skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is a good idea to give users batch mode, get 10x lower price in exchange for higher latency. If you want to parse millions of documents it is really useful.
I don't think the point has ever been putting tons of heavy stuff into orbit. This is a system for taking us to the moon and Mars.
What, you're objecting because an energy system to power an industrial economy is expensive? Of course it's expensive, regardless of whether it's extracting fossil fuels, fissioning atoms, or capturing sunlight or wind.

We spend something like 5% of our GDP on energy. There is a very large budget available for replacing current energy sources with new ones.

What renewables have in their favor over fossil fuels is the lack of externalized costs foisted on everyone else. Toss in those costs -- as one should do, if one is honestly looking at the cost of an energy source -- and renewables save money, and a lot of it.
Lol since when is implementing tax policy changes a trivial thing to do? It’s literally one of the hardest things to do at any level of government.
New Mars Map Lets You ‘See the Whole Planet at Once’
I don't think anybody can impose trademark restrictions the way the Rust Foundation was planing to...

But anyway, the details of how a non-profit is created have a lot of impact on the incentives for their managers.
The expectation when they were planned and built starting 50 years ago was that during their planned lifetime, nuclear power technology would improve significantly and they would naturaly be replaced with modern reactors at the end of their design lifetime. Of course, nobody planned for the Chernobyl disaster and the resulting lack of support for nuclear energy.

Engineering wise, there are a lot of parts of the reactor that I think you have to pick between being able to service and replace the part and having it be useful and safe. So when those parts wear out, you can't really fix them. Or you have to wait so long for it to be safe to service them, that it's not worth it.

Coal and gas plants don't last forever either, but they can generally be rebuilt in place, making the comparison tricky. Coal tends to release all of its radioactive waste into the air, the facility itself doesn't become a hazard to service.
CrabLang - the world’s most unpolished programming language!
> Twitter has this even more advanced feature called self de-federation. You activate it by simply scrolling away, closing the browser tab, taking a break, or even... going outside..

It seems the majority of Mastodon users have already utilized this feature of Twitter. Some have even shut down their Twitter accounts.
HN says that I should assume good faith, so please reread the list again - it must have slipped your notice the first time around.
> What will the EU's comparative advantage be?

Europe is consolidating its position as the worlds museum.

Also regulation. Lots and lots of regulation.

/European dissident
Wow, those skins really whip the llama's ass.
> Cancelling from my end often results in a penalty

So…don’t cancel? If the driver bails on a ride, that should hurt their score, not yours. If you need to book a replacement ride immediately, just use another app.

It’s happened to me a handful of times in the US, I just waited for 10-15 minutes until the heuristics decided the driver wasn’t coming and assigned another one.

Regardless, sounds miserable to deal with regularly. Sorry about that.
Part of that is refusing to IPO, and still wanting to grow into new areas that revenue doesn’t yet support
There are no net neutrality regulations. Republicans won that battle at the FCC.
Those ratings are fake anyway. You can score it a 1 (actually the lowest option is 2.5) due to nearby noise making it impossible to sleep. But they'll also ask you to rate the cleanliness, service, and location(??) and suddenly your terrible stay is a 6.0 rating.

https://ro-che.info/articles/2017-09-17-booking-com-manipula...
Like a neutrino interacting with regular matter, it would seem.
What net neutrality regulations?

Yet another Trump triumph that I voted for Biden to fix, that he has shown absolutely no interest in fixing.
SpaceX is Musk doing the things he's good at, and delegating everything else. He's mostly there as the visionary and the person running R&D, with most other stuff handled by Gwynne Shotwell.

This combination works incredibly well. Musk regularly questions conventional wisdom and reimagines things from first principles, and then has the balls to go through with it. Channeled properly this is incredibly powerful and propels SpaceX on a trajectory far beyond their competition. Channeled improperly ... well, just look at some of his other companies.
There's very few Trump people in San Jose and very large Asian population so there's no discrimination. People here are worried about the large amount of travel between Silicon Valley and China. Santa Clara County was the first in the nation to lock down and the Asian community is still very careful. It's quite possible that I have a new mutation and it will be interesting to find out if this turns into long Covid after 12 weeks (I'm on week 6). I apologize for not making this clear and sounding like a racist.
'Juice-jacking' warning turns out to have been greatly exaggerated old news
Trending #4 in hackernoon ang GitHub. Enjoy.
With 1/100th the users, many Mastodon users report much more and valuable engagement on Mastodon than Twitter.
I don't think that's unique to SpaceX specifically.

It's just that it's packed with recognised emotive names like Musk and SpaceX and it's unconventional: no prior rocket looks like that or does the same landing thing. However, rockets are basically understandable enough ("big fire go down, thing go up") that everyone can have some opinion, and when they go wrong there's often a huge cinematic explosion. Musk's companies are also high-cadence and PR-rich so there's always a video to make, unlike, say, SLS which just grinds away dully outside the limelight. A diss video rather than a technical video is easier to make and draws using emotions: fans to argue and critics to validate. It's perfect capital-C Content.

What video gets more clicks: "Elon Musk's new StarShip is DOOMED, here's why" with a flaming explosion in the thumbnail. Or "TLB invalidation strategy in certain ARMv7a cores is slow on some workloads: here's why"?

If there are clicks on the table, there's money on the table.
It was fun for a while but moving to Ireland was a mistake.
I like the testing and documentation. But I also want to see more test results in more areas over a longer period of time.
Texas has chosen to ban a medical procedure that kills a human fetus after a certain stage of development. It has done so based on moral judgments about when killing a human fetus should be permitted, and when it should be prohibited.

Virtually every liberal democracy does the same thing. They just pick a different developmental milestone. There is no scientific reason why Denmark or Germany’s 12-week ban is more justifiable than Texas’s 12-week ban. And those countries insert moral judgments into regulation of other medical procedures, everything from euthanasia to female circumcision.

Your regurgitation of libertarian talking points misses the mark. Virtually every liberal democracy recognizes that society can make judgments about what's right and wrong, and regulate individual conduct based on those judgments. (And outside the U.S., most liberal democracies recognize the right of the government to suppress information that society deems harmful.) None of that is "fascist."
Yeah there's a bit of a disconnect between what we wish it was -- a useful indicator of the actual number of rooms left, for purposes of gauging the urgency -- vs. what they use it for[0], which is to create the urgency artificially.

[0] I should say "probably" since I don't have any concrete evidence.
The bill in question seems to be AB 205 [0]:

> Existing law authorizes the PUC to authorize fixed charges that do not exceed certain amounts per residential customer account per month, as provided.
This bill would delete the requirement that each electrical corporation offer default rates to residential customers with at least two usage tiers. The bill would additionally require the PUC to ensure that the approved fixed charges do not unreasonably impair incentives for beneficial electrification and greenhouse gas reduction. The bill would instead authorize the PUC to authorize fixed charges for any rate schedule applicable to residential customer accounts. The bill would eliminate the cap on the amount of the fixed charge that the PUC may authorize. The bill would require the fixed charge to be established on an income-graduated basis, as provided, with no fewer than 3 income thresholds so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making any changes in usage.

Since the income bracketing is a legal requirement, the CA state government will be sharing income data with these utility corps. I would imagine. So the bill’s obviously being positioned as relief for low income households, but what it would do is hand these utility oligopolies access to intelligence on their captive customers so it can fully exploit their price elasticities.

[0] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
Reminds me of my homeland Sweden.
Historical material is often intellectually interesting and that's more than enough to make on topic for Hacker News. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Sometimes detritus is even more interesting than important things! keep in mind that we're optimizing this site for nothing more serious than idle curiosity. Whimsy is part of that.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I think there are varying levels of assurance that developers need while writing software. I tend towards stricter languages with more guarantees, like Rust with its borrow checker and Coq with its powerful types and proofs. This doesn't need to be a universal preference, though; my preferred work is in compilers, which requires a high degree of assurance, and I study programming languages formally.

The largest barrier to greater adoption of languages like Coq with proof systems built-in is the formal background needed to get started. I think that Rust has done an excellent job at making stronger systems more accessible, but it takes a lot of conscious work.

With JavaScript, I think the idea that performance in language design can be an afterthought, made up for by world-class optimizing JIT compilers, is fundamentally wrong. It doesn't give users a meaningful way to easily reason about the performance of the programs they write. The main implementation of Python, pythonc, is essentially an interpreter over an unoptimized bytecode format, giving it poor performance. I think performance considerations should be a fundamental part of the language design.
Interesting article, and OpenVMS and the other mini-computer OSes I find interesting like AS/400 and MPEIX.

Yikes telnet... is still being used.

(ssh is automatically installed, but needs to be configured.)

Also, it says OpenVMS AXP (which I though was the DEC Alpha, not X86..) in the screenshot at the bottom.
> How is separating money from government a valid point? Money is inextricably bound up with fundamental governmental issues including a monopoly over violence and the ability to levy taxes.

It looks like you've just answered your question right there.
Net neutrality was removed under Ajit Pai's time leading the FCC. Did I miss some post-Pai restoration?
Completely honest here, I use old Reddit on mobile web. Under settings scroll down a bit and you'll see the option.

The cookie or whatever seems to expire every week or so, then I'm unceremoniously dumped back into the mess that is their "modern" design.

Despite that, the layout of old Reddit is much more information dense. Just use the phone in landscape and it's perfectly fine.
I will support it :D
Sorry, but there's no webring membership on this site. The webmaster clearly does not deserve their title.

0/10
There is a new proposed trademark policy that bans the use of the "rust" trademark in domain names, package names and educational material (unless the educational material starts with a disclamer denouncing affiliation with the Rust (TM) Foundation https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/12e7tdb/rust_trademar...)
If you went the other way, it would be much faster... But less "around the world".
The Future of Society: An Insightful Dialogue on the System with ChatGPT4
Had an interesting chat with chatgpt about the future and about our existence. Thought that some people here might find it interesting :)
Apparently my mind isn't in the gutter like yours, but after using it, it's vastly better than Twitter ever was, and I left more than a year ago so I can't speak to what Twitter is now, but I hear it's going downhill.
All good points but it really does depend on the industry and the level.

I have seen mid level jobs where the contractor is paid twice what the full time staff are, no bonus on either side.

Your point about long term incentives is very dependent on company. I wish I had a scheme like that!
This is a bold claim. In theory any library that defers rendering to MathML should be faster (including my own MathUp https://runarberg.github.io/mathup/). Has anyone run benchmarks to test this claim?
My theory is a huge portion of those watching are age 5-12.
This inevitably results in window and aisle seats being filled quickly, and nothing remaining (within that section) but middle seats.

And because corralling children (even teenage children!) is much harder than just getting up and walking on yourself, this results in families almost invariably having to either accept being spread across separate seats in multiple rows, or being pushy about trading seats with exactly the kinds of people who have aggressively made sure they get there first.
> The Rust teams are far more equipped to handle the development of Rust than anyone entertaining this fork (unless, of course, a significant number of members of the Rust teams decide to move over).

As a form of protest against the silly Rust Foundation, a fork of the language which is simply a rebranded mirror of Rust sources would work.
Another problem I see is that by reducing the per-unit costs and shifting it back to a flat grid connection fee, they are reducing the incentive to save energy. Is this really going to bring the future we want?

I honestly think it is a mistake to allow grandfathered NEM rate structures to continue, if these other wacky plans are really attempting to compensate for that imbalance.

Maybe we need better than the NEM 3 proposal, to actually charge based on your grid connection size and usage. Something based on peak and actual power transfers as they reflect proportionate reliance on the grid infrastructure.That would be in addition to any actual energy consumption which I think should also follow the NEM 3 plan with retail rates for consumption and wholesale rates for production that vary by time of delivery.
Kind of yes, but the scale of the amounts is a bit different.

I quit my $60k CTO job and they paid me $140k to stick around as a contractor. Most

$300k is CEO of a large company salary in Sweden. The prime minister earns around $200k.
Nice visual demonstration, I had never heard of this theorem before, but it seems to visually show that any polygon is made out of triangles, any triangle can be turned into a rectangle with a chosen width, those rectangles can be combined into a larger rectangle, from the larger rectangle you can extract other triangles, from which you can make the other polygon...
I think I will indeed refrain from commenting in the future, as conversing with people as knowledgeable as you are is becoming a chore.
"SpaceX's booster landings continue to be pretty much the only thing(s) that have properly, legitimately stunned me as an adult."

Born in the 80s, but I feel that they have done such a good job on regularly launching and landing that they made space boring.
yes, among other things
rampant crypto hate here is another one
Nuclear energy as-is is very expensive and the cost trajectory in the past wasn't great either (i.e., not dropping fast).
Well, now you’re moving the goalposts. I’m not arguing that workers are never mistreated. I would agree, sometimes they are, and that is bad! But it’s overly hyperbolic to say that US employees have no rights at all. They do, just not as many protections as a few other countries.

As an hourly, non-exempt employee, I had a legal right to overtime, paid breaks, and unpaid leave and other things. DOL signs were posted at the workplace, as is required, to inform workers about their rights. My employer (Best Buy) followed the law and I appreciated those legal protections, which the employer otherwise probably wouldn’t have given me. This is an anecdote, but is an example of a worker (me) having rights.

To be clear, that’s the specific argument I’m making. American workers have some rights, regardless of whether they’re perfect, or perfectly upheld. That’s obvious, isn’t it?
It would be very surprising if you believe labor protections are the root cause of Portugal's economic woes. Can you share how you drew that conclusion?
soma.fm also provides SF police radio mixed with ambient at https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/sf1033
Easy.

goto here: https://www.att.com/support

log in.

cancel.

tell them why.

goto https://www.t-mobile.com

port your number and sign up.

and you're done!

You can't legislate good behavior. You can only hit them in the checkbook. Wireless fortunately doesn't have the cable providers do, where local governments have entrenched players into local monopolies. Switching away is the most powerful thing you can do.
What is anyone going to do with that information?
There's one other app called Ola, which is horrible, prices fluctuate without notification, they'll autocharge your UPI as they please, customer support is non-existant.

Uber is the best bet and usually people don't have the extra 10-15 minutes to spare, since you're already waiting outside and probably have a time-sensitive task to attend to (that's the norm here btw, if you have something urgent you take a cab otherwise public transport since that's more likely to be delayed).
> so many different things have to go right

Summarized from site's figure, a viable business model also needs a market that is plausible, self-aware, lucrative, liquid, eager, and--ultimately--enduring for a startup to be successful.

Plausible. Enough folks have the problem.

Self-aware. Know and care they have it.

Lucrative. Budget exists.

Liquid. Willing and able to buy today...

Eager. ... from you.

Enduring. Still your customer after 1 year

Author presents a flowchart, so the order may matter.
https://archive.ph/o4It6
What determines whether `let Some(y) = x` evaluates to boolean true?
>> and do not bear any caste specific signifiers on my person

Your last name is the biggest caste specific signifier.
This seems like a good idea if t-mobile doesn't have traffic shaping, but do they?
You weren't banned - users were flagging your posts, correctly, because they were breaking the site guidelines.

I've banned your account just now, however, since you don't seem to be using HN in the intended spirit.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Not anybody. The claim was that there’s no difference between individual nonprofit types in terms of trademarking abilities: the Rust trademark policy could just as easily exist under a (c)(3).

(c)(3)s serve the public interest; (c)(6)s serve the interests of their members. But this doesn’t imply anything about a management class; it’s just a simpler and less fraught way to achieve tax-exempt status for a software community, especially one that was originally smaller.
Not only a rich benefactor, also someone who can inspire and convince others. SpaceX has gone through multiple financing rounds, the last one in January raising $750M at a valuation of $137B.
Faux is "mispronounced" in English. English uses a diphthong, whereas French uses a monophthong. Every speaker of every language adapts borrowed words to their phonological system.
I used Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth to create an art portrait of my dog
> Why AT&T wants bandwidth to appear lower than reality is a mystery to me, but I digress

For you a speed test is just once in a life time event.

For a wireless provider this is a thing what clogs the shared media of a radio channel for quite a lot (modern speed tests try to push 100 or even more MBytes?) and cause a disruption for everyone else on the same channel.

I don't know why ATT throttles (if at all, not a customer) that site, but wire and wireless providers are different.
> CircuitPython powered clock that shows the wrong time when it detects that someone is looking at it
They’ll charge the similar prices, just putting cheaper heavier better-fueled robust satellites in orbit

Satellites are super expensive due to weight concerns, demand should go way up with the per-unit cost down
This isn’t really true. Americans have more rights than they think.

It varies a lot, and can be confusing.

There’s an ongoing case about how venues like Madison Square Garden are using facial recognition to deny entry to employees of law firms suing them.

There are laws in place to protect theater critics. Those laws stem from an idea that it’s unlawful to prevent someone from earning a living/practicing their profession.

Many of those older laws are on the books.

There are strict anti blacklisting laws in many states.
MathML was never alive to be killed. It's MathML that might kill Katex (with Chrome's recently improved support), not the other way around.
It is not booking that does the overbooking, it is the hotels. It doesn't matter that I made the reservation in advance, pre-paid, and spoke to someone at the hotel the day prior to arrival. They probably give away my room to avoid confrontation with someone else who was overbooked. By the time I roll into town, which is usually 1-2am because I like driving at night, the hotel is locked down tight and the clerk is pretty comfortable behind his intercom telling me to sleep in my car because they gave away my room (yeah! they actually said that). So I called booking and 45 minutes later I'm checking into a hotel (they had to call several places and talk to people to find one that actually had a room because the computers kept seeing availabilities even though the hotels were at capacity).
Can you please edit out name-calling and swipes from your HN posts, and make your substantive points thoughtfully?

You obviously had a good point here but including things like "you stupid son of a bitch" unfortunately flips a higher-order bit. Perhaps you don't owe inadequate vulnerability handlers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
By enabling entirely new applications that aren't remotely economical otherwise. Asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing, all that scifi stuff that we've been talking about for half a century and can't do at thousands of dollars per pound to LEO.

Cheap high-volume launch means you can build things heavier and in some cases mass-produce them, so space hardware doesn't have to cost so much anymore either.
You're downvoted, but I understand this was almost certainly true. There were high level officials in the German government that were leveraged by Russian gas companies, and this was widely reported on.

Germany had a strong green movement, so you couldn't blame all of this on the Russians; but they had a fertile bed of irrational anti-nuclear sentiment upon which to sow their seeds.
I also don't like it, but it is less common now a days

https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole#method-2-manually-downloa...