skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could hand wave around fuel cycles that would reduce the amount of concentrated, long halflife material. We aren't really on a path to develop the technology, but not having the technology is probably the primary roadblock.
Wow, I guess I must have comprehensively addressed your actual point, for you to switch topics!

In places where it is not required to hire off duty police, they still get hired.
> You cant really argue comparables because the whole neighborhood raises in lockstep

Comparables refers to actual sales of similar homes nearby. If all sales in the neighborhood have been +/- $200K over the last year, they should not be able to claim the property is worth 500K. Or they could, but should be easy to disprove.
Leaf blowers are poorly named. Blowing leaves accounts for maybe 5% of their use. They are primarily used by landscapers to blow grass clippings off of sidewalks and driveways.

Personally I think they should be banned because they are annoyingly loud almost half a mile away.
I use Monero to donate to FLOSS software projects and as a way of paying friends without surveillance capitalism demanding I tell them what my private transactions are for. If these aren't "legitimate purposes" then there no point in engaging in this conversation. Maybe you're happy with being subject to corporate panopticons of Venmo/Cash App/whatever but I'd rather not engage with companies that seek to demand an ever larger pool of information from me.

Onion services provide authentication and NAT traversal while maintaining security and anonymity. Just because you aren't using that functionality doesn't mean it doesn't have a use.

How do you intend to have a clearnet application that can stand up to the same threat model that SecureDrop does?
Companies die through dynamism all the time in a healthy economy. Why would one dying because of its poor relationship with workers be any worse? The org dies, the workers move on and attempt to unionize elsewhere. The time to protect Bandcamp was before they sold and became beholden to a new owner.

There are 9 million open jobs in the US currently, as a data point (latest jobs and JOLTS report).
That's not a problem, its a ratings bonanza.
I used to feel like writing useful software was the mark of a competent software developer, and I wouldn’t allow myself to spend time doing things which weren’t overtly useful in ways which were easy to communicate.

That’s a great way to make software a chore. I’ve since become comfortable creating useless stuff. It’s fun. I reiterate existing ideas in new ways because I don’t care if it has been done already. I will even do it in the same way someone else did if it’s just for kicks, like covering someone else’s song. You learn, you have fun, it’s worthwhile. And sometimes you find ways to improve it!

I learned this by getting into writing firmware. It was too daunting to be useful all the time, and I had to really let my ego deflate and get out of the way. It turned out to be a ton of fun, writing crappy code to do stupid things. It also turned out to be an awesome way to get out of my own way and let myself learn and experience ideas in a low-pressure and enjoyable way.

Plus as others have mentioned, useless stuff winds up being surprisingly useful. Every useless thing I’ve done in the last couple of years has wound up contributing useful code, if not insights and knowledge, that I didn’t expect. It’s great.
This is very transparently a gross, cruel attempt to parody and belittle trans people, as is made clear by the people involved and the language:

“7 Tips on How To Come Out as Enhanced”

And the “believe the science” and “colonialist” bits are very much a conservative-doing-an-impression-of-a-liberal thing.

There’s worse if you read through their mission pages. I’m taken aback by the level of effort, honestly. It really astounds me how much money and effort there is behind ostracizing already marginalized people. It’s disgusting.
I would like to see a way more aggressive price scheme for power. Want to charge your Tesla, mine crypto on your 4090 setup, and have the AC running when you get home from work at 6PM?

Good for you -- you'll pay $2.00 per kWh for the privilege. Mad about it? Turn off the computer, insulate your house better, or wait to charge the car. YOU have to pay for it because WE all collectively pay for it when they turn those peaker plants on and CO2 is dumped into the atmosphere.

We already have such things, but the effect is greatly dampened because the utilities are so limited in what they can do. The only way to get people to change their behavior is with incentives.
> Are folks willing to help? Or am I just a signal in the noise to be discarded when I'm no longer useful? I've never killed or raped anyone. I'm not a monster.

And yet you seem to have no problem making threats to random people on the internet. If you do this on the internet, who knows what you do in real life? I wouldn't say what you're doing is that much better, and to be frank you are on the way to becoming a "monster" if you aren't already one. You certainly are not employable right now.

The fact that you have been hurt by other people who have acted like monsters doesn't excuse that; rather, that's generally how "monsters" are created (the cycle of suffering). Many people have suffered the kind of trauma you have suffered but without going in the direction you have gone with your life. The sooner you recognize that, the better.

You've made a lot of excuses for your poor life decisions that you blame on your family, on people you used to work for, on those who have wronged you, on really everyone but yourself. You haven't taken responsibility for the direction your life has taken. Until you do that, why would the direction of your life ever change? After all, you're mistakenly believing other people have the power to change something about your life that only you can change.

I'm not a doctor. But, as others have mentioned in this thread, it really doesn't seem like you're okay. And it seems like you either are not in the right state of mind to understand your own problems, or you are in denial of them, or maybe a little of both.

You wouldn't ask Reddit what to do about a gunshot wound you received; you'd call 911 and take yourself to a hospital. Your current situation may be more similar to that than you may realize. You really need to speak to a clinician; it's possible that psychiatric medication or some other kind of other clinical intervention could help save your life. But again -- only you can make that choice.
Blowers are really useful for moving leaves, lawn clippings, etc into piles where they can be easily moved into a compost pile or yard waste container. I can understand your confusion if you have never used one, but it is much easier and quicker than sweeping.
No, these only test connectivity. They do not check the eMarker.
A solar industry won't give you the type of engineers and technicians that can be conscripted into a project to vitrify your enemy's capital city though. That's a big minus
rpilocator.com is a good resource. right now the entire front page is all green, and you don't start seeing retailers with no stock until page 3.
Sorta, I have a beefy PC at home and I use Parsec to just stream my screens to my laptop if I'm at the office or whatever.

Not quite the same since it's not really containerized, but I set up the project once and then I'm good to go from there

It's nice cause I detest Apple/MacOS and this lets me avoid it completely since I'm just interacting with a Debian machine
2023 Photomicrography Competition
are you comparing PV, or PV + Battery storage?
I agree that if the NSA is your threat model, then you shouldn't trust any company.

I also think we can learn a lot about security from Google even if they comply with federal court orders requesting user data. "Willingness to comply with federal court orders" and "competence at securing data against cyberattacks" are two different things.
That sounds more like you need to give poor people more money. Not even that much, just a little.

Not that you need to fight caps on card fees.
You can’t be sure of that, maybe they think they opted out but failed to do so correctly.
"namespacing" in C means prefixes on public symbols.

Typically, they're two-part. First you have the project/company prefix, and then the ADT (abstract data type) prefix. So, eg. "foo_hash_" is a prefix from company/project "foo" and is a part of the "hash" ADT interface.

As a consequence, C people like abbreviations. Which is fine in moderation.

Private functions don't need the prefixes, of course.

Public variables are a little problematic if you ever port to Windows (DLLs), so try to avoid them.
People not wanting copilot to be trained on their code?
not really

i so desperately want it to work, but it messes up often enough that it's not worth it yet

fwiw, using local intellij with nfs mounted source is a better experience
Related to shifting load. This hit the front page recently. It’s the DOE’s take on virtual power plants.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37738347
Huh?

The demo scene is a bunch of kids having fun and learning algorithms primarily. To tell them that they need to write unit tests is ridiculous. They will have time to learn about large scale architecture and unit tests in time - by why not try to have fun for a bit?

Shadertoy isn’t meant to be reusable/production code. It is meant to be a fun computer graphics algorithm place. A place to experiment and learn.

We can take the fun out of coding later - that is what paying jobs are for. Why not have some spaces for fun?
I would try your language of interest...
What an absolutely meaningless metric for power generation in one of the largest countries on earth by land area.
I find all these posts slamming java and suggesting to use all the either much smaller jvm languages or something like python / go / rust utterly hilarious. If you want to get paid the big bucks in a high col city, you are a java or c++ dev, simple as. Sure work on your smaller languages, more pay for the rest of us!
With VS Code remote SSH, there is no "local" you are always on the server so there is also no syncing. They do some tricks to make this seamless and perform and feel as if everything was local.
Imagine I was one of those people that their DNA got leaked.
How would that could/would/will affect me?

And please, don't say "insurance companies would love that data!".
Ask HN: Freelance Communities in Canada?
Hey folks!

I recently moved from Germany to Canada. I am (or was) part of 2-3 Freelance Slacks back then. Usually started by ex-software people who shared job postings, but also offered freeform chats around everything freelance work related: Technology, law, clients etc.

Is there anything like that in Canada (or North America)? I am not looking for platfoms like toptal.

Also, as a side note: Any tips to get a footing into freelancing here? I was in touch with around 8 solid agencies blin Germany, which always had interesting contracts to offer. Any recommendations for Canadian recruiters or alike?
Alternative link: https://nitter.net/JonBruner/status/1714696044356005949
Sure, but I'm trying to do 10 Gbit/s on a <1m cable. That's definitely possible passively.

The USB specs say that C-to-C cables need an e-marker for that, and A-to-B or other non-C-to-C cables need nothing at all (apart from one or two resistors in case of an A-to-C or C-to-micro-B adapter).
Is there a problem with this methodology for interrogating concepts like intelligence or sentience, or are you just dismissing it due to its source? Obviously Star Trek couldn't go very deep with it, but it doesn't seem to be an obviously bad starting point.
No Hope for you :)
I say it because of a few observations. Not to offend you, but to shake you awake in best case.

The ones you named would never ask such questions but rather pursue opportunities and optimize skills out of curiosity. I also think, they've invested a lot of their leisure time into building their dream or vision. Actually all the these guys never rest. They get bored and do something. They're nerds.

So, not everyone is made to be an entrepreneur. It's hard work. And a personality thing. If you don't own such properties, then you also won't excel in such things, regarded "successful".

They way around, what do you have what they don't? It's "Simpler times and living".

Are you ready to work without breaks and weekends in you spare time? Then you might become really good. If not, change your job and perspective. Try to follow your plan. Peace
the shuffle button in plex serves this purpose, it's a shame few commercial streaming services offer this.
“We are going to put all of our effort on standardizing cables so when Android users have to throw away their phones every year because they don’t get updates at least they won’t have to throw away the cable”
ok. it is clear that when intelligence is digitized, a new cambrian explosion will occur. soon new forms of life will coalesce as natural selection takes its course. it is all but certain that this process, otherwise known as the singularity, will result in the total obsolescence of the human race, among other things. the idea of humans keeping pace with augmentations is disregarded with the first ounce of scrutiny.

there will be many consequences and its impossible to know for sure what will happen although we can rely on massive change. this is obviously extremely dangerous.

one consequence of the singularity is will be massive change it technology and science. some people arent aware of it but global geopolitics is locked in its current configuration by science, technology, geography, etc. when these things change, borders change. and when borders must change war will happen. it is almost certain that a violent change in science and technology will lead to the largest war that has ever occurred. suddenly, geography, logistics, the price of energy will all have drastically different meanings in a geopolitical context. in short, the global order will disintegrate and even if the new world order were a good one, the transition will be unimaginably grotesque. this is almost an intrinsic consequence of the singularity.

humans will be of little value. if there is war, humans wont contribute much because machines will be much smarter and stronger. the way that war is waged will change. total destruction of food supply chains will no longer be against the interest of all parties. if there is some way of gaining an advantage that involves rendering the planet uninhabitable to humans, on purpose or as a byproduct, then it will implemented. wars wont mean the same thing at that point. they will be much more dangerous.

and all of this is just the first instant. its only the first example. the best way to understand this is to understand that AGI will bring great change, change that is greater and more unpredictable than any change in written history. with so many outcomes, the probability of one that is good for humans is just undeniably very low, especially in light of the fact that we will no longer be the exclusive source of intelligence signal processing like we are now. this does not seem vague at all to me…
Do you know if the USA current energy production is enough, even considering we'll need to electrify everything (heaters, cars, etc.)? Could you share any good sources on that?
I’ve had this for the past 6 months. I’d honestly rather have entirely lost my sense of smell than to go through this.
Musk considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
If it becomes a problem consensus can evolve to trim inactive data (say expiring unspent outputs after N blocks in UTXO chains, "move it or lose it" model) or explicit charging for storage per unit of size and time (decay some associated balance accordingly).
Hopefully, this will make it much easier for software like tiddlywiki [1] where the idea is to be as self-contained as possible. It has depended on various mechanisms to save changes to disk, but this may lower the threshold to use it and feel more streamlined

[1] https://tiddlywiki.com
"Particles" as in a model of particle-like interaction. So the particles in question could be individual stars on a larger scale. Or asteroid sized clumps in solar system scale.

In fact, much of the simulations for all these systems involve particle representation.
One of the real skills of commercial model and prop making is know all the corners you can cut, and things you can reuse.

To take an example from Aliens, the ship is only seen from one side, so the model only has one finished painted side, and the interior sets scavenge loads of bits and pieces from computer cases and whatever.

You also shouldn’t underestimate the tradition of hiding Easter eggs in models and sets.
There's nothing wrong with sticking to C89, but honestly, stdint.h is hard to pass up. That said, you can define your own sized integers using the stdint names in about a few dozen lines, since you don't really want to be using most of the stuff in the standard version.
Not sure if serious or satire. But anyway, moral and legal issues aside this will never achieve mainstream success. Major sponsors and advertisers won't want to be associated with it due to the negative impact on their brand images. And modern sports only works as a business with that financial support. Can you imagine Adidas or Toyota putting their logo on this shitshow?
You may enjoy this old Tumblr thread:

> The United Federation of "hold my beer, I got this"

https://imgur.com/gallery/wpZ4w
PV+storage is already cheaper than nuclear.
Good luck enforcing the ban. Gas leaf blowers are illegal here, but you have to call the police (non-emergency line) and have them show up while the leaf blowers are still going. Basically impossible.
Germany caves in to French demands over EU electricity market reform
That's a dumb argument. The more energy we have, the cheaper it will be.
He doesn't have to justify his desire to go to clown school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwUk19cWarI
> Confiscate the equipment instead of fining people?

That is not how private property works...
Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos
YouTube is stepping up the anti-adblock nonsense and will be disabling playback after 3 videos

Personally, this sort of arms race is only going to cause me to not use YouTube

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/assets/47215043/f76f8ea2-3dd4-43ef-8293-353243cc5863

(Apologies if this was shared already)
EDIT: https://www.amazon.com/Before-Machine-Learning-Linear-Algebr... i give the amazon link too so you can have fun with DRMs. (ty to the funny comments)
They are? Source?
> The vast majority of economic value created does not require land and would go un taxed. The vast majority of value comes not from land or the raw materials derived from land, but from Human labor used to convert the raw material into Goods, or pure services.

The value gets created by human labour but it ends up captured by landowners. I believe there's an economic theorem to that effect, but it's also pretty clear in Silicon Valley: some new innovation increases productivity, workers and investors get paid more, rents go up and all the gains end up in the pockets of San Francisco landlords.

> It's also much more regressive than the current system. People like Elon Musk make a million times more than your average person, but they don't use a million times more land or eat a million times more hamburgers. Most of what the rich purchase is labor and human compute.

In theory I take the point. Do those people actually pay a million times more tax under the current system though?
A completely fictional narrative that for some reason is uncritically accepted by so many.
one of the reasons to write more 'useless' software is I think also that for most people it's a straight up better use of their recreational time.

At some point I got sick of watching The Office for the 20th time or just aimlessly clicking around on Youtube. Programming is a hell of a lot more stimulating even if no good software comes out of it.
> It continues to fascinate me that people have already forgotten, or never heard, the stories of the foundations of the country.

You can't transpose the context of colonial america to contemporary life. Even nearly 200 year old inventions like the gatling gun, professional policing, penny press, telegraph and car dilute the predictive power of conflict analysis of the 1700s to apply it to the 21st century. Yet alone say, apache helicopters and SAMs.

> And what was one of their first actions in response? Go take the plebs' guns.

The volumes that chronicle these histories are deeply ahistorical. Every one I've seen is actually about arming favored groups and disarming unfavored ones.

It's not about taking away guns, it's about making them plentiful for a group driven by fear and anger and making them scarce for the designated scapegoat.

Unless you think AR-15s and ammunition for homeless, pedophiles, illegal immigrants, and woke mobs is part of your strategy, you are in effect, doing exactly what you are accusing these other societies of doing because you are inherently carving out a group that should and a group that should not have access to guns - which is precisely what all those historical groups did.
Project Neo from Adobe: Supercharge 2D designs using 3D magic
Why is the website so.. propaganda-ey?

It sounds like they're casting atheletes who willingly take banned substances as a persecuted minority group that we need to stand united for, on par with the fight for LGBT rights or something. It's all super-defensive, like it was started by a few atheletes that got caught. The section called "Science is Real" tries to cast anti-doping as anti-science.

Watch one of those documentaries on Lance Armstrong. Getting blood transfusions in the back of a van doesn't look fun.

But I'm all for it. Why stop at substances? Use CRISPR to give a swimmer some webbed-feet.
Works fine for me in lap-mode, never tried eglots.
(Alert) WinRAR Vulnerability - Google Discovers Major WinRAR Vulnerability Exploited by Hackers- You Need to Update WinRAR, *Right Now immediately
It doesn't have to be exact - if you know you're making 10 sub-calls, you can just make each 10% and call it a day. Still leaps and bounds better than a spinner.
Taiwan is legally part of China. (Or conversely, China is legally part of Taiwan.)

Both China and Taiwan claim control over all of the combined China-Taiwan.

The US and most other countries officially recognise Taiwan as Part of the 'One China Policy'.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_China
It’s overall quieter, but with a pretty noticeable high pitched whine. Not sure if that’s better or worse for your ears on balance.
There are many crimes that if you use your car to commit the crime, the car is seized.
Atom Heart Mother is a wonderful piece of work. The albums I've listened to in the last week were Obscured by Clouds and Meddle.

> Like Zeta?

I'm actually new to the genre and still finding my way by listening to single songs from different groups to figure out the ones that appeal to me the most (that's why I didn't name a specific band). I hadn't come across Zeta, but they look like the right sort of thing. I'll check them out. Thanks!
Building Agents for Data Labeling
When you see stuff like this happens. It’s most likely something wrong with the tool that is gathering this data. They lost data access or something funky like the max number of pages they can iterate went down
The story at Bandcamp involves:

1. the employees (and ex-employees) of the company
2. the artists who put their work on the platform

There is currently no seriously viable alternative for the #2 group that offers anything remotely equivalent.
Well, it will depend on the specifics of the API. Sure, there will be degenerate cases where there's no meaningful progress that could be reported, but we throw in the towel without even trying?