skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. Yes, there are some realistic choices that could be made, or could have been made to seriously mitigate the issues. But so far we haven't pursued those, so there are not realistic attempts so far. We're pretending pouring money into renewables is enough, and it isn't. We're pretending that made up carbon credits will help, and they won't because people just use them to lie and steal. Some people pretend consumers aren't the problem, that it is "corporations". Well, those corporations exist only to funnel goods and services into the gaping maws of consumers. You can regulate corporations, and we must, but the idea that change will happen without our own personal sacrifices is foolish. You need to allow a nuclear plant to be built in your backyard, and then another one. You need to start taking the bus to work. You need to stop eating meat. These would be the beginnings of "realistic attempts" if all of society committed to such ideas and changed our collective ideas about what quality of life is.
> I posit that any deliberate misinformation by the oil and gas lobby can and will be equally matched by deliberate misinformation by the wind and solar lobby. There's no reason to believe that the former is composed of evil people who mislead for the sake of profit

There is plenty of edvidence to the contrary. See e.g.

“Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

“Tracing Big Oil’s PR war to delay action on climate change”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/09/oil-companies...

“Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago”

“A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

As for the market argument, it is costly because all historical capacity is in fossil fuel based systems. This is a major cost advantage to fossil fuel based solutions. Waiting for the market to adjust might be too little to late, climate change is path dependent, you can’t simply undo it.
And to harp on this point- the destruction of the browser as an actual user-agent to style and present data is one of the biggest complaints about the maturation of the Internet.
It’s common advice to keep a round chambered and I’m sure (almost) all cops in the US do. You might not have both hands free to chamber the round and it takes time when you may not have any.

It really shouldn’t matter as long as your finger isn’t on the trigger until you’re ready to fire. Personally, I still like guns that have a safety lever. I understand that people in a stressful situation might forget to flip it but training should largely circumvent that.
Did you actually read the article you're ranting about? They repeatedly and specifically say they have no problem with users applying theming to applications, as long as they report issues to the theme developer, and not to upstream. Their actual ask is for distros is to stop applying theming by default, which is entirely reasonable and sensible to me: you more or less guarantee that some apps will arrive out of the box in a broken state, and people will not realize that it's not the fault of the application developer.

The issue of distros breaking applications and giving upstream developers unnecessary headaches and noise because of it is one that goes way beyond themes. Recall jwz's ugly fights with Debian about the Xscreensaver warning. There's not a perfect solution, but distros can at least try and not make the problem worse for the sake of "brand identity", which is what this article is actually complaining about.
No, the problem was found during "engine work by a third party", so they weren't checking it because of regulations. It was noticed during routine maintenance.

Airlines do safety checking because they don't want their customers to die. That's bad for business.
Define "needless features"

One man's "needless feature" is another man's "can't-live-without-it functionality"
The source of the photo is cited in the article:

https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/ybc/ybc.html

This site has a detailed analysis and explains that it's from the Yale Babylonian Collection.
To paraphrase, dont get panicky, get even. This is a long-term marathon that will change all societies and economies one way or another. The objective is to make sure its eventually a better place. This transormation is not going to be the result of panic thinking or action. GDP, stocks etc are not eternal constructs, they were invented and adopted in a certain context. Well that context is falling apart. But the new constructs are not born yet.

There might be some easy, immediate "quick-wins" in change of behaviors or new technology, but they are not that many, or particularly impactful. Take for example coal. In various places they thought that eliminating it is a no brainer. Its dirty, lots of CO2 emissions etc. Well guess what. Many poorer countries only have access to coal and they are not particularly keen to remain energy poor to make up for the historical excesses or others.
"but it's obvious to anyone (except gun owners) that the scale of gun violence and ease of access to firearms are related,"

No, it's obvious to gun owners as well. Obviously if one is concerned with "gun" violence, guns are a factor. The difference with gun owners is the perspective - a focus on other factors, a focus on overall violence/crime and not solely on the subset of gun violence, trying to find causation instead of correlation, regulations that would work while still providing protections, etc.

Probably the biggest issue preventing support for additional access restrictions is how shitty the justice system is and how the enforcing agencies routinely break the laws they are supposed to abide by. Things like ex parte hearings, lack of legal representation, lower standards of proof (and then judges violating the law by erring on the safe side), ammending previous agency regulations capriciously (and sometimes in volation of statute), etc. There's no genuine debate or search for compromise by either side. It's turned into a religious war.
I have a sneaking suspicion it could easily be done but then the big smartphone dealers wouldnt have you captured on the new phone treadmill.
Questions:

1. "In June" or "As of June" really makes a difference. I wouldn't expect record breaking lows northern hemisphere summer, where 2/3rds of the land is.

2. Is it typical to have a record-breaking cold every year? Why is this even notable?

I didn't find your source, but NOAA's June '23 climate report says "No state experienced a top-10 coldest June on record for this six-month period," so that's something, but it's just for the US. But it also says it was a pretty mixed bag: "Above-average temperatures were observed across much of the eastern contiguous U.S. and in parts of the Northwest. Near- to below-average temperatures were observed from the northern Plains to the West Coast."

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/n...
I like headphones primarily on devices that go in my pocket because they move with me. When I use headphones at a non-portable device I'm likely to damage them by walking away with them on.

I use a BT headset at my PC for this reason; I can get up and pace &c. without worrying.

Quick tip if you are using wired headphones while doing chores: run the cable under your shirt; that should leave little-to-no exposed cable to snag on things.
It's possible to choose philosophy before hedonism?
You should check the arm version. On my macbook m2 air macos complains that the file is broken when I try to run it; x86_64 version runs fine.
Since that article was written in 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed in part because of an unapproved replacement angle of attack sensor installed without proper testing. So there's at least one more crash associated with unapproved parts.
Second malaria vaccine to win global approval is cheaper and easier to make
AI Prompt Library
It was a lot of fun creating these prompts, if you have access to ChatGPT-4, then try System Prompts from the repo. Thanks!
Apple OSes Are Insecure by Design to Aid Surveillance
https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/ybc/ybc.html

This is the original site about the tablet and has more detail and analysis than the Springer article.

https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/Euclid/ybc/analysis.html
Show HN: Firefox's Live RSS but for Chrome
Kubernetes for Real Housewives – How to Host Photoprism Gallery on OpenShift
My first microwave absolutely wrecked 2.4 ghz wifi, replaced it after a few years and the new one didn’t. Didn’t have many BT devices back then, but bet it would jam them as well.
Yes, I regret not having received such advice earlier. Moreover, when I search for "amarkdown" on Google, it thinks I've made a typo and asks if I meant to search for "markdown." Using a name without any bias is also very favorable for search engines.

But I have already invested too much effort into the name "amarkdown," including on Twitter (X), YouTube, and various other accounts.
I guess this is great reason to modernize/reboot the SDI [0] initiative (nicknamed Star Wars program from President Reagan days) to clear out bad/rusty/leaky satellites (translate: and anything else they want to take a shot at, in the interests of US national security of course) /s

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]
Prompt engineering is the new seo
That description doesn't really narrow it down.
That will be an issue they will need to deal with because of the license they chose. They picked GPL (https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/license.html.en) that means as long as the intermediary ships their changes too then all is good. They are basically asking to be the only fork of their code. I get it, they have spent tons of time getting it 'just right'. They may find that a hard sell to some integrators who make it a point to put their own spin on their distro. This is basically a 'do not fork our code' ask.
I think the Navy thought they had to get stylish uniforms because the Marines did.

If you follow China People's Daily you see the People's Liberation Army gets newly designed uniforms every six months or so, but that's to show their strength as tailors to the world.
Google agrees to reform its data terms after German antitrust intervention
Hahaha! Thank you for saying this! Yes! Not to at all disparage the other suggested library, but I think its intended use case is more teaching and learning (at least in part). It says as much on its homepage: https://shinyoshiaki.github.io/werift-webrtc/website/build/

Ideal for learning: The code base is very small and all the protocol stacks of WebRTC are in one repository. It is also very easy to build, so you can easily add or modify features yourself.

It is undoubtedly a commendable and extraordinary achievement to create a largely compliant implementation of WebRTC in TypeScript tho.

You cannot use that library in the browser (as you cannot reimplement the primitives that use UDP as there are essentially no browser APIs for that (barring the Chrome-focused WebTransport I think)), but creating it in Node using udp libraries is possible. It's fantastic and dedicated stuff, but may not be the right fit if you want performance and reliability.
Had to look those up:

- EMU https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_multiple_unit
- DMU https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_multiple_unit
At this point in time living in a cave sounds lovely as for the dystopian future we are brewing.
Are these questions really about the technology or philosophy about what constitutes a society?

Tool use is fundamental to any meaningful society and that's technology.
Can’t wait for his post after he ditches the HT in the car and buys a mobile unit to mount in it. He’ll be in a new world of hell.
What I was getting at is I think I might be missing a gotcha.

There's a fair amount of niche applications where peltiers are currently used even though they aren't very good.

But no one's mentioning them as an alternative to peltiers.
Yes, but asking you to not submit issues about your one-off theme working with an app seems reasonable.
No, the last one was in 1917.
It's got nothing to do with imagination or ideology and everything to do with the material reality that the the most powerful forces that the world has ever seen will crush you if you try to change the existing system.
How QUIC helps you seamlessly connect to different networks
Yes. I've wondered about this for a while. Because although the microwave is supposed to be fully shielded, when I take EMF readings on it with my TriField TF2 EMF meter, it's spitting out >100mW/m^2 when it's turned on. And I've seen this happen with just about every microwave I've tried this on. The only ones that haven't seem to be those expensive integrated under-counter ones where the tray slides out rather than opens like a door. Also my phone still works/receives calls when I put it in there, so it can't be as good of a faraday cage as it's supposed to be...
Photographs reveal invisible wonders of our world
Having spent my entire life where chewing gum is legal, I find this attitude absurd.

What are we going to do next, ban farting?
Slay the spire seems like time be a great game to play in the gaps between tasks.
Good point. Since cars aren’t driven 24-7, every purchase likely already has a known space available, limiting the negative effects of parked cars.

This doesn’t take into account shared spaces (where one car is parked while another drives), which might be more common in such a space-limited area? Just a guess.

Either way, a parked car is still a waste of space. A fee can help make more space available for humans rather than metal. (Assuming the fee rises above the natural cost of parking)
While still being important, I'd like to draw people's attention to the fact that this is a satellite a long way away from Earth, and is not in any significant danger of causing low Earth orbit to become a no-go area. It's remotely possible that it might cause a problem out at geostationary orbit, but that's very unlikely. There's a lot more space out there and most satellites are all moving in the same direction and at the same speed, making it a lot safer than low Earth orbit.
This seems to work quite well!

Especially surprised by the options available for "Ghengis khan romance novel".
Microsoft must be broken up into at least 10 companies. Otherwise, this nation needs to stop pretending any sort of "market forces" dictate our economy or corporate ability to consolidate.
Thanks also from me!

I really hope that Bandcamp will survive!
On type safety in LangChain TS
C'mon. You are telling people that build and maintain core infrastructure used on millions of Linux installations all around the world that they are fundamentally misunderstanding Linux.

This is why I don't maintain free software, and God bless those who do.
Separation and Recovery of Rare Earths and Iron from NdFeB Magnet Scraps
check latest prices/bidding here

https://onemotoring.lta.gov.sg/content/onemotoring/home/buyi...
This post really highlights what happens when a user with a set bias against a company notices a common feature and presumes the worst of that company by default.
> I don’t see a problem with this. It sounds like a great feature!

Famous last words
I think the devil is in the details. As others have pointed out, this would drastically change the incentive structure of OSS. You would attract actors whose entire purpose would be to get listed on as many SBOMs as possible to maximize their revenue potential. I'm envisioning a world of `padLeft` controversies.

That is to say, I don't think a pure "frequency of use" metric is sufficient to fairly distribute such a pool. And if you have a large and growing pool of available money then the incentive to game the distribution scheme becomes more attractive than making truly awesome software. And I very much doubt that we have any reliable ways of aligning such a money distribution scheme with the goal of creating amazing software.
20 years ago in Australia my car got canaried because I had LPG and a pod filter, which was illegal because you were only allowed 1 modification to the intake system. I am 100% confident that if I strapped a jet to the car, it would be illegal. As it should be. If you want to do extremely dangerous modifications, do it on your own property. Not a public road where you risk killing a family of 5.
In other words, nothing about it makes much sense --- which is my point.
Apple has conversations with popular developers, but they’re really not looking over every individual release with as much scrutiny as you think.

So yes. Also, this already happens with other software on Apple’s platforms. My question is does anyone know if they also do it with iOS native apps.

We know they do it on macOS.
Yup - it felt like the summer has been shifted forward by one month.
That'd definitely work.
don't care. theming anyway.
Imo you and the author of the article seem to agree

You're not recommending blanket tweaks for all users and are savvy enough to remove the theme (or fix it) if it's breaking an app you want to use before reporting issues

My impression of the article is a request against generic re theming.

I suspect there's a better path forwards though. Eg distros could make their themes more modular (relocation of UI elements, changing colors, changing icons - maybe this already happens!) and then make it easy to toggle these when opening a new app (just like the OS gives you a minute to decide if your monitor display settings tweaks broke something for you)
They might be news, but I doubt that cover each shooting for weeks like they do here. The media practically makes some of the shooters into celebrities.
One rarely discussed peculiarity about religion is that it distorts reality for both believers and non-believers (as one can see by observing how anti-religious people discuss what religion "is", what religious people believe, etc).

Possibly relevant:

LLMs confabulate not hallucinate

https://www.beren.io/2023-03-19-LLMs-confabulate-not-halluci...
That entirely depends on how close you are to high-clay-content muddy bank with a growth of reeds vs. how close you are to the nearest convenience store/office supply store.
Yeah.....like a very high pitched whine. At low battery level it's pretty much steady, then as it gets close to 100% the charger clearly provides power in pulses as it goes on and off with longer and longer gaps.
Truly. This pattern is the default mode for how AI is being introduced to most people. That is, vertically. Existing platforms add it as a feature.
That's a fair point, but in terms of the right to use and modify free software there's no difference between an end user and a distro creator.

What if a user themes their apps a bit and publishes their configs?

What if that turns into a distro or a "spin" on another distro with a website?

What about things like Regolith [1]?

It's a scale not a yes/no question IMO, and these devs are showing hostility to some users, which comes across as an attitude of arrogance and hostility to all users.

[1] https://regolith-linux.org/
If there is a potion of the population that is "sitting on the fence about climate change", it is highly unlikely that they "can be convinced by a clear and well founded explanation of what is happening"

Anybody capable of that, would either no longer be sitting on the fence, or are highly unlikely to be reading this article.

Also, the basic premise of your comment assumes that the effects on the monthly temperature can be cleanly broken down categorically into "fossil fuel related" and "El Nino related", which presupposes that a stronger and more frequent El Nino events are unrelated to the burning of fossil fuels.

The facts the human impact on climate change are overwhelming, both in their abundance and scope of impact. Pretending that they don't exist, or treating them as a tangential issue to be put aside so as to appeal to a skeptical and/or ignorant minority, serves no purpose other than to undercut the facts.
It's a great title but the content doesn't live up to it. I recommend ignoring the upvotes on this one and not reading the article. In reality it's not really even a guide of anything, is disjointed, and can be completely summarized in 2 sentences as "AI doesn't currently use use nonverbal cues. Also, make your prompts concise." I'm halfway sure the entire thing is AI-generated.

And lest you think this criticism is unfair, take a look at the author's 24 hour submission history-- 3x for this website in the past 15 hours.
I think a lot of phone UI stuff biases for the lower half of the screen already. UI elements for picking most frequently used apps are at the bottom, controls for ending calls etc are at the bottom, keyboards are at the botton, swiping up to change apps.
It's possible. I never follow new releases. But back in the ed2k days, I'd say about half of just about any file you cared you search for was fake, regardless of age.
Some schools still have shooting teams on school grounds. It was less than 20 years ago I knew students who would leave guns in their cars to later go hunting. It wasn't allowed, but nobody said anything and it was never a problem. I assume this still happens in some areas today.
Not a dumb question at all! We're aware of cr-sqlite and I've talked to the author, Matt, a few times. Short answer: SQLite has serious shortcomings when it comes to reactivity and we think we can be as fast as SQLite for the application-type queries we aim to support. The long answer would be about supporting all of features we don't need in SQLite and all of the quirks that come with it like having null as a primary key[1].

We also recently came up with a relational-style querying system without joins! https://twitter.com/triplit_dev/status/1707509447789043760

[1] https://twitter.com/tantaman/status/1702677401291903116
I cant even imagine trying to use the iOS SDK without autocomplete.
There are other big risks involved.

For instance, if the satellite is dead or has lost propulsion, it will likely have started to spin and will have no way to stop that. Reaction wheels can only do so much and can get saturated, requiring other attitude control systems to be used to desaturate them first. Approaching it with an unspecialized satellite will then definitely generate smaller debris, which is far more problematic.

This also amplifies the risk you mention about ending up immobilized for other reasons. You'd have two pieces of junk literally on top of each other, it would take very little for them to damage each other and start producing much smaller debris.

Further, you can't just repurpose a star tracking camera to look at a satellite instead, they're dealing with completely different kinds of requirements, and it isn't even a given that you would have the processing capability on the tracker to handle the kind of computer vision needed. Nor is it likely that the tracking camera feed can be transmitted down to Earth for manual control.

The only cases we have of a satellite contacting another satellite when it wasn't initially designed with that in mind, involved dedicated extension vehicles designed and launched to dock to the engine nozzle of satellites which were still fully functional and without the extension would've still been able to move themselves into a graveyard orbit.
My dog knows the days of the week too. She knows that Thursday is brewery night, and Sunday is a visit to grandma's. She get confusedly persistent if either event is cancelled.
And of course carbon removal from burning the natural gas is totally out of the equation.
"Gun's don't kill people. Blood loss and organ damage do."

There are plenty more bumper stickers where that one came from:

https://topatoco.com/collections/wtnv/products/cpb-wtnv-nvnr...
Many major cities already have such regulations even outside desert areas.