skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 2000 doesn't really count any more than WinNT 3.x or WinNT 4 do as they were for business use and weren't very popular on desktops.

Win1 -> miss, Win2 -> miss, Win3 -> better, Win3.1 -> hit, Win95 -> ok, Win98[SE] -> hit, WinME -> miss, WinXP -> hit, ...
It is indeed way better. The only thing is it doesn't work inside "sudo -i".
Wind power can of course be ramped down, the problem in this case is CFD contracts causing over supply since they are guaranteed to get paid.

In better functioning markets negative prices generally stem from large thermal producers, nuclear and coal, being unable to ramp fast enough and thus bid negative so they can produce at 100% when prices are expected to increase again.
Who has paper travel documents? Save even more weight and use electronic tickets and visas.

Someone suffering from this level of OCD explains the blister packs.
If you're productive in Node or Python, then learning Ruby would just be educational in that it's something else to use. Personally, I've found Ruby to be a great language in which I can be productive quickly, which is why I stick with it, but I've written Ruby code off and on for the last 15 years in various forms of production code. I think it's great to learn, but I wouldn't switch to it (or anything) if you're already productive elsewhere.
I always wondered what the enterprise customers were using it for. Is there some secret killer app or 4D excel I'm missing out on?
Just saw that they put the right and left indicator on the Cybertruck on top of each other on the left side of the steering wheel. Yeah that some really innovative UI. Watch MKBHD’s video on the Cybertruck and you’ll see that they’ve ran out of innovation and are just changing things for the sake of changing them. No rear view camera, driving console on top, no latch for glove compartment, no door handles, etc.

I’m all for innovation, but it just seems like Elon is being a contrarian since none of this improves driving at all. Deep down, it seems like Elon is checking how much he can mess with his loyal base by moving things around and making the driving UX worse. Probably strokes his ego.
Wait, why aren't we using SSH keys? I just did a search on the page for 'key' and didn't see an explanation for why that's not the best option.
Wikipedia: Internet Begging
They did nothing great apart, from being the first new car startup in the US in more than 100 years, with an entirely new business model.

OPs point had nothing to do with wether the government subsidised EVs or not.
That exemption was available for any electric car. You’re just supporting the conclusion that Tesla was definitely the leader of electrics.
Kind of funny to see an article about Internet Begging on Wikipedia:)
I already have a job, I want my games to feel like a Christmas party.
Es ist nicht deine Schuld, dass die Welt ist wie sie ist, doch es ist deine Schuld wenn sie so bleibt.
Thanks, great comment. TIL.
US Claims Chunk of Seabed Amid Strategic Push for Resources
According to reviews, the refreshed Model 3 has a considerably improved interior. Here's one from Motor Trend:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024-tesla-model-3-highla...
> Could you just intentionally waste a lot of energy when the price is negative to make a lot of money?

That's pretty much what Octopus Agile is designed for. We turn on all the electric heaters on plunge pricing, which is a very welcome addition in a cold house.
No, there are so many games today just find one that matches your tastes.
Wonder what it would take to get Sacramento to hive it off into its own county…
It's more of a platform than just a website dumping ground. You can tag your site and browse other people's websites, and most people on neocities have the same goal of making websites that are more old-school and less modern.

https://neocities.org/browse
It would be nice if companies were required to make available the source code for drivers/firmware/etc if they wish to discontinue a piece of hardware that's still in use, so that the community can take over software support and keep things going until interest/use dies. Unfortunately, we're stuck with a reality where companies don't really need to consider the negative externalities of generating massive amounts of e-waste through such a decision, or even consider the fact their customers bought and should therefore own and have the right to keep using the product they paid good money for. And so companies get to kill perfectly good hardware whenever it becomes unprofitable to keep maintaining the software themselves.
> Remember, the file system is a flavour of database. We shoudn't just it by other standards.

A word appears to be missing here. A letter, too, but I don't care about that.
I drive a f150 lightning, and honestly there is no competition. The Tesla is still a much better vehicle.
They were paid to use less.

Texas Paid a Bitcoin Miner $31.7 Million to Use Less Electricity During the State’s Hottest Month: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-bitcoin-min...
I created a tutorial that covers some of these basic video codec concepts here: https://github.com/kevmo314/codec-from-scratch
> Signed overflow/underflow remain UB (and it’s understandable that changing this behavior would have dramatic consequences)

I think that the dramatic consequences are only understandable if you succumb to mimetic contagion.

The consequences are real but not dramatic and possibly not even measurable in many workloads.

It just means that you’ll have an extra sign extension (one of the cheapest ops the CPU has) in a subset of your loops, namely the ones that had a 32 bit signed induction variable and the compiler could reason about that variable but only if it also could assume no wrapping. That’s a lot of caveats.

Most loops will be unaffected by making signed integer overflow defined. Anything that’s not in a loop will almost certainly be unaffected by this change. If you use size_t as your indices then you’ll definitely be unaffected.

So yeah. “Dramatic consequences”. I wish folks stopped exaggerating. There’s nothing dramatic here. It’s a fraction of a percent of perf maybe.
The few Windows apps I need can be run on Linux using Wine or a VM. There is no need to put up with Microsoft Windows' crap to run a few Windows apps. You should like someone who has only ever used Windows and are afraid of trying something else in case it's better.
Netlify doesnt require git. You can also just upload a folder.
That's just a single example. To add just such an example to the other end of the scales: their factories still move at a glacial pace. Even a tortoise is faster.
Many of these examples have external or ideological reasons to do so though. Criticising Israel has no costs while supporting them has costs, but I would imagine that most of them are not going to put actual policy with consequences with that. If anything, they'd be more than enthusiatic to work with Israel when the question of a trade deal or security agreements come up.
Actually reset is kinda weird term.

Internet is not working
Solution: Set it again to working condition, thus reset Internet.

Sometimes it is pointless to go to technical details. I was on flight with issues with infotainment systems, they fixed it by restarting them. Or reset.
> So, charge a higher rate at the exact times that I use the most.

More accurately, charge a higher rate when everyone is using it, and increasing supply would be expensive (roughly late afternoon to early evening in places that use solar PV and air conditioning) so incentivize the shiftable demand (charging EVs for example) to move to low demand and/or high supply times.
So should we pair with a PiPDP-11?:)
As a society with an awful lot of existing infrastructure, it probably makes sense to subsidize the capital cost of methane synthesis plants that agree to consume only excess electricity.

Of course such a thing hasn't been done on a industrial scale, but it's a great way to save the energy for later or transport it to another region.
It’s covered under footnote #1:

> First, some vendors make it difficult to associate an SSH key with a user. Then, many vendors do not support certificate-based authentication, making it difficult to scale. Finally, interactions between public-key authentication and finer-grained authorization methods like TACACS+ and Radius are still uncharted territory

Keys (with/without certs) are the best route, but not always possible for every situation.
pure? Is nano not pure enough?
HoloLens is a different category but it’s also been almost exclusively B2B based since HoloLens 2, which usually means there is a different support structure. No idea on the current status of the project/product, however.

* I used to work at Microsoft and I now work at a Microsoft subsidiary but I have no insight here other than what has been publicly stated.
Here's a yule-flavored reminder that Denver's talking about Western Virginia, since that's where the Blue Ridge mountains are.

He'd also never been here, so he might have just been wrong.
Isn't it just the next step towards the modern version of feudalism we've been building?

The elite used to enjoy nice housing near the office while service workers had to commute long distance to serve their fancy latte. Now the elite can just stay home and servive workers deliver their fancy latte.

This is the core reason why CEOs are trying to crack down so hard on WFH. It's not about productivity or culture, it's about privilege. They are the ones who should enjoy a flexible schedule, work from a coffee shop, go to the gym in between 2 calls (or even take a call while running on the treadmill). We can't have regular white collar peons enjoying the same privilege.
Or just using a traditional search engine and "rag" plus literally any ML/AI/LLM term will yield a half dozen results at the top with "Retrieval-augmented generation" in the page title.
Overly contrived examples are the hallmark of software zealots. I knew to stop reading after "its more correct variant".
I was waiting for the article to mention why the author chose not to employ that option. Though the author mentions in passing that one solution is brittle because it requires parsing output, I don't see why that's a problem. It's exactly what 'expects was designed to do.
> and the ones who bought the cheapest phone they could find contribute market share only for free apps.

This can't really be true; it would imply that the actual value of all phone apps is zero, and the only reason people pay for them is that they need to get rid of some cash.
Indeed. Fdroid is amazing compared to the hot mess of ads of the play store.
I worked with ruby, ruby in rails(RoR) more specifically, a bit more than ten years ago(2011-2013). At that time it was already the afterglow of RoR, the framework for web development that had come to life in 2005 and raged between 2007 and 2009. The latest-technology-addicted crowd was jumping into the boat of node.js, that was crazy fast compared to anything done RoR, and API oriented development with angularjs. In 2013 RoR already showed its age as the standard ways of doing things with it was still the monolithic way and the framework was not transitioning very well to the new paradigm of frontend/backend development.

This introduction about a framework built with ruby and not ruby itself was necessary because even today, I would guess that 95% of all development with ruby is RoR applications. It's my understanding that ruby rose to prominence mostly because of ruby on rails, now that RoR is in a downward trend I think ruby will follow the same trend until it's reduced to a small community of enthusiasts in the same way that happened to perl.

As for the language itself I can't think of a single reason to opt for ruby over python or typescript. Ruby doesn't do anything better both in terms of language or platform than its already better established competitors.
That was supposed to be “driving down fun”
"Chance favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur

"Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watched. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest...he strikes" - Anonymous

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." - Kierkegaard

"We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus

(from memory)
> CDC's first products were based on the machines designed at Engineering Research Associates (ERA), which Seymour Cray had been asked to update after moving to CDC.

> Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them.

> One story has it that when Cray was asked by management to provide detailed one-year and five-year plans for his next machine, he simply wrote, "Five-year goal: Build the biggest computer in the world. One year goal: One-fifth of the above." And another time, when expected to write a multi-page detailed status report for the company executives, Cray's two sentence report read: "Activity is progressing satisfactorily as outlined under the June plan. There have been no significant changes or deviations from the June plan."

> Cray avoided publicity, and there are a number of unusual tales about his life away from work, termed "Rollwagenisms", from then-CEO of Cray Research, John A. Rollwagen. He enjoyed skiing, windsurfing, tennis, and other sports. Another favorite pastime was digging a tunnel under his home; he attributed the secret of his success to "visits by elves" while he worked in the tunnel: "While I'm digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem."

Well Seymour you are an odd fellow, but I must say you design a good mainframe.
Although this would be useful. Students currently using Chromebooks can still use it. Install connector(extension) from Chrome app store and choose save to library (online zotero library) instead. It is annoying that you will need to do that with every addition to the library but this will work.
Paying penance for using Angular 2.0 (had to insert some random technology to make my silly joke work)

Software engineer turned priest, perfect story for HN on Christmas Day, do tell!
I bought a Lenovo x13s because I wanted a lightweight laptop for travel when I didn’t need much horsepower.

This thing far exceeds my expectations. I tought it would only be a "light travel" laptop, but I use it almost all the time. I'm using it right now.

It does not feel slow, almost everything just works (the exception is things that have device drivers that aren’t shipped with Windows 11) and I really can get 20 hours of battery. I used to be an Intel fanboy—never even had an AMD machine—-but I don’t think I’ll ever get an Intel laptop again.
Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
Good idea, apparently this is - or at least was - already being done on lichess, albeit not without some controversies (of the sort that's fairly typical whenever shadow banning enters the picture).
tesla is a startup because it allows less strict oversight from the public. “startup” seems to now simply mean “burn cash until market dominance” or “regulations have mot caught up to our industry”. it is not an actual startup, just a court of public opinion one, allowing it to do shady shit under the guise of progress at any cost
'How to Pick a Jury' – Clarence Darrow (1936)
The author claims that sshpass is "broken by design" and goes on to show some examples of why, without ever explaining anything.

Can anyone enlighten me why sshpass is broken, or explain the examples on that page?
Who wasn't? I guess Cechnya?
Wind power certainly can be ramped down or up. At least on level of individual turbines. Otherwise they could not lock them in storms when wind speeds are too high. If it can be done with higher wind speeds, nothing prevents doing it at lower.

Issue is that they got insane contracts that pay beyond market rates.
Devices tend to support randomization by default these days but it comes in multiple types: scanning, persistent, per ssid, or full random. Full random is not typically used, particularly if a captive portal is detected, because it breaks connectivity.
“Just” is probably supposed to be “judge”.
If someting isn't paid for it has no value?
RAG: having a LLM spew search queries for you because your search foo is worse than a chat bot alucinations.

or because you want to charge your client the "ai fee".

or because your indexing is so bad you hide it from your user and blame the llm assistant dept.
"Support," to me, means not dropping support in newer versions of ROCm. See the current compatibility matrix:

https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/radeon/en/latest/docs/com...

I bought my (in-production, advertised ROCm-capable) card during the great GPU shortage of 2020, and literally anything new stopped working a few months later when AMD decided to update ROCm to drop support for GFX8 GPUs:

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1353

All the packages I was using (like Spacy) required later ROCm almost immediately. There was literally no way to make them work. Running older packages is a non-starter if you want things like, say, your machines to not be compromised.

> if call of duty doesn't run on an amdgpu, you also don't get to complain to AMD about it, but the games studio certainly will do

If "Call of Duty" is advertised on the box, and doesn't run, yes, this is false advertising, and "consumers" get to complain to the graphics card maker or AMD. In this case, small claims court would give me a refund if I sued AMD; an advertised ROCm-compatible GPU stopped being ROCm-compatible within the warranty period. It's just not worth complaining or suing over a few hundred bucks.

I didn't need much performance, and this was purely for dev -- to make sure I bought this purely so I could have compatibility with AMD. AMD decided to not have compatibility with me, and I said f--k AMD.

The result is that if you want to run my data pipeline, it won't work on AMD. A major industry will hopefully standardize on it, and guess who is locked out of selling any GPUs to that industry if that happens?
You're right, I lost the thread on this one.
The thing that gives this story a gravitas beyond that of others in a similar vein - such as ‘The Nine Billion Names of God’ - is that it brings to the fore an important theological/philosophical issue: the ‘problem of evil’. A great deal has been said and written about it over the millennia, often in abstract, abstruse and sometimes tendentious terms, but this story cuts to the heart of the matter. If it makes some readers uncomfortable, it is working.
No matter how you spin it it's still a gimmick and will probably stay a gimmick for a very long time. I was present at the HTC vive release in LA, none of the promises realized since then. It's the same hype cycle since the 70s or so

Everyone I know who tried VR has 30 minutes of excitement and literally never mention it ever again.
See the TV Adaptation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(The_Twilight_Zone) for a different ending, and in my opinion, less edgy ending:

> While Clarke's story ended with the priest in despair after the revelation that the alien civilization had perished in order to light "the Christmas star," the TV episode added an epitaph by the aliens, revealing their acceptance of their place in the universe. Brennert later commented that "Over the years I've taken a little bit of heat from certain fans in the science fiction community for changing the ending of this story. I actually maintain that the ending as it is in this episode is implicit in the story and is not really at odds with the kind of metaphysical work that Clarke did in Childhood's End."[1]
Recognizing the domain, you can read about the early history of benchmarks: http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/whetstone.htm
I should start doing numerical work in TCL and see how long it takes for me to get set to the mad house
Do sheep use Twitter?

I don’t know what people or influencers you refer to. Not sure if you have identified a real problem or a “who cares?” thing.
This is very intriguing, could you please elaborate? I have been looking for a better bash for scripting stuff without all the bash and sh-isms and gotchas.
> ...There was once a HTTP standard called WebDav IIRC but it seems rarely implemented...

WebDAV is still a valid thing, and used quite more often than most people know. Its not known because it lives deeply embedded within apps and systems, and not something that is often visible to users. Case in point, a little thing called Google Drive makes use of WebDAV, so does NextCloud, etc.

WebDAV's not dead yet! (With apologies to Monty Python. ;-)
I worked with a similar-type person. I gave them 15 minutes at the end of every day to ask whatever they wanted.
Usually by the end of the day they had worked out the answers and had very few, if any, questions.
I like your solution just as much, but we weren't in a 'many people could benefit' environment.
Induced demand for roads is a problem because road network improvements (especially in the form of road widenings) are typically marketed to the populace as reducing travel time at peak, but in practice all they can do is improve overall throughput (with the temporary decrease in travel time coming as a bonus).

And I think road network improvements are actually quite good at achieving their throughput related goals. From that perspective, there isn't actually a problem at all.

Internet traffic absolutely "suffers" from induced demand. It just happens that we've been able to keep ahead of the worst of the congestion problems.

a) ISPs traffic shape. ISPs have more control over their traffic than cities/highways typically do.

b) ISPs don't guarantee minimal speeds, or even give you a sense of their distribution. The inability to provide a minimal tells you that probably at peak traffic, there is significant contention (induced demand has kicked in). It just happens that... internet usage demand is probably less coupled than traffic on a highway.

c) The largest traffic loads on the internet (streaming video) are majority provided by centralized corporations that can provide a 'parallel' service (through CDNs/edge caches... oh and I guess really degrading video quality) that minimize the load onto the 'main internet'. This is like taking the train or public transit or something.
"Law firm paid by client to protect its interests protects its interests."

I fixed that headline & saved ya'll a click.
I remember seeing spyglass and using NCSA mosaic at work and school, and Compuserve from home. There was definitely stuff out there, I downloaded images, a song or two and some programs. I saw a very early version of (I think?) Windows 95 (or 3.1?) that could play different videos in different windows and was amazed (these were from disk, not the web). Used a sysadmin for a Netware network.

It was a really fun time. But the breadth of what we have now more than dwarfs what existed then. It’s not surprising - that was 30 years ago. I don’t see any way to get from there to here without a ton of money being spent. Some of it was spent by governments and individuals, but I’m guessing the bulk was by companies. Economic realities require those companies to get something for their investments - they’re not charities. Advertising is the major vehicle for that investment. I’ll bet we’d find radio and TV followed a similar historical trajectory.

I use uBlock and avoid ads because they’re irritating (and I feel like a hypocrit for doing it). I hate going to recipe sites for all the garbage you have to wade through to get to the recipe. So I get it. The web, at current scale, doesn’t and can’t exist outside of economic realities. Micro transactions might have been the solution but it wasn’t. Kagi has a great model (happy customer here), but everyone can’t afford to subscribe to everything.