skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The margins are likely not that great.

Small run hardware manufacturing is extremely expensive. It's not until you are doing volumes in the millions, the factory has invested in custom tooling, and you're buying material by the truckload straight from the manufacturer that prices really start to collapse.

Right now she is probably getting the steel off the shelf, the plastic pieces from a small shop, the forming from another small shop, and the construction done by hand. All expensive relatively speaking.
Speeding absolutely is approved by the authorities and consequence free where I live.
A first for organic lasers, perhaps, but solid-state lasers like VCSELs or laser diodes have been around for years.
Partly why paying for streaming never made sense to me. You can't even take screnshots of shows you've paid to watch!
The rail is part of the Kickstarter
Particle physics experiments over decades. One of the primary goals of such experiments has been to probe smaller and smaller distance scales.
Quantum Bogo Sort (2012)
It's absolutely pandering.

These same lads denounce democrats and progressives for being "socialist" or "communist" for not backing unhinged neo-liberal policies. Xi is literally an authoritarian communist quasi dictator and gets a standing ovation.
> Nobody wants to move to Nebraska or Utah.

I wish nobody wanted to move to UT I could've stayed in the state, but that stupid California money with the stupid tech bros came in and now it's freaking packed.
The Truth About Real Estate Agents [video]
Recently I took a Caledonian Sleeper (Edinburgh->London) and everything was great except the cost. But UK trans are expensive in general for some reason, for commuter trains £/km even higher than for this overnight train.
Even if you are right, the solution is not to mandate racial discrimination.

As for the subsidies, the way they work is, roughly, the government offers you a certain amount of money to build an area, and if you don't, they either give you an extension or fine you or take the money back or some mixture of the three. There's also been reverse auction type approaches, where the government takes bids for people to build out to an area and awards the subsidy to the lowest bidder. It's not like the government just cuts AT&T a $10 billion check and says go forth and build broadband where you see fit. If you have a problem with how the subsidies work, then redesign them.
...So calling wifi Aethernet would be hilarious, but I think we can maybe agree that would not have been a great idea for the sake of actually being able to talk about them out loud.
Ask Ukraine if they are better off without their nukes now.

I have read somewhere that after the fall of the soviet union, some historians got access to some invasion plans for western europe. Apparently those plans excluded France and the UK.
I mean, this is why philosophical skepticism is a thing. There's hundreds of books written on epistemology.

But I think almost none of them would ascribe "knowledge" to a statistical engine that output propositions of random truth values weighted by how many examples of that proposition it's seen in it's training data.

You can view the logprobs in the API and literally watch it choose to say different things based on it's internal dice rolls.
This is a decent fallback, but it really doesn't solve the underlying problem. The whole point of web components is the ability to encapsulate and reuse your work... and _specifically_ to extend the HTML tag library.

The fact that you need JS to load/run to parse your custom web component is an issue. But, the solution is to allow users to cache these components or add them to the browser itself.

Ideally, <user-avatar> should be available without JS just like <img> is. Imagine a world where we have this capability - a large library of reusable components that can be used as easily as native HTML. This is the vision, is it not?
Shame there's no mention of pricing. That's really what would make me switch away from Cloudflare Images.
A chat about "the process of reality appears mental"
An in-depth interview about Zig with Loris Cro of the Zig Foundation.
It's kind of a weird claim. If it doesn't need lubrication then it should last forever without maintenance. If it's a sealed system using a lubricant that lasts a decade or so, then maybe it'd make sense. Otherwise it sounds like whispers.
Tools win not because they are "better" in some platonic ideal of a programming language but because they are more practical for solving the problems people have.

Python, JS, C, Bash aren't even particularly great at the problems they solve, but they succeed mostly on inertia (it's where all the libraries are, it's what people know) and occupying developer mindshare.

They are full of obvious design mistakes; things that not even the creators of the language (nor any of its users) can defend, yet those languages are used infinitely more than languages that eschew those mistakes. Why? Because they solve problems people have.

If this sounds terrible to you, the good news is that there is a tonne of low-hanging fruit in the programming language design space.
Consider that most developers know nothing of sum-types, or eschew the idea of typing entirely.
Consider that most developers see no fundamental problem behind having to venv or dockerise software lest it bitrot over a month.
Consider that programmers actually use bash.

These terrible, obviously broken tools are somehow the most pragmatic things we actually have. The fruit is low-hanging; the door is wide open, if you wish to grab it.
My comment re: tipping really was just further emphasizing the "forced pleasantries" of modern dining. I know this is a relatively bitter/cynical take, but at the end of the day, I'm there to get food, the workers are there to work and get money. I'm not trying to be someone's friend while they're at work.
Every mutable collection needs to lock before write? Sounds slow af
If you get old equipment to go with your old cabling, ethernet is not necessarily switched. 10 and 100 can be run as a shared medium.

Re: the sibling's suggestion of wifi: If your cabling works at 100, I think the case is pretty clear for wired 100 vs wifi; consistent 100m is better than variable whatever you get. At 10m, not so clear, especially since cabling that's that old is also likely to be daisy chained, so you're looking at maybe a daisy chain of switches running at 10m. That said, cabling is often better than the spec it was tested to, and ethernet cable requirements are for long runs in dense conduit; it's worth trying 100M on old telephone wiring if it's already in the wall to see what you can get.
That's a good suggestion but I'd do both, e.g. "Provide a list of ten well-known and reputable historians who specialize in the history of the Great War and its origins."

Now there might be outliers that are missing from both lists but which might be worth looking at, as it's not that unusual for consensus viewpoints to be overturned by new information and so on, and that's not something LLMs are likely to be very helpful with.

Fundamentally, my point is that if skeptical thinking, rational analysis, research strategies etc. aren't taught to people from a young age than it really doesn't matter whether the BS they're subjected to is human-generated or AI-generated.
Somehow I have a hard time picturing a senator, member of Congress, governor or other high-level official turning down a pork barrel project for their state due to some difficulty hitting hiring goals.
You can get ethernet to coax baluns and get 100Mbps and PoE. They're extremely reliable, passive (so little to break) and cheap. There might be gig versions now. They're used to retrofit older surveillance camera wiring plants to ethernet without ripping out all the cables, but don't really care what type of ethernet device is on each end.

If all you have is old phone wires in the wall, you can get a pair of xDSL (HVDSL) modems back to back and get up to 10Mbps or so. Better than nothing.
Do people believe Warren Buffett?
I don't necessarily mean this statement, but every press article or video appears to be deliberately tailored by him and his team on what to say and how the message will get out. For example, he seems to only work with a few select interviewers, often gives the interview surrounded by products of the brands he invests in, and usually only gives statements to the hungry press when pushing a new deal. Other corporate "celebrities" seems to receive slightly more push back when trying to control the narrative around them. I don't necessarily disagree with him most times, but everything about how his message gets out throws up a red flag for me.
All light other than incandescent is awful in my opinion. I'm still almost 100% on them
That’s bull

Him and his colleague Charles Munger fawn over China exactly as the grandparent post said

They are multinational panderers they know what to say for the people of the respective countries and every business leader learned from that too

I think there is merit to that though, the last thing I ask when I get an audience with the leaders of a country is whether parliament has been taken over by ideological extremists. It actually doesn't cross my mind at all
When companies are up against that much inertia, they push the boulder towards the nearest local minimum, not a currently known "best" global minimum. Why redo everything for Plan9 and train engineers on a new OS paradigm when you can write Kubernetes at a lower LoE? IMO of course, I'm not an expert.
I like this! tech and form.

By the way, I first tried with Safari and it does not work. Then I tested in Chrome, Brave and Edge and it works well. Some problem with Safari?
Warren Buffet is a Weird Billionaire, tho; he’s not typical.
>> but what isn't clear to me is why maintainers don't ignore these people.

>One reason is that you're being told that that's an awful thing to do by basically every resource on "proper open-source" you can find.

The solution is clear.
Just apply the grandparent's advice recursively:

Ignore these "resources" (!) on "proper open-source", too.

Also, that term sounds awfully entitled to me, too.

Who the heck is anyone to decide what constitues 'proper' open source "resources"? Total nonsense.

Everyone can have their own opinion about that, or not even bother to have an opinion, and just do exactly and only what they want for their own open source project, ignoring the naysayers, free-but-unwanted advice-givers, and freeloaders.

I didn't know that we were living in a socialist heaven. Hot tip: We are not.
We have a select person who won a write-in campaign he didn't know he was running. What you're proposing is shockingly plausible.
Don't think it is constitutional.
I'm don't disagree with you, but all the senator from Nebraska / Utah wants is to advertise the number of jobs he created in the state. Whether they get filled or not is mostly irrelevant.
Here's the whole speech:
https://youtu.be/cTgtQ3Fl1jw?si=FnLAYTLIKM2ZAYZE&t=1139

Transcript:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-11-17/Full-text-Xi-s-speech-...
Really great video... great job!!!
In the US (and I think most common law jurisdictions), a notary public is basically Certificate Transparency for legal documents. The notary records that so-and-so signed such-and-such on this date in their log, and if you have any doubts about that, they can produce that log for you to prove to that they witnessed it.

By contrast, civil law notaries are generally full-on lawyers who are trained and intended to perform several legal tasks.
Don't be misleading: capital gains tax is on capital gains, not on capital.
The sale fees are effectively on capital when it changes hands.
I believe the important bit is to let your enemy know that you have such a weapon and not wait until the Party Conference to share your surprise.
Hey, kids! Can you say "precariat" ?

That's it. I knew you could.
> You can't roll out larger packets on the internet.

Devil's advocate: why not? We're in the middle of a long-term push for IPv6, and we have interim solutions to help the migration like Teredo tunneling. It's slow going, but we'll get there eventually.

Why don't we start a similar global migration to jumbo frames?
Yep, the Brin effect- he'd come into projects that were well along and undermine them by saying "why don't you just..." and then everybody would pivot to his idea, which was rarely practical enough to work.
Ask HN: Still early, but rapidly expanding areas?
I'm not looking for the next big thing, but just one thing that is very early right now (so it is still fun to engage with people), but is rising rapidly (so it has societal relevance sometime in the future).

Things like:

- the Internet in 1994

- mobile Internet in 2007

- Bitcoin in 2009

- Ethereum in 2015

- <Your answer> in 2023
For cheaper keycaps that come with an office or "gaming" keyboard, sure, but not for higher end ones. PBT doesn't shine after a lot of usage like ABS, true, but high end ABS keycap colors and the sharpness of double-shot legends still tend to be better than PBT (e.g., GMK). Sound and texture is quite variable too, so it's really just a matter of preference. I've used nice PBT keycaps but tend to prefer how nice ABS feels and sounds better.
In France it varies between 5 and... 10%

6% sounds like a very good deal.

Of course, anyone can sell their house without an agent, but it's more difficult than it sounds.
Agreed. What Uruguay is doing is interesting and worthy of further study. The linked podcast with transcript linked below goes into more detail about how long it took to build up the program, private/public partnerships, how expected consumer savings are partly negated by expanded usage. There are a lot of moving pieces.

In 2008 Ramón Méndez Galain, a particle physicist with no experience in government, was appointed Director of Energy for Uruguay and proceeded to reimagine the country’s electricity grid. In less than a decade, Méndez’s energy transition plan succeeded in freeing the country’s power sector from its growing reliance on imported oil, and achieved energy independence through a diverse electricity mix, approaching 100% renewables.

https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/podcast/how-uruguay-went-al...
White House Reconstruction
Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators
> That works both ways though, a maintainer cannot expect users to not complain (so they have to develop management strategies where they ignore the noise, rather than try to engage/capitulate). A maintainer can also not lament when users do not feel the desire to contribute monetarily.

The solution is quite simple really.

1) have your repo private and release only tarball files or have a read only repo with no pull/merge request functionnality
2) do not use an issue tracker

Basically, do not use a forge such as github/gitlab, at least not publicly. Problem solved.
> This "cost" puts people into danger.

They know this, but it's likely a precondition of not getting Joe Nacchio'ed. It's a feature, not a bug. Signal's partners* in FVEY IC/LE have given them a lot of latitude in developing a very solid e2e cryptographic protocol and application as long as the users themselves are identifiable.

The pigs don't need to backdoor the protocol or the keys as long as there is more than one party to a conversation and each party is identifiable. The prisoner's dilemma, in real life, almost always gives the pigs a defection.

My pet conspiracy theory is not that Signal is evil, but that Signal is being allowed to operate by the pigs as long as account identifiers are very difficult to anonymize. They are likely very good people with good intentions, but when the FBI or NSA makes you an offer you can't refuse, you do the best you can.

*: I'm not suggesting Signal is in bed with IC. Just that if you operate a communications service of any scale, IC/LE will be your partners whether you want them or not.
I don’t mean what Twilio charges — I mean what the carriers charge to senders who are directly integrated.
I don't know why Google is hard at work adding Chrome to killedbygoogle.com, but I welcome it.
> there were no strings attached to that money

There weren't? How do you figure that?
this is one of the few trains in north america i've actually ridden. the journey was fine. I think it would be better during the day so you can see the dramatic scenery of glacier and the rockies. but as a broke college student, time is of the essence, and so the nighttrain to seattle was perfect.

And you still get a bit of a scenery in the morning as well. The conductor on our train called out various points of interest.
And not all particulates are the same. If i recall, wood burning yields rather large particulates which are less bad then something like diesel fumes, which are smaller. I find some of the comments here strange… complaining about lack of insulation and use of wood. While the alternative is over insulation with inevitable mold in the walls from vapor.
FWIW, the article doesn't mention race at all, and the paper you linked to mentions race as one of several factors, the leading factor apparently being income level.
I have one major objection.

It's easy to forget, due to the vast wealth of genuinely great volunteer-driven projects out there, that an overwhelming share of open source contributions are actually funded by capital. It's hard to imagine the Linux kernel, or llvm, or even projects like React ever fizzling out due to maintainer burnout or disinterest.

This is fascinating, in my opinion, because our systems of accounting and economical analysis are by design terrible at keeping track of externalities. They are not good at analyzing the potentially holistic value of mutualist projects. Largely speaking whatever cannot fit on a balance sheet becomes the province of philosophy and culture.

Despite all that, in the modern culture of tech companies, the value of FLOSS seems to be understood and the companies that recognize it genuinely seem to out-compete those that don't. They recognize the value it creates for them, even if it's very difficult to estimate the costs that are avoided by using a FLOSS system that would otherwise need to be licensed or built. Even if the completely optional act of using one's own resources to contribute to open source software does not easily map to an equivalent or greater return in accounts receivable or company valuation.

What I mean by this is that the sustainability of "open source" broadly speaking is already demonstrated and I don't see that changing any time soon. What's not demonstrated however is the sustainability of OP's project. I think this is a challenge that they and their users should tackle without implicating the entirety of open source software as a culture, or attempting to impose any responsibilities upon users of open source software that don't already exist.
Linus Torvalds $50M net worth says otherwise. There are however very few "winners" and a lot of losers.
New Plant hardiness map, used by gardeners and based on OSU climate data
Requiring that a utility provide equal service to everyone within a reasonable standard of feasibility is not racial discrimination.
Mysterious aurora-like radio emissions discovered coming from the Sun
Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes (2022)
Cryptomining rig discovered under Polish court's floor, stealing power
United States. There is a steady stream of capital from every country to US.
They are allowed to demand the the infrastructure they paid for be constructed and serviced.
MOCA modems looks for unused bandwidth
I don't follow. The federal government has effectively always forced businesses to do things, such as paying taxes. Furthermore, the businesses in question agreed to build this infrastructure in exchange for funding and government protection, an obligation that they have failed to uphold their end of the deal on.
Yeah I spent a good 20 minutes looking for the first Lethal Weapon episode of Always Sunny on Hulu. Went through each season multiple times and finally had to look up what season it was in on Wikipedia. Didn’t realize they were going to just remove it from Hulu because black face.
> everybody else can be relied upon to complete the job once started--so the logic goes

How does that logic goes? Is it some simplistic tale we tell children or an actual strategic calculation?

> so you can start the chain reaction that ends all human civilization

You know that the goal is not to end all human civilization?

> it seems like the best move would be to have far fewer nukes than everybody thinks you do.

It sounds like you haven't heard of the nuclear sponge and the shell game. Let's say you want to hit your adversary. And because you are not suicidal you want to do it in such a way that they can't hit you back in retaliation. "Simple!" You just aim a warhead at each of their rockets. Now how many warheads do you need to do that? About the same number as many rockets they have. One for each. Or maybe 2 if you are accounting for malfunctions. Or maybe 4 if you want to saturate their defenses.

And because you can put multiple warheads on a single rocket this favours the attacker. Because the defender needs even more rockets to "soak up" the warheads of the attacker. And the defender needs even more than that so they can ensure a retaliation, which in turn stops the attacker from even trying in the first place.

So that is why you need many missiles. This concept is the nuclear sponge.

And of course this is super weapons race-y. Because if you need more missiles than your enemy, and your enemy need more missiles than you... there is a problem with that.

So what you can do is that you build more missile launchers than you have missiles for. And you play a shell game. You have X launchers but only 40% of them are ever armed with a missile at any single time. And to prevent your enemy figuring out which ones are filled you play complicated distractions. For example you make sure the empty launchers are guarded just as much as the full ones. And you periodically go with a big truck to swap missiles around. Or maybe to swap nothing with nothing? Or to bring missiles to maintenance? Nobody knows, and nobody is supposed to know. If you do it well enough your enemy won't be confident in their knowledge on which launchers are filled so they have to hit all of them if they want to be the one who first throws a punch.
> If you think through the implications of this, it's a requirement to engage in discrimination/affirmative action in every single business decision you make

What if you make a decision solely on the number of households, not their income? That wouldn't require taking race into consideration at all.
post-tungsten.. not yet: stock halogen/sodium sticks/bulbs while still possible

or i you must:

- search for LEDs with CRI>90, beeter >=95. beware, it is NOT easy.

Very hard to find recently. Strips, panels, bulbs.. anything. No idea why but (at least in East Europe) these were more available 2 years ago than now.

Don't use one huge single source, have instead many smaller, "constellation" like (It's the resulting Lux'es-at-surface that matter not source Lumens). Mix and match (more of) 3000k + (less of) 4000k, avoid 6000k. e.g. 6x3W 3000K CRI90 + 4x3W 4000K CRI90 in a criss-cross "grating". Or have them on/off in variable ratios and few switches. Dimmable? up to you.

i have at home several such "chandeliers" made out of whatever-materials-were-around.. work perfectly :)

(quickly hacked page :)
https://svilendobrev.com/napravisam/lampa/

have fun
Intolerance and outrage leave Indian stand-up comics with less to laugh about
Just my two cents, but this stuff is like having an medical procedure, WHO is doing the procedure is probably the most important element (e.g. do they do things the right way).

Also, I think regulators have been far too lax in the amount of environmental and P&A liability insurance/bonding that these companies are required to carry to support potential claims/cleanup etc. and those need to scale (along with regulations) exponentially the closer you are to population, drinking water, and food production.