skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't know why we don't just do this.

Use some financial instruments and fund solar panel factory factories, fund panel factories, and then the solar farms. Same for batteries.

And technically, we don't need to make the 100 sq miles contiguous, and we could put the batteries anywhere, possibly some close to the panels, some closer to the customers. We might need to put them near established electricity corridors, or fund new corridors too.

I don't know why they couldn't start making money immediately, even with wholesale power 2-4c / kwh.
Nonsense! I have it on good authority that Eldorado is just over that ridge. /s
Laws that conflict would be a problem. But what's an example? If one law says give employees a 10 minute break every 4 hours, and another law says give them a 15 minute break every 4 hours, that's not a conflict -- it's easy to obey both laws.
fascist, racist, bigot, all pejoratives you can attach to someone to shut them up or tear them down.
The odds are low, but we're kinda skirting the real question here: What does Valve have to gain by allowing an emulator on the store anyway? It's free so no platform cut, it's open source so it's unlikely to ever be monetizable, and it's legally dubious on top of all that. If this was some billion dollar piece of software like COD I'm sure Valve would fall on the sword like Sony did. But there's literally nothing to gain here except headaches.
My experience was the same. I stopped using it for hobby projects recently when I had two consecutive days of being unable to build anything. The same stuff that built the week before, built fine locally, then eventually built on fly again — just, inexplicable downtime with no word from support.

Their free tier is very generous. You can get a lot happening and stay under their billing threshold. But, I like to get stuff done. I have a family. I code in my spare time very rarely, and I need a service that’ll let me just build my goddamn project. This was a small static site built by Node, so nothing spectacular happening.

I do wish them the best though. They have an excellent product in their tooling, and if they could stabilize their infrastructure I’d love to try them again.
It’s called the Death Star law for a reason: https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-death-star-house...

(Spoiler: it’s for eroding local control for democratic run major cities and not for preventing conflicts)
At least I could rely on Heroku in production. I've wanted to give Fly.io a try but this gives me pause. I really do miss the Heroku DX whenever I'm putzing around with the increasing complexity of AWS.
James Carville: Politics and Politicians (1997)
These all died in obscurity.

I doubt they died "of natural causes".

It's not HN's fault that the enemy is huge and yields great influence.
I’d rather they unbundle sports from YouTube TV. They’ve “reimagined” cable with the same forced bundling and sports subsidies that ruined cable in the first place.
Can you remind me why are we still reading the New York Times?

The story about Kevin Mitnick from hours ago had like 3000+ upvotes with people asking HN mods to put the black bar on and with thousands of comments claiming that Kevin was their hero/imaginary childhood friend/turbo cringe ad infinitum... but then hours later people upvote NYT stories?

Are people not aware that it was the NYT the ones that made a fortune selling newspapers with false stories about Mitnick on the cover? sensational stuff that never happened? That caused the authorities to hunt down the guy and put him into solitary confinement for months?

Your imaginary childhood friend is crying right now.
Spell check is a universal composable text editing property, great job for the OS
None of the other format viewer apps are
Thanks! I took a look at stream.new which is surprisingly similar. And yes, I am uploading and serving the raw MediaRecorder output, without any transcoding.

Did you by any chance try to view the demo using Safari? https://github.com/MarconLP/snapify/issues/12
Oddly, given the context of this thread, the UK is an exception. Or at least it was until a few years ago (I left in 2019). They have Faster Payments, but they also still use (used?) cheques more often than any other non-US country I've interacted with. For example, a number of UK universities still do (or until recently did?) expense reimbursements in the form of paper cheques, when reimbursing people not employed by the institution. One university even mailed a paper cheque, made out in British pounds and drawn on a UK bank, to our French invited speaker! The speaker found it inconvenient/expensive to have to deal with that, but their bank was fortunately able to figure out how to deposit it.
> sanely written laws

This part is the problem.
Arguably, platinum.
Hey, sure: The Series is by Glynn Stewart, Scattered Stars: Evasion, Book 1 Evasion [0]

Here it already only has the printed version, not the main kindle version (his books are KDP, so sadly Amazon-exclusive). It’s also lacking the Series title (Scattered Stars: Evasion), only having the book title "Evasion".

Missing from the series are Discretion (Scattered Stars: Evasion Book 2) [1] and the new Absolution (Scattered Stars: Evasion Book 3) [2].

Looking through his other works, they all seem to only have the print version.

I’m also not sure if the ImportBot [3] is official, or just one huge contributor, but it could really do with some kind of information, including how something like this could be fixed, or if it can.

[0]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26413643W/Evasion

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B57FV55Q

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C6YV8JDK

[3]: https://openlibrary.org/people/ImportBot
You can’t cache things online anymore as that is a way to track people (generate a unique “decoder” per user and check if they have it cached or not)
i'm very grateful for this guy, but I also probably eat too many instant noodles. is there any research/recommendation on what level of instant noodle consumption starts being unhealthy (ofc everything is a gradient)?
It feels like they’re trying to give people the benefits that hyperscale cloud operators have, without being one?
Maybe just pick up 3 chonky EC2 boxes, set up iptables on each of them, have each one run a containerized version of your code that gets built and deployed from CI every time you push to Github, slap an ALB in front of it all, and call it a day?

And if you need state, then spin up a little RDS with your favorite SQL flavor of choice?

The CI deploy script could even bake in little health-checks so you can do rolling deploys with zero downtime. Depending on how fancy you wanted to get with your shell scripting, you could probably even make 1 of your 3 boxes a canary without too much trouble.

I'm realizing I haven't thought about this in a long time, since nowadays I just get to use the fancy stuff at work. Kind of a fun thought experiment!
Absolutely. Faraday was in a league of his own and his considerable acclaim still doesn't do him justice.
Thank you for reading :-)

I mentioned it towards the end, in the 2nd last paragraph. Those issues in the evaluation do bring its accuracy down a bit, even then it performs better than expected, considering it is doing knn on compressed data.
Only in the era of fake news do startups have supercomputers.
People don't have a clear concept of what life is and often don't separate life and sentience. Remember the movie Short Circuit: some military robot gains AGI then the machine and the people around it start claiming it's alive. Or in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk and his crew teleport in the middle of a forest and Spock, consulting his tricorder, promptly declares there is no life on this planet. What the writers of those shows thought life is is an open question, but it seems compatible with the idea of an LLM "coming to life".
The irony or perhaps the tragedy of building a low friction service is that you have to have experts on the lower level high friction stuff.

I would hope that after a couple of hours downtime, they'd bring up a fresh machine with Ansible or whatever. Hardware or AWS/GCP Vm.
>if a copyright lawsuit is found to be frivolous or filed in bad faith, the copyright for all of the plaintiff's works involved in the case is forfeit to the defendant

That sounds like grounds for trolling in the other direction. Can you imagine some new IP taking off but then being grabbed by some asset flipping company that can outspend the creator?
Public cloud like AWS is a premium product. When your web scale business wants to increase profits by cutting costs and you’ve already done a few passes making your software run faster, owning your own metal & renting colo space starts looking like a big avenue for savings. Especially if you’re doing something bandwidth intensive, where AWS makes you pay through the nose. I think we’ll see a fair number of companies move back towards owning metal, especially if the metal is super easy to manage. I think the Oxide pitch is making owning racks sensible for ~2000 eng companies instead of ~20,000 eng companies.
I would never have thought to use an extension intended for adding dark mode, to instead view dark mode websites in a light mode, but that makes total sense!
> I'll be damned if you can't have a throat to choke in less than 10 minutes whenever something like this happens

That is a hell of generous description for a person who sits in your Slack instance and responds with "I have escalated to the team internally and am waiting to hear back on confirmation if this is an issue."

Moving a Level 1 support engineer closer to the customer doesn't give them more information, it just reduces the latency to getting a non-answer.
No love for AWS, but this isn't true, at least for larger deploys. If you're running enough with them that you have an account manager, they are very good indeed. You can have someone, someone good, on the phone within minutes and they will stay on the line until the issue is sorted.

I recall an incident at my old company where we were under DDOS, it was getting through cloudflare and saturating LBs in some complicated manner (don't recall the exact details) which made it hard for us to fix ourselves. They were on the phone with us for hours, well past midnight their time, helping us sort it out. The downtime sucked, but I was certainly impressed with their truly excellent support.
Noun gender is really a non issue. It's something native anglophones complain about when learning other languages. ESL people are more likely to complain about just how many verb tenses English has.
Zelle has many limitations:

1) The recipient needs to download the app and sign up. How does the Payor know whether the recipient has Zelle app or not

2) Even with the app, there are only about 50-100 banks that allow Zelle transfers. If someone's bank does not offer Zelle they are directed to enter their Debit Card number using "Push to Card" to receive the funds. While the funds land up in the bank account instantly either way, some Debit Cards have limitations and will not be enabled to receive funds

3) Zelle is essentially a "messaging layer" i.e. the actual settlement happens overnight using ACH rails. As a result the sending as well as the receiving bank are taking some risk in terms of allow the recipient to withdraw money when the underlying settlement hasn't happened. If the settlement fails the receiver's bank will need to claw bank the money from the receiver
As a result there are some really low limits on daily transfers i.e. between 1-2K/day for most banks

4) Above all Zelle (like most other payment rails ) is a push system i.e. one can push money using Zelle. One may not pull money using Zelle
the problem with leetcode interviews is that it favors people who have the time to memorize optimal solutions to a large set of problems which they can reproduce in under 5 minutes. but those people have zero creativity and are not necessarily good engineers. they just mastered memorizing stuff.
You seem to be completely oblivious to the fact that the first four words of your examples are "use Google to find"
IMO LLMs are another form of computer. A computer turns everything into bits and processes things from rendering to money. A LLM turns everything into language tokens and processes different kinds if things.

LLMs are still very primitive for their potential, kind of like logic gates.

For example, computers gave us (A)D&D games, wargaming, and the whole RPG genre that's too tedious to play on paper. LLMs are making RP-heavy systems like Cypher and FATE possible.

On a more serious level, they're a pretty good search engine and can process all kinds of information. I expect the next generation of use to be diagnosis tools, like debugging, medical, fixing cards, reading your contracts and so on. They're not replacing expert humans yet, but are an extra tool to reduce error.
>Like people, Nintendo CANNOT restrict your right to obtain and use the Wii common key for any purpose other than you intentionally and solely helping others circumvent copyright law to steal games.

okay, can you risk that financially? There are cases where emulators have won in court, and then soon after shut down. And that was a pretty profitable venture too compared to modern open source emulation.

We're not going to properly address this until we have proper precedence to the point where it's a slam dunk. And I'm sure Nintendo chooses its battles very carefully.
Computer Modern is okay on paper, but I find it very frustrating to read on screen. I wonder if the Fell types are similar ‐‐ the scan of the thesis, where the letters aren't fit to the pixel grid, looks a lot nicer.

I do like Baskerville, but I am a little sad that the only open source version I know of, Libre Baskerville, changes the design so much for the screen. Caslon is in the same boat.
Manga creator Ippei Kuri has died at the age of 83
That is exactly their goal. Hyperscale for the rest of us
It would have been better to provide the estimated mass of different elements/compounds than to estimate its value. Is the $10Qt estimate based on current prices, some predicted median, something else?
I think there's room for the comments having a brief explanation and a longer one in the commit message. Sometimes people need the callout to go looking at the history because otherwise they might not realize that there's anything significant there at all.
Reliability is everything. Why aren’t they monitoring their own machines (real or virtual) and getting fire alarms when there’s an outage?
Chrome backed finger print / other DRM ?
Just skimmed, will read in full later.

https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-Environment-Integrity/

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

Goals
Allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device.
Offer an adversarially robust and long-term sustainable anti-abuse solution.
Don't enable new cross-site user tracking capabilities through attestation.
Continue to allow web browsers to browse the Web without attestation.
Thanks for your feedback!

I concur that privacy could indeed be a concern. However, accessing your bank information is required to execute a payment. Importantly, we don't retain any information or details pertaining to the payer's account. This information is solely accessed to initiate payment and nothing else. Our aim is to maintain utmost transparency, and we provide you with exact details about the information we access at the time of payment!
zelle is the same thing in the US been around for years ran by banks with lots of scamming going around.
Also (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25253797

I agree with the comment there saying that shadow registers should be counted as they play a part in optimizing effectively.
Can you link to any discussion on how exactly NYTimes was the root cause for whatever happened in the scenario you’re discussing?
Can anyone comment on this industry? Is it a good idea for a college student today to try to study a major related to chip fab? What majors are those?

Are they actually offering competitive jobs, or is this more of "Americans just don't want to work anymore!"
I second render.com. I switched from fly.io to Render.com after seeing a few of my instances getting bottlenecked and crashing. Now the same service runs smoothly on render.com without any crashes. Didn't dig any deeper but somehow the resource management is better with render.com
I have to wonder how much he'll actually help with productivity.

I doubt his main contribution would be technical so much as it would be having ultimate authority and the ability to overrule or skip the bureaucracy.
The MIT license waver is extraordinarily broad, actually superior in my view to some modern licenses. From my experience now I can now see ways that it could be improved but it could be worse.

The issue with an outright fraud (or other sufficiently malicious actor) is that they can just tell sufficient lies to undermine most protections-- especially when their goal is to simply to defeat summary judgement and count on you being bankrupt before a trial could be completed.
> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-inventions...

Only one of these is any kind of potential scientific discovery: Szilard's hypothesis about the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction. However, the article vastly overstates the case: Szilard did not "solve" the problem of a nuclear chain reaction. He just guessed that a chain reaction involving neutrons might be possible if a suitable element could be found. It's also not clear how much of an inspiration Wells' novel actually was; in the novel, the "atomic power" is based on radioactivity, which was discovered a decade and a half before Wells published, and which does not produce any chain reactions. Szilard's guess was certainly inspired, no question about that, but he might well have had it without ever knowing about Well's novel; learning about the discovery of the neutron would have been enough.

The other items are just new technologies based on already known scientific principles; none of them involved any new scientific discoveries.

> even a null result is a valuable contribution to that effort.

If it's a new null result, sure. But anyone who understood what was already known about fundamental forces at the time would have known that there would be a null result without having to do the research.

> It's also an example of someone from the peanut gallery having an idea worth looking into.

Huh? Wegener was a credentialed scientist; he wasn't "from the peanut gallery".
Hi Sam, emailed at sam@pitchpal.app twice since 11th July but didn't receive any response. Not sure if the your email client is working properly or not.

Thanks
It's surprising to me how much we don't understand about plastic still.

Years ago I was in a kitchen shop with an out of town friend and we saw some Sous Vide equipment. I told her that we had one and that you could either plastic bags or vacuum sealed bags to cook in the water. Her reaction was an immediate "absolutely not." That's when I realized that she worked in a lab that focused on plastics. Her big call out was that there's been studies on heat and how it relates to plastic breakdowns, but those are at high temperatures. There wasn't much related to lower level heats applied for longer periods of time. Based on what she knew from the other studies, she refused to go near anything like Sous Vide as she assumed it was way too risky.
Talking to Alexa is laughable now, after having interacted with ChatGPT and Bing. It's so frustrating to see capable hardware being let down by crappy software for years upon years.
Oh no; less office culture. I might have to partake in local community culture!

I don’t see why meetups, conferences can’t fill the gap? Let’s just quit the company thing altogether and rally around OS projects.

Oh look a worker run industry.

Peaceful rejection of status quo would force politicians to act and we can all proclaim; this is what the market of ideas wants.

Sorted.
> We can reject and ignore the ideas of non-experts and shame curious minds into silence, or we can embrace them and maybe even explore them or be inspired by them because if we do, we could discover something sooner than we might have otherwise.

I don't share your optimism here, and I don't think we're going to reach agreement on this point.
This is great, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Cool name, too.
>they don't need approval from Nintendo

Valve just said they did.

>They need Valve to not block them for Nintendo without legal case based on some excuses

Or what, they sue Valve? It's still their store. Valve can reject any title for any reason (well, almost any reason. But proving discimination here would be difficult).

I've come across this issue with Valve's vague rulings for dozens of titles, so I'm not exactly surprised the outcome here once again favors Valve. But people are still in blind devotion for Valve instead of realizing that they have been leveraging their pseudo-monopoly on the Pc platform for years now.
> It doesn't support sharing

Well this release doesn't but it's kind a beta by the look of things. Team wiki/company knowledge is definitely on their roadmap and one of their major selling points.
Anyone who has ever pondered the existence of extraterrestrial life has heard of Fermi's paradox, while only history buffs interested in WWII or Japan or the Second Red Scare or alternatively science geeks interested in nuclear explosives have ever heard of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Do American politicians have a thing against letting the common people survive? Jeez, I was in the Middle East, and even the sheikhs and kings there mandated that no outdoors work be done in the afternoons or on days with extremely high temperatures. That is, 11 am to 4 pm absolutely blocked, no ifs or buts. Work in the 5 searing summer months happened in the night.
Yes, even for private orgs federal money always come with strings attached. This is also how fed can force states do things states may not necessarily want. Here we aren’t even speaking about private orgs, but public universities that often are part of state run systems. They aren’t free to conduct admissions as they see fit, but as the public sees fit.
> Would it be possible to simply store e.g. a git repo name + sha, and then clients download as needed? Or do storage-providers need to be able to execute any of this (beyond enforcing key permissions)?

The server stores all of the events and all of the contracts in a content-addressable way, in whatever key-value database it is using. It does not execute any of the contract code though, no, that's done locally by clients.
> most people don't want to share their bank account numbers

While far less common these days, people gave this information to arbitrary payees (via personal checks) for decades. The idea that it's not to be given to payers, despite it having been given to arbitrary payees, seems misguided. If someone tries to commit fraud with that number, they're probably going to get caught, making it sufficiently unlikely, no?
Unlikely, for reasons explained in this video: https://youtu.be/bEovhfxJsM4?t=2339

However, it apparently can write a program using the Z3 SAT solver to find a solution.
> Experiments have shown that microwaving plastic baby food containers available on the shelves of U.S. stores can release huge numbers of plastic particles — in some cases, more than 2 billion nanoplastics and 4 million microplastics for every square centimeter of container.

> After two days, just 23% of kidney cells exposed to the highest concentrations had managed to survive — a much higher mortality rate than that observed in earlier studies of micro- and nanoplastic toxicity.

surprised I didn't see more studies like this when researching for avoiding plastics with our baby... its not like these are new materials/ technologies... right?
Didn't he also do the inner ring album art for virgin records? I'm sure he's credited on the six finger "V" compilation album.