skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one you are commenting on is a good start for considering what is at stake.

The comments posted on HN are not moderated prior to appearing in a thread. Keep in mind that the bar that has been set here is that an account's second post (the first being made a long time ago, and the account since sitting idle) contained a bomb threat that users reported and mods reviewed before it was taken down within 20 minutes.

Go ahead and try it. Make a new account on HN and do the same. If said comment lasts more than 20 minutes, HN would fall afoul of this new unofficial guideline.
There is some C in the gitlab repo? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/graphs/main/ch...

But the CONTRIBUTING doesn't say you need to install a C compiler, so probably not? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/blob/main/CONT...
Yes, he has the company lines well rehearsed. But he was also admits he's a mortal human who didn't choose to be the moderator between the geo-political battle lines that have manifested themselves through today's social media. And he probably understands the nuances of that unique responsibility better than any of us here.
> But I fully expect the libertarians of HN in full swing explaining to us how it’s the death of free speech and justifying the worst exploitative behaviours because freedom as libertarians like to do.

I don’t think that was the particular aspect of the aforementioned thread GP was referring to (maybe in part)
Google Plus was great software too. That's not always enough.
I understand the benefit of recurring supporters and of maintaining in the public conscience the reminder that this is a publicly funded resource of the commons.

There is no excuse though, to pleading for money in a way that suggests dire straits.

What if an organization made a deal with people, to get them subscribed for something like $2 a year with a 'burst' up to the cap set by the user that triggers at some funding floor?

$2/year until our endowment goes down to $30 million, then $10/year until it gets above $50 million.
I do that already, but just for home sanitary water (sorry, do not know the name in English, water for shower etc) with the secondary resistive heating of an "old" (not on sale anymore) Daikin/Rotex M2O EKHHP 300l v3 but I can't do the same for heating: too much water is needed.

Actually I'm looking to expand the system with just a set of insulated tanks (found some on sale 500l/~1kWh/day of dispersion at 60℃ inside, 5℃ outside) and a bigger external heat pump + wood stove (for emergency) to heat the water. It's just an idea because:

- nothing pre-built seems to exists, apparently nobody is interested enough in try this way to save energy bills;

- it not really cheap and DIY style there are many things who can break making the project more an expensive toy than an effective solution.

IF I found something that seems good enough next spring I plan to expand, but it's still a relevant and generally interested issue the fact that nearly nobody talk about the dichotomy between p.v.-powered device needs to maximize self-consumption vs non-p.v. powered homes needs to reduce the total consumed energy: with a p.v. system anything should be designed to run all together at full power as much as possible, so automation to power on and off things quickly and things made to march at very different speed depending on the available power. It's far better for instance in that sense a classic resistive boiler who heat water less efficiently than a heat-pump BUT with a constant load and perhaps not a single resistance but few, to being able to "sum or reduce" the power depending on how much you can get from Sun. While if you do not have a p.v. it's far better to save as much energy as possible...

Some patterns might be common, like running appliance at a dynamic point in time, one depending on the Sun, the other depending on current grid load (and so price). But many others are different. A stupid example my washing machine, with it's eco-mode actually consume less kWh, but consume MORE from the grid because it have spike loads my p.v. inverter can't satisfy quickly enough from p.v. so they goes on the grid. On contrary running an "expensive" high temp washing program my self-consumption is normally 99.99999%

Surely, so far most homes do NOT have p.v. so the biggest market for any appliance is the one who do not count p.v. but is not really expensive counting it. Also it's absolutely not expensive ad ModBUS controls on anything who consume more than 1kW. It does not really change the price. It's absurd not offer such option in most appliance with a significant overprice (let's say 40€ for something that to the OEM cost just 1€).
A good dishwasher (based on testing) will never need some manual tinkering like this.
Severe mental or physical disability is where. For some reason, other people in this thread are equating eye color with severe disabilities, which is asinine to me. One is superficial, one actually produces suffering.
The internet is a real place, and the smallest amount of information can identify you here. It is a silly proposition to try to force all internet users into total anonymity because they may be doxed by a forum like KF.
I'm still not sure what the metaverse is supposed to be. I have an idea, sort of Second Life with VR, but if that's true, then I'm not sure why they think anyone but a few enthusiasts would want it. Before I got into working on climate change software, I did a long stint in the Danish public sector, and nothing in any of the stuff we did suggested that young people wanted to use VR. AR maybe, but not VR. In fact, the way young people consume entertainment media today, is basically exactly how we did it on a Gameboy, except now the Gameboy can do more than just play games. There are also so many social platforms that aren't Facebook, that a lot of youngsters aren't even on a Meta product anymore.

I guess time may prove me wrong, but I really don't see why the world would want a metaverse until you can actually plug into it, like the matrix. Then things may change.
Hmm, dishwashers I have had (including my current one) have a large heating element in the bottom, I would have thought that could heat the relatively small volume of water in there pretty quickly?
Only allocating CPU while a request is in progress, and thus only paying for that time, is cloud run's defining feature, so that part makes sense.

But the problems with having multiple processes are weird. I'd have expected patterns where the http server blocks while waiting for a helper process to work. That sounds like a rather annyoing limitation, and I saw no mention of it in the documentation.

Can you double check if there is really such a limitation and not a misattribution?
I’ve been dreaming of this for years. You can already see these economies starting to open up, like the model market for 3D printing.
Naw, I'd rather it not work than work at lower refresh rate or resolution.
Too hot inside? Fashion a bubble wrapper with a warm rock around your thermostat.

Too cold inside? Fashion a bubble wrapper and an ice pack around your thermostat.

Learned this at an employer that kept its thermostat under lock and key.
Indeed, and someday might be using Zirkon instead of Linux.

Blackberry, Jolla and several other Linux + Android attempts have proven that being easy isn't enough.
Ask HN: Why was an Artemis overpressure due to operator error possible in 2022?
Does NASA have a thing against automation?
One interesting feature of these services is that one can be surprised: suddenly you get an image that is different from what you envisioned when writing the prompt but that is still visually pleasing or interesting or inspiring
Even if apple is less powerful, nobody will be forced to download Facebook or fortnite, and you can instead continue to just use the apple app store. Apps will continue to be added that meet apple's expectations because people trust spending money there.

If your worry was founded, these apps already wouldn't be on Apple devices because they'd be androind-only
> No one is arguing about the legal merits

Demonstrably untrue. There are literally dozens of posts here in this very ycombinator discussion explaining loudly and often that none of the kiwifarms content was illegal, never mind discussions in other places.
As someone who has voice coded full-time for a long period of time, that would get quite annoying.

Notice that some users even start using Talon's noise support. I even changed "scroll up" to "suh" because I said it 300 times per day.
This makes me feel good about the survival odds of binary lambda calculus [1]

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/2012/tromp/hint.html
Agreed! I'm also bullish on more localized manufacturing in which we have more control over the function, aesthetic and shape of the end products.
Yes

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/15657972205318144...
Packs should be put in the dispenser so they don't act during prewash.
I don't understand saying "He didn't choose to be" - yes, he absolutely at every point made the choice to attain and maintain power to do this, this is absolutely false.
The article nailed it. They simply don't have the right people at the helm. They aren't innovating because they're working on problems that were solved a decade ago in the game industry and without users, the experience will be boring
It's certainly easy to say what they could or should have done with hindsight. But I think most people would agree that Kodak was in a strong position entering the digital revolution. Instead of ending up with a piece of the pie they are left basically just producing a niche luxury product and licensing out their brand name for white-labeled garbage.
It doesn't matter what people want. Big companies can afford to push something and force it on you until you think you want it.
> I thought that gas chromatographs were the standard way of evaluating the amount of capsaicin in peppers

The "GC" in "miniGC" probably stands for gas chromatography.
Come on, the choice isn't just between conservation and blackouts.. This is only an issue because we sacrificed the reliability of the power grid for 'green' technologies.

Forget enforced conservation or blackouts, I choose a reliable power grid, obviously, and that means ditching worthless renewables and building out proven technology.
I don’t use the HDMI port. I have a USBC-to-DP adapter, that I plug into a TB port.

I think Apple cheaped out on the HDMI port.
You tried to get an answer out, but unfortunately some users here have no scruples.
Thats an extremely poor take on a very nuanced and complicated situation.
I might have mixed it up with object libraries.
Smart thermostats not so smart consumers. Pretty sure all this was spelled out in the terms of service if anyone complaining about this bothered to read it.

Hey, my car won't start because of the gas shortage. My refrigerator won't open because of the food shortage. My front door won't open because I'm late on my mortgage.

Looking forward to the analog counter-revolution.
> It is like we've gone back to having many different types of connectors

Not quite. Before, if the cable provided by your device manufacturer failed or was lost, you had practically no chance to replace it other than buying another overpriced cable from the original manufacturer. Keeping a backup around for every single device was often infeasible. Now you have a very good chance of finding an adequate replacement, even of a reasonably priced exact replacement if you work at it.

"But you can fry your Nintendo Switch now!" Well, yeah, but built-in signaling and negotiation has kept such cases rare enough to make the news, and it wasn't impossible before. Maybe not with the smaller devices using unique connectors, but back then it was common to reduce the number of adapters by carrying a "universal" one and a bag of tips. Set the voltage wrong and BZZZT fried laptop.

So it's complex in different ways but I agree with those who say that thinking it's worse requires some serious rose-colored glasses (or not having been an adult during that time). I'll take being able to charge nearly a dozen different devices, from earbuds to laptops, with the same one charger and cables, even if that cable doesn't provide absolutely full functionality for every combination. Carrying around a bunch of separate connectors and (usually built in) cables really sucked. In practical terms, it left people stranded without any power option, or with an actually dead device, even more often.
Possibly, that's why I suspect the OS is somehow involved, too, especially since by default there's nothing connected to the HDMI port. Or, at least, some kind of interaction between the dock firmware and the OS.

The other commenter mentioning that Linux "doesn't care and plows through" could be on to something, too.

But I should note that I haven't "forced" anything. The display is detected as 4K@60Hz with no intervention on my part.

Whereas on Windows, before I do the dance, it only says 4k@30, I can't manually change it to 60 Hz; not with the standard Windows settings app, anyway.

This also happens on a separate dock. But on that one, it never works under Windows, DP or HDMI, dance or no dance. Works perfectly on Linux, though. However, that's some random Chinese dock off Amazon, so I chalked it up to shady implementation on its side.

However, this just goes to show that things aren't so "simple" as OP stated, things can fail in weird ways which aren't straightforward to diagnose. And the hardware isn't obviously broken, either, since I'm typing this on Linux attached to the Chinese dock in 4K@60Hz without having done anything special to get it going. So, something, somewhere, may be somehow out of spec, but how can I diagnose that? On the face of it, all my components are what I'm supposed to use.

I guess there are just too many moving parts, whereas a DP cable connected to the graphics card is pretty straightforward.
>> We could start from something simpler, like Haskell. Or js or cj.

Someone familiar with those will need to answer.

I have not done any serious work with those languages so I am unable to reply.
I think this is just the organizational equivalent of having a buffer rather than living "paycheck to paycheck".

When Wikipedia has cash reserves a hundred times its yearly expenses, I'll listen.
The government should have the ability to violate privacy subject to judicial review. Otherwise, no law could be reasonably enforced.

Successive governments have undermined the authority of judicial review and I'd support anyone campaigning to change that. But, the solution isn't to try and build a system that prevents the government from ever piercing the privacy of citizens. That's just a recipe for anarchy.

Honestly, maybe a few years ago I might have been on your side. But, this whole cryptocurrency saga has just soured me on techno-libertarianism. A society needs an effective government (accountable to the people) that can enforce the law.
It'd be interesting to see how this tracks against Scoville rankings, which I've found to be mostly useless. I've always found the gaps between rankings too large to be able to really intuit the difference between two peppers without just popping them in your mouth and hoping for the best.
I’ve been using midjourney to add a bunch of images to a conference talk I’m doing. It’s great for “ambience” type pictures, but hopeless if you actually want to represent anything concrete.
a quick skim suggests this guide is largely motivated reasoning rather than being objective, as it immediately jumps to solar, wind, and batteries as its conclusive remedy. that's unrealistically simplistic, despite its length. something as large and complex as our global energy supply will need us pursuing every option simultaneously. and the most immediate thing to tackle is coal (being the most polluting, estimated to kill millions per year), for which nuclear needs to be a significant component (being baseload).
Yep, the Apollo cost includes eight trips to the moon (landing or flyby) plus several trips to LEO. That's another $50B or so tacked onto Artemis just for the SLS launch costs. That takes us to $100B total, to reproduce something done 50 years ago with an engine from 40 years ago. Plus it doesn't include the landing module, which SpaceX is working on.
Note that this has a GPL3 (not LGPL) license. I’m curious about the rationale for doing that with a template-based data structures library. Why would you want to limit adoption so much?

(Edit: realized after typing this that yes, LGPL wouldn’t change anything for a template library. Question remains though.)
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Kodak could have gone into any arbitrary new manufacturing business. Heck, they could have invented the smartphone. But besides smartphones, digital photography is not a particularly good business to be in.
I really just love the saturated look of technicolor from 60s sci-fi series.
Github! Because you don't need a phone number with them.
Just the lectures. Complete MIT lecture series are on Youtube. I didn't do the assignments, though it would certainly stick better if I did. I'd just watch the lectures while I did my exercises.
Its far more easy than a forum that barely covers hosting costs.
I opted out of this program, but did the energy saver AC program with little affect on the cooling. I didn’t want the power company to have control of my home comfort.
Do you have an example of something that was pushed upon people, forcing them to like it?
Yeah you can, enforce labeling and colors, maybe even an extra nub that only fits certain ports if capabilities aren't needed.
I thought about that hub, but now, I think I’ll wait for the TS4.

I didn't want to shell out all that dosh, just to be disappointed.
The problem in the UK was what I call 'bang per buck'. Most magazines had envelopes fall out of them for mail order photo processing. This market was a race to the bottom, with the service becoming a commodity. To keep you coming back there would be a 'free' unexposed reel of film for every reel you sent in.

When the new disc films came along there were no upsides in area of film exposed, there was no upgrade path (you could not use the same film in an SLR as a point and shoot fixed focus) and only photographers that worked commercially were in the market for buying film. Most people went for the mail order option or Boots The Chemist, found on every High Street and able to do a quick turnaround at a fair price.

The 1980's were also quite expensive when it came to consumer items. We no longer buy cameras 'made in America' and the thought of it is quite unimaginable today, you know straight off the bat that you are not going to be able to afford it. Furthermore, nothing in store was on a 'point of sale' system with retailers knowing exactly how much stock they have. There have been vast efficiency changes over the last forty years. All of this factors into price.

On the flip side, the boomers were relatively rich and the difference between rich and poor was not what it is today, hence there was a large customer base in the middle class that could afford these things.
Of course, then you have to learn how to draw, which can take years and years for middling results (source: me)
I don’t think this is true, or at least i can’t think of any examples of a big company forcing a products success, I can only remember lots of counter examples.
That's an additional concern, but even if you have a flat "utility" scale you can use for comparisons, _expected_ value still isn't necessarily the thing you want to optimize.

Maximizing the min/max outcomes are common alternative preferences. Like, suppose I have a 1% chance of being tortured for a year and a 99% chance at being the next God-Emporer. I can't actually average those futures; I'll be in one or the other, and I might want to have a 0% chance of torture or if the odds are flipped maybe I'm okay with being tortured for the tiny chance at being God-Emporer.

Such preferences are hard to cover under the umbrella of maximizing expected utility because it introduces (neg)infinite utility to certain outcomes. Instead recognizing that you might be optimizing something else is a cleaner way to handle the problem.
> Try new things.

I broadly agree with you here, but I have a minor side-note to make here: while trying new "new" things, don't forget about old "new" things. A technique from the '60s can, and often will be, new to you today, as well as for a vast majority of today's programmers.

I find it incredibly sad that programming as a profession treats its history like a burden to be shunned in favor of yet another unconscious reiteration of a classical concept that gets fashionable in one part of the community for a year or a few, before slipping back into the huge pile of forgotten ideas and implementations.

Try new things, but look for them both on twitter and in archives of many decades prior.
There is a lot of really good advices here about when to do TDD and how to do it, so i would only reiterate earlier comments.

My personal experience is that i start TDD once my project is "mature" enough that the next upgrade/addition can be put at two different place easily enough and i don't know where is the best place to do it. Basically, on my latest project, i asked myself something like: "is this part of this class method, or should the main loop take care of it?". That's where i started completing tests to 90% coverage (main loop + pagination mocks were skipped, ideally i could've reach 95% but laziness caught up) and started TDD. In the end, i still made the wrong choice and added my change to the class method, only to change it back two weeks ago (or roughly six month later). Here, TDD didn't help me to make the best software architecture choice, but having to write test first for this part of code made me decouple it from the method i originally put it in, and allowed me to made a architecture change in less than an hour.
Because what you said doesn’t make sense
> This is DP pass-through, there's no DisplayLink or similar involved.

is it, or is there a re-driver? also, there are 4 high-speed lines in USB-C; 2 are used for USB3 so the other 2 are for DP-HDMI convertor and DP connector. seems like only 1 of HDMI or DP should work at 1 time.

anyways, this is not an issue with USB but an issue with the dock behavior.
I mean these early tablets that ran windows XP were bad in so many ways
I think, Wikimedia's fundraising message should include the amount of money they have, the expenses they expect for the coming years (with a basic breakdown of how it is going to be spent), as well as a link to a detailed report of how much money they got and how they were spent for the previous years. Basically be transparent, b/c someone might want to spend their money on a different web project they like.
I’m a bit nonplussed how a library with thousands of stars can have a main README file that’s just littered with typos and inconsistencies.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting the original author should get it perfect. I just made a few typos when editing the readme. I'm just surprised it can be so popular and _nobody_ comes by and fixes this stuff in all the years.

(And I’m going to be the change I want to see and rather than just complain, I’m going make a PR.)
I'm still using a Pixel 1, but it's starting to die at even 30% battery, and hasn't had software updates for to long. Wish devices weren't designed / destined to fail.
I never said that Europe didn't advance during the early and later middle ages, only that it advanced slowly compared to what happened when the industrial revolution occurred. Its arrival heavily correlates with many of the factors I described in my comment above for greater wealth and development. I don't think it's a coincidence that the industrial revolution started in the UK, one of the most peaceful and stable of states in the world at the time. Though of course, there are other factors that im missing which influenced the development of modern markets.