skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep - HTTP has no native support for file listings. In the old days it would be served at the index of a url path if no actual file was available - but that was always a feature of the http server and not anything unique to HTTP. Protocols like S3 and FTP have listings built in.
As example of resources scarcity, just now, even without significant shift to EV, appear very serious deficit of EV support engineers, and also, exist huge deficit of support of EV chargers, even somebody calculated and seen, need significant changes into power grid, existing could not feed enough power to EV chargers if they will grow to proposed numbers.

Plus, seen not considered problems, firefighters complain they have not enough special tools for EV fires.

With AI also seen not considered problems, AI servers with modern GPUs consume too much energy and exhaust too much heat for existing DCs, so need to create new power generating and make bigger DCs.
this is mental gymnastics. i really think HN would be better with a reputation system so that posts like these will be checked for accuracy after the fact. accounts that accumulate tons of wrong predictions can be labeled and easily ignored. it would help with this problem where a huge wave of the same wrong opinion floods the comments and everyone else gets greyed out. why do we let wave after wave after wave happen without any accountability? like when half of HN confidently predicted twitter would crash… im not saying it was a bad guess but lets make it mean something to be wrong!
Am I missing the obvious here, a smart and nimble company can corner this market by lowering their price by X. They would have to give up X per unit but they make it up by (volume * lower_price). Isn't that how the market is supposed to work? Like if I want all the business and there's not an obvious differentiator I will compete on price?
Does librewolf have a mobile version or can I sync Firefox stuff to libre so I can sync between Firefox and libre where needs require one or the other is installed?
Looks so simple, but I guess that's a sign of good design. I was also surprised something like this didn't exist already.

But my first thought was that it will almost certainly be cloned and sold en masse pretty quickly, so I hope she gets enough revenue from it to pay for her time.
It's not the cheapest, but it has the most predictable law. That matters a very little bit when you're starting (your local jurisdiction might still have weird rules for incorporating, like needing to run a newspaper ad), and it matters a great deal if you ever sue or are sued. The latter issue means that if you intend to take significant amounts of external funding, your investors will probably demand you (re)incorporate in Delaware.

My basic take has been that incorporation costs are a rounding error, and why would I do anything more exotic than Delaware?

But if you're doing an open source project that isn't going to take any money in and is unlikely to ever go out for funding, costs and admin headaches might dominate the decision.
Provate property is a construct that exists alongside the physical thing, but the two are not identical
Me too.

I have Firefox installed on my phone (Android) as well, but I found Brave to be faster with its "baked in" ad blocker compared to Firefox Android + uBO.

Brave on Android is still an annoying software, with VPN, Rewards, and News icons in the burger menu that you can't disable. You can turn off the services, but the icons do not go away.
Nah. That’s just talking in circles to rationalize bad choices. The whole point of long term thinking is being able to acknowledge short term losses so that you arrive at a better position in the more distant future.
Offshore wind is also the most expensive form of wind/solar.

With financing getting more expensive its almost certain that some of the more financially on the edge projects would get cancelled and since offshore wind is easily the most expensive, it’s unsurprising that in renewable energy those are the projects getting cancelled.
Yeah they also invested in Dutch natural gas which was a catastropic deal.

I think the relationship between the government and Vattenfall is heavily regulated so that they can't micromanage and have to set high profit goals for the company. It is probably required so that it does not interfere with market economy.
Reparations in the context of this antitrust lawsuit == a settlement of the class action lawsuits that will inevitably happen. Same word, but nothing to do with other the other kind.
> Also, battery swapping will become a thing.

Already is a thing for trucks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYLtPSf7PY

Janus Trucks converts your existing trucks to battery electric and provides swap stations.
Most of the US lives east of the Mississippi River, where population density is commensurate with Europe. No one seriously proposes HSR from SF to Boston, but HSR from, say, Chicago to NYC is within the bounds of viability. And it's frankly criminal that we don't have 4h travel times from Boston to DC.

As I've said in the past, the only cities of the 50 largest in the US that are unquestionably out of HSR range are Denver and Salt Lake City, with Memphis, Birmingham, and Oklahoma City on the fringes of viability (from most to least viable). The other 45 cities? Totally viable.
IBM suspends advertising on X as Musk faces antisemitism backlash
There were big variations by carriers - that certainly wasn’t ubiquitous by the time the iPhone was released, because iMessage sidestepping it was important to enough people that everyone mentioned it in their reviews. For example:

> Besides ease of use, there's another side benefit to this seamless integration. If you send messages regularly to iOS 5 users, you may be able to switch to a cheaper texting plan from your carrier. Assuming you send messages exclusively to iOS 5 users, you may one day be able to ditch a texting plan altogether.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/06/more-upcoming-ios-5-...
Do not incorporate. Simple.

Once you have more than one client willing to spend $x,xxx for your services, you’ll know where to best incorporate and the best structure for you.
I would just set them before bed and then check them before going to school in the morning, and set another one running, of course :D
Part of why most of my friends aren't in tech.
Just install LTSB or LTSC instead.
> I'm perfectly fine condemning any kind of religion at the government level, we are supposed to have separation of church and state (not the case with Islam).

Not the case with Christianity, either, and plenty of American politicians disagree with the premise, even today. You're conflating religion with government, here, to say nothing of conflating the extremist fringe of a religion with the whole. Secular states with majority Muslim populations do exist.

But I agree with you, I wish the American government didn't need to pander to right-wing Christianity to exist, but unfortunately it does. That may not be Christian theocracy per se but it's still far too theocracy-adjacent for my tastes.

>As you correctly point out the Saudis are allies and get a different treatment for a reason, which has to do with how they are integrating into the modern world, unlike Iran which clearly shows the same underlying religious motivations.

The Saudis funded 9/11, and Saudis carried it out. And Saudi society is not even remotely integrated into the modern world, they still have slavery FFS. They get special treatment because of oil and relationships with American businesses. Iran was integrated into the modern world until the US was worried they might turn a bit communist. Modern extremist Iran is a product of American foreign policy, as are Al Qaeda and ISIS to a large degree. American foreign policy creates more Islamic extremists than it kills.

>Think about what Putin would do without the U.S. getting in the way.

The US seems to be letting Putin do as he pleases, how is anyone getting in his way?
A New Micro Kind of Electronic Warfare May Be Unfolding in Gaza
I really hope you're right. But I really wonder if it'd actually hold up if tested. I don't want to wildly derail the conversation, but I can't help but observe - https://www.realpage.com/news/crow-holdings-enters-strategic...

Maybe it'll all work out.
In a few minutes you can make Windows 11 look pretty close to Windows 7 (or 10) by disabling personalization, content , widgets, new tab content. In edge disable all of the new tools and bing integration.

You’re right about the hassle of doing it manually, and I wish there were a global “Windows 2k mode” that ran the OS as lean as possible.
This is one of the marks of good product managers. Cut the cruft from the product. It's refreshing that in this case regulators are cutting things from the product rather than enforcing things to be added like cookie banners.
o/s is where you share your designs freely, not just rip others off.

China copies everything and everyone else, but then still tries to keep it's own secrets.
> the US needs zero-emission, road-based, logistics solutions.

I worked on a SAE HEV Challenge car back in the 1990's.

There is no such thing as a zero-emissions transportation solution.

Let's say you managed to make a solar-powered skateboard navigate existing sidewalks and deliver packages. (Which is not going to happen.) You would still need to build the solar cells and computer boards, which are NOT zero-emissions processes.

If an electric car is zero-emissions when running on battery power, my pickup is zero-emissions if I turn off the engine and coast down hill. Zero-emissions is nonsense.

We can reduce emissions by reducing, reusing, and recycling. The problem is that our EPA overlords hate reusing. If they wanted to reduce emissions, they would not pull old vehicles off the road. Instead they would find low-use situations where they could replace newer vehicles. Instead they destroyed the oldest, most useful trucks in Junker-Clunker.

This reminds me of a coworker / boss at a university I taught at about 10-15 years ago. She had a shiny new Lexus thing that got 15 MPG with a huge engine and an (I think) 8-speed automatic transmission when I had never seen such a thing before. (I know they are common now, but at the time that was odd.) She made fun of my old 1990's Chevy S10 pickup truck that got 25 MPG every time I drove 90 minutes each way to take 1,000 lbs of computer equipment to a recycling center. I only took in for recycling the stuff I could not reuse. Enviromentalism is all about looks. It has nothing to do with reducing emissions.

If anyone believed the claims of the enviromentalists, they would be calling for the executions of the scum who cheat on fake carbon credits. Instead they are buying ocean front properties while selling books about rising sea levels.
I don't really care if the shaming was done in good or bad faith. At the end of the day, I'm an Android user in a sea of iPhone users, and I'm tired of the fact that our default communication mode has to be SMS or MMS. If this fixes that problem, I don't quite care how we got here.
Or that it’s misleading to say you drove an electric car?
Show HN: Search top product recommendations from Reddit
I wanted to share a side project that stemmed from a personal frustration many of us may relate to - the struggle to find reliable recommendations for non-serious products like coffee beans or running shoes. Google search results are often cluttered with clickbait articles and biased reviews, making it challenging to get straightforward and trustworthy advice.

To tackle this issue, I've created Reddit Product Search - a simple yet effective tool designed to cut through the noise and deliver recommendations straight from the Reddit community. The concept is straightforward: it scours relevant Reddit posts and presents recommendations that have received high votes, ensuring that you get insights from a community consensus rather than relying on algorithmic search results.

I have to say currently the website is a bit slow and might be a tad flaky (currently taking around 5 minutes for results). I've cached few searches in advance.

I'm reaching out to the Hacker News community to gather feedback, suggestions, and insights to improve and refine the tool. Your input is invaluable, and any feedback is highly welcomed!
I'm surprised this website doesn't count the colorful Windows XP design to Frutiger Aero, although it mentions the colors blue and green as being indicative of the design.
Manufacturing diesel fuel isn't carbon neutral either. At any point in the vehicle's lifecycle.
I don't have optimism for AI either.

But none of it changes the pace of development. It is moving at breakneck pace and the trendline points to the worst outcome.

It's similar to global warming. The worst possible outcome is likely inevitable.

The problem is people can't separate truth from the desire to be optimistic. Can you be optimistic without denying the truth? Probably an impossible endeavor. To be optimistic, one must first lie to himself.
I've noticed a rather curious silence on the issue and I'm sure many others have as well. Here's some interesting narrow technological content on the issue, let's see what happens:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/11/03/a-new-mic...
Why would they want to add the expense of cleaning out an additional apartment, additional wear and tear, and pissing off a tenant who is likely to leave in the future only to collect less rent for the privilege? There must be some MBAs involved in that brilliant maneuver.
Not really. Most real world studies take this into account.

It's still way cheaper than nuclear.
Experimenting on the Edge
Same with both yet DDG I'm sorry to say as its creator is very nice guy/helpful guy but it feels stale to me.

They should've released their own search engine long before that bad PR thing showed Microsoft was harvesting some data.

Joe Rogan prior was promoting DDG for awhile to his millions of listeners.
You're worried they're misleading semi truck purchasers or something? I mean they have made trucks that are being used, what's the problem? Is it just media coverage or something?
Those wire hangers are murder in clothes. You want thick wooden hangers that will last you a lifetime.
SymForce is a fast symbolic computation and code generation library for robotics
Regulators didn't enforce cookie banners. Cookie banners are a form of malicious compliance. When you complain about them, you are doing the lobbying work of ad companies for free. The correct solution is to just not spy on people, and the problem is that the EU didn't go far enough and just ban the behavior altogether.
Really excited to see node 21 with quic. Progress has twisted off and there's no http3, but a solid start that I hope we start to see some adoption on.
Not sure about smart, but the word "nimble" can never be used to described anything about real estate.
Still Uncool, but Finally Useful
Pay for Enterprise and a lot of it is pre disabled. Others can be configured via group policy.
Hot Rocks, Part Three: Barriers to Next-Gen Geothermal
Firefox works almost all the time and is getting better with every release.

For the sites which look for Chrome, there’s Brave.
> I don't think Apple especially likes the idea of iPhone user metadata (and message contents) going through Google-hosted chat servers every time they message an Android user.

Every time an iPhone user sends an SMS or MMS to an Android user, it ends up on an Android phone, which Google could snoop on if they so desired.

And, regardless, if Apple implements Google's E2EE extension to RCS, it doesn't really matter whose servers they go through.
Nuclear is emphatically not an instant-on hot backup. Plants take time to spool up, and very importantly time to cool down. Fukushima happened because you can't just turn a reactor off, it produces energy that has to go somewhere while the intermediate fission products decay over hours-to-days.
Poisoning During the Renaissance: The Medicis and the Borgias
Quest has a horrible billing process. Kafka would be proud.

Quest sent me a $2000 bill. My insurance EOB (explanation of benefits) stated the negotiated price was like $350. I emailed Quest with the EOB attached. Never got a response. I emailed the next week. Radio silence. I called Quest, waited on hold for half an hour, was told I was being transferred to the "billing department" but was hung up on.

The next month I got another bill in the incorrect amount. I called and waited on hold only to be transferred to the "billing department." I spoke with the second person there who transferred me to a third person who hung up on me. After calling in a few more times, being transferred around numerous times, and being hung up on 80% of the time, I was finally told to ignore the bill and email in the EOB and it would be corrected.

A few months later another bill for too much arrives. This time threatening eventual debt collection. When another bill arrives as a "final warning" before debt collection actions I am in the midst of buying a house. Having my credit score dive 100 points would be a big problem. I call in, select make a payment and am immediately and conveniently routed to a menu where I pay off a credit card. I stupidly assume the Quest balance would soon be rectified and I would receive a refund.

Later that month I check in on the website. There is no sign of a refund. I go through the phone gauntlet again and the under-trained support people say they did not receive the EOB even though this is the third time I've sent it. I call my health insurer and they conference call Quest. Health insurance Co faxes the EOB to Quest.

I still have not received the refund a few weeks later. I burn an hour of time to reach the "billing department." Quest says they received the EOB, but their records show insurance never paid blocking the refund. I start another conference call. Quest had filed a duplicate claim, causing rightful initial claim denial, and while they happily took payment from both me and insurance in the re-filed claim, the initial claim denial triggered a hold on any refund. A refund is promised within 4-7 weeks.

4-7 weeks later there is no refund. I burn more time to reach a "billing department" "supervisor" who apparently works in an entirely different company. They say there's still a hold on the refund due to the claim denial. They say a refund should be out in 4-7 weeks. I am now well past the 60 day window to file a chargeback, as my credit card company tells me.

Around a year into this saga I filed a small claims lawsuit. The next week I received a check and cancelled the suit.
> I give Wolfram a ton of credit

The ability to give credit is something of which Steven Wolfram is in very short supply!

Never mind Wolfram's obvious debt to John Conway, John von Neumann and Alan Turing, among many.

From an interview with Steven Wolfram (FT.com, 11 April 2003. "Lunch with the FT: Stephen Wolfram" by Simon London):

Does he have any heroes, I ask, anyone in science whose work he really
admires?
The question is met with a long pause.
"I think Alan Turing would have discovered a lot of the things I have
discovered if he had lived another 20 years. He was pointed very much in
the same direction."
A hero?
"The more you learn about these people the more difficult it is to idolise
them. Turing was much more of a hacker than I am. He liked putzing around
with things in a way that is somewhat different from my interests."
How about (John) von Neumann, then?
"I'm sure I would have greatly enjoyed meeting him. He was a smart man. But
I would say he fundamentally missed deeper points in a whole series of areas
in his haste to figure things out faster than other people. It was almost
like science as a competitive sport. He skated too quickly over many areas."
Isaac Newton is summarised as "an able man who did interesting work", while
Charles Darwin "had the good feature of living basically a happy, quiet
life" although "the core of what he did is better than some of the
bandwagons he let himself climb on to".
Any living scientist he especially admires? I suggest Stephen Hawking, the
Cambridge astrophysicist, or Benoit Mandelbrot, whose work on fractals seems
adjacent to Wolfram's own interests in complexity.
Again, the reply is careful and considered.
"Hawking I view as a fascinating personal study but as a scientist...well,
I suppose he has done some decent-quality stuff. Benoit Mandelbrot I know
quite well and some of his work is quite important. In fact, I am one of
his bigger promoters. I'm just not sure he has completely internalised
quite how important it is."
Mint.com replacement - review finances in 5 minutes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38292990
Yeah, this makes no sense and is pretty blatantly bogus to anyone with at least a high school understanding of supply and demand and is also pretty blatant collusion. They didn't also trot out gentrification, due to the new building going up, as a reason to raise the rent too?
You shouldn't always expect prices to go down when there is new supply, because it can also increase demand. If people are investing and building new units in a neighborhood, it is usually improving it, which makes it more desirable, more people want to live in the area, and prices go up. If you are lucky, this reduces demand elsewhere and overall prices might drop.
I am so glad, so glad I was proven right, I knew the second back in like 2009 when I tried chrome and right clicked on a youtube channel background and it didn't let me get the image link unlike firefox that Chrome was an evil that was going to creep to who knows what standards.

And here we are, 14 years later, Google finally slowly got its masterplan done, and it will keep getting worse.

While I have many grievances with Firefox, there is simply no alternative, the only real alternative is Firefox, don't even give Google the benefit of using chromium, if you truly care switch to Firefox and make everyone else switch, worst case scenario use a chromium alternative but please do not use Chrome anymore, if you are a techie swap everyone you know to an alternative browser.
It's for analytics. It's a tool that can run on my laptop that means I can run analytical queries against potentially TBs of data hosted in an S3 bucket, without needing to spin up an expensive data warehouse.
> i really think HN would be better with a reputation system so that posts like these will be checked for accuracy after the fact. accounts that accumulate tons of wrong predictions can be labeled and easily ignored. it would help with this problem where a huge wave of the same wrong opinion floods the comments and everyone else gets greyed out. why do we let wave after wave after wave happen without any accountability?

I don't understand what your point is - the accuracy in question is in a linked article submission, not an HN comment, no?

Which account would be getting labeled as such? The link submitter? I suspect that's too diversified to really be effective.
Brave's adblocking is not an extension and is entirely unaffected by changes to how extensions work.
Typically the price fixing part is one small feature of a large software suite, and deviations require written justification submitted to the provider (with the implied threat of losing access to the management software).
My understanding is thay it doesn[t work in mv3, precisely bevause of that security issue.
If you have nowhere to go, then the rent is whatever the landlord says it is.
They didn't take orders/deposits until 2022!

Also, who cares? Sometimes products take longer than usual. Especially ones that have never been done before, like a practical electric semi truck for chrissake!

Plus, they also had to move a lot of people to rework existing models to accommodate supply chain issues from Covid for like several years.