skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AC goes through zero 50 or 60 times per second so that helps you to interrupt a running current. DC runs steadily, continuously so if you try to break a DC current it will arc like mad and with a bit of luck you'll end up losing your contacts the very first time you try to break the circuit under load. DC in homes is not used because lots of gear relies on the AC frequency to provide a rotating field (easy to achieve with a capacitor).
Not a distributed filesystem but syncthing can easily do what you're asking for.
A tangent comment: is there some document with guidelines/list for emoji headers to use in commit messages? I mean stuff like "bug" for bug fixes, "upwards black arrow" for upgrading dependencies, "artist palette" for stylistic changes etc — I like it more than those sad +/-/* headers but I'd like to see this custom written out explicitly.
Twitter's label of CBC as "government-funded media" is not "crude" but accurate, given that "it is a Crown corporation that receives public funding from the government" (Wikipedia).

Edit -- I was unaware of the "69%" part when I wrote the above.
Windows dark theme here and I had the same problem.

I clicked the light mode on the website and then back to dark mode and it was fixed. So their website is reading your theme and adjusting the background correctly but fails to adjust the test and diagrams.
At the other extreme you have the medical profession where the first thing you learn in medical school is that left/right always refer to the patient's perspective.

In an effort to avoid ambiguity, I always talk to my doctor in terms of "driver's side" and "passenger side" - thus adopting the maritime approach, but in more common terms.
Well if Kent said it, now I'm paying attention
The org doesn’t promote PMs who have those ethics, so they never get to make these calls the correct way. The company wants this, long term at least, and select the people that will do it via hiring and promo.
As to why, A) given Apple's lawyers, I'm sure they can structure the deal so as to minimize exposure to regulations for the rest of the empire, and B) they like money. Judging from how much of it they have, they really like money. More to the point though, banking sucks - as did smartphones for a lot of reasons before the iPhone, so if Apple thinks they can make a better product for their customers, they totally would.

Given their inroads into the space already, it's not that far fetched that they wouldn't need to in order to accomplish their goals, simply by co-opting their current partner, Goldman Sachs, which is a bank.

Why this current move moves them closer to being a bank, it means they're now running savings accounts for consumers, which is a very bank-shaped thing to do.
https://pdx.su/blog/2023-04-06-rip-reddit-compact/

They just killed i.reddit.com, the old mobile site. I am fully expecting old.reddit.com to be killed off in the near future as well.

It's unfortunate. The redesign is hamstrung on mobile. Sporadic comments are collapsed and can't be opened. Viewing whole threads is disabled. Normal text posts are occasionally presented as "NSFW" on the site, and demand you download the app (despite being fine on old.reddit.com). Occasional A/B tests even prevent any use of the site at all, mandating the app with a full page blocker.

Genuinely some of the shadiest dark patterns I have ever seen. The worst behavior has been behind A/B tests for years at this point, presumably to make it harder to accuse them of this crap.
Sometimes servers don't actually go into deep suspend modes because of proprietary management interfaces. Disabling those in the BIOS can result in huge savings.
Written correctly, Java can be both very fast and light. Eclipse IDE, written with Java consumes less resources than a comparable Atom/VSCode instance, with more features enabled.
IMO Gemütlich is more closer to "cozy" rather than "Convival" which Gezellig is being used for in Dutch.
Node.js Single Executable Applications
Exactly! It’s the personal responsibility / fault of a handful of specific people who cowardly hide behind the corporation.
I wonder if they would dare explain how they decide to add these adds to people’s OS in some new social setting.
I had similar idea, but in the end I've gone a different path:

I've got a USFF PC with 2 external HDDs as NAS, and raspberry pi to keep always on stuff. I used to keep the PC up most of the day, and get it to sleep on schedule during night with `rtcwake`, and it was pretty reliable.

I've removed the scheduled sleep from the PC, as I prefer backups to be done at night, and my "minilab" of USFF PC with SSD & 2 external HDDs, rpi 4 with SSD and a 1Gb switch uses 18W idle, according to cheap power mater.

USFF PC is ThinkCentre tiny m93p with 2-core 4th-gen i5, and I guess newer models should fare better with idle power use.
I pay the Estonian accountant (xolo.io) ~100€ a month and that covers just about everything required to keep the company in good standing. Minor amounts of admin to sign off the annual report (all done with my smart card).
Absolutely able to self-host? What open source software would I use to match the features of, say, Facebook Groups or a Discord Channel?
Right and "We need to shelter our kids from crack cocaine because they are too fragile to handle it" is perfectly contradictory too.
That private MRI cost is what I paid after insurance for my recent knee MRI here in the USA.
Or is it just happening extremely slowly? I don't think we can count IPv6 out yet.
<< The problem is that the human mind of not replicatable.

I am willing to agree that it is still more art than science in its current state, but I personally think we are slowly moving towards a replicable mind after all -- a terrifying prospect, because it would truly prove 'free will' is an illusion. It currently seems impossible due to sheer number of factors with overlapping effects. I don't think it is impossible though.
Not in a form that could replace slaves. The first traction engines were not until around the civil war time, and those were not practical for many tasks that slaves did. Steam trains did exist, but the idea of running a train engine off of tracks didn't really come around until the 1850s - just before the war - and those were very limited machines that couldn't work most soils.

Even at that, the steam engine was in the process of replacing slaves for many tasks. There were just a lot of tasks left that the steam engine wasn't yet practical to replace slaves - but that would have happened anyway.
Here are some tools that I use for branding.
Are there any other tools that you find usuful ?
Twitter video that draws dashes and dots on top of letters, to better remember Morse Code.

Incredible association technique :) Thank-you.
> This is not really a merger because the other company is a “blank check” holding company (a.k.a. SPAC).

This reads like a non sequitur. The corporate structure is irrelevant if there is a radical change affecting how strategic decisions are made regarding their products and their userbase.
I wonder if some of the lack of teenager tolerance has to do with larger congregations of teens due to social media. When I was young with no cell phone it was a non-trivial exercise to get a few friends to coordinate to meet and go to a movie.

Now you can start with 4 or 5 people, and if their friends and friends of friends start to get looped in then you have a larger group. Now instead of 0 or 1 obnoxious kids in a group, you may have 3-4 obnoxious ones and a much larger group.
Did he violate Nintendo's copyright in any way? It is my understanding they were just selling tools to put CFW on your consoles; not selling or hosting roms/source code.
yep getting a neurologist here in the states is a nightmare. Both of my neurologists typically book 3-4 months out. When I first began needing neurological care my primary Dr. told me he had a patient who had a stroke and needed to wait a month to see a neuro.

pro tip for others: if you you really can't wait for care, just keep calling your doctor's office every day asking about recently cancelled appointments. I usually get in fairly quickly this way though it's pain
Google to open up UK in-app payments to satisfy regulator's concerns
The defining featureset of K8s is orchestration/provisioning/control, not mere containerization or even distribution over a network. Plan9 addresses the latter in a rather clean and elegant way but says nothing specifically about the former. The Linux kernel has grown namespacing features and user-space implementations of kernel-side API's that are, on the whole, quite reminiscent of Plan9 already. Of course, this has been done in a rather ad hoc, inelegant and arguably incomplete fashion.
Why China’s Shrinking Population Is a Problem for Everyone
Ask HN: Why is there no database with a functional query language?
I have been asking this myself for a while now, I generally do enjoy writing SQL, but I also get the feeling that it's not suitable for building applications.

So why is there no "functional" query language? Something like Haskell, but for databases. You would get the benefits of a declarative model, composeability and type-safety.

I am currently using sqlx[1] and it's great in terms of type-safety, but you can't compose queries. I don't like to use ORM's, they are usually good for simple things, but hard things are impossible and you have to use/understand SQL anyways.

[1] https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx
This article is about making people even acknowledge that social media is a or the problem. Acknowledging that one has a problem is the first step. Unfortunately, I don't have a societal solution ready.
I once asked ChatGPT if it knew about an esoteric programming language. It said "yes!" and then proceeded to quote information and code snippets for Python.
I have no idea how it looks on the dev/setup side, but suspend and resume is definitely a solved problem, seeing that I've never had any problems with it on my Steam Deck
damn that’s fucked up. at my medical facility when my doc ordered an MRI i literally just walked over to radiology and got it done on the spot for like a $40 copay.
Yeah it’s a different word but the meaning seems very close if it can be substituted in 95%+ of contexts. Curious to hear an example where it doesn’t fit.
I Confirm this.

For years I use suspend on my laptop with latest Debian, and it's very difficult to have an uptime higher than 15 days.

Every now and then, the logging in freezes to death on wake-up and requires hard power off.
> The problem of using Switzerland as a yardstick is that barely any population anywhere can match up maturity and morality of them, maybe some nordics.

I don't think that's fair, both to nordics and to British folks. People are mature because the system treats them as mature. If the system obviously has contempt for you and everyone like you, then of course you will act out like a youngest child.
I love this new software development workflow.

1. build creative open source project.

2. get a little popular.

3. get copied by VC funded project for pennies on the dollar.

4. with little no understanding or apparent care about how all this is going to play out in the larger scope of the tech industry and even humanity in general.
> ...but the other 10% are worth 1000x

Until AI takes the last 10% with its next iteration with ease.

Given the exponential pace of change of AI, this won't be long.
Also relevant: https://a327ex.com/posts/snkrx_log

The developer talks specifically about choosing a small scope for a game, and clearly spends a lot of time thinking strategically about being an indie dev.
As I said elsewhere, but I think it's worth repeating here - In an effort to avoid ambiguity, I always talk to my doctor in terms of "driver's side" and "passenger side" - thus adopting the maritime approach, but in more common terms.
Who cares about IPv6 on a home server that you might not even want to expose to the public internet anyway?
Yes, we have more Art Museums than anything we need in our daily lives. What I like about it is the lack of access to high consumption. What is bad is that the large chain stores killed the local businesses and then realized the market is too small to really care. Jbullock35 how about some clues about your town so we can try to guess.
This seems to miss the fact that the cloud providers basic service is a highly discoverable highly available way of advertising endpoints and managing highly durable and resilient state in a distributed system. Yes you can do that locally. It’s just really fragile and difficult. The ability to collaborate between two local machines by using a well known service remotely that’s always available means even when the neighboring laptops lid is shut and reopened things work because the only real dependency that laptop has was its tcp stack. The other laptop doesn’t have to deal with the interruption, try to figure out when it’s come back online, renegotiate connectivity, figure out any state drift and reconcile state, etc etc. Bonus is it works the same when you take your laptop to the bathroom to take a crap as it did when it was 2ft away. I’m not even going to go into the pitiful state of adhoc local protocols and hardware stacks.
No it isn't. Please substantiate your claim. I've been unemployed for over half a year. And I am not some inexperienced newb.
Not necessarily, so I wrote „wide“. By wide I mean wide in space and conceptually this also extends to wide in time. So there is are multiple positions in space at the current time and likewise there are multiple positions in the future and they all equivalently can be touched or not.
> Why would I went to do get-command or some junk.

One reason might be to make commands consistent and improve discoverability.
Sweet! Is also used in English. But lecker makes me think of delectable.
nah I like it
"online applications with offline functionality" or "offline applications with online functionality"?

In the nitty gritty they are the same thing, but the way you say it changes the way you picture it and what parts you make sync vs async
In English, there's an archaic "larboard" meaning "port side". My understanding is that this word was intentionally banished due to confusion originating from the sound being so similar to "starboard".
> The race to the bottom will mean the first company to ditch the C-suite and then the middle managers will be out next. And worker-collectives with AI management will outmaneuver any company which is paying inefficient human ownership

That's a fantasy. The AI will be an agent of ownership, which will not be cut out. Serving the owners is the whole point of the enterprise!
India is politically unstable and has huge inequality problems. Having lived in China but only visited India, I think India has a long way to go before it hits something similar to a Chinese accelerating economy.
I can kind of see the logic in it. They’ve effectively been given a warrant to search your device and you are preventing that lawful search.

It’s like if they were trying to search your house for the dead children but you say you’ve lost the front door key and accidentally put a forcefield around it. Did you really forget to deactivate the forcefield or are you obstructing justice?
Electron apps are not exactly lightweight either; it is about first time that someone uses them in an argument.

Query Analyzer was written with win32-api. No electron, no java, no c#, nothing (thought it might used MFC, not sure about that). It was snappier on Pentium 3 than Dbeaver is on M1 or Threadripper. Existence of slow molasses like Electron won't change that.
Indeed, running docker on android requires a custom kernel:
https://gist.github.com/FreddieOliveira/efe850df7ff3951cb62d...

The pixel 6 and 7 have full KVM capabilities tho: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74333551
Maybe one day the electricity prices and anti-carbon movements will make Germans to unprotest this commit. Strategy of just avoiding to live near nuclear objects seems like an endless times wiser than bulling ones.

Chornobyl is a fun place to visit to be honest. I have never seen a more wild and healthy nature anywhere else. Our nature deserves to have such reserve of humanless.
The "posh" one is commonly repeated, but there's no evidence it's true: https://www.etymonline.com/word/posh#etymonline_v_18515
In the specific context of this conversation, that's an unfortunately confusing Twitter handle.

Edit: forgot to say, thanks for the link
The Ukrainian Chef Helping Feed the Ukrainian Military
If you want a model to, say, never draw pornography or write a Hitler speech, you don't do that by excluding "bad" content from the foundation model but rather you tackle that in later stages of training, particularly in this phase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning_from_hu...

Having some of that in the foundation model actually helps the model "understand" what it is it is not supposed to do. The whole point of the foundation model is that it generalizes from the examples you show it later to similar examples it saw during "pre-training" and a certain about of offensive content will help it learn what it is offensive much quickly later.
Had a consulting CFO recommend the same to us, even mentioned they've done so for all other businesses with any software development costs.

It's wild.

I'm sure that at some point there will be similar fallout up here.
GPT Adventure Game Engine
ACtually this was the link I was remembering, ignore the previous one

https://a327ex.com/posts/lessons_second_game
This looks like one of those home server infrastructure setup rabbit holes I would've bailed out of within the first 10 minutes of Googling to research the problem.

I commend the author for their perseverance and the writeup - rabbit hole writeups are their own form of entertainment. That alone was worth it. I could never run anything that looks like such a conceptual pain the butt. A pain to maintain and troubleshoot to boot.

Especially since the setup requires a Raspberry Pi to run permanently. A Raspberry Pi that itself would work just as fine as the Time Machine server the author seems to need on demand?
Sure, I mean there will always be two main groups of clients on the market. Those who trust in openness and those who don't care, or even distrust it. So there will always be a place for Yubikey.

But afaik there is nothing else out there right now like the tillitis key, programmable, 100% open, and already shipping.
I wish ISPs would care. CGNAT sucks.
Most of my paid online software from non-monopolist providers doesn't have ads.
An inspiring reminder that lots of crazily monumental (pun intended) things are technically possible if only you actually want them to happen and willing to spend money on it.

P.S. "22 million pounds"? That's approximately 22 thousand half-tons or 11 thousand tons in sensible units. Then again, we're still measuring disk sizes in half-kibibytes by default even though the sector sizes have actually been 4/8 KiB for years...
Roughly 40% (and rising) of Google users use IPv6.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
The point is that when you go to invest your money for your retirement, you are going to pick whichever business’s shares give you the highest ROI.

You, as a shareholder, are not optimizing for

> keep your customers happy, get your money, enjoy your life...

So why would you expect businesses to behave in a way other than maximizing ROI?
Rigid gas permeable lenses can loses their coatings, and allergies/sensitivities to the preservatives in most cleaning solutions can develop over time. Both caused me problems, luckily a year of wearing glasses allowed me to recover. Now I only use hydrogen peroxide based cleaning solutions without extra ingredients. Much better, except for global supply chain problems right now....
I only wish it was easier to put c# code within a powershell script. Would be a great mix of two worlds.
That is an awfully broad brush you are painting with there. It's also painfully obvious which of the two groups you are in.
Ask HN: What closes a B2B Enterprise sales
A lot goes into getting a deal closed - Prospecting, Warm Nurturing, Contract and so much more until the first paid INVOICE. What is most critical?

Product (It works like magic)
Product (I'm sold at Demo)
Product (How efficient is the team)
Pricing (let me try and decide for FREE)
Pricing (solve all my problems for a penny)
Pricing ($$$$ so expensive it must be great)
Relationship (who knows who)
Relationship (keep be entertained)
Relationship (give and take, help me and I help you)

What else?
There’s a difference, though, between everyone having access to what you have done, and people in your circle of trust gossiping about you to people outside of it. First, you can theoretically figure out the gossip and exclude them. Second, the gossip gossips about things _they_ find interesting, not about things random bored trolls find juicy. Thus, the odds of your faux pas exposing you to abuse are naturally lower.

In other words, “small towns have no secrets” is an oversimplification.
Nice to hear! I'm not really doing Linux on the desktop, but in this age of almost-but-not-quite paper free, I like to think of printers in decades. And on that time scale, "no special fiery hoops to jump through on Linux" is really the only thing that has any value as a predictor of future usefulness. After some googling my vague conclusion was that a full complement of wireless protocols would indeed be a tolerable substitute of PCL6, but I'm glad for the confirmation. (even if I recently dropped out of the printer market again, turns out that the day I gave up on my ca 2001 Samsung I just wasn't sufficiently desperate to tease it into accepting an empty page as something to print on)
From unreliable memory

a fallen flower
returning to the branch
it was a butterfly

from a time before I encountered Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot
I would probably be considered an Emacs power user: I have used it for years as my daily driver for professional programming in many languages; I have an extensive custom config; I have published several non-trivial packages.

But I still had no idea that zones existed until today.
I uploaded a 60-page PDF and asked it to summarize specific sections by calling out the section name, and it did a rather good job there.
Charging under this law requires specific authorisation like most niche powers (eg charging someone for abducting their own child)

So they wouldn’t charge you based off a random anonymous tip off. It would more be, a naked child was found in your house and now they’re charging you for not giving them the tapes with the videos on it.
This was measured with an old school Kill-a-Watt. When idle, the HDDs spin down. Keep in mind these are 2.5” likely 5400rpm or less (WD Passport 2TB).
Ah I get it now. Sorry for the density.
> Correct Horse Battery Staple 4 lg(100000) = 33

I think you mean 66. More realistically, 52 for Diceware's 7776-word dictionaries, or 44 for XKCD's 2000 common words.
> Furthermore, one of the lessons we learned from the bad assumptions of Ptolemy (geocentrism) is to never assume that we occupy a special position from which we make observations.

The geocentric model does not assume “we” are in a special position. The center of the universe would be the center of the earth, not the point of the observer or any human.

(But interestingly, in Dantes Comedy, the devil is placed in the center of the earth and hence the center of the universe.)
I learned from Youtube that CBC promoted and defended seizing of bank accounts and monies of Covid-protesters.

Is there any other "western democracy" where is might even be constitutionally possible?

Governments have declared "seizing of excess wealth" and other war-time shit, but this was against a minority group for political reasons.
You're assuming your peers will agree with you. I'm gently suggesting that they may not, and you need that check.

You might be right. It might be the next Meltdown vulnerability. But it might not, and Apple already told you it isn't, and that's why you need to talk to your peers.