skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems "not well deployed system" or "system not well understood by developer", what stops one reducing retention to few hours for node kernel logs or having read only access to certain parts, if at all there are so many kernel/ sys logs. I have never come across a system where application logs were not multiple orders of magnitude more in volume than syslogs. Not sure what RDS vs in-house DB example was meant to convey.

Ironically, these examples are only proving the point made in first comment.
PV is so cheap that if it was only 50%, one would just install twice as much.

I think the actual number may be 90% (daytime; obviously more like 100% at night, for which you have some storage).

But at this scale you want multiple types of power anyway just to avoid correlated failures, cf. “all of our coal plants have had to shut down at the same time because the coal miners organised a national strike”.

Question then is: is the cheapest solution to this already green, and if not, what do we need to invent such that the cheapest solution is also green?

From what I’ve seen, batteries at this scale are currently on par with nuclear for cost, but that’s the easiest hurdle to pass given how expensive nuclear is. Global grid is theoretically fine, and the purchase cost isn’t ridiculous, but I don’t know anything about geopolitical issues so it could be anything from “a way to bring the world together” to “laughably naive”, and I don’t know anything about ongoing maintenance costs. Hydrogen is cheap, I don’t know the metallurgy issues. Hydro is great, but has its own issues.
Its the technobro version of “I have to install this instead of just downloading it off the app store?? Nah brah.”
I think Free speech, Freedom from prosecution for speech and speech without any consequences are all confused with each other. To me, the freedoms to oppose some speech, by way of boycotting, protesting, shunning and shaming is also speech. There’s also the difference between beheading for speech and getting your Twitter account suspended. If someone says absolutely nutty stuff in a town square and the local folks drown him out or threaten to not patronize the shops in the town square for allowing the speech, is that considered suppression of speech?

It seems to me that people are asking for tolerance of speech at all costs. I don’t know if Free Speech ever came with that built in.
My guess would be docker is the reason
There are some real nuts in Congress, but the ones they would really need to convince are the twenty or so on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. Most of the real wackjobs are in the House of Reps, and I have a feeling the members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense are kept on a shorter leash than most of the rest. At least insofar as being well informed about defense matters is concerned.
Infrared light blobs moved across the sky? There are so many way you can make far away, blurry objects and that’s without even starting to delve into post processing.
Basically back to the VB/Delphi glory days with stored procedures, or even better Oracle Forms.
I think we can safely conclude that the more intelligent (in every dimension) the average person in a system is, the more effectively and efficiently every part of that system will run

I used to think it was kind of all the same and that law of averages would generally buff out the more irrational and impulsive of us to not actually make much difference to the overall progressive trajectory.

Turns out it's not the case and it only takes a minority of lower-IQ/Q/general intelligence people to really mess things up that should be very simple
Q works for the same spy agency as James Bond..
They managed to keep the development of some of the stealth planes secret for a little while, right?
Tifa Lockhart is next to Jinx, zombie, cyberpunk city, rain, cinematic, 4k, 8k, unreal engine, octane render, photorealistic, true photograph —testp
That probably means your server wasn't closing the socket when it reached EOF, so the checker was still waiting.

There's no reason any programming language would be too slow to complete the Smoke Test
Do you mean added sugars or fake sugars, or are you really trying to make due with polysaccharides and a little bit of glucose? Didn’t think ketosis is a good long term source of energy…. The engine is build to run on sugar (Krebs cycle).
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> highly enjoyable
Doubt.
I can't think of a single good reason to have infinite scrolling bar but I have been asked to implement them multiple times. Bad, bad, bad... for the user.
Software is a pop culture.
If you really want to scramble your noodle, look at the recent spate of state laws placing restrictions on speech and notice the lean of the parties that control those states.
The main difference I see here is that buying up mining hardware actually has limitations and constraints. You have to find enough supply of the hardware, find enough energy to run it, find a location big enough to house it, make sure to keep it up to date, etc.

With PoS, although governments can’t print tokens, it doesn’t really matter. The governments and central banks have unlimited money. They control the money supply. Even if some of the top stakers won’t want to sell, they would still be able to find enough sellers who are. We have already seen how a single tweet from someone like Elon Musk can cause thousands of people to buy or sell. Manipulating the market is easy and doesn’t require permission from the people with the largest stake.

All they would need to do is float a bill that they are planning on making Bitcoin illegal and then after it is on the front page of all the news sites, when everyone is rushing to exit, swoop in and buy up the supply. I think Wall Street has already done this to a large extent. Hence, this is why I believe they are likely the ones behind this push as opposed to the people who will be hurt as a result.

All of that said, I’m willing to keep an open mind and see what happens to Ethereum after its switch to PoS. If I had to guess, I suspect we will begin to see stories of blocked transactions and blocked wallets, etc.
Yeah but the existence of self-censorship implies a fear of social sanction, so if people are still doing it society is still being censored for fear of social sanction.

Remember we're talking about absolutism here, obviously we shouldn't actually be concerned with self-censorship, but it is an obstacle to ABSOLUTE free speech.
I'm sure you know this already but: The idea isn't so much backward looking but forward looking. "Why this won't happen again". What are we going to do in the future which prevents this, or at least makes it far less likely to recur ?

Because if we change nothing, it's going to happen again. That's how history got that reputation for repeating itself. But in order to prevent it, we need to understand the causual chain in order to break it.

For investigators whose work feeds into regulators it's a bit sadder because instead of "Why this won't happen again" the results are usually recommendations which, if followed, would prevent it happening again but you get used to them not being followed, so you're repeating yourself. "Why our previous advice would have prevented this from happening again".
I can see how their conclusions play out in real life.

One of the common threads I've noticed across many people when trying to explain why defending freedom of speech, and the free and open exchange of ideas in general, is that they're not just defending some "right-wing" person's rights, they're actually defending their own rights. Because the same tactics and rationales that are being used to suppress and silence the "right-wing" (which is comically everyone to the right of Bernie Sanders these days) will eventually be turned around and used to silence and suppress them.

But so many people simple can't wrap their head around it.

The notion is perfectly illustrated by Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons:

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”

By protecting the rights of everyone, even people you disagree with, you are ultimately protecting your own rights. Anything else is short-sighted and dangerous.
The comment viewing experience on the mobile Reddit interface is quite unpleasant. My biggest complaints are:

- It does full browser reloads to expand "3 More Comments" instead of asynchronously loading them, and it does this multiple times to let you see a full conversation

- When you do click to read more comments the page loads are jarring and don't take you to the comment content, making you scroll to find where you were

- It inserts irrelevant content (things like other posts) between the comments in a way that makes it unclear there's more to read.

- Of course they also pop up at you multiple times nagging you to use their app instead.

Reddit's main draw is the comment section for me. Of course in the default subs and r/popular you mostly want to avoid them, but in smaller subs they're still the heart of the community.
There are some nice factoids in there, but it felt like someone just searched "causality" on tiktok, jotting down notes as they rode the algorithm.

I don't think Judea Pearl would enjoy this article. Malcolm Gladwell might.
The military is concerned but not for the reason everyone assumes.

It’s simply the military’s job to detect, identify, and appropriately respond to anything that might by flying around them.

If they can’t do that, they’re not doing their job as well as they should.
I love this channel, I've been watching their videos for a few weeks. The guy has a great ability to break things down and explain complex topics with ease.
Apple tends to ask people to reconfirm system settings now and then after iOS upgrades. Does iOS ask about automatic upgrades occasionally?
Related:

‎Cracking the Code: Sneakers at 30 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31378418 - May 2022 (76 comments)

Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29840802 - Jan 2022 (198 comments)

Sneakers: Robert Redford, River Phoenix nerd out in 1992’s prescient caper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29620095 - Dec 2021 (7 comments)

Sneakers (1992), the Film - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26111977 - Feb 2021 (2 comments)

Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen in the Movie “Sneakers” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11643270 - May 2016 (54 comments)

Sneakers - movie about pen testing, crypto/nsa, espionage, and deception (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6196379 - Aug 2013 (5 comments)

What it was like shooting the movie Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4498985 - Sept 2012 (46 comments)

Sneakers (Film, 1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1499298 - July 2010 (1 comment)

Joybubbles: the blind phreaker whom Whistler was based off of in Sneakers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443241 - June 2010 (1 comment)
Be completely unable to do a thing? Not very often, abd probably suggests a systemic problem rather than a personal one.

Fail to do exactly what a manager orcustomer thought should happen? 99% of the time.
The only time I would use it is if I wanted to break the scroll bar, break the back button and make the page unlinkable. So, never.
And after Plan 9 came Inferno with even less POSIX.
Here’s one example from 1951:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Strachey
Vimwiki does supports tags, and allows multiple tags too. I added a request around 2 years ago to add support for custom delimiters for tags which too was added in the dev branch. I have been a happy user of vimwiki for the last 3-4 years and it works great. Use pandoc for conversion to html, has mathjax support for mathematical expressions along with support for mermaid-js too. For searching the notes i have been using leader-f with fzf, fd and rg.
How do you protect the rights of those being bullied, trolled, harassed, doxxxed and revenge-porned.
I'm sure once L5 has an actual complete deployment it will be used by even more devices.
I also don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. It feels like many of the examples given are the more extreme cases where it goes too far, but looking at the pilots of most TV shows (especially sitcoms), the characters are fairly generic and uninteresting, and they slowly build up their personas over time as writers write to the actor and to what works.

Community is a good example of that, all the characters definitely developed a lot, though some maybe went too far like Britta. Parks & Recreation is another one, some of the characters were actually just background extras like Retta and Jerry. The whole woodworking part of Ron also came from Nick's own background and built into the character.
That is why businesses routinely encourage their workers to exchange salary information amongst themselves.
That scene was good till you consider a few factors:

- Bose was allied with the Nazi’s. I know it’s debatable whether the ends justify the means but he also held some fairly hostile views that are being used again

- there were notable omissions of freedom fighters who preached peace , but more importantly, those who were against the division of Pakistan and India.

I shared a couple links above in an edit, but there’s definitely an messaging to align with the directors more hardline views of modern Indian politics
“Controlling for gender, ethnicity, and education did not meaningfully alter the associations between cognitive ability and support for freedom of speech. Also controlling for participants’ ideology (separately or in addition to the demographic variables) did not meaningfully affect the associations.”
Is that read: "Why You No Host? dot org"
Is Freedom of Speech important for a democratic society to survive?

Right wing extremists would say yes. In fact, this is why they believe we shouldn't allow low cognitive ability immigrants into the country or let them vote.
Maybe between Scandinavia and Poland?
A benefit of infinite scroll bar is that it takes up less mental overhead by reaching content with fewer taps or clicks on target on a page.
Yeah, because we should build the internet based on your subjective preference.

I like infinite scrolling.
I agree the FreeCAD UX could use some improvements, but I think even more important would be improving reliability and feature coverage in the OpenCascade CAD geometry library it uses. Slightly more complex things like fillets, lofts, nurbs surfaces are very limited and unreliable today. Mixing any of these with booleans tends to create more trouble.

Blender on the other hand is very solid in the modeling department, in my experience. The mesh based approach certainly helps, but not depending on an external organization for the core geometry functionality does not hurt either.
I zoom in via my phone’s browser and it works well
The Netherlands still has a court that can overrule the government, and actually has told it drop to the temporary covid/lock-down laws, because they should be repaced by permanent laws, supported by both chambers or parliament. If the government wouldn't do that, these laws would be voided.
I recall desktop UIs solving this by having a minimum scroll button size. Then just aligning the bar to the full height of the doc, at least where the data size was known. And when first loaded the bar would sometimes shift as it loaded, albeit without having to scroll to force further loading.
Not even NFTs, where people were aggressively bidding against one another for a database entry confirming their ownership of a cartoon monkey on drugs? Not even quantum computing, where wall street is investing billions in quirky (quorky?) transistors that might maybe potentially crack a limited subset of cryptographic algorithms within the next several decades? Not even with self-driving cars, which are taking on the ultimate life-or-death task before machine learning can even reliably outperform a minimum wage laborer at heavily constrained and scripted tech support tasks?

You're all in on all that?
There is a little more information on its github page: https://github.com/tomahawkins/atom
Somewhere along the line, we stopped teaching children that everybody doesn't have to agree with you. And now those children have grown into adults who want only those opinions of which they approve to be heard. No free and open society can survive with that kind of thinking.
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I doesn't matter if your device had it for 99999 years and is therefore 'way cooler', what matters is how far along the GPS satellites are, and at this stage there isn't even one complete deployment, it's still being deployed.
The Ancestor's Tale is an intimidatingly large book at first glance, but I found it well worth the read. I'd recommend it before The Selfish Gene just because, despite the size, to me the progression from chapter to chapter really kept my attention.
A visit to the home page will give you the delightful answer
Well most offline devices don't take minutes now except for the first fix in a long time. It's generally around 30 seconds to a minute.

Usually the almanac is stored in non-volatile memory so additional startup fixes are much faster.
Trust the science (unless it's science I disagree with)
The iOS betas have been available to the bank for three months prior to the public release, every year since they first signed up for a developer account.

If this is their first year dealing with an iOS update, they have my sympathies.

If the bank has spent the past 90 days trying and failing to make their app work, they have my sympathies.

If this is not their first year, and they chose not to bother testing their app until the release candidate was issued this week, they do not have my sympathies.
A whole bunch of those have since been positively confirmed as operator error or calibration issues. Also these cases are often from new kit the operators were unfamiliar with, I don’t see how that can be a coincidence.

The fact is we should expect a certain amount of false positives. So the real question is do we see more of these cases than we’d probably get anyway.
In my experience, the notion of being "for or against freedom of speech" is actually referring to something more subjective, and that phrasing is used to imply which side of the disagreement the speaker believes is correct, like referring to the debate about abortion as the debate about murdering babies. It signals a strong bias.
Thankfully I’ve got great news!

He moved into production and I learned he’s pretty close with the two main guys of Presidents of the United States of America (band - “Peaches” - “Lump”) and they make a living that way as studio cats & hired producers.

Too much talent for pop stars and touring!
I legitimately cannot get Chrome for Android to show a scroll bar under any circumstance. Android 13 / pixel 6 pro / Chrome, there is simply no scroll bar on any page no matter what.

EDIT: Ah! I see it! I have a curved screen and the 1 px thin "bar" is only on the curved edge of the screen which catches the light and isn't visible. Fair enough.
How is the positioning accuracy outdoors?

My iPhone 13 is rather disappointing in this regard. Even in my garden, with a clear sky, Maps.app will show my location at least 5 m off my actual position.
Aren't #1 and #4 at odds? I like that these days it's not cool and hip, which means kind of akin to something like Spring Boot, everything's been done before and there's way less custom fiddling.

The paradox of choice doesn't apply here, you don't have to choose between every service offered. You can pick the one or few that work for you and reuse, reuse, reuse. I find it great for small operations; free tiers for really tiny projects, and the choice of managed services for a higher fee but way less maintenance - especially handy for small businesses who don't have the people to be worrying about architecture every day.
Do you need to prevent it? I think it's related to optimal stopping / the secretary problem.

In the beginning, you explore. Later, you exploit by doing more of the things you found fruitful.
So how would you protect those with less information processing ability from the consequences of more free exchange of information?
Most apps do not require Google Play Services.

Many of them will show "X requires Google Play Services" warnings and then... continue working fine anyway. It's always the same wording, so I assume it's just a thing that the app-side libraries do when it tries to talk to the service and it isn't there.
If the actor deployed a 0-day through the update, yes, absolutely, but that goes for any app.
Molecular Quantum Mechanics by PW Atkins and RS Friedman

Kind of a niche subject but this one really stands out. The prerequisites are a fairly solid understanding of linear algebra and differential and integral calculus. It's for anyone interested in spectroscopy from IR through UV, the electronic structure of molecules, approximate techniques, molecular symmetry and group theory, computational matrix-based methods, etc.

For background on computational linear algebra, this one is great:

Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction by David Poole
I don't think anyone was arguing that, it's more that geographic distribution of solar panels and windmills isn't a silver bullet and there's a reason solar and wind need expensive storage.
With laws.
What’s there to doubt? I’m not speculating that it will be enjoyable. I am making a statement that it was enjoyable to me (and my friends, along with many many others online who’ve raved about it)

if you don’t find it enjoyable, that doesn’t mean doubting the veracity of my stated opinion. You may however disagree
Huh:

https://archive.org/details/Sneakers_Film_Promotional_Floppy (with inline emulator)

Released in conjuction with the computer hacking movie "Sneakers" (1992), this floppy-based "computer press kit" contained many of the aspects of regular movie press kits, including cast bios, plots, and information on all aspects of production. It was intended for press, and as such is both "locked up" (via passwords) but also endeavored to help the same press get through the barriers as quickly as possible.

The balancing act between technical complexity and simplicity to ensure promotion is quite notable.

The program in question is DOS-based, and was released in 1992 as part of a package of both written and computer-based information.
The big secret: democracy requires certain cognitive abilities among the population
Can you give some examples? Is it actually speech that's being restricted, or actions, or access to certain types of speech/content (e.g. age restrictions)?
>How is this publishable?

I am guessing that if you write a paper that effectively tells the reader "you are smart", your odds of being published skyrocket regardless of the quality of your work.
That's the default. There is nothing lower than that AFAIK.
> The free exchange of information is more appealing and less threatening when you have more information processing capability to begin with.

I struggle to get this. "Dumb" people feel threatened when others can freely express themselves?