skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electric stoves and dryers are connected 240V, yes. Washers are typically only 120V because they only really have to power the motor - unlike in Europe, the washer has hot and cold water inputs, so it doesn't need to use a lot of energy heating the water.
I've quit social media as well and I've found that it's very difficult to stay in touch with most friends who aren't in the vicinity.

They never initiate contact while communicating nonstop with everyone on social media- just not me. It started when I left social media.

I think that we have all been trained to expect communication to come as a social media post, message, like, emoji, etc. It's too much effort to reach out to one person privately.
The parent is talking about electric scooters having more range than electric cars; I’m not sure how gas motorcycles fit in here.
I don't really understand why people want so bad to mix in code into HTML.

The whole fight since 2000 was to avoid doing that through minimalistic templating and naming elements semantically so you can attach the logic from outside.
They're too late by definition: the dead have no need for emergency services.
> If you're telling people you're giving it away in the future you're just trying to live your whole life getting accolades without actually doing the thing you get accolades for.

Another possibility is they are encouraging others to make the same commitment.
Hmmm I’ll retest on Monday. I have an external monitor to my laptop and needed to zoom 1 tab on 1 screen to write a doc on the second screen and when I zoomed the laptop screen cos it was too small I zoomed the external screen. So annoying. Even if is only same origin, the fact they lock the setting for individual tab zooming so it can only be changed by a browser extension is so stupid.
Great, it explains the reason quite well: if somebody installs gas ovens, they probably get gas heating and water boiler as well at the same time (which is where the real money is at)
That would completely defeat the point! :)
(1) Yes
(2) Yes, but that was only for university graduates, it was time-bound and came with additional job security guarantees and often with guaranteed accommodation. Not sure if it’s really different from some modern contracts.
(3) I suggest to stop referencing Stalin era as something that is characteristic for the entire history of SU. It was not the longest period and it was indeed special. In other periods being forced to do a particular job was a rare thing.
(4) There were restrictions on the process of changing the job, but compare that to modern world: large notice periods on contracts, non-compete agreements, visas - is it the world of forced labor or sometimes employers have stronger negotiation power than you?
We called the 5.25 models "floppy/floppy disks/floppies"

3.5 models were called "stiffy/stiffies" because they were, you know, stiffer than floppies.

80s and 90s South Africa.
I see the GPT family of models as infrastructure, not a finished product. As the blog post describes, they can be a piece of a pipeline. For example, GPTs don't know about the high school football game that just ended, and you're not going to send a reporter to cover it. But you can apply a traditional data pipeline to feed game information into the model to generate an article about it. Every article will be written in a slightly different way, and the 100 people who read them will cover the cost of production.
Yes. I also don't understand this thing about deleting social media accounts. Just don't login and don't look at the app? Why delete, removing your history permanently?

I suspect there's something psychological going on. The mere existance of the profile and history, not active use, causes mental strain.
Well that might be me but until then I'm pretty happy with ungoogled-chromium, best browser by far I've used. If adblocking changes dramatically I'll look for alternatives.

Honestly if FF wants to win this battle (?) then adblocking is a worthy crusade. Brave is already there, curious what they will do with Manifest v3
I've been using AlpineJS on various projects for about one year. The creator (Caleb) is actually a Laravel developer and maintains the Livewire meta framework.

I find the sweet spot for utility frameworks like AlpineJS is when used in conjunction with server-side components [1]. For example, when designing server-side Blade components, the more you can keep within the component itself (e.g. html, styles, interactivity), the easier it is to reason about and maintain the component going forward. If your x-data function becomes unwieldy, consider moving the code to a separate Javascript function that returns an object and calling that function from x-data.

Ultimately, using tools like Alpine or Tailwind is a tradeoff. My apps tends to be relatively small and only managed by myself or a small team. If you're building large, front-end heavy apps; React, Vue, Svelte, etc. are definitely a better fit.

[1] Laravel Blade Components: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/blade#components)
It will take far less.

Once its share sufficiently drops, Google will pull out of their aggreement and Mozilla will collapse on itself. Unless Google is keeping them around for anti-monopoly purposes, in which case Firefox will just continue deteriorating in a zombie-like state.
I sure hope this is an accidental outage. Third party clients are low key what keeps me coming back to Twitter.
I've been playing around with https://directus.io/ the last few weeks.

I'm really impressed so far, it can either act as the only backend, or as an admin tool over an existing DB. It also has built-in support for "flows" to automate support tasks.
I'm surprised by the number of people here who apparently don't have friends who they are physically far away from.
No they really do not
> C is not a simple language

In comparison to C++ it is. C++ isn't a strict superset of C, but for all intents and purposes, it supports all the nasty warts of C PLUS a million other foot guns added on with no guidance whatsoever on which features are "safe" and "modern".

Just a short list of additional complexities in C++: constructors/destructors, operator overloading, templates, constexpr/consteval, copy constructors/move constructors/perfect forwarding etc, smart pointers (when do you use smart versus raw? Herb Stutter has some guidelines on this), lambdas, massive std lib, etc.

> But in this case C isn't even any different, so this tangent is irrelevant anyway.

But C is different... if you pass by value in C what's going to happen? It copies the bits. What about C++? Drum roll please... Who the heck knows. It could call some copy constructor, or it could just copy the bits, or it could recursively call copy constructors on all the nested objects etc. You literally cannot tell in C++ without looking at the implementation or already knowing what's going to happen.
I find it amusing that they used the King James bible as one example. The beautiful writing was mostly lifted from the earlier Geneva translation. (I'm told that in turn most of that was lifted from William Tydale's translation, but he didn't complete a bible and I haven't had opportunity to study his version). The King James translators started with existing translations (mostly the Bishop's bible which I also haven't studied), and spent years debating how to and what to update.
>But in this case C isn't even any different, so this tangent is irrelevant anyway. If you take a struct by value in C it, drum roll, copies it!

Not quite, in C you know that the most that can happen is a memcpy() call (or some form of inlined byte/word copy) whereas in C++ a copy constructor can do anything - like allocating memory, which might fail and raise an exception.
Nothing, but their value isn't directly linked to their salary. It's more due to how unrestrained capitalism works, where you need to offer that kind of money to stop them going to someone who can offer more.

For places like Mozilla, there _is_ a solution to this though:

Altruistic organisations like Mozilla (which they at the very least are on the surface) would do their best work with altruistic individuals. Those kinds of people would sacrifice an unreasonably high salary, just so they can work for an organisation they believe does good.

So it's a win-win. You get the types of people you need, and you pay less.

Why this isn't happening, I don't know. My guess is that one dumb fuck infiltrated the organisation, and he's hiring more dumb fucks.
TSLA down ~6% pre-market, maybe not "sinking it" but certainly down on the news.
Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke.

Obviously there are many more great science fiction writers and many that preceded them that set the stage.

https://sfandfantasy.co.uk/php/the-big-3.php
Uh, no. Hard no. Literally any legal principle in which Google has to pay for 20 lines of API declarations (which is the thing that Oracle was able to claim copyright over in court) means pretty much the end of software freedom, since reimplementation is how FOSS was bootstrapped. This means that Microsoft could sue Valve for offering Proton on the Steam Deck. GNU and BSD become legally radioactive. Ruffle survives only through detrimental reliance[0]. The entire console emulation community gets sued for hilariously large sums.

Oh, and Oracle now has to pay billions of dollars to Amazon for providing an S3-compatible storage API, completely ending their cloud ambitions and cementing the AWS monopoly.

[0] Adobe published documentation on SWF specifically to encourage browser vendors to reimplement.
I loved the trilogy even though I agree with various criticisms discussed here. But I think those can be easily forgiven if you’re trying to see the forest (heh) instead of the trees.

Yes the mechanics of reading are kind of a slog due to the translation, and constant repetition of full character names. You just have to figure out how to efficiently read it. And there are plenty of scientific and technological incongruities, of the form “if they had the tech to do X, why do they still do Y?” Sometimes there was a narrative reason for such, and the rest I just left to entertainment value while consuming a social commentary.

It was the first time I think encountering some narrative devices which I enjoyed. I liked seeing the dialogue with Trisolarans that appear in a sans-serif font. I liked the excerpts from A Past Outside of Time in Death’s End, although sometimes they wind up sort of repeating what had just happened in the previous chapter. Also the fairy tales in Death’s End I thought were some of the best writing and devices in the whole series.
Great read, thank you. Also nice that you brought in RDF databases to help expand and refine the problem space. When I come across a graph database topic here at HN and it leads with an LPG approach, 99% of the time, there is hardly a mention of RDF. That leaves everyone a little worse off.
Deleting my social media accounts tangibly improved my life. It’s been many years now and I don’t care to look back at all. A nice side-effect was how much more productive I became (in a number of ways). It also made it much clearer who my real friends were and who truly cared about me. Zuck couldn’t pay me to get back on Facebook.
The quality of the average “news” article has been in decline for years. We demand too much news and too quickly, production hasn’t been keeping up.

Many pieces are now just regurgitating twitter posts anyway.
A 286 PC was powerful enough for many people to use it as their workstation in the late 80's. My first PC was a 486, and it was already basically doing the same stuff we do today on a laptop, just with A LOT less memory and much lower screen resolution. It was very responsive too (except when trying to connect to the internet via the phone line)!
Two things:

- That would have an immediate financial impact on people with gas boilers in a way that banning new gas appliances does not. This kind of thing would need to be rolled out very slowly over time if you want to avoid extreme backlash. Constraints on new construction don't have the same effects.

(EDIT: Ah, you edited your comment to address this one - sure, if you can reliably distribute funds for lower-income people to replace their appliances then maybe. I bet you still get a lot of backlash from people who can afford it but don't want to though. Unless it's rolled out very slowly.)

- Ultimately we need to get rid of the infrastructure piping all that gas around too, as that's where a lot of the climate impacts come from. Any new gas usage at all, whether for cooking or heating, makes it harder to do that.
Agreed, although I think by and large we’ve already progressed a good ways into the 80%; however, the variance is huge because some jurisdictions take safety very seriously and others ignore it to the extent allowed by national law.
>Even if this AI is just as good at speaking as a professional voice actor (which I'm not sold on)

I think the 'narration' example was voice actor quality. The other two were slightly off.
Imagine an alternate history where the CEO of Exxon had gone to Carter and said we're in trouble, we need a space race to save the planet. We'll cooperate with the EPA & DOE if you can help us out with federal support pivoting our entire company behind a crash nuclear power plan rollout, large-scale biodiesel production, etc. A bit over half of the total CO2 emissions were produced in the current century so starting a couple decades earlier without lavishly funded opposition would have bought us a lot more runway to find alternatives and if it'd been successful we might have sat out the recent misadventures in the Middle East, too.

That's the kind of thing you'd do if you wanted your grand children to grow up in a world as good as the one you enjoyed. Unfortunately, people who think like that usually tend not to make it to C-level positions. Y2K also reminds me that right now we'd probably be hearing a lot of people saying it was an expensive overreaction.
This discussion is also happening in publisher circles. I think the argument is that the ORC (Paizo's proposed license) will differentiate between reserved IP and open content. I'm not certain, though.

Source: I own a tabletop RPG publisher.
Putting a number on how morally bad an entity is has a lot of merit when it's a so close to the paperclip maximizer thought experiment that horrifies tech people, on how an artificial entity devoid of conventional morals could fulfill its objectives in a way that destroys the world. Turns out that, as science fiction often does, it's an exploration of worries pertaining modern society in a fantastic setting... though the authors may not have realized it this time around.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/paperclip-maximizer

This serves as a pretty damned good cautionary tale, this breaks most scales of "morally bad" behavior that can be expected of companies.
the top-level comment was vague but it sounded like it attacked gender determination as its own thing different from biological sex
This.

I'm sorry you're "confused". Some times I get confused with morals and legals don't align, but that's not even the case here.
> Isn't this just a requirement for a kitchen?

Not in the US at the federal level. Some states have code requirements about it. My house lacks one, which is annoying when I'm searing steaks, and I plan to rectify it when we redo the kitchen.
> Seems to me like this is somebody that took things too far with a total cut of all social contact rather than just removing some of the more toxic elements of social media from their lives.

My takeaway. It's not enough to cut off social media if it consumes your life, you have to replace it with something. We're social creatures that require validation.
Ask HN: How are vendor SLAs monitored in your organization?
How do you monitor that your SaaS/cloud vendors meet the agreed service level? How does the process to file a request for compensation look like?
I wrote a toy dynamodb, SQL, Cypher graph and document storage database engine in Python for the learning.

https://github.com/samsquire/hash-db
Got it - the other way is actually fine because Swift does have a stable ABI - swift-bridge [1] allows interop in terms of high level types instead of devolving to C.

[1]: https://github.com/chinedufn/swift-bridge
No need for any of that; gnuplot can just read from the pipe directly: `seq 1 10 | gnuplot -e "plot '<&2'"`
Not sure how something from 2017 impacts the numbers from 2019? And it seems that scandal was some months before the big switch to quantum, which should had significant more impact on the user numbers.
Endemic pathogens are causing psychiatric illnesses and shortening lives
Maybe spray him with a water bottle to really discourage the behavior.
Listening to those samples, I initially thought this was a new album from Autechre.
I get lock ups in Chrome but not Firefox… i always need to close tabs on my work laptop cos chrome gets laggy. (Other apps are fine when chrome is laggy)
Me too, because of "send tab to device" which no one else seems able to implement cross platform. It's bloody rocket science, according to Brave and Microsoft.

That said, Firefox iOS is still mediocre. Tab management is still bad compared to Safari. But at least we got Colorways (and every time it updates it I get the Colorways popup screen)
The stats page says it's been up since Jan. 01 2023. Maybe it just does not respond to some clients when traffic is higher than it can handle. I could see if just fine right now.
I think this is a case where mature tech companies (ie: FAANG/MS/etc.) should look at paying dividends rather than relying on solely on stock growth. But paying dividends is a whole different, tax-disadvantaged mess compared to pure growth, so there needs to be some tax and regulatory adjustments.
> If the API is down for 3rd parties, but not for twitters own client, that will be considered a breach.

A breach of what?
I remembered this post today and saw it hadn't been submitted to HN in a while, so I thought it might be worth revisiting. I would be interested to know how the state of JSON parsing has evolved since the post's last update in 2018, but I haven't come across a more recent analysis like this.

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16897061 (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20724672 (2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826600 (2021)
From [1], ravens have ~2.171×10^9 neurons, roughly similar to dogs, raccoons, some monkeys, some parrots and birds of prey, an order of magnitude less than chimpanzees, which is a third of humans, which is a third of elephants. Whales aren't in this list, but they'd be more again (bigger body = more neurons needed to keep it functioning).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
There is another view of the hard/soft sci-fi scale that has gained popularity among younger (i.e. under-30) commentators and reviewers where the scale is from:
soft == any and all science things, discussions, or principles are merely set dressings to tell a story;
hard == the science is the basis for the work and the consequences, interactions, etc of dealing with or addressing the ‘science things’ is the purpose of the work

It’s kind of like saying the scale goes from just telling a story set on a space ship to writing a dissertation on long-haul space flight’s effects on human behaviors, which might have a narrative through line.

I am not really sure I even like the premise of this usage of hard/soft sci-fi, I am much more prone to use the possible/impossible technology type of scale when discussing ‘hardness’ of sci-fi, but I don’t get to dictate the usage of language.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34358759
It takes time, but szarnyasg and I will convince you otherwise :)
I replied elsewhere on this topic about the same thing. They were indeed called "stiffy/stiffies" because they were more stiff than a floppy.

Only when I grew up and my juvenile sense of humour matured did I appreciate the hilarity of this naming convention.
>Most countries would accept foreign aid after a disaster, unlike Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tomodachi
Despite everything you think you know, America is on the right track
That's why I keep the account. And there's slim chance of any imposter trying to create one in my place, though I guess after all these years that is less likely.
How did this happen?

Which commit caused it?
All this focus on writing things down has weakened your memory!
If the other users had similar experiences lately, then it was not their decision to abandon Firefox, it's Firefox directly "disqualifying itself".

The title at the moment is "editorialized" so for the case it becomes more neutral I'm preserving it for the context here:

"Firefox lost ~16M users since last year"
Then you're not a billionaire anymore, you're just some guy.
I've been looking into Go, but two old colleagues of mine that use it basically turned me off on it. The amount of complaints I hear about quirks and things that take more time than other languages make me not want to pick it up.
Alire the Ada Package Manager
That sounds like typical Apple fan rewriting of history to me. Metal was barely relevant to any 3D acceleration conversation at the time the Mandle/VK/DX12 conversations and planning was being had. Apple platforms just weren't all that important for this industry and console experience from Xbox 360/PS3/Nintendo shaped requirements much more.
I don't use Firefox because instead of a simple OSS software, it seems like something that wants to suck me into their ecosystem. Nearly every tab of Firefox settings has some "cloudy"/cross marketing stuff:

- General: Recommend extensions as you browse
- Home: Pocket, Sponsored {shortcuts,stories}, Tips and news from Mozilla
- Search: nothing
- Privacy & Security: Suggestions from Sponsors, Firefox data collection, Dangerous site blocking
- Sync: (by it's nature)
- More from Mozilla: (by it's nature)
- Extensions & Themes: (by it's nature)
- Firefox Support: (by it's nature)

Meanwhile you check Safari:

- General: Nothing
- Tabs: Nothing
- Autofill: Nothing
- Passwords: Nothing
- Search: Nothing
- Security: Fraudulent site warnings
- Privacy: Apple Pay and Apple Card
- Websites: Nothing
- Extensions: (by it's nature)
- advanced: Nothing

Maybe it doesn't feel sleazy compared to Chrome, but it does compared to Safari.
no. not a duplicate. this one is referencing a completely different article.

the other ones is about if Exxon knew. this one is about the impact of their actions.
Mabye it's the expirements that changed my settings until I found the about:config way to opt out, or the whitespace heavy and unclear UI changes.
> They also have to call it quits completely and can't have a little buzz during social events or enjoy some wine, or find an interesting new craft beer, all because they couldn't cope with it.

This is a very AA model of addiction and recovery that doesn't align with the experiences of many people or the frameworks used by many medical professionals specialized in addiction.

It's not wrong but it's only one very specific expression of what addicts "have to" do and why. If it's not completely true in that context it probably isn't in this one either.
When I was young and had a TRS-80 Model I, we used to manually flip the disk over (after cutting a write-protect notch out on the other side) to write on both sides. I remember wishing I had a Model 4 so that I didn't have to do that. I'm not sure if that's a false memory.
People could just use a mask around the stove
I see, I assumed you were talking about mobile market
Not a scientific source, but there's probably a reason behind the popularity of evil mode for emacs, and vim plugins for just about anything (yes I know emacs is often the default, but that's for practical reasons like Ctrl+a/e is easier to add than 0/$).

My pinkies love me ever since I started using vim. For me it's not the specific keybindings, but the modal editing allow more uses for the same keys depending on context and less need for modifiers.
It seems to missing all the curent-era D.I.E. diversity-washing neologisms that accompany every press release.