skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks to the mhandley for posting this. I have now read a bunch of these posts (on 'admiralcloudberg') and they are absolutely fascinating.

The ones I find most interesting are those where I remember the media coverage at the time. So often, the post has fascinating details which emerged later. For example:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/days-of-our-discontent-t...

I remember this crash of a Jamaica-bound plane after 9/11, and I remember the press reporting initially that the tail had been repaired at the factory, and then a few months later that the NTSB had issued a directive that pilots shouldn't respond to wake turbulence too aggressively.

However, the cloudberg post has fascinating details about how the particular characteristics of a training scenario for the A300 had led many pilots to conclude that the proper response to wake turbulence was massive inputs to the controls. It would have been easy to conclude the pilot who made them was just incompetent. But in fact, evidence was he was very competent, and that he had learned what the training taught him quite well. The trainers did not understand what the implementation of their simulation was teaching until after the accident was investigated.

Also, the industry did not fully understand what tests for structural integrity of the tail really said about its capacity to withstand inputs at lower speeds until after this crash. The details are just fascinating.

Or this one:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lost-souls-of-grammatiko...

About a plane where everyone is unconscious and it circles until it runs out of gas. I remember the coverage at the time, which presented it as a mystery. It turns out it wasn't such a mystery, the compression system on the plane was left in an incorrect state by maintenance, and the pilots repeatedly failed to recognize it. The details behind those short statements are fascinating.

Anyway, thanks for posting this.
The interior doors in most houses that I have seen have wooden frames in which it is very easy to make holes for passing cables. Some newer houses might have door frames made of plastic or metal, instead of wood, but even in such cases it is much easier to make a clean hole through the door frame, instead of through a wall.

I have made many such holes in door frames for passing Ethernet cables or TV coaxial cables.

When you do not want to touch the walls, such cables can be routed on the edges between walls and floor and they can be masked by a cover having the wall color, to be invisible, except where passing through a door frame.
The purpose of prisons is threefold: First incapacitation - that is at a minimum preventing incarcerated people from continuing their criminal behavior; Second, rehabilitation; Third, punishment.

Those are legitimate and valid goals. However it seems in many cases we only succeed in the third. Criminal activity in prisons is rampant and rehabilitation more often than not fails.
Yep, this was one of my great enlightenments: no matter how good or professional a wall looks, it's really just drywall mounted on wood, some cracks sealed, and then painted over.

When the walls are off in the house is the best time to get anything done. Sometimes I don't even want to put the walls back on- for example, an unfinished garage with exposed studs is very convenient.
Agreed, there are a number of these that are fast and considered high quality.

Canon had/has some great 1.8 50mm (and pancake 40mm) lenses. I kept my 50 when I moved to mirrorless and it's long been my go-to.
How come the number of people employed is going up and not down?
What is the benefit of someone famous retweeting a nonfamous person? Bragging rights? Is that value? It seems to me more like a sign that someone needs to work on their internal self-validation mechanisms. Of course, most of the consumers of vapid social media are K=1 thinkers, so maybe that IS the value of twitter and I'm just an out of touch elitist. All are possible.
It's also a, not so popular these days, first name.
To put in programmerese what I’ve put elsewhere:

The US penal system is the /dev/null of social justice. You don’t know where things go. You just know you put stuff you don’t want (error codes, annoying output, side effects) in there. It could be rerouted by your hosting platform of choice to an S3 bucket for all you know. You just know things go away. And that makes you happy.

The abstraction of why an overuse of /dev/null or blind reliance on the penal system leads to problems down the road, is left as an exercise to the programmer.
I'm surprised, coming from the Fed, this article seems to completely ignore the effects of 8%+ inflation.
Hmms. 2k km isn't bad, but i don't consider this amazing either: my 12-year old big and heavy car can do 1300 km on a full tank. Sure, that's in ideal conditions, but so is this. And there is plenty of simple improvements that would make my car more efficient (weight & aerodynamics mainly).

2k isn't bad, but it's something that ought to be almost achievable with a modern and optimized ICE car as well nowadays.
given the Federal reserve handling of the 2008 crisis by re-selling those bad debts and the time they had to do that was infinite everyone had enough of a warning already that when they got to the end of that selling of bad debt the returns on all other asset would be lower as the Federal Reserve tool used implies that economic aspect.

This is why the market was turning to real estate past the 2008 crises in the first place, especially among hedge funds in particular.
Isn't #1 the same thing as what I said? Irreversibility is a problem because of the fallibility of the courts.
They give you a beautiful piece of paper, and when you order something on it, the waiter tells you it's not available.

After the 10th item on the menu not being available, you start to understand that the menu is more like a checkbox a restaurant must have to appear worthy of the name, rather than an actual useful object.

Not all restaurants are like that in Bamako of course.

But it's a great fun to take new comers to diner, and let them be puzzled for a while until reality sink in. I still remember my first time, my colleague looking at me ordering ice cream with eyes saying "oh, sweety...".
It’s always easy to blame the driver. But perhaps they didn’t actually did deep enough during investigation. This seems like a pretty obscure fault that a manufacturer would not look to troubleshoot too deeply
There are plenty of "Story box" that exist now.
Mixed Ng the advantages of an app and the tangibility of a real object.
One example I know of:
https://lunii.com/en-gb/
> 1 out of 7 people in the world are on Facebook. That's a lot. 6 out of 7 people in the world are not on Facebook. That's a lot more. 6000000000 more.

Is this a broken math? Or a crazy plan of enslaving totally everybody?
The purpose of prisons is the same as that of any other large expenditure that doesn't go directly to the poor, in an inverted totalitarian state like USA. The purpose is to transfer public resources to private hands. That process is what drives every decision in a simulated democracy like the one to which we are subject.
You can at least let them out if/when you discover their innocence.
Awesome project, I did something very similar at home, but used fiber only to connect switches and routers around the house.

PoE is still a must for powering wireless access point and perimeter security cameras.
Our friends understand us through half-sentences and poor phrasing and assume good intent. Talking to strangers requires accurate wording and well-formed, generally understood tone and facial expressions. At the very least, it's very good for learning to speak well. This is not mentioned in the article.
Did you just cite a random HN commenter who doesn't work at Twitter to prove what "Many twitter staffers seem willing and motivated" to do?
Twitter has reportedly got the opposite problem to Facebook. Facebook was move fast and break stuff, at Twitter they've got such a beleif that Twitter is amazing that they're incredibly resistant to change anything. So it's not that the stuff they do is bad, it's just that where other companies try lots of new stuff, Twitter didn't. That has actually changed a bit since Jack was forced out, but still, they move very slowly.

I think people are really overthinking this free speech thing with Musk, the vast majority of the engineers don't really get input into the moderation policy, and the level of cuts that Musk is rumoured to make are far beyond just removing any anti-free speech people.
>degenerates

wew lad
I hate the reverse light thing so hard. If I see a GM with reverse lights on I completely ignore it and never stop. Thanks GM for ruining something nice.
I enjoy thinking of trust as a social technology. We've seen how ridiculous a trustless transaction system would look with Bitcoin having to validate things to a ridiculous extent. Similarly, a society that distrusts wastes a lot of time and energy doing things by themselves, which is inefficient in the best case and leads down harmful and delusional avenues in the worst. We should be engineering our cities and communities with the intention of creating surface area for trust to emerge (e.g. public transit where we can just coexist in the same space), rather than mandating that trust ought to occur, since that isn't how brains work. Give strangers the opportunity to see that others are not so bad. We all prosper, economically and spiritually.
Ask HN: Would Rivian be able to keep its promise
I am probably one of the customer who was planning to shop for big car and Rivian happened to be in news around that time. The idea of Rivian was promising and it met my needs for a 7 seater car. A fair callout, I may not understand the uncertainties of market, challenges with the setting up new manufacturing units and other tons of complexities associated with delivering the cars.
By no means it's a toy, it's an item with heavy price tag and most folks have to fit it into their budget consideration and matching requirement. The need part is where it becomes tricky for people like me and I tried to get estimates on the delivery from day 1, somewhere around October 2021 when it was in news before IPO. The estimated date has kept on slipping, however whenever I talked with customer support they did provided some estimate close to the accuracy of quarter. In the beginning it has been fall of 2022 which was just fine.

However towards the end of this year the customer support stopped sharing the estimates around delivery and pointed towards some feature that they are working on which would be released towards end of year and the customers can see the estimates on the website itself. I was still hope full that may be if not 2022 then 2023 would be the year when I might get lucky.

Now the ironic and yet fun part, received an email from Rivian that the customers can now see their delivery estimates online. With a high degree of excitement I opened the website on my phone itself to see the estimate to be 2024 - January- December. Now thats probably a good estimate for a very big scale project however this wide window does not works for planning the car (at least for me). However this was motivating enough that I bought a second car on the same day instead of waiting for that long. The website does says that some configurations (color and all) might be available sooner than later and I can tinker with those to see if the delivery estimates are impacted. I had chose the basic feature sets and don't really see the point of changing to colors with higher price tags. Not sure if it was a delay tactic by Rivian to tire out the people who has pre-booked at the earlier price. In any case it's one person out of the long waiting line and hope it speeds up the delivery for some one else.
s/fix/break/
Science writer David Roberts had a long conversation with Rebecca Dell from ClimateWorks
about decarbonizing heavy industry back in February. Lots more detail here if that’s of interest to you: https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-rebecca-dell-on-decarb...
Maybe. From what I understand, he's relatively happy about how it all turned out, and that makes me uneasy.

He can also fake repentance any time he feels like it, so I'm not sure why you are so convinced about the outcome of some future hearing 10 years from now.
Around 40% of the prison population is there for violent crime. And for most, it's probably a very loose definition of "violent". Few would argue that you shouldn't put violent offenders in prison, but that's not the reason the majority of people are there.
an assumption based on the only available information: 2033 is about ten years from now. For all I know, their life expectancy was until 2015 and they turn 100 years old in 2033, which could be reasonable. Since that made little sense as a sentence to be unimpressed by, I figured it was more likely a case you recently heard about and 2033-$recent=~10.

Maybe give some more info about the case then? Such as why they 'only' (in your eyes) got the sentence they got?
"keeping someone like this away" = harm prevention.

You just state it more concisely :)
Fond memories of my dad passing off parts of the Hobbit as bedtime stories, when I got old enough to read the books myself I remember his accounts of various parts of the book (the trolls turning to stone e.g.)
Drywall is one of those things I've found it is highly worth hiring out. Even if you hang the drywall, hiring someone to tape and mud and sand can be entirely worth it - they do it day in, day out, can use five minute mud, and can get done in a few hours what would take you days or even a week.

Doing small repairs is easy enough that everyone should at least know the concepts involved.
I may someday use shiplap instead of drywall in specific rooms, simply because you can make it so you can take it off and put it back on relatively easily.
Sketch Diffusion – Live Painting with Stable Diffusion on Meta Quest Pro
Read the post I was responding to. The author hypothesized that "revenge seeking" is why US legal system has worse social outcomes than Europe. Yet "Asia" (and by this I include a large number of countries) is revenge seeking embodied and has significantly better social outcomes than Europe.

So the hypothesis seems unlikely to be valid.
Hydrogen combustion doesn't produce co2, optimize a petrol-fueled ICE all you want and it's still a problem WRT emissions.

I think the assumption is that hydrogen fuel would be produced via "green" electricity sources like wind/solar/nuclear.
It's about preventing someone from becoming a person who harm people.

Prison isn't something we should want in a society, but actively reduce, even if we never realistically achieve it.
It's all about the experience curve. For every doubling in production, cost drops 10-25%. There are very few exceptions to this.

Nickel battery production has decreased as they're being replaced with Lithium batteries so they're no longer riding the experience curve.

Semiconductors have a relatively constant price per chip but a regularly decreasing price per transistor.

We need about 1000TWh for the clean energy transition, half for cars and half for the electrical. There might be better substitutes for the electrical grid, but cars are going to use something that looks a lot like a lithium-ion battery, like sodium ion.

So I figure we've got solid demand from our current 500GWh/year up until at least 32TWh/year or so, 6 doublings, which should lower the price by about 90%.

Look at the other side. Tesla's battery day announcement in 2021 promises 56% cost reductions in 4 years via 6 enhancements: silicon anodes, cobalt-free cathodes, dry electrode process, structural batteries, tabless electrodes, larger cells.

Only the dry electrode process is particularly innovative or risky, but the others still add considerable cost reductions. Not all of Tesla's innovations may pan out, but they're just one of many companies and Universities researching batteries, many of whom are more innovative than Tesla is.
Gambas. Some related links at:

https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas
There's a bit of irony in the tone of this comment since it shows no capacity for empathy for those who commit crimes, most significantly in the sense that you clearly believe that prison is for others who are not you.

I've been the victim of a range of crimes over my life including assault and robbery.

I particularly remember the one case where I was robbed from a studio apartment while I was sleeping. I was, obviously, quite rattled. I remember looking for other stories of this happening to people and was surprised how many people viewed being robbed as an assault on their dignity and expressed incredible desire for revenge. I just couldn't muster these same feelings.

While my day was ruined by the evening I could already feel my life coming back together: the lock had been changed, I cancelled all my credit cards, has a replacement license on it's way to me, and all in all was just out about $20 that had been in my wallet.

I had a realization then that while my life was already coming back together the life of the person who robbed me was perpetually in the state of chaos that I had felt that morning. I high risk, low reward robbery like that is typically for drug money, and undoubtedly whatever fix that robber had gotten for my $20 was long faded and they were back putting themselves at risk.

The key insight that hit me was that that momentary break in my sense of security that morning, that's what the person who robbed me constantly lives in. That person goes to bed with the same sense of insecurity I woke up in. But my security is only disrupted on these rare occasions where our lives our inverted, but my default is comfort and theirs is perpetually in that state baring that brief moment where they have enough money for that next fix.

I earnestly felt no need for any vengeance as any desire for vengeance was already dealt out by reality. What more punishment could I wish on someone than for them to wake up every morning feeling the same as I did for just that one.
It would seem to especially make sense for long-haul trucking where range is important (without having to lug around a huge set of batteries) and they can't afford long refuel times (other than overnight).
I’m for equal rights but what if the case for those equal rights are based on a lie like trans stuff and gender politics in general. Am I supposed to just go along with other peoples delusion?
To be more specific, I raised 50K€ funding in January 2022 for the benefit of two Gitea owners (zeripath and techknowlogick). They did nothing with this funding and blocked any possibility for anyone to use the funds, it just went away. It is a matter of public record here https://discourse.gitea.io/t/nlnet-grant-for-federation-conc...

The work that was done was from unpaid volunteer Gitea contributors.

Given this track record I would be very surprised if the same people are willing to work on federation. It does not make lots of money. It brings freedom to the users. Not profitable and no user-lock in: that's not what the VC will expect of them
How is Assange doing by the way.
To add, LPG stations are pretty much everywhere in both Canada and the UK as well.
Ask HN: Have everything one could want but still nowhere near satisfied
Just wondering if anyone has dealt with feelings like this and could offer some advice

I’m in my mid to late 20s, have a long term girlfriend, great job, earn more money than my parents earned after their 40 year careers and I’ve bought a home in my home town while many around me struggle to do so.

Despite having what everyone would traditionally want, I am feeling empty. I don’t ever want to do anything, going through long periods of wanting to spend time alone by myself, not wanting to leave my house. This causes issues in my relationship as I can’t bring myself to be enthusiastic about trips etc and when I force myself I feel even more miserable and this causes more issues for us. I spend all my free time chasing things I feel will bring me joy in the long term, be it a side project or a goal I’m working towards but once I achieve the goal, I still feel empty.

I then see in the world there are those who have none of what I have and one could argue I’m living the dream, this then fills me with guilt for not being grateful for what I do have.

I’m at a point now where I just don’t know what Im even working towards and this empty feeling is growing

Any advice / experience with this sort of feeling would be greatly appreciated
The important part is to know that Copy II Plus v8 source code was lost, and this guy Tony found it on an external hard drive that was in a scrap bin. He got the drive spinning working through some percussive maintenance (a common repair technique of the time - I've done it myself) and found it had the source code. His theory is that the drive had been held by the courts in probate as part of the author's estate when he died, and they threw it out afterwards (it wasn't claimed by an heir or creditor, maybe).

The part about Print Shop not working off a hard drive is likely because a lot of software of the time was heavily copy protected. So he had disassembled it and changed the parts that restricted it to only running off a floppy. He had the skills to do this because he was the author of Copy II Plus, which could copy such protected software (ahem, make local backups).
Looks like the worst of both worlds at the first glance. However depends by the costs of batteries. In a world with an abundance/excess of green energy but expensive batteries to store it hydrogen makes sense. The conversion of electricity->hydrogen->electricity is quite inneficient so batteries better be cheap enough otherwise we will go the hydrogen way for cars as well.
> Its not the private prisons arresting people, trying people, and funneling them into their pocket books.

Have you heard of the "Kids For Cash" scandal? Private prisons actively try to get more people incarcerated by bribing judges. The judges are complicit too, but the private prisons are absolutely trying to "funnel them into their pocket books"
Additional details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manitou
My go to 50 is an odd, but extremely (razor) sharp, Canon 50mm f/2.5 compact macro. Sadly, it is no longer made. AF is slow and loud and prone to repeatedly hunting and missing focus but the images it makes, particularly portraits, are really good. On full-frame, it does have some loss of sharpness at the edges but on a 1.6 crop sensor camera it is simply great.
What does "XD" mean?
Far more than 8% of inmates live subhumanly because public prisons are awful too. Focusing on private prisons distracts us from how much of the problem is systemic and political—cruelty is built into the justice system top-down in the name of efficiency, being "tough on crime" and pure historical momentum. It's not a "follow the money" problem, it's a "politicians and voters" problem.
Personally I learned programming in the evenings after school when I was 12-15. Sure that counts as „parents providing for me“ and my parents weren't farmers. But even in farming it's not like you work 24/7. And when air is crap or it's a slow season in between crops etc there's plenty of time off.

And many farmers (labour, whatever) do know how important it is to give kids time to study things. TBH for me parents who drive kids around to all sorts of extra-curriculum activities for me seem to be much worse than free-range parents who just ensure that kids have time to pursue things they like. Just with some navigation to ensure they don't spend all the time partying. Which is also important though.
If only there were a way to avoid being sent to a maximum security prison......
If you have high baseboards/ceiling trim, you can have drywall that ends way above the sill plates which makes it incredibly easy to route cable with the baseboards off.

Similar to: https://www.finehomebuilding.com/project-guides/wiring/runni...

There are some considerations if it's a firewall or an insulated wall, but it can be really nice.
as a PM how do I write the perfect feature/bug issue?