skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's smart business to offer ad free to get people hooked, then ramp up the monetization once you have dominance.

If people will continue to pay and get ads you are leaving money on the table as a business.
I don't have an electric car, but I can't imagine this is a challenging problem at all. All you need is a target charge level. If you're going on a trip tomorrow, set it to 100%. If your normal commute is 20 minutes, no reason to charge past 75% or even 50%.
Oh hey thanks!
That's because they're completely mixing up the history. They're already hinting at the destruction of Numenor, and they've introduced all the characters involved in that (except Sauron himself), all of which should happen 2000 years after the forging of the rings. And they're even hinting at the dwarfs digging too deep in Khazad-Dum (4000 years in the future).

They're clearly writing a completely new timeline, made up of parts of Tolkien's timeline.
I think reversing it treads heavy into opinion territory, which has no data - just people's feelings.

If the roles were reversed, eg: were this not SF, people would be die hard about the data and what it shows - which is part of my point.

We can't have our cake and eat it too. At some point you just have to set clear boundaries, like what I mentioned at the end.
> BigTech salaries had gotten so out of whack

They didn't. No one's salary ever has gotten out of whack, ever:

It is estimated that those who take the most share out of the economic value that they generate are upper-level tech employees. And even them take only up to 10% of the actual economic value they generate.

Which means that the rest of the population get much less. The system is atrocious.

So no. Big tech salaries haven't gotten out of whack. No employee was ever able to get a noticeable share of the economic value that they generate, and those who get most get at most 10%.
>"I think it's clear the Firefox branding will live on, since it is Mozilla's crown jewel."

I'm not following your question. How does Firefox branding live on without Gecko/Spidermonkey?
What I find revealing is that the section about the "The offshore wind project cycle" does not cover the dismantling of the installation.

I had once to evaluate the offer of a local project for an (onshore) solar park in Germany. The lease offered was about 4 times the current usual land lease rates for 30 to 40 years with inflation adjustments. The solar park company should be responsible for the complete dismantling of the installation afterwards. In case of an insolvency of the company a bank guarantee would step in.

However, the (inflation adjusted) bank guarantee was only €10,000 per hectare (10,000 m^2), which seemed extremly low to me. This must cover everything from removing the panels and sockets, all the power lines in the ground, the transformer installation on the field, the removal of asphalt roads, etc., etc. I could not find any detailed studies about the likely dismantling costs for solar parks.

Bank guarantee prices are so high that a guarantee of between €30,000 and €50,000 per hectare (depending on the current bank rate) would have eaten up the entire surplus lease.

So if my guess is correct and the actual deconstruction costs are well over €10,000 per hectare, in 30 to 40 years there will be a high incentive for solar park companies to move solar parks that are to be phased out into equivalents to bad banks and threatening insolvency, so that either the land owners need to step in with their private savings after the bank guarantees where used up or the state needs to pay to prevent this from happening.

Does anyone here know of any reputable calculations for the deconstruction costs of solar parks?
> my frustration is that we can never even come close to living up to our ideals as a society because our selfishness and greed constantly undermine the process of improvement.

Agree...but there are two change opportunities here: change people, and change the process.

> i used to subscribe to the term "progressivism" for this process, but even that's been undermined by tribalism and political propaganda.

Anything involving humans is prone to these sorts of problems, as it currently is anyways...but people can improve, and have done so!

Also, considering propaganda: I agree it is a very, very big problem - but two can play at that game, and at levels far higher than is currently done.

> i'm actually not too concerned about end of the world scenarios. we, like cockroaches, will find a way to survive as a species, even if it's very suboptimal. that may sounds cynical, but it's mostly an optimistic perspective about our resilience.

I worry less about the direct affects than I do the Nth order effects (mass migration, political polarization, war, etc).

> which is what the climate change narrative tries to divert our attention away from (because it wholly fulfills our need to do something about, and our attentive capacity for, "environmentalism").

I often wonder about this as well....it's been done before with great success. Sadly, any suggestion of this would likely be met with outrage by people in the movement, regardless of whether that reaction is beneficial to their cause.

> it's the same playbook used by sugar against fat, but perverted back against itself. the fossil fuel and auto lobbies seems to think they can do something about CO₂ (probably token efforts), but not all the rest of the pollutants they spew, so they're reluctantly on the climate change bandwagon as a risk mitigation and diversion strategy.

What's interesting about this to me (and the thousands of other examples like it, particularly politics): *"everyone" knows that this is how it works, but when that bell rings, Pavlov's dogs start drooling on cue.

After considering the comprehensive scenario for several years to the best of my ability, I have formed the belief that there is some sort of a fundamental problem with people, and reality itself. Call me an optimist, but I actually believe something substantial can be done about it.
I would say everyone is more or less like that. Consciously or subconsciously. You are in a relation, you want to be single and have time to yourself. You're single, you feel you need someone

I know I am like that. I don't care much for people, but I know my girlfriend is there. When I didn't, I could feel my brain working double time "You need someoneeee!"

But then by having a girlfriend, you have to do things she wants too, socialize with her friends, obey...

Can't live with her, can't live without
Yes. The US federal government has voluntarily relinquished their sovereign immunity and they can and often do get sued for copyright violations. Of course, given that the NSA/CIA have the luxury of classification, the resulting lawsuit will be even more complicated than a normal copyright lawsuit (which is already one of the most expensive and frustrating parts of law to litigate).

States are where you need to worry. Occasionally a state decides to pass a law[0] saying they can't be sued for certain copyright violations. Because of how the US constitution is set up, states (and nothing smaller than them) are allowed to just say they can't be sued, which lets them crime with impunity.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820381016/in-blackbeard-pirat...
Cyclists do demand it. It's just hard to fight against the car culture that's built up in the US.

I think the things to break it will be a) better mass transit options b) more WFH and c) cheaper e-bikes so longer commutes/grocery trips can be done without a car.
This reminds me about the Ukrainian Snipex Alligator sniper rifle I read about recently. It uses 14.5-millimeter heavy machine gun rounds and it's claimed to be able to penetrate 10mm steel armor at 1,500 meters.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a41283557/...

https://snipex.com/alligator
Congrats on launching! Glad to see continued focus on remote work.

BTW, the top nav bar is all blank if JavaScript isn't enabled. I was wondering because it seemed like it was "painting in" as the site first loaded.
Ukraine’s Snipex Alligator Sniper Rifle Is a Real Beast
This is really well made, great work! Just a heads up that the “mirror mode - without” link doesn’t work.
The part I can't wrap my head around is how the Tories (UK Rep. basically) behaves like a party for the 1% yet still manages to win democratic votes
US is a democracy and the people could and did change policy in Vietnam. Dictatorships don't work that way.
Have you seen BART?
The freeways in every major metro of CA?

You are defending politics and not engaging the reality of failed infrastructure in the state.

Now they are going to lead the country in developing a new paradigm in power infrastructure? The same that has PG&E blowing up neighborhoods because the company got so much tax incentive to continue building they failed to record where they placed capital assets and can't complete maintenance.

California isn't putting anything off, they just can't get anything done.

Giving tax incentives to get more people to buy e-cars won't fix that problem
You don't need AI, the one you have in your brain is enough, you just need to teach it what to look for :)

There is bunch of introduction material about "gain staging" online, here's just one to get you started: https://www.audiotechnology.com/tutorials/microphones-levels...
My gut feeling is no, because the work is still a derivative work of a privately-owned copyrighted work, and private copyright does not dissolve when the government touches it. If you could separate the governments' code from the GPL code, then it would be automatically public domain, but the combination is still GPL.

However I'm not aware of any case law proving this.
Part 1: https://wfo-global.org/financing-offshore-wind-part-1/

> first part of what will be a 10–part series of blog posts,
But to make up for it you started and ended with 1337 so all is forgiven
I think there is a continuum...

server folks want nothing to change, ever.

desktop folks want the latest and greatest.

mobile folks get spurious changes forced down their neck and want... well who cares what they want, this is what they are getting.
NASA Artemis I: Send It
Reading the comments so far, I'm genuinely surprised that more folks haven't applied a "follow the money" lens to their analysis.

To me, it reads as a bald-faced attempt to discourage public sector entities from using OSS solutions, when in fact there are perfectly good and definitely >100% secure proprietary offerings that cost a reasonable amount when purchased from the sorts of vendors that pay lobbyists to "help" senators write OSS bills.

Do you honestly think Rob fucking Portman woke up one day with strong opinions about FOSS?

Make no mistake: this is a thinly veiled late-stage attempt to displace the growing dominance of OSS-based solutions to the sorts of problems that the government and military used to pay 8 and 9 figures a year to EDS to solve.

An actual, good-faith bill that seeks to address these issues would attempt to incentivize/punish orgs that use FOSS without making meaningful contributions to it.
I think Microsoft is increasingly getting into the ad business themselves, and so may have the same incentive as Google in terms of neutering adblockers.
> Is it really that ineffective?

Maybe, maybe not. It could all be a huge cycle of cons with each part of the advertising and stalking business making crap up about what is effective and convincing the next people in the cycle. But certainly some think it is effective, or at least are hoping that it will be.

It could be like junk email: there are companies and individuals who make money from sending it. It doesn't actually matter to them if it is effective, as long as they can convince others buying their services that it is, or likely might be, effective, and they get their money whether it actually is or very much is not.
Since most “cable” channels were just rebroadcast over the air channels early on, there was no reason to expect that there were going to be fewer ads. In fact, in the 80s, there was a lot more infomercials on cable TV than today. The only reason there were fewer ads was because cable channels were still trying to get companies to advertise.
For the 3090 FE, at least, the card is half the length of the air cooler and an EKWB 3090 FE waterblock is the same length as the board.
I believe you could do relaying like this, if suitably determined. You would need to do it in near real-time, and no doubt the endpoint giving PATs will be rate-limited.

At some point the amount of manual effort to automate this (do you have an API to retrieve the token programmatically from another app?) will exceed what it is worth to avoid a captcha!

I suspect you will find it is hard to gwt the real response out from the trusted browser.
Why do you think God refers to himself as a jealous God? What do you think God is jealous of? The only thing that can be denied or taken from him - love from beings with (ostensible) free will.
My Mastodon instance cries in how little RAM you're able to run that on. I'm envious.
Funny timing, I was joking about this percentage mere days ago - https://retr0.id/notice/ANnYouw6w2di8XvcNE
> On one hand The IBM System/38 used 128 bit pointers in the 1970s, despite having a 48 bit physical address bus.

And the original processor was 24 bits, then it was upgraded to 36 bits (not a typo: 36 bits), and then to POWER 64 bits.

(When that last happened, it was re-badged AS/400. Later, marketing renamed the AS/400 to iSeries, and then to IBM i, without changing anything significant. Still uses Power CPUs, AFAIK).

For users, upgrades were a slightly longer than usual backup and restore.

What's the hard part here?
It includes a grammar for Python but says it has some limitations, so maybe, sort of. Amusingly, the included C grammar is shorter than the Python grammar.

Ruby has some syntactical edge cases that make parsing a bit tricky.
Snipex Alligator – 14.5 × 114 mm manual-loading repeating antimateriel rifle
> Performance sucks, yes. Stability? Sometimes as well. User experience? The best

Not sure how this makes sense. If the performance is not good, and the stability is lacking, then the user experience cannot be the best. I rather use a video editor that makes me go through two menus instead of one, rather than having a video editor that crashes on me or takes ages to generate the proxy clips (or even need proxy clips for 4K and below footage).
This will happen when/if TOU rates change, which will happen when/if solar gets built way out... There is a lot of inertia in the grid. No need to rush things and mess with incentives without good reason.

Being receptive to and prepared for employers who want to offer EV charging is a good idea, but it is definitely early days. No need to panic and implement a bad solution.
Great. Now it would be nice to have human figure poses generated from spec - for this particular class of 3d object there are good applications. I mean, animals and some mechanisms would also be interesting, but even only human figures would be nice.
Yes, but I'm more interested in first resolving the first question (mine)
60fps Flipbooks using A.I. [video]
This is the worst part. "Experience developing open source software" is both entirely vague and specific at the same time, likely conjuring up an image of some developer with green boxes on a GitHub repo or something, which is terrible. This is going to force the creation of some sort of silly criteria for what constitutes that experience, of which suits in federal agencies, and the political pressure and politicians they are behest to, will likely have no concept of less-popular open source communities, which will detract from the ethos of open source and ultimately, and more importantly, freedom.
Rezoning Windfalls: Sharing the value of planning giveaways
The usual suspects:

- i3

- tmux

- SQLite

- Intellij

- Java

On Windows:

- Git-bash

- Autohotkey

- Virtual desktops in win10+

And my MVP for 2022:

Obsidian.

4 months after discovering it, I have 700+ (work) notes, that are the core of my knowledge and skills.

I absolutely LOVE this tool !!!
The problem with "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is that it's always broken for someone.
Im thankful of everything that was accomplished in software & the Internet in the last 20 years. And Im thankful for everybody that have made those happen.

Thank you all.
How to Bootstrap Your New Social Network (2010)
I feel like the easiest thing to do would be to declare that entirely ai generated images are public domain because a human didn't have enough of a hand in making them (and only humans and groups of humans can have a copyright), and there's not enough of any one image from the the training data in the output to say that the output contains a recognizable segment of any of the images that it was trained on, even assuming the training images were all copyrighted.
> She-Hulk is the current "show that is bad™"

Is She-Hulk bad? I think it's pretty good. It's very different because it's very light-hearted and seems to be staying that way (unlike Wandavision, for example). I think it does what it does very well, but you have to judge it for what it is, and not by the standard of other MCU shows, because it's completely different.
> "Are we happy with the fact that the lucky winners that are the real targets of rezoning becoming very rich, as their land is now going to house more the families than before?"

there's a potential fix for that that's being tried in australia: rezoning windfall taxes (https://www.prosper.org.au/rezoning-windfalls/ ; posted here too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957896)
A modern 1.6ghz laptop cpu like the 1240U is probably fine for factorio.

A Core 2 Duo E8400 at 3ghz probably isn't.

They don't want to test and then list the minimum CPU for every generation of cpu for the last decade or more when listing system requirements. So they go a little higher in the stated requirements than is probably needed with newer gens so people don't get angry and disappointed that their older gen cpu doesn't run well despite having the listed clock speed.
My first instinct is that sovereign immunity applies. GPL is a license designed to protect the copyrights of the creator or copyright owner, but copyright itself is a privilege granted by the Federal government and protected by law. So if you sued them for violating the GPL, I’m fairly certain they could just claim sovereign immunity in court.
I think he may be talking about the UI. Firefox's UI changes were very Chrome-like.
Peter Shor Wins Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The bookmarked URL is under the control of your browser. Could you provide more detail?
So you want a 5 dollars digital ocean, a DNS domain that costs you 10 bucks a year, and a docker-compose up command running nginx/whatever behind it.

You can scp the tarball of your docker and docker-compose down/up

If you want even easier, just put your app on docker and run nginx natively via systemd or wahtever.
An interesting way to think about it: even if there was some effect from the planets (you know, like on full moons people swear that people genuinely act differently, and I don't have a good reason to conclude otherwise), the likelihood that we would necessarily be able to detect it seems slim - and yet, this type of possibility seems to not even be on the radar of The Big Brained representatives from the dominant thought directing institution going: The Science.

When one's Best and Brightest are actually quite dim, I do not think it is a recipe for substantial success. They are excellent at deciphering the complexities of physical reality, but for the most part they seem oblivious to other dimensions....while constantly complaining about them!!!

If it wasn't so tragic, it would be hilarious.
Ms. Marvel hasn't really connected for me. Maybe I should give it another try. Moon Knight was brilliant, though. I've heard of people who considered it a waste of Oscar Isaac's talent, but I think his talent shines wonderfully in it. Certainly better than it did in Star Wars.
Adobe keep adding pointless new features which I have to keep turning off in the preferences.

The new save dialog is insane. No, I don't want to save a copy just because I want to save a jpeg. Why is this even a question?

I have no idea why it isn't possible to copy/paste text with its blending options. Select All, Copy - Nope. All you get is the text, with none of the effects. (I know you can duplicate a layer - but not to a different document.)

Why does Creative Cloud install three versions? I suppose it's nice that I have v21, v22 and v23 but - why?

There still isn't a simple "paste clipboard to new document" command - something Paintshop Pro had back in the 90s.

Does anyone at Adobe actually use PS professionally? These are all simple usability issues that could be fixed with a bit of thought. But instead we get Neural Filters - useless - and the occasional core behaviour that changes for no good reason.
At least on iOS/iPadOS, this is inequitably true. It’s impossible to argue Apple doesn’t have monopoly control over web rendering on these platforms.
> Actually, in many ways, what you're asking for in your 2nd paragraph is pretty much what chrome os is.

Indeed, that was my point. Something like ChromeOS is a great idea.

> Your larger point re: Google reliance is still a valid one, but one which holds true even if you run chrome on another linux distro. If you really look at it, I'm not sure if a chromebook is less private than that.

Privacy's not my main emphasis. The world is in a state of gradual physical collapse. My (wealthy) region has had infrastructure destroyed by successive waves of fire and flood, and it will never recover (eg. we'll never again have year-round roads or always-on internet). We're the vanguard of what is coming to all. Entirely network-dependent devices aren't appropriate technology for our time. a fortiori for single-corporation-dependent devices.
It is entirely up to you on what you want to do with your life.

It might be good for your mental health to spend some time working on things you enjoy. Rich Hickey did that and now we have Clojure: https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojure-hopl-iv-final.pd...

I would make sure your family fully supports the idea before starting.
I think many virtue signalers are earnest and think that Tweeting #BLM or other useless actions are actually useful.
Thanks!! We will make improvements.

Our replication system is very complex. I am not sure that even publishing our spec would get much usage because it’s so complex.

But maybe we can open source an API?
Living in the east bay, all I want right now is that people get pulled over for missing/mismatched license plates. They probably should have camera at on and off ramps of the freeways and around the major roads, and at least trigger on missing license plates or vehicle color mismatches. Police should be pulling people over like crazy for violating it.

I'm well aware of broken window fallacy and once upon a time I'd have felt like this was a violation of liberty, but it's utterly trivial to steal or carjack a car, replace or remove the license plate, commit a few other crimes (anywhere in the bay area), then dump the car - it's basically GTA out there.
> The win11 / Edge bullshit finally pushed me to migrate my last win machine to linux. I used to love Windows, nowadays it just makes me bitter. Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all.

Heh, try KDE's KRunner. I type 'kt' and it matches ktorrent. But if I type 'kto' it switches to matching "Desktop 8". 'ktor' once again matches ktorrent.
I was surprised to see a big red "BUY" button on that page. Surely it can't be that easy?

Upon clicking, "This Account has been Suspended. Contact your hosting provider for more information."
Btw the thing that blocks water is a dam. Damn is short for damnation which is what happens to anyone downstream of a damned dam.