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Jetpens is fantastic. I've found the best combo for me: a metal Parker Jotter pen with an Ohto refil, but it's nice seeing some new options from time to time.

[1] https://www.jetpens.com/Parker-Jotter-Ballpoint-Pen-Waterloo...

[2] https://www.jetpens.com/OHTO-Flash-Dry-Gel-Pen-Refill-Black/...
> It's an really entertaining talk. They destroyer a router from hetzner when they first rented a server because of the traffic.

Would magnet torrents fit in DNS TXT records? Seems like an interesting way to distribute load across global DNS servers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36945177 ("Show HN: File distribution over DNS: (ab)using DNS as a CDN")
that's right! Time to auction off Yosemite and put a roller coaster over Old Faithful
Study suggests climate change will make submarine warfare more complex
I've felt for 20 years now that a nice system design would be to, by law, give 10% of the fine levied against a wrong-doing company to the whistleblower. This way there's always a financial incentive to whistle-blow, especially when the wrongdoing is egregious.
Sigh. As someone who just made two different 27 hour drives across the country in the last 6 months, I can tell you this is completely fine. Driving on major US highways you will always be able to plan it out and find one. Plus, I took longer breaks of that size anyway because every 2-3 hours I needed to get out of the car and stretch. Having forced time to get out of the car for a longer trip would have been beneficial for me.
Maplewood typewriter repair store closes. It's the last of its type
This is a big issue with the "science says ..." attitude that some people have, particularly people who believe themselves to be clever but have no experience actually doing anything resembling science.

I'm not just talking about the "trust the science" mantra that arose during Covid in response to politically-motivated conspiracy theories. That's one instance of a more general phenomenon.

We of course don't really know anything that happened billions of years ago. We have some good ideas about it, and data consistent with those ideas, and a lack of data inconsistent with those ideas. That's all we have, and that's all we will ever have. The ideas and data might improve over time (as well as things like computational techniques for using the data), but until we can actually travel back in time we can't ever know anything beyond that.
This is brilliant.

It reminds me of my only meeting with Andy Tanenbaum / AAT [0], one of the smartest, nicest computer science guy I've ever met in my life. I can't recall the many puns and jokes he shared, but it was just incredible.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
> My observation is that roads fail first where people are slamming on the brakes.

It's possible you're getting deceived here, because the highest wear road surfaces are made from more durable material, and areas where drivers might need to slam on the brakes often have high friction surfaces, which are more wear-prone.

So the industrial area where dozens of fully laden 18-wheelers are making sharp turns every day gets paved in the most durable concrete mix possible, the school zone pedestrian crossing approach gets a high-grip sandpaper-like surface, and a few months later it looks like the school zone is getting a lot more wear.
Delivered or not is too extreme, just like email phones should have a spam folder that suspicious messages are quietly delivered to, users can check that folder and identify messages that are ok. That feedback could improve the sorting.
AMD's 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates
> when containerizing applications, for example with Flatpak. Modulo kernel bugs or being root, it's simply not possible to mess with the processes of another user.

Wrong.

> Advanced desktop users have better things to do than reviewing security warnings all day long. I get paid to write code instead of investigating what my applications are doing.

Oxymoron.
yes, amber is entirely clientside. that is what makes it interesting. but the smalltalk web frameworks are mostly backend frameworks designed to run in pharo or squeak, which means they feel way to bulky and not suited for an SPA web frontend were i want to dynamically update the DOM when data changes instead of generating a whole new page to send to the browser like traditional web frameworks.

there's nothing to stop you from making the backend just a proxy to the existing API

what is stopping me is that this forces me to run two backends and an additional layer of indirection.
I would guess most single family home owners have two or more cars. This is a total guess based on my own situation and those of people I know who own EV’s but most EV owners with a single family home will also own a gas car.

So an EV is more convenient than a gas car for daily commutes because you never have to go to a gas station. For the rare times you go on a long trip, you just take the gas car or you put up with having a longer trip in the EV.
Because investing in infrastructure (of many types) often carries with it capital expenses and have low returns that are unbearable for most potential market players but once in place allow the provisioning of services who are very useful to the population.

In this case, nobody was going to build EV chargers if there were no EVs on the road and nobody would buy an EV if there were no chargers on the road. Stepping in and giving the initial incentive to break that cycle is what this type of intervention, such as subsidies, does.
The official name change happened in 1991. It gained traction since 2022, as Ukrainians become less tolerant to ‘we don’t give a duck, we used to old ways’ of the Western audience. Personally, I’ve seen countless times they downvote and/or flag you for this. Waiting for that dang to come here and tell me I’m violating the rules by saying that. That way you see this correction not that often.
Bruh, the ghost moves faster than you do! But this is a pretty cool idea, difficulty level spikes after the first screen though, especially if you waste the power pellet, then because the ghost moves as fast or faster it becomes impossible to goad it to either side enough that you can get the remaining pellets.
I'd think a bit of inconvenience would be worth it for a better future for your children as well as all the world's children, but I've been around long enough to come to the understanding that that's just wishful thinking on my part; truly you are just one incredibly minuscule drop in the ocean of carbon emissions that will doom us. I don't envy young children the future world they're going to inherit.
How many flights have you taken in your lifetime? How many children do you have? Do you eat meat? Do you use multiple monitors when a 14" one would do? Why don't you cycle instead of using an EV? Do you not use solar panels? You could apply this reductionist logic to almost everything in the world.

"Freeloading on the rest of us", "some sacrifice might be required". What a depressing, dictatorial view.

Sacrificing people doesn't seem especially kind. Be kind, eh. When it suits you, I guess.
Armin Ronacher once put it like this (quoting from memory), why should I choose GPL if I don’t plan on enforcing copyleft?

The GPL is an attempt at software freedom by restricting freedoms to have a lever that leads to greater overall freedoms.

In some way it has worked for the Linux kernel if you look at contributions wrt drivers. But I am not sure so much that it worked so well for other aspects
That’s disingenuous because while pumping gas you remain with the vehicle (because it’s quick). With charging an EV, you charge while going inside to use the bathroom and get food. Provided there are available chargers and it is as convenient of an experience as a Tesla charging in a Supercharger, it’s very quick to set up.
I drive a lot by myself and can see the convenience of popping it on a charger while running in. I am in and out very quickly, but even that short time can add reasonable distance. With small children it takes longer and you get more of a charge.
NPOV is obviously a lie, it's literally impossible to truly be neutral and you don't almost certainly don't want that. That said, it strikes me as extremely important that Wikipedia strives towards NPOV and I wonder if Wikimedia will intervene. Given that they're willing to lie to readers to get donations to funnel into the "progressive" aligned portion of the non-profit-industrial-complex, I suspect not.
on my current setup, from a thin-client I remote desktop to a windows machine where I vnc to a xvnc linux server, from which I ssh -X to a large shared dev machine. From there I run gui emacs, often using TRAMP to access remote files.

The amazing thing is that this contraption is actually usable.
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IIRC it came from a (mixed gender) series, and the one with Carol was just the one that people found funny enough that it stuck.
How did the monarchs of europe stay in power?
There are lots of "stories" like this from space programs. The ESA "lost" the fuel tanks for their last Vega launch because they were just sitting around for so long they got crushed down into scrap metal because they were not entered into their asset management software.[0]

[0] https://europeanspaceflight.com/the-case-of-the-missing-vega...
No matter how much martial arts training you have, the moment it's a 3:1 or higher ratio of assailants, even with minimal combat skills, it's over.

Mob boss mentality is the only way to keep violent individuals under your control, and money in the scenario of an apocalyptic event requiring such bunkers will be useless, the only tool left for a mob boss would be violence against the guards. That also usually backfires when a group of your underlings feel unfairly treated, or have any kind of camaraderie, or just want your food...
Agreed :) I've driven a Wrangler since I got my drivers license (nearly a decade ago) and I am just waiting for the day I am side swiped or my car rolls over due to some unforseen accident. Whether it's my fault or not. I love my car but the safety ratings are abysmal and I for one look forward to the day I have a savings high enough to afford a safe EV.
"launches", as in sends to space a prototype, not "launches" as in "service is available for everyone to use".
You're lucky, I have, several times in Germany, where some dealers come with a ruler measuring them, plus km limits per day.
The future of photography? Maybe not – global shutter comes at a cost
You don't need the look up table. All you are asked for is min/mean/max which can all be computed in one pass without storing the data. All you need is a hash table with 400 entries and 3 floats (running min, mean and max) and and int (count, for updating running mean). That's just 16 bytes, if you use 16 bytes for name of station you can fit everything under 16K.

IO will dominate the running time for this, and JSON parsing will be second.
There's no recovery from extinction, and extinction is on the table here.
That isn't good enough when you consider how much these vehicles cost compared to a used ICE car. Charging infrastructure is terrible outside of some states, whereas gas stations are plentiful even in the middle of nowhere.

The people that think "I won't need this range" aren't buying EVs, they are using Uber, transit or Hertz.
Thanks, very interesting.

A bit hard to understand this transcript without context but it really reads like SpiderMonkey and Chakra were actually able to parse this. V8 people didn't like it, the others were like "ok, whatever" and they ended up disallowing it in the spec.

I guess it allows simplifications in the parsers by not having a "strict or sloppy, don't know" mode for default parameter values, while not blocking actual use cases.
With 12AWG, depending on the cable type and rating, you can bring 20-30A (90C rated) of power to go with your fiber in the same pull. The cable might be expensive but I’m sure the use case is great for when you don’t want to spend $10,000 on bringing a service trunk and meter to where your network equipment is being installed.
The house at [1] in the parent post could be a modern house in any country of the world. It just doesn't fit into the history of any of them.
This is very true. I work in MSP not software dev, but banking/finance clients almost always have budget for regular hardware refresh and premium support agreements. And they fork over tons of cash for security auditing and all the licensing.
Real world programming is not a math.

Real world challenges are not theorems.

Anyone who tries to fit it into narrow math concepts thinks he’s doing good, because math looks beautiful and intuitively beautiful == good.

But in reality (counter intuitive point) any formal and rigid system creates pain and suffering down the line when real programmers try apply those beautiful systems to real world _ugly_ problems.

One good example of such an overengineering is a Scala language.

Its features and elaborate typing system looks great on paper and artificial examples.
If access to the supercharger network is the only factor for you, then it may be good choice. When quality or safety are also factors, then the choice is not obvious. How much will Tesla charge you for repairs over the lifetime of the vehicle. How bigger is the chance that you kill or injure your family due to quality issues.
Please have a look at the Reuters Investigation below for context.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...
Everyone can create a .torrent file.

While you create it you can enter one or multiple URLs of trackers that everyone connects to when they open the torrent file. (Or none, there is also a decentral why of doing torrents)

Clients just send a hash to the tracker URL and get a list of urls back with other people who send in a request with the same hash.

The tracker does not care how you share those torrent files. I think it's just a list of hashes and URLs.

This might not be 100% correct, but I hope you better understand it :)
Seems like it'd be hard for anyone to say with confidence given that we're only just now learning of the scale of their existence
What can I say, plenty of legacy knowledge out there.
I'd take that even further. EVs make the most sense when all the conditions you noted are satisfied, _and_ the family can afford at least two cars, and it's not important that both cars have long range, and the family can afford the extra up-front cost of the EV. I've got a Nissan Frontier and a Nissan Leaf. The Leaf is older (2017) and has a degraded battery. (about 80% of its original life, and approximately 100 miles of range) The Leaf is very convenient for my wife, but primarily because she doesn't have a commute, and we have a more practical family car in situations where the EV won't cut it. Her mother lives with us, and also has a gas car as an additional backup.

We got the Leaf for $11k used, and if the EV were our only car we'd have had to spend significantly more on a car with much more range (at least 230 miles or more) and we'd have required the installation of a fast charger to handle the longer range. (120v charging is really pretty suitable for a car with only 100 miles of range.) All of these would have introduced significant costs and constraints, which were only offset by the very low price of a used Leaf, and the fact that we always have a backup option.
Tangent: As someone driving a gas car, I would like to know how your car takes only 2 minutes to refuel. 5 minutes? Certainly, if the station is not getting heavy traffic (which seems to slow the pumps), and on a long trip it's quite likely it will a busy interstate-side station that might get to ten minutes due to slow-flowing gas.

Even so, as we both know, it's unlikely to reach 15 minutes as discussed else-thread, and while I do need breaks on a trip, 15 minutes is about the maximum I want to take unless I'm eating.
Wozniak has in the past decade sold out endorsing lots of stuff and making money from his likeness. It’s hard to blame him, he has a family to support and wants to make their futures comfortable, perhaps even at his own reputational expense. No one’s legacy is forever, may as well support your loved ones with it.
Just this last Saturday before Christmas, an engineer I know at another company was frantically making schema changes to database schemas to shift from INT to BIGINT, after they hit the limit and everything started failing.
Have to agree with the Vanishing Point being the best luxury fountain pen for writing... I have like 8 of them.
It’s very simple to use, but dilly-dallying about a standard structured logging package means it’s now not widespread across third party libraries.

Many non-trivial Go apps have 4-5 logging frameworks pulled in, it’s a mess.
While that may be true in principle, it seems likely to me that price is a very important factor for many or even most people, so much so that they don't look too closely at provenance. Were that not the case then I would expect the market for battery chickens to have dried up by now, for example.
The comment I was responding to was speculating on a judge making a ruling about a free speech defense.

Agree that Elon looks like a hypocrite, regardless of the legalities involved. My impression is that he is not actually principle-driven in this regard. His motivation seems to be attention and chaos, and an anything-goes forum is conducive to that.
Ask HN: What to suggest as "HN for not-geeks"?
My partner clearly suffers from undiagnosed ADHD, but refuses to do anything about it. The result is that she spends most of her time on her phone, looking for stuff to buy - with predictable results in terms of finances and emotional wellbeing ("why is everything so expensive" etc).

Any suggestion to reduce phone usage gets automatically bounced, so I'd like to steer her to something a bit more productive at least. She is not a geek, so HN is out of the question, but giving she refreshes the news so often, there is a decent chance to hook her on to something similar, on non-geek topics maybe?

Ideally she'd use that time to actually make some money, but I'd settle for not spending money she doesn't have.
`2.` is a big one. I want to be able to filter out crap I'm not interested in. I want to be able to set something as watched that I've already watched outside of your particular service. I want to be able to set something as unwatched because I'm going to do a re-run. I want to be able to set individual episodes as unwatched because I fell asleep with it on and want to actually watch it (maybe a few days down the line). I really want control over the library.

The current model of most (all?) streaming services is just something I don't want to deal with.
What’s the difference? China is responsible either way
Not surprising, since I don't know you. I tried to confirm your claims and only found confirmation that it didn't ship with Linux.

What is surprising that you come back with ad-hominem arguments ("typical Linux fan answer," "knows better than me") in lieu of hard evidence.
If the cache is not flushed, it will still be in memory between runs whether you mmap it or not.
Yep, past self was an asshole.

Working on the same code base for an extended time is great since there are plenty of humbling instances where you go "wtf" and git blame only to find your own name.
It's a good job no one ever learns from experience, eh?
Something that happens zero or 1 time in the lifetime of the vehicle is not "routine maintenance".

And if you haven't had maintenance on a gasoline powered car that lasted more than a day I would wonder if you've ever owned a car?

Every gas car I have had has had several maintenance issues that took a day or two and the dealer had to give me a loaner car.
These are Starlink satellites that could be accessed with 5G phones.

These are _not_ the first satellites with such capability, other competitors are working on such constellations as well: https://www.space.com/spacex-launches-1st-5g-satellite-inter...
> The NRO offered NASA multiple Hubbles, but the cost to retrofit them was outside of NASA's budget.

Well, yes - that's kind of the point. If NASA didn't have the Shuttle's fully amortized $1.5B/launch cost weighing it down they'd have been able to do a lot more things.

> Also, how are you getting that new Hubble off the ground without a shuttle?

Who knows what rocket NASA should have gone with. But the easy answer is: they could have kept Saturn V around for the few really big payloads they needed it for.

Another option is the Delta IV Heavy. It's longest fairing is just a little bit short of what's needed for Hubble. I'm sure a 1-off xl fairing would be quite expensive, but since the difference between a Delta IV Heavy launch and a Shuttle launch is $1B, there's quite a bit of room in the budget to work with.
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Or they will take the food and supplies by force and give him no choice but to reveal the location of the other bunkers.
What about HR? HR Tech is not working on software to create new products (research and development) or on software to sell said products to other people (sales/marketing), but it also isn't maintenance.
A typical high end 18650 cell in 1997 was 1600mAh.
A typical high end 18650 cell in 2023 was 3200mAh.

So it took us 25 years to get a 2x density improvement in li-ion cells.

We desperately need higher density but it is very slow going. The density necessary to "save" EVs for the layman is unfortunately not coming soon.
Because normies are extremely susceptible to things like "hack Facebook, see the PMs of any hot girl u want!111 just right-click and paste this into your browser console trust me bro"

As well as the usual engagement driving "challenges" like "Omg did you know there's no country starting with Z! Bet you can't think of one!" meanwhile comments are filled with "duuuuh Zanzibaaaar!" and post engagement is >>>>>>>>>>>>
I don't really have numbers for you, but there are currently 120 kW+ fiber lasers. A lot of the difficulty is in coupling, small defects or misalignment can easily self-destruct. (https://www.ipgphotonics.com/en/products/lasers/high-power-c...) Commonly used QBH connector (https://www.coherent.com/news/blog/qbh-fiber-optic-cables) The losses inside the fiber can be small in comparison and less of a problem due to manufacturing process control. There are efforts to develop hollow-core fibers that may be able to couple into free-space with lower loss and risk.
This article also highlights the human-trafficking happening on these illegal fleets. Disturbing intersection of inhumane practices.
China! I can’t believe it! Why aren’t there actual consequences for this? The world needs to have harsher sanctions to China before it’s too late. If China becomes self sufficient, global civilization is literally over.
>The impact of viral infections on the brain persisted for up to 15 years in some cases.

How do you test whether viral infections are persisting on the brain specifically? Is there anyway for regular patients to track this after other visible symptoms of the infection have subsided?