skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything brings in wealth disparities, except for redistributing wealth. That’s an inherent part of one person having more wealth than another, it allows them to buy more.

It is a waste of time to bring it up every single time. We know being poor sucks, but that is its own issue with its own solution separate from solving too many vehicles in certain parts of Manhattan at certain times.
A First Look at the Impact of Netflix’s Password Sharing Crackdown
A huge part of of why London could pull it off is the exceptional state of the Underground. It’s not hard to wean off cars when the alternative is a clean, fast, modern train a short walk away. NYC is going to have an uphill battle getting the MTA to anywhere near that level, and the MTA itself is already leagues ahead of any other transit system in the US.

I would love to see London-tier transit in the United States, but until our bureaucracies can solve about a dozen or so hard problems, plans like this will remain all stick, no carrot.
Now try to look up videos of Mercedes’ L3 system in operation and you’ll see how hilarious this claim is. It shuts off immediately without a vehicle to follow in front of you. Good luck taking a nap and typing emails. L3 my ass.
Only if you don't use suitable materials:

> Steel with an ultimate tensile strength of less than 1000 MPa (~145,000 psi) or hardness of less than HRC 32 on the Hardness Rockwell Scale is not generally considered susceptible to hydrogen embrittlement.

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

Gas storage facilities also generally use geological structures which are not susceptible to hydrogen embrittlement either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_storage#Types
popular would mean at least 100k-1mil. is this mercedes really popular like this?
> Except for Syria, where the US is actually leading a coalition. But that is more a humanitarian intervention than anything else.

The intervention is what created the humanitarian crisis. Currently, its humanitarian goal is to guard oil production.
In addition to its use as a fuel, it's also a chemical feedstock, perhaps notably for the production of ammonia. In fact, wind-to-ammonia production would be a cool thing. Synthetic ammonia for fertilizer, produced via the Haber-Bosch process, sustains more than half of the world's animal population.

A lot of ideas for reducing our carbon footprint depend on the dream of getting methane out of the fertilizer business.
(This is not meant to be an anti-ai-generated-art rant. It's coming whether we like it or not. But some of the motives in this thread confuse me.)

Music producer here with an honest question to those saying "this will provide me with a simple soundtrack/background music for $PROJECT"

Have any of you checked out / made offers on music production subreddits? Or other music subreddits? various music production discords? Elsewhere on the internet?

If so, could you say what your experience has been?

I ask because the music production scene is like...ridiculously saturated, and it's almost a meme in the producer community how hard it is to make even a buck producing. I suspect that there are a significant number of producers who would be happy to take your "prompt" for a small fee. Yes, I understand 1) free and 2) immediate is convenient, but isn't 1) relatively inexpensive and 2) whatever advantage intent in construction gives good too?

I'm willing to admit that I'm missing something here, but I'd love it if someone could enlighten me.

While I'm asking follow ups, to all the folks who love digging for new music so much that they're considering turning to prompting AIs, I'd be seriously surprised if you've really checked out all the stuff that is coming out from new producers (again, reddit, soundcloud, etc). Another meme in the producer community is how one spends hundreds/thousands of hours perfecting ones craft, and dozens of hours working on a track, only for that track to get like 5 plays on soundcloud and negligible engagement elsewhere. Are music consumers really that desperate for new tunes? Frankly a lot of us just aren't seeing it....
This is an ideological position, termed Capitalist Realism [1]. Given the failing of social reproduction, environmental protection, long term planning against existential and systemic risk, the mental health crisis and the collapse of civil and political life, under entrenched and victorious capitalism - an increasingly absurd one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
Make the window active you look at - tried to make it with oculus developer kit didn't work that time, maybe with this hw
I see. Yes, that is a bit disappointing.
> Describing the NYC subway as "working great" is an amazing twisting of the truth. The only thing good about it is that it isn't as bad as public transport in Long Island. Otherwise, good luck going anywhere on time without having to add 30 minutes - an hour of waste just standing around.

just to add some real numbers, we can look at the actual NYC subway data from MTA's march 2023 report[0] page 12:

* ~3.7m subway riders in march 2023

* 84.7% of riders arrived at their destinations within 5min of schedule

* 83.3% weekday on-time performance

* 85.6% weekend on-time performance

[0] https://new.mta.info/document/109346
I know that ECL works on Apple M1 and otherwise, as of Swift - no idea. LQML / EQL5 created by Paul Ruetz is a very cool project that works on iphone, android and such with appealing graphical inteface. It is basically ECL embedded in QT.

If I recall correctly Paul has a few applications in the Apple Store, but you'd need to ask him directly to confirm that.
There's more reason for NJ residents to take issue with this. In central jersey, it costs at least $20/person for a round trip ticket. If you go with your family or a group of friends filling a 5 seat car, the train costs $100 just to get into the city and then get hit with whatever additional costs you have for the next few subway rides. Gas, parking, and
carpool bridge/tunnel toll prices don't add up to anywhere near that amount.

The reality is that this ends up being a regressive plan where high income earners benefit and everyone else just has to deal with increased burdens.
Given that this isn't handpicked and just top results from a 2-minute search:

> That's 12 years old but a legitimate complaint about AWS customer service.

Should have at least prompted you to do your own search. The fact that it didn't is the end of this discussion.
> The past several years have shown that while the intentions of FISA are probably good

When did the past several years show this?
The problem is that people think that decentralization somehow solves the problem.

It doesn't. In most cases, like Reddit or Twitter or Mastodon or whatever the issue isn't that something is centralized but that things actually do cost money to build and run.

Even decentralized architectures like Mastodon need that - and very few people actually want to pay for it. That is why the various efforts to monetize the content, lock down APIs and push in your face ads happen.

The VCs that were paying for Twitter or Reddit aren't willing to do that forever - and neither of the companies are actually making profit or even not making a loss. Whether that is because the business is poorly run or some other problem is secondary but unless they start to make money somehow, they will close down at some point. It is that simple.

The article - like most that spout these 'decentralization solves everything' (same like blockchain/crypto/web3/metaverse/etc.) mantras completely ignore this problem or handwave it away. As if a decentralized system ran on fairy dust and unicorn poop and didn't need to pay for servers, electricity, wages, etc. Sorry, but that's not how the world works, folks.

If you don't want to pay money for a service then that leaves the operator with either ads - or has to pay it out of their own pocket. No "defi" or "fedi" solves that - only makes things maybe more resilient when one operator goes bankrupt or rogue. But the rest still have to pay their expenses somehow.

Also the entire premise is BS - as if online forums were somehow centralized and everyone was prevented from running their own server and community, using their own rules (no "censorship" or "cancel culture"! Yay!) and money (a-ha!). Reddit, Twitter, Facebook etc. aren't the only places where one can have a discussion or post information.
The thing is people often don't know what they want. You can show them an innovative solution to a problem they were having and they might want that.
I don't know, I think the fact that content is indexable and searchable is one of the best things to ever happen to information.

The main reason I hate it when people send me voice messages is not that they're annoying to listen to, it's that I can't find them using the search function.

I'd gladly carry a recorder on me that would capture and transcribe all of my IRL conversations, but unfortunately many people would probably consider that creepy so I can't do that.
Is the message archiver also affected?
My first dialup was to BBS's in the early 80s using a Novation AppleCat[1] and I think I was using The Source[2] around the same time, which eventually got swallowed by CompuServe[3]. To access The Source you dialed in to Telenet[4] first and then connected from there.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novation_CAT#The_Apple-CAT_II

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(online_service)

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet

I think my first Internet access was through Prodigy[5]. The Wikipedia says this wouldn't have been till 1994[6], but I remember it being a few years earlier since by 1994 I would have been using AOL.

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)#Conve...

My first significant Internet access was at U.F. in 1995. While at U.F. I was also the sole system administrator for a small ISP in Gainesville. Two PCs running Slackware, a Livingston PortMaster with a dozen Hayes modems attached and a T1 for uplink.

My family also piloted something called Viewtron in the early 80s:

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

AT&T marketing video for Viewtron:

https://youtu.be/sgYkpk9nJnE
Good news for my custom, plain and simple, C coded media player based on ffmpeg. I'll be able to view such streams, but...

... how I can be a contributor of such p2p stream without a big tech web engine? (I use only noscript/basic (x)html browsers).

I could setup a "node" (should be plain and simple C coded) on my desktop computer, then from this node, I would extract the stream itself and watch it locally (I have a 800MBits uplink, and I know what IP diffserv with its ethernet translation is).

If the specs/protocol stack are reasonable and not too much convoluted, I would even be able to code such node (based on ffmpeg, very probably).

AND... if this p2p network is actually good and works IRL, do you really think the CDNs and streaming platforms will let it exist without a little bit of DDOS-ing...?
Hmm, depends a lot on the State.

You can generally make two generalizations about local governments in the United States: they are local governments and you can’t make any other generalizations about them because everything depends on the State and sometimes a locality’s specific circumstances.

In California, municipalities do not adhere to the counties they are in, the county is a legal subdivision of the State which might also have a charter and cities are municipal corporations with a monopoly on the land use within their cities. School districts are also a form of local government here, as are special purpose districts like BART.

In some parts of New England, and I’m not going to go into specifics because when I looked into this more than 10 years ago this had changed or some States were changing it, the State is divided into counties and the counties were divided into townships which are the basis of the New England township system. Somewhere in there, there are also cities, and Maine has a couple of severely underpopulated places designated as Plantations.

So, congestion pricing in the US: NYC, LA, San Francisco and probably Seattle absolutely have the power to this if they wanted to, although I’ll say for San Francisco that would have made a lot more sense to try before the pandemic than now, cuz now, well now downtown is dead so what would it really do? Fairly certain Boston could as well. Everywhere else, I’m less certain, like in Texas I’m fairly certain cities there could, but I’m also fairly certain the Texan legislature under their own laws has the power to step in and go “No. None of that. Shame on you.”
See the hydrogen ladder for what can use synthetic fuels compared to hydrogen as a feedstock.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
I was one told that memory and bus bandwidth often creates disparity between benchmark and application performances in ARM CPUs. That was years ago and supposedly don’t apply to custom designs like M2, but maybe both Intel and AMD are still advantageous in that region?
Well yeah, the market here would be people who already have a reasonably powerful Mac and would rather have that fill their gaming needs instead of having to build or buy a separate dedicated device for that.

But what I was really getting at is the trouble that game studios have been encountering lately when porting PS5 and Xbox titles to Windows, which is that these games are so reliant on those consoles' 16GB shared memory pool that they perform terribly on PCs. The impact is double, because not only are most GPUs in usage right now anemic when it comes to VRAM (even my last-gen high end 3080 Ti comes up short at only 12GB), traditional PCs also have to copy data between RAM and VRAM. Significant re-architecting for the Windows port is required to work around this.

M-series Macs are much more similar to current gen consoles with their shared memory pool, which in theory could make porting from console to Mac (at least when targeting Macs with 16GB+ of RAM) more straightforward than porting to Windows. While some work would need to be done to support Metal, the two most popular engines already do much of that legwork and the work that remains can be shared across multiple titles.
I haven’t tried Copilot Chat but I imagine the key difference is the context. bloop’s tuned to answer questions from anywhere in a repo, copilot chat uses the context of what you’re looking at in-IDE.
Before Reddit, almost immediately before, that's what Usenet was for. Google kind of ruined it by hijacking it with Groups, then Reddit took over.

Weed need a decentralized equivalent to Usenet.
this caused me physical pain but thanks for writing it
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

DeviceScript: TypeScript for Tiny IoT Devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36059878 - May 2023 (101 comments)
I’ve heard it said that if it’s important enough to you then you will give it the time it needs. Either spending time with certain people or when working. For long lists, pick the task that’s most important to complete and do it. Then pick the next most important task and repeat.
Comments are surprisingly negative - I would have thought hn would celebrate such an advance
I'm not talking about ipnsort, which I think is great. It makes good use of existing work and doesn't use AVX at all. So extending it with AVX-512 partition code would also be a good project!
I went with the NH-D15 when I built my 5950x desktop. I've never fiddled with liquid cooling, and having to locate a radiator seemed like a pain. I very much hope not to need to touch it again for a decade. After tweaking the fan profile, it's silent most of the time. Of course, it does make it kind of a pain to remove my GPU because it's so bulky; I need to use a shim to reach the PCI-E latch.
I never thought reducing emissions was the reason for trying to reduce disposable plastic bag usage, though I don't doubt many might believe it does.
Well I was trying to still give a chance to FSD, but as you are raising the stakes...Let's agree to have Marrakech as the baseline - https://youtu.be/SsZlduEIyPQ

And we can also test it in Ho Chi Minh. Tesla says it has superhuman abilities... - https://youtu.be/1ZupwFOhjl4
sometimes one has to wonder how RL can be both so generic and still be qualification to publich in nature again and again and again ;)
I can build projects using sdl2 in C with sdl2-config, or using cl-sdl2 with SBCL by following some steps I found online to fix macbook m1 quirks (see below).

Right now I’m trying and failing to load cl-sdl2 it from an ECL repl- I’m not sure how sdl2-config would be used in that situation. ECL is installed via homebrew but I’m not really sure how it’s configured to look for C libraries for cffi or how I should tell it where to look.

https://github.com/lispgames/cl-sdl2/issues/154#issuecomment...
There’s many other options for hosting beyond Google, Amazon and Azure.
Sorry, yes, Privacy is Power.
Hence, "greybeard." Even when people are talking about something that they know to be true, they ground themselves in derogatory stereotypes about the people who were right.
Apple TVs with tvOS 17 will get native VPN support
This looks very promising. I'm surprised this is my first time hearing of it.
Yes, have been meaning to do this! We’ve been super focussed on the app itself often at the expense of the marketing site.

Glad to hear you found it helpful, I’m around if you have any issues.
Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available
Would have liked to know why though. Oh well.
Artificial intelligence is a cognitive augmentation tool. It makes people smarter, more competent, and faster. That cannot be. Intelligent people are dangerous people! Just consider some of the more sinister hobbies of intelligent people:

- denying that religion is true

- collecting and publishing facts that contradict our political beliefs

- creating opensource and open content (communists!)

- rising in the social hierarchy, upsetting our status

- operating unsanctioned non-profits

- demanding that we stop stealing and actually do something useful

Fortunately, once augmented, part of their mind is now in technology we control. We will know what they are thinking. We can forbid certain thoughts and spread others. We even get to decide who can think at all and who cannot. We have never been this close to thought control. All we need to do now is to license the tech, so that it always comes bundled with rules we wrote.
I could easily take a plausible position that people within the same town have so much difference between them that trying to lump regional characteristics together is meaningless. Since you don’t, apparently you’re OK with some reduction.
https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes#how-can-i-get-invo...
>while the fringe who need raw power at all costs can overclock to the moon if they really want to.

This is actually the case! The 7950X and 13900K come in non-X and non-K variants, which have vastly reduced power footprints and overall consumption, and you can even take your X or K variant and... Enforce that exact same power envelope in BIOS, for minimal loss in performance. But the purchasers of desktop X and K SKUs are the overclocking fringe (by and large). I will admit though, a lot of laptops are sold with with i|r7|9 +HX variants that shouldn't be purchased because big number means easier upsell.
All of those happen in non-capitalist societies too and some times to a more larger extent.
There’s a very good reason we have the process of investigate > accuse > bring to court and in those cases the accused party is detained while the facts are reviewed and the matter decided. Judge-issued search warrants are done as a part of the investigation and the investigation itself is secret.
Yeah, but - the proposed congestion charge is only below 60th, and Columbia is up around 116th and higher. Much much easier to park near Columbia. Maybe a little more risk of having your car stolen, too. :)

Also (adding this a few minutes later), the evidence is clear that public transit is seriously beneficial for people with lower incomes - and the elderly and folks with disabilities that prevent them from driving.

So we may be taking about something that harms 16k people and benefits about three million other low-income New Yorkers.
From experience what ends up happening sometimes, and the reason why I asked, is that pushing some tasks down for too long you end up working on them too late. Causing more problems later.
Not true. They use hyper optimized two stroke diesel engines.

Cruise ships, RORO, off-shore supply ships and vessels with similarly dynamic operating profiles have started to use diesel electric.

Also starting to employ batteries to handle peak loads.
> Even decentralized architectures like Mastodon need that - and very few people actually want to pay for it.

Every Fediverse instance I've used - and I've used quite a few - has been either so small that the total cost is a few dollars a month, or fiscally sustained by donations from users.

The problem is when people want to make a profit on their internet community. Then, no amount of community support is enough, because nobody wants to donate to your investors.
So you made a claim that there's "there are plenty, even on HN" and then utterly failed to provide any proof even after trying. Then when called out you blamed the other person for not doing so on your behalf. I'm going to stick with my response.
Neon experienced an outage: https://neonstatus.com/cliq6zf8d173102wonc0x3upawc

Some projects may still be impacted and the team is actively investigating
Official pages can be found here in French [0] and German [1].

I found the conditions as described in the DW article not obvious, so here is an attempt at stating them more clearly:

In each country, there are 30k free tickets on a first come, first serve basis for people 18 to 27 years old.

Going forth and back multiple times between the countries is not intended, people therefore need to plan a single journey with up to seven days of travelling (in the sense of "using public transportation") in the other country. People can choose these days freely. The days also do not need to be consecutive but first and last day of the journey must be within one month from each other (while 1st of July is the earliest possible date for departure and 31st of December the latest for returning). They also need to actually depart their home country on the first day and to return to it on the last day that they chose.

These rules seem to be in place to prevent some forms of abuse of the ticket.

[0] https://www.passefranceallemagne.fr/

[1] https://www.deutsch-franzoesischer-freundschaftspass.de
Design process and lifecycle of the product and development is not a technical aspect only at startups building apps to share cat photos.
That you think the government should be in the business of kicking in doors without due process over mere chemical intoxicants is telling. It is anathema to the founding ideals, and historically illiterate with respect to alcohol prohibition.