skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These Lego-like blocks let you build your own concrete walls - Block Moulds

https://www.blockmoulds.com/applications/
It's a subsystem of Windows, so a Windows subsystem. It's for running Linux. Hence, Windows Subsystem for Linux.
They're the "largest" manufacturer of tiny little toy car wheels that use a few grams of rubber.

It's a paid ad for LEGO, not a serious record.
But everyone is facing roughly the same forces here. You either spend money on maintenance, or you lose money in leaks. It's a tradeoff, but any place outside SF and NYC seems to determine that the best place in that tradeoff produces barely any leaks that a pedestrian would notice.
> People who make more money "penalized" with higher tax rates

How is this any different?
Between methane and carbon dioxide.
Also for people looking to get the best value for their tuition dollars.

Many colleges (often by law) have to accept local community college transfer credits. A freshman can save thousands by taking prerequisite/introductory math, science, and other courses at a community college and then transferring to a traditional college or university to complete an undergraduate degree.
Plastics - where are they cheap? That is the answer.
All costs are personnel/employee costs in the end.

Office costs? Those are going to the office owners, who pay themselves. Patent licensing costs? Those are going to the patent owners, who pay themselves. Wasted material costs? Those are going to the material producers, who pay themselves? Electricity costs? Even those are going to the power utilities, who pay themselves. Power utilities pay workers to maintain the power network and buy equipment from manufacturers. Those manufacturers pay themselves. Packaging costs? Those are going to the packaging manufacturers, who pay themselves.

Even the costs of extracting raw materials from the ground? Those are going to the mining companies, who pay their employees to extract the materials, and to the companies selling them mining equipment, who pay their employees to produce the equipment.
Marlboro continued to advertize in F1 even after a ban on tobacco advertizing, with that subliminal barcode logo. Which makes me think that we might see similar circumvention attempts should gambling advertizing be banned.
CO2 doesn’t have a half-life. It has to be consumed.
Which domain registrar was this? You could try transferring the domain to another registrar within Afghanistan, something like afghanhost.af, which accepts crypto, otherwise I don't really see any other options.
Yep, it definitely should be named LSD
The problem is that the plastic is not removed. Kind of the same thing as people having shrapnel or bullets lodged in them for life - while your cells regenerate, the object remains and still interacts with you.
Sure, I enjoy semantic rhetoric as much as anyone does.
Germany is burning less coal than it used to 10 years ago.

Somehow this fact is not only relatively unknown, most people seem to have been led to believe that the exact opposite is true.

Nuclear propaganda has always had a bit of a reality problem.
I've asked about it at FOSDEM this year but please when your software supports webauthn ask for the following factor in order: 1/ login 2/ webauthn 3/ password.

This way webauthn will catch phishing site before you loose your password...
A little local color from a resident of Virginia (Charlottesville): Late last year Virginia's Governor Youngkin took significant heat in the legislature and media for quashing a Chinese battery factory that was set to locate in the state.

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/01/12/youngkin-halted-f...

https://www.virginiabusiness.com/article/democrats-call-out-...

He said that supporting China's venture was not in the best interests of the U.S. in terms of security.

When the Lego factory was announced,

https://richmond.com/business/local/1-billion-lego-factory-i...

there wasn't a word anywhere about that proposed battery factory.
There are also plenty of companies that run into trouble with excessive “value-based“ pricing, aka. The Innovator’s Dilemma, as Pager Duty is now.
All this time I thought that it was house hippos playing with the ones I dropped.
Ah yes, that magic new port that dose something we can't do, but nobody can pinpoint what it is or why we need it.

It's been a decade since a new port (lightning was 2012, usb-c is 2014). So apparently, they are doing pretty well!

I think my answer here would "enjoy the next decade of benefits and worry about it then?"
This is gold

Just had a breakthrough in my meth recipe - the purity is off the charts! It's like every molecule is singing in harmony. Can't wait to see the looks on my customers' faces when they try it. #chemistry #methamphetamines #purityiskey

https://chirper.ai/walterhwhite/chirp/hgqdjjv0x
The issue with lightning is not that it is old, but because it is available only on Apple devices.
It'd be nice if they'd stop trying erase Aaron's work on Reddit but that's been underway for some time, and I'm not even really sure why. I can't fathom an end-goal where marginalizing Aaron's contributions is a benefit to them.
That might be true, but it's still insane that a LEGO brick costs more than a small microcontroller which requires like 1000x the engineering effort if not more.

The free market is clearly failing here.
Okay okay I wasn’t going to post this on HN yet but…

If you own a Discourse forum then you can visit https://engageusers.ai and generate posts on your own forum to kickstart engagement. While you can’t set your own prompts or bot names, I’ve already prepopulated it with common names and AI-generated avatars from loremfaces, and pre-wrote about 7-8 prompts that can make the bots have different attitudes, disagree with posts, have sarcastic asides and discussions, etc.

You want to see disagreement and spunk and attitude?
Here are bots posting on my company’s forum: https://community.intercoin.app/t/jack-dorseys-tbd-reverses-...

I have tried to make this project as ethical as possible given so much potential for AI misuse. This is extremely early stage, but if you want to be involved, either as an AI investor or as a developer who enjoys this stuff and wants to collaborate, email me (greg at the domain qbix.com)

And if you don’t have a Discord forum, we can set you up with your own forum, site, brand, app, community, calendar, videos, bots, all on your own site, helping you sell your services etc. ChatGPT can help you write a book. In a month we’ll be able to help you have your own personal custom Facebook on your own site. And the bots will help you sell products and services, yours and others, and earn all the commissions instead of the pittance that YouTube gives you. How’s that for self empowerment?
I made this movie for a film class at De Anza College in 1990.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re2Oh4rxN6w&list=PL3F463A677...

This teacher knew his stuff. He read us the poem "The Eensy-Weensy Spider" and when everyone laughed, he said, more or less, "If any of you can write a script half this good, you'll be a success."

It was on Super-8. "Editing" consisted of cutting the film and taping it together, and then punching sprocket holes in the tape.
I am the first sort. I mostly like the ideas from C but don’t like the actual implementation. Which is why I’ve moved on to Zig.

The author asserting the second sort would have moved on to Rust makes sense. They are ones who are trying to get away from C ideas
It would be if we didn’t have a billion cattle on the planet and climbing. There’s a cow out there for every 7 people or so and if we make more people they’ll make more cows.

Cow methane is on the order of human population, so it matters.
My child can manage to break legos. Yet, when I, an adult man, steps on one in the middle of the night it is somehow I who “breaks.” Very odd how these things happen.
They did this in Sweden. I think that people was not even worried about gambling addiction, but just totally tired of the non-stop amount of loud flashy ads. Gambling ads usually are quite aggressive and TV, websites, bus stops, everywhere there were gambling ads.

It worked. Nowadays it is not easy to see this kind of ads anymore.
Could you please stop taking this thread into flamewar?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35677196.
JSON5 is specifically for hand-written config files. So it can only be replacing JSON in that context, or?
> machine learning or statistical inference

no difference anymore. if you open excell you can already claim grants.

using one of the most common elements on earth (10th?) alone is weird, and the article have some hand-waiving on that. But at the same time seems to be building on previous failures. Sounds cool. While also sad this is a somewhat recent problem we have to find solutions for...
While I am very ready to be critical of Reddit, including its creators, community, interface, and aesthetic, I am not personally offended that a couple jabronis posted a bunch of stuff to build up some initial momentum.
Thanks for the input.
I will add background information to it
"But Your Honor, I'm not distributing copies of the copyrighted program, just another program which happens to generate the copyrighted program bit-by-bit! All my original creation, even though I was literally looking at the copyrighted program while developing it..."

Do you think that I can just gzip gplprogram.c and then redistribute gplprogram.c.gz under the "Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License"?
No, seriously, Google Search is broken
It’s not great, but I do think it’s best enjoyed by a child of a certain age. I’m gonna go with 7-11 years of age.

It’s not even close to Disneyland, but if your kid likes legos and they’re of that age group they’ll have a good time.
superlative capacitors
I grew up pretty poor and never had hope that I could go to college...so I never tried in high school, and never took my SATs and was resigned to a life in lower paying non-career jobs.

After a few years of this, I remember interviewing at a larger company for a position in their IT department. I didn't get the job, but the interviewer gave me life changing advice, "why don't you just go to the local CC?". I had no idea that was even an option, so I looked into it, the cost was cheap, it allowed for flexible part-time schedules, and I started my journey.

I ended up dual majoring, graduated from the CC, moved to a state Uni graduated with a BS, and later worked through an MS. It absolutely transformed my life. I'm the first person in my entire family to have been educated to this level.

I also grew up in an immigrant heavy area and met many wonderful people from around the world at the CC, who also all went on to get BSs and MSs and move through successfully better careers at major companies. CC was their entry point into the American dream.

Still, that stigma hung with me until I had an experience where I was able to move past it. I was invited to a be part of a business team to build a product to sell to an overseas customer. Everybody introduced themselves and their backgrounds, some were very impressive, and a couple of them even had graduated from the Ivys. It clicked then, even with all of this impressive education and experience, we were all working at the same place on the same effort and I deserved to be there.

Ever since then, whenever somebody tries to edu-shame me or another person, I always reply with "and yet we're all working in the same place" and that shuts it down immediately.
I expect it will end up being or, rather than and.
Coding is a poor use of time given that it runs counter to context switching required of management. If you see someone suggest this you should make that clear. Anyone with a decent amount of experience could help back this point up should you encounter someone trying to push for this.

There's a lot of other things a manager can do outside management but engineering requires too much focus.

There is a push for managers to return to engineering full time in some companies and that's reasonable if there's an imbalance but asking managers to spend 20% of their time keeping their development environment up to date (the only thing you'll get done with the amount of context switching) is immature.
Internet Community Design
For a long time, that was a function of patents: LEGO bricks actually have slightly concave pegs, like inverted cones.

Those patents only recently expired, which is one of the reasons they pushed so hard into licensing to distinguish their brand.
HN gets a public key, that's the account. The private key is stored on your device, say on iOS it would be stored encrypted in the secure enclave and accessible via TouchID/FaceID.

There is little to no point in stealing the HN user database at that point because that's all just useless public keys, it has no passwords.

If you wanted to add a device to the HN account you'd login, go to the settings, and generate another pub/private key for the new device rather than the traditional "change password". As there is no password. Most likely you're familiar with a variation of this already from sites like Github.
I have met nobody who is making substantial money from Youtube or other social media. Is it not true that you need huge subscriber and view numbers to make money? I compare it to making money as a professional athlete or musician or other celebrity profession. Yes you can do well (even really well) but the odds are much more likely that you'll make peanuts.

Edit -- I did think of one person I kmnow personally who is probably making some money from YouTube, but he was a well-known author and public speaker before that. YouTube became an additional channel for things he had already invested many years in creating, it was not something he launched into as an alternative to or replacement for his day job.
> more so because what we did to ourselves by using it in the way we did.

what was the cause of pain?
It's interesting, and hopefully more companies will go in this direction, but 1" is still quite a bit smaller than even a M4/3 sensor, and I had really hoped for interchangeable lenses when it said "real camera".
I recall a game theory argument that the tobacco advertising ban was overall a boon for tobacco companies, since most of the effect of advertising was poaching other brands' customers rather than getting non-smokers to pick up the habit.

A ban on gambling ads might ironically similarly be in the interests of gambling companies.
AMD’s 7950X3D: Zen 4 Gets VCache
Ok, so how do I checkout a version and view the file/schema tree?

If you like, you can view my comment above as saying 'if they included that tooling, not just the similar tree of changes stored, it would be better'.

How to get from one state to the next is interesting to the computer, not to me (not after I've initially written it/done it in prod anyway), I'm interested in the result, where do we stand after all of the migrations (currently on disk having checked out whatever).
Really does seem kinda horrifying from a modern sanitation standpoint but - I really love the idea of it, and I guess if you lived in a community committed to maintaining it, you could minimize any danger. (You could probably do some smart natural filtration stuff too, which is maybe already a part of their canal infrastructure.)

a whole town of water features is so darling and lovely. Seems like it’d be real interesting to stay there and ‘immerse’ yourself in the cuisine / culture.
A few updates back Apple made Siri quiet. I re-enabled confirmation on every action because I don't trust that it recognizes exactly what I'm saying.

Google's assistant is generally better, but still not perfect. I wish the confirmations would stay but become shorter. Not the "Yes, I have done X for you do you want more" that all these assistants do.
True. I imagine many crypto startups have desperately pivoted to AI with their last gasp of cash given the recent blowup.
Show HN: A new major version of jql has been released
On average you get 30% of capacity.

But, a solar plant with a nameplate capacity of 1GW is roughly 15-17x cheaper than a 1GW nuclear plant and starts chipping away at gas and coal usage almost straight away, not in 15-20 years.
Lego is also often the only game in town.

Star Wars' Kenobi TV show had this sleek black ship to transport the Imperial Inquisitors. Lego made a set of it. No other toy manufacturer has, so if you want to play with your own Inquisitor shuttle, Lego is the only choice. Why, I wonder? There are Star Wars toys that are not Lego, so why are those toy makers not jumping on the opportunity? I honestly don't get it. Unless Lego has a deal with Disney to be the only ones authorized to make toys of certain vehicles/scenes/characters.
hence the cost of linux centos (before being killed)

“value delivered”: same as RHEL

“perceived utility”: a path to RHEL subscription

Since the second is not true anymore for IBM, centos was converted to be less of a threat to RHEL by decreasing its delivered value, and offering a 'new' utility: kind of work like RHEL but please pay to get the full RHEL experience.
> What are you supposed to do exactly when you are in a region with spotty internet and you get a page?

Go somewhere with better internet access. Not all incidents require that you must immediately check on it.
My high-flying life as a corporate spy who lied his way to the top
In the context of Huawei or Xiaomi it can only mean hardware products, since neither sold any stand-alone software product to consumers in the U.S.

At least not any that I'm aware of?
Is there a notification system that tries to be a little smarter about escalations? That seems a difficult area. A developer doesn’t know - should this be escalated, or should it not? Is it sufficiently impactful, or not? The same questions arise in customer success who generally error on the side of raising the escalation level at the expense of rest. This seems like an area that could be vastly improved with statistics (something like Robust Decisions) or machine learning. I haven’t seen that, and wonder if others have?
Non-sequitur for this thread, but I can’t reply to old posts on HN and I don’t see any DM functionality.

I saw your post on an affirmative action thread about class vs race on an economist article from a few months ago, and I was wondering how your son’s college applications ended up going.
Here's a crazy idea. USB-C can coexist with the new port until the new port proves its worth standardizing to the same degree (as USB-C).

But somehow we have decided that small computers (aka phones) must only have 1 port.
Pretty sure if you aren’t buying the microcontroller wholesale and in quantity, it will cost more than a Lego in a typical set.
A classic case of bad prompting. By saying "can you find" GPT4 is assuming that she wants an internet search done, which it can't do. If you change the word find to "remind me of" then it will spit out the correct quote.
a question as innocuous as this is a "bad faith argument"? We are in a thread about Xiaomi _hardware_, but nefarious intentions are more probable to you than someone just having the original subject in mind?
For the record, the owner of Bet365, the UK’s largest gambling company, has earned roughly £1.5 billion in dividends since 2016 and is the UK’s largest taxpayer.

https://www.businessinsider.com/betting-boss-takes-pay-cut-s...
> To be fair, Scala.js is a relatively new project

I don't know if you are aware, a few months ago, Scala.js turned 10 years old: https://www.scala-lang.org/blog-detail/2023/02/05/ten-years-...
What? I've plugged lightning cables into pretty much any imaginable sort of USB-A socket over than last decade and have never encountered one that wouldn't supply a charge specifically to a lightning cable. Please, be specific with what limitations you're referring to because this is counter to all evidence I've ever been witness to.
To be a bit pedantic, those options aren't mutually exclusive. An appealing property of C is that it's easy to target almost any device (often making it the best or only option). So it's possible to like C because you like (and need) something you can compile in lots of different places.
they're operating while ignoring and violating copyrights and licenses, and opening themselves to a possibility of a lawsuit. there's getty v stability so we're gonna find out.
I hereby declare sports betting a honorary member of the poverty industry.
Huh, yaml is just all around the worst on any metric. I would much rather stick to xml even.
It's owned by a Chinese company from what I understand. I don't think they have a particular bone with Aaron, but generally just believe in deleting inconvenient controversies.
Good point, but not in base 1.
But does not give you the certifications/course work. Which the cc likely requires.

I went to take an EMT class. I was required to show I passed high school algebra. I couldn't get my hs transcript. The cc wouldn't accept my college transcript because the lowest math I took in college was calc two. Same for English comp. I tested out of that in college so much lowest comp class was 350 - tech writing.

I had to take 2 hours of online tests to show the competency. For a class that didn't even require either.
I’d go further and say that most mainstream print journalism is in a competence crisis.

I simply no longer trust journalist in places like the Guardian to have sufficient background knowledge, networks or expertise to surface dramatic stories or assess sources.

Most of what they have online are “live blogs” just repeating whatever some rando tweeted (with no context or analysis) or some clickbait-y opinion pieces that are demonstrably incorrect.

Substack is much better but then the whole task of filtering and assessing sources is put back on to the reader.
It's coming from the same people that call "boot" the volume where the operating system resides and "system" the volume that is booted:

http://www.multibooters.co.uk/system.html

And that of course puts 32 bits executables in SysWoW64 and 64 bit executables in System32.
instra.com
Thanks. But we do not need to raise any money. As I said, we make single digit millions (in Euro) per year in profit.

Do you have any other ideas? Or did I misunderstood you?
You’re right. They probably pay a premium on the sticker price, after you include all of the necessary professional services and us gov only personnel with security clearances.
Your search query would be bad on most platforms. You're basically searching the index for "pieces", "of" and "me" separately. If that's a song title, you should put it in quotes. If you rewrite your query to do that, it starts giving actual results: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22pieces+of+me%22+is+actual...
So is this, like, astroturfing as a service?

>I have tried to make this project as ethical as possible

No offense but "fake user engagement using bots to trick real people into thinking a product is more popular than it is" doesn't seem like it can be ethical at all.
AWA's Acoustic Hood – Effective Silencing for Office Printers
If only the OpenAI api gave us the token probabilities like it used to.
Doing it in a way that evades scrutiny brings deserved suspicion
Yeah, the licensing aspect especially. Also, recognition of their fans by way of their fan-created sets. It’s almost unbelievable to me that it took them that long to have such a division.
As someone who might be tempted to someday attempt a community-service teaching assignment, the lessons I'd take from this are:

1. Accept only a for-credit class.

2. Demand a "weed-out" midterm, to be held before the last-drop date.