skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only on older cars, which do not have OBDII. OBDI and before that require a sniffer. OBDII has enough sensors that the sniffer isnt needed. Am in CA, and only my foxbody ever got a sniff test. All of my other (newer) cars, the sniffer wasnt used
> Circular by design, Phoenix stands solely through compression without reinforcement, with blocks that can be easily disassembled and recycled.

Wow, if the Romans had known about this, they could have had a much better way to build arches than all that rebar.
What's tedious about it to you? I found it just fine.
> PV is a bit counterintuitive in that it loses efficiency when it gets hot.

Is that significant enough to matter? How much does it lose?
There is an FAQ for the mp-units project on which this proposal is based about why they chose not to use user-defined literals:

https://mpusz.github.io/mp-units/latest/getting_started/faq/

If I understand correctly, though, the unit expressions that manifold implements aren't limited to literals, is that correct?
It’s exactly the same thing as both boil down to objecting to the certification of a State’s electors due to concerns about the electoral process. The “why” is completely irrelevant and claiming one is some heroic noble pursuit is laughable.

I’ll ask again, what exactly did Zeldin do that Pelosi did not? Both exercised their right to speak out and either neither is in the wrong, or it’s the usual case of double standards.
You can take the argument at its own merit. The a big chunk of the world walks their bride to the music of one of the most famous antisemites in history anyway!
The post is about browser analytics; this is in the second sentence. It's possible you skipped that to get to the part about the script.

(I disagree that this adds any complexity or tracking sources. It's a 70 line script that took me about half an hour to write, and has required no significant changes since I wrote it ~5 years ago.)
The Crypto Queen Pulling the Strings at Binance
Debtors have not yet made their first student loan repayment
Using recorded meteor data from NASA CAMS, I built this visualization of the meteor cloud that creates the Quadrantids: https://www.meteorshowers.org/view/Quadrantids

The Quadrantids are interesting because their source is not obvious, but the most likely one (as noted in the article) is an asteroid with a relatively unusual orbit that is likely an extinct comet.
Good question! First, will the utility let you do it, second will they charge you excessively for the privilege, third, will your local municipality allow it, fourth is there a base of skilled labor to make it happen?

Germany got around all these obstacles, but if the state and utilities are in the way, it's hard for individuals to make the move to solar.
https://archive.ph/o1BQD
I recently used freepascal’s turbo pascal + dos style ide as a retro way to do the advent of code 2023.

It was a blast from the past for sure. Is this / Lazarus just a retro thing or do they have practical utility in 2023 also ?
I‘m on a spot market based plan and am billed €0.02/kWh in the hour I‘m writing this. Powered by mostly wind and water at the moment.
It's an interesting question. Maybe a parent that monopolize the conversation impact negatively.

As for your experience, keep in mind that with statistics comes distribution of outcomes, you could be on that small % where things didn't work as observed in the article.
That's a good point. I'll add a note to the post.
Mahjong ?

I tend to associate mahjong with gambling and smoke filled illegal parlors. The Asian counterpart of poker as it is played in western stories.

Probably a stereotype. Just as poker usually isn't played in saloons with revolvers on the table nowadays, but I wonder what kind of reputation it has, and if the money aspect is as prevalent as it is in poker.
Already happening since before ChatGPT.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/health-insurance-humana-uni...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm...

I don’t see how it removes accountability. In the former case I believe the AI was rejecting 90% of claims, you could write `if (rand() < .9) return REJECT;` and call it AI. And nameless, faceless people deny and reject appeals electronically without even reading them.
I Am a Terrible Programmer and This Is My Life
You or I could run this test right now on Facebook. I suggest you just post a comment somewhere you in Facebook that you want some person or some group of people to die, it doesn’t really matter who, and measure the amount of time it takes for someone to flag it and have it deleted. This is just low hanging fruit, and completely unrelated to the immediate issue at hand.

My guess is that the original poster is leaving something out in their comment and the post wasn’t as brazen as the comment suggested.
Panic and hysteria can cause even more serious damage.
You can go above appraisal, you just have to cover the difference in cash. It’s pretty standard in high demand markets.
It doesn’t work for me :(
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> If all you do are full table scans (possibly feeding to hash-joins), you won't benefit from indexes at all!

In most cases it means that you shouldn't be doing what youa re trying to do. Or best case, that maybe database is not the right tool for your job.
I enjoyed my time enough with Remake, but it's relied waaaay too much on having prior knowledge of FF7 and its extended universe. Remake threw Sephiroth in your face within the first hour of gameplay, without much explanation of who the guy is. In the original, Sephiroth was just the subject of whispers and rumors until you got an up-close look at him in the flashback after you've left Midgar.
I think the main problem with 13 is that it doesn't give the illusion of freedom. I finished FFX for the first time recently (having previously gotten stuck on Gagazet Seymour), and it's almost as restrictive as 13, it just hides it better with cities, temple puzzles, and the sphere grid. In 13 there's no illusion about the fact that you have no choice but to keep running straight down the hallways, and leveling up only at the pace the game allows. A little misidrection or a few minigames would have gone such a long way to break up the pacing.
That is a very valid scenario. But when you do those things you already know costs and benefits of the indexes so you are not going to be harmed by "no indexes = database slow" heuristc.

"database = fast" is way worse heuristic to believe in for the people that need heuristics to move on with what they are doing.
That's the point of the comment. That behavior is as likely to be shaped by genetics as any other trait. There's not as much unique stuff about behavior as people usually think.
In theory, with pages, caching and all, yes. In practice it made collosal difference.

With correct indexes the queries were able to be found only with index lookup without touching data at all. It was many times faster than sequential scan of even this few rows.

I'm mentioning our respective roles to show that people with nominally no expertise make such decisions often in practice and such "memes", even tough they are not strictly true in all cases, may bring a lot of value in practical setting.

"No inedex = slow" is a good heuristic for nearly all devs.
Even Pokemon, the quintessential JRPG?
The main reason why Germany increased coal usage last year was because they exported it to France. Because their (french) nuclear plants were in maintainace or lacking cooling water.

And why is everyone always looking at the momental situation? Look at yearly tendencies if you want to see what happens.

Edit: since people are down voting, here is a fun fact for you.

Power generated from nuclear:
France 2016=415TWh; 2023(ongoing)=312TWh
Germany 2016=80TWh;

So optimistically for France -95TWh/a, Germany -80.

Sources:

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=FR...

https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE...
What happens in that case? Does the toothbrush misbehave/consider the brush beyond its lifespan, or is it a convenient way to disable this feature?
When i selected game of thrones, it generated an image hapily. When i asked it to do it again but different if gave me a copyright error. When i explained that it had already done it for me, it said, "Oh, Sorry! Here's what you asked for!"
I love this product, the discord community sort of seems like a dumpster fire though
It's also important to install shower heads at a tall height. Children prefer to be watered from above.
One can view every human organization as a Tower of Babel in the making,
or look toward the overall success of humanity as having intermittent setbacks.

Declining, therefore, is simply an overly narrow foxus.
This is not very different from telling a depressed person to just cheer up and go for a walk imo.

No one told Watterson to love cartooning and hate “work” the way he says it with disdain. He was just born that way.

And he also turned out to be an exceptional artist. People with exceptional skills should refrain from telling others to follow their paths. It’s disingenuous and not in the interest of the audience at all. Follow your passion will fail badly at you if you are bad at it.
I don't have this problem with my manual toothbrush. I've never needed to recharge it's batteries either.
Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series takes this to an extreme level. Everything’s in decline, how to we plot our way back up, while minimising the down time?

The characters are somehow hollow, females ones in particular, but despite this it’s excellent stuff and I really enjoyed them.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/43939-foundation-chronologi...
He has already been living 6 years there so I wouldn't be surprised if he's still optimistic.
Hence I always simply chuckle when people say „the electricity is so cheap as never, 0.03€/kWh”. Yeah, to manufacture. No end customer ever sees that price.
Merry Christmas HN
I hope you all had a great 2023 and an even better 2024. Keep hacking!
You need WASD and E... and mouse. I have bluetooth keyboard + mouse on my tablet. XD
It’s an obvious play policy violation. Can’t have apps that are deliberately and obviously intended solely to violate the terms of service of another service, or conduct illegal activity (CFAA unauthorized access).

You won’t find Reddit is Fun or any third party Reddit clients there anymore either even though it’s obviously trivially possible to just scrape it and keep trucking. Because that’s against Reddit’s TOS too, and doing so anyway is a CFAA violation.

Shockingly, google doesn’t want to be an accessory to your computer crimes.

Rightly or wrongly the law is quite broad in this area, you aren’t supposed to be accessing this system, it is an open-and-shut case just as much as illicitly connecting to TymNet. The only fact that matters is that the system operator doesn’t want you there, that is sufficient for this to be a felony, people have been globally extradited over this. Google isn’t going down because you want to use an open-relay that the system operator is actively indicating shouldn’t be open and is trying to lock down.

And if the tables were turned and some other third-party built a commercial service on reselling spoofed access to gmail smtp relays or something… google would shut you down themselves too, “gatekeeper” or no (lots of domains struggle to send mail to gmail and outlook).

Things have gotten real silly because of the extreme degree of apple-bashing that people entertain. And apple has been very very tolerant, because they know the optics would be horrible. But the law here is clear and the penalties are enormous. This is not different in kind to any other unauthorized-access case.
last time I checked evidence for that seemed a bit inconclusive
Great for you. People in Texas a couple of years ago were also on the spot market.

Thought exercise: what happens to the price on the spot market when the major chunk of the population switches to the spot market?
The conclusion seems to contradict the thesis.

> The most enjoyable time is when you feel yourself growing, but the real test is whether you can persevere when you hit that wall or if you’ll lose interest and give up.

Why does it matter if you persevere or not as long as you had fun?
It didn't mention that the toothbrush failed to keep vibrating, just that the toothbrush head lost its function as a writable NFC tag.
Did you ever consider to make the game persistent and MMO?

If so what made you resign that?
For context, demand in Germany sits at about 500 TWh/year

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-demand?tab=ch...
You have the freedom to compile source code of https://GrapheneOS.org and various apps from source code and run them on a handheld device named Pixel. You also have the freedom to use Purism's handheld named Librem.

The smartphone space is completely open for competition, consumer choice, and consumer repairability. If you or someone you know does not have the wherewithal to have and exercise their own freedom, that is unfortunate, but Apple and Google owe nothing.
The link you’re replying to basically postulates that with tap water you are inhaling PM2.5 particles from the same chemicals that cause limescale, and as far as we know PM2.5 particles are harmful to your health in any quantity.
I have a project for which I wrote a simple units library. I don't think I'd be able to write any physics-related project now without using it (or a similar library). My Quantity class has a set of 8 parameters (7 SI base units and a hack that allows conversion between Hz and radians) + additional Scale and Offset parameters. Scale allows representing units other than SI (like Nautical Miles), Offset is for units like Celsius, for which 0°C == 273.15 K.

I can do things like:

si::Length length = 15_m + 12_nm; // _nm for Nautical Miles
si::Area area = 1_m * 1_km; // Equals to 1000_m2
si::Power power = 1_m / 1_sec / 1_sec; // Compilation error, 1_m/s² is not a si::Power

I don't have every possible User-Defined Literal, of course, so I end up doing this for less common units:

using SomeLocalTypeName = decltype(1_rpm / 1_V);

Something to thing about, when designing such library:

* What is 0_degC + 1_degC? 1_degC or… 273.15_K + 274.15_K = 547.3_K = 274.15_degC? I forbid operations between units if any of them has Offset parameter different than 0. I'm not sure if this is the good solution, though.

* Nm (Newton-meters) is the same unit as Joules. ;-)
You're literally just living in a fantasy world. "Trust me bro" has no power compared to actual studies.
The reserve capacity , would need to be 100% - to be able to supply the country for at least several days if/when renables are not able to produce , most likely due to weather.
My 2015 PC started dying, requiring BIOS resets and other weirdness like suddenly not outputting basic VGA graphics.

So I finally upgraded to an AMD 7800X3D, nvidia 4070 12GB, 64GB DDR5-6400 RAM.

All to play Factorio! :D

Apart from a strange error where Linux will crash if I have 2 DIMMs in the motherboard, it's been a great upgrade. (I'm going to submit bug reports to Fedora, but I'm assuming some combo of the MSI B650 motherboard, CPU, and memory are contributing to the error. Memtest says the memory modules are OK)

Now I have a PC that can handle the modded-Factorio huge railway city block maps I like to play. Each block of space is surrounded by 4 lanes of railway, with interchanges. It's really nice to organize the refining and production into specific tasks, like "deliver lead ore, process it into lead oxide, combine that with carbon blocks to make lead ingots". Now the distribution method is via railway station so it's far more flexible than simple conveyor belt outputs. Loads of fun! And very complex too, but that's half the fun. Needing "blue science" which needs circuit boards, which need solder, which needs lead and tin ingots, etc etc. I can lose hours of time to this, moderated only by my back hurting and making me take breaks.

A nice bonus is that my new PC is capable of running smaller LLMs locally, so I can mess around with learning the new hotness technology. Plus new toys are always fun.
Due diligence would be a lot easier if you could get straight answers just by asking nicely!
The big ones are car break-ins and bike thefts.
Agree on the absorbing info bit. I got MSFS when in between things during COVID and have flown exclusively in VR. It let me escape and go anywhere when I couldn't in real life. Then I found myself watching hours and hours of videos on IRL procedures, how to use avionics, etc. I picked up stick and rudder and can only describe it as a book that seduced me into wanting to fly IRL with how it broke down what was actually happening.

Did my first discovery flight on New Year's Eve a couple years ago out of KPAO in a beautiful little DA40 almost like the one in the sim (though it didn't have fadec). Experiencing landing at KHAF during a beautiful sunset was subliminal. And so. Eerily. Familiar. I also was able to easily locate my house and do a steep turn circling over my home so my family could spot me. Landmarks from the air were familiar already.

However I definitely succumbed to staring at my instruments despite knowing that would likely happen. I also wasn't prepared for the sheer amount of sensory overload from the physical sensations and what I'll call "better graphics" of real life (better fov, frame rate, resolution, color range, model quality). It literally almost had me dazed driving home afterwards.

Since then I've gone on a few more flights and have over 200h in the sim. It has helped me get comfortable-ish with comms through vatsim, and I nailed my first day of landings by the numbers according to Cloudahoy data and my CFI. I fully attribute that to the sim as I already had somewhere internalized pitching for speed, power for altitude, and had some semblance of a sight picture and knowledge of how to fly a pattern. Though I wasn't prepared for the stick force needed to push the plane down on downwind after the first notch of flaps.

It helped me prep for an amazing flight tour in Kauai as well where I grabbed the flight plan of the tour plane and realized I needed to sit right seat if I wanted any good photos. Got to cloud surf for the first time then and the sim has nothing on IRL clouds. Or rainbows for that matter.

All in all, I attribute my desire to learn about flying to the sim. It is accessible and more affordable than flying, despite my Virpil hardware. I don't know if I'll go for my PPL with a growing family. Maybe if MOSAIC gets finalized and I can get my SPL in a safer than LSA trainer like a DA40 I'll do that.
Glad to see that RISC-V is supported as a target:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Platform_list#Supported_targets_...
In case it isn't obvious 500 TWh/year is less than 80 GW.
Likely only viable for novelty structures carrying light loads.

If you look at this from a strict engineering perspective, a set of steps resting on the hill in the background could have achieved the same result at a fraction of the cost.
> I think this because declaring our loved ones extinguishable crosses the fattest line there is.

Maybe its just a social taboo and not a real line.

most old ppl caring for elderly fulltime want their parents to be dead though.

I've seen this personally in family members who totally transformed into different human beings in a good way once they were freed of the burden of caretaking. I could sense their hearts jumping with joy and relief when their parents finally passed away.
Many of them still aren’t. Case in point - the firewall from the original post.
Latency, total DRM, games completely disappear on whim of copyright owner, no modding.

Nope, I dont want this potential.

Good riddance.
https://shop.theobscure.com/products/rites-of-fall-rye-ameri...

For those wondering.
"The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for."

- Alexander Chalmers
Merry Christmas everybody.
I thought that the political entity was known as the Holy Roman Empire up to the Napoleonic wars, and that Austria-Hungary was what it went by after. Maybe that's their point; at least nominally the basis of the empire went from being religious to being based on secular culture/ethnicity, and eventually a lot of the land previously part of the Holy Roman Empire instead eventually merged with Prussia into what became Germany.
Thanks for your high quality response to my mediocre posting. I think our current maps are like a patchwork quilt made up of patches of high precision / high accuracy data sewn to high accuracy / low precision basemaps. Surveyors will use a ‘Horizontal/Vertical Datum of the day’ to keep things relevant to maps but in reality, their scope of work ends at xy = 5000,5000 and that’s it (relative coordinates). Most people I’ve met aren’t keeping up with NOAA. But nothing will come close to the bearings and distances (error of closure) to what a totalstation can generate in their arsenal. In the end, a Civil Engineer or GIS tech will be creating that mosaic out of the surveyor data and store it in a retrievable format for county records. The data is stored but there’s still a never reconcilable difference between survey data and mapping data.

Thus TotalStations with GNSS seem oxymoronic to me just as a GPS with a laser range finder is. There is a huge opportunity (for those interested) to build a surveyor-grade worldmap.
Sometimes the problem with what people believe isn't that it isn't true but that they talk and think about it all the fucking time. Questions their headspace is often the more emphatic way to act.
The Self Balancing Monorail [video]
It is not a tirade against overly complex tools, no. It is an argument against individual developers doing the same work over and over again for different apps.

Cloudnative buildpacks are not especially new. Paketo buildpacks came out in 2020. The previous buildpack system predates Docker.
> once they hit a certain wall, growth slows down drastically.

Deliberate practice addresses these plateaus. I think you need to constrict your focus, zoom in, change the scale so the slowing of progress doesn't feel slow. If you can accept that, it can be just as satisfying. A great coach/mentor can help here [but how can you evaluate them?] As the frontier of your knowledge expands, there's more of it.

funfact: Usain Bolt hit a plateau as a teenager, but got a new coach who addressed a congenital spine defect with specific strengthening exercises, and to train less (he was overtraining).
What a refreshing and positive perspective on the matter. I couldn't agree more.
> Why does this matter?

I, as a practical person that does things have learned that very often that the layperson has a completely non-existent image of what any art or craft entails. They are then still allowed to have opinions, I just don't value them as much. My experience is also that the layperson is very often correct about their feelings, but rarely correct when they propose solutions to what they believe will fix it for them.

I agree that your proposed comparison would be interesting, and I whole-heartedly agree with your point about learning things feom discussions. However, we discussed comparing which is better, not how different things are made. I could imagine a ironic version of a "who is the best"-discussion to be quite entertaining, but we were talking about deadpan serious "who is better"-comparisons here.

Comparisons like these make sense if you compare similar things or if you try to compare them on the same merit, e.g. would an early top athlete in a sport be able to compete with a top athlete in the same sport today if they had the same training, material etc.
Lufia 2 is my favorite SNES game! I'm surprised I don't see people talk about it as much as the other RPGs from that era.
Holidays short read/watch recommendations
Any end of year recommendations for read/watch about 20 min duration that could fit in between food, entetaing the kids, fixing toys etc. nothing too heavy please
Also happy Christmas everyone!