for a job before you make the application??

I think you have a much bigger problem then.
Why did wxWidgets fell out of favor?
So the first three layers can be solved with pen and paper, and for the fourth you might need a computer.

Do we still consider that encryption in this day and age? I know it technically is , but..
> if you detregulated and put that money in healthcare

The weird thing though is that the people who argue along these lines "if you block X you could fund Y" never ever actually fund Y. Example: https://ifunny.co/picture/stop-immigration-so-we-can-take-ca...
In the deep past, given how many VCR clocks remained at 12:00 because their owners never set the clock, how many EV owners to you think are going to bother explicitly setting a "charge time" in their EV?

Unless it ships from the factory with "charge only during hours X to Y" preset and turned on, the vast majority are not going to get set for a delayed charge time, and will simply charge whenever plugged in. And their owners are likely to "plug them in" at the end of every trip so they are sure to be "topped up" for their next trip.
That must be using CUDA then, and you need a gpu with at least 8GB of VRAM, afaik (not RAM).
Yeah a super high bar apparently:

> World Fascism: a Historical Encyclopedia notes that "Although he was authoritarian and ruled dictatorially, Pinochet's support of neoliberal economic policies and his unwillingness to support national businesses distinguished him from classical fascists.

See, if you sell the nationalized companies to your family, and they profit from selling your countries resources abroad, then you're no true Fascist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos.
1-5% of every transaction and bigger transactions have a bigger cut taken. With cash a lot of those things you mention are rare events and I'd imagine decent insurance covers or pretty much fixed costs. Credit cards also have problems with customers using stolen CCs, doing fraudulent chargebacks, machines go down etc. It's pretty well known that the high transaction fees needed for CC companies to offer rewards like cashback do impact prices and cash users are effectively subsidizing CC users.
The prosecution always overstate their case. The actual judgment says:

> Mr Andrewes has performed valuable services for the hospice and the two trusts in return for the net earnings and, if one were to focus solely on his performance of the services (before his fraud was uncovered), it would be hard to deny that the hospice and the two trusts were receiving full value in exchange for the salary paid.
Infinite fractals based on human culture.
Perhaps you are familiar with (or would support) the idea behind futarchy, which is sometimes expressed as "Vote on Values, Bet on Beliefs":

http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html
> It’s just a game for them to popularize code breaking

Do they really want to do that - considering these talented people might use their code breaking skills against the government? ;-)
Not everything can be done online, it depends on jurisdiction, etc.

Don't assume that because in your field this is possible it is the case everywhere else.
Does your "Careers No Reply" email send auto-rejection messages?

I applied for the Senior Android dev role around 5 weeks ago and got a rejection message 11 days later, so I'd like to know whether there's any point in re-applying now.

Thanks!
Putting a hold on the money due later is a standard practice already, happening with some of the hotel bookings as an example.
GA in Alaska requires less public infrastructure than elsewhere because there are more planes that can land on and take off from water, snow, and unpaved surfaces.

Also Alaska can easily afford basic infrastructure, heck they pay an annual stipend to permanent residents.
Python function to search in Jupyter notebooks
Putin lost the war. A new leader would be a man of courage to say that clearly. And he would lead the country to prosperity instead of more killings and stagnation.
You can do this in any language, even C
It's great that you're doing your part to help the grid.

But we don't need to live life in low-battery mode.

There is another option.
How fast could we could with a 2nm USB controller? Actually, what is the limiting electronic part?
The task is to evaluate and discuss the options, which would be the valuable part in an interview.
Classic scalability issue, those engines were HUGE compared to general aviation so all the rules about shock cooling and surface area to volume ratios don't apply unchanged to engines a thirtieth the size.
> now, eng lit comes with trigger warnings. You can't read half the canon because it's racist or classist or sexist.

This is a gross misrepresentation both of what trigger warnings are for and what the actual relationship of undergraduates and courses to the texts are. And it's undoubtedly based on nonsense coming out of a very small number of American universities.

Oxford are still doing a traditional course which is Beowulf in the first part and Victorians in the second: https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate-admiss... / https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/victorian_l...

Cambridge have gone freestyle: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/cours... "Uniquely, we do not have a syllabus: instead, students work with their supervisors to devise a programme of study for themselves. There are few English departments left in the world that allow you to study the full historical range of literature in English, and we pride ourselves on the strong grounding this gives our students."

"In the first two years of your degree, you cover the full historical sweep of literature written in the English language from the medieval period to the present day" - this sounds like a really large amount of work!

A far more serious threat to English Literature is not the "cancellation" of individual authors but the wholesale actual cancellation of courses: https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/27/sheffield-hallam-university-s...

> Now, 75% of the age group go to uni

It's only just gone over 50%. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-49841620

(I was the last generation to get a student grant, but I had a small loan for living expenses)
No problem. I guess that would average out similarly, and be a lot more for some people. With solar, not so much, of course, but the load is also mostly absorbed. Interesting.
Interesting factoid: "real numbers" are called that to distinguish them from "imaginary numbers." The latter term was not meant as an improper noun, but a proper insult. Some mathematicians called them imaginary to imply that branch of mathematics had no basis or use in reality. The term stuck, even though we found plenty of uses.
Nest does this in conjunction with local energy provider during "rush" hours. It will cool the house lower than normal, then raise the AC temperature limit, usually between the hours of 14-18. Actually get paid back for it.
We have the same thing for shutting down our water heaters (geyser) - it is called a ripple control - sends a signal down the electrical circuit to houses from the local substation when there is power supply constraints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz_n0qxqoPg
For 1 trillion records I'd say: estimate the probability distribution and values and give the corresponding value as the answer
A big problem with turbines is overhauls and how they are calculated.

For piston engines, overhaul time is calculated from amount of hours operated. For turbine engines it is calculated from amount of hours and amount of start-stop cycles, whichever is reached first. And in GA, you have short flights and many cycles, which results in overhauls being much more common and expensive.
> [23] Mr. Ginther responded the same day, directing Ms. Jenkins to “pay the balance on our visa (less the $7500 deposit)”. He added: “Will let you know on the cedar when we make a decision.”

That email clearly expressed that he did not intend to pay for the cedar yet.
I think this feels like the wrong place to solve the problem. I don't think you should be building HTML by concatenating strings like this.

If you build a model and render it separately using a template, whether a string gets entity-encoded or not is a concern for the template, and a sane template system entity-encodes by default unless explicitly told not to do so.
So you didn't have to provide a proof of health insurance, your national ID number, bank account number for salary, postal address, phone number, etc.?

Not because the company really cares about those things but because the government (tax office, etc.) requires them to collect and forward this information so that you can be properly registered in the various tax, pension and healthcare systems?

Don't assume that what works in your niche is possible/works for everyone else too.
Not to take credit away, but interestingly enough, both of those heavily rely on Firecracker VM, which certainly solves a huge “fundamental” infrastructure problem.
How about homes in forested areas? Trees can pretty easily shade an entire roof for most or all of the day.
If it were the US they could just seize the cheap ticket and resell it for more per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London.
Well we don’t because it is hardly ever used.
>Yep, not long before any disgruntled ex, or any other bad actor could look up anyone and find out their everything.

Again. We've come full circle from the wide open Wild Wild Web to now, with silos & gatekeepers. For, you know, security.
They are all locked behind a New York Times paywall…
It wasn't super difficult, and was quite fun. I'm not a cryptography person and have zero knowledge of ciphers or anything like this, but a friend and I saw it and thought it'd be fun to give it a shot. We shared ideas but pretty much solved each puzzle ourselves in different ways (which was interesting to see in itself).

The hidden 5th puzzle was both the hardest to get going on (due to no hints compared to the others), while also being among the easiest once you figured out what it actually was.

I did a little write-up here if anyone's interested: http://senwerks.com/hacktheplanet/Solving-the-Australian-Sig...
I used to use GNOME for many years, mostly because it was the default on Ubuntu. Now it's one of my least favorite desktops, I'll use almost anything else. I got frustrated at the seemingly random, user-hostile, backwards-incompatible changes from one version to the next. From my rough memory:

* The desktop icons and click-and-drag shortcuts got removed a few years ago. This is a GUI workflow that I've been using on Windows, MacOS, Atari OS, Amiga OS, going back to the 1980s. Gone.

* They somehow obscured the sleep (or was it the shutdown) button in one version, so that I couldn't find it anymore. I think I had to search the internets for this basic functionality.

* I think one version of Ubuntu GNOME obscured the login screen. I installed it, saw no login screen, clicked everywhere, but nothing happened. Just stared at a desktop wallpaper. If I recall, I eventually figured out that I had to swipe up a little arrow at the bottom of the screen, but using a mouse. Why?

* I think there is still no image preview in their file explorer. I don't know, I don't use it anymore.

These days, I use Ubuntu MATE or Mint MATE, and occasionally drop into Mint Cinnamon to check if they squashed enough little UI bugs for me to use as daily driver. (For example, in the latest Mint Cinnamon, I set my Terminal to 161 columns. But Cinnamon would open the window at Full Screen instead. Oops, back to Mint MATE.)
Why would you charge with 11kW over night?
This is a very thorough and comprehensive answer! Thank you so much!
This is amazing. I’m sure many HN would appreciate an in depth exploration of the porting process.