skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://debianaddict.com

My occasional side projects on Linux sysadmin, PC building, and networking.

Named as such because I love Debian!
Funnily enough the current environment minister Guillebeault was the previous heritage minister who crafted this bill. It didn't get through on his term and then Rodriguez took over.
Trying to work through this...

> Libraries are not intended for photocopying of materials for all possible fair use cases; they're only intended for "private study, scholarship, or research" purposes.

"What Libraries are intended for" makes no sense here. Libraries are not intended for many things. Might I suggest a rephrasing? 108 is specifically to allow specific rights, mentioning nebulous "under specific conditions".

> One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.”

Without an understanding that this is not a universally prohibitive condition, the poor phrasing makes it seem like it applies in all cases, despite the "Fair use" statement that follows.

The US Copyright Office does not require libraries to lie about fair use rights.
history is written by the victors!
> We'll see how this goes, but there is a pattern with Meta's photocopying machine which didn't kill Snap with Stories, and didn't kill TikTok with Reels. They will co-exist but there will be no immediate Twitter 'death' anytime soon, especially this year.

Snap and TikTok weren't busy trying to kill themselves, though.
Look at the nations that have high birth rates versus low birth rates and you'll get an idea for where the world is heading.
At least California's infrastructure will last the test of time. If China's railways are anything like there global infrastructure then it will probably fall apart in less then 10 years.

Autocracy gets shit work done.
> heavy snows cause power outages in places where tree limbs fall on overhead lines. If gas outages happen... well I've never experienced one.

If I lose power, my gas boiler does me no good. A gas boiler will use pumps (and likely a power vent). A gas furnace will use a fan and a power vent.
The very first thing I do when these projects pop up: is there a top level package.json in the repo? Pass.
IANAL, but weights are probably not copyrightable because they are “useful” i.e. they have intrinsic utilitarian function as they are necessary for a model to function as described. Useful things can not be copyrighted, only patented. This is the key difference between the two. For works that are useful and creative, only the non-functional aspects can be copyrighted.

Maybe a published copy of the weights might be copyrightable, in the exact form of a “creatively” ordered listing, but the weights themselves would almost certainly not be if the US judicial system rules consistently.

This bypasses the entire argument of whether it is human authorship as weights themselves in bulk are just straight up non-copyrightable regardless of origin according to this reading of the law and precedent.
Ahhh I see Macaroon is taking ideas from India and Modi now.
Social media companies are really in business of personal data collection. Based on younger generation being so switched on about news I think 'news' are really being force fed into your social feed (rather than you fetching the news). Governments spending tax payer money with these companies are really approving this sort of unethical behavior.
That's not true. LiteFS itself is a distributed database so you have redundancy within your cluster outside of LiteFS Cloud. A typical setup is to run two candidate nodes within a single region so they have low replication latency and then adding read-only nodes in other regions. Transactions are replicated immediately after commit so a write on the primary will be sent to the other candidate node within a millisecond or two. It is async replication but the data loss window when you're running a setup like this is quite small.
What requirement is that the specific text is “for POST requests, we require that developers build a user confirmation flow to avoid destruction actions.”

a) it says the require the plug-in developer so, not the ai

b) it’s scoped to destructive actions which is a subset of post requests
If the U.S. has the right to intervene when non U.S. flagged vessels owned by a U.S. company are stopped by a foreign government does, say, North Korea have the right to intervene when North Korean owned ships are stopped by the U.S.?
There wasn't one thing that gave me confidence, it was more like a series of little things. First is when I could look at code and understand most of what it was doing. When I was first starting that was a milestone achievement. Eventually that faded and I got confidence from being able to interpret stack traces and error messages. Then getting code to run without errors, then knowing how to throw a script together without having to consult any documentation.
Threads: A New Way to Share with Text
Yeah: Kinda makes you wish there was a good system for customers to sue a company into dropping a trademark that's being used to mislead.
No this is silly they will reach superhuman cognitive capabilities and it will become a positive feedback not a negative one. But until they do it, so many people will say it's impossible. On the other hand they may literally choke on their own exhaust like heat and greenhouse gases turning earth into venus and every ocean and metal vaporizes and everyone dies even ones that tried to burrow into the earth and even grandchildren of billionaires.
Threads app is now life. If anyone knows the difference between "mute" and "hide", this announcement doesn't say.

Immediate impression is the app itself is nicer than the Twitter app.
Some home energy companies will do a free audit, in my case it's Mass Save. My in-laws on a limited income even got new windows and insulation for free.
I’ve had to triage Cloudflare connectivity issues before, if you have a timestamp or when the error appears you can ask CF support to check backend logs for the error reason
The requirement is for POSTs in general, not just deletes. Anything that does actions outside of the system instead of just getting data
It's a teletype terminal emulator, probably with pretty things and stuff. Who cares what language it is written in? Will writing it in Rust ensure that PF1-4 emulation will work properly?

You say that xxx is totally the wrong tool to use in the face of evidence that it might not be (Tabby is a tty emulator written in xxx). Why Rust and not Typescript?

I use a TTY rather a lot - konsole or Linux native and I can't really get too excited about what provides it these days. I recall discovering Gentoo back in around 2000 and the shell just looked lovely compared to all other distros. Do bear in mind that you have a shell running in your TTY. Nowadays I run Arch and its shell setup looks a lot better now than it did - strangely close to Gentoo.

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I'm cough updating (repairing) my Arch laptop and sorting out a smart new Electron versioning snag (bye bye vscode for a while). Oh dear the CPU fan sounds rather Gentoo - I've been binging the AUR too much 8)
They allege that these ships are being pursued for infractions in Iranian waters, like colliding with Iranian ships, but I'm sure that's a pretext.
60% is feasible for e.g. nuclear and gas, if you use more than one turbine and there is a big constant temperature differential. This typically isn't the case for gas plants which are intentionally variable and often intended to be cheap to build. While at peak temperature, they might run at peak efficiency around the theoretical maximum of 60% (thermal to electric) with a multi-turbine assembly, typically efficiency is far lower because gas plants usually don't run at peak efficiency and only have one turbine.
The problems is that it doesn't matter what happens, all the competitive parents that I know of regardless of race, country, class would choose the schools and private tutors. They will pay what they can afford to push their children ahead. That's just how it is.

And then we can see who are truly left behind
You can't really avoid religion and politics if you are trying to figure out modernity. But if you want to know where the world is heading then there are lots of transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil who have written about what they foresee as the inevitable endpoint of technological developments and I have no reason to believe that his vision is incorrect. Biology will be subverted by software in the very near future and it will look like what Kurzweil has described in his books.

Barring some catastrophic extinction events like supervolcanonic eruptions and meteor strikes Kurzweil's vision seems inevitable to me.
> OP said electrical efficient so the goal is conversion of electricity to heat and it’s 100% efficient.

I am not an engineer and I am only nitpicking to have fun, so don't engage me if it's not fun, but doesn't some of the energy go into degradation of the materials used to build the device?
Pumping is at cost to them, but irrigating they pay a whole $20 per acre foot from our local water district. The wells are used when they want more than allotted.

Many of these canals are quite old and while they do require some maintenance, the upfront costs of the dams, reservoirs , and canals are largely paid off. Those maintenance costs and any upgrades are paid by the district customers.
Xcode / compiler - yes.
I tried to learn React during the transition. Thankfully I had the authority to nope-out after trying to build a few apps with it and running into nothing but tons of arguing online when trying to search for help on what I thought would be an easy five minute task: to find out the best way to track state in my app.
Preference utilitarianism?
Modern combined cycle gas turbines offer thermal-to-electric efficiency over 60% (on a lower heating value fuel basis) at full design load, e.g. this General Electric system at 64%:

https://www.ge.com/news/press-releases/ha-technology-now-ava...

Approximating natural gas as 100% methane, that means the thermal-to-electric efficiency on a higher heating value basis is more like 57-58%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_of_combustion#Heat_of_com...

Neither of these efficiency measures include district heating with waste heat.
As you can see from the Iranian reaction to USN assets arriving on the scene, Iran simply doesn't get to enforce sanctions on other countries in international waters. Reasonable people will read USN interdiction of Iranian-based tankers as lawful enforcement of sanctions, and Iranian retaliatory seizures as piracy.
“… completely redesign the…” “This work was substantial…”

I struggled to spot the differences between the before and after. In my company, “complete redesign” has a totally different meaning.
I’ve got an idea guys! Let’s build some artificial lakes and we can just let rain and river water pool in them! We can let natural precipitation do the desalination for us!
We are developing an innovative one-piece 3D printed travel guitar designed to fit into a suitcase while maintaining regular tuning. Our instrument incorporates a hollow neck acting as a resonance body, making it unique in the market. Unlike other guitars, our design eliminates the need for assembly before playing. However, this poses a significant challenge due to the immense tension it must withstand. You may check it at https://minicorda.com
Will be interesting to see what content ends up here. Will Threads have novel content or will it just be reposts from Twitter (similar to how TikToks end up on Reels)?
I guess we'll need to train ChatGPT on millions of lines of bash history. Maybe some sort of augmented one that is pieced together with other context.
File and XML (file with schema validation) via sftp, and TCP and UDP streaming. In streaming mode, useful for getting logs, etc., from a SCADA network to a business mode. In block mode, handy for pushing patches the other way.

Among other things.
I'm also not sure what's "wrong" with existing terminal emulators, except render acceleration when you do a lot of text I/O, but I think urxvt already had that solved.

Other items seem to be solved outside of the terminal like 'bookmarks' or 'connection managers' and 'profiles'. Some emulators seem to focus more on style or discoverability, but one of the upsides of the existing learning curve is that you have to mentally organise and plan what you were going to do, instead of trying to manufacture a solution in the moment.
Birth rates don't have much to do with the superiority of technology over biology. The most technologically advanced nations will determine the course of history just like they have in the past and right now that's the US and China.
> That said there is a difference between mini-split and something you hook up to internal ducting where your furnace used to be and prices have increased in the meantime.

Generally true, as the mini-splits (have) tend(ed) to operate down to lower temperatures, but the heat pumps that look like 'traditional' outdoor A/C units are getting down there as well: for example this Lennox unit can work down to -4F / -20C:

* https://tech.lennoxintl.com/c03e7o14l/viu12ch2uv/ehb_sl25xpv...

That'll provide pretty good coverage of the year in many parts of North America before something like a gas furnace needs to kick in. (Speaking as someone who lives in Canada.)
AeroBarrier does the spray insulation strategy all at once for a whole home. Could look into something like that.
Von Neumann architecture to the extreme :)
With heavy use in Netflix's CDN resulting in something like more than 15% of internet traffic being delivered by FreeBSD, that's some kind of success I imagine.
If only there was something that you could speak or write notes into that structured them for you.
What seemed to help me was learning how to test things so I didn’t break the build.

This helped me because I had to learn requirements, talk with people, understand dependencies, and not make people’s life harder. And I had sort of a value to smart seniors as I would maintain stuff that was hairy to change and not break it.

I also spent a lot of time on nights and weekends volunteering with the network people and hardware people and firewall people to understand how those components fit into the architecture.
Bloxerz is one, it was a Flash game though, not sure if there was an iPad version.
Why would it not be the intended meaning, if they wanted it to be all post requests they would have said so, the specifically scoped it “destructive actions”, their intention is in their words. POST as a verb can pretty much be used for anything retrieval, creation, deletion, updates, noops , it’s just code it does whatever we tell it to do.
Nice job! This reminds me of a game jam game from last year’s GMTK.

https://escapadegames.itch.io/roll-of-the-dice

Was this an inspiration?
By "AI" here I mean cameras that support running machine vision models directly on the device. We provide the device and firmware, and then on the application and model level it is up to the user.
It’s pretty bad. I can’t imagine paying for it. “Impressed” by it, in what way?
This for any sh type script, not just bash :) Will work with sh, ksh and even [t]csh
I think you're overestimating how much you could save. Rule of thumb is that it takes 40 units of sap to make one unit of syrup. (But this can vary widely depending on the sugar content of the sap.) So making syrup at half the concentration would require removing 38 units of water, instead of 39. That's not going to make much of a dent in the processing costs.
That sounds very cool.

I have to ask - do you build parts for your machines using your machines?
> Mastodon was given its shot and missed.

Mastodon didn't "miss", because it was never trying to replace Twitter. It's an alternative to Twitter that's non-corporate, which Threads is definitely not.

Moreover, Threads said they intend to federate with Mastodon. Although many Mastodon instances said they intend to defederate immediately with Threads. In any case, Mastodon will continue on with its devoted user base, which is very small in comparison to Twitter and Instagram but large enough to be self-sustaining.
Imo the trackpad on the Surface Book 2 is better than the trackpad on my 2023 Macbook Pro. The MacBook has a more noticeable delay before starting scrolling and sometimes misinterprets two finger clicks as one finger clicks.

I think the important things to look for are a glass trackpad running Windows Precision Trackpad Drivers.
Holy shit I never put that together. He was always just tinkering in his garage by himself as far as I remembered. We had a lot of bugs in our truck (like everyone) so we would get burned out and walk around and talk to each other. There was a lot of sharing with the smaller teams. Way later I realized I had a long conversation with Sebastian Thrun about how we did our throttle feedback actuator. He was lucky to have a drive-by-wire SUV and we were all mechanical. Those were super fun times hanging out at the raceway for trials those first two years.
Oh I missed that, thanks!
OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt: 'ppm means “you are stupid”'
Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/micro...

The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries [2017]

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46173

Global Pattern of Microplastics (MPs) in Commercial Food-Grade Salts: Sea Salt as an Indicator of Seawater MP Pollution [2018]

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b04180

Microplastic pollution in commercial salt for human consumption: A review [2019]

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331006661_Microplas...

"MPs have been found in commercial salts from 128 brands, from 38 different countries spanning over five continents."
nice! that's also the German word for island.
While a couple of people suggested Base65536, that encoding isn't particularly compact, and it can't be as elegant as 65536 would suggest because it has to dodge special cases in unicode.

It's almost always the case that either Base32768 is denser, or encodings with 2^17 or 2^20 characters are denser.
(super) alignment is bad for ai community. It limits creativity and open-mindedness.

I'm Open for discussion.
Yes it'd be a derivative work owned by Paolini. Paolini would have copyright to the derivative work, to the extent that he has rights over derivative material. However, the prompter would have nothing
And I think the userland got a bit of a refresh from current FreeBSD when OS-X came out.
Hyper is very popular, which is also in electron
I don’t care if the service is run by a billionaire or a 22 year old funded by billionaires or government grants, I just want to read little text snippets that people post.

Twitter has gotten worse lately, blue sky isn’t open to the public, and I don’t care about federation so threads seems pretty nice to me.
Lots of places are looking into phasing out natural gas though. California gives you rebates for heat pump water heaters and there's plenty of discouragement to block new gas appliances and hookups.

There will be a feedback loop once that really starts: individual prices go up because infrastructure costs remain the same, but less people are using gas. Once natural gas prices go up, people will switch to more efficient appliances, or switch to electricity. Forcing prices to go up some more to make up for infrastructure costs.

I agree with you about people following their wallets and that's why people will want to change to heat pumps when gas becomes too expensive. Remember the prices in December?
It hasn't only benefited the US but everyone except those who specifically reject it. It has hugely befitted China having peaceful and open global trade. Now they want to burn it out from underneath themselves thinking they'll gain some kind of advantage by replacing the American system. "We don't want YOUR peace" so to speak. Not that the USA or American system is perfect, but if it's a choice between that and the others on offer...
I don't think that any nuclear reactor has achieved 60% thermal-to-electricity efficiency. In a water cooled reactor the hot side starts with cooler steam than a combustion-fired plant can generate so it's hard to reach really high efficiency. Reactors cooled with helium, molten salts, or liquid metal could theoretically do better but I don't think that any actually-built power reactors have reached 60%.

The brand new EPR achieves only 37% thermal efficiency and that is considered a good number for a power reactor:

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...
There was less than 2% difference in the popular vote results. It wasn't some small minority that elected Trump, it was almost half. It's really strange how Democrat voters constantly, after all these years, try to downplay just how much of the nation supported and elected Trump; it's like they believe that by making people (and themselves) believe that it was some tiny minority, that almost half the American people actually like that con artist and support the awful things he and his party stood for.
Oops, I must be confusing it with a different instance.
Thanks for great work.

Next step could be support AI Chat with HN blogs ?
I'm not quite sure how you can say GitHub has a superior information hierarchy when it's flat from first principles. GitLab allows nested groups as you'd expect from any modern filesystem but there's just no equivalent in GitHub.

I've found that philosophy has followed to actions output. I can pretty easily follow the DAG shown in any GitLab pipeline view, but GitHub just gives me a sequential list of jobs on the left and I'm left to just remember whether any of them were dependent on previous jobs else go read the code to figure that out.

Maybe it's just familiarity, as I've self hosted GitLab and its CI for years before actions were a thing, to the tune of nearly 8 years now. Personally, I was really disappointed in the implementation and the UX/DX of Actions as their own brand new construct rather than a DSL for gluing together the shell commands you already run on your dev machine.
> So better prepare yourself for the scale or otherwise experience regular downtime, unless Meta is footing the bill for the biggest instances to stay up.

Some instances are planning to defederate from Threads immediately, so they'll be fine. And other instances may be forced to defederate eventually, whether they like it or not.
That's cool thanks.
Water rights are so complicated that they’d probably sell the water to the Central Valley before it ships to them. I think it very unlikely that they’d give them up.
Yes! It was so huge in the ISP space back then because trying to run something like NNTP on Linux at the time was just not a great experience for customers. Indy ISPs aren't really a thing these days I guess, but back then it was a really strong market for FreeBSD.
I don't believe it's shutting down? The website appears to be stable, and its users are donating $2,285/month to support it [1]. It seems both technically and financially stable to me. Let me know if I'm missing something though.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/infosecexchange
Ha, sounds good. If I remember to I'll necropost ya when I work on it. Otherwise you may see me begging for help on the alpine IRC.
I'm also Canadian and feel the same. I don't like Google or Meta but this is just the media trying to be greedy. If the incoming likes from Google were harmful they would have configured a robots.txt. They are just trying to lobby laws to get extra money. But they were too full of themselves to realize that they need Google and Meta at least an order of magnitude more than Google or Meta needs them.

The same thing happened in Australia and as soon as Facebook blocked links they cried uncle. Maybe if these news articles actually did research rather than focusing on clickbait headlines they would have learned about that.