skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If these Miyake events were so spectacular, why do they not appear in the historical record? I appreciate that 774 was in the "dark ages" but something as impressive as the Carrington event would appear in some chronicles, surely?

EDIT: Sorry, checked Wikipedia:

"Annus Domini (the year of the Lord) 774. This year the Northumbrians banished their king, Alred, from York at Easter-tide; and chose Ethelred, the son of Mull, for their lord, who reigned four winters. This year also appeared in the heavens a red crucifix, after sunset; the Mercians and the men of Kent fought at Otford; and wonderful serpents were seen in the land of the South-Saxons.
— Anglo-Saxon Chronicle[9]"
There's not nearly enough transformers in reserve to properly rebuild the grid and you can't always just drop in and replace either. New transformers are also not currently able to be produced fast, and having society collapse around you probably wouldn't help while trying to increase their production rate. If we'd lose most transformers, it could be many months or years before large regions could see their power back, enough time to cause vast damage directly and indirectly.
I used to use vimium for years, but today I discovered surfingkeys and it seems to just be better. One killer feature for me is that pressing `I` will open a vim-like text editor for the text area in current page.
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Firing an Ak-15 and not realizing it? I know it was a hectic, stressful situation, but that gun has some kick to it.
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Does ocean salt deposit anywhere? There's huge underground stores of salt that we use for food and the roads and stuff, that's huge quantites of salt that are (no longer) in the oceans. I believe those deposits were formed by processes similar to the dead sea - evaporation, deposits, concentrations, etc until eventually the sea / lake dried out and other land formed on top over thousands of years.
> > Run your kitchen sink hot water a little before starting to get warmer water into the dishwasher

> Note: this only makes sense in the US (or wherever else it's common for your dishwasher not to heat its own water).

I don't think this is a US-vs-world issue. Other countries' dishwashers are also connected to the hot water supply.

Rather, Technology Connections is suggesting a hack.

Your dishwasher, wherever in the world you may be, will start up by using whatever water it can get for an initial rinse of the dishes, and it will measure how dirty the water is after this initial rinse.

Normally this water will be tepid. But if you make it hot by running your hot tap first, the hot water will rinse more dirt off the dishes than tepid water, the dishwasher will detect more dirt, and so it will assume the dishes need more aggressive cleaning, and adjust its program accordingly.
git log and all other commands' man page should really refer back to gitglossary here then. And they should either name their argument <pathspec>, or specify that the given argument (<path> or <file>) is a pathspec.
Consistently working as the better browser.

Both Chrome and Edge are just hostile towards my browsing experience.
Chrome keeps on rolling out new settings to pilfer my browsing data.
Edge will just kill all of my settings to anything Microsoft wants.

Arc and Firefox are working reliably at the moment but Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime.
> Tracking technology can arguably benefit us as well. For example, it could be helpful if an online store reminds you every three months you need a new toothbrush, or that this time last year you bought a birthday card for your mum.

fuck off
Another drying option is hybrid-mode.

Drip-dry (usually whilst completing other loads) on a drying rack. This often removes most moisture.

If still damp, put the laundry in the dryer for a quick cycle.

This maximises the efficiencies of each mode: drip-drying tends to quickly shed the initial bulk water through, er, dripping. A warm-air dryer is relatively ineffective when laundry is dripping wet, but is quite good at removing final traces of moisture.

If you have time, a fan blowing over a drying rack will also speed drying.

Outdoor lines can be quite effective especially in hot, dry climates. Less so in rain or fog.
[Author submitter here]

> This is a blog though

You are both right and totally wrong. Mostly wrong.

> it's written like a (a often paid, yes) newspaper or something article

It's written like a magazine article because it is an article that the magazine paid me to write in 2000, and I just found it by accident and put it on my blog.

So it is my blog but that's pro work that has been edited.

> but it isn't,

Wrong.

> afaict this is some guy's blog.

Then you can't tell very well. Sorry, but you can't.

This is the magazine:

https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PC...

I wrote the original article, 23Y ago, and I wrote the blog post too, and I am writing this.

These days I write for the Register and you can read my stuff every day there:

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Let me guess, very lax security checks, bound checks, size checks, invalid values, etc
If you’ve read any of the code you’ll also know that early Unix was full of security vulnerabilities. Eg. Statically allocating fixed buffers and not checking input sizes.

I’m all for appreciating simplicity, but let’s not pretend we haven’t progressed since then.
Will studying a new language interfere with any others you speak?
Facebook has always officially had a real name requirement. The main difference between theirs and the much more famous one which Google+ had is that Facebook has traditionally not been proactive about enforcing theirs, whereas Google engineers controversially made an attempt to implement the official policy in code like any other specification.

(Disclosure: although I worked for Google years ago and did read an internal memo back then from employees which complained about this policy, my comment is not based on any secret internal knowledge. My own job had nothing to do with Google+ or the real names policy.)
I haven't really considered security/rights management yet, that's a good point.
> I assume biological as in ‘made by’ someone

When is that ever the definition of “biological”?
> I always suspected it was some energy efficiency mandate that ruined the dishwasher experience in the US

The three biggest changes I've experienced:

1. Water usage has gone WAY down, especially for energy star washers. You may see 2.5 gallon pre-rinse/wash, 1 gallon rinse cycle usage now. Heavily soiled dishes are relying on the filtration system to remove the particles rather than spraying gunk back on the dishes.

2. Post-rinse drying cycles use hot water and evaporation/condensation (via stainless steel tubs) rather than hot air. For ceramic/glass this is perfect, but plasticware will not get properly dried.

3. Pre-wash detergent cycles have started to go away. I suspect this is because the additional agents in pods have made the pre-wash cycle less effective. However, this means there may be even less time before the main wash cycle for water to heat - it is hard to tell if there is a rule whether to delay washing until it has water to temperature if the source water was cold.
[Author/submitter here]

> I miss when people wrote like this

Good news. We still do.

https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Sorry, I don't have a choice. And I find it naive to think that I do.
Yes. They will also do so if you keep the feature on. Third-party cookies in Chrome won't be blocked for the near-term future at least.

Unless you switch browsers - e.g. Firefox has blocked third-party cookies for a while now.
Can an AI evolve through Darwinian evolution?
Can an AI evolve through Darwinian evolution?

LLMs like ChatGPT can optimize code with some success. Today it is limited in what it can do and quite often the generated code is flawed. I expect that it will improve to a point where we can ask a LLM to optimize its own code, build itself and do subsequent training. If we then add a mechanism capable of rating the generated LLMs, we could introduce a variant of natural selection and Darwinian evolution.

If an AI evolves through Darwinian evolution, what is it then?

Imagine a world where AIs have become self-evolving? Their evolution might be controlled by humans, or they could have broken free of human intervention. How would we classify such an AI? Is it a machine or is it a new thing? I argue that a machine capable of replicating and improving itself, is something new?
Should have less of a per-ticket effect on most low cost carriers. Since their priority is totally filling the plane.

I'm interested in what kind of minimum price they want to set, as I really like how cheap it is to fly around Europe.
Yup, in my university, lots of things like societies etc. are on instagram and facebook. I don't have any, so I can't really participate. Ah well, it's the price for not getting in the loop of soycial media
Its one of the highest rated news agencies in the world.

Just because it doesn't adopt you worldview doesn't mean its a propaganda outlet.
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They push it to me all the time. Not because I'm not using edge, just because I'm using the insider (beta) version.

It's awful.
Well yeah but the net result is just less fresh water; it's a fairly predictable process like that.

And with your second process, you still end up with a higher concentration of salt / brine around where it's returned to the sea, still killing animals.

I'm thinking of pumping the brine onto large evaporation lakes and harvest the salt or whatever - which also already happens to produce sea salt.

And if there's too much salt for the market, just stockpile it. Like underground salt mines.
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[Author/submitter here]

> I only spent about 1 hour playing round. But it left me distraught.

I know what you mean.

One of the biggest shocks I've had recently was researching this:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/24/dangerous_pleasures_w...
"if you believe in something you sign your name to it"

Without a beat, the next thing from this is "If you believe in this, you deserve to be fired." No thanks.
Remember that those bugs and antifeatures may also cause those very Microsoft shareholders and employees to lose data (and money and time). It is not like Microsoft shareholders are forbidden to use Microsoft products.
The hundreds of millions of homes in the US not in NYC and SF also ~all have garbage disposals and no major rat problems. (NYC banned garbage disposals until the '90s when it was lifted, and its rat population predates that by over a century.).

I don't ever peel anything over the sink, it's just the small particles of stuff from
washing that fills up the filter. This isn't a "you're holding it wrong".

I get the impression it's a similar objection to air conditioning: it's regarded as foreign, atypical, and unnecessary luxury, so plausible justifications about why it's bad are trotted out.

One of my favorite parts of visiting asia is discovering what fun new things have been electrified and automated. It seems europeans tend to have the opposite culture, and regard using electricity as vaguely sinful.
I miss the more technical and cool stuff like watchdog:
https://diode.io/blog/running-forever-with-the-raspberry-pi-...

Boot from USB, move GPU memory to increase ordinary memory, the USB-C can both consume power and work as USB Hub at the same time…

This last thing with USB-hub is cool together with iPad Pro (usb-c). Connect one wire and use it as development machine on the go.
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> Windows is definitely my preferred gui productivity environment

lmao, not because I don't believe you really think what you write, but because how user hostile everything in Windows seems to me, if you only want to change a single setting. It will be hidden behind 3 level deep settings dialogs and a "material design" flat links connecting those setting dialogs, so almost no visual indication, to make things stand out. It is horrible UI design. Basically any modern GNU/Linux DE will offer more feedback and visibility in their settings dialogs and windows.

Whenever I have to change any settings on Windows, I get a feeling of dread, because I know I will be searching for that setting. And never is the search any help, because they will name things different than I expect or it simply will not find the settings dialog I need to change that setting.

It is almost like they intentionally hide the settings ... Windows feels like a system that protects clueless users from themselves.
Yup. With Linux I don't get bullied to install their stuff. But you'll say "but you get bugs, less mature desktop environment" (just one point of my daily usage). Yeah sure, but instead of complaining about being bullied I get a chance to help the folks who make the programs I use (bug reports, small commits). So instead of a negative feeling, I have a positive feeling.

That's an enormous difference to me.

Let's have this cheap Linux phone and my life will be great.
Agreed, there isn't unlimited time to perform testing. Sometimes you also know when you're writing tests that will never help find a bug, and that's a waste of time.

I always focus on integration testing. If I have time I'll write unit tests, but there needs to be a good reason. I'll unit test an area that has proven to be buggy even with integration tests, but this is rare.

Finally, some code is just really complex and/or critical. These are good candidates for unit tests.
Not always an option; particularly if you live in an apartment or are otherwise constrained for storage space.
Wasn't really humor, just an experience I had that made a lasting impression on my young self.
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Cost / benefit, but also, reserves are running low. Worldwide there's news about how underground aquifers are emptying out faster than they naturally restore. That's relatively easy and low cost to acquire, once that is no longer an option, water will explode in price.

I'm confident that in our generation we'll see mass migrations due to water shortages in the west. California is already at risk, I gathered.
No, poor people getting disproportionately harmed by many climate change proposals is not a strawman, it's a very real consequence that needs to be addressed.
Aren't transformers protected from this sort of thing nowadays?
I uninstalled chrome & switched to Brave (I know about core) when I couldn't disable chrome auto update.

I have firefox too.
Microsoft probably has better data than me, but I can't imagine that that many people switch to Edge after Microsoft forcefully opens it when you try to search for a local file.

Just show some fucking respect to your users, it will be worth more than the 0.003% market share you get from opening Edge when I click a pdf
When I have my ad defenses down (no ad blocking, some random browser), I see ads for mobile cases for my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (released in 2012). I guess that was the last set of data points they have against my persona. That's the only relevant ad I see that I remember searching for.

I've had 3 other phones since then. Ads just show what they can. Still better chances for a click than random.
Why isn't there a standard for swappable batteries in electric vehicles? You could have stations like petrol has, pull up, swap out your battery for a fully charged one and be on the move again in seconds.
Using FireFox now for several years without any problems - just jump over...
This opinion piece, written by an attorney who worked as an intern at ADL in the 1980s, agrees with Musk.

https://www.newsweek.com/adl-has-lost-its-way-elon-musk-righ...
Just stop being a helpless victim and get rid of this evil corporate spyware and switch to a privacy-respecting browser like Firefox, or even better LibreWolf https://librewolf.net/
For the record, back of a napkin calculation says: 500000km2 of medium density forest of medium water requirement trees needs ~100MW of energy just for desalination. Then the construction of the irrigation grid, maintaining it, pumping the water, staffing the initial works, machinery, etc. goes on top of that.
I very deliberately chose my wording as "little use for their output" specifically because I think that there is a lot of use for cultural output. There is however a shift in many programs away from making things that are actually useful, and more towards the output of papers/research/reports for their own sake. There is usually only the thinnest of lip service towards any results having to be novel or show anything new, and little work goes into understanding the state of the art, resulting in vast amounts of duplicated effort.
I'm a proponent of just stockpiling it, spray it onto a large basin and form a salt lake, let it evaporate to a solid as deep or as high up as it needs to be. That's a stockpile that can eventually find a use. Or not, in which case it's harmless, assuming the salt doesn't go into the ground. Or does, if it's a desert or otherwise 'dead'.
The whole point of writing Unix was in response to bloated feature-cluttered OSs of the time, e.g. Multix. It was an effort in minimum feature set to cover all OS necessities.
I see language in Amazon's ad seller pages like:

"We will always automatically exclude recent past purchasers of your promoted products."

So there's some notion of this data being available, at least internally.
The easiest way would be running K3S scripts. You'll have a master and multiple nodes running in minutes. Managing it however... it's a whole different thing.
Delete Chrome.

“The intent of the Topics API is to provide callers (including third-party ad-tech or advertising providers on the page that run script) with coarse-grained advertising topics that the page visitor might currently be interested in.”

https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics#the-api-an...
"25 years" is not fair. There was no immediate need for IPv6 for anyone 10 years ago, so it should be no surprise that it's not at 95% currently.

Now there is.
I'm not sure exactly what you're saying here, but I'm assuming you mean they run each source in separate lines. That's the same in the US. The point is that these pipes aren't well insulated so the line has probably cooled even though it is a "hot" line. Running the water a little bit flushes the cooled water out so that only hot water goes into the dishwasher. Because even though it is a "hot" line it gets cold over time if it isn't being cycled. Maybe in the UK you're much closer to the hot water source, but in the US houses are often so big and poorly designed that you need to run the water a bit before you get really hot water from the tap.
I wish there was an f-droid for iOS; not for installing from, just as a way of searching for apps (including paid apps) that don't have ads or in-app purchases.

There is https://nobsgames.stavros.io/ but it's just for games ;-)

(I tried finding an iPad version of workrave/safeeyes, but all the apps are full of nags to pay for extra features or show ads in their break-time etc.)
I realize you were discussing mid-studies, I just was trying to illustrate that one of the problems with the German system is lock-in.
Maybe B doesn't exist because B uses Chrome.
Literal pen pals! Letters and pens. Interesting idea.
That's a good point. Now I'm curious if they have some internal tagging that differentiates between these two kinds of products.
Yeah, and without being "dumbed down".
Thanks for posting the link! We're trying to list all of the low cost radios coming out of China and make an accurate DB of all the specs.

It can be tricky trying to cut through all the marketing BS, so we're doing our best to only include verified information. We've all seen the "12000w" Baofengs and we wanted a place for hams to see what the real specs are, and compare rigs they might be interested in.

Of course these radios are not on the same level as the ones from Icom, Yaesu, etc, but they cost 1/10th of the price in some cases. Reset your expectations and consider that not everyone can afford a StepIR on a 200ft tower, fed with heliax, and an Apache ANAN.

There's a lot of innovation happening (especially with HF rigs) and quality is improving all the time. We're adding new radios almost every day, so give us a follow on Twitter to keep up with the latest data: https://twitter.com/HamImports
Electric drive requires an enormous multi-ton battery i.e. a bomb. It's a reasonable concern.
Seems like a good thing.
You don't need K8s for that, only gitea (with actions enabled) and a server running docker. Actions (like Github Actions) will take care of building, deploying and restarting the container.
Back then, fitting in RAM was a big problem: The PDP-11 (the first kind of computer to run Unix, as opposed to UNICS) had a 16-bit address space, which gives you 64 K of RAM if you ignore the fact peripherals were memory-mapped and so took addresses away from actual memory. Later models had split I+D, or separate address spaces for Instructions and Data, but that's still only 128 K.

https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11_Memory_Management
This theoretical expectation of such engineers is deeply flawed.

- Every level balances between execution and communication.

- Many companies fail due to not scoping and not collaborating enough.

- Any engineer should follow good practices but prioritize creativity over processes whenever they want to thrive.

- Tech is a creative industry. Scrum and other overhead processes have not led to a productivity increase.

Become a Senior Engineer. Just not only in theory.
Concurrent editing or Collaborative real-time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor) is perhaps a better choice words.

Notion is supposedly able to do it: https://www.notion.so/help/collaborate-within-a-workspace#re....

Wikimedia is apparently working on it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Real-time_collab...
> For the ads, a large portion of the internet that people want (maybe not you in particular but lots of people in general), run on ads.

The internet I want is one with sites run by individuals doing it because they are passionate about certain topics, NOT because it can be profitable when you slap ads on it. Today, the former has a hard time gaining visibility because the latter has much more incentive to make sure you land on their content farm before other sites. Many people don't even know that the former exist. But that doesn't mean that we need the latter. The internet does NOT depend on ads.

> Arstechnica runs on ads, theverge runs on ads, slashdot runs on ads, the register runs on ads, kotaku runs on ads, tech crunch run on ads. To name a few sites that might be popular here

And Somalia runs on piracy so we need to make sure piracy remains possible? Fuck no. Those sites run on ads because that's currently the path of least resistance. They have alternatives.

> If those sites can't support themselves they'll more than likely disappear.

And for a lot of sites, that's OK. There will be replacements.

> If all those sites disappeared

They won't (at least not without replacement) as long as people have a use for the content they provide.

> I feel like Google is genuinely trying to do something positive here.

Are you perhaps interested in buying a bridge?

> Going through the actual specs, they really are trying to make it so you can't track and individual but sites can still function based on ads.

Anything that supports ads is decidedly bad. Slightly less bad is still bad.

> means it's also in the interest of the people who want those sites.

Nope.

> Apple on the other hand

is irrelevant. I can avoid apple devices but there is only one Internet.