skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone working in Germany, that seems unlikely to me. A works council influenced by the company would like be struck down quickly, senior/mid management (e.g. directors and up) are even disallowed to participate/be elected as far as I know.

Its more likely to me that they use that copyright as they are an official and legal part of the company as works council.
I thought the conversion was exact.

The latent heat of fusion of 1 pound of water at 0°C is 144 BTU. 144 BTU/lb * 2000 lb/ton / 24 hr is 12000 BTU/hr per ton exactly.
The US national defense budget is around $1 trillion per year ($800B in 2023). So this is about 3 days worth of spending.

If you've ever wondered the logistics of spending $2B a day is like, here's the daily contracts summary page [1]. It'll blow your mind. If you only had a vague notion of what the "military industrial complex" really is, this will bring it home.

1. https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/
Bridge has a built in channel for communication that has very limited bandwidth. The bidding conventions are about maximizing how much you communicate with limited symbols and almost no attempt at secrecy. Effectively it'd turn the game into one where players play with their hands face up, because that's the most effective way to communicate. That doesn't sound very interesting to me.
White paper I read 20-25 years ago described how those tend to work. Larger power supplies are required to be power factor corrected. They need to draw sinusoidal power in phase with the voltage. To do that they need a power factor correction front end. In the design the paper described what happens is 120VC gets rectified and stepped up to 240DC. Which then feeds a main DC/DC step down inverter.

I think the advantage of stepping up is the filter capacitors are cheaper for the higher voltage. I think because they handle half the current.
The US doesnt care about $10B - it prints far more dollars than that. What it needs is a functioning chip-making factory of the tsmc scale.
Isn't it a bit, well just small-hearted, to be gossiping about somebody else's personal medical choices? And isn't it just a bit too convenient to be able to dismiss him by waving it off as due to drugs?

Elon Musk's behavior is erratic in the same way that the output of a simple 3-line pseudo-random number generator is erratic: you have a hard time predicting what it will do next only because you don't know the reasoning behind it.

Your behavior seems erratic to somebody who is way dumber than you or way less informed than you--because they just don't have what it takes to understand why you came to the conclusions you did and therefore why you are doing what you do. Now, just apply some recursive-self reflexion on this for a minute...

I can't believe I'm here defending Elon Musk of all people; I certainly think he's made some questionable moves lately. But can we move beyond the personal stuff? Wouldn't it be a better public discussion if we kept it to the level of what are the consequences of these decisions?
Hello, I recently published an RSS reader. Initially, I created this reader solely for personal use because when I was looking for one, I couldn't find any that suited my preferences. I decided to put it on the Play Store because it's nice to share a project that I'm already doing for myself. Don't hesitate to try it!
This isn't very uncommon in geospatial companies, where data is often hundreds of terabytes. I remember there was open government data you could request from USGS (high res satellite imagery of all of the US), it was technically free, but you couldn't download it. You requested it, filled out a form, and they shipped you 4-5 drives with bubblewrap.
Not necessarily recommending this, but I had kids.
What if you're demonstrating a problem with a login screen? And yes, I've had to do exactly that more than once.
I wouldn't do it with a particularly sensitive password (online banking etc) but there are enough passwords I use regularly for work purposes where it wouldn't be a significant risk for others to watch me type it in, certainly if the characters aren't revealed at all while typing. Though having password fields be able to detect your screen is being shared automatically and obscure what pixels are relayed would be nice.
Thanks for the hint. Having only one fully managed db seems to be interesting to reduce needs for joining across databases and less operations overhead (managing uptime, setting up infra for testing, CI etc.) on our 2 people engineering "team". Timescale is definitely on the list to be at least an intermediary solution that would be faster to adopt than migrating to e.g. ClickHouse over time. As you mentioned it, any obvious limitations to watch out for?
I'm not sure I see the humor? Also not sure how Adblock Plus is far and away the largest privacy risk for anyone?

I'm sympathetic to wanting to limit data access to things. But this data seems to already be available to the browser? Having a separate process to manage that seems somewhat natural?
Similar: https://icibici.github.io/site/
I've bounced around the suburbs from there (Richardson, Garland, etc)
I don't know, isn't claiming a principle just another tool in a rhetoric kit? In the boxing analogy are you saying it would be like an illegal boxing move like biting ear or low blow? If that's the case then I think the rules have changed in public rhetoric to allow claiming a principle for rhetorically expedient purposes.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/22/1195207118/listeria-frugals-m...

> Poorly cleaned ice cream machines at a Washington-based burger joint were linked to a listeria outbreak earlier this year that landed six people in the hospital, three of whom died. Two of those who were hospitalized told investigators they had milkshakes from the same restaurant before getting sick.
Show HN: Crosspass – sending passwords by OPAQUE protocol
Crosspass is a mobile app for sending passwords and text notes.

Crosspass functions peer-to-peer and encrypts end-to-end. It authenticates communicating parties by using the OPAQUE cryptographic protocol.
Portland is probably the best biking city. It’s not perfect but in many neighborhoods it’s very cumbersome to drive and easy to bike. Drivers are also much less hostile in general.
I discovered `\crosstabview` the other day! It does, of course, use crosstab underneath. It's just some psql magic.

One tiny thing I discovered which I use a surprising amount is `table <tablename>;` is equivalent to `select * from <tablename>;`.
So much cool info and photos on that site. I was able to find the (abandoned at the time) runway a mile from my house that we used to ride bikes on as a kid. I had no idea the infrastructure that had been there at one time.
You're conflating "I can't get the diagnostic repair codes that Taylor can" with "Kids are going to get hurt because the machine is malfunctioning"

Please stop doing that.
If we bioengineer:

Full stop. We've not done that yet. When we do, we can revisit the law / discussion.

We can remedy "construct" this way:

Your engineered human would be a being. Being a being is one primary difference between us and these LLM things we are toying with right now.

And yes, beings are absolutely going to value themselves over non beings. It makes perfect sense to do so.

These LLM entities are not beings. That's fundamental. And it's why an extremely large number of other beings are going to find your comment laughable. I did!

You are attempting to simplify things too much to be meaningful.
Okay; this was originally sent by me yesterday. Not sure why it shows 1 hour ago.

I have this URL in my browser history of yesterday. Probably I'm hit by the second chance pool.
Much of a city in China I have spent a lot of time in (Hangzhou) has protected bike lanes with their own signals and crossings. They do still interact with traffic at the crossings but the lanes are wide and well protected from vehicles. I really like using them and wish we had something like that where I live in the US.
Let's not turn HN into another rumors farm gossiping about celebrities.
What platform are you talking about? You're borderline incoherent here.
FreeCAD needs a first-run wizard, but nobody knows what it should do
The root of the problem is attempting to avoid porting git to Windows properly, which leads to increasing contortions once you get past the easy stuff.
Do these work councils actually work? What incentive do they have to side with an employee over the company? Wouldn't it be the first aim of the HR department to get as cosy with them as possible?
Google Home Script Editor
> If you're really rich you will go to the theatre or opera.

Mm, Shakespeare.

'tis easy mimic'd in style and verse; and the many devices used, familiar. When anachronism strikes, few yet notice, and fewer yet call out, for the Bard is older to us than he to Chaucer.

What folly, that the rich dress and peacock themselves so, sitting quiet and polite; gathered at great expense to what was, in days yore, the entertainment of yeoman and serf who cheered and jeered as saint and villains pranced before?

Hark, though; I say not that Avon brought no talent, rather that the talent of The Globe was to his time as the talent of The Disk to ours, as the easy-read and prolific prose of Pratchett is the closer cousin, despite the esteem of the powerful going to those hardest to follow in modern vernacular — Ulysses, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and yea, also the Bard and King James.

'tis almost as if the difficulty is the point.

(Exits, pursued by a peacock)
As compared to a closed source binary forcibly installed on your machine by criminals?
I found it somewhat funny that the question included:

>Explain me with calculation.

As with many things related to technology, decisions are very often made for seemingly arbitrary (or political, or economic, or competitive-advantage) reasons, not because of some calculation that was done that proved a decision optimal.
Works councils are legally recognized parts of their companies and generally use company branding, besides of course using the company offices, work hours and infrastructure to conduct their legally-protected business.
When you say “slow down traffic”, by how much? Do you actually mean you can’t go over the speed limit?
My boiler lets me set the hold temp at 208f(97.8C), 195F(90.5C), and 175F(79.4C). So basically you can do all the different "ideal" temps depending on which tea you make the most.

We keep it at 195 since we don't make black teas, and then we can let it cool down to whichever tea we want or just mix it with some filtered cold to get it to temp.
> Really all modern residential connections in Europe are 400V three phase electric power

Not the case in the UK.
Bring a Walkman and a Van Halen cassette.
AIX is alive-and-well in many enterprises. I know several companies in the gaming industry (casinos and lottery, not video games) that swear by AIX.
"Kiiind of making a lot of assumptions right now..."
I'd be interested to see the specific road you are referencing? My gut shot would be that it isn't necessarily obvious that it could be used to avoid some parts of a road? (That is, you almost certainly had to be on the road for other parts of your ride. Not always obvious when there was a path you could do that got you off the road. And, of course, if it is a detour to get to the route...)
Very closely related / dupe: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253035> (130 comments)
NeoSmart Technologies. Our GUI and web stuff is C# and we’ve been migrating our low-level C and C++ code to rust (no_std rust for most of the C stuff). Some of our existing C/C++ stuff is extremely low level (think bootloaders, virtualization tech, etc) but also cross-platform and we’ve found rust to offer great ergonomics (not to mention safety) without an impedance mismatch under those constraints.

We’re also using rust for cli utilities and non-client-facing backend server stuff.
They are probably outside of US jursidiction and also seizing servers is much easier than catching a cybercriminal who actually knows how to cover their tracks.
> Then you've just created an abstraction with all that potential to be bad sometime in the future.

I would argue that you've then created an abstraction, but with all the hindsight allowing you to create the _correct_ abstraction (or at least a much better chance at it approaching "correct")
> Mojo is a proper superset of Python.

Isn't it more that the plan is someday Mojo may be a proper superset of Python, but right now it is far from it? I just tried opening up the Mojo playground, copy/pasted the very first little example function from the official Python tutorial (see https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#defining...) and Mojo outputs a bunch of errors.

With Cython, our goal was to make it a proper superset of Python, and it was really difficult, but we got close.
Your rule of thumb isn't great: If you have some important logic duplicated twice but a year from now has a bug -- are you going to remember to change it both places? But, lets be honest, you probably would not create that code in the first place -- you'd have abstracted it automatically without even thinking about it.

These conversations generally tend to completely discount experience. Junior programs are often terrible at abstractions -- they either do way too much or way too little. Can I give them a hard and fast rule that they can use to never make that mistake? No, I can't. It doesn't exist. The only reason I know what's good or bad is because I've done it wrong thousands of times.

That's the problem with every single one of these articles that prescribe one true solution. It's not at all that simple.
A South African company tried to shame their Telecom provider by doing this way back in 2009

https://www.wired.com/2009/09/in-africa-a-pigeon-transfers-d...
Kendrick Lamar: "I'm so sick and tired of the Photoshop"

Who actually wants to look at this? It's a neat trick, but I greatly prefer to look at what's real, and I imagine most people outside of this AI hype bubble do too. It's implied that the stable diffusion here is making the video better, but by most definitions of the word "better", it's not.
You can use socat with either plink or npiperelay to bridge the sockets between windows and cygwin. It is my standard setup to use the buildin ssh-agent of windows 10

[0] https://superuser.com/questions/1526348/share-ssh-agent-sock...
This. I don’t understand why the spandex wearing guys want to hold up dozens of people in traffic behind them so they can bike on vacation. It’s a real sense of entitlement that is just beyond me. If someone is riding a bike to get somewhere they need to go, and the road is the only choice then fine. But if you’re leisure riding on a road where the speed limit is 55 and sitting in the middle of the lane you’re an ass.
That stereotype might exist in some places or in some crowds, but it's far from a universally held belief. And it's definitely not true.
I have heard that bicycle commuting has dropped significantly in Portland since 2020. And I've experienced enough of an increase in broken glass, aggressive driving, tents, and trash in bike lanes in other US cities to be a bit worried about the current state of bicycling in Portland. But I'm also aware that reporting has significant biases, and I haven't been back to Portland since 2019 or so. What's the current situation like?
That’s unfortunate. Good to hear Adam will continue as podcast host. Metamuse has been fantastic.

I’m not an iPad user so I never got a real chance to try the product. The messaging here is a little unclear though: “we did not manage to make Muse into a sustainable business” carries a sense of finality, like it’s too late now.
My advice is aimed at previous me, so take it with a grain of salt.

I was not lost in my 20's. I am now lost in my 40's though, and I'm not looking to get back on the path.

Travel if you can. Find a job that takes you somewhere you wouldn't normally go. Life is about experiences, be open to them and get out of your bubble as much as you can stand.

Don't take it too seriously. Laugh and enjoy life as much as possible. Fake the enjoyment till it becomes real if you have to.

Stay lost, see where you end up.
Transformer explosions are rare. Unless you can produce statistics saying otherwise it is safe to assume they happen as often in both countries (per something, the US obvious has far more transformers given larger population and area, and thus should have more total)
Since I'm the one that said it originally, I tend to strongly agree. I really can't stand it. Its such an absolute, unnecessary respect killer.
Some people have instant boiling water taps with tanks, they're not unknown but rare and becoming increasingly less so. I think this is because a) they're relatively new here and b) last time I looked they cost about £1k plus fitting.

The Japanese water boilers look like they cost £200ish (vs £15 for a kettle) and are bulkier than a kettle. They will save practically no time - kettles boil fast here and while they're boiling it gives you time to put the tea in and any other preparations.
Police have huge amounts of leeway to wreck stuff and kill people, which do not appear to have happened in this case compared to the mere possibility of abuse.

Meanwhile in the physical world https://reason.com/volokh/2021/11/30/federal-court-rules-tak...
MapReduce, TensorFlow, Vertex: Google's bet to avoid repeating history in AI
Everbody noticed even omgubuntu... hence the article after the news broke days ago.
> solved thet by running the lighting on 220V with sets of two 110V bulbs in series

A related tip is to build a "dim bulb tester" to help you diagnose short circuits on mains-powered equipment. I have a traditional incandescent lightbulb in a porcelain socket wired in series with an outlet (and a switch). A non-shorted load will tend to work pretty well as the cold/cool incandescent bulb is fairly low resistance in series with the load. A shorted load will light up the light bulb brightly but not trip any breakers, allowing the opportunity to do some troubleshooting on the bench.

I've also used this concept several times to find short circuits in house wiring. Put the dim bulb tester in series with the circuit that's shorted and then, using a non-contact voltage tester, find where the measurement on the NCVT changes. That's likely where your short is.

In building such a device, you're on your own liability-wise; please don't be dumb.
>What's the point of investing in bike infrastructure if (some) bikers refuse to use it?

The same reason we might invest in traffic lights or stop signs even though cars regularly ignore them.
If they breakdown your door by mistake who pays the repair damages? You do.
$90B wasted (or so) due to poor quality APIs
And that number is probably conservative given the scale of the API economy - we have an infographic that shows some of the issues - with some interesting stats on cloud region impacts on performance. But the key thing is, just because you have ops and support teams, that doesn't necessarily mean you should be using them all the time.
Ask HN: How does your company implement feature-equivalent web and mobile apps?
(specifically in a React/React Native context, though other anecdotes would be welcome too)

Do you maintain totally separate implementations? Or do you have a preferred mechanism for sharing UI code between the two? Trying to get a pulse on the current industry norms
> The Google Assistant, for example, cannot handle the few obvious things I ask.

Oh my, I think you are not ready for Siri.
The drones mentioned in the article is not the consumer drone (like DJI drones) used in Ukraine.
Alfalfa can be grown on dry land. You just won’t get as many cuttings. It grows in the upper Midwest just fine without irrigation.

> Pasture requires more water

I’m not sure where you’re getting that information?

It’s not a common practice to irrigate pasture. Animals are watered from “dug outs”, wells or rural water programs which draw water from rivers like the Missouri.
Are you comparing my very reasonable comment to racism? Or… ?

Just because you think a comment isn’t relevant doesn’t mean others do.
A side question, any recommendation on emulator and books if I want to replicate what Carmack did for Commander Keen? The keen dream source code uses C and assembly so I'll do the same.

I guess Dosbox is accurate enough for a 386dx with an ega card, and this book ( https://www.amazon.ca/Programmers-Guide-Ega-Vga-Cards/dp) is good enough for the guide?

For development tool I plan to use vscode with openwatcom C compiler.

Any other book I should take to learn assembly and DOS C? I already know some C but I guess it's a bit different than the old C.
Is there a 2011 reference somewhere? I put 2014 up for now because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8685889.
The point is that the bikers that decide to use it are safe. That it can encourage more bikers and take cars off the road. The fact that some bikers so not use it does not invalidate the usefullnes of a bikelane
Quite different from the other posts, I got a stable job I didn’t totally hate.

Did it pay well, no.

But it got me in a stable cadence, where I could take my time with things, slowly being able to build up other things.

Second, therapy. Not for everyone but helped me immensely.
Migrating to better APIs is done all the time. It is not an issue worth discussing about anymore. But even if you have to maintain an API this doesn't mean you cannot change the underlying implementation.
Show HN: Why AI data should be self hosted
This playground provides an incredible visualization of 16 color spaces, including LCh and OKLAB: https://color-playground.ardov.me/spaces-3d
When I was at CERN in 2003 - 2004, it was when the first set of Python introductory courses started.

The build infrastructure for ATLAS used the CMT tooling, written in Python.

The Summer School of Computing 2004 had several sessions related to Python in the context of grid computing.
> When, not if, things break, there's a large benefit to having all of the logic contained to a few heavy-lifter classes that are contain bespoke logic and are fit-for-purpose.

Things break in cycles. You'll have worked around a first wave and be happy that you didn't abstract your code too much as you can just fix one side of your logic very locally. It also means you didn't touch the other sides that were not directly affected, but probably needed a fix in a slightly different but overall similar way.

So you'll see your code instances all break a way or another and fix them one by one instead of hardening a central piece where you could focus your testing efforts.

Of course it's a topic that needs nuance, but if you identify a piece of code as duplicate, there will be no free lunch. Either you pay upfront the effort of abstracting, or you pay down the line the local fixes, but there's not one approach or the other that will be fundamentally wrong, I see it as a bet that pays off or not.
Different metals behave differently. Zinc exhibits creep at a much lower temperature than most (all?) steels, for example.
So do you reach for bpf then ebpf or can you just go straight for ebpf? How limited is the compute? Can I make an ebpf DHCP server for example?
I still find it very odd they call the central heating boiler/heat pump a "furnace".

A furnace is what you use to make clay set into a pot!
Have there been any court cases proving it wasn't sufficient justification?
And yet restaurant operators are allowed to open close their refrigerators and freezers at will, not subject to third party refrigerator maintenance company monopoly.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192626 - May 2021 (38 comments)

Abandoned and little known airfields - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16627274 - March 2018 (1 comment)