skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Already graywater is used in places like San Diego for watering public greenage, but I can’t detect any smell. Even if there is some very slight smell, sticking an ordinary deodorizer on your toilet bowl might be enough to suppress it entirely.
Are many payroll companies doing business out of the Caymans? No. This was investment and private equity firms.

They should take their losses.
Current federation looks like that, a bunch of small independent communities focused on a single topic like tech or photography or whatever, but it doesn't have to be like that. If federation catches on then the most likely the pick will be between 5-10 huge general instances run by corporations.

In such world, Twitter and Facebook could add support for ActivityPub, Google and Microsoft could build their own, different ISPs and media companies could run their instances, and so on. Then the benefit of choice becomes more clear - who do you trust the most to provide you an account. Basically, it would be like the situation with email where most people use a 3-4 biggest services, but the ecosystem is open to new competitors.

The current state of federated social networks is very experimental. If it catches on with big corporations 90% of people will use that, and these small communities can still survive but would be more or less irrelevant.
Wow I can't use bard yet as I'm in the EU. But ChatGPT has never done something like this to me.
> We would just walk to a movie theater and whatever was starting next, that’s what we’d see. It seems impossible to imagine.

Oh man, that takes me back. We had a dollar theater in my neighborhood growing up and my friends and I would just see whatever was showing. I saw sooo many movies as a kid, many of which would probably have been considered inappropriate for my age these days.

Even as I got older, there were times I ended up seeing unexpected and strange movies because the showing we had gone to see was sold out.

These days pre-purchasing preselected seats really takes the spontaneity out of the equation.
Porsche Mission X: The quickest road-legal car in the world [video]
Do you have a link so I can read more? I haven't heard anything about the advances in desalinization.
Adding to the thanks for sending me down a new fun rabbit hole
CRT monitors, especially earlier ones running at 60 Hz, must have been terrible for them. Those were orders of magnitude more flickery than any LCD backlight.
Depends on your position and motivation. I myself am always reachable and read my emails day and night. I enjoy being involved with my company just as others enjoy checking their personal emails every hour.
Hadn't realised he was on the General Ripper bandwagon.
This is true for the Bourne Again, Watanabe, and Korn shells too. The default mode is not the POSIX-conformant mode, but is the shell's native mode. This does not, however, make these shells "not POSIX compatible" any more than it makes the Z shell "not POSIX compatible". In all of them, one has to do non-default stuff, from setting particular environment variables through invoking the shell with a particular name to adding extra command-line options, to pick the POSIX-conformant mode.
> Matter of taste. I prefer multiple smaller monitors so i can keep a full monitor in my field of view

I think this is mostly due to software support, e.g. for ultrawides (21:9) you often can have it pretend to be two or three separate monitors. At that point the only difference between multiple smaller monitors and one wide one is whether you have bezels.

That said, in my opinion the problem is not the aspect ratio but the number of pixels. For example, I could take my 2560x1440 (16:9) display and put a black bar on the right to make it 1920x1440. That would be a "better" ratio, but having the extra horizontal pixels does not hurt (e.g. for a dock). The problem is that Xx1080 is just not enough vertical pixels, period. No matter whether it is 1920x1080 or 1080x1080.
> it originally referred to the “mental model” of the user.

Do you have a source for that? I agree that that’s a useful way to think about MVC (somewhere downthread someone wrote that the model should be like a headless version of the application, which is similar), but I’m curious about the original expressions of that idea.
Indeed, this company[1] seems to sell COPV's that are rated for 414 bar, so my assumptions were wrong in this case.

As such, I will revise my theory, and posit that the actual issue with this strategy at Titanic depths is keeping the water out of the ballast tanks once you've evacuated them. This seems plausible given that the hatch must be bolted on from the outside. If they had a method to keep 382 bar of water dynamically out of the ballast tanks, presumably they could use that same method to have a hatch that can be opened without manual screwing.

[1] https://steelheadcomposites.com/composite-pressure-vessels/
> we wouldn't dream of it unless it was an emergency.

Everything seems to be an "emergency" now. Which means you need to take the time to log back into work, figure out what is going on and then find out it could have waited until the next work day. Repeat the cycle.
Which is what the LCD-TV industry did for years.
It's no longer economic, except maybe in specific high-margin industries (like medical displays)

But even in those areas I'm confident that its existing tech, I doubt that there's alot of investment going on.

WOLED panels are on a trajectory from Premium to High-Tier with production volume increasing each year, with RGB-OLED increasing in panel-size each year as well. The window for investing into R&D for a large-volume LCD-panel which outperforms OLED in accuracy but at a lower price has already closed.
Sure but I guess the goal is for the replayed sound to sound the same as the original would.

According to Wiki the absolute max an amazing(?) ear can hear is 28kHz. You can maybe hear aliasing of higher frequencies too?

I can't hear any difference between 44.1kHz and faster sampling, but we can't refute it on purely theoretical ground.
For video conferences I agree, Teams works pretty well for that. I also don't find the client any slower than any other Electron Apps, they are all equally bad. Its the group chats that I find severely lacking compared to Slack. So much wasted whitespace and incredibly inconvenient UX.
Yeah they seem quite casual on safety here https://youtu.be/jyt7H2tF76w?t=206 (Pogue on tv)
> I don't know that anyone, including RMS, is suggesting outlawing selling software.

> boycott non-open source software

Outlawing vs. boycotting is a distinction without a difference. If the boycott is effective, they're practically the same.

> Anyway, I was replying to someone saying -- but how could programmers have jobs, if all software was open source? we can't all work in academia.

That was still me. ;-)

> I'm not sure you're following my "enterprise" example.

I understand it. But please understand that I am an independent developer who sells my software directly to consumers, so this model would put me, for one, out of business.

> I do agree that we should be talking about free houses and free furniture, sure -- but the difference in software is that it can be copied infinitely at no cost.

This is what people seem to be assuming, but it's wrong. Software requires customer support. It requires distribution, which would typically be over the internet now, so there's hosting, bandwidth, web sites, etc. Software requires maintenance to fix bugs and make improvements. The more users there are, the more obscure bugs they'll uncover. And a lot of client software also has some backend service, which at scale requires a ton of labor and often hardware. Users do come at a cost, often a large cost. They can't just scale infinitely for free.

The elephant in the room is that a lot of "successful" large FOSS projects today have well-funded corporate backers. To take one example, Firefox is funded mostly by Google Search money. The cold hard financial reality is that FOSS is largely dependent on for-profit business, so I'm not impressed when people say that we already have FOSS. Its self-funding is extremely limited at best.

I wonder how you would fund recording musicians? You can "just copy" digital music, or indeed any digital asset such as movies, TV shows, and ebooks. Is that really going to be what determines who gets to make money and who has to be defunded?
Perhaps some explanation should be given because text on the inside doesn't say much what this is all about.
Oh geez I missed the utf8.
It gets worse; Microsoft datacenters have been allowed to use up huge amounts of drinking water for cooling; it gets treated to avoid clogging up the lines, heated up, then just dumped back in the river.

It's shameful and wasteful, and our country will run out of fresh water in my lifetime; I even heard one that says the aquifers will be running out within ten years. And they just used it for cooling.

Likewise, there's heavy investments in offshore wind parks, but companies like Microsoft just come in (with government subsidies) and buy up the whole capacity. It was supposed to replace, not supplement, existing power generation options.
That alone makes me never want to use any LLM for code specifics outside of asking concepts questions when the brains just not remembering.
Great, now I have to carry around, manage, charge and use 2 different devices.

If you don't want to use your personal device for work, don't. But let's not pretend this is some great social, moral struggle against evil.
>> These kind of business logic operations have often been moved into controllers, which couldn’t have been further from the original intention.

Moving them out of the object model without putting them in the controller is actually a good thing IMO. I don't want to test controller plumbing or data persistence, but I do want to focus on the business logic, so simple controllers that route to smart objects with dumb data models helps. I agree the smart parts don't belong in the controller but I don't think it's as bad as you make it sound.
What happens if someone searches their home address or a place nearby? If it's automatically cached, it could be a data leak. Some sufficiently motivated person can correlate it with someone who connects to Mullvad servers.
So they offer three browser at the moment:

- Opera One

- Opera GX

- Opera Crypto

And I'm still not sure why would I used one of these instead of Chrome or Firefox.
I'm not sure what analytics systems you are referring to but most do not use an iframe. In most cases you embed some Javascript and depending on what you want, you might get a simple POST with some data about the page or you might have something more like Hotjar where a lot of telemetry is sent in order to understand much more about your app like where people move their mouse or how long they spend before clicking.

My advice is the same as it would be with everything: Add value to your product in the best/unique way that you can and leave the other stuff to other people who are really good at theirs. I don't know very much about analytics so I won't waste time building a system. I am, however, very good at architecture and hosting systems so I will invest my time making those things better.
> janky hacks like dual cable setups

I’m a bit surprised we don’t see point-to-point ethernet cables doing this. They are standardised, reliable, and carry a lot of data. My napkin math says an 8K display at 40 bits per pixel and 60 fps is about 18 Gbps, well into the range of fancy ethernet.

And, if consumer electronics can drive down the costs of these interfaces, everyone wins.
This is a misnomer. The only reason is because Quebec gets dirt cheap power from an agreement signed with Churchill Falls, Nfld. Quebec buys energy for $0.02 cents per kilowatt hour.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/quebec-...
This is only true if one isn't handling their diet and exercise correctly and therefore lacks the energy to make it through an entire day without a recharge. Taking care of things things will also reduce the need for night time sleep significantly without any impact on cognitive performance
I live in a two-storey terraced house, it seems pretty simple to add a buffer tank to gravity feed the toilet cistern from the roof gutter. Presumably it's not cost effective or countries with nationalised water would be doing that already? Maybe they are??

Any good kits for this in the UK?
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 release date, gameplay
Instead of api business model reddit should have blocked google indexing like Facebook does and force everyone to use reddit search and then show ads in search results rather than forcing people to go to google and append “reddit” to the end of search results which i had been doing for something like 99% of my commercial searches. Google has been eating reddit’s lunch… not random third party apps like Apollo.
Thanks for that!

> While there was an association with increased brain size, no correlation was found with cognitive function.

Somehow "Daytime naps cause swelling of brain, no tangible benefits" doesn't sound the same...
> https://fedsearch.io/

> Due to extreme backlash from the Mastodon community we decided to end the project, it is obviously not wanted by server admins.
> Sally: You had to plan more ahead and hope it worked out. People didn’t flake as much. There’s no option to text someone 10 minutes before, because you knew they were waiting for you.

That wasn't 2002. Not in the UK any way. Pre 2000 maybe.
Ask HN: How are Indian folks managing recurring payments now?
I have a bunch of subscriptions which are gradually starting to fail over the last year or so because of RBI rules controlling recurring payments.

For some (like jetbrains, namecheap etc) I was able to talk to the service provider to use a workaround like paying in advance or using a wallet.

For some more obscure payments, like a usenet subscription for example, the recurring payment I had set up before the rule kicked in just failed and my subscription was cancelled. Even my audible.com subscription got cancelled because I could not make a payment through my credit card.

What are folks in India doing to easily manage recurring payments?

Is there a service or something to make sure these recurring payments work everywhere?
Are there other popular tools you'd recommend/not recommend given cost/compliance concerns?
Ask HN: Would you pay for a code snippet manager?
If so, what sort of features would you expect from one ?
> Have you used any modern RSS reader recently like inoreader, they load the content of the page without visiting the publishing website.

I'm happy with newsboat[1]; but I'm not surprised that people have integrated scraping into RSS readers.

Fundamentally, that's not a problem with RSS, that's a war between scrapers and content providers. If the email newsletter model persists long enough, I'd expect that people will come out with "newsletter readers" that scrape websites too.

I'm not sure there's a good long-term solution to the problem. Aside from constant vigilance (obfuscation).

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1. https://newsboat.org/
It looks awesome, congrats!
Not a great question. Too open-ended so will just illicit a tonne of people's opinions.
Mullvad VPN, Mullvad browser, Mullvad search engine.. never ever put all your eggs in one basket, so much data and meta data can be collected and cross referenced to your ID.
It doesn't have to be dirty / smelly, but it doesn't have to be fresh drinking water either. Filtered rain water is fine for example, plus bonus low mineral count to keep your pipes and toilet cleaner.
> Now, if someone calls me on the phone, I’m like, “How violent of you to call me.”

I am twenty years their junior, but good god that made me feel old. Is it primarily how rare phone calls are (albeit coupled with lack of body-language and real-time decision-making, but still) that makes so many young people in their twenties fear them?
I still couldn't figure out where those buttons are. Kept looking everywhere.
SVB had two entities (or more). A US one and a Cayman one. You could deposit money in the US one (and people did, those people are fine) but then you were subject to US rules and taxes. So some people borrowed money in the US, but kept their money in the Caymans. This was not some random happenstance where something outside their control caused cashflow issues causing them to lose money[0]. This was a conscious decision with risks.

I hope these people are not made whole.

[0] In practice, while not obligated to do so, the FDIC has always repaid people 100% in the situation you described.
Leap frogging of knowledge.
- Hide chat option
- Share progress on tasks
- Some badges for number pomodoros
Awesome ideas, thank you!
When I went to China for work my coworkers office chairs laid all the way back, parallel to the floor. The lights kicked off for an hour after lunch for a nap. Meanwhile my manager and I worked in the dark...
I know our wastewater is processed; I'm sure they extract the useful parts of the sewage already, else it'd be a waste of good resources.
NYU Team Taps ChatGPT to Design Processor from Scratch
You may add 'near Cityname, Countryname' to your query ;)
I use Android with work profile and just turn it off at the end of the day (actually have it automatically scheduled). Definitely took some discipline at first but now I'm really disconnected on days off.
So we have Reddit, a for profit company controlled by a media corporation, asking other smaller for profit companies making millions out of Reddit's API to pay for access, then somehow moderators go on strike? This makes no sense to me. Like what will prevent these subreddits to be back online with new moderators? Do the majority of Reddit's user base even care about what's going on?
If they were concerned about that as a risk, the thought that came to my mind was exposing the whole codebase to subpoenas.
ElevenLabs Launches New Generative Voice AI Products and Announces $19M Series A
CRTs had the same problem for decades, so while I agree it shouldn’t I’m certainly not unfamiliar.
Wouldn't that be much faster than drowning though?
Well that would only show (if indeed it can leak somehow) that somebody used Mullvad to search for that - if using it for yourself it wouldn't be hard to say "cafe near 49 my street" rather than "44 my street", or whatever, so a) that's probably the kind of caution you should always use if wanting to protect privacy or your house number since there's essentially no downside, unless you're literally ordering something to be physically delivered and b) it gives plausible deniability that anyone whose house address were known to have been searched doesn't really mean the person living there is the one who searched it.

(But of course, ideally they would have something in place to prevent such a leak at all, and perhaps they do somehow?)
> For bright reflective objects like traffic cones or road signs, the system is able to provide information in under a minute.

A minute..

Even if they could bring that down to 1ms, the main point still stands that Lidar can't read signs. And you'll need the tech in the car to read that stop-sign at high speed. Also the position of the stop-sign in relation to the streets is super important, so the software of positioning is also 100% required.

So the main point still stands, if you're going to need that tech, why do you need the Lidar, since you'll need to stop the car the moment the cams fail to work.

As a side note: I also I wonder if it would still work if every car at a crossing would have this tech (in a fog), how would the cars know that the laser light was coming from their car, and not form any of the other cars? Would have to morse-code an ID in there or something perhaps.

Second side note: It's a tech discussion, it sometimes seems people bring personal views about Elon Musk and Tesla into these discussions. I think this clouds the judgement.
I paid for Dash maybe ten years ago. After my initial fascination I never really found it that useful.

https://kapeli.com/dash
calling a function that can fail means you need to manage that condition

inspecting the err value returned by a function call is in fact error handling

the point of this design is to keep control flow "on the page"

exceptions do not keep control flow "on the page"
Reading the first paragraph you seem misunderstood the word "competitive programmer". I am not talking about personality.

"competitive programming' is a domain that people grind for faster algorithms and data structures to gain insane performance for specific tasks. People who do this, well, compatitive program*mer*.
I remember vividly when the digg exodus happened, I don't ever remember a single person complaining that reddit, nor digg, were too technical/difficult to understand/use.

Both sites you simply clicked the register link, input your username/pass/email then done. The fediverse does not have a clean onboarding that lends itself to comprehension by a regular non-technical person. It seems way over the head of your average user. I've tried to get friends to check out Lemmy and it's a solid no-go.

If you need an entire matrix of understanding of a concept before feeling comfortable to use it then it is simply too much cognitive friction.
This should include the most obvious migration target: other subreddits.
> MS Teams, makes me wanna stop working all together

I think this is what some people just don't understand, especially executives or managers who are too far removed from individual contributors' day-to-day activities.

The wrong choice of IT tools can suck the life out of your organization.

Sure, on paper two tools can seem equivalent, but in reality, they are not the same.
ime ppl do the trade of beeing available most of the time in exchange for not having to be present all the time. but yes, this trade is not respected in a lot of places
You are talking about implementation, the OP was talking about raising the concept with interested parties and seeing whether it is worth even starting to think about it.

They could fork, they could add threading to some sub systems and roll it out over several versions.

I don't know enough about the code but, of course, it is a hard problem but the solution might be to build it from the ground up as a threaded system, using the skills learned over 30 years and taking the hit on the rebuild instead of reworking what is there.

I am most interested because I didn't realise there was a performance problem in the first place.
Where I love there is a fresh water lake where we get our water from and the sewer is cleaned and put back into it.

I want some kind of "time buffer" and mass buffer between sewer and drinking if it happens to malfunction abit ...
Source: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

The source is Trygve Reenskaug, the originator of the idea.
i found out a tool that convets emails back into RSS, it even provides a custom e-mail address that you can use per feed. it can be self hosted, or used on their website (which is ad free): https://kill-the-newsletter.com