skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I gather, FOSS developer for GPU drivers discovers Starfield code is of poor quality and highly inefficient. So this person writes and submits a “special game perf workaround” for their inefficient use of D3D APIs.

Honestly, this is out of my domain but I can safely say this is a problem for anybody that develops any library, api, or public service. This particular comment on the PR hits hard:

> It's sad that developers can't take their time to properly code their games due to their greed for money, and people like you, Kristian, have to fix their mistakes.
> 2028 model year (5 years!)

Since it's the September before 2024, that's exactly 4 years.
10 to 80 leaves me 70% effective capacity, so that's 0.7 * ~400 = ~280mi/charge. This would mean on my 575mi drive I'd spend 3 * 40min = 2hr charging. So it'll take me 11hr to do a 9hr drive.

Let's say I was towing. That would give me ~180mi/charge. On the 575mi trip I'll have to charge 4 times, so 2hr40min.

So that's actually worse than I calculated before in both cases.

EDIT: it seems to me this technology isn't ready for production yet. Or, at least, it's best suited for subcompact vehicles that don't get loaded heavily.

EDIT2: I get it, though. If I lived in a city or a suburb and used my car exclusively as a grocery getter + commuting rig, it might make sense to run an EV--if there was a good one available at a reasonable price. But that's the other thing. They're all expensive, unmaintainable, and packed full of useless infotainment garbage and a whole bunch of plastic--just like everything else built this century. So really what's the point of using electrons from the grid instead of gasoline from the pump if I have to get a new car every 5-10yr? Instead, I'll maintain my (currently) 25-30y.o. vehicles s.t. they'll last a further 20 years thereby having prevented something like 10 cars from ever having to be built in the first place. And I own them outright, so no car payment.
I accept the first statement as an indication that we have reasonably strong evidence that human-ish (that is, genus homo) primates were using tools that had been fabricated, not just found; and that such fossils have been dated back to 3 million years ago, give or take.

The second statement comes with no evidence, no proof, no error bars. And the interpretation of the Bible as literal truth is an invention of the 18th century.

So no, the two statements are not "just as accepted."
Doctorow's enshitification is everywhere. I use Debian so haven't experienced Windows for twenty years, but I recently travelled for three months away from the Pihole that blocks ads on my home network.

The web was practically unusable. I guess it's the boiling frog and most people have just got used to having to scroll past three pages of ads to see what they want, but suddenly experiencing "normal" ad loads literally stopped me browsing the web.
Yes, nowadays all cans are aluminum though they used to be made of steel. The hot drinks are hot hot, not lukewarm hot.
Speaking of Mark Felt, this article is fascinating.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/09/10/watergate...
Nanopore has a much, much higher error rate and you still need sample extraction / sample prep all the same.
Do you have a source for that? I've always heard it, but... I've also watched a lot of people wash dishes in ways that waste lots of water unnecessarily.

I'd be curious how the study was conducted, and if they have video of the study participants washing their dishes.
After all the $300 radar and laser detectors that don't work quick enough, Waze has been the most effective solution for this. Nothing beats crowdsourced callouts.
I love his videos. They are not tutorials and so do not need to be concise and to the point. They are video essays from which I learn many things in a good amount of detail, and i have a fun time doing it because he writes entertaining scripts.
Latest release was three weeks ago. https://github.com/uswds/uswds
I understood more about it by reading the legal notice than the About section,

About,

> As a group of friends and tech enthusiasts from all over the world, we have dedicated ourselves to the idea of sharing insights and ideas freely among us. Our picture of the internet is that of a country without borders and we cherish cultural diversity without exception. We embrace the concept of open source, open knowledge and collaboration, sharing the belief among us that information should be free and never have a price tag. Where others hoard knowledge to gain an advantage, we share it and where people sell information, we give it away for free.

Still I know nothing.

Legal Notice,

> By downloading any of these images (ISOs), you agree to Microsoft's Terms of Service regarding (5.) Authorized Software and Activation. None of these pre-tweaked image files are pre-activated.

That's it, ReviOS must be a trimmed down Windows
> Kaiser is primarily a California HMO

Kaiser is unusual among HMOs, in that it is both an HMO and a provider organization where, for most covered services, Kaiser (as the provider organization) is the only in-network provider for Kaiser (as the HMO).
Edge was even automatically sending every image URL you viewed to their servers to "enhance" the images via the "Enhance images in Microsoft Edge" setting, which was on by default.

It seems like this has since been removed, but what kind of crazy decision is that?
Good question. I can't easily find an answer, but this page at least seems to describes the type of silver roof common on old NYC buildings:

https://flatroofdoc.com/silver-coating-protecting-a-rubber-r...

Elsewhere I find a claim that the aluminum paint used was a 20th century thing, but now white paint is preferred as being more reflective.
Also suspend/hibernate/resume? Which brand/model can you recommend?
Novell had a similar messenger util. Each message popped up in it's own window. When you sent a message, the input box didn't clear automatically.

Net effect: Hold down enter and full your target's screen with a hundreds of windows faster than they could clear them.

We called it bombing, so we usually just wrote the word "bomb" when doing it.

The one time I was ever really disciplined in school was after I accidentally targeted a service account instead of my friend's account. Every screen in the school was filled with the word bomb and my username was on each window title.
Funny, I would have approached this by removing the while loop and the if else parts of the BEGIN clause, leveraging the stock file reading and line iteration along with AWK pattern matching (terminated with a next statement to skip to the next row), and then shoved the rest in the END clause.

It’s always been a “thing” with me of not liking to put everything into BEGIN. Kind of a “if I’m doing that, why am I using awk” thing.

Just how I approach problems with awk.
> Doesn't explain the decline in the large prey animals, but that might be coincidence.

It was "decrease in the quantity of bones of large prey (in settlement)".

Could be they just stopped hunting large prey animals.
DRM CI Merged into Linux 6.6 – Linus Torvalds: “Let's See Where It Goes”
They indeed don't; they force browsers to use the WebKit engine instead. And comparing iOS to Windows is a bit unfair: one is a mobile operating system whereas another is a desktop operating system. You should compare what Windows forces on its users with what Mac OS forces on its users.

With that said, Mac OS isn't entirely innocent either, such as giving users a "Try The New Safari" notification when they run a non-Safari web browser on their machine.[1]

[1] https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html
> For the rest of his life, what happened next remained a closely guarded secret between Champollion and his elder brother. As he gazed at the remaining inscriptions, he realised that all the cartouches were empty – and that included the one supposedly carrying the crucial word autocrator. Champollion had unwittingly been putting forward false arguments that strengthened the position of his opponents.

> It remains unclear whether the perpetrators of this error simply made a mistake or intentionally faked the evidence. Even so, Champollion has since been vindicated: the Zodiac is now believed to have been created in the first century bc during the reign of Cleopatra VII

Given that the drawings were made by people who could not read the text, I don't see how it can be unclear whether they intentionally faked the evidence? In that scenario, what would they have thought they were doing?
Plugging osdev.org in case its new to you.
307kWh/a and 5 gallons are a lot. Nowadays there are dishwashers that use 2.2 gallons and 76kWh/a (assuming 0,46 cycles per kWh which I think is the DOE limit) and they clean a full load adequately.

Even the cheapest models should be able to meet the DOE limits and clean the dishes completely.
There isn't enough material yet for a large robust recycling industry, and collection of small batteries is still an issue.
Ubuntu is very usable for a desktop OS.
Why would you ever want to use hydrogen? It's essentially a terrible battery with terrible fuel density (if you take into account the weight and volume of the tanks required to contain it).

Either go with an electric battery, or go with a hydrocarbon like kerosene or methane or so.
Interestingly (to me), the main issue with the handling on my EV is the weight (it has 135 mile range at 4 miles / kWh, so it is very energy efficient).

The weight means cornering isn’t great. The vehicle only weighs 3133 lbs and ~ 800lbs of that is battery.

So, if you want something sportier with decent range, then you have to build something more efficient. I think battery weights have improved a bit since it was built, but not by much.

What I said about “sportiness” doesn’t apply to 0-60 mph times, but those are already uncomfortably brutal in high-end EVs. Show me how it performs on a winding road!
Distant civilizations eventually translated the messages as "Dig here! It's a plutonium mine!"
My previous company ran quite a bit through asp.net running in Linux docker containers in k8s etc. I hardly consider it extremely rare.
Oh. That's why Elon Musk have 11 kids.
"If we lose 100 million dollars in 20 minutes" seems like a good one.
You can turn all of that crap off with some effort.

Contrast that to the Linux desktop where you can't turn off the "it just doesn't work" (unless you mean just disable the GUI completely and only use the CLI), and the enthusiast who says they have it working just the way they want probably has "just not working" more thoroughly than the defaults.

The thing is that those ads are: (1) almost always for other Microsoft products, (2) frequently are for MSN articles aimed at Trump Voters, (3) probably destroy Microsoft products more than they promote them.

As an example of (3), consider how Microsoft launched a product called SkyDrive without doing a Trademark check, had to rename it OneDrive (just like they had to call the third XBOX the XBOX ONE, contrast that to Sony where even Mom can tell a PS5 is better than a PS4) then made Office save to OneDrive by default and leave you not being able to save at all if it couldn't connect to OneDrive.

That's like killing your product with 900 cyanide laced bullets, if they ever want me to use OneDrive again there is no amount of heavy handed marketing tactics that will work, even if I have to click 500 times and edit 30 registry entries to disable OneDrive I'll do that.
> Somehow we need to find a balance that allows vendors to tightly integrate their apps but prevent abusing this

A vendor of a web browser and email client, sure. A vendor of an operating system and one (or both) of a web browser and an email client, hell no. If anything, an operating system should be forced _not_ to tightly integrate to vendor-specific apps and instead should provide integration loosely and in a way a user can plug in their choice of app (or disable entirely).
Wow, as someone who isn't around water very much I'm shocked to hear that those types of vessels are fully electric today. What's charging like?
> Where and how do we store them safely?

You could probably just stick them in a warehouse? Or a specialised landfill that only keeps electronics or batteries. (Most just to keep the overall volume down, so it's more economical to make whatever special arrangements you need to keep everything safe enough.)
>> Those are good people.

I don't know, maybe they are libertarians
Also in the production of Sodium batteries, which while significantly lower in energy density compared to Lithium, they have bigger cycle counts (and as such are/can be used to buffer grid based wind/solar generation)
> In my house handwashing is orders of magnitude more efficient than using a dishwasher.

Thank you for your n=1 study/survey.

I've seen more than one household run the kitchen faucet at 100% (1-2.2gpm/4-8Lpm) when washing dishes. EnergyStar mandates <20L for a normal cycle.
Just don't subsidize anything, that's safest.
Your wikipedia link indicates that the current dating of the Dendera zodiac is based on the configuration of the planets within it.
I used to be a huge Windows fan, but shoving Edge upon me so aggressively has made me decide it’s time to move on. Moving forward, I’m only buying Apple or Linux devices.
Does it have express wash? I have an issue due to low-ish water pressure upstairs and quite salty water from the softener where I need an extra rinse so I do an express main wash frequently.. Still clean dishes.
You don't need to separate any of those things when doing laundry. You're just making more work for yourself.

Modern laundry washing machines also have a "finish at" timer. I set mine to finish at 8am so after breakfast I empty it out. If we really need to do 2 loads a day (it happens sometimes with a family) then the second one is done around lunch time.
It's actually really interesting to see GOFAI techniques like planning used in conjunction with LLMs.
Exact opposite experience here. RHEL and friends have been much more stable reliable for me than Ubuntu.
I think of the cities in Spain with the hottest climates, and I don't see a lot of crowds being protected by tree shade: Instead, the traditional design is narrower streets which aren't straight for very long, and even white cloth hanging across the street to provide the shade directly.

It's not that there's no trees, but you'll see them in parks and boulevards that might as well be narrow parks.

If anything, I see far more trees in the American midwest. Here the streets are very wide, with basically no foot traffic to speak of, and too much road for the number of cars that use the street in urban areas. You can definitely fit trees here, but that's because so much of that concrete is waste. The extra trees just mean more distances, and more distances means more parking lots and more concrete.
That’s what get when you don’t pay for... oh, wait.
Oh man - there's actually a much cooler version of this scenario, which is Sudbury impact crater, which was a massive Nickel deposit that was 'enriched' by the impact crater that hit it, not by adding Nickel, but by adding heat into the system.
This gets to crux of the matter — market power. Some countries have greater power than ‘the market’ due to their military reach or trade. The US is an extreme example — international trade is largely conducted in their currency and they will and have used their hegemonic military power to maintain that. The USD interest rate is set fundamentally by the Fed. Even other sovereign states with less geopolitical power can also maintain their interest rates by their central banks voting what rate to set them at. The market effect, for them, tends to be the foreign exchange rate of their currency will vary to offset the change in interest rate. That will have some market related limits and is why many countries tend to follow the US Fed’s interest rate decisions. To address the technical aspect of ‘finding borrowers’ the central banks of their own currency tend to be the borrower of last resort and this is why the market moves to the rate that the Fed sets — because the values of existing debt will move
I had to leave vegas at 4am this summer. The city was 72 or so degrees but as soon as I was out maybe 5-10 minutes of driving, it was 50-60. Unbelievable.
I almost always learn things for fun, not because I'm deliberately trying to better myself (turns out self improvement comes easily for me when I don't overthink things).

I'd much rather watch a 30 minute video that's entertaining and teaches me something than skim read a document for a few minutes.

He also tends to go into all sorts of interesting tangents that I probably wouldn't have even found out about if I was researching this stuff myself.
Bioengineered E. coli generates electricity from wastewater
I’ve seen no models that are the same across the US and EU market, do you have any evidence for this?
There is a standard set. https://designsystem.digital.gov/components/icon/
The tax enforcement of the federal mandate has not existed since 2018. Four states (and the District of Columbia) have mandates with financial penalties, though.
The transformative role of AI in the NCAA's NIL era. From talent scouting to hyper-personalized campaigns, unveil the new marketing playbook that agencies are adopting.
I recommend to switch them to Firefox instead.
First-ever ammonia-powered, zero-emission semi truck
Again these studies don't take into account things like burning, air pollution, waterways pollution, nor trees per capita in India vs North America.

If you've got enough trees per person to offset their carbon use, then it doesn't matter how much co2 they emit.
I'm not sure how I would go about adding a teaspoon of Thrift Savings Plan.
> Let's say I was towing. That would give me ~180mi/charge. On the 575mi trip I'll have to charge 4 times, so 2hr40min.

You wouldn't start full? Using your numbers, 250*.9 + 180 + 180 makes the trip in two charges. Stopping a couple of times for meals makes it take no net increase in time.

edit: It definitely doesn't work for everyone and every use case, but it's much better than you calculate. The EV road trips I've taken have been slightly inconvenient but the day to day convenience of at home charging makes up for it.

Also I don't understand why you're continuing to edit your message long after I replied.
Public domain allows you to do whatever you want with the work. GPL requires derivative works to also be GPL’d.

As a matter of law, all copyrightable work done by Federal employees as part of their job is public domain. This is yet another loss to society in the trend towards privatizing government operations.
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>>>>>> Why does the comment field exist if not to write a comment?

Maybe the design of the site should reflect the policy, instead of ambiguity that results in polluting the entire first page with meta-commentary about HN policy instead of the actual post.
Interestingly, they seem to address this on their legal page[0].

Despite this, it does seem like just installing Windows and then attemting to debloat post-install is the least risky option than just trusting a third party Windows installer.

[0] https://revi.cc/legal
You a front loader open? Thats weird to me; itd be like leaving a cabinet open - unsightly and a bruise waiting to happen when someone thoughtlessly walks through it.

Luckily I have a top loader
Corn subsidies are really bad and stupid to boot. So I wouldn't bring them up as a good example.

Why is corn vital to the national interest? And what's the national interest you want to protect by subsidising lithium?

Most of those 'national interest' justifications are pretty flimsy, and there's almost always a better and more targeted approach to protecting the stated national interest than the subsidies and protectionism they are used to justify.

Details obviously depend on the specific case. But have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendshoring for some inspiration.
pwnat seems really interesting and potentially easier than my SSH tunnels. Thanks for the link
Sorry, do you mean trees on roofs?

Since the person you're responding to is talking about solar panels on roofs and you're suggesting trees instead?
https://archive.ph/9Caxc
It's a pretty well understood fact that lithium processing has withered in the West because currently it's an extremely polluting process.
If this is true, then why would any tech company have anything to do with China?
Welcome to the world of resource and reserve calculations, where the numbers are made up and the points don't matter.

It's very easy to come up with a back of the envelope calculation to say we have this much Lithium, or this much Copper and come up with an absolute whopper of a number, the question is how much of it is recoverable and can it form part of a resource. There's a reason we (mining industry) don't let people produce these kind of numbers offhand, it's wildly speculatory and holds no basis in mining reality (yet!) - however very cool stuff and might provide a new exploration target in the future.
I like windows, but really considering jumping to NixOs. Edge really feels like spyware.
> The brain has always been compared with a highly sophisticated computer.

This is not strictly true. In ancient times, Plato compared the mind to a chariot pulled by two horses, representing emotion and reason. This reflected the importance of horses for transportation at the time.

In the 1600s, Descartes saw the mind as akin to a mechanical clockwork machine, reflective of the clockwork and automatons built then.

In the late 1800s, Freud described the psyche in terms of hydraulics and steam engines - cutting-edge technology.

Each era attempts to explain the complexities of the human mind through the lens of its most advanced creations. But all these analogies fall short.
> The Trusted Platform Module(TPM) requirement enables Windows 11 to be a true Passwordless operating system

Good luck trying to remote (RDP) into a Windows box with a passwordless account or to access a fileshare.

While passwordless Microsoft accounts are very convenient it is only according to MS Marketing department that windows can be a true passwordless system. In reality it is not. There any several components in Windows that does not work with a passwordless account. The RDP and network issues has been know for many years and is a PITA for home networking.
Not ever experiencing this stuff anymore on linux is the best feeling.
How would that agent eventually account for the missing round?