skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> female characters that are undeveloped and lacking any tragic flaws

You mean like Hunger Games or Twilight?

Or the male equivalent of Capt. America? (Or Harry Potter?) Steve Rogers is just your ordinary everyman who's underdeveloped and lacking in any tragic flaws.

I mean... at this point, even Hulk is missing out on his classic flaw of rage. *All* the Marvel characters have braindead writing these days, female or male. But plenty of the "good" ones (ie: Capt. America) were always like this from the start, its a trope in comic books for a reason because it keeps working. (Superman, Shazam, Capt. Marvel, Capt. America). For some stories, you don't need a flawed lead character, they could just "be good" and you can focus on other elements of storytelling.

But that's the kind of main character tons of people love and gobble up. Both male, and female, versions of it.

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But hey, I like my "Superman" stories. (My Adventures with Superman cartoon this year was excellent). Or perhaps for a more well-regarded character: Ang from "Avatar the Last Airbender" is pretty much your typical every-man / heroic type without any tragic flaw. (Etc. etc. Lots of good examples around all of writing. Indeed, Oedipus Rex is arguably one of the earliest "Lack of Flaws" character to maximize the chance that the audience take's Oedipus's side in his struggles).

Mary Sue / boring good guys / Superman types / Lawful-Good Paladins who just try to make everyone feel better can be done well. It just takes good writing to make them captivating. I personally think they're the hardest character to make work, but when its done well I enjoy the trope (especially because I recognize how hard it is to write).
Do you have a Taiwanese language endpoint? It's fair to assume that anything on the web is going to be attacked at some point, but in my experience it was traffic coming from some unknown country that must have had beef with Taiwan (China obvs) because as soon as I blocked traffic to that endpoint the problem went away. It was enabled by default, but we weren't doing anything special in terms of localization, so it was a reasonable action to take.
Batteries haven't gotten cheap; unless we get some crazy breakthrough total wind and solar power production will probably peak within the next 20 years.
Here's a static screenshot for you,

https://i.ibb.co/FxXj6qf/example-1.webp

(scripts disabled (uMatrix) + reader mode + custom CSS)

If you take a little bit of ownership over your browser, IMHO the web experience has never been better than in 2023!
*Plot twist*: an AI rediscovers it's identity having been LLM-trained on all HN posts, replies, and comments..
The prompt engineering tricks here give more than a 5% benefit. I've had many problems where ChatGPT flat-out doesn't work without prompt engineering.
The writeup didn't mention it, but I'd guess probably that logic analyzer supports X authorization, which means that there's an alternative with different security properties:

1. Make sure that X's `xauth` for is set up on your laptop/workstation.

2. Enable TCP listening of the X server (like the server used to do by default, back when people were doing remote X display like this). This is in lieu of running `socat`, so, when you configure the logic analyzer TCP/IP, you'd tell it the X server's normal TCP port instead of the `socat` one.

3. Set the `xauth` secret on the logic analyzer.

(Also, if the `ifconfig` in the blog post doesn't work for you, try `ip a`.)

A downside of this is that authorization secret would be accepted by the server an indefinite period of time after you're done using the logic analyzer.

A more secure alternative is to forget about X, and instead plug a compact PS/2 keyboard and pointing device into the logic analyzer. (IBM sold some compact keyboards with integrated TrackPoint and touchpad pointing devices, which take no more bench space than a laptop does.) I'd guess screenshots are a headache, though.
This sounds like the beginning of an awesome indie movie :)
It's actually not at all. Secret means "do not disclose". Undocumented can include that set but also a bunch of other things.
One concrete effect is that the the circumference of any given circle increases exponentially with its radius. So navigating without landmarks is much harder, because any slight errors in your direction of travel result in you going off-course by an exponentially increasing distance, rather than linearly as in Euclidean space.

Another effect is that "parallel lines" don't exist in quite the same way. That is, any given line has infinitely many non-intersecting" parallel lines, but they all diverge from it rather than maintaining a constant distance. So one entity pursuing another along a "parallel" course will have to constantly turn* to keep following them, which lengthens their path and slows them down.
I might have suggested meeting at the "farm" above the South side of the station. I think it's on the fourth or fifth floor. Of course, theres only one farm in the vicinity and it's small enough that you won't miss each other.
Yes, indeed, that's what I would expect as well if I was in the business of CRUD applications.
Ask HN: Have you landed a job from Twitter/X?
Just curious if anyone has stories about positive one-on-one exchanges and connections that have led to contract gigs or full-time employment?
Ask HN: If our brain UI is our imagination, how do we access it organically?
something you would ask hn-self-note--
I'm curious how the numbers stack up of completed plants - but I am not very good at math and don't have a great understanding of electricity units, especially at the grid scale and big numbers.

Any chance you could help compare the construction cost of this nuclear plant to another recently constructed solar or wind farm measured against... I guess capacity?

Given the intermittent nature of solar/wind, does capacity even make sense to compare in a context without supporting batteries?

I'll give it a shot but I am probably super wrong.

** Nuclear:

I'll use the plant from the article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...

Construction costs 18b USD (does that include loans?)

Nameplate capacity of 2302MW

Used capacity is 91% so 2094MW

$18b / nameplate capacity = $7.8 USD per rated W

$18b / used capacity = $8.60 per realized W

** Solar (excluding batteries):

I picked a relatively large, recent, US based solar farm from the list of plants in wikipedia

Agua Caliente Solar Project (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Caliente_Solar_Project

Construction costs 1.8b USD

Nameplate capacity of 290 MW

Used capacity is 28% so 81 MW

$1.8b / nameplate capacity = $6.2 USD per rated W

$1.8b / used capacity = $22 USD per realized W (that can't be right?)

**
Note:

I don't know if my math is right, I don't know if the costs factor in loans, also the nameplate capacity for the nuclear plant is MWe and the solar plant is MWac so I am unsure how that works out.
Look around. The most significant change is that there are a lot more screens, and a lot more "cheap stuff" (consumer electronics, food, clothes, entertainment, plastic anything, etc).

Things "behind the scenes" have perhaps changed a lot -- e.g. financialization, more competitive markets, explosion of communication options, which are the driving force behind those visible changes.
I'm hoping housing architecture evolves to become anti-roach and anti-termite as first class citizens. Any nooks and crannies and I know a german roach is hiding in there.
Perhaps he legitimately has the fear, not the fear itself is legitimate.
Sprint sent me a magic box some years ago (It's like a cellphone repeater). UPS helpfully threw the box out in the snow where it was discovered a few days later. We installed it and bits of bug I'd never seen before started coming out. Turns out it was full of dead German cockroaches that presumably froze to death.

I live in a pretty rural area so the only ones I see sometimes in the summer that have hitched rides before are the virginia woods cockroaches that fly. But I've never seen them infest a house, they just seem to be attracted to the lights.
Then you didn't understand the article. This is a situation when writing a message to a named recipient will default to an iMessage email address and not their non-iMessage phone number (and only for the first message mind you.)

The solution: one drop down menu and selecting the phone number, or simply deactiving iMessage if they don't want to use it.

Why this matters: The user made the choice to enable iMessage as part of an optional set up process on their Mac. They did this to themselves, and could very easily undo it, but wrote a bullshit article instead. It's a case of "Professional computer person" is either an idiot, or not worth hiring.

Also I'm over-joyed at the "very smart" people in here who seemingly think this is very hard stuff.
FWIW I have updated stats at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/3-years-of-domestic-solar-s...

They're also published as open data.

The dark and dreary days tend to be the ones with the most wind power. The tides around our coast are in constant motion.

But, the big challenge is still storage. Domestic solar panels provide 100% of our yearly electricity use. At the moment I can only store 4.8kWh of excess.

So we need to over provision and over store - hopefully both at the same time.
There will be no return of US Air Power until the MIC makes robust, cheap effective planes instead of expensive boondoggles that are hangar queens.

In History, the Germans relied on low-numbers of high technology planes during WW2. They were swamped by thousands of cheaper 'good enough' planes mass-produced by the US and the Soviets.

The US persists on making the same mistake now as the Germans did in the 1940s.
units of measure would really really help..
https://archive.ph/3wrzh
Because mining it is relatively cheap. So cheap, in fact, that it is economical to throw away >95% of the fuel rather than try to burn it all or recycle it.

Fuel costs are 10% of the cost of nuclear electricity. The vast majority is financing.
> The administration of the Tax Service uses 4% of the total tax revenue it generates. This percentage has stayed relatively fixed over time.

The tax administration is far more efficient than that. The IRS has 79K workers out of a total workforce of 158M, or 1/2000 workers. Federal taxes are about 19% GDP (28% of GDP including state and local taxes.) The IRS costs $14.3B to run and collects 19% of $25.46T = $4,800B or 0.3% of collected taxes.

> If IT really improved productivity, wouldn't you expect that that number would decrease, since Tax Administration is presumably an area that we should expect to see great gains from computerisation?

Those gains are so great that tax administration has been computerised for more than half a century now.

We could certainly save an awful lot more in tax preparation for the economy as a whole if we sent out pre-filled tax forms (the IRS already has all the information required for most people) like other countries do but the tax preparation companies have made a lot of contributions to politicians to prevent this.
A lot of people have been having a very bad time these past few years
You're right, Leia was a much better character than Rey.

Could it be that messaging aside, the newer movies are just lazily written? I place them in the same bucket as the last seasons of Game or Thrones. What makes them bad is not the wokeness, but simply the bad writing.

I think that we can have both: trope subversions and good writing. I don't think that the problem is too many subversions; it's not enough good writing.
This is a ripoff
In reference to iodized salt, you would die of salt overdose before there are ill effects from iodine.
There is a secret third option, which is to have a cat in the apartment :3
media is always about network effects. you want to talk to your friends about big shows. that only works if they watch the big shows, ad-free or not.
So you are saying they don't need much compute juice and storage? But compute juice and storage are what cost the money at cloud providers, so their financial reasons are weaker than the ones of other companies.
We got bedbugs once at my old place. We think we just randomly picked them up at a Marriott we stayed at a few weeks prior to noticing them - crap luck.

We got rid of them by sealing the mattress for 6 months, and letting them starve. This was after taking a pass at them with sprays and such (the ones we could spot).
E ink would be great for almost any tiny device that currently uses 1" OLEDs or 7segment displays, if it could be made cheap enough.
Why not both? Lockdown + frequent reboots.
Semantic Versioning is a terrible mistake
I just came back from Tokyo and while I was there I stayed at a hotel in Shinjuku. I used the train station so frequently that I can now navigate easily within the station, but if you are not used to Japanese train system, it is not so friendly to foreigners. For example, in Korea, Seoul metro subway system is so well organized that you do not have multiple platforms in each subway station. In Tokyo, there are multiple platforms in each station and each of the platforms can have different subway lines. Sometimes, a particular subway line can change to a totally different line at some station, and sometimes if you are not paying attention you are now all of a sudden going in a totally different direction. Also, there are multiple railway companies operating in Tokyo, which means if you buy a paper ticket, you need to exit the subway and buy another (or rather different ticket) to transfer if you need to transfer to a different line managed by different railway company (fortunately I have an iPhone, so I added Suica card to my apple wallet and used it to pay for subway as well as transfers). I started to wonder the reason why Japan has such complicated subway system. Then again, I am not an expert in this area so there might be reasons for it which I am not aware of
Same author: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/electricity-thats-too-cheap...
Because it’s not RAM, it’s ROM.
Skills and learnings from starting my own data company
I had to look up whether PacPizza LLC was just a subsidiary of YUM for California or something else when I read the article. IMO pointing out that this is a franchise, even if it’s a big one, is probably significant information that shouldn’t have been left out of the article.
And for no particularly good reason! Sure, it's not great, but lots of things aren't. It's at worst a possible footgun, otherwise mostly cosmetic.

It should never be acceptable to break working software for anything else than critical security problems.
Visarga used the word literally and stated in broad strokes what the brain does (process input, update state, emit outputs) without the details of how it does so. You're the one who misinterpreted that as meaning we already know exactly how the brain works.
A Private Equity-Associated Lender Helped Precipitate Nursing-Home Implosion
Synthetic fuel has a lot of difficulties. One, it requires hydrogen as an input which is typically produced through steam reformation [1], a process that emits CO2. Electrolysis is less efficient and hard to scale as equipment is subject to intense corrosion.

Second, CO2 is at very low concentrations in the atmosphere. Direct atmospheric carbon sequestration is expensive and slow. The biggest startup in the synthetic fuel business is behind schedule and is struggling to solve these two main challenges [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming

2. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/25/1050899/promethe...
> It is "obviously" also a property.

Nope, it is not. If it was a property, if would be everywhere true, and that's not really interesting, is it?

> Did you consider how "makes sense" is implemented?

You are the implementation. Does most of Philosophy make sense to you?
These are all closures from 2023
Netwrck AI Characters Generate Art If You Say "Appears"
Yeah, ChatGPT can't reliably generate poetry which scans. (It can't count syllables in words, so this would be a bit much to expect of it.) I haven't read the entire poem, but the bits I have seen at least have the right syllable counts (although some rather odd stress patterns).
They can, though it depends a little on the plant design.

It just doesn't make any sense to use reliable nuclear as the "backup" to unreliable renewables.

Because this "backup" is already CO2 free. It is also reliable. And cheap to run. So just run it all the time (nuclear tends to have >90% capacity factor).

You then simply don't need the "primary".
I would imagine the broiler would probably be just as much a target as a keurig machine. Same with drip. Anything where it’s an appliance that just sits in its grime on the counter while producing humidity.
It's such an interesting UI thing... every time a 3D model shows up here, someone makes a similar comment. (Another common one is model-relative vs viewer-relative rotation... like if you go to https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/kiyosumi-shirakawa-station-t... and you move the mouse left, should the view pan left or pan right? It's an option you can set in the gear icon).

That's not on you at all, I just wonder if there's active UX research in this specific area (3D viewing on the web, as opposed to in games or VR).
The current state of this is that there are PDM (Product Data Management) packages for each major CAD package [1] that handle version control, lists of components ("Bill of Material" in our biz).

There is the concept of CAD "assemblies" which are many individual parts assembled together, which can themselves be members of bigger CAD assemblies until the global product has all subassemblies.

There are then component libraries which have generic CAD files (in the CAD and outside), but they lack the full knowledge of their context - ie you may have a CAD file of a motor, but the CAD file doesn't know it needs a shaft coupling to match its 10mm output shaft diameter, which could in theory be used to pull in dependencies or at least debug your assembly (ie if the coupling attached doesn't have a 10mm ID, error out).

TL;DR: Geometry isn't enough, you need to know the specs and behavior model (like voltage --> torque curve for a motor) to do this, as the total "package" is very dependent on what else is in the model (or should be).

This is actually why we at Volition [2] are building the largest repo of hardware components in the world (26M today) with both CAD and deep spec data, with the goal of eventually powering systems to be able to do stuff like this, and of course as a marketplace we're hoping you'll buy the actual parts from us too :-)

[1] https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/pdm-product-data-manageme...

[2] https://beta.govolition.com/
"Just another 5 years for a cure"
> Also, without a representation of the underlying structure, an infinite canvas is fundamentally inaccessible.

This is really difficult to overcome without some kind of structure. I was really enthusiastic about infinite canvases, but I lost interest when I realized that screen readers would not do well
Batteries don't have the required energy density to make electric transoceanic possible travel. They're also heavy and would drastically reduce the cargo capacity of ships. It'd be more effective to just put the nuclear reactors on the cargo ships. Nuclear maritime propulsion is much more mature than long-distance electric propulsion (diesel subs have used electricity, but only over short distances).
Ditto. I remember my first and only floater which manifested in a somewhat dark library. I found myself batting away at what appeared to be a rather large and persistent butterfly. Took awhile to calm down! I still haven't become accustomed to it despite my opthalmologist's assurances that my "eyes will accomodate" to it" (BS I think).
Yes, I was half-joking. I had sleep paralysis during my 20s and I was terrified. I honestly thought an evil spirit was in my room.

Then I discovered the explanation and lucid dreaming, then I was a little bit less terrified and even managed to fall into sleep paralysis "manually" and trigger lucid dreams.
Thats Pretty neat, you can also just use the plain AI Art Generator which is pretty nice, the "Appears" thing reminds me of konami codes or secret commands that developers build in.

Would be cool to have these superuser commands for AI assistants
I would not argue that about web browsers, because there’s plenty others out there. I don’t think Google would make a iMessage client for iOS.
Fear and loathing in new Jerusalem. I gave it a second listen to remember the context behind the recent events in the region. It's fantastic and very close in style to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.
As a PHP dev, even I am perplexed by this. I normally just use Bash.

Then again, writing maintainable Bash is a pain so I don't totally hate it. Definitely have wrestled with a fair share of write-only Bash scripts where I was tempted to rewrite them in PHP.
Speaking of parking lots, it's not a terrible idea (and it's already been done before) to put solar panels above parking lots
I take Lugol's iodine almost everyday (with Selenium). It dramatically upgraded my life. The first week could be wild (fever is expected) but people should know how this cheap supplement can help them.
> If our brain UI is our imagination

The fuck does that even mean?
The insane thing is that it is so efficient that it doesn't need to be on that mass production curve to be competitive. It is competitive even in the somewhat insane way we build it now.

However, we have a number of companies working on building reactors in factories. Rolls-Royce for example is talking to Ukraine to upgrade some of their old (not sure if already decommissioned) coal plants to nuclear with small, factory-built nuclear reactors.
I'm amenable to the idea of not making breaking changes if you can help it.

But...

> To say it another way: If you need to make a breaking change to your API, it means you screwed up. Don’t screw up.

I'm skeptical that we can always predict the future well enough to get an API perfect from the beginning.

Sometimes the best we can do is do the best we can, learn, and do better.
Custom Bambu Lab X1 firmware to be released
These are one of the favorite hunting conquests for my two cats. They are fast and change directions quickly and can fly. They are tough to catch to throw back outside, but not as fun as a cicada that is flying around and your cat(s) are jumping off of the furniture trying to catch them again. There are times where the cat and I are trying to catch the waterbug before it gets somewhere hard to get, but for very different reasons.
2-3 million dollars is not “amazing”. That is less than the cost to open a McDonalds. You can get a small business loan in the US for more than that. There are literally tens of millions of people in the world who can afford that. That is 1/5 the cost of a tank.

2-3 million dollars is pocket lint to people conducting serious business, let alone governments. It is at best okay if you are conducting minor personal business. This ignores the fact that attacks at the 2-3 million dollar range are trivially wormable. If you had actual cause to hack every phone you are only incurring marginal cents per attack. Even relatively minor attacks like targeting 10,000 people are less than one phone of cost per attack.
Not everyone gets the same results.

The closest I could find - with your search query - was #6, and it’s a Reddit conversation that contains this link. I don’t usually click on Reddit links.

If you use DDG it’s nowhere to be found.
Feedback Request: first time editing a video to promote my App
Hey Guys

I just spent a whopping 12 hours editing a 2-minute video for my SaaS.

I need your eyes and brains now! Is it any good?

Check it out and let me know: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hzU0HvgTOWw