skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool links and all, but can you express in words how the invalidate my point? And do you actually know how RISC-V machine/supervisor/user/hypervisor modes work? I assure you, it's just a few instructions to switch between them, so my point still stands, unless I'm wrong about that, which I am not. So let's move on.

> qemu

A poor substitute for running on real hardware, from a psychological perspective. Just look at how people nerd out on HN about porting Doom to a smartwatch. People like to run things on hardware: fact. PCs are more ubiquitous than RISC-V boards which you have to order online: fact.

> Intel hate keeping tech is irrelevant [I don’t care]

I didn't get it, can you explain?

> Also, it runs Minix

Everyone knows this already, it makes the front page of HN at least once per year.
> The "advantage" of being able to drive 12+ hours without taking a couple hours to charge is absolutely ridiculous. It's not something people do or should do.

One person shouldn't drive 12 hours, but it's not bad for two people to split. It's not unreasonable at all if you have three drivers.

Yes, you'll probably stop somewhere to eat and use the restroom. If that somewhere happens to have decent food, and a fast charger, and the fast charger doesn't have a line longer than your mealtime, then an EV would probaly work out. If those stars don't align, your long day of driving got even longer.

I don't bring gas cans on long trips, because gas stations are ubiquitous; but I have enough gas equipmemt at home that I keep them at home, and I use them to fill up my cars at home regularly to keep the gas fresh, and avoid paying the markup of my nearest gas stations.

PHEV is a better choice than either IMHO. You get two year maintenance windows, you get long distances between fueling, you can use electric for local trips if it makes sense, you can live in an apartment with no charging infrastructure, you get reduced brake wear, you get a lot of low end torque if that's relevant to you. You probably lose out on cargo space though, cause PHEVs tend not to have handy places to stash the batteries. Oh, and internet people will argue that it's the worst of both, and you'll have to ignore them.
You might be interested in https://samy.pl/pwnat/

Specifically, when the server starts up, it begins sending fixed ICMP echo
request packets to the fixed address 3.3.3.3. We expect that these packets
won't be returned.

Now, 3.3.3.3 is *not* a host we have any access to, nor will we end up spoofing
it. Instead, when a client wants to connect, the client (which knows the server
IP address) sends an ICMP Time Exceeded packet to the server. The ICMP packet
includes the "original" fixed packet that the server was sending to 3.3.3.3.
The packet is INSIDE the computer. This harcoded packet is built into pwnat
and acts as an identifier for pwnat.

Why? Well, the client is pretending to be a hop on the Internet, politely
telling the server that its original "ICMP echo request" packet couldn't be
delivered. Your NAT, being the gapingly open device it is, is nice enough to
notice that the packet *inside* the ICMP time exceeded packet matches the
packet the server sent out. Your NAT then forwards the ICMP time exceeded
back to the server behind the NAT, *including* the full IP header from the
client, thus allowing the server to know what the client IP address is!
If converting markup to/from line format is your thing to put awk, perl, and other line-oriented tools to use, there's also the ESIS format understood by traditional SGML tools and used by SGML formal test suites even.
> really valuable to me. Arguing with TS to do something valid is a miserable time hole.
And then there's how much pain suffering & woe one takes on for having to maintain the build toolchain.

... huh? Vite does it for free. You can disable warnings completely if you want. Seems really easy to get into to me.
As a web developer, we sometimes got bug reports submitted that way. I think some people take a screenshot and paste it into Word, and don't know how to save it as an image.
An order of magnitude "or more" is an extraordinary claim. The evidence just isn't there.

> but which very few people use simply because there are very few people using it.

Ecosystems matter: they're one of the ways you get productivity.
You always had that choice. All browsers Support deleting cookies.
> the whole i-series from his second stint at Apple (iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad)

Don’t forget the iBook and iSight!

And a whole pile of software and services like iTools (with its iDisk and iCards), iWork, and most of the iLife suite (Garage Band somehow escaped being named iBand).

i all the things!
Gargantuan 3D-printed robot hand is just the beginning
The state choose how to implement the law, if it want to implement it at all. If EU is mad at the local implementation, it stop subventions, then sue. I think the last case was Ireland for giving tax breaks to companies, and it was weird. The previous one was France that had to pay millions because water quality in Brittany's rivers was a lot lower than it should have been. I think there's also a case wis asylums laws in Hungary, but tbh, it's very rare that it comes to litigation.

And most of the time, it's citizens of the country being litigated that called the EJC/CJE in the first place (Ireland and Hungary being two exceptions).
They pay a special tax instead: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/715/do-e-u-empl....
This is the question I keep asking myself as I read more. Why?

Only the NGINX team would think to "simplify" loading a configuration file from the CLI by using curl to post it. smh...
This isn't true, and is obvious when you try to split a bezier without distorting its shape.

As a bezier is just repeated interpolations, the tangents and their lengths can be derived from the intermediate interpolations [1]. This means that if you split a bezier near an existing control point, the new point will have wildly unbalanced tangents on both sides, and yet, connect into the exact same cubic curve.

So both your intuition and your confidence in it are... wrong.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/I9wKC.png
Sure, that seems like a reasonable example to look at. The directive[0] isn't long and is pretty readable.

The first thing to note that it was not a "redesign of the bottle cap" directive, that's just how you're spinning it to make it sound ridiculous. Instead it was just a minor part of the Single-Use Plastics Directive.

Second, it doesn't look like the primary purpose of that directive was to increase recycling, but to reduce marine litter. The product groups that were in scope for the directive were chosen based on being the cause of the majority of marine plastic litter.

For a lot of the product groups, they just banned the use of plastics entirely because there were viable sustainable alternatives. Bottle caps aren't being arbitrarily picked on here, it just appears that beverage bottles + caps are the one thing with no good alternative.

The directive did indeed set up goals for separate collection, you're right about that part. But it also set up requirements for the recycling, unlike what you claim.

Does the micro-optimization make sense? Think of how many plastic bottles must be sold in the EU each year. I couldn't find numbers quickly, but I would bet it's on the order of magnitude of 100 billion. Even the tiniest bit of optimization in something so common will pay of really quickly.

None of this seems particularly off. It's legislation addressing a specific concrete problem with solutions that seem pretty proportionate and actually solving the problem they set out to solve.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/904/oj
Hey if it works, it works. GAE still has a generous free tier. Most new stuff I’ve seen has been migrating to Cloud Run for more configuration and options.
Oh man. I forgot my ~2003 voodoo computer with athlon 1100mhz and a tiny fan (5cm or so?) which spun at 5 or 6k rpm... It was like a jet engine vacuum cleaner to power thay thing on :->. Brutal!
Any NAT that is not statically mapping IP addresses or ports 1-to-1 will require connections to be tracked and hence makes it stateful on the side after the translation (usually outside).

Hence you do need state syncing between firewalls in order for NAT connections to failover correctly, unless it's a statically mapped, one-on-one, one range onto another range, for example.
> I admire how nimble you are. I aspire to write blog posts at the drop of a hat like this, but I rarely do.

Thanks! I took up blogging more often as of recent, and for me, having a manageable system is a large part of that. The last thing I want to happen on a Sunday evening is breaking some page of my website. That being said, I hope to one day make the workflow easier.

> It reminds me of a world that I've been imagining where the conclusions in scientific papers are generated as a flake outputs (and adjacent output would be the human readable thing, a PDF or whatever).

I happen to be a reviewer for software artifacts in a scientific journal, and I often use Nix here. Not that many projects do use it, but if I'm able to reproduce it with Nix, then I know the author has not missed any implicit dependencies. I like to imagine it's also useful for the authors as a feedback, whether they use Nix or not.

> I realize that you don't want to be storing mountains of data in the nix store, but it would work just as well if the output in question is an IPFS CID, to be resolved during the build instead.

I maintain separate build serves of my own using Nix integrations and the Nix cache is quite large already (so called remote builders) sitting at around 500GB. I host these at Hetzner.

I have also thought adding IPFS integration for my website, but haven't got around to it.
This shouldn't have been downvoted, even if only for the phrase "phosphorescent feces" ... on its own merits.

Fun phrases forfend fatigue phenomenally.

Edit: wow, I'm realizing that "phosphorescent feces" is at more like "Eminem" levels of phoneme repetition / assonance / etc. My much more basic largely merely alliterative response pales in comparison.
Weimar wasn't random in any way or form. A lot of purposeful action went into making Weimar what it was, and the subsequent events what they were. It wasn't the result of random distribution of gains, it was a result of many purposeful actions of many people. Inflation included of course.
The article doesn't argue that they're geniuses: it's just really poorly written. So much so that I'd consider it might be AI-generated, from a blog-post-length prompt that's fleshed out with 10 pages of context...

When it finally gets around to its core thesis, it says this:

>> Not only do those explanations [like exceptionalism and genius] stretch the imagination, but they also ignore a simpler, far more tangible explanation for the incredible die-off of businesses in every industry. Forty years ago, countries all over the world altered the basis on which they enforced their competition laws—often called “antitrust” laws— to be more tolerant of monopolies. Forty years later, we have a lot of monopolies.

>> These facts are related.
Can you elaborate the connection - what do you mean by "therefore incentivizing?"
Channel with an additional thread for sleep? Waiting for a channel is not a poll.
I don't see how one would do that. Mind expanding? You won't turn out dividends and salary sounds highly taxed
Cool to see others working on this problem. I hope more people do.

Funnily I've seen a lot of programmers and math folks who express how truly, genuinely beautiful Beziers and the math behind them are. But I've never met an artist or graphic designer who didn't express some deep frustration at Bezier controls and how hard they are to work with.

There are even games[0] which make a mockery out of how hard Bezier controls are to use, where the game is purely using the controls.

Controls are just one side of the problem, in my view; the other side is that cubics are terrible for GPUs, they don't understand them - and I believe many of the best 2D graphics libraries today are not even fully GPU accelerated, e.g. Skia. There are folks working on compute shader-based approaches, where we try to shoe-horn this CPU-focused algorithm into GPUs and pray - but it still isn't really suitable.

The controls suck for artists, and the math sucks for GPUs. This is only true of cubics, if you restrict yourself to quadratics (although that brings other challenges), both the control issue goes away (you can just click+drag the curve!) and the performance issue goes away (quadratics are triangles, GPUs love them)

That's the summary of the talk[1] I gave at SYCL'22. In that talk, I didn't have time to present the downsides of my solution (which are real!) so if you watch it please keep that in mind - the talk is about the problem statement, not a solution. We are exploring a different solution today than what was presented in that talk. My overall point in there, though, is a solid one: vector graphics as they exist today suck for artists and GPUs alike.

The only reason we stick with vector graphics in their current form is because of SVG & compatibility with existing tooling. But isn't it crazy? We have new bitmap image formats all the time, and so few vector graphics formats.

In Mach engine[2] we're continuing to explore this space, end-to-end, from author tooling -> format -> rendering. I'm not claiming we have a perfect solution, we don't, but we're at least thinking about this problem. Kudos to the authors of this article for thinking about this space as well.

[0] https://bezier.method.ac/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTybQ-5MlrE

[2] https://machengine.org
> We could see huge reductions in our food-related emissions simply by eating pork or chicken

that would be great, if only more than 2.5 billion people did not eat pork for various religious or cultural restrictions.

food restrictions are among some of the most difficult habits to overcome, proven by the fact that they resisted for thousands of years.

we could also eat insects or worms, but we don't it, what makes you think that 1.8 billion Muslims would suddenly start eating pork like it's not a big deal?

In my opinion Paracelsus said it right: it's the dose that makes the poisons.

Americans who eat the most red meat per capita (a lot more than anyone else), could eat less meat in general.

How?

Simple: by making it a lot more expensive.

Between 2020 to 2022, Europeans consumed 32.4 kilos of pork, while the per capita consumption of beef was significantly lower, at 10.3 kilos in total.

How Much Beef Does the Average American Eat?
The average U.S. consumer eats 25.9 kilograms (57.1 pounds) of beef per year.

For the last 60 years, U.S. meat consumption has risen steadily. In 1961, the average was 93.7 kilograms (206.5 pounds) of meat per year. By 2020, that number had risen to 126.73 kilograms (279.4 pounds) per year.

The most notable period bucking this trend of growth is from 2008 to 2013, a decrease that likely resulted from the 2008 recession.

proving that the economic angle is effective in reducing the consumption of meat in the US.
The Oxford Languages dictionary defines genius as: a person regarded as exerting a powerful influence over another for good or evil.

The article even speaks to the divide between those who believe their genius is good and evil. But, be it good or evil, is not fair to say that they are a powerful influence?
> This is exactly what I mean by missing the big picture.

The point you are making is a different one than the one that the OP is making. Just because you are making a specific (different) point, doesn't make the OP's point invalid.

> Great example of something that you couldn't do and now can, times are truly great right now.

Again a different point. Of course we now have a proliferation of different and powerful software. The point I am making is about the UI/UX of the software, not about the fact that they make something possible that wasn't before.
Yikes, you've been breaking the site guidelines so badly that we have to ban the account—especially because we already asked you to stop. It's not ok to be abusive like this on HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
These are my favorite HN threads. Personal expenses that double ad historical accounts.

In high school a land center opened up and they would do 24 hour lans once a month. Being 15, we all loved it. So many new people that all loved the same stuff as us. It was a blast. It eventually closed due to lack of profitability but I'm very thankful for them taking that shot on that business.
A fair comment, I do not disagree. I do plan to one day do an `ls` command on the root Nix file so that the manual update to the root flake for both the inputs and the RSS feed would be redundant.
I already assume that the government has backdoors in every platform and can see who posted what. I'm more worried about cyberstakers and harassers using this to dox people they don't like.
Nod, I remember it not being as effective/easy to hide as exfiltration over UDP/DNS too, as there was always less background noise to hide in. That said, I found this with a quick search - https://github.com/utoni/ptunnel-ng for those who still want to do it. A number of hotels and captive portals still let pings through relatively unmolested even if they play tricks with UDP/TCP.

Any significant data over ICMP will always stick out though if anyone is doing analysis. Which isn’t often, frankly, in situations like I described, but…
His 17th sonata is know as the tempest, close enough.
'it is just aliens' is no 'razor'...

Possibly a 'spork', but certainly no 'razor' ....
Steve Jobs was a visionary authoritarian with the resources, opportunities, and connections to make Apple happen.

Visionary authoritarians are dangerous to glorify.
I think it might be... us.

People claiming without citation (since it's all secret anyway); that the bundled crapware almost completely subsidises a Windows license. "So unbundled would only save you about $20 anyway", why fight it.

There was also this: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/... which, while massively out of date was netting people $25-$50~ who forced microsoft/OEMs to refund the windows license.

EDIT: The wikipedia page cites several cases where Dell and Microsoft have both claimed $50: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows

Dell of course offering $50 as a discount when buying Linux builds or "FreeDOS" out of the factory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE
Those are all pretty tired arguments, and already debunked thoroughly. I spend a lot less time refueling my EV than I ever did on my ICEVs. And it doesn't take me any longer for a road trip stop than it did before, I always took 15-20 minutes to take a leak and stretch. Almost nobody does a 5 minute in-and-out on a road trip. You might, but you also carry 100L of gasoline with you, which is very uncommon. And as someone who's owned vehicles with gas tanks in the passenger compartment, I strongly recommend against it.

> Electric cars probably are the future, but I don't like this future. They don't have a soul.

Now you're being honest. You don't like them because they're too quiet. That is a valid opinion.

> I'm not EV fudster

Yes you are ;-).
Or mandatory registration with conservation authorities and copyright depositories like the Library of Congress, British Library, Biblothèque Nationale de France, etc.
As far as I can tell this site is run by an amateur, not a "climate professor".
You can run an analysis comparing these to Google's H1B offers which have to be at the prevailing wage or higher.
From https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/why-you-need...:

> One 2015 study concluded extremes are likely to approach and exceed 35C in the region around the Arabian Gulf towards the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in, posing questions for human habitability there.

> In 2020, research found that some coastal subtropical locations have already experienced WBTs of 35C, albeit only for a few hours.

> “Previous studies projected that this would happen several decades from now, but this shows it’s happening right now,” said lead author Colin Raymond, a climate scientist at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “The times these events last will increase and the areas they affect will grow in direct correlation with global warming.”

> The study also found that globally, the number of times that a WBT of 30C was reached – still considered an extreme humidity and heat event – more than doubled between 1979 and 2017. There were about 1,000 occurrences of a 31C WBT, and about a dozen above 35C, in Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Australia.

There's some recent information and investigation here too https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interacti...
Somehow it is only a small part of the political spectrum whose voters have felt the need to resort to such actions.

Assuming you’re familiar with Dutch politics, I’m sure I don’t need to spell out which part and what percentage of Dutch voters they represent.
Hm. Do they have diodes in the rotor?

It's common for large, power station sized, generators to have that. The field windings are on the rotor, and the heavy power comes out from the stationary armature windings. To power the field windings, there's a smaller generator as part of the machine, but it's the other way round - stationary field, rotating armature producing power. The output of the smaller generator is rectified by diodes on the rotor to provide DC power for the main rotating field. No commutators or slip rings. No wear, no arcing.

Did someone just scale this down for motors?
FTA:

"A covering of tires could well be calculated to break up the infrared signature of these aircraft, to confuse cruise missiles using image matching for targeting. This technique is also frequently referred to as DSMAC (Digital Scene Matching Area Correlator) or ATR (Automated Target Recognition) when used in cruise missiles. As we have previously discussed, using DSMAC/ATR would provide land attack versions of Ukraine’s homegrown Neptune missiles with a significant advantage, making them largely immune to electronic warfare jamming. At the same time, their approach to the target would not involve any telltale radio-frequency emissions, thanks to the passive nature of the targeting."
Low interest rates + lax monopoly regulation + aggressive acquisitions of competitors = what we have today

The monopoly standard of current harm, in the age of internet-speed growth, is laughable.

The standard should be "Is this merger likely to create concentration that will lead to less competition in 5 years?"
You can ignore the capabilities that you don't need. But overall as a vim lover, I find the emacs program and configuration to be far superior to [neo]vi[m]
Me too. So what do we do? As far as I can tell the only option is to turn down the money and well...it's hard to do that.