skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Windows: a product sold to people by a billion dollar corporation. Literally everything is their fault. If you have to reinstall the OS to get rid of OEM shitware, might as well install Linux.
A Monday morning unknown pleasure. Thank you.
- You install chipset drivers? BSOD

- IE with too many windows? BSOD

- Process stack being mad? BSOD
Blame your government for not creating adequate bike lanes or curbing car usage, instead of people just trying to get around. Nobody wants to be in each others way, it's just that most of the time cyclists have nowhere else to go.
Why do you find UK intelligence fishy? The briefings regarding the state of the war/front lines regarding the war have been pretty well corroborated by other sources.
> Most people don't pay this

This is true. However, I have to say I still dislike the (kind of) double charging of selling the OS as a product and using it for advertising. The position Microsoft has allows them to both sell the cow and have the milk but that doesn't make it seem like a fair deal.

Discounts for Windows licenses to OEMs have been a thing for decades (maybe always?), yet Windows was still seen as one of Microsoft's crown jewels and an important business, and Microsoft didn't exactly go bankrupt.

Filling a paid product with advertising and monetized data collection just seems like a cheap move, even if the product is sold at significantly less than the list price in most cases.
"- Nice job, comrade Ivanov, you discredited the Western fake news very well!

Your passport is safely and permanently stored in the room 33B, and don't forget comrades are watching very closely - for your own good".
With lime I think you have to take a picture when parking to show it’s parked safely.

If you fine companies for abandoning outside designated areas, what’s to stop random yobs (or competitors) moving the legally parked vehicle to a bad place then reporting it?
Yes, water can solve a Tesla valve:

> Steady flow experiments, including with the original design, however, show smaller ratios of the two resistances* in the range of 2 to 4.[6] It has also been shown that the device works better with pulsatile flows.[6]

*Ratio of resistance to water flowing "forward" vs. "backward" through the Tesla valve.

Though if you stretch things far enough - say, a thick layer of "waterproof" clay - your statement is correct for most purposes.
Now that seems plain silly.
I think you could do a better job of trying to empathise with people who are not like yourself and who do not conform to the norms of your social class.
> The strategy I would want to run as CEO is likely not something my COO or board will want to get behind and frankly I don't know if I have the energy to do it myself.

Why would you want to keep a COO that isn't aligned with you?

> Still negotiating, but will likely have to give up board control

Then don't take it. You have control. Tell the investors / board this isn't a viable option. We all want to survive.

As others have said - cut cost or look for different types of financing where you'll do fine. If the investors really disagree they can get nothing out of it too so everyone needs to compromise.

> But I do understand that it is my fiduciary obligation as the Founder/CEO

As 1 of the largest shareholders it's your "fiduciary obligation" to make yourself happy. Why do you discount the shareholder side of you?
Thanks, can't believe I missed this!
As to the sibling: air pollution != "toxic gases from cars, taxis and motorbikes". Your linked article says "road traffic, industry, airports, ports, but also wood and coal heating".

Furthermore, the lancet paper only estimates, they didn't measure anything. The linked article presents an hypothesis as if it was proved. It was not.
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> Copyright isn't 'opt in'.

Before 1989, copyright protection was opt-in in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice
A round-trip to the moon? That's far too generous. The moon isn't nearly that far away.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=distance+to+the+moon+in...
How long would you expect a machine can be kept up to date with the latest OS?

I have a Mac Mini from 2012 that has the security updates from 2022-05 and Catalina, from 2019, but I have the latest version of Firefox that I use.

The machine is perfectly usable and probably performs even better than day one given I put in an SSD in it. I bought it used for less than 300 euros with a wireless keyboard, and given the form factor, ability to use multiple monitors, great integration with my other devices, it wouldn't be fair to complain about a this 11 year old machine that still works as intended.
... then you did not understand the humour.
Just another example of short sighted MBA idiots ruining decently engineered products in pursuit of shareholder value
> For various reasons, Terraform was ditched in favour of a python-based boto3 solution, and one of those reasons was that the restrictions of a more declarative language produced more friction than the benefits gained.

I feel the same about CMake. It's horrendous and everything would be much simpler if you could use the full power of an imperative programming language. Conan on the other hand is Python-based and essentially a framework (though for a different purpose). With a nice set of built-in functions and a clean interface design, I believe that using a full programming language gives you many of the advantages of declarative languages without the oddities and an easy way to drop down to a lower level.
It will be difficult to claim fair use if training AI model is explicitly mentioned in the license, I think.

Currently GPL says:

> To "modify" a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work
in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an
exact copy. The resulting work is called a "modified version" of the
earlier work or a work "based on" the earlier work.

> A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based

If in addition it would say something like "Generative AI models trained on the program source code as well as the text produced with such models is also a work "based on" the Program", then there will be little room for a fair use claim, I think.
Interesting. Really Cool
Examples?

Hooligans blocking the entrance of the train:

"Your kind cannot come in."

(Not "nobody" but specifically her)

Or in another instance blocking it, from going out: "You cannot go out here"

Children in rural village: "you don't belong here"

And then we have spitting. Bad looks. Cashiers being friendly to me, but very unfriendly to her (when they don't notice we are connected, but she speaks a very good german). Etc.

That is just racism and not "east german friendliness"

East german friendliness would be the sentence on a shirt I saw in Görlitz (very eastern city):

"I don't have prejudice, I hate everyone"

That's the "normal" friendliness in some areas, but in most areas (especially also Görlitz), they canalize that hate and frustration towards anything different.

So not everything is bad here, otherwise we would not still live here, but we explicitely live in a no nazi village, so kind of in a bubble. But we do regulary think of moving away, so no, in general foreigners do not live here just fine.
And most, especially those with a really dark skin, have it way harder than we. For example we didn't got any death letter yet.
There will be a point when we'll be able to submit all texts, audio messages, videos someone produced or were recorded about them, along with every material they have read or seen, and train an AI model into mimicking that person so well even someone who knew them well would be unable to tell the difference.

It'll be fun.
My fresh install from MSF had tiktok.
How so? By “hard problem” do you mean defining what consciousness is?
Well. You are legally allowed to drive a car around, but will still get stones thrown at your car if you do so in an ultra-orthodox neighborhood.
Maybe the other 92% should have turned out then?
To be honest I never really believed in the original business model:
- subscriptions for companies and proprietary software
- Deals with 3rd party integrations

It's cheaper and not more difficult to self-host most parts now a day, and improving (k8s, helm charts, things like flux and gitlab). The hard part being to actually write those integrations (github actions). You also have more flexibility as you can run whatever code you want on your infra.

So it was a matter of time that things would change (less features for free tiers, ads or another way to make money out of the user base, like with copilot)
Self Identifying JavaScript Source Maps: The Case for Debug IDs
> Whenever politics or other controversial topics come up, the MJ teams tries to stay out of it

> [...]

> So, [ridiculing] Xi is blocked

These two points are not congruent.
Would it be remotely possible to make a law to prevent this 'voluntary' deification of international despots?
Similarly Netherlands is not even as big as most provinces/states of the bigger countries where internet wiring challenges exists. So not sure what is the point of bringing up the Netherlands.
I haven't read the article, but while your answer may be technically right in some sense, it ignores the issue. Shouldn't we be afraid of guns? Cigarettes? Atomic weapons?

Data provides the reputation to an analysis or interpretation that it is grounded enough to be considered correct. If the data is bad or doesn't warrant the interpretation, nobody will know. It stays hidden with the data.
> Computing bottlenecks change over time. As disk space, disk bandwidth, and internet bandwidth increases, older image codecs that squeeze every last bit out of the resulting file become less valuable for many use cases.

Why not optimize for CO2 emission instead ?
It's also interesting how MCP, Unisys' mainframe OS, ended up being the villain of the original Tron.
People are riled up when Linksys or Netgear refuse to follow the GPL they themselves use to build their products. They’re using and modifying GPL code and not publishing it. They’re supposed to do that.

In this case Prusa is riled up because people are following the license for their source code and design. They make 1:1 copies using GPL3 code.

This isn’t about wisdom, it’s about selecting the correct license and understanding the repercussions. This is why AGPL exists. This is why hardware specific licenses exist.

I don’t mind them going closed source, personally. However, It’s important to be clear that using GPL code to build and distribute devices is 100% in line with the license.
ICE car values plummet in China and it is the canary in the coal mine
>"according to UK intelligence"

This is a misleading "quote".

UK intelligence is not mentioned in the article at all (https://archive.is/xG0M7)
Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup
The simple fact is that 10 years in you need to become profitable or there’s no business. Todays market isn’t going to look kindly on a loss making startup of that vintage. The $1B valuation is long gone and realistically the company is probably worth less than the cash raised to date. As you’re finding there are folks that will provide ongoing funding, but they’re going to charge a price consistent with the risk they’re taking at this point.

Not trying to sound cold but that’s the reality of the market now. Probably no consolation, but there are a lot of startups in this position now. If you have IP that’s valuable you could explore an M&A exit. That typically won’t end in a giant cheque but will make folks whole and provide a graceful exit.
Dissecting the use of water management plans in California
I think the main difference is that, in a declarative statement like:

x = (if c then a else b)

it is guaranteed that only x is affected. With imperative programming, you have to look inside the conditional to find what is affected.

if c then:
x = a
else:
y = a

You could still make the above snippet work in a declarative way but, as I say, the targets are explicit

x, y = (if c then a, y else x, a)

If you have function calls involved then the problem is even worse. In an imperative language, the following code could mutate x, y and any other variables arbitrarily (if the scoping rules allow it):

x = 0
if c then:
f()

Whether this difference is enough to describe "if" as not "control flow" in declarative languages, I don't know, but that is not really an interesting question (just a matter of how you define the term).

Edit: another difference is that I think declarative languages usually only use immutable types, so changing one variable is guaranteed not to affect another. Contrast with this Python snippet, where mutating x affects y.

x = [1, 2, 3]
y = [x, x]
x.append(4)
If you want to "understand exactly how it works", then you need to build a realistic digital twin of the whole grid, and run tons of scenarios.
Trying to conclude from such "high level" map is as ridiculous as trying to explain car mobility in a city by just looking at one unique number for each country.
When you do that, you realize several things:

- the electricity grid _before the move to go out of the nuclear_ was not sustainable: reducing emission implied electrifying, which implies local flexibility that the grid at the time was simply not able to provide. The "old" nuclear plants had to disappear in the mid-/long-term, and because of that, there were several possibilities. Idiots are assuming that if Germany would not have got out of nuclear, the situation would be perfect today, which is just plain stupid (the situation would be closer to the French one: everything looking fine on the surface, but heading right for the wall).

- the "no wind night" challenge is technically as "easy" as the technical challenge of developing a grid with nuclear plant. It's difficult to understand for the laymen, but the "old" nuclear plants were technically not to the level for a grid without gas and coal, and need to be replaced by new ones which will need to solve a lot of problems that are similar to the "no wind night" challenge. In simulation, it turns out that large distance grid connectivity (which is better for the resilience anyway) and some storage (which was at the time (and still today) way more room to progress than some nuclear technology) are fixing the "no wind night" challenge quite effectively. It may seem surprising, but in science, the conclusions of computations are way more reliable than the gut-feeling of laymen.

I understand it is frustrating to see that your naive understanding is contradicted by conclusions from proper studies, and it is very easy to just conclude "I'm smarter, I know it will not work, the only explanation is that it was ideology".

(not sure I get your point when you bring Nikolas Stihl: isn't this guy as much as an expert on grid simulation than you? Being an industry leader does not magically give them a pass on doing exactly the same mistake as you, which is: drawing naive conclusions from naive understandings and concluding that if experts have a different ones, the only explanation is that they are "ideological")

> What were the evil forces that sabotaged this very well thought through idea?

There are tons of ways to fail. Seeing something not working perfectly and concluding that the project itself was therefore stupid is just incorrect. And we should also keep in mind that the risk of failures was, at the time, according to science, as big if they would have gone in the "nuclear direction". Sometimes you may take the most rational decisions and it still does not work out.

> What have you done?

I really hope this is not one of those stupid argumentation panic "oh yeah? oh yeah? well, you seem to know better than me and have pointed out the stupid things I say, but how many push-ups are you able to do?" (but don't worry, I've done _a lot_).
[GNU/]Linux.

I should be able to stop there, but I understand that if you never really gave Linux a shot, or you tried one distro once and gave up when the first thing broke, then you didn't get a chance to learn anything about Linux at all. If that's you, try Linux Mint next time. It's a good beginner distro, you won't break it easily, you will be able to google solutions easily and after a few months you will have learned enough to try other distros. It's important to start with a stable beginner distro to have the "things that work on linux desktop" benchmark.

Here's another thing you need to know about Linux: The look and feel of your Linux desktop is not locked-in. All those reviews you read about a Linux distro that talked about the look or feel, are actually just misleading. The look and feel are distro-independent for the most part.

Linux desktops are as customizable as you want them to be [1], or as little as you want them to be. GNOME and KDE are not the only game in town, XFCE is also a solid out-of-box minimalist experience which is very much like old-windows. If you want to boost productivity, tiling managers are waiting for you. You can also install all of them at once and switch at the login screen. Even the login screen is something you can customise or swap out.

[1] https://teddit.net/r/unixporn
So it's basically A* with higher scores when going towards gravity, very cool.

Another physics problem analogue I really like is the problem of fastest travel from point A to point B when you have to cross a river. One approach to solve is is to treat it as a minimization problem by writing down everything, another one is to realize light beams have already solved this problem for you, and the problem becomes much simpler when your river entry angle α and swimming angle β have to satisfy (sin α)/v_walking = (sin β)/v_swimming and the fastest path is the one which just happens to satisfy this angle constraint
>Kind notes from strangers.

How did the number of interactions change over time?
If ever such a study is attempted, it should look into a correlation with vehicle mass, speed, and energy requirement from the operator.
This is unnecessary. Go back to reddit please
Yes, I actually got a certificate warning at first.
I was referring to "Steam games" not (obviously) "the Steam client".

a) Not all Steam games are on Proton [https://www.protondb.com/]

b) Not all Steam games that are on Proton run efficiently without tweaks e.g. one that I found unplayable due to overheats (on MacOS) was Sid Meier’s Civilization VI [https://www.protondb.com/app/289070]

c) Not all Steam games where you had the pre-Proton version installed, download the right version update. See Steam's forums, people saying disable Steamplay; and have to do that globally, not per-game.

d) In addition, I found the Steam updater daemon (interacting with MacOS Mojave Quarantine) also burned power like no tomorrow.
„Love Will Tear Us Apart” might not be my favourite Joy Division song (that title goes to „Atmosphere”), but still I’m delighted to find this on HN #1. Splendidly executed. I watched in awe, then smiled at the final „Again” being rendered as a button.
Similar, but different: https://github.com/jo-m/waterfall-plot-webgl/

(I am the author)
Not everyone in Israel is Jewish, and not all those of the Jewish ethnic group practice the religious beliefs. There are plenty of people in Israel who enjoy a good bacon sandwich for example, and there are plenty who drive their cars around on shabat. However the religious parties managed to capture the government for decades and have forbidden the national bus and trains companies to drive around Jews and non-Jews alike on Saturdays.
> However, since I first began using these low-orbit satellites to power my internet, not only has the price gone up $30 per month, but the speeds and reliability have degraded significantly.

I mean, this was always going to happen; this will happen with _any_ cellular internet solution (it'll be particularly bad here as the cells are particularly large, but the principle is the same). I'm a little surprised that people seem so surprised by this; I would have thought that the target market for this (rural, no fixed line available, willing and able to pay over $100/month) would have seen it all before with mobile telcos and WISPs.

> For the last two months, I've gone back to T-Mobile Home Internet because I can get T-Mobile for only $50 per month and because speed and reliability are on par with what I'd been getting from Starlink.

Again, fairly unsurprising; if you have terrestrial cellular available to you, all else being equal, it's generally going to be a better option than satellite cellular.
Big techs like google and meta are always violating privacy laws, yet they face minimal consequences and can simply pay fines as a cost of doing business. Additionally, the current privacy laws are inadequate to address the complex ways in which these companies use personal data. No way to win this at its current state , with the way privacy laws are written and applied . I think many already figured this to be true. But I think the way industry will change is as there is more awareness and outrage it will shape the end users like you and me who care about our privacy, to protect it on our own by using new technologies to block data or hide our activity etc. We will promote user privacy through technological solutions. That’s the effective way at least until laws and behavior of these tech companies change
For the record: pretty much all clothing is still created with effectively slave labour.

Either in the harvesting of the cotton, refinement to cloth, sewing to clothing or finally when dyeing.

And the second example: apple still has an assembly manned by Uruguay internment slaves and pretty much everyone here fawns over it every chance they get.

So from the perspective of HN both of these are seemingly acceptable
what does anime waitfus have to do with DEI?

There's no DEI initiative to help the disadvantaged weeaboos
It's unclear to me why you're taking more funding on such bad terms.

You have 130M ARR and are only ~10% short of break-even at ~1M burn/mo, just tighten up the business and clean house a bit?
It's true that infrastructure has evolved over decades. Though bicycles predate cars, and for various reasons we (as a society) decided to fuck bicycles and pander to cars.

I'm not sure if the ownership vs rental argument holds much water. Bicycles routinely litter the kerb (and every other surface imaginable), even though they are usually owned rather than rented. Perhaps it's because they're relatively cheap? Or maybe it's an infrastructure problem after all?
There is nothing remotely surprising about this. It's Silicon Valley.

What is surprising is he doesnt appear to be hiding his hypocrisy/self-interest behind a "woke" camouflage.
There are various websites that resell MSDNAA keys for 2 Euros or so[1].

I got a Win11 Pro and Office 2021 Pro for dirt cheap there, the keys worked (after a phone activation IIRC), and haven't had any problems so far. Without access to such prices I would have switched to Linux and LibreOffice already as there's no way I can pay full retail prices for those.

Beware this is a legal gray area, I'm not affiliated, not endorsing this practice, and not responsible for your outcome. I assume Microsoft is aware of these practices but turns a blind eye as that just means more users into their ecosystem anyway, so why ruin the party.

[1]https://keyesd.com/collections/operating-systems/products/mi...
That was just lovely. Thank you.