skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An extensive amount of PG's works are now out of copyright

This is one of the rare instances where works have entered the public domain in the US before other countries. None of Wodehouse's works are in the public domain in the UK, EU, India or Canada.
This is really interesting, but I have trouble enjoying it because the earth keeps spinning while I try to look at a specific part.
Do you not consider the Swiss Confederation to be a democracy? If so, why not?
> Web links from Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts and Microsoft (MSA) accounts in the Outlook for Windows app will open in Microsoft Edge in a single view showing the opened link side-by-side with the email it came from

This looks like a simple embedded browser feature blown out of proportion. You can probably ctrl-click the link to open in whatever browser you've configured as default in a new window.
Why stop at bankers, lets extend this to all sorts of job titles that should be held liable for their actions (or the actions of their subordinates).
Which categories are those?
Will quantum computing forge the new Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
Unix: An Oral History
Months probably. Took the team I was on ~6mo to complete a very large AWS -> GKE migration.

If we weren't using k8s it probably would have been impossible though. We were lucky we used fairly minimal managed services, mostly RDS and a tiny bit of SQS and Kinesis which were ported to Kafka as part of the move.
Bro don’t be a robot.

We do what we do to live better lives.

You’re lucky you don’t have to figure that out at 32 with an unfortunate circumstance such as cancer. It’s sad that you may never without such a thing.
We’re still technically in an ice age - there is permanent ice at the poles (for now). In contrast during other ages all the ice melted in summer, even at the poles.
> Good news! We'll see how the publishers will torpedo it

Indeed! Maybe they will try to make it difficult to access but atleast as long as the access is open and free (as in beer), all those efforts will do is give rise to a secondary platform that will solve the ease-of-access issue.

I suggest you submit a new post once EU decision is final, either way, so that this topic stays in the forefront :)
Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time trilogy is in that window, and it's fantastic. They might have been a one-off; his Shards of Earth book is not on its level.
> un-provable ... plausible

Your idea's first hurdle is the length of day vs the length of month. How do you keep the moon over one bulged part of Earth at all times? (it's a very different story for the moon, whose 'day' is as long as its orbit, more at [1]) Additionally, there is a solar tide at work on the oceans that is visible daily, and especially at spring and neap tides. The sun's mass drives a maximum of almost a third of the total ocean tidal bulge.

The second hurdle is viscosity (or if you like, elasticity): tides bulge the most readily-flowing parts of a body the strongest. That means the atmosphere (which is more strongly affected by daily heating <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_tide>), and the oceans are much more strongly affected than the "asthenosphere" (the rocky parts).

In particular, tides bulge the ocean by about a metre. The solid earth tide is closer to 0.2 metres. Thus, the question is: how do you raise a tidal bulge in the rocky part of Earth and keep it from being flooded by ocean tides?

> I am definitely not a geologist

It's more gravitation vs the liquid flow of a stratified (layered) planet than geology that is are the big hurdles.

For experts, tidal Love numbers are the important things for any round stratified body: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_number>, which describe the bumpiness (mass multipole) raised by tidal fores on a spherical body immersed in a tidal gravitational field.

The mantle's rheology (elasticity, viscosity, rigidity), representing about 85% of Earth's total volume, is the primary driver of the Earth's Love numbers. There's more detail on that here: <https://geodesyworld.github.io/SOFTS/solid.htm#link3>.

The crust is quite low-volume by comparison. So a third hurdle is straightforwardly: if there were a persistent bulge in the mantle, why wouldn't a relatively thick part of the crust (a giant continent in your idea) not just "roll downhill", or conversely, how do you get fractions of a round supercontinent to "roll uphill" to some lunar-attraction-induced meeting point?

Finally, with present understanding of continental drift, the continents tend split apart and come together over millions of years, and there's no evidence for anything approaching circularity. The link at the top lets one step through almost a billion years of continental drift, showing this fairly clearly.

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[1] Slide 8 ("Tides (2)") of the lecture notes at <https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~fnimmo/eart162_10/Week8.pdf> is pretty accessible, showing an Earth-centric diagram of tides and a moon-centric diagram of its tides, and throughout the rest of the slide deck there's lots of heavy stuff for people who like to grapple with mathematics.
> some guy in China will just bypass the bootloader lock for $30.

I've seen this kind of thing before but I have no idea how this works. Is it an insider employee at google or a mobile provider that is doing this on the side? Is it a 0-day exploit? Is it something that anyone can do but someone is productizing it for $30?
If the product is presented as your own thoughts, words and ideas but they came from chatgpt, then you're a grifter and at the very least you've overrepresented your expertise. Whether it qualifies as plagiarism is just semantics.
If you don’t tell on them I won’t when they access Gutenburg from illegal IPs.
That’s not their best hardware deal, but you also have to understand that you are paying for rack space, electricity, bandwidth, on-site staff for repairs, etc. They are actually absurdly inexpensive compared to competitors.
I am more worried about an intentional attack on the plants. I think that Putin is sufficiently insane that he could threaten to destroy the plants to obliterate attacking Ukrainians unless they withdrew.
I don't buy this "indistinguishable" claim. Especially in any general case. At most it would be not too annoying. It's always about paying with one quality for another.
I don't think so. Quantum computing should eventually pose a threat via Shor's algorithm, but then it will be one of those "have it or you don't" technologies. Eventually people will make the push to post-quantum cryptography and things will more-or-less look the same as they do today, I wager.
It's called astroturfing, and it's standard PR and party politics. The idea that a mainstream newspaper, which is beholden to advertisers and granting agencies could be dismissed as "right wing," is ridiculous. You may in fact believe the National Post is edgy, and that a literal newspaper is still capable of offending delicate sensibilities, but I can't accept that view as worthy, serious, or normal.
Elon is a shockingly basic red-pilled bro.
How about politicians?
Programmers are not held liable. If you go to another industry, such as construction, it's not the case.
What a lovely board. Extremely capable with a great CPU, huge memory bandwidth, and a ton of I/O especially via Thunderbolt. The other comments are pervasively negative, but there's nothing else one can get that will be anywhere near as capable and small a general purpose system. It's a lovely offering.

I wish we saw more competition in this space, but alas it's a kind of boutique market. AMD keeps making Ryzen Embedded chips for example, but they're vastly less capable systems, offer less IO, and often cost many hundreds more.
Hey! I have some feedback. The remote jobs need more filtering. Some remote jobs restrict to a few countries and some are global.

There is no easy way for me to find all the remote jobs which hire from India
If there's an option to using alternatives to those you don't trust, like Google or Apple, that's good. If not you need to find an alternative service.

You need the choice.
When I was ~6 or so my dad showed me how to use BASIC on an Apple //e (looks like the same model in the video). I asked him essentially the same question in the video about the cursor, to which he answered simply "that's the cursor, it's waiting for you to type something".

Which my 6-year-old brain interpreted as, there is a HUMAN called the "cursor" somewhere waiting for me to type something, so they can carry out the command! This idea filled me with anxiety as I assumed they must be impatient waiting for me to figure out what command to type next.

(I fairly soon realized this was not the case. But I think I must have kept my early computer sessions quite short to avoid irking the cursor.)
Florida recently completed a high speed rail project (The same cannot he said for CA HSR). It’s no bullet train but pretty comparable to Acela. Everyone throwing shade on FL might be surprised that they are actually ahead of the game on a lot of infrastructure.
"Too many requests"

(In response to trying a test search.)

Give this metasearch engine an "A" rating for sense of humor.

Maybe it's not a great idea to call a frontend a "search engine" if the frontend operator does not also control the backends.
Men perpetrate the violence. Women often talk them into it.
Eh, I've had damage to my house due to a tree falling during an extremely unusually windy storm that easily ate up a few years worth of premiums.

The insurance company came out, took some pictures, and cut me a check as soon as I had a few quotes on cost to repair the damage.

Due to the size of the claim, however, they were required to put both my name and the bank that held the mortgage on the check, and they were a royal pain in the ass to deal with. I ended up paying the contractors out of pocket to keep them working while the bank and I played paperwork tag through the mail just to get them to sign the damned check.
Also cost of maintenance. In much of the US they can barely keep the paint lines clear and the pavement un-potholed, and now we want to put electric infrastructure into the mix?
> It runs sandboxed kernel extensions? Or it's a VM?

Yes to both of those.

The kernel has a bunch of extension points that can run eBPF code in a VM. That code can make decisions for the kernel and/or track events.

eBPF code can do basically any calculation you want, but it can't have infinite loops.

It's loaded as bytecode, with a spec for how it's formatted and what the instructions do and what data structures are built in to the VM.

The main benefit is that it runs in the kernel, so it can be triggered very very often with minimal performance impact.
> it implies that employers wouldn't know that they'd be on the hook for unemployment deficits, despite it being an explicit part of a pretty-well trodden piece of federal law.

This is misleading- employers know they would need to pay for any deficits. But employers did not expect there to be deficits- no one expected that CA would default on the loan. And the reason why CA defaulted is frustrating:

"When states across the country received loan-free federal aid as a result of the federal government’s unprecedented emergency spending packages, most chose to use at least a portion of those funds to pay back the federal loans they’d been forced to take to support their unemployment programs. California received $15.3 billion in federal Coronavirus Relief Funds, *but allocated none of it to repaying its outstanding loans.*" [1]

The same article also points out that CA could have paid off the loan easily with their surplus ($97.5 billion)- but they simply decided not to...

> because "a maximum of $21" isn't quite as eye-popping as $18.5 billion

The issue is in the end, the $18.5 billion will all be paid off. It's still an extra $18.5 billion being paid that would not have been paid otherwise, if CA had been more responsible.

[1] https://www.ocregister.com/2023/03/27/california-had-a-97-5-...
> “I didn’t really appreciate the implications of the World Wide Web.”

That's not a mistake in TCP/IP.
Your point stands, but I think you're arguing about static vs dynamic typing, rather than strong vs weak typing.

CL is dynamically typed (values have types, not variables), w/ strong types (automatic type coercions are rare).
Motorola has an automated process where you send them the phone serial number or something like that and they'll send you back a code that can be used to unlock the bootloader.

I'm on a Moto g100 that I bought last year, originally intending for it to be a temporary phone while I found a flagship that I actually liked, but it's really grown on me. It has most of the features I was looking for, in particular official LineageOS support, and a microSD slot. I think I might just stick with it.

The other one I had been seriously looking at is Sony's Xperia lineup, but the current and previous generation have had overheating issues. I think their bootloader unlocking process is similar, though.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/24/opinion-california-sh...

And an older WSJ article, before CA's default, that was critical of CA's decision making:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/democratic-led-states-let-their...
Still doesn't change the fact that highway driving and automobile based transportation is not going anywhere. High speed rail won't ever replace cars. It's a nice supplemental form of transport, and works fine for point to point transport between major hubs, but it doesn't work at a distributed scale.
This is a magazine of by and for radical leftists. But today, the undisputed master of "plain style" is Donald J. Trump.
Depends? Is your load consistent and latency sensitive? Then having a small ECS instance may be a lot better.
I remember seeing the news about this at the time, and wondering how the phrase “Ball’s Deep Impact…” in some headlines made it past the copy editors desk.
Including dry shampoo (analysis by the same lab as in OP):
https://www.valisure.com/valisure-newsroom/valisure-detects-...

1) Kudos to Valisure for their work.

2) Is benzene so expensive to remove or "neutralize'? (I am not a chemist.)
Three phase to the home?! Whaattt?! If you want to rectify yourself some DC power, 3-phase is awesome.

Are there three phase sockets available? I'd think you could build things like high power audio amplifiers or power supplies at radically better price points, if this were actually usable from the wall in places.
Paying off debt is not retaining or spending.
It's not that it's wrong to focus on sRGB but the computation itself does not use linear gamma (which is not excusable - incorrectly assuming that 2.2 gamma is how people perceive light results on overemphasis on brighter spots)
Nah I am too cheap. And I would prefer something like a Brave Goggle instead.
The economist writers are like chatGPT of journalism. It all sounds fine and you think it's great right up to the point it's on a topic you know /anything/ at all about. Suddenly every single time, just on the topics you know just something of it has no depth, no understanding and has no idea what facts it just made up.

The writers are clearly intelligent and literary it's just they genuinely don't care to understand the subject of their writing. Try it for yourself. Pick anything you know a bit about then read the economist on it. It's a partial crib sheet at best.

I pick investing above and think that list is shallow. Any takers for Florida, poker, Scottish independence, banned books?
Vinge is probably my favorite SciFi author.

His "True Names" is everything you need to know about "cyberspace", written in 1981 but still seems modern today:

> True Names is a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk. The story also contains elements of transhumanism, anarchism, and even hints about The Singularity.

> True Names first brought Vinge to prominence as a science fiction writer. It also inspired many real-life hackers and computer scientists; a 2001 book about the novella, True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, included essays by Danny Hillis, Marvin Minsky, Mark Pesce, Richard Stallman and others.[1] It was awarded the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names
>An April study found that a similar tilt like the one from 84 million years ago is currently happening, courtesy of climate change.

What a completely scitifically illiterate article.
I will give it a try - thanks!
"Turbo Rascal Syntax Error" is a great name, especially since it can be read in trochaic tetrameter.

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

https://xkcd.com/1412/
I used this on a project recently and I regret it honestly. It just made unnecessarily complicated. All the docs depend on the sibling library react-stately also, so you'll definitely want that also if you're using react-aria.

I wonder if anyone here has used react-aria and also headless-ui and have any notes about their comparison.
It makes sense to me, there is nothing that any Japan sized military force could do to deter a China sized one, the only lever they can pull is diplomacy and economic pressure. I can also see why Japanese citizens would not want to spend more on a military force to fight in a conflict over Taiwan.
There’s history here. Green threads are as opposed to native, you both agree on that. The original green threads were pretty weak and behaved as described above. People use the green threads term today to mean a much more featured version that is as you describe it. Lisp also has it. So really everyone is right, except for your statement that Lisp does not have green threads. It has native, old style green and new style green threads.
Nothing except for being near a plane of charge, which has a constant field strength near itself. The field of a charged wire falls off as 1/r.
Ask HN: Why is the state of “smart home” devices still so dire?
Reading through the comment section on “I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849060) made me realize:

Is there no company smaller than Google or Amazon or Apple willing or able to make a better smart home device? Especially now with AI solving the language-proficiency problem in talking to these devices, it seems like the rest of the product is just API integrations with a few hundred smart home hardware vendors, and some easy lookups like weather and calendar.

Is there something I'm missing about why the current generation of these still suck so bad? As a weekend project I bolted speech-synthesis and speech-recognition to ChatGPT (and have seen similar "Show HN" posts) and immediately had a more interesting conversational partner than Alexa or, god help them, Siri has ever been.

Why are three of the most profitable technology companies in the history of mankind unable to come up with better than Google Home, Alexa, and Siri? Is there some unusual challenge here that I fail to understand?

Plenty of people I know would spend $500-1000 (not to mention the lightbulbs, appliances, or various “smart” gadgets) on just the smart home “brain” itself, and not even for something HN folks might consider “ideal” (privacy respecting, no ads etc), but just for a device that actually, usefully, and consistently does most of the things these devices purport to do. Why can’t three different trillion-dollar companies even manage that, and more to the point, why aren’t there more billion-dollar companies even trying?
Traditional, purist definitions: 1:1 threading = native threads, N:1 threading = green threads, M:N threading = hybrid threads (since it is a hybrid of the native and green approaches)

However, a lot of people nowadays call M:N threading "green" instead of "hybrid". Just Google it you will find lots of people using the term in this way. From a traditional purist viewpoint it is an incorrect usage, but it is also now very common. I guess part of the reason is that green threads in the original sense is less useful today – one of the major historical motivators was it could run on OS platforms which lacked native threads, which was a common problem in the mid-1990s and earlier but nowadays almost never is – so it is unsurprising the term gets stolen for a closely related yet distinct technology with far greater contemporary usefulness.

Wikipedia's article – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_thread – essentially contradicts itself. The start of the article gives the traditional definition of "green threads". But then the "Green threads in other languages" section ends up describing lots of things which are much closer to being "hybrid threads" than "green threads". This is the problem with an "encyclopaedia which anyone can edit", it is easy to unintentionally edit an article into contradicting itself, and on highly technical topics it is easy for the contradiction to go unnoticed. I myself am not sure I can fix it, because although I know the true story about the definitions (or at least I think I do), I don't know any reliable source to cite for it.

Their thread article – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)#Threading_m... – does define M:N as "hybrid threading", whereas it calls N:1 "user-level threading". It also notes "green threads" as a synonym for "user threads"–but "user threads" aka "green threads" exist in both the M:N and N:1 models. It never defines "green threads" as a model as opposed to as a type of thread which exists in two out of the three models.
Modeling Animal Vocalizations Through Synthesizers
Algorithms to review and edit bloated designs, e.g. the ridiculous bloat of features available to the driver of a new automobile.
i struggle to find categories on the front page containing falsifiable assertions

where are the best five books on linear algebra, on signal processing, on control theory, on equid phylogeny, on group theory, on energy-efficient architectural design, on civil engineering?

they do have https://fivebooks.com/best-books/artificial-intelligence-gpt... to be fair, and all five seem to actually exist, but kahneman is in the list?

some of the lists on https://fivebooks.com/category/technology/ look more promising

for example, they do have a list of five books on programming. but it includes 'clean code', by that unqualified blowhard bob martin? the cs for data science list looks possibly okay

and their recommendations for philosophy of technology come from... evgeny morozov? are they deliberately trying to get terrible recommendations?
It makes more sense for some professions to be high-risk/high-reward—e.g., a startup executive. But banks are innately conservative institutions—depositors need to be able to get their money on demand, so it makes more sense to take measures that make banking professionals more conservative.
Wasn't this the whole purpose of introducing em to replace points ?
Sounds reasonable, and worth nothing that TV's dominant use case is entertainment, whereas it is ChatGPT's minority use case.

ChatGPT is less applicable to _Amusing Ourselves To Death_ and most applicable to his _Technopoly_ book.

Taken straight from Wikipedia:

> This is exemplified, in Postman's view, by the computer, the "quintessential, incomparable, near-perfect" technology for a technopoly. It establishes sovereignty over all areas of human experience based on the claim that it "'thinks' better than we can".

In the computer age Postman experienced, the IBM database system was the dominant mode of computing technolopy, and had mainly the High Modernist faults of a false claim to control and order. ChatGPT and other generative models much more directly attack the supremacy of human thinking, and make it much easier for us to cede control.
I think you are being willfully disagreeable here. There is a Lisp with the style of threads you claimed doesn’t exist. So you’re simply wrong with your claim. Also even if that didn’t exist, no one can say that a day’s worth of work is a prohibitive barrier to getting things done.