skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the junkies had access to the drugs they wanted, you won't see them on the streets, they will be in an institution somewhere, being high.

Your proposal is that we open institutions where people can live, eat, sleep, presumably have all of their needs met, and also do as many drugs as they want all day?

There is no way this theoretical free-housing-with-drugs institution would do anything but increase the number of people abusing drugs and decrease the odds of getting them back on their feet.

Can't pay your rent this month? Well if you get addicted to drugs, you get free drugs and free everything at the Free Drugs Institution...

Want to leave the Free Drugs Institution? Oh you don't have any money to get a place of your own and getting a job while you're in the throes of addiction is hard, so you might as well stay at the Free Drugs Institution...

Every single one of these theories relies on the number of drug addicts remaining fixed, but they always ignore the fact that you can't remove all of the costs of doing drugs without dramatically increasing the number of people doing drugs, relapsing, or stuck in addiction cycles.
I'm not excited about it being a TUI, I'm just excited because it looks reasonable and I haven't found a macOS SQL client for writing queries that I was excited about yet
That’s what MS did with their own keyboards. Maybe they are actually defining a new key code for the Copilot key? It’s stupid either way.
I have no nostalgia for noisy PC fans and hard disks.

One thing that was cool though, was way back in the C64 days. If the SID chip's volume wasn't set to zero, then background sounds would come out of the speaker that were directly related to what the computer was doing. It was neat because it kind of sounded like an ethereal pipe organ. But you could "hear" basic things like complex computations vs. a short loop. I think disk drive data transfers were recognizable, but it's been a while.
That's not realistic simply because of the carbon requirements. Long haul aviation only burns a couple hundred kg of jet fuel per passenger. (I don't know how the top-level comment is calculating 1-3 tonnes of CO2 per passenger, Contrail effects? Construction of the plane? Altitude? Incomplete combustion? but a 250-passenger 787 doesn't carry 750,000 kg of fuel, it only fits 100,000 kg at most, plus plenty of reserve capacity). The flight only costs $100-$200 per person in fuel.

Rocketry is far less efficient than a modern high-bypass turbofan.

NASA can afford to buy 75,000 kg of methane per astronaut. Even if the rocket was amortized to zero over infinite flights, and had zero maintenance costs, even if crew cost nothing and airport/spaceport leases cost nothing, thermodynamics insists that you still have to buy $100,000 worth of RP-1 rocket fuel. A business class ticket cannot buy enough carbon to support 75,000 kg of emissions.
I've certainly had little stick on joysticks (suction cup) that use capacitance, they sucked. I think I remember seeing similar keyboards at the time.
The 3 best words an engineer cam ever utter: "hmm, that's interesting..."

Not good for the project schedule, but great for better understanding the system you are working on.
That's subjective but I like the Economist a lot. NYT is fine. It is what is it but it's a lot better then e.g. CNN.
While I agree with this attitude, sometimes I love to set an "exploration coin toss experiment, in which I deliberately choose something against my agency
I think people have adjusted, I also don't think anyone wants their phone to be .. what an inch and a half taller...
That’s a very fine line to walk. The same reasoning could be applied to speeding (actively endangering others), overeating (actively endangering yourself), hunting, snowboarding, skydiving (or any other activity which increases your likelihood of having and accident and hence burdening the health care system beyond the national average).
Not the OP. But trying to engage in good faith here.

> what are you actually opposed to? the general concept of drugs?

No

> are you opposed to "non-productive activity"?

No

> are you opposed to violence and human suffering? yeah, me too,

good, we are on the same page

> but drug abuse is by far not the only thing that can result in negative societal consequences.

So? You can be opposed to more than one things that can result in negative societal consequences.

> antisocial behavior (...) is an unfortunate aspect of the human condition

Similarly, constraining it via various means to achieve overall societal harmony is a fortunate aspect of human societies. Else, there would be anarchy.
German rail infrastructure is...in need of help. Here, in Switzerland, many trains come from Germany. Well, they did. They are so often late that some routes now stop at the border, so that the Swiss schedule isn't impacted by German problems.

Germany is also years behind on putting cargo onto trains for transit through the Alps. Even Italy was faster.
How else do you suggest we destroy Hamas, given that they've already said they'd do October 7th again as soon as they can?

Hamas was never imposed on the Palestinian people, of which a sizable proportion support the elimination of Israel ("from the river to the sea"). Maybe the horror of the calamity befalling them might concentrate some minds.
There are a number in regular commercial use (including passenger flights) in Canada which is a very similar regulatory regime. There are multiple US operators of the Basler turboprop conversion.
> Are there no 32-bit CPUs with a simple architecture and easy programming model?

There really aren't. You could consider Arm (maybe with the simplified but 16-bit "thumb" instruction set), or MIPS, or RISC-V. Between all of those, it's rare to find bare CPUs; usually you get them in a system-on-a-chip, with things like DDR memory and other sophisticated peripherals built-in. You need complicated drivers and a bootloader, maybe even with signed payloads. Nothing as architecturally simple as wiring the address and data lines of a CPU into the address and data lines of some RAM or 7800 logic directly wired into a keyboard.

In principle those devices could exist, but as a hobbyist you can only really get your hands on hardware with that kind of conceptual simplicity by either programming it into an FPGA, or by using hardware that dates back to when that approach to computer design was cutting-edge.

edit: you could maybe consider some kinds of microcontrollers? The Parallax Propeller comes to mind.
They you win at capitalism?

By "exception" I interpret that to mean "someone who is capable of financial forethought".
talk about selective rewriting of history: Wikipedia tells us

The rise of TCP/IP during the 1990s led to a reimplementation of most of these types of support on that protocol, and AppleTalk became unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10.6 in 2009.

> It was plug-and-play, amazing for its time, and showed what standards-based networking should aspire to.

I believe the IETF was quite active during that time, particularly in the 90's when I got somewhat involved, and even in the 80's. What role did Apple play in that? It seems to me they could have advanced their "aspirations" more effectively that way.
It was one part of it. The second part of it is the supply was heavily constrained. Countries around France (e.g. Italy and in some parts of the year Switzerland etc.) depended on that electricity too. So when it was gone it really screwed everything up. You are correct that gas is the highest priced and sets the price of all electricity, but it simply wouldn't have been used as much if french nuclear hadn't failed. That's how merit order works.
Ask HN: Anyone notice ChatGPT doing Bing search instead of answering questions?
What is this sketchy website?

It is named after a sketchy anti-aging supplement.

And it is filled with sketchy articles.

Is it a well made fake? Or some PR website?
You'd still have to wait for someone at Red Hat to backport the fix themselves. There wasn't really a way to actually participate in the engineering of CentOS itself.
Every way I look at it, Go brings tremendous regression when it comes to "modularity & composability" in the general sense of the terms.

Package management, package definition, interface definition, exporting, protecting or hiding components, feel like they were an afterthought, and as if specified by people who had absolutely no prior experience in other languages or actively ignored it.

There is no nesting of packages in Go. There is no selective visibility protection among packages except on the very first level. Exporting is such an afterthought that it is declared by the change of the first letter to uppercase. Local development of cross-modules was only introduced recently (workspaces) and is extremely primitive (no transitive replacement -- so workspaces depending upon other workspaces is not a thing, workspace-vendoring in the next release but will essentially conflict with mod-vendoring). This probably works with skilled and disciplined teams with strict linters and other tooling, and operating in a large mono-repository or on ultra small codebase. For others, it ends up in a large plate of spaghetti code with no help to untangle, and every single newcomer shedding blood, sweat and tears to wrap their head around a codebase which inexorably became monolithic by the invitation of the very language.

All learnings obtained from decades of building very large-scale applications in C++, of managing and publishing packages in Java or C#, was essentially put aside and ignored.

The sad but good news is that it's all being progressively rediscovered, but relearning from decades of nuget and maven for example, will take time, effort, exemplary humility and open mindedness.
see my response to your sibling comment by whalesalad.
Pre-paid SIM registration was introduced in Poland 7 years ago and existing cards which weren't in use were deactivated. Already active ones had a grace period after which owners either had to register these or pick new SIM and provide required personal data anyway. So I guess similar thing will happen for Lithuania.

The registration was available via short codes since operators in some cases already had the necessary personal data, or or it could be done by physically filling forms at operator's store.

That's how wirtualnemedia.pl portal described the purpose of SIM registration in its FAQ:

> What is the purpose of prepaid card registration? Does it function in other countries of the European Union?

> The primary purpose of the regulation is to increase the effectiveness of the Polish anti-terrorist system, thereby increasing the security of all Polish citizens. The obligation to register SIM cards is aimed at limiting the possibility of communication and camouflage for criminals, including those involved in terrorist activities. Some European Union countries have regulations imposing restrictions on the ability to purchase prepaid cards at service points of telecommunications operators. Such solutions are adopted in Germany, the UK, Spain, Bulgaria and Hungary, among others. The obligation to collect data on subscribers using telecommunications services is found in German law, among others.

It seems that now only Estonia and Latvia still will have "free" pre-paid SIM cards
does it support swipe because i need that
> equally likely alternative lead

You provided complete speculation. Definitely not an equally likely alternative.
I use a USB foot-pedal mapped to `.
Ja das war halt so. Fette Karren, Audi, Benz oder BMW, Sakko wackelnd am Bügel auf'm Rücksitz hängend. Kannte ich bisher nur als Clichè, aber das war da so zu beobachten. Und wirklich alle immer lichthupend und drängelnd, und nicht linksblinkend, sondern warnblinkend.

Aber bei 330 war das als würde man an einem Diorama vorbeifahren.

Unvergesslich :-)
Hair pulling? It's the most barebones unix thing you can imagine. If you understand unix principles, you can use virtual environments and python.

It used to be hard. A global site-packages or dist-packages dir is hard. Conda and all those tools make it worse.

A virtualenv is a directory. It contains a copy of Python and everything needed.

You don't even need to activate it. You can simply use the binaries that exist in those directories.

It's literally this simple:

$ python -m venv pmarreck
$ pmarreck/bin/python --version
Python 3.10.12
$ pmarreck/bin/pip install harlequin
Collecting harlequin
Downloading harlequin-1.8.0-py3-none-any.whl (61 kB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 61.5/61.5 kB 1.2 MB/s eta 0:00:00
...
Successfully installed MarkupSafe-2.1.3 click-8.1.7 duckdb-0.9.2 harlequin-1.8.0 jinja2-3.1.2 linkify-it-py-2.0.2 markdown-it-py-3.0.0 mdit-py-plugins-0.4.0 mdurl-0.1.2 numpy-1.26.3 platformdirs-3.11.0 prompt_toolkit-3.0.36 pyarrow-14.0.2 pygments-2.17.2 pyperclip-1.8.2 questionary-2.0.1 rich-13.7.0 rich-click-1.7.3 shandy-sqlfmt-0.21.1 textual-0.46.0 textual-fastdatatable-0.5.0 textual-textarea-0.9.5 tomli-2.0.1 tomlkit-0.12.3 tqdm-4.66.1 tree-sitter-0.20.4 tree_sitter_languages-1.9.1 typing-extensions-4.9.0 uc-micro-py-1.0.2 wcwidth-0.2.12

$ pmarreck/bin/harlequin

Boom, the tool launched immediately. No conflicts with anything else. When I am done, `rm -rf ~/pmarreck`, done.

I did all of this in my home directory.

It literally cannot get easier than this.
this is a major business line for Anduril https://www.anduril.com/capability/counter-uas/
I don't need the graphs, but I'm with you on turning off audio notifications and the need for HDD/Ethernet/etc. lights. And I, too, never want my computer to talk to me, nor do I want too have to talk to it.
I'm not a historian, but my understanding is that Vietnam was a failure for the US because it wasn't executed properly. Eventually, US lost heart and fled the country. The goal itself (stopping comunism from spreading to another country), was in US' interest, at least as long as US wanted to be maintain its status as a global hegemon.
Got recommended a short entitled "Americans are Pretty Dumb Sometimes" about how folks should just buy a Kei truck:

* https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hh45Lth8iNI

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_truck
French train speed is fast but velocity can be slow if you’re not going toward or away from Paris.

If you’re going from the northwest to the southwest, it can be faster to drive than the high speed train that will dogleg through Paris.

(It’s getting better though)
Could it be that no one in the industry trusts them on standards?
You'll get your wish later this year with iOS support for RCS.
Yeah, we can map it to "order a 500-pack of tampons on Amazon Prime."
Boeing is no longer capable of building safe planes.

If you are no longer capable of building safe planes, your next best option is to petition the government to accept unsafe planes.
Notre Dame cathedral first to use iron reinforcements in 12th century
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the arrogance and ignorance in this post just screams off the page. You claim you're "genuinely curious," then go spew a ridiculously uninformed rant about how it "seems to you" that Hornet pilots need a "jobs program." Based, I assume, on your thousands of hours of both military and civilian experience, thousands of instrument approaches, and puissant understanding of how to operate multi-million-dollar aircraft? Donny, you're out of your element.

To correct your analogy, a career professional Formula One, IndyCar, or NASCAR driver would absolutely have a MUCH greater chance at adapting to driving an 18-wheeler than your average Joe, because they understand things like friction, turning and braking performances of different vehicles, and the visual, tactile, and auditory signs that a vehicle is or isn't being pushed to its limits. Sure, they would have to learn the finer points of driving such a massive vehicle, but they're starting off with advanced driving knowledge most don't have.

The average military jet pilot can perform the routine tasks of an airline pilot, and also handle inflight emergencies, by the time that they're a twentysomething flight student who hasn't even earned their wings yet. I know because I once was one.

They spend the rest of their career layering skills on top of that concerning how to fly in combat and employ their weapons system tactically AFTER they've already proven they can fly from point A to point B and handle inflight emergencies. What airline pilots do for a living is bare-minimum table stakes for what tactical aviators do. The appeal of the airlines isn't a more challenging job; it's not having to deploy away from your family and do dangerous things anymore combined with a union paycheck.
Sounds complicated, and even if I did start chewing on brake pads (my only available source of asbestos) then my findings would be limited to n=1 which can be ignored or relegated to anecdote.
> In certain bee species, the male’s body literally explodes after copulation, due to a sudden increase in intra-abdominal pressure, which embeds part of the now-deceased male’s body into the female’s genital tract, preventing other males from copulating with the just-fertilized female.

Wrong; other males can still mate with the female. The whole point is for her to mate with multiple males. I wonder what else in this story is incorrect
I think it was really cool in greece that really worn ruins in nature, you could just walk to and be mostly alone, felt dreamlike, like how is it monday and I'm in a place like this.
> The barrier is inventing and organizing the logistics of delivering the most cutting edge technology

LOL, nothing Apple does is cutting edge. They took Linux and made it easy for corporate system admins. Touchscreens were invented back in the 60's. GUI's were created by Xerox.

Steve Jobs was a hack and a douche by all accounts, the reverence people have for him is laughable. But this is the behavior of the oligarchs and the monopolies they run; they have such centralized power that they're able to vacuum up all competitors, even potential or tangential ones.
> What percent?

I don't know, that's the regulator's job.

> If you mean of the overall pie, wouldn't that just place burdensome regulation on new and small businesses or new sectors since as soon as you own a percent of the "digital pie" (what exactly is that anyway?) you have to then comply with regulations that could just open up your proprietary business features to your competitors?

Businesses have to deal with new and changing regulations all the time. Once a business starts to worry about being too big and associated regulations, that's their legal team's job.

> Why is it that Apple and Google's app store duopoly a tax on competition when they created the sector that enabled businesses to sell products? If anything they should charge more.

Right, without regulation we're on a path for these megacoprs to start charging us more, especially if if our attempts to regulate them fail. They won't compete fairly out of the kindness of their hearts.

> But aside from that, doesn't this also discourage Apple, Google, and others from profiting off of or creating software features? Why even build the API? And if another company forks Android or creates a new mobile operating system they can keep all of their stuff closed until a later point in which they're beating incumbents and then just open up?

The beauty of competition is that if they don't continuously add new products or features, someone else will — Just like Apple/Google once did to the older tech incumbents.

> Idk I feel like there's already too much additive logic here to make this worthwhile. Good regulation would be much cleaner and ideally subtractive instead of additive.

While I proposed something, what I'm really looking for is outcomes that change tech into a more competitive landscape, and don't really care how it happens.

> I'm aware and I find this to be irrelevant.

It's not irrelevant in the context that antitrust regulations looks at the number of people impacted, which is very correlated to how much revenue is being generated.
Modern GPUs can do this too, noticeable in the coil whine that sometimes happens. Always happening for me with Unreal Engine editor for some reason, and sometimes in games. Performing GPU-heavy simulations also makes it noticeable on my 3090ti. Somewhat nice that I can hear how many FPS the simulation is doing by the intensity of the coil whine.
You still can't see the difference, can you?
Related 'Ask HN' that I posted about 3 weeks ago, and that got over 780 comments, with many apps mentioned, which was quite unexpected, but fun:

Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623695

Still haven't checked all the replies with links to their apps, which many gave, but plan to.
You still need to manage backups. You’re trusting everything to the vendor. I run a docker image weekly that pulls my google photos, copies to my USB drive in my pi, and also copies to backblaze b2.
> Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards

To point out the obvious, no, it won't. Microsoft does not define what a PC is. Sure, they can make up whatever fanciful hardware requirements for their own operating system that they want to, and they can force whatever absurdities they want into contracts with manufacturers. But I guarantee my PC will not have a keyboard with this key.
Analyzing Advent of Code
Again the Boeing version of "Sales people running an engineering shop".
That is NOT what their own terms and conditions, which I’m quoting in the comment you are replying to actually says:

> Sentry will not disclose Usage Data or Outputs externally, unless they have been de-identified so that they do not individually identify Customer, its Users or any other person and are aggregated with data across Sentry’s other customers.

You can write whatever you want in a blog post. It’s the legal terms and what’s in the contract that matters and presumably shows intent.

In this case they are clearly planning to show or sell de-identified data as it’s in their terms and conditions explicitly. What is being said in the blog and what the company is giving themselves a license to do are not the same.
That's great to hear. Energy-charts has data to 2014, and until last winter Germany exported more to France in every winter month except one, I think February 2022 or something.
‘For real’ is definitely an Australian-ism (pretty old fashioned, usually inflected up as an incredulous question ‘fa REAL?’, but I’ve not really heard ‘For real life’. Could be a kid thing.
Even in not-so-modern trains. At least here, a dead man button or pedal has been mandatory on trains that could have a single driver since 1942.
> They let vendors make Mac-compatibles and then screwed them, IIRC.

It nearly caused Apple to go bankrupt.
Yes, paying for things is a hassle, but it's also a great way of incentivizing companies to provide services that people actually need, and incentivizing people to use only those services that they actually need.

And yes, figuring out what exactly you have to pay for on public transit is an especially big hassle, but that's a problem that's solved technologically in many countries, where you just have to swipe a card at the entry and exit.
Are you certain about that? I’d wager that the average (median?) consumer machine these days is a a smartphone, and not an especially high-end one at that.