skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not actually a witch hunt, as explained in the letter it’s in response to the new DSA laws which they have been told would be enforced for a long time coming now.
What happens if the phone is lost? A famous Google support, I presume?
You'll have to elaborate. Are you trying to convince me that the lead developer of Graphene (strcat) harassing Rossmann over a tame Youtube comment somehow reflects badly on Louis?

That's certainly a take, but not one that I can ever agree with.
This post seems to be mistaken in its understanding of innovation. It seems to take it as using new technologies. But this is a misunderstanding.

Innovation means inventing novel solutions that solve relevant problems better than what has been known before. This could be creating a new tech, and using it, but it could also be applying existing tech in a novel way.

So you could be innovative using old technology, and you could use new technology, but not be innovative.

I guess the company where the author of the post works is neither innovative, nor do they use new technology, but there's space on the market for companies like that. Principal engineers who work there don't even need to know the meaning of innovation.
Renewable power calls for massive over provisioning to minimize time where backup energy has to be used. Over provisioned energy could power hydrogen production, in which case the "inefficiency" doesn't really matter, as long as there is no other better purpose for which the energy can be spent.

There's obviously a sweet spot which may invalidate this argument. But to me it sounds like a win-win, even if only focusing on aviation.
Thanks for sharing the clearly written article!
Hydrogen for cars is dead. However long haul flights, fertilizer, green steel, etc. very difficult to find a carbon free alternative that isn’t hydrogen.
The bit about everyone experiencing worse mental health outcomes was a bit surprising. Given the size of the mental health crisis I'd hope to see that unpacked more in the final report than it was here.
i imagine if we tried to introduce this there would be a huge campaign by companies like food delivery apps against it.
The insane bit when you look at it logically is the car shaped object part - we drive around in and store portable living rooms.
Nice. See https://www.mockinterviews.ai/ also.
Even then, they'd have to hold their ear right up to the hole to have a chance of hearing the thoughts.
The future is public transport.
Given enough curiosity, anyone can understand how and why a jet plane works in as much or as little detail as they want. Planes were engineered by humans from first principles and we're good at both documenting our inventions and understanding those first principles.

Building something to interface with a biological system, though, is another matter entirely. It could as well be alien technology. It requires reverse engineering a lot of extremely complex stuff that was not designed by our civilization. So incomprehensibly complex that we only fairly recently made enough progress in other fields to be able to build tools to meaningfully poke at it.
We currently put toxic and highly flammable gasoline into car-shaped objects. The car needs to carry its energy with it somehow. Energetic things tend to be flammable and toxic, since those are just uncontrolled ways to release energy
Am not well versed on these considerations but it appears one advantage of hydrogen is energy density compared to batteries. This may be less an issue for passenger vehicles but could be more relevant for air travel - as an example. No comments or opinions otherwise re: funding etc.

Found the below article useful as a primer:

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/articles/fuel-cell-and...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
I am making these displays that come in a wooden frame:

https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...

You could render the current state of the chess game to an image and serve that image on a URL on the internet. Then you can connect the display to that image:

https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image...

Admittedly that's still a lot of work from your side, and a little applet to keep running...
Even then, it's still obvious a gun was fired. The John Wick scene in the subway is so laughably absurd, but so many people think that's what happens when you screw on a can.
> I desperately want active breath monitoring. Like measuring breaths per minute.

Not sure about the state of Apple Watchen but my Garmin watch (a several year old Fenix) monitors breaths per minute, history, and has breath exercises. Seems this would be easily within reach of Apple so I’m not sure why they’re not doing it if Garmin is. Unless what Garmin considers accurate or reliable isn’t up to Apple standards. Shrug.
I don’t know, man.

Health isn’t a binary thing, but as a spectrum, I can say that I’m healthier now than I was 10 years ago because I’ve been able to make data-informed insights into my own idiosyncratic body.

Medical research tells you about population patterns and doctors treat illness. Neither of those play the same role as having lots of personal health data to form and test hypotheses over.

Privacy may be a concern, but for now, I’m personally pretty comfortable with Apple’s commitment to privacy as a differentiating factor against their competitors. That won’t last forever, but it’s good for now.
Watching the fog on an e-ink display
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Yes but an F250 does not use leaded gas like many planes do, has much more complete and efficient combustion, and likely produces far less particulate emissions.
The big problem is that fueling with liquid hydrogen is not easy. Getting things down to that temperature is not easy. Getting hydrogen cleanly is not easy.

I mean if hydrogen was just as abundant in the atmosphere as oxygen and didn’t need to be at ridiculous temperatures to be liquid, it would be a great fuel.

But to keep things green you’re fighting a ton of trade-offs using electricity, it which point why don’t you just use the electricity directly?
50-100 year old homes with no maintenance? They probably have had the roof replaced two to four times, windows replaced, siding replaced, furnace/ac replaced several times, egress window wells replaced multiple times, and that's just the beginning. They depreciate very fast and even a 10 year old home without proper upkeep will look shabby.

Either way appreciation tends to be pretty close to inflation on average, so you are generally not making 8.75% on top of inflation. That does happen in very specific markets but definitely not in most areas.

I own a home for the lifestyle. But I could do far better as a financial investment is concerned.
This is pretty cool! :) What resources did you find most helpful in your learning journey?
How can you be so sure?

Maybe not today, but with better sensors and neural networks I'd say anything is possible.

That's not what's bothering me most in the long run though. Because there's no way in hell they'll be able to resist the temptation to manipulate our brains directly if they ever develop the capability.

Technology is neither good nor bad, but it enables better and worse with every iteration.
'Gramps' has been recommended to me in the past.
> Putting two tons of highly toxic and flammable lithium

Maybe cut back on the hyperbole a bit. Two tons is the entire car. The lithium content of the battery is 15-20 pounds. And it's not straight lithium metal that becomes flammable in the presence of water. It's the electrolytes that are flammable. And most EVs in the world use LFP, which doesn't have that flammability problem.
Realistically you’re not paying for the hardware when you buy the driver board, but rather the software baked into those boards.

The waveforms, and the algorithms that create waveforms, used to drive eInk displays at reasonable speeds and produce high quality images are highly proprietary and very difficult to develop. In theory it’s easy to make an eInk display an image, but doing that in a reasonable period of time, when transitioning from potentially any starting state, and handling the crosstalk between pixels, makes creating good images on an eInk display pretty hard to get right.
of course there aren't enough players, you have barely ported any games to MacOS, at least on Apple silicon.

I was excited to see how well Portal 2 performed on my Mac mini, only to discover that it isn't even playable on Apple silicon at all.

color me annoyed. especially since (presumably) these games work on x64 hardware just fine (someone please verify this.)
Disney, the company, goes where the money goes. I mean, yes, there are human beings with beliefs in charge also, but the company has a very sensitive nose for where the wind is blowing in terms of American politics. Misreading those winds leaves money on the table.

Disney World Gay Days were an organized event dating back to the '90s, where people would show up on a specific day and wear red to indicate they were there for a specific reason. This was, broadly, supported by the staff (no surprise that there is a massive overlap between a theater-heavy ecosystem and LGBTQ+ tolerance and inclusion) and never formally endorsed by the company.

... but the company did start selling red-based rainbow-patterned official merchandise for certain months of the year. Plausible deniability, but people have money and the company would prefer they spend it.

If anything, the Disney we see in this decade of the 2000s is a Disney that is responding to what it perceives Americans are willing to support, spend money on, and consume. People blame Disney for "being woke," but Disney's Disney; it's always been Disney. Disney looks at American culture, catalyzes it, makes it feel fun, exciting, and engaging, and feeds it back to the public. Disney's telling the stories its audience wants to hear.

... and that is what scares the hell out of the DeSantises of the country and those who support them.

(Sidebar: if you happen to know staff who have worked at the parks and are willing to talk to you off-the-record, the stories are hilarious about guest behavior. Gay Days guests were basically never a problem. Church youth groups, on the other hand? Cast has to poke their noses into every nook and cranny of the parks to make sure they aren't sneaking off to make out and... let's say "violating decency policy").

(Sidebar 2: I tend to be a cynic and my writing tends to end up with a cynical tone. but I want to turn the elephant around here and highlight something: "Disney responds to what Americans are willing to support" means that they're doing what they do now because people like you didn't shut up when told, didn't sit down, didn't go away, didn't become invisible. There are megacorporations who haven't been able to make the Mouse hear them. The people who stubbornly refused to go away for so many decades that the company started selling red shirts and rainbow mouse ears did something to be proud of.)
It's your computer so open it up if that makes you feel less "restricted".

I'm keeping mine closed.
Infrastructure is, or at least should be, code as well. And as it is, you can write tests for it all the same!

However, writing those tests is incredibly hard. It doesn’t matter if you approach it from a dev or ops angle. The system under test doesn’t only have side effects, it is side effects. You also cannot mock most things (in my opinion…), as that is either also very hard to instrument or straight up removes the test usefulness altogether. Imagine mocking the AWS management API for your integration tests. Not possible.

So what Dev calls integration or e2e tests, ops calls the dev environment. Works, but differently to how devs would do it. I don’t see an alternative.

Next, as much as knowledge siloes are being heralded as evil, they exist. Undoing siloes altogether isn’t possible. You’ll end up reerecting them elsewhere. Devs have their skill sets, and ops isn’t part of that. The opposite is also true. The intersection can be substantial, but never enough to have dev to it all alone. I don’t think that’s a bad thing either.
> Historically, "contributing to society" meant directly or indirectly contributing to resource extraction.

No, it meant contributing to production of goods and services. Some amount of "resource extraction" is necessary for that, but historically, the amount of production for a given amount of resources has increased dramatically, so we get far more value out of the same resources.
https://www.knowyourmobile.com/phones/is-your-xiaomi-phone-s... was the first ddg result.

Or just google it. Pretty common knowledge that the too cheap to be true chinese phones, amazon fires, etc all trade on your personal data to subsidize the device, either overtly with amazon, or less openly in the case of xiaomi, huwei, and dozens of smaller brands of phone, television, and other connected devices.
Also, it's not a complete failure according to the article he mentions "The 20-page report doesn’t argue for hydrogen’s complete removal from the energy mix. In fact, REI argues that hydrogen is vital for industries where decarbonization is particularly tricky (think: aviation, shipping, and steelmaking). However, to use hydrogen in place of electrification via other renewable sources is a mistake, REI says."
Blue noise dithering seems to be a form of ordered dithering which is better than other forms of ordered dithering, but in terms of quality it is not as good as error diffusion dithering (look up the Wikipedia comparison on the statue of David). But blue noise dithering has the advantage that it can be implemented as a pixel shader, unlike error diffusion. So it can e.g. be used for video games. So I think for the picture frame error diffusion would have been a bit better.
What's a scenario in which adding $20K to my income results in more than $20K in additional taxes? The highest marginal tax rate in the U.S. for 2023 is 37%, and it kicks in after about $578K for a single filer. So increasing my income by $20K increases my tax bill by at most 37% of $20K.
Not all surprised by this, HaProxy is some of the best built software I've ever seen. But glad to know they checked.
Is James Bond the fictional character realistic? I always felt that he is an exaggerated persona that appeals to the male fantasy of hyper competence, boldness, and hence sexual appeal.
i miss when we could just ff web commercials when html 5 video debuted. they fixed that real quick.
Can speak from personal experience. Traumatic incident which severed the nerves to my leg in multiple places. Nerves eventually regrew and reconnected within the leg, and then again where they were severed in the foot.

Motor and senory nerves reacted differently.

When motor nerves reconnected, I still couldn't contract the muscles and went through a series of steps to relearn how to use the limb. First I was trying to "move" the leg, but effectively the "IP address" for the leg was changed so my "move" signals were going to where my head thought the leg was instead of to the new connection. Instead, I would estim a specific muscle and "listen" in my head for where "noise" was coming from. That "noise" was the electric buzzing from the estim'd muscle contraction. Eventually, I learned how to concentrate to make a muscle contract, and many steps later (pun intended), I learned to walk again.

Sensory nerves didn't need a push signal, they're like a constant inbound feed when connected. When the sensory nerves reconnected, it is something you definitely notice. Going about your day, and suddenly you feel an jolt, like being shocked, and over the next few hours to days the area that is reconnecting is burning, stinging, feels like it is being crushed by pressure, and cold all at the same time. It was much more intense than when your arm falls asleep. The sensation can be maddening but it eventually passes as your body begins to sort and acclimate the signals.

All of these steps on calibrating the sensory nerves and learning how to contract and coordinate muscles is something we take for granted as people usually sort it out when they're infants.
The crucial bit of information that the new contestant doesn't have is that there was a door that was ineligible to be eliminated (the door chosen by the original contestant).

If the game had different rules, it would work like you are imagining. Specifically, if Monty randomly eliminated one of the two doors, meaning there was a chance for Monty to reveal the prize instead of a goat. If Monty has the chance to eliminate the prize before giving the contestant a chance to switch, then switching does not give you an advantage.
Any mechanism that can store enough energy to get a car from point A to point B is going to store a nontrivial amount of energy and be subject to some eyebrow-raising failure modes. This applies to gasoline, diesel fuel, batteries, and all flavors of hydrogen.
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Because it isn't really 3%. It is 300 distros with 0.01% each, and the fragmentation keeps getting worse.
It does if he has a job. Which he must since he says he pays taxes. Having a job means you are producing something that's of enough value to others that people will pay you for it. That's contributing to society.
Forgive me if this is written up somewhere, but how did you find board members? And once you have a board I can see how you would govern who gets on the board, but how do you solve the bootstrapping problem going from zero to board? Again, I'm sure these are basic questions but I don't even know the terms of art to know what to search for.

Also zig is cool and thank you for the technical and gubernatorial guidance you've given to other language authors all over.
> Is this the same Apple whose new iPhone SOC has hardware ray tracing?

it's the same apple who said "please bring games to our system" followed immediately by "opengl is going away. also, fuck you."
> the extra $950 per month does surprisingly little in this population.

It makes sense - housing tends to cost just a bit more than that. Just two or three times more.

It can often be better spent on things that matter more than housing, especially if one doesn't want to live with a roommate.

I wouldn't think this way personally, I would want somewhere to live at the bare minimum. But homeless is an entire spectrum.
Maybe in terms of CO2, but turbines also don't burn as completely as most piston engine cars. 10k is probably an exaggeration , but the pollution is much worse than the fuel economy indicates.

Similarly, my chain saw probably pollutes nearly as much as my new Honda truck even though it only gets a few gallons of gas per year.
From the article:

> At the bottom “uncompetitive” end of the ladder are hydrogen cars and domestic heating — which he says make no sense when you have battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs) and heat pumps.

which begs a question: might we see hybrids with electric motor drive, small batteries for regenerative energy capture, and hydrogen fuel cell for quick refills? That is, hybrids that only involve battery and fuel cell to both drive a single electric powertrain?
I know your being sarcastic, but the first time that ad aired, everyone loved it.

Yes it got played out just like the Bud Wise Er frogs, or the Real Men Of Genius, but the first couple were hilarious.
The envisioned car charging situation is that you charge your car at home or at work. Cars sit unused 99% of the time, they can use that time charging without issues.

What we are experiencing now is transitional, where people use infrastructure intended for road-trips for their daily needs. That phase will pass
You know what does make it make sense?

If you can take natural gas out of the ground, split it into hydrogen and CO2 (releasing heat, which can be used to generate electricity), and inject the CO2 back underground to help release more oil and gas.

At this point, you have hydrogen gas.

Sure, you could burn that hydrogen to make more electricity, but it works out financially better if you can directly use it.

The benefit of this approach is it can make use of most of the existing oil and gas infrastructure, and countries sitting on big gas reserves have a use for them.

The downside is it makes minimal sense unless there is some financial disincentive from just burning the gas and releasing the CO2.
Any UBI proposal is means-tested pretty much by definition.
Would gasoline be anywhere near something people wanted to use if it was taxed to correctly account for its externalities?

Petroleum is a huge industry and they could make a big problem by getting subsidies to make some other fuel look competitive even though it’s a disaster.

Look at biodiesel.
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Ubuntu is a Linux OS that was designed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.

https://www.javatpoint.com/ubuntu-vs-kubuntu

https://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+vs+kubuntu
FYI minor bug: if you sort the exchanges table, within a few seconds it'll refresh and go back to the original ranking
Isn't what agile/scrum literally is? Or "equaliser" languages like Go? Both a trained monkey and a senior engineer will be equally mediocre in using it. Zero room for improvement.
Used Prius is always free and used Tesla is cheaper than a conversion. It never will make sense except for few classic cars.
It has ray tracing with touch screen controls for the masses to play a reskinned bejeweled with banner ads. It's not a real gaming platform. No keyboard and mouse support. No first party controller. They even took away 3d touch that would have helped a lot with the haptics of touch screen controls.
Yes, that's a good point. But: the grid can be expanded and probably will be expanded. I don't have a BEV but I've run the numbers and it would work very well for me today, it's just that I have an old, non-connected and fairly recently rebuilt car that I'll drive into the ground. But if I were younger and still in the market for a new vehicle I would definitely consider an electric one, though I'd make sure it had LiFePO4 or maybe even LTO in it (not yet available). Battery tech is getting better rapidly now that sufficient funds is pumped into it and I would expect the next two generations to be major improvements over what's on the market today.
> they generate revenue for Apple via in game transactions

Once upon a time, there were many iOS games that you paid for up front with no micro-transactions at all, for instance, XCom was about $20 a decade ago.

I have a feeling the console game ports will be pay up front, just like they are on a console.
Why would you go all in? A small allocation is fine
TF2 was released in 2007... and has over 100k players playing right now as you read this[1].

Counter-Strike is still one of the most-played games ever. CS:GO had an average of almost 1 million daily players while AAA Games like CoD Warzone hover around 200-500k.

DOTA/DOTA2 also rakes it in. They also have many very successful single-player games. Valve is a wildly successful game company - they just don't do the "yearly release" dance...

[1] https://steamcharts.com/app/440
That seems like the perfect use-case for overengineering something with a graph DB.
It's not just Toyota - it does seem to be a Japanese thing. Honda is also actively producing H2 powered vehicles.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42796089/2024-honda-cr-v-...
>dense buildings (i.e. skyscrapers) require huge amounts of resources and CO2 emissions to build -

Just neglecting everything you said after this point because this is insanely ignorant of TCO.

The miles and miles of roads suburbs require not only require massive amounts of concrete to pour, the suburbs require continual sacrifice to the fuel gods to function from each and every one that lives there.

There's also some BS in here about suicide rates, which in the US have a reverse correlation to what you posted.

https://www.cdc.gov/ruralhealth/Suicide.html