skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy and tracking prevention. It can get you access to stuff that's not in your country, depending on the service you're trying to get.
Store a few bags in your car somewhere. My car always has 2-3 reusable bags tucked somewhere in there. Once I'm done bringing in whatever was in the car they get hung up by the door so the next time I go out to the car I take them back out to the car so they're always available.
There are many laws or regulations aimed at the protection of humans from things that are not other humans - regulations on what food or medicine is allowed, regulations for how states have to protect people from fire, regulations for putting down animals that are dangerous to humans etc.

There are of course separate laws for protecting humans from other humans, and that is typically where questions of liability and intent etc arise. But I would still argue that these still have nothing to do with beliefs about (strong/non-compatibilist) free will (though of course they historically are related to free-will-based religious conceptions). For one thing, these laws are explicitly targeted at human persons. There is no aspect in the law that would make it apply to a chimp, for example, even if the chimp were determined to have free will just as much as a human. You can't sue a chimp, even if you believe that it is a moral agent: you can only sue a human person. You also can't sue any type of AI agent, and would not be able to without a change in the law.

So I would say that existing regulations which apply to non-human beings are also proof that we are perfectly capable of creating laws that don't rely on beliefs about the free will of the entities which these laws govern. The fact that current laws for humans make use of free will terminology is thus incidental, not fundamental. All current legal principles could be re-stated without requiring free will as well - this is what I was trying to claim (though I did claim more than that, for which I was wrong).

I will also note that this thread was started by someone who was claiming that you couldn't use the current legal system if you believed the universe is deterministic. The paper you cite works against this argument: it claims that the common notion of free will that most people apply is in fact compatible with a deterministic universe. If you also agree with this paper, then we are probably mostly in violent agreement overall, and in disagreement with sanitycheck's original claim.
yes, the rightward authoritarian shift of the Labour party is also depressing, just less pressing since they're not the ones orchestrating these bills. I don't really know how Britain will become less like this.
Why do you let YouTube channels have advertisements/sponsors but require sites to be ad-free?

I understand the spirit of it and don't have any counter examples but seems like a bummer if someone has a nice indie blog but can't be added because they have a few ads or a sponsored post.
We've had composting in the SF Bay Area for ages -- San Francisco made it mandatory in 2009 -- and despite being someone who produces a lot of organic waste (I cook a lot), it's never been a problem for me. You don't need to store food waste in the freezer unless it's something particularly vile you wouldn't want sitting in your outdoor/garage compost bin for the week. Everyone's municipal trash bins eventually got downsized by default (you can pay more for the bigger ones still if you want) and that's almost never been a problem for me because so much waste goes into the compost bin instead of the trash. With the proliferation of compostable takeout containers, etc, my compost bin is sometimes more full than my trash bin!
That's great, thanks for the feedback, will update the prompt to be more specific.
Sort of expected as Baidu's search never returns what I am looking for. No expectation of their algorithm
Why should the government administer an airport terminal? It is ultimately a place for private businesses (airlines) to have reception and waiting rooms. I'd argue that the airlines should be buying their own land and building their own airports. Of course it makes sense (except maybe the busiest airports) for the different airlines to share a runway, and so it start to look like a public place. Airports are not public places though, and so I don't see why local governments should administer them (the FAA does have some safety operations at an airport).

While your typical playground makes sense for the city to administer, if the park is really a zoo it makes more sense for the city to not run it at all. However since the city benefits from the zoo it does make sense for the city to help the private zoo get started in a good location.
My memory is pre-PC keyboards were such crap to play on. And to type on too. It’s hard to tell now if PCs started the keyboard era or PC keyboards started the PC era in this regard.
Mullvad is such a good vpn. Too bad they disabled port forwarding. Does anyone know of a vpn that's anywhere near as good but allows it?
Taxpayer funded pensions frequently come with cushy terms that allow a spouse to continue receiving benefits after the retiree dies, called joint and survivor benefit.
Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022)
The article means pretty much "descended from or sounds like" when they talk of "the same", not that it's spelled or sound exactly the same.

Kawa is borrowed from Ottoman Turkish kahve just like most of the other European words for coffee.
New Satellite Tracking Air Pollution Releases Its First Images
@wokwokwok Okay now we disagree.
This task is not easy, it's just easy to follow in one notebook. (If it were easy, the RAG score wouldn't be 26%.)

As for "carefully crafted string templates", I'm not sure what your argument here is. Are you saying you could have spent a few hours of trial and error writing 3 long prompts in a pipeline, until you matched what the machine does in 60 seconds?

Yes, you probably could have :-)
the ecological damage from all the pesticides used in traditional cotton production would be why.
Oh if solving climate change was so easy! No, that idea doesn't work at all.

For any of these ideas you need to look at the total CO2 spent vs CO2 removed. It doesn't matter that you're creating a sink (dumping plastic in a big hole) if while creating that sink you're emitting even more!

Plastic comes from oil. Oil extraction already releases a lot of CO2 to begin with. Making the hole and dumping things into it takes CO2. Not recycling means using even more oil.

Not all carbon is the same. You cannot make plastic out of a pile of carbon efficiently. If you could, we could just reduce the plastic to carbon and make new plastic.

This means that you cannot make plastic out of atmospheric carbon efficiently. You need your carbon to already make small chains (like ethylene and propylene). These small chains are then linked up to make plastics (polymers technically).

As for doing it from trees, it's not so simple! You cannot use much of the three. You need to spend CO2 to plant the trees, take care of them, water them, harvest them, process them.

This idea doesn't work at all. The best way to save CO2 is to reuse, not to use more.
538 compares polling data against actual election results. What are you going to compare a critic's ratings against? If you compare them to the average critic or audience rating for a given movie, you will end up with a system that punishes any independent thought.
One option is to use an arduino framework, but it's not the only one.
This thread seems to have been shadow-banned:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=brindlejim#37413851
Golioth Announces Connection ID Support
system_info: n_threads = 4 / 24

Am I seeing correctly in the video that this ran on only 4 threads?
we only measure the two directional speed of light (bounce timing). The Einstein convention assumes that speed is the same in all directions. i'm not saying it's not. Just that it's impossible to tell otherwise. Einstein mentioned this in his paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
Facebook doesn’t care about fraud
It's plainly obvious why they don't. Oracle still sells *their* fork of ZFS.

Back in the pre-oracle days Sun's fishworks division sold ZFS-based storage appliances. Oracle still sells those, and thanks to ZFS' reputation they're still profitable. Oracle simply took that much older fork of ZFS (with no OpenZFS code in it) and made it closed-source.

Before anyone asks, no, that fork is too old and too diverged to be compatible with OpenZFS.
States attempting to pass age-verification laws, and large streamers trying to fuck over customers by locking their
account access to their home IP.
I only clicked on the comments to find out if anyone had posted this. It is also a favorite of mine and I don't even really write in Lisp! Though it has actually inspired me to start using emacs and fiddle with elisp and CL a bit.
Realistically, what prevents police from just sticking in a USB device and doing a memory dump? I'm not sure I buy this story since police with a sufficiently strong warrant can always just take over a firm's premises and bring in their own forensic people until they find what they want.
Every grid-scale battery in CA has 4 hours of energy capacity at its rated power, so 22GW-h at present.
If you give professional chef an elaborate dish and the recipe for it, will they be able to make exactly the same thing?
For me the fact is there are really easy to use user interfaces for VPNs now. They are very performant and low latency as well, so they're practical for everyday browsing on the modern web and even for gaming and streaming.

Also, geographical blocks on content such as Netflix and BBC etc
I could already tell I was going to like this from the title alone!
You do realize that there are 300 million people in the US, right?
It isn't silly. I'm a Watershed Steward on the east coast and bag bans and/or fees have irrefutably reduced the amount of plastic I have to pick out of local rivers and bays

Styrofoam as well.

People, for the most part, aren't just tossing their bags for them to end up in waterways, there is a complex and long path a bag takes from factory to landfill and at multiple steps along the way there are opportunities for them to fly away free as a bird. If you are a responsible consumer and dispose of your bag in a responsible manner, all it takes is one strong gust of wind to blow it into my river where I'll pick it up months later.

The bans and fees should be nudging people towards reusable bags.

I've been using the same four cotton reusable bags since July 2007 removing, at a minimum, 2,533 plastic bags from the waste stream-- and that's just my grocery usage. I carry an additional stuffable tote that stuffs down to the size of a deck of playing cards for convenience store purchases.

Unless your objection is rooted in a pseudo-religious libertarian "free minds and free markets" stance and your ideology cannot be changed, it is self-evident given global experience that plastic (and styrofoam) reduction programs, to include bans and fees, are effective if implemented correctly and enforced.
Thanks to this, I found your fantastic list of interesting and powerful parser projects: https://mingodad.github.io/parsertl-playground/

Thank you so much for compiling it!

A related question for you and anyone else into this kind of tooling: if you had to automate some structural edits across a codebase that contains a wide range of popular languages (say: C++, C#, Java, Ruby, Python), and you had to do it with a single tool, which tool would you use?
Integration Patterns for Distributed Architecture
Yeah, that is what happened to me as well. Now I have to buy the bags anyway.

I do hunt out extremely cheap thin bags that probably use less plastic per bag than the grocery store ones as they don't need to be as durable for most of the cans. But I also use heavy real garbage bags for the kitchen trash whereas before I'd use a grocery bag and empty it more often. So I can't really tell if I'm using more total plastic or not.
Can I upload my own footage?
For VPN in the Corporate network sense, it's for easy access to your computers. You don't want to have to open ports on your router or hope that whatever world-accessible service you throw out there is secure - instead, Tailscale handles authentication, authorization (if you'd like to set up ACLs), and it handles NAT traversal without any open ports.
Most pension plans offer the possibility of a cash out or transfer of actuarial benefit to a 401k-type plan. Except in the case of accidental death where there genuinely is no time to do so, if you were sitting on your deathbed you could at least theoretically take the money and run. And most pension plans offer death benefits while you're active so the calculation may not be so cut-and-dry whether the pension is better or if you'd have been better off with an individual account.

But yes, you can certainly find individual cases where a specific person would have been better off with 401k for this or other reasons. My claim is that it's systematically better for almost everyone and better overall.
detroit says hello
I wonder: did you consider adding size to the end of the hash?

In a future where all content could be addressed by hash there will be collisions, but adding the expected size moves it from “possibly given enough files” to “extremely unlikely assuming there’s no flaw in the hashing algo”
True, but recycling takes water and energy. You’d probably still going to have to use them yourself a fair few times to make it a net positive.
This is relevant to my interests. That said, I joke about inserting fake services, but I don’t actually do it—that’d just make me a jerk.
It's not a 1:1 comparison for software vs startups.

The major difference being that the startup model is -> get a ton of investment based on a prototype, THEN try to figure out how to mature it and monetize it. Whereas lots of software projects have a direct path to revenue already.
Staying out of something implies staying in somewhere else, not disappearing entirely. Taking a statement to some hyberbolic extreme is not discussing in good faith. Eradicating humanity is a ridiculous conclusion when I basically meant stay on the trails and reduce our expansion into still wild-ish areas and reconsider our existing presence in some areas and habits.

Your mention of agricultural fields is a much more reasonable one to think about and consider. From one side, bats are an important part of our agricultural. So this disease will affect us through losing their beneficial contribution to our agriculture. On the other hand, it is pretty well known that our agricultural practices are quite detrimental to the soil and ecosystems. I don't know what to about that, but one way is that fields often create boundaries between open fields and wooded areas, which are great places for bat houses.
Unless they literally stole your code, or had access to privileged information from your YC application or something, I doubt there is much you can do. It's not illegal to enter the same business as an existing company, or even to make an app that does the exact same thing. Where it starts to get iffy is when you start talking about people literally copying your HTML/CSS or what-not. Is that the case here? If so, call a lawyer. If not, ignore them and just execute better.
I think you’ll find personal responsibility is a high bar for most of the world. Americans are not unique in that.
Organic pesticides are similarly terrible for the environment.
That looks terrible, but cotton or at least non-plastic bags have been around for a long time, right? Would bag production always have been that bad?

It feels like this is tying the manufacturing process to the materials for manufacturing. You can't make a plastic bag without plastic production, but I feel like you can make a non-plastic bag without plastic production and at lot of other modern industrial processes and chemicals.
> it can be cheaper to just "soak up the extra" than to cycle the whole plant on and off.

hence why nat gas peakers are so valuable.
From my experience in Lithuania where we had a law of "plastic bags have to cost at least 1 cent" put in place few months ago:

- I see more people not using any bags at all. Previously some people would put even bananas and cabbages to bags (or some put even already packaged food items like rice or salt to extra bags "in case it rips open"). So the use overall decreased.

- shops started to offer reusable cloth bags for sale... But I don't see many people using those. I heard that some people just keep forgetting to take those to the shop.

- a lot of people just accept that 1 cent cost and move on.

- few populists political parties already "promised" to remove this tax. It's not a popular promise, but some people are attracted to that.

- overall it seems there's less bag use (my perception says it decreased by ~20%), but the difference isn't huge.

I personally don't really care about the tax because I didn't use plastic bags before anyway - I just throw everything to one cotton bag I have used for the past 10 years and it's fine to me.
Is U.S. Oil Production Nearing Its Peak?
VPN originally meant something quite different from the commercial consumer VPN product that mullvad represents, and was more like the encrypted overlay network provided by Tailscale. These are coming together again in this revolution of the wheel of reinvention. Not using "reinvention" in any negative way here, this is is good, I think.

For history and how some people (John Gilmore[1]) thought uniquitous interoperable VPN tech (using the IETF standardized IPSec) be used to end-to-end secure internet traffic generally, see eg this FreeS/WAN rationale from the 90s: http://web.archive.org/web/20210125023625/https://www.freesw...

Then in between then and now were the VPN dark ages where it was mostly only used as a tech to accesss old timey corporate "internal networks".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)
A perfect example of this absurdity is expressing mock excitement: "ZOMG!1!!one1!"

Spelling out the one kills me every time.
I agree with you to a point. I did do this, but what I find particularly frustrating is that I’ve got an approximate timeline of 2 months+ on a unit I use for work. I’ve used Dell devices for work in the past and had turn arounds of under 5 business days via mail. While “spend money to continue working and mark the difference” is essentially necessary, I still find this concerning.

What if someone uses this as a screen for their kids’ homework? Do they go out and buy something else and call it a cost of raising a family? My sons do a lot of video and CAD work for school; is it just a cost of raising a family if I have to get another? At some point Apple needs to be responsible for faster turn arounds on equipment all kinds of people rely on.
What seems to be an economic innovation is also often a political innovation. If Chicago was losing money on parking, they have the obvious remedy of raising the price. But they would face significant political blowback.

So instead they "sell" the parking revenue to a "private" operator who then raises the price. The service provided by the metering company is not just operating the meters but also taking the blame for the cost of parking. This way the city government — i.e. the people in the city government — get to throw up their hands and point at their predecessors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem

The incentive structure affecting the politicians is the root cause.
Netflix. Their library varies significantly by country
It gives a consistent CLI, which can be wrapped easily by e.g. VScode. It also gives a reasonable cross platform config and library management.
What about "Opera"?

It's the first word that I use in 4 different language "wordle" games.
this was one of the very earliest viral uses of del.icio.us - it would take your daily links and push them to your blog.
Very excited about this!
The Social Organization of the Computer Underground (1989)
No, it was the Pension Protection Act of 2006, and the accompanying adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) that made DB pensions a nonstarter. In conjunction with the advent of nearly free equity index funds.

The former made it so no more fantasy discount rate assumptions could be used to understate liabilities by 30%+. The latter made it so paying the costs of active fund managers was a waste of money when you get the same results with a 0.03% to 0.06% expense ratio passively managed fund.
Modules don't have to be under licences compatible with the GPL. There is no universe where you could possibly argue ZFS is a derived work of the kernel. None.

Oracle can't actually sue people using ZFS modules. The CDDL licence that sun provided already gave all the relevant rights away. They can only sue from the GPL side as a kernel contributor, and that's ONLY if someone is dumb enough to ship ZFS code in the linux source tree.

You *seriously* underestimate the number of people using ZoL in production that Oracle would love to sue *if they could.*
I'm old enough to remember when plastic bags were pushed as the environmentally superior option. Something about cutting down to many trees for bags.
12 out of 10 for this very astute tip about any type of technical communication: "remove adjectives from communication".

Agree; either use facts (days, hours, etc) or nothing, but no vague adjectives.
I'd say NSA probably already have such policy from decades ago. And all intelligence agency worthing their salt should more or less have done the same.
Tbh I don't think craigslist is well designed. I love craigslist from an artistic perspective, but in terms of design there's a lot of confusing aspects.
idk about legacy asp.net, but modern C# is very nice to work with. Every job I've had since my C# job, I keep thinking to myself how much easier it would be if I could rewrite the company's products in C#
I'm afraid this won't help. My closed FB account hits all three of these (unguessable local part, obscure domain, no other attached metadata) and I still get these reset emails. Seems like there's been an account-data leak.
These seem like good and reasonable ideas, but it may be a mistake to ignore how this used to work in the past. There is a state called market clearance when a market supplies at least enough to meet all demand and possibly offer some participants multiple options. With the current deficit of residential units we are very far off from this state of market clearance. When the housing market clears residential units become extremely risky investments as they are assets with declining asset value built in through the need for constant maintenance in order to retain habitability. As long as the housing market has a large deficit it is not clear that any attempts to control the market with strict investment rules will be able to overcome the market forces that are inflating prices.
Great idea!

https://kagi.com/smallweb displays the homepage for the Kagi Blog at the moment, though.
>I think people will be surprised that consumers ultimately end up benefitting far more from LLMs than the providers. There's not going to be much moat or differentiation to defend margins... more of a race to the bottom on pricing

Should be pointed out that this didn't just happen out of thin air. These open models still cost millions of dollars to create. Meta let the genie out of the bottle, but it won't be free forever.
The problem for this listing as I see it is that yearly profit Arm makes is about £600 million.

If you had £10 billion three years ago you'd be lucky to earn 100 million in interest. Today you can earn very near £600 million / year just in commercial paper on £10 billion of capital.

(Or if you retail, the UK government will pay 6.2% interest on up to £1million!)
SpaceX has contracts for launches with the military, and StarLink has US military contract too. What is so perplexing to him here?
Nice, but I can't figure out how to search it. The "Small Web" site linked to in the article just shows a number of links to Kagi articles.