skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those totally unelectrified sections, you need something like hydrogen trains. This allows you to go hundreds of miles without power. But battery trains require catenaries at both ends for charging anyways. And the limited range of battery trains implies that the unpowered sections must be very short, and could easily be electrified instead.

Which is why this decision is nonsensical and seems like some kind of subsidy related scam. Whatever the motivation, it cannot be based in rational thought.
You could see the transition in OSX developer previews. Some apps would retain the old look, or icons.
> Now if only I could get him to care about anything more than his hotwheels collection...

he's a kid, es supposed to care more about that than anything else.
This talk is really something to behold. Paused it to say: Thank you very much!
Me, earlier today.

If you like it, that’ll be $0.79 per use or $5.99 per month on the value-saver subscription.
Just like management. I can't tell you how many times I've written a "Proof of Concept" that became production code.
Open local models are literally the past, but the very recent past. I therefore agree -- as long as they remain only on the order of a year older than the cutting edge, their future looks extremely bright.

I just hope for-profit enterprises continue wanting to push that frontier as hard as they have been. (Wait, actually also if they stop doing that it might be for the best ...)
Mastodon links are now more common than Twitter/X on HN
The entirety of https://github.com/ikkje/ikkekernel/blob/main/CHANGES.md :

Ikkekernel changes
==================

List of changes between Linux and Ikkekernel:
* TODO

count me skeptical
You can number a LAN with fd00::/64 and use IPv6 NAT to reach the internet, so the addresses are even shorter than 192.168.1.x. It's just not commonly done that way.
Well now this is what we call a false dichotomy.

The version that I’ve always experienced in practice is “we spent six months fixing bugs and it’s still broken, because we did not read the first page of the docs. No we do not want to read the docs now. Look I found a stack overflow post where some unknown, unqualified fool who is also incapable of reading the docs says to do it this way”.

Weeks of bug fixing can save you literally hours of planning.
It seems to be particularly bad with Melatonin, because a lot of people do really badly with big doses. A 3mg dose makes me more exhausted than I've ever felt before melatonin. I tried A couple of times. Never again. I wrote it off until someone pointed out this isn't unusual with doses that high. 1mg dose is fine. I can't image how I'd have felt with a higher dose.
> The uninstalled capital cost of proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer systems has been reduced by over 90% since 2001 (and 80% since 2005)

https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/pdfs/22002-historical-cost-r...
At lower dosages it acts to nudge your body to feel drowsy.

At higher doses it has a soporific effect similar to other more powerful sleep medications.

I and my family use it to help with long jetlag but just for the first few days.
They're usable and Gnome isn't, so there's that
I don’t think sprinkling all the produce with a pharmacologically active molecule is a good idea. Side effects can and will be a big problem.
I suppose it's sad that my frame of reference is Mel Brook's Blazing Saddles...
Ubuntu 22.04 Users Can Now Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.2
it is supposed to be :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/04/google-...

[ A federal judge said the Department of Justice’s landmark case alleging Google’s dominance over the online search business is anti-competitive can go ahead, throwing out some of the government’s claims but ruling that a trial is still necessary.

[ Google had asked for the judge to make a ruling before the trial, which is scheduled for September. Some of the government’s claims, including those put together by a consortium of state attorneys general that argued the way Google designed its search engine page was unfairly harming competitors like Yelp, were dismissed.

[ But the allegations that Google’s overall business practices constitute a monopoly that violates the 1890 Sherman Act still deserve a trial, the judge said.

The trial will be a major test for Google and the massive business empire it has assembled over the past two decades. The company is still the dominant portal to the internet, exercising immense power over what people see online. The case is the culmination of one of many antitrust investigations launched against Google and other Big Tech companies over the last several years.

“People have more ways than ever to access information, and they choose to use Google because it’s helpful. We look forward to showing at trial that promoting and distributing our services is both legal and pro-competitive,” said Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs and chief legal officer.

The DOJ didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The trial will begin in the midst of a boom in generative AI — a wave of new technology that has been pushed by Google’s competitors and has thrown the company onto its back foot. Google executives have already begun arguing that the rise of AI companies like OpenAI shows that the tech world is still competitive and that the company doesn’t have an unfair grip on who wins and who loses, as some antitrust experts and the company’s competitors have argued.

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the archive link : https://archive.ph/bPHRk

seems to be not needed from where im looking, and just throws up captchas, so ascii wall for everyone to be able to read it.
Abstraction very often leads to indirection, so I don't think "something else entirely" is an accurate description.
> Volcanism isn't caused by the climate, it's caused by magma seeping up from the Earth's core through cracks in the mantle.

And this cracks (in the crust) are normally created by...
From a novel? A film?

If so please share because it sounds interesting.
Slacking 'hey, can we do a quick huddle?' takes about the same time as walking to someone's desk (less if the desk is far away;)
A few weeks ago I learned about Hedy (https://hedy.org/). Looks pretty interesting (despite the fact that I'm not a big Python fan).

It is a programming language and a web-based environment which "grows with the user". In the beginning, you can only ask for a user input, print it out (optionally prepending some string) and do very simple turtle graphics (with only right angles). Then new concepts are introduced gradually (variables, lists, loops, conditionals etc.). In the end you have a functional subset of Python.

Also, there are quite a few premade exercises/miniprojects to explore.

Note: I'm neither the author or a contributor of Hedy, I've just learned about it and found it interesting.
It makes longer strings! :) It also roasts more evenly.
Being an asthmatic American old enough to remember going to buy an albuterol inhaler sans prescription, thank you for bringing this up. But I think you mischaracterize it, based on my (possibly wrong) understanding: switching propellants made it a different drug. Which means prescription. Prescriptions aren't just used to limit access to dangerous substances, they're also used to grant monopolies on substances. So yes, the price went up nearly an order of magnitude, but the access was cut off. Because when the propellant formulation changed, even though the active ingredient was the same, a prescription was required in the US to acquire it.

Meanwhile, in Australia where I lived for several years, you could still go to a chemist and just buy an inhaler.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Urgent cryopreservation might stop him doing further damage to Twitter.
> Could be normal diamagnetism, or even ferromagnetism.

I am curious how one could confuse the two? One leads to repulsion, another to attraction.
NordLink flows 1400 MW. Wholesale electricity in Germany is roughly $105.

365x24x(1400x.07)x105 = $90 million per year. Adds up to the cost of the total project every 17-22 years. Over 20 years it's $1.8 million per km. If the superconductor is 20 kg/m (2.4" or 6.2 cm width, huge), that's $90 per kilogram.
10x the cost of copper.
Hell, someone publish a script up on GitHub to automate the whole process.
> Classical liberalism is a government, a regime

I don't understand this point. Classic liberalism is a set of ideas that gave birth to many forms of government - are you trying to make an analogy? If so, it doesn't track very well for me.

> it has been overtaken and is being replaced already

I may be reading into your tone incorrectly - do you view this as a good thing?
If the German government would have sticked to the plan of building a Transrapid track between Hamburg and Berlin instead of upgrading the current tracks being able to support an ICE with only 250km/h (which took as many years as building the Transrapid track would have), then there would be much more capacity of transporting people and a functioning an future-proof track for high speed transport with over 500 km/h. Take into account the very short entrance times, compared to flying, and you save even more time. Air routes between Hamburg and Berlin would have been pointless for many years.

There were a lot of political changes at the end of the 90s, some spurious arguments were made, also saying „it would be too expensive“, despite having a huge history of building train stations and airports for much much more then the planned costs … this was just an excuse to not build it because they did not want it.

They said the passenger estimations were too high and it would not be profitable. Today this route is the most used one in Germany with 17000 passengers per day and a capacity of 8.7 million per year[1].

Transrapid (already the model TR08) would have been able to reach the destination in way under 60 minutes, including two intermediate stops. The ICE was able to do this in 90 minutes (when the reconstructed track was finished in 2004), but today the scheduled duration is 104–110 minutes. Also the track is shared with local trains.

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Berlin%E2%80%93Ham...
Corel shit the bed with WordPerfect 5 or 6. Non stop crashes. All word had to do to kill WordPerfect was not lose your work
To make a future where people do not have to depend on Youtube and the like?
> You design it properly, then you implement it properly.

I’m extremely defensive and try to think through everything. Aside from analysis paralysis which is a real obstacle, it’s still not enough. Or rather, it’s not the best way to use a human brain. At some point for a complex project, no matter how smart and experienced you are, assumptions break down. The mental model changes based on “friction” with the gritty world. Prototyping is one way to confront wrong assumptions earlier rather than later.

All creative and intellectual endeavors have analogous process. Writers don’t structure a book and write it perfectly in a methodical fashion. Basically, turning chaos into order can – almost per definition – not be proceduralized.
I would've thought HN would be the last place where rational skepticism and trust in the scientific method would be confused for "FUD" (a term which has apparently lost all meaning).
The lawsuit implies that inhalers are a special case, where the normal FDA rules don’t apply. By adding new patents covering inhalers the manufacturer triggers FDA rules preventing the FDA from approving a generic, or so the lawsuit implies:

Because of the complexities of producing drug-device combinations like inhalers, the Food and Drug Administration employs a special set of regulatory requirements when approving generic inhalers.

Specifically, when a brand-name manufacturer lists a patent for a product with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the FDA is prohibited from approving the generic version of that product until the patent protection expires or is challenged and overturned.
In the loss calculations, not in the capital cost. Transport costs are a function of losses and amortized capital costs (and profits...). A huge part of power grid costs is because of all of the infra dealing with different voltages and transforming between them.
Additionally, they refuse to answer the question that’s put to them. I am very careful with my words. I say exactly what I mean in as few words as necessary, but I find myself copying and pasting the same sentences into the chat box because the person or people reading seem to want to answer a completely different question.
> The world's biggest polluters don't care.

The US and EU's (#2 and #3 biggest polluting regions) annual GHG emissions have been decreasing each year. (This accounts for trade.) It's probably not an accident.
Ya, this basically.

It helps if you have tests because when prototyping, you can write things in a way which break tests and ideally break other features. It works enough that you can validate the one idea. That way it will never pass CI.
NL as well, a whole section of drug stores (that also sell things like shampoos, hair dyes, makeup, toys, ramen noodles, candy... they diversified) dedicated to melatonin, CBD oils and products, probably some others too.

I want to believe it's because they've been thoroughly tested to not be harmful, since they don't even have the leaflet that's mandatory with drugs / medication listing all the side effects and whatnot.
Free passes from public libraries - together with museum free days - sure look to me like a crutch that may be used to justify these higher prices. The result is very mixed: Yes that are now more free days I can go. But there are now no options to go and just idle and roam at a reasonable price. I used to have a membership to one of the few local world class museums but that's now not renewed. Another local world class museum has a price set so (relatively) high I never go anymore. The outcome seems very polarizing. But then perhaps just the cost of market segmentation resulting in high income and just perhaps, maybe stronger overall services in the end. I kind of doubt it.

Meanwhile we still have a few entirely free outstanding ones.
I was thinking the same. I've been working from home on a rural DSL connection for the past 6 months. 10mbps down and 2mbps up. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but Teams calls do seem to handle it surprisingly well.
MLST Alignment Debate: George Hotz and Connor Leahy
I'm still just using Boost for Reddit. The day it stops working is the day I stop using Reddit.
Thank you for listing the consequences of LK99 / having superconductors available at room temperature.
The project has just started and the goals are defined. I have setup the GitHub project, successfully compiled and installed the kernel, and posted to Hacker News.

Do you have ideas or suggestions for this fine Linux fork?
Is the OTC dosage limited? I recall in a prior life, my partner would bring melatonin back from the states to Germany for her brother.
"Having [systemd] installed but inactive makes MX compatible with the increasing number of apps which require this shoggoth of a startup daemon, but thanks to a package called systemd-shim it's effectively disabled unless you specifically choose it from the boot menu."

Is systemd really a relevant reason to argue in the Linux community? I find it amusing that the anti-systemd folks cite the UNIX philosophy as why they don't like systemd... uh, this isn't UNIX, it's Linux!
> The trick is to get good at identifying the people that are correct and ignoring the people that don't know what they are saying.

You need expertise yourself in order to do that. Otherwise you are easily misled.

> The problem with people who are recognized as experts is that they have a high likelihood of wanting status and power. So while they may be experienced and smart their intentions may not be pure.

Where do you get any information then? How do you get through your day?

People can have various motives and still provide accurate information. The motives don't completely dominate them, they have other motives, and we can read critically.

But if they lack expertise, they can't provide accurate information.
Related, what’s the current SOTA on STT models freely available? T5 is pretty good but the closed Google and Meta stuff seems better.
> excuse my ignorance, but are there any major developer tools that don't support Windows?

The entire Ruby ecosystem has never had great Windows DX: the most recommended Windows builds of Ruby itself come from a "second-party" group because official upstream doesn't seem to care to bundle nice installers, there's a ton of papercuts on Windows in the base libraries even in APIs you don't think would be platform-dependent, and a large number of third-party libraries and apps just kind of invariantly assume that you will never try to use them on Windows.
The free speech analogy doesn’t hold water for me. Free speech is extremely broad. “You can redistribute” is extremely specific and precise, and RH is effectively stripping this very precise and extremely specific right from you if you want to be/maintain as a “customer”
Totally. But I don't think we're anywhere close to knowing what the cost of LK-99 wire is to make a comparison.
apart from calling it ugly i can confirm that. early OSX was 100% NeXTStep with a changed style. i loved it. MacOS now is really very much a modernized version of that.
Given the First Amendment is a limitation on the government, let's apply this logic to a government service. If the government was to say, stop you from accessing the public library due to the speech you engage in, but did not criminally punishing you for the speech, would this be a First Amendment violation? I think so.

Another, perhaps more realistic example, is a government employer choosing to fire an employee who was caught using their free speech to advocate for a political challenger to the office they work under. Firing a person is not criminally punishing them, and in general an employer can fire an employee for what they say, but in this specific case, because the First Amendment limits the government, they couldn't do this. If you were working for private political organization, they likely could do this as the First Amendment wouldn't apply to the private organization.
Right. When I was at Ksplice, RedHat provided their changes to the kernel source as a monolithic patch file, which certainly abides by the letter of the law, but individual patches would have been so much more helpful.
Sorry if this comes across weird or snotty it’s not supposed to.

But I’m coming at this from a GCP lens and got half way through the article about how the recommended unit of isolation in the AWS environment is entirely different AWS accounts and I’m kind of hung up on that. Is that really a thing people tend to do often? Doesn’t it get super unwieldy? How does billing work? What about identity? I have so many questions.

EDIT: Despite the fact that the root resource in both GCP and AWS is an organization, when I heard “account” I mistook that to be AWS terminology for an organization.
On top of that, there are proposals to prevent younger people from voting (on the grounds that they don't have children yet, so the future doesn't matter to them):

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-...
Unless you need port forwarding. I switched to ovpn for that very reason.
Oh, is there a guide somewhere out there on how to do this?
Really a great example of this strategy, which also shows up in metrology.
I have CenturyLink 940Mbps up and down fiber, and have not had a single issue in 5+ years. Never talked to them outside of the installation.

But the satisfaction is because it’s symmetric fiber. I’m sure CenturyLink DSL is garbage, just like Comcast coaxial.
yeah REPL driven development is pure joy. Even back when i was a JS developer i was developing a lot of my algos in devtools and then copying them to code.

It’s like having a conversation with your program while you are developing it.
Investments/VC is sure to slow with higher interest rates. And companies without cash flow (aka depending on another seed round) are going to have fewer options so they may fold before they become profitable. When interest rates recede I would expect investments/VC to go back up.
kinda like with Graphene, cool material, hard to produce.
> Search Engine
> Social Media Network
> Computer Company
> Ad Network
> Video Streaming Service

All amazing multi-billion dollar ideas, I guarantee it. Feel free to steal them.
They are using H100s as collateral for a loan to buy... more H100s. Sign of an AI bubble? Nvidia is the real winner here.
Sounds like you've worked with people abusing Ramda. It's not that complicated when used as a utility library rather than some hard FP approach to programming...

I've been using Ramda for years and I'm really struggling to see how any of the code in our projects have been complicated by it vs lodash or any other similar utility library.
> if something "mildly bad" happens, if the flip side was spending 3 weeks doing research until finally arriving at a 24% better approach, which of those costs is higher?

The flip side is often to ask the people doing the work for input, there's a good chance they know what's best. There's often a group that can make decisions and implement the decisions, and another group that can only make decisions, and so naturally we divide the work so that those who cannot implement the decisions make the decisions and those who can do both don't ever get to make decisions.
Is this something new? A few years ago it wasn't the case.
One of these days I would love to work at a company where all of you service providers didn't need SOC2 compliance and an 10 week risk assessment prior to even signing a contract.
There are many different paths to the same goal. Some kids are maybe better off just picking up C documentation and going straight for it. Some are better starting with some web based gamified psuedo language.
Surely, with decentralization and the dark web, such a platform can be created. But would there be enough people who join?
Somebody has to make the shovels, right?
Show HN: Parse Prometheus Exposition Format in Rust Using Pest
No, we just started chatting on Twitter about some research I've done.
Up to 2mg for sleep, 3mg for jet lag in the UK. 3mg affects me badly - I take at most 1mg.
Utility libraries like Ramda were much more important 5-10yrs ago before ES6+ modernized JS. I find I have to reach for it less and less. But there's a small few I still use it constantly for (union, intersection, any, all, mergeDeepLeft, times, range).
There's that friction, but also blocking traffic in v6 is more complicated per se. v4 only has one kind of address, and it's really hard to mess up NAT in a way that causes a breach. In kind of a stupid way, it's secure by default.

Guess the most likely mishap is a bad router supports upnp and has it on by default, and a bad device maps an actually used port. No PC is going to do that, it'd have to be something like a cheap knockoff security DVR.
FWIW, I started programming F# during your tenure at MS and in a couple of years it became a really capable cross platform option - partly MS, partly community, but definitely helped out by you. Thanks!
There are alt-right theories that nutrition also impacts brain development such that global south people can not get as intelligent as white people. Where do you draw the line between your theory and that theory?