skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are advertised as "typhoon resistant". Like all big wind turbines, the props are variable pitch, feather under excessive wind, and rotation stops.

The big trouble spot is the gearbox and its bearings.[1] These big turbines are advertised as "semi direct drive" turbines, which means they only have one stage of geared speed step-up. Large wind turbines are very slow compared to desirable generator RPMs, and the bigger the turbine, the lower the RPMs.

Bearing trouble is currently the big limitation on turbine life. Not many large wind turbine drivetrains are reaching the 25 year design life. Huge bearings and gears with off-axis loads have problems not seen in other applications. As the wind changes, stresses appear from odd angles. This causes minor bearing damage, which increases wear, which eventually causes major damage.

A new research result: [2][3] Argonne National Lab has been able to reproduce this problem in a benchtop setup. The metallurgy/lubrication problem is still not fully understood, and it's getting considerable attention.

Stuff like this is the difference between a prototype and a long-lived production product.

[1] https://www.stle.org/files/TLTArchives/2020/08_August/Featur...

[2] https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/zeroing-no-1-cause...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09215...
We did think about it and (the smart amongst us) decided that’s how we got into this mess in the first place.
This is exactly how I have my pi4's overclocked. Been running 24/7 that way without any issues. I do have fans on them to keep temperatures down.
What is a paper mask?
> I have a pretty strong anti-cycling stance, because I watched my New York neighborhood that was a pedestrian paradise significantly degraded by bike lanes.

A car driver, a cyclist and a pedestrian walk into a café and order ten cream cakes. When the waitress places them on their table the car driver grabs nine of them and scoffs them in his face, then he leans over to the pedestrian and whispers: “don’t let the cyclist take your one”.
I’m an Aussie, and after living 3 months in LA I think it was the most poorly designed city I’ve ever been to for this exact reason - I felt unable to walk practically anywhere!

It felt like my options were drive or taxi. And we know what LA traffic is like.

I can’t speak to other US cities, and it is possible that certain areas of LA are less terrible than where I stayed. (But I will say, I was in quite an affluent area which had no business being unwalkable and without public transport).

But it really opened my eyes to how good we have it in Australian cities (which themselves are still far behind many European cities).
Rail Guide – Current and historic rail maps of the US and Canada
Yes, journalists confuse (or confused) Twitter with what "the people" are thinking.

A prominent case: A few years ago, J.K. Rowling wrote an article on gender bathroom policy. I'm pretty sure most random people, when given the piece to read, would have judged it to be some rather moderate opinion. But on Twitter the author encounterd a massive wave of accusations and hostility. The journalists were probably sympathetic with those people, and moreover thought them to be in the majority among the general population (because the JKR criticisms were in the majority on Twitter).

So the journalists went out and wrote news pieces casually describing Rowling as being a transphobic, as if this was an uncontroversial description of fact, like the sky being blue, when it was really a serious accusation by the journalist. Their Twitter filter bubble confuses them about which views are common and which are fringe.
Any perceived tone in my earlier response was just that: perceived. I was not being condescending, I was making a valid point and offering an opinion. It's your choice to interpret it as negative. From my perspective you are being unnecessarily negative towards me. If this thread bothers you then just move on.
Perhaps. I think suburbs with high density of poor people used to be less common in the past so I am less familiar with the dynamics there.
> They’re hugely successful corporations. Saying they’ve “lost” is a tad ridiculous.

Let’s quantify it so it’s not ridiculous. Since getting their head start, they have ”lost” about 90% of total market share to American companies who are doing a better job. And this is before the new transfer framework that cane out this month. What is the value prop of OVH without regulatory capture?

> Europe is also a hotspot of AI research

This is absolutely true. Amsterdam for example produces outstanding ML research. But where do their freshly minted phds go? American companies!

> I really do get fed up with how some Americans believe it’s impossible that any other country could be successful.

For what it’s worth, I live in northern Europe. As you point out, European universities are great. They are an AI research hotbed and they produce highly capable undergrads. But this clearly isn’t translating into world class tech companies, and we should ask ourselves why.
In my experience senior NCOs are worth their weight in gold. Officers above a captain will vary. The bad ones are toxic.
Definitely recommend a separate 2.4ghz N-mode only wifi with separate passphrase and client isolation on a different vlan with routing only out to the internet for all IoT stuff.
Lamy Al-star EMR is a popular one. Staedtler Noris also good.
For enterprise sales, definitely Founding Sales by Kazanjy and the entrepid how to sell guide. (Foundingsales.com + https://www.entrepidpartners.com/how-to-sell-guide). I’d probably say start with a quick read through of the entrepid one to get an overview and then do 1x read through of founding sales and then treat founding sales like your reference manual.

Other sales books like fanatical prospecting, challenger sale, spin selling, to sell is human are all good, but they’re better imo for optimizing your sales skills once you already have all the basics and are closing deals and want to improve.

For getting started and closing your first 3-5 deals for any kind of software sales selling products for $5k+ per year per customer, the Kazanjy book and the Entrepid book.
> [of sulfur-based radiation management] As of 2023, it is estimated that the cost of doing so would average out to a few billion dollars/euros per year.

This is in the range of "Possible for an eccentric billionare" to accomplish, right?

Or a single determined, mid-sized country?

... could it be scaled up and cool things down too far, say by an angry world leader?

I didn't realize the cost of it was only in the order of billions.
> Where is your evidence?

I would ask the same. The evidence saudi nationals did attack the WTC is weak at best. Some indestructable passports they found amongst the rubble at ground zero?

The burden of evidence is much higher because of the CIA's shennanigans throughout the world, and lies told to engage in previous unjustifiable wars like Vietnam. Having faith in a government composed of people who have repeatedly lied to you is stockholm syndrome.
I don’t think I called anyone a loser.

It’s fine for people to say they want to do something and then not do it.

I’m just saying that it can be done. Either do it or don’t.

> Yes, but why would they when a thing is painful and unpleasant?

Because sometimes things that are painful and unpleasant have benefits that outweigh the pain and unpleasantness?
Meta: Headline description taken from their Android app since the website doesn't provide a good one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.railguide....
I use the busses in Boston all the time, and have been for over 20 years. Way back when it was a pain but ever since bus tracking apps showed up on the scene about 15 years ago it's been a smooth experience.
> You're making a correlation that the best leaders are at the top, but that's not the case.

I'm not. I said this:

"However, the majority of military is not in the upper echelons of the power hierarchy. And the majority of leaders in the military do not fall in this category of exceptionalism."

> However, there are terrible leaders everywhere, at all levels of command.

Yes, this is what I am saying.

> Military veterans are often the most preferred candidates, all things being equal, in recruiting pools because of their leadership and performance.

No. Military veterans are often preferred because it is easy to understand how you've been trained and how you will react. Because Operant Conditioning. Oftentimes it is not because you are the best, rather it is because you are predictable, and cheaper.
In our area there were lots of secular activities available, but unfortunately that's not universally true.

Many people select places to live based on school districts; it may make sense to put the same amount of weight on quality of homeschooling options. But even then, that's not going to be universally available in a nearby location.

There are also potentially online groups to connect with others (even more so now than when I was that age), which could help with finding and organizing groups.
So in order for the document to evolve, we need a system to determine consensus. Everyone who cares runs a program on their computer that joins the network and registers their intent. With each proposed change, a query goes out to the network, and it's up to everyone on the network to say yea or nay to the proposal. With enough "yea"s, the document is updated.

...this is starting to sound like a blockchain, isn't it.
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data
You're assuming OTA updates are available for legacy hardware.
Nice article! Actually it would be great to see suggestions from LLM for each error log highlighted in the RCA report, so you don't need to ask OpenAI about it manually.

Do you have any plans about this feature?
Buses could be ok, but the same attitude of compromise that swapped steel wheels for rubber also generates--

+ hard plastic seats

+ inadequate climate control

+ poor maintenance leading to excessive nose and exhaust fumes in the cabin

+ extremely poor personal space

+ seating configurations with poor leg room

+ convoluted routes and schedules, degrading point-to-point travel

+ the driving can be uneven, because they aren't much better off than riders

Light rail is better because the folks who design and operate the systems aren't bent on bargaining away the entire rider experience.
Agree, context is key here. Leadership ain't a one-size-fits-all deal. Military and civilian jobs are like apples and oranges at times. Military leaders gotta shape up their team with what they've got. In private business, bosses can usually swap folks in and out based on their performance. So, comparing these two is a bit like comparing apples to bowling balls.

A leader's worth ain't just about their style—it's about getting results. The Military needs to run a tight ship, while a manager at a startup might want fresh ideas and risk-takers. Military folks might be better at building a team because they're drilled to be disciplined and unified. But that doesn't mean civilian leaders are lacking necessarily.

It does not make sense to use the same tools in the two settings. Some folks have found ex-military bosses to be good at growing a team and their careers. There are good and bad leaders everywhere. Let's not box leaders into military or civilian corners, and judge 'em on their own merits and how effective they are.
Retracting is extremely rare in computer science, which is why instead many conferences have started "stamping" papers that have artifacts which provide reproducible results.
In my opinion the UK has always been against that group and others who stick out, and that's not going to change in the future.

Unfortunately if you're a tech hobbyist in the UK your best option is to leave, especially if you're any good with technology. There are plenty of other countries that will treat you far better than the UK ever would.
> A good cyberdeck isn't clean or new. It's well used, customized, hand repaired.

This is not by choice, the subjects of the fiction are criminals who largely do not have legal means to get new equipment.
> Nothing the military puts out on leadership should be taken very seriously...

...unless you read it and think about it first.

nor should blanket criticisms be leveled in the same circumstance.
The problem here is that the request timeout is greater than the lock timeout.
Plenty of bus stops, special bus lanes, modern buses, air-conditioning, clean environment, frequent on-time schedules, and plenty of routes to take you to/from all major city areas and suburbs. No crazies and violent crime either.

Of course the city also needs to support walking the final 300-2000 ft to your destination after the bus stop. If most of your stops are some BS office or industrial zone, with roads build for cars, no shade, no shops, and nothing to do around, it's pointless.
I mean, we have a precedent; did Bezos' trip substantiate radical pro-human changes in his businesses?

The only thing I read about resulting from that trip was Shatner's induced depression over the sight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA "Bakfiets" ("box bike")
> Is there any reason to expect them to be as dystopian as you predict?

Bill description on UK Parlament website:

https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2022/april/have-your...

>The Bill has five policy objectives:

> to increase user safety online.

> to preserve and enhance freedom of speech online.

> to improve law enforcement’s ability to tackle illegal content online.

> to improve users’ ability to keep themselves safe online.

> to improve society’s understanding of the harm landscape.

I guess UK government has solved all the issues include salaries inflation and ever rising price of living so they can finally go "preserve and enhance" freedom of speech.
I haven't used clang much in recent years but i remember back when it was first introduced clang was faster than gcc while producing only slightly slower (or sometimes comparable) code.

Most likely compile times slowed down as clang and llvm became more complex, but early clang was faster enough for people to switch to it - and then just stayed with it (this isn't a unique case, people switched to Chrome from Firefox because Chrome was much faster and they stayed with Chrome even after Chrome became slower and Firefox faster).

In any case the comparison was with gcc (and perhaps msvc), not all types of compilers.
Actually, Java virtual threads have a similar problem with JNI. Your virtual thread gets pinned to a core if you call native code. This isn't as bad as the python GIL but it still limits the usefulness of virtual threads if they can't migrate to other cores.
All distributed locking systems have a liveness problem: what should you do when a participant fails? You can block forever, which is always correct but not super helpful. You can assume after some time that the process is broken, which preserves liveness. But what if it comes back? What if it was healthy all along and you just couldn't talk to it?

The classic solution is leases: assume bounded clock drift, and make lock holders promise to stop work some time after taking the lock. This is only correct if all clients play by the rules, and your clock drift hypothesis is right.

The other solution is to validate that the lock holder hasn't changed on every call. For example, with a lock generation epoch number. This needs to be enforced by the callee, or by a middle layer, which might seem like you've just pushed the fault tolerance problem to somebody else. In practice, pushing it to somebody else, like a DB is super useful!

Finally, you can change call semantics to offer idempotency (or other race-safe semantics). Nice if you can get it.
By being a superset of Fortran and subset of Python. It turns out the features map on each other almost 1:1, and the differences can be taken care of by the respective frontends, so the abstracted ASR maps perfectly.
> It's the city people who think moving five feet every thirty seconds and bathing in an ocean of car horn noises is somehow compatible with human life.

Some even manage to enjoy it. I did not believe anyone actually wanted, let alone enjoyed the misery of modernity until I experienced one such person firsthand. It blowed my mind, I was in shock for a straight day. The guy genuinely "liked" the new Transformers movie (which was beyond awful), "enjoyed" fast food, and "liked" the big car-honk-filled city center and CO2-infested loud mall. I'm yet to see a more oversocialized person. When I think of words 'deranged' and 'insane', no criminal but this guy appears in my mind's eye.
>There is this story that nobody takes the bus in L.A. but when I go there and ride the bus the bus is always full

By that they mean "no middle class and up white person takes the bus".
Blocking / muting to get rid of replies by unwanted people? I myself never use that feature as a "lurker".
My bottom 10, starting from the bottom:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10877423 (Jan 2016 - maybe before we figured out how to treat the dreaded title fever, which drives men mad like mosquitoes in the old northwest)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7611005 (April 2014 - what a time warp - remember when anything anti-Elon would get flamed?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477279 (Oct 2014 - thank god I changed it back or lord knows how bad it couldve gotten)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14248635 (May 2017 - everyone wants more monthly threads until the front page fills up with them, guess how you'd like that now)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11608112 (May 2016 - fair play for airbnb? how dare i?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10564079 (Nov 2015 - ugh. hn must have gotten better about religious flamewar because that one made me cringe)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17780480 (Aug 2018 - i probably wouldn't do that now - but please come back, pvg)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8759235 (Dec 2014 - i'm sorry don't hit me!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752227 (Feb 2017 - oho! we can detach things!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809021 (Dec 2014 - i have sweeter ways of making the exact same point now)
I think it is reasonable for governmental agencies to have greater restrictions on their behavior without due process than a private company because the government has vastly greater opportunity to abuse this power.
It doesn't really matter in the end.

The Human race is basically screwed and civilization will collapse in a few decades anyway. Most of your children's lives will be spent either starving, freezing, drowning, burning or fighting.
MUDs are easily hosted abroad. Problem solved.

This reminds me of UK's 90% tax rate, which caused many multi-millionaires to leave the country.
Buenos Aires has about 200 bus lines with fairly high frequency (2-7 minutes during peak riding times) and almost all lines have overnight service, albeit at low frequency. Bus rides are highly subsidized. Congestion can get pretty bad during the day but you can get anywhere you want within the city.
I strongly recommend to not always trust everything because it's open source. Air Quality as all different weather ingredients are measure and there is a big difference how you measure. I am not advocate of any "pro" solution. I just want you to know to check many sources.
IRC leaks your IP address, for that one reason I wouldn't use it. People can be insane and emboldened by anonymity on the internet, and one disagreement turns into some guy swatting your home and getting you killed. No thanks.
The GPU Song [video]
I helped make this! It’s very very niche, but if this happens to be your niche then I think you’ll enjoy it quite a bit.
> Discord has shitty logging and log-search capabilities.

It's shitty, but if you just have to beat "non existant" that will often work.
This is expected as the insane growth and usage as it was released in tandem with Typical Crazy Elon Moves was clearly unsustainable for years, much less even a few months. As for success, ask me again in 2024.
The Berlin one… mostly doesn't suck? At least in zone B[0]. I don't trust them to not get in traffic jams in zone A.

They have USB chargers and WiFi on half of them.

[0] Zone A: core; Zone C: the part of the commuter belt outside the city limits; Zone B: between A and B — https://sbahn.berlin/en/tickets/the-vbb-fare-explained/fare-...
wrt to remarkable: changing pages indeed does take a little time, thus it's not good for researching. writing is nearly instant, but not perfectly, so imo it's not quite as good as on paper (although the resistance is pretty nice). One personal note: I would love to have a thicker pen, the pencil-size is not mine.
Still, I like the device (I'm one of the old customers so don't know about how the subscription or non-subscription fares, since I am grandfathered in) but it's clearly not for everyone. Also I really love the eraser function of the newer pen.
The autogenerated genre playlists have this issue too. "House Music" is a very broad genre (or metagenre, given how many subgenres exist), so you'd think that they wouldn't end up being largely comprised of tracks I already have on my own playlist. And the rest end up being kind of bland and not really quite what I'm looking for.

I seem to remember that Spotify used to have a heavy focus on employee-operated playlists that curated new releases, though I didn't really take advantage of them at the time. The newer (cheaper) algorithm-driven ones don't really cut it.
I think I'm reasonably tech savvy and at no time in my life I had a system I could trust to be 100% always-on.
No way you could expect average users to run their own service just so they don't miss messages.

Anyways it feels silly to require always-on service when history could just be part of the protocol.
But for one brief, glorious moment, we created a lot of value for shareholders.
I wonder why Mattermost hasn’t caught on more. It has most of what I expect from Slack/Discord but it’s open source.
Frequency hopping is actually not considered a secure communication method in military circles, nor is it designed to be. Frequency hopping is designed to provide robust communication during electronic warfare scenarios (jamming).
At the moment it is not sealed. We are currently looking into conformal coating options and will probably have this available in one of the next batches (we are currenly checking what coating our PCB assembler can do).
> didn't come to life as a reaction to Twitter changing ownership

Small correction, it came to life years before the actual purchase due to the _possibility_ that Twitter could be purchased. This gave it years to mature, and I think the time was well spent for the most part.

Agree with the rest of your points though. Mastodon is really a great platform, even if it's not the best platform for every type of user or use case, and I truly do not understand why it provokes such vitriolic detractors. I was astonished that it was actually easier for me to get updates about what was happening to Twitter during its API and connectivity issues last month from my Mastodon feed than anywhere else, including Twitter itself.
This is another part of clang I've considered be almost, but not quite there yet. Some of the calls to the API are not very intuitive and they left too much out of libclang for it to be of anything but limited use. I am not a C++ guy, and it would be far too difficult for me to learn on a project such as this for my purpose so I had to use GCC instead. GCC has fairly good internals documentation (not just doxygen, thankfully) and the code is reasonably well annotated so it was't too difficult to work with.