skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly suspect we're hearing more about tire pollution as a way to spread FUD about EVs, and slow their adoption by whatever means possible, just so a few legacy companies can juice profits one more time.

That's not to say that tires don't create pollution, but let's tackle the elephant in the room before setting out mousetraps. We can even put effort into both simultaneously, let's just assign like 95% of the effort on getting rid of ICE engines.
The Math Problem Stymieing Small Businesses in Rural America
https://archive.ph/nDk8n
Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
- chief of Stalin's secret police
I think the reason this was never raised is because -- within a Polish sense of humor -- issues like this are hilarious rather than offensive.
No. V-1 and V-2 have very bad accuracy, because in 1940s does not exist better.
To be exact, standard deviation was about 500meters.
I can't remember details about V-1, but for V-2 I read too much to forget. V-2 have analog guidance, azimuth "programmed" just rotating start stand, active part of trajectory curve preprogrammed by programmatic drum (like in washing machine), and total impulse integrated by electrolyte accumulator (precharged before start).

And this is when V-1 costs comparable to prop fighter, and V-2 like strategic bomber.

Because of these flaws, even Germans don't use they really much, and US just forgot about them.

Even Soviets planned to use missiles mostly for air defense and as NUC carriers.

But approx in 1980s, with new technologies (mostly, digital computers, but also, high frequency radio and high precision frequency generators, for example atomic time), appear high accuracy navigation systems.
For example, claimed accuracy of Minuteman is about 10 meters, and Himars MLRS 1 meter.

As example of Himars MLRS usage, attacked bridge near Antonovka Ukraine, made few holes in road, so it become impossible to drive by truck, but pedestrians could pass it.

For about "trembita", I'm sure this is just propaganda, because cheapest military grade navigation cost about 10k$, and make 25kg explosive with civilian navigation is just crime.

Yes, I know, Iran make drones with 50kg explosives with civilian navigation, but they already got sanctions for this. I don't think, Ukrainian leaders will wait for sanctions if "trembita" will be produced in series, most probably, will just appear few new dudes, jailed "for nothing".
Four hours of time off in lieu (or money) for a noon to midnight shift on weekdays and eight hours on a weekend.

It ends up being around a 10-15% bonus.
Im careful when I can be, but it’s hard to always know the source of your food.
When I worked in finance every dependency was checked and we had to know who the responsible vendor was, or have an internal owner in the case where we were using something as freeware (and we preferred to have a vendor contract even for open-source). We didn't dig much deeper than "who is it and what's their reputation", but we absolutely had a record of where each dependency was from and a name on the list.
At will employment
Microsoft to hike prices in Australia and New Zealand
The people who were there at the start were more proficient at C
Jekyll is great.

Fashions with things come and go, but Jekyll is still around.

Much faster now too, thanks to improvements to Jekyll and importantly Ruby!

Compile times used to be painful, especially with inclusions and data files, but now I don’t have any noticeable build time pain!

Cloud Cannon is a great service to run Jekyll on, but not free I don’t think.
I'll see if I can try racing in the Reverb G2. That was my go to example of games that made me nauseous in VR.
I agree, why isn't a warrant required for such information in the first place?
This makes even less sense than the previous guy. When you've figured out how the world will work without people incentivized by money and power, get back to the rest of us
I think it's granular enough for solar. I put a tool together for annual sunlight[1] charts but haven't calculated the energy potential yet.

Some personal problems it solves for me:

- I hike/ski/climb a lot and want to know how late I can sleep in and still avoid the worst of the sun [2]

- I'm getting married this year and had wedding photos taken in a meadow in the mountains and we needed to set a time to meet with the photographer for a 2 hour session where we would still get sun but as late in the evening as possible.

- We're getting married in a back yard and want to place tables in a shady location for 5pm dinner

- I have a car I use occasionally and want to park it in a location that receives very little sun so the rubber/paint doesn't deteriorate as fast [3]

- We have a small van we take to the mountains and want to park it in the shade to keep it cool or sun to charge solar panels.

- etc, etc, etc

All these use-cases would be enhanced by trees and I can do it on my local machine but want to share if other people have similar needs.

[1] https://shademap.app/sunchart/#15/47.61754/-122.34365

[2] https://shademap.app/shadeprofile/

[3] https://shademap.app/@47.61767,-122.34993,16.13693z,16889544...
> or most intrusively, in half a dozen cases, preventing a program from working until I open the security preferences and find the "Allow" button.

You can ctrl+right click and then press Open to bypass this and just show a warning with an "Open" button on it, fyi. After you do it once, it won't bug you for the same application.
This is supposedly an enhanced version, which could plausibly be patented, but I agree with the parent that it seems a little odd.
We already subsidize roads and highways. People conveniently forget that.

The idea would be to target the largest cities, of course.
Walking on the spot is a warmup for sprinting.

https://athleticsweekly.com/performance/sprinting-warm-cool-....
Prior employer paid $50/day for on call. Not a ton, but it helped me feel like the valued and understood the sacrifice of always having to be within X minutes of a device.
I get the complaint. In the old days people would sometimes say “abstract nonsense” when talking about category theory related topics. It’s increasingly an important part of a basic mathematical education at the graduate level. Eventually there may be a spillover into other areas like computer science where so called practical uses occur. But maybe not. It’s still too early to say.

There’s a famous book called Categories for the Working Mathematician. Maybe someday there will be a book called Categories for the Working Programmer.

I like that you call it the string theory of math. It’s a more modern way of saying “abstract nonsense”.
where can I get started learning more about this fediverse?
Fair point, in hindsight it seems I may have thrown this book recommendation in under the wrong comment.

It's relavant to this Ask HN question at large as we very much need to move away from blind pursuit of unlimited growth in population, resource consumption, waste byproducts, etc. and address the question of how to live well within our means.

Aging population demographics is a challenge, but one that we must address and then move beyond to a move persistent and sustainable low term distribution.

As for the current situation, I am 60, my father was born in 1935 and lives here in the same town as I do. He takes meals on wheels to the older folks who aren't all that mobile (yes, he's almost 88, walks 10km per day, and maintains a 15 km long section of a 1,000 km long walking trail) which is indicative of the entire community which has the highest median age in this country.

There is scope to employ able older people to look after less able older people which gives provides purpose, companionship, and reduces the demand for younger pople in care roles, etc.

This is not a full solution but it is a partial path forward.
There's much more old hardware in developed countries.
Note that you can't really do much with a downloaded file that is just sitting there on the disk or whatever that you downloaded it onto. Using it is likely to make a copy into RAM.

If the case of computer programs making such a copy does not require permission because of 17 USC 117 [1], which says that the owner of a copy of a computer program can make copies or adaptations if they are created as an essential step in utilizing the program and they are used in no other manner.

For digital downloads other than computer programs 17 USC 117 does not apply, and so copying to RAM to use the download would in theory be infringement. You probably won't get sued over it of course so its nothing to lose sleep over.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/117
Not to mention that we still use and trust many closed-source applications.
I am even writing this on one (Safari).
Mark Zuckerberg concealed his kids’ faces on Instagram
I mean, the modern language of algebraic geometry and homotopy theory is based on advanced category theory. David Spivak, the author of this book, wrote a great thesis on cobordisms and used categorical techniques to sidestep hard problems in intersection theory. You can also look at some of Ezra Getzler’s work to see how setting up clean categorical abstractions can make it easier to attack hard problems in geometry.

In CS, abstractions like monads and effect handlers come from category theory. Plotkin and Power did a lot of super technical work on syntax/semantics adjunctions while sorting out the foundations of effect handlers.
Nothing extra, but I have a policy of giving my directs a day off the next week.
My very first intern software engineering job was at 7th Level and it was absolutely surreal walking through the QA lab during my interviews and seeing umpteed buggy animatronic Barney toys going through their test loops.
Is there a TL;DR on how to filter PFAS out of drinking water, ideally economically?

(e.g. "Buy X and install it in your sink" rather than general guidance about getting a carbon filter or something)
That's not what I was implying (agreed, my initial comment was a bit short). But they have played a part in this. It seems that corporate social responsibility these days amounts to having to pay trivial fines, then washing their hands clean.

I'm a bit mortified that the consequences to 3M for the amount of damage caused amounts to 10.3BN-12.5BN over the course of thirteen years. They should clean up the mess they made themselves - God only knows what that would cost in the end.

Edit: Corrected 1.3BN to 10.3
~$500/week
I could be wrong, but Americans seem very interested in keeping up appearances. People have freedom of speech, but do they really try to say what they want to say and risk looking like a bumbling idiot? Pioneering in one's mind and creating nuance is not easy and cannot be prepackaged for the masses, so how can it compete in a materialistic society?
Simple and Difficult: Earning Trust in the Workplace
No extra comp for oncall but can get comp time off (2 hours off for every hour worked). I also asked if I would be oncall during the interview process but it was glossed over. Was really disappointed when I joined and found out that the ops load was high.
Suing people for reading a book is one of the ways the poor are kept poor.

The world will work just fine without ceding control to people who seek money and power, because most people aren't like that. The question is how to prevent the few who are from oppressing the rest of us.

That is quite a challenge, but haven't you ever created something just for the fun of it?
The local power company (a psuedo-governmental co-op, I think) has a website with a big interactive outage map. When the power goes out, the icon is usually on the map by the time I've pulled up the site on my phone, describing the outage area, and the ETA is usually surprisingly accurate.

100% automated service, but as good if not better than anything I could get from a human.

Conversely, a weasel worded chatbot could say "we are responding to outages as noted" or something similar, and that doesn't actually provide any evidence the utility is aware of the outage or its scope in the actual monitoring and management systems; your report of a failure could go straight to /dev/null.
Doesn't that involve passing water through a bunch of plastic filters and then letting it sit in a big plastic holding tank?
I'm sure VB6 was limited by today's standards but I, as a clueless teenager, could create GUIs apps in minutes without any external access ever. It was magic.
> Apple says this is triggered by ATS and ATSUI

That's what Apple says but unfortunately it's not entirely true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36660932

> Given this is just a nuisance I'd then file a radar.

They're called Feedbacks now, and if you read to the end of the blog post, you'd see that Hockenberry did indeed file some. But filing a bug report isn't any kind of solution to a problem. Apple only fixes a small subset of all bug reports.
> Relativity isn't a technology.

It is when physicists are talking about it. Physicists often use the word technology to refer to a mathematical means by which something can be calculated, not a machine or a device.
I'm no expert on this and my interest has purely been from doing a home filter setup in an NYC apartment and trying to figure out what the best practices are, but my understanding is plants can also be impacted through uptake but there isn't too much evidence it's resulting in higher levels outside of known PFAS hotspots.

The FDA suggests that the primary issue at least in the US right now is seafood[1].

[1] https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/questions...
5% interest rate is breaking the tech companies.
If you are dependent on a SAAS service for your infra, ensure that it is either

- self-hosted
- provided by a big deep-pocketed cloud infra

Otherwise, the service might shut down with a 30-day or so notice.
I was thinking specifically journalism and newspapers, which acted as our national "town squares" up until social media killed it. Advertisers would pay for a portion of the page and we would paste in their business card alongside the news and opinions.

That's how we used to fund public debate. Now we fund it by watching advertisements scroll past tweets by journalists and politicians, debating and sharing memes. Meta and Twitter reap those profits now.

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." –A.J. Liebling

I just think it would be cool if the public had some kind of ownership over the debate, rather than someone else who gets to determine the terms under which it occurs. The internet was supposed to be our public square.

Even better if the public can profit from all the money that gets generated from selling our attention. We can use that for public services, like you mention.

You did a great job, though. Thanks.
>Not exactly, they have thrown out everything that almost nobody uses - such as networking.

And color calibration.

>such as different HiDPI across multiple monitors

I had this working with multiple X11 servers 20 years ago.

>And that has changed in the past 2 years

I was told that exact same line 5 years ago. I guess it will be just as true in 5 years again.
> nobody has ever been sued or prosecuted simply for downloading, acquiring, or possessing illegally acquired copyrighted works

Everyone who was sued by the RIAA was done so for possessing the music in a publicly accessible method. Distribution was never actually proven in any of the cases (including the high profile losses). Defendants who argued that accessibility does not qualify as distribution actually won their cases. Most who argued against the validity of the evidence acquisition also won their cases.
I use Wayland daily and haven't run into the issues you mention. It has worked better than X11 as a daily driver for a few years now. I appreciate may not work for some <1% of edge use cases but for most people Wayland works just fine. Things like screen tearing, issues with video acceleration, etc are all a thing of the past.

To be honest I associate 'barely usable' more with X11. I haven't forgotten the good old days when I had to hack various configuration files just to get a working desktop and then hack some more to work around issues with tearing, video acceleration, etc.

Wayland on the other had has just worked right out of the box since Debian 11. I have not touched a single file, line or character to get Wayland to work optiminally. That is a remarkable achievement IMHO which X11 took years and years to achieve.
That doesn’t preclude you from saying no, does it?
And you’ll get a pile of UNIX tools that are approximately nothing like Genera in actual use.
66% of time credit for time spent on call outside business hours regardless if paged or not. Maximum levels of pages etc.

Oncall should never be considered built in, it just leads to managerial abuse, and poor practice because its "free".
For what it's worth I think of lot of guesstimates of PPD are likely a bit low. You can play games with lenses to increase it near the centre of the display where it actually matters (because your eyes don't travel that far away from straight forwards, so you can have much lower resolution in your peripheral FOV).

SimulaVR, a competitor with roughly half the number of pixels (2x2448x2448 = 11,985,408 vs 23 million), claims to go from 24.48 PPD naively calculated to 35.5 PPD near the centre of the display using this.

https://simulavr.com/blog/ppd-optics/
Well ChatGPT needs its Lars Ulrich. I guess it's Sarah Silverman?
> Category theory is something I've always wanted to succeed.

In mathematics, category theory is a success story; just have a look at the revolutionary reformulation of algebraic geometry be Alexander Grothendieck and his descendents.

Whether category theory is useful to you in computer science depends a lot on the things that you work on and your "taste in programming style":

If you want to develop new even-higher-level abstractions that unify handling of very different concepts in a unified way, it is in my opinion a great idea to have category theory at your disposal - at least as a source of inspiration, and plausibly for more. Similarly, category theory might be helpful if you want to generalize some cool solution technique to a much larger (and seemingly unrelated!) class of problems.

On the other hand, I can easily find problems in computer science where at least I cannot see how category theory might help me with them (at least with my limited intelligence; I am no Grothendieck ;-) ).
Most people live in urban areas though. Nova Scotia has only a million inhabitants and half of them live in Halifax where I assume the Apple Store is. If something needs fitting and prescription lenses it seems reasonable that a physical location needs to be visited and this is the kind of trade off one makes when moving to a rural area. I'd bet that this will still be convenient for the vast majority of the population.
> Second-order effects are real - removing copyright would hurt authors.

Aiding authors is an instrumental, not fundamental, purpose of copyright in the US; the fundamental purpose to which any instrumental purposes are subordinate is “to promote the progress of science and useful arts”.

That is, while copyrights are a form of property, they are not something that is seen as natural property, but instead property explicitly granted as a means of achieving a public policy goal, and therefore limitations (or even elimination) harming the owners of that property is not the kind of dispositive argument against a policy that would be with the kinds of property seen as natural property.
Reddit has porn, but that’s not a convincing argument —- porn isn’t inimical to their ideological strictures.

Meanwhile, they absolutely forbid expressing common, mainstream political viewpoints that are inimical to their ideology.
"refute" is more than just saying "I don't think it's true". You have to provide evidence, or I suppose in some cases an incredibly solid justification to refute.

I say "desantis is actually running for president to sell off Texas to the Mexicans".

Took me about 4 seconds to write that. You have an order of magnitude to refute it - about 40 seconds. God speed.
That's a very strong claim that for which you should probably provide some evidence.

I just asked ChatGPT to produce a script of a scene from a movie by asking it first to change a single line (which wouldn't be transformative) and then asking it to restore the line to the original. It obliged. Sure, it's probably not the same exact script, but it's not transformative at all.

In any case, the issue here isn't whether the output is transformative, but whether the work was used to train an LLM, which (perhaps) isn't an authorized or licensed use.
> unless said new hardware is only exposed via a new kernel API and nobody bothers to update the modesetting driver for it

And this is actually really unlikely for Wayland, isn't it? The whole idea is that each desktop environment implements its own display server using the modesetting API. That's why there's all kinds of drama about Nvidia "not supporting Wayland"; their kernel driver exposes some nonstandard APIs, and they can patch Xorg to support those APIs, but they can't patch every Wayland compositor in the world.

I guess Xorg could hit bugs in the modesetting driver that the most popular Wayland compositors don't hit. IIRC that was an issue for Asahi Linux's Apple M1 video driver.
Just nonsense. Some people want cheap attention.
> The economic argument goes like this: “I want to get rich (usually described inaccurately as ‘making a living’), and if you don't allow me to get rich by programming, then I won't program. Everyone else is like me, so nobody will ever program. And then you'll be stuck with no programs at all!” This threat is usually veiled as friendly advice from the wise.

> I'll explain later why this threat is a bluff. First I want to address an implicit assumption that is more visible in another formulation of the argument.

> This formulation starts by comparing the social utility of a proprietary program with that of no program, and then concludes that proprietary software development is, on the whole, beneficial, and should be encouraged. The fallacy here is in comparing only two outcomes—proprietary software versus no software—and assuming there are no other possibilities.

This, but with creative works instead. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.en.html
> ssh to my home

Dead giveaway
Evolution takes a lot longer than 1000 years to affect fundamental processes like photosynthesis, which is an ancient biological chemical reaction. Plants experienced thousands of ppm of CO2 and warmer temperatures for most of Earth's 1 billion plus year history. The fossil fuels that are being burned, the carbon that is being burned, is dead plant matter from millions of years ago, when CO2 was thousands of ppm.
Who decides what's nothing or what isn't? Shall the bully be the arbiter of what is pain or what counts? Can people just say anything and if you don't like it its your problem?
You are a hero among managers.
If you know just what you want you could a) buy online or b) buy it from any other retailer. The Apple Store is for people who want to speak to apple staff
Exactly.. turned on lathe, millwork if not 5 axis, hardened, and then ground to finish.
The problem isn't the videos of actual crimes. You have deeply misunderstood the article.

And in the important and much rarer situation you do have such a video, you can get it to police without the help of a one-click share button.
> In my experience, running X11 over a network worked very poorly.

In my experience, when combined with SSH compression (ssh -XC) it works well enough that even running Firefox over Internet is usable (although with noticeable latency). Without compression, it is unusable (for Firefox) even on gigabit LAN.
The negative effects of PFAS on animals and humans is widely studied and reported. There is no confusion on this. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7906952/ is one starting point.
Same with microplastics. With all the inconclusive studies it compels me to believe that even if it's harmful, it's no so harmful.